Constructing future parental suitability: prospective adoptive parents’ communicative strategies in adoption assessment interviews

IF 0.8 3区 文学 Q3 COMMUNICATION
Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-09-14 DOI:10.1515/text-2021-0061
Madeleine Wirzén
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Abstract This study examines how Swedish prospective adoptive parents display parental suitability in assessment interviews with social workers. In adoption assessment interviews, applicants are invited, through question-and-answer sequences, to present their knowledge about adoption-related issues and demonstrate their suitability as future adoptive parents. Adoption applicants are also faced with social workers’ attempts to prepare them for future parenthood with advice and guidance. In this high-stakes interaction, however, guidance might indicate the applicants’ lack of central knowledge or insights, which can have potential face-threatening consequences. The data consist of 36 hours of audio recorded assessment interviews. Using interaction analytical methods, the analysis shows how adoption applicants engage in the multi-layered task of managing social workers’ guidance while also demonstrating parental suitability. Adoption applicants are found to take on the perspectives presented by social workers, and simultaneously to maintain their own standpoint, using a two-step procedure: (i) they eagerly claim their knowledge and align with the social worker, and (ii) they demonstrate their adoption-specific knowledge or personal characteristics that support the presentation of their parental suitability. The findings provide insights into the practice of assessing prospective adoptive parents and contribute to the understanding of how applicants establish their self-presentations as suitable future parents while adjusting to institutional requirements in situ.
构建未来父母适宜性:准养父母在收养评估访谈中的沟通策略
摘要本研究考察了瑞典潜在养父母在社会工作者的评估访谈中如何表现出父母的适合性。在收养评估面试中,申请人被邀请通过问答环节,介绍他们对收养相关问题的了解,并证明他们是否适合成为未来的养父母。收养申请者还面临着社会工作者的尝试,他们试图通过建议和指导为未来的父母身份做好准备。然而,在这种高风险的互动中,指导可能表明申请人缺乏核心知识或见解,这可能会产生潜在的威胁性后果。数据包括36小时的评估访谈录音。使用互动分析方法,该分析显示了收养申请人如何参与管理社会工作者指导的多层次任务,同时也证明了父母的适合性。收养申请人被发现接受社会工作者提出的观点,同时保持自己的观点,采用两步程序:(i)他们热切地宣称自己的知识并与社会工作者保持一致,以及(ii)他们展示了自己的收养特定知识或个人特征,以支持其父母适合性的陈述。这些发现为评估未来养父母的实践提供了见解,并有助于理解申请人如何在适应当地机构要求的同时,将自己塑造成合适的未来父母。
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期刊介绍: Text & Talk (founded as TEXT in 1981) is an internationally recognized forum for interdisciplinary research in language, discourse, and communication studies, focusing, among other things, on the situational and historical nature of text/talk production; the cognitive and sociocultural processes of language practice/action; and participant-based structures of meaning negotiation and multimodal alignment. Text & Talk encourages critical debates on these and other relevant issues, spanning not only the theoretical and methodological dimensions of discourse but also their practical and socially relevant outcomes.
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