Improving Communication in Mental Health Settings : Evidence-Based Recommendations from Practitioner-led Research (Hardcover)

1. Introduction: Communication, mental health, and how language-based research can help in practicePart 1: Communication with children and families 2. Communication in child mental health: Improving engagement with families 3. Exploring the practical potential of discursive research in family therapy 4. Communication in clinical psychology ? using ‘you said’ in interactions with children to assess for risk 5.Children’s communication and their mental health: perspectives from speech and language therapy 6. ‘Just ask’: How to talk to children and young people about self-harm and suicide risk 7. Communicating with parents about psychotropic medication treatment Part 2: Communication with adults 8. Deception, fantasy and confabulation: What the stories of forensic patients with intellectual disabilities tell us about truth in therapeutic interactions 9. Communicating about feelings: examples from depression care 10. Communication in mental health nursing ? the power of the words we choose 11. Exploring the ‘talk’ of suicide: using discourse-informed approaches in exploring suicide risk Part3: Learning Journeys 12. A PhD learning journey - the value of conversation analysis and discourse approaches for speech and language clinical practice. 13. Developing supra-vision using naturally occurring video material within supervision 14. Communication in research, evaluation or audit