3minutethesis
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a three minute thesis on my study into text counselling
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3minutethesis
- 1. You don’t talk and I don’t say anything,but its counselling, right?
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- The phones hardly ring anymore at YL; youth still have problems, and still seek help, but this happens silently. So what happens when counselling moves into text spaces of mobile phones?How are such spaces both shaped and shaping those involved?This introduces a political agenda, seeing the things that make something happen provides opening for seeing that things could also be otherwise. I Traced what’s involved that makes texting the first thing young people reach for when they reach out.There’s seductive advertising.Bestmates are shown as unconditionally accessible and willing to be available, suggesting lonliness can be bypassed. NZ is also in a pricing war making for cheap texts. But cheapness is only one factor; when it’s free to call YL, texting is still preferred. So I looked at reasons young people and the environment that online spaces provide for them.Texting provides Control: on talking about her dad who had died, one said: talking makes it too real, with texting I can take it slow. I don't hear my own voice breakingAnother described how texting stopped her going round and round re-traumatising herself . The visual trace reminded her of ground already covered.Texting provides Voice For example: txtn is ok because icn keep goinevn if im crying.Texting provides connectionIf you've run away at night or ur hiding under the house from your dad whose going to give u a beating, texting works.‘its in ur pocket, its where ur’ Anywhere anytime also allows for keeping strategies and evidence of being connected in the world. I was shown a pocket full of Affirmations, texts not deleted even 6 months later, she said they felt good.What’s important for counsellors is to see texting as a conversation and not an expectation to mend everything in one utteranceHowever, Receiving 18000 txts a month provides challenge in sustaining the threads of the conversation Counselling is Reshaped some skills work in the medium, some don't. Caution is heightened in a medium where digital traces feel ephemeral but are more solid than conversation or phone call. Textual traces provide advantages as well as risks.Privacy remains an area of ongoing tension.Fewer cues requires caution. Opening up text counselling allows us to see how practices are shaped, and might be shaped otherwise. Currently There is no evidence base for text counselling, there never is for something new. This thesis is seen as establishing one. I feel this responsibility and tread cautiously. In creating an ebpMy hope and intention is that practice is shaped in listening primarily to the voices of young people.