From Engagement to Disengagement in a Psychiatric Assessment Process

Peräkylä, Anssi; Voutilainen, Liisa; Lehtinen, Maarit; Wuolio, Mariel

doi:10.1002/symb.574

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“…Overall, starting to talk about weight using personalised recommendations that are minimally delicate were responded to with minimal uptake and passive resistance from patients, often demonstrated through an absence of response. The lack of alignment may suggest that the patients are not engaging with the GPs project of discussing weight ( Peräkylä et al., 2021 ).…”

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Talking delicately: Providing opportunistic weight loss advice to people living with obesity

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Webb

Ziébland

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Talking delicately: Providing opportunistic weight loss advice to people living with obesity

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“…Finally, multimodal interaction analysis proved to be a productive approach with regard to methodologies used to study groups. Examining help interactions between students from the perspective of multimodal interaction analysis allowed us to highlight the moral intricacies involved in helping as a concurrent activity and to unpack the dynamics of engagement ( Peräkylä et al, 2021 ) by describing the different sequential and bodily-spatial arrangements students created. Combining conversation analytic and context analytic concepts and procedures made it possible to reconstruct how participants coordinate both talk and bodily-spatial and material resources to create and orient to a shared space of helping and accomplish helping as a joint activity.…”

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“…At the same time, the students are part of the classroom gathering ( Goffman, 1964 ) that, due to its institutional purpose, involves focusing on and completing collective or individual assignments. Therefore, when students respond to requests for help from their classmates during activities, they must simultaneously manage two involvements ( Goffman, 1963 ; Peräkylä et al, 2021 ) and two moral commitments ( Clark, 2006 ; Raymond and Lerner, 2014 ): the obligation to help and the obligation to work on the teacher’s assignment. Our interest is in how students cope with these moral intricacies inherent in helping and in the varied and complex tasks they must manage when seeking and providing help as a concurrent activity .…”

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Helping as a Concurrent Activity: How Students Engage in Small Groups While Pursuing Classroom Tasks

Wakke

Heller

2022

Front. Psychol.

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This study examines interactions in which students help each other with their learning during classroom instruction, forming groups in the process. From a conversation analytic perspective, helping is assumed to be a sequentially organized activity jointly accomplished by the participants. As an activity that proceeds alongside other ongoing classroom activities, helping can be conceived as part of a multiactivity that poses students with multi-faceted interactional and moral challenges. While previous research on helping in educational contexts has primarily focused on the influence of helping on learning outcomes and social dynamics in helping interactions, the present study investigates how students cope with the intricacies of moral commitments inherent in helping as a concurrent activity. The aim of this paper is two-fold. First, we aim to elaborate on how students’ dual involvements – i.e., their involvement in classroom activities while simultaneously providing help – manifest in the ways in which groups are constituted, maintained, and dissolved. The analyses reveal that both the compatibility of helping with the activity already in progress as well as the students’ problem definition are consequential for the sequential and bodily-spatial unfolding of the help interaction, inducing different arrangements that constitute a continuum, at each end of which there is a dominant orientation toward the shared space of helping or toward the individual/collective space. Furthermore, from a methodological perspective, our study aims to demonstrate the extent to which multimodal interaction analysis is applicable when examining naturally occurring groups, in this case, in interactive processes of helping. The study is based on a data corpus that comprises video recordings of mathematics and German lessons from two fifth-grade classrooms.

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“…Engagement is one key notion in this study. To be engaged means to show with one's actions and body that one is willingly and wholeheartedly taking part in the encounter at hand and focusing one's attention on the action and participants (Peräkylä et al, 2022). Engagement was a theme that the sociologist Erving Goffman dealt with throughout his career (Goffman, 1957(Goffman, , 1963(Goffman, , 1974.…”

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“…(Goffman, 1963, p. 37) pointed out that "bodily activities (...) seem well designed to provide information about the individual's involvement". Synthetizing the Goffmanian perspective on engagement (Goffman, 1957(Goffman, , 1963(Goffman, , 1964(Goffman, , 1974, we recently argued that engagement involves postural and perceptual orientation to the co-participants of the encounter, and that such orientation indexes attention and is intertwined with collaborative involvement in the activity at hand (see also Bergmann and Peräkylä, in press;Peräkylä et al, 2022). In his early works (Goffman, 1957(Goffman, , 1963, Goffman explored the interaction between a participants' moral obligation to show engagement with their talk and their bodies to indicate that they are being attentive.…”

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The paradox of disengagement: Bodily displays of inattention in couple therapy

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Using concepts developed by Goffman and the theory of inter-corporeality, this paper describes non-speaking spouses' responses to complaints made about them by the other spouse in the context of couple therapy first consultations. While the turn-taking system of couple therapy effectively precludes the possibility of a direct verbal response, non-speaking spouses often display bodily their disengagement from their spouse's talk. Using multimodal conversation analysis as the method, we show the repertoire of such disengagement behaviors and trace the moment-by-moment contexts in which they arise. While disengagement behaviors embody their producer's inattention to their spouse's talk, at the same time, they are, paradoxically, interactional moves produced in the presence of others, conveying their producer's negative stance to the ongoing talk. We argue that the timing of these disengagement practices involves anticipation of the direction of talk: non-speaking spouses display disengagement in moments when the speaking spouse's talk takes a direction toward an intensification of complaints about them.

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From Engagement to Disengagement in a Psychiatric Assessment Process

Cited by 12 publications

References 35 publications

Talking delicately: Providing opportunistic weight loss advice to people living with obesity

Talking delicately: Providing opportunistic weight loss advice to people living with obesity

Helping as a Concurrent Activity: How Students Engage in Small Groups While Pursuing Classroom Tasks

The paradox of disengagement: Bodily displays of inattention in couple therapy

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