When assistance is not given: disaffiliative responses to therapeutic community clients’ implicit requests

In this chapter I examine interactions between the clients and the staff members of a Therapeutic Community (TC). The TC clients sometimes use expressions of need (“I need X”) and desire (“I would like X”) to convey implicit requests for assistance. Analysis illustrates that with these expressions t...

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Main Author: Marco Pino
Format: Default Book chapter
Published: 2016
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/19636
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