“Asking permission” as a motivational interviewing tecnique in social services’ online chat: empowering or superfluous?
In recent years motivational interviewing (MI) has become increasingly popular in various social work contexts. In this paper we explore MI practices when applied in social services’ anonymous online chat in Sweden. The data consists of chat logs from social services’ online chat in one of Swedish municipalities. We use the approach of conversation analysis (CA), particularly developments in recen
