Dialogical Meetings in Social Networks

This book describes and analyses two dialogic network practices: 'Open Dialogues' - developed for use in psychiatric crisis situations - and 'Anticipation Dialogues' - used in less acute situations such as multi-agency muddles where the helper systems are stuck.

Tom Erik Arnkil

Series Editors' Foreword , About the Authors , Foreword , Preface , Introduction: on networks and dialogues , Part I , Dialogues at the boundaries between and within professional and personal networks , Frustrating network meetings , Part II , Open Dialogues as crisis intervention , Anticipation Dialogues for lessening worries , Alike but different , Healing elements in dialogues , Part III , Dialogue and the art of responding , Effectiveness of dialogical network meetings , Research and generalizing practices , Epilogue: on power and empowerment