The Palgrave Handbook of Adult Mental Health

1. The Discursive Practice of Psychiatry

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 327-327

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   2. Exploring the Heterogeneity of ‘Schizophrenic Speech’

      • Lisa Mikesell, Elizabeth Bromley

      Pages 329-351

   3. Mental Health Treatment Planning: A Dis/Empowering Process

      • Michael A. Mancini

      Pages 352-370

   4. Team Work in Action: Building Grounds for Psychiatric Medication Decisions in Assertive Community Treatment

      • Beth Angell, Galina B. Bolden

      Pages 371-393

   5. ‘Good’ Communication in Schizophrenia: A Conversation Analytic Definition

      • Laura Thompson, Rose McCabe

      Pages 394-418

   6. ‘Talk about Trouble’: Practitioner Discourses on Service Users Who Are Judged to Be Resisting, Contesting, or Evading Treatment

      • Mike Hazelton, Rachel Rossiter

      Pages 419-440

   7. Conversation with an Adult with Features of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Secure Forensic Care

      • Sushie Dobbinson

      Pages 441-458

   8. A Critical Discursive Perspective on Psychiatric Hospitals

      • Claire Bone, Nichola Marchant

      Pages 459-477

2. Therapy and Interventions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 479-479

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   2. Discursive Awareness and Resourcefulness: Bringing Discursive Researchers into Closer Dialogue with Discursive Therapists?

      • Tom Strong

      Pages 481-501

   3. Therapeutic Practice as Social Construction

      • Kenneth J. Gergen, Ottar Ness

      Pages 502-519

   4. The Value of Using Discourse and Conversation Analysis as Evidence to Inform Practice in Counselling and Therapeutic Interactions

      • Nikki Kiyimba, Michelle O’Reilly

      Pages 520-539

   5. Interactional Practices of Psychotherapy

      • Liisa Voutilainen, Anssi Peräkylä

      Pages 540-557

   6. Finding the Middle Ground between Therapist-Centred and Client-Centred Metaphor Research in Psychotherapy

      • Dennis Tay

      Pages 558-576

   7. Storytelling, Depression, and Psychotherapy

      • Peter Muntigl

      Pages 577-596

   8. Using Discourse Analysis to Develop Understanding of Suicide Risk Assessment

      • Ric Bowl, Andrew Reeves

      Pages 597-612

   9. Communicative Practices in Staff Support of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities

      • Charles Antaki, W. M. L. Finlay, Chris Walton, Joe Sempik

      Pages 613-632

   10. Discovering Mental Ill Health: ‘Problem-Solving’ in an English Magistrates’ Court

       • Timothy Auburn, Cordet Smart, Gisella Hanley Santos, Jill Annison, Daniel Gilling

       Pages 633-652

   11. Discourses of Abuse and Recovery: Talking about Domestic Violence and Its Implications for Therapy

       • Henderikus J. Stam, Michaela Zverina, H. Lorraine Radtke, Robbie Babins-Wagner

       Pages 653-670

   12. When Assistance Is Not Given: Disaffiliative Responses to Therapeutic Community Clients’ Implicit Requests

       • Marco Pino

       Pages 671-690

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.

• mental health
• discourse
• language
• linguistics
• discourse analysis
• conversation analysis
• social constructionism
• critical approaches
• alcohol
• attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
• autism
• autism spectrum disorder
• counseling
• diagnosis
• Exploration
• interaction
• intervention
• interview
• online
• psychiatry
• psychotherapy
• suicide
• Therapeut

“The 700 plus page handbook is a well-organised, easy to navigate and relevant guide. … This is an excellent addition to the handbook, acting as an abstract for the chapter as well as addressing the clear implications of the research. … As someone with a qualitative background but with a limited understanding of conversation analysis, this handbook was a good exposure to the variety of uses of discourse and conversation analysis in the field of mental health.” (Lucas Shelemy, The Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, Vol 18 (2), June, 2018)

• University of Leicester, UK

  Michelle O’Reilly

• Indiana University, USA

  Jessica Nina Lester

Michelle O'Reilly is Senior Lecturer at the University of Leicester, Greenwood Institute of Child Health, UK. She specialises in discourse and conversation analysis of child mental health interactions. Michelle has a particular interest in childhood autism and has published books and papers in both mental health and autism.

Jessica Nina Lester is Assistant Professor at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. She teaches research methods courses, including discourse analysis. Her research is focused on the study and development of qualitative methodologies, with much of her work positioned at the intersection of discourse studies and disability studies.

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