The Palgrave handbook of adult mental health : discourse and conversation studies

This Handbook gathers together empirical and theoretical chapters from leading scholars and clinicians to examine the broad issue of adult mental health. The contributors draw upon data from a variety of contexts to illustrate the multiple ways in which language as action can assist us in better understanding the discursive practices that surround adult mental health. Conversation and discourse analysis are useful, related approaches for the study of mental health conditions, particularly when underpinned by a social constructionist framework. In the field of mental health, the use of these two approaches is growing, with emergent implications for adults with mental health conditions, their practitioners, and/or their families. Divided into four parts; Reconceptualising Mental Health and Illness; Naming, Labelling and Diagnosing; The Discursive Practice of Psychiatry; and Therapy and Interventions; this Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of current debates regarding adult mental health. Front Matter....Pages i-xlvi Introduction: The Social Construction of Normality and Pathology....Pages 1-19 Front Matter....Pages 21-21 The History and Landscape of Conversation and Discourse Analysis....Pages 23-44 Using Discourse and Conversation Analysis to Study Clinical Practice in Adult Mental Health....Pages 45-63 The Research Interview in Adult Mental Health: Problems and Possibilities for Discourse Studies....Pages 64-81 Inclusive Conversation Analysis with Disabled People....Pages 82-100 The Discursive Construction of Drug Realities: Discourses on Drugs, Users, and Drug-Related Practices....Pages 101-116 The Construction of Adult ADHD: Anna’s Story....Pages 117-133 Using Discourse Analysis to Investigate How Bipolar Disorder Is Constructed as an Object....Pages 134-150 Discourses of Autism on Film: An Analysis of Memorable Images that Create Definition....Pages 151-166 Abuse Victims and High-Profile Offenders: A Discourse Analysis of Victim Construction and Adult Mental Health....Pages 167-188 Front Matter....Pages 189-189 Diagnosing as an Interactional Achievement in Psychiatric Interviews....Pages 191-208 Psychogenic Non-epileptic Seizures: How Doctors Use Medical Labels when They Communicate and Explain the Diagnosis....Pages 209-226 The Process of Social Labelling of Mental Illness: An Analysis of Family Conversations....Pages 227-246 Making Mental Disorders Visible: Proto-Morality as Diagnostic Resource in Psychiatric Exploration....Pages 247-268 The Role of Self-Disclosure in the Social Construction of Understandings of Alcoholism and Mental Health within Talk between Members of Alcoholics Anonymous....Pages 269-286 ‘But How Often Does This Happen?’: Problem Reducing Responses by Coaches in Email Counselling....Pages 287-307 Does ana=Anorexia? Online Interaction and the Construction of New Discursive Objects....Pages 308-326 Front Matter....Pages 327-327 Exploring the Heterogeneity of ‘Schizophrenic Speech’....Pages 329-351 Mental Health Treatment Planning: A Dis/Empowering Process....Pages 352-370 Team Work in Action: Building Grounds for Psychiatric Medication Decisions in Assertive Community Treatment....Pages 371-393 Front Matter....Pages 327-327 ‘Good’ Communication in Schizophrenia: A Conversation Analytic Definition....Pages 394-418 ‘Talk about Trouble’: Practitioner Discourses on Service Users Who Are Judged to Be Resisting, Contesting, or Evading Treatment....Pages 419-440 Conversation with an Adult with Features of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Secure Forensic Care....Pages 441-458 A Critical Discursive Perspective on Psychiatric Hospitals....Pages 459-477 Front Matter....Pages 479-479 Discursive Awareness and Resourcefulness: Bringing Discursive Researchers into Closer Dialogue with Discursive Therapists?....Pages 481-501 Therapeutic Practice as Social Construction....Pages 502-519 The Value of Using Discourse and Conversation Analysis as Evidence to Inform Practice in Counselling and Therapeutic Interactions....Pages 520-539 Interactional Practices of Psychotherapy....Pages 540-557 Finding the Middle Ground between Therapist-Centred and Client-Centred Metaphor Research in Psychotherapy....Pages 558-576 Storytelling, Depression, and Psychotherapy....Pages 577-596 Using Discourse Analysis to Develop Understanding of Suicide Risk Assessment....Pages 597-612 Communicative Practices in Staff Support of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities....Pages 613-632 Discovering Mental Ill Health: ‘Problem-Solving’ in an English Magistrates’ Court....Pages 633-652 Discourses of Abuse and Recovery: Talking about Domestic Violence and Its Implications for Therapy....Pages 653-670 When Assistance Is Not Given: Disaffiliative Responses to Therapeutic Community Clients’ Implicit Requests....Pages 671-690 Back Matter....Pages 691-704