Susan Danby

List of John Benjamins publications for which Susan Danby plays a role.

Kids Helpline is an Australian 24-hour telephone counselling helpline for children and young people up to the age of 25 years old. The service operates with the core values of empowerment for clients, and the use of child-centred practices,one aspect of which is a non-directive approach highlighted… read more
Emmison, Michael and Susan Danby 2007 Who’s the friend in the background? Interactional strategies in determining authenticity in calls to a national children’s helplineLanguage as Action, Nevile, Maurice and Johanna Rendle-Short (eds.), pp. 31.1–31.17 | Article
A significant number of calls made to Kids Help Line are seen by the organisation as not requiring counselling support, but are rather young people testing or ‘checking out’ the service. Although the status of many of these ‘testing calls’ is self-evident, determining the authenticity of others… read more
Danby, Susan, Carolyn Baker and Michael Emmison 2005 Four observations on openings in calls to Kids Help LineCalling for Help: Language and social interaction in telephone helplines, Baker, Carolyn, Michael Emmison and Alan Firth (eds.), pp. 133–151 | Article
Danby, Susan and Carolyn Baker 2000 4. Unravelling the Fabric of Social Order in Block AreaLocal Educational Order: Ethnomethodological studies of knowledge in action, Hester, Stephen K. and David Francis (eds.), pp. 91–140 | Chapter