Chapter published in:
Relationships in Organized Helping: Analyzing interaction in psychotherapy, medical encounters, coaching and in social media
Edited by Claudio Scarvaglieri, Eva-Maria Graf and Thomas Spranz-Fogasy
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 331] 2022
► pp. 315–328

Relational dimensions of organized helping

Findings and implications

| Ghent University
| Klagenfurt University
Article outline
  • 1.Relationship between whom?: Personal dimension (the helper and the ‘helped’)
  • 2.Relationships how?: Linguistic and discursive dimension (practices and strategies of relationship building)
  • 3.Relationships why?: Functional dimension (relationships and change)
  • 4.Relationships when?: Temporal dimension (the development of relationships over time)
  • 5.Relationships where?: Medial dimension (the communicative medium and its influence on relationships)
  • 6.Relationships who?: Identity dimension (the influence of social categories on relationship building)
    • Future directions
  • References
Published online: 07 September 2022
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.331.14sca
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