The spirit of motivational interviewing : as an apparatus of governmentality : an analysis of training materials : thesis submitted in requirement of the degree of Master of Arts in Sociology, Massey University, Manawatu

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dc.contributor.authorCarton, James Anthony
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-03T02:42:59Z
dc.date.available2018-09-03T02:42:59Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.description.abstractThe practice of motivational interviewing commonly used in the alcohol and other drug treatment field serves as an apparatus of governmentality. to position 'client' and 'clinician' amenable to forms of governance particular to the neo liberal context. Reading materials used to teach motivational interviewing to Alcohol and Other Drug Studies certificate, diploma and graduate level students, which included summaries, diagrams, articles, mathematical devices, screening tools and acronyms, were analysed to assess their discursive effects in making up subjectivity of clinicians and clients. It was found that these simultaneously positioned the client as an active self-governing autonomous subject and a professionalized clinician imprecated in the creation of that subject client. In these materials the client is constituted, as having active responsibility for self-care. Simultaneously the clinician interpellates the client into this project through various micro-practices. I conclude that, although alcohol and other drug workers pride themselves on the emancipatory nature of their work, they are enrolled in a project that is politically conservative and individualising. Alcohol and other drug workers have historically addressed the effects of marginalisation, inevitably recommending the collective in addiction recovery. In order to honour the ethos of this work they need to interrogate the micro practices whereby they have been enrolled. This contemporary neo liberal project acts to split clients from older communities of understanding to an individuality based on the hyper rational and prudential self.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10179/13705
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMassey Universityen_US
dc.rightsThe Authoren_US
dc.subjectMotivational interviewingen_US
dc.subjectDrug abuse counselingen_US
dc.subjectAlcoholism counselingen_US
dc.titleThe spirit of motivational interviewing : as an apparatus of governmentality : an analysis of training materials : thesis submitted in requirement of the degree of Master of Arts in Sociology, Massey University, Manawatuen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
massey.contributor.authorCarton, James Anthony
thesis.degree.disciplineSociologyen_US
thesis.degree.grantorMassey Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (M. A.)en_US
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