Analysis of Artifacts

I originally sent an email to a therapist, who supervises the clinicians at Full Spectrum Recovery, but she did not respond. Since she did not respond I chose Anne-Marie Charest, a teacher at AUSB and a private practice therapist. I set up an appointment with Anne-Marie this Wednesday, to obtain more artifacts and interview her.  The artifacts I found were online, which were Anne-Marie’s website and a confindentiality form. 

Anne-Marie’s website is self-promotion and marketing, which allows potential clients to see what she is qualified in and what her speciality is. This genre of writing is used for many different things, it is used in the media , and people use this type of genre who are starting their own business. It is even used for schools on their website, to make their school seem interesting and the best choice out of many other schools to go to. This genre of writing is helpful to the audience because it gives the reader a better understanding of what Anne-Marie does, her qualifications, and what they would be getting if they came to her for help and as a client.  Anne-Marie also tries and does appeal to people who want to work with psychosomatic therapy, and more spiritual type work. She tries to persuade the audience to use her as a therapist and her evidence that she is a good therapist is proven by her degrees that she displays on her website. 

The confidentiality form is a contract between therapist and client that is legally binding and allows the client to feel safe. Contracts are genres that are formed to help protect two or more parties. In therapy, it mostly protects the client, which requires the therapist and the client to sign so that if the client speaks to an outside party about something said in therapy, the client can sue. Contracts are used for so many different things, for example, there are unspoken social contracts between friends, laws that are written to protect the people by the government, and doctors give forms that are contracts stating the patient will pay for treatment. Confidentiality forms are extremely important in this field, and important artifacts because it shows that the therapist is following state laws, and can be trusted. 

Both of these artifacts must be understood by the reader for them to one, to want to see Anne-Marie and two, to sign the contract. The genres are different and have different formats. The contract has a place to sign and date and feels more formal. The website tries to appeal and persuade potential clients, but is not as formal.  Both genres do try to persuade the audience to do something, one to sign, and two to come see her as client. The ultimate outcome of the website genre is promote and market, and the contract genre outcome is to have the person sign the contract.