Strategic Interventions in Mental Health Rhetoric

This innovative collection offers rhetorically informed strategic interventions that move beyond critiques of mental health issues, problems, and care. It discusses methodological, cultural, and legal interventions, as well as pedagogical interventions, and uses critical discourse analyses, ethnographic inquiries, autoethnographic inquiries, case studies, and textual analyses to explore topics such as postpartum depression, insanity pleas, anosognosia, intimacy, access, and embodiment in research projects, community support groups, Black mental health, women in Alcoholics Anonymous, and mental health in faculty workshops and university online health tools. The authors and editors aim to build productive methodological, theoretical, and practical bridges between scholars and teachers in the various specialties of writing and communication.

Format: Hardback
Length: 230 pages
Publication date: 07 February 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Offering rhetorically informed strategic interventions, this innovative collection moves beyond critiques of mental health issues, problems, and care. With sections that focus on methodological, cultural, and legal, and pedagogical interventions, readers will find an engaging discussion of a discrete mental health phenomenon as well as a clear interventional takeaway in each chapter. Contributors make use of critical discourse analyses, ethnographic inquiries, autoethnographic inquiries, case studies, and textual analyses to engage such mental health research topics as postpartum depression among Chinese mothers; insanity pleas; anosognosia; issues of intimacy, access, and embodiment in research projects; community support groups; Black mental health; women in Alcoholics Anonymous; and mental health in faculty workshops and university online health tools. The authors and editors create scholarship on mental health that explicitly builds productive methodological, theoretical, and practical bridges among scholars and teachers in the various specialties of writing and communication. This collection will interest scholars, students, and practitioners in health and medical humanities; rhetoric of health and medicine; health communication; medical anthropology; scientific and technical communication; disability studies; and rhetorical studies generally.

Weight: 617g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367701581