Reflexive Thinking Practices of Bordered Helping Professionals: A Review of Zingaro’s Speaking Out

Authors

Laura Bisaillon, Ontario Training Centre in Health Services and Policy Research, York UniversityFollow

Abstract

Results from an interview based social science investigation into the organization of how the critical thinking and decision-making practices of thirteen experienced helping professionals are shaped are explicated. The skills and techniques these people use in their day-to-day support of people who have, like themselves, experienced oppression, inequity, and violence, is examined. The complex choices and consequences stemming from mobilizing one’s narrative as a resource in the support of others, and the price people pay to disclose the truth about themselves in this context, is carefully and compassionately explored. We learn how this group of helping professionals find sand employ practical solutions to ethical, philosophical, and political dilemmas organizing their work. Practitioners and applied researchers will gain valuable insights from this book.

Keywords

Disclosure, Helping Professions, Interview Research, Knowledge Production, Organization of Knowledge, Professional Decision-Making, Reflexivity, Social Justice, Social Suffering, Vignette Method, Work Practices

Publication Date

4-2-2012

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.

DOI

10.46743/2160-3715/2012.1789

Recommended APA Citation

Bisaillon, L. (2012). Reflexive Thinking Practices of Bordered Helping Professionals: A Review of Zingaro’s Speaking Out. The Qualitative Report, 17(14), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2012.1789