Confidence sharing in the vocational counselling interview: emergence and repercussions

Abstract

Confidence sharing is an asymmetrical dialogic episode to which both parties consent, in which one reveals something personal to the other who participates in the emergence and unfolding of the confidence. We describe how this is achieved at a discursive level within vocational counselling interviews. Based on a corpus of 64 interviews, we analyse the disclosure of confidences and the discursive procedures allowing their expression, the way the interactants manage the situation and the repercussions on the counselling interview.Résumé. Quand la confiance affleure dans l'entretien de conseil: Conditions d'émergence et répercussions. La confidence est vue comme un moment d'asymétrie consenti entre deux interlocuteurs, où l'un dévoile intentionnellement quelque chose de lui-même à un autre choisi qui participe à son énonciation.L'article décrit ses caractéristiques discursives dans le cas d'entretiens de conseil en orientation. S'appuyant sur un corpus de 64 entretiens, il analyse les épisodes repérés comme consacrés à la confidence en dégageant les procédés discursifs qui favorisent son émergence et plusieurs modalités de sa prise en charge par les interactants.Zusammenfassung. Vertrauens-Teilung im beruflichen Beratungsgespräch: Entstehung und Folgen. Vertrauens-Teilung ist eine asymmetrische dialogische Episode, zu der beide Parteien zustimmen, in der eine etwas Persönliches der anderen preisgibt, welche ihrerseits an der Entstehung und Entfaltung des Vertrauens beteiligt ist. Wir beschreiben, wie dies auf einer diskursiven Ebene im Bereich von Interviews in der beruflichen Beratung erreicht wird. Basierend auf einem Korpus von 64 Interviews analysieren wir die Weitergabe von Vertraulichem und die diskursiven Verfahren, welche ihren Ausdruck erlauben, wie die Interaktanten die Situation arrangieren sowie die Auswirkungen auf das Beratungsinterview.Resumen. La confianza durante la entrevista de orientación profesional: surgimiento y repercusiones. Demostrar confianza es un episodio dialógico al que consienten ambas partes, en el que uno desvela algo personal al otro que participa en el surgimiento y desarrollo gradual de la confianza. Se describe cómo se logra esto a nivel discursivo dentro de la entrevista en orientación profesional. Basándonos en 64 entrevistas, analizamos la revelación de confidencias y los procedimientos discursivos facilitando su expresión, la forma en que los implicados manejan la situación y las repercusiones para la entrevista orientadora.

Temporality: A fruitful concept for understanding, studying, and supporting people in transition

“…The first concerns verb tenses, which express the experience of time; this is one of the formal linguistic markers indicating the speaker's presence in the utterance, according to theories of enunciation concerning the way that language ( langue in French) is expressed in speech ( parole ) in an enunciative act (Benveniste, 1974; Kerbrat‐Orecchioni, 1999). Thus, shifting from one tense to another in a biographical interview is particularly informative about the meaning that the person gives to these events, the way they are linked, and the emotions generated by talking about them (Olry‐Louis et al., 2012; Olry‐Louis, 2018). This occurs, for example, when an individual makes an unexpected connection (but marked by the concomitant use of the past and present) between current events or transitions and others, often emotionally charged, that occurred in the past.…”

Editorial

“…Although narrative career counselling is not new, a large number of practitioners would benefit from these specific suggestions to move from traditional standardized interventions to interventions based on the story-telling approach or any other narrative career counselling approach. Story telling activities can be stimulated using several qualitative career assessments to enter into a co-constructed and recursive process, thereby allowing the client or counselee to elaborate his or her own professional and personal projects (for another perspective concerning this discursive process, see Olry-Louis, Brémond, & Pouliot, 2012). According to STF, making sense of an experience and becoming aware of the system and the dynamic interactions between its components allows learning to occur.…”