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Publication details [#49111]

Elbers, Ed, Martine Noordegraaf and Carolus van Nijnatten. 2008. Assessing suitability for adoptive parenthood: hypothetical questions as part of ongoing conversation. Discourse Studies 10 (5) : 655–672.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

assessment | conversation | hypothesis | institutional context | question

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper discusses how social workers with the Dutch Child Protection Board employ hypothetical and follow-up questions, after preliminary conversational work, as a way of evaluating the suitability for adoption of prospective adoptive parents.