Recent Question/Assignment
we are supposed to Choose a journal article, archival document of the counselling, psychotherapy or art therapy professions that is relevant to clinical and/or research practice.
Give a close reading and critical account of this document by analysing the following: What are the implicit assumptions and theories about counselling, psychotherapy and/or art therapy in this document?
What dominant discourses and narratives can you identify?
What do these discourses and narratives do?
How is the therapist and/or researcher positioned in this document?
How are the clients and/or research participants positioned and described/ 'produced'?
Whose language is used for this description? Who speaks and who is spoken for?
What is left out of the picture or relegated to context or background knowledge?
What might be made visible if these were foregrounded? Is there a submerged/ different story that might usefully be told?
Notes: • Please include the document you have analysed as an Appendix to your submitted assessment. • Make sure you have completed the readings for Workshop 5 on discourse analysis before attempting this assignment.