The Palgrave Handbook of Child Mental Health: Discourse and Conversation Studies

Front Matter....Pages i-lii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Value of Conversation Analysis for the Study of Children’s Mental Health....Pages 3-24
The Value of Conversation Analysis: A Child Psychiatrist’s Perspective....Pages 25-41
The Value of Discourse Analysis: A Clinical Psychologist’s View....Pages 42-58
Looking or Spotting: A Conversation Analytic Perspective on Interaction between a Humanoid Robot, a Co-present Adult, and a Child with an ASC....Pages 59-78
ADHD: Three Competing Discourses....Pages 79-95
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
Discourses on Children’s Mental Health: A Critical Review....Pages 99-116
Child Mental Health: A Discourse Community....Pages 117-138
The Social Construction of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder....Pages 139-157
Moral Evaluations in Repertoires of ADHD....Pages 158-174
Leaving Melancholia: Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder....Pages 175-193
Why Does a Systemic Psychotherapy ‘Work’?....Pages 194-213
Front Matter....Pages 215-215
Red Flags: The Social Construction of a Symptom....Pages 217-232
The Production of the ‘Normal Child’: Exploring Co-constructions of Parents, Children, and Therapists....Pages 233-251
Should Autism Be Classified as a Mental Illness/Disability? Evidence from Empirical Work....Pages 252-271
Subjectivity in Autistic Language: Insights on Pronoun Atypicality from Three Case Studies....Pages 272-295
Normative Development and the Autistic Child....Pages 296-309
Front Matter....Pages 311-311
A Conversation Analysis of the Problem Presentation Phase of Initial Assessment Appointments in a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service....Pages 313-331
The Discursive Construction of Problem Behaviours of Children with Autism in Therapy....Pages 332-349
Name-Calling by a Child with Asperger’s Syndrome....Pages 350-366
Attachment Processes and Eating Disorders in Families: Research and Clinical Implications....Pages 367-383
Front Matter....Pages 311-311
Using Discourse Analysis to Study Online Forums for Young People Who Self-Harm....Pages 384-401
Using Conversation Analysis for Understanding Children’s Talk about Traumatic Events....Pages 402-421
Food, Eating, and ‘Eating Disorders’: Analysing Adolescents’ Discourse....Pages 422-437
Front Matter....Pages 439-439
Presuming Communicative Competence with Children with Autism: A Discourse Analysis of the Rhetoric of Communication Privilege....Pages 441-458
Parents’ Resources for Facilitating the Activities of Children with Autism at Home....Pages 459-479
Managing and Normalising Emotions and Behaviour: A Conversation Analytic Study of ADHD Coaching....Pages 480-499
Interlocutor Influence on the Communication Behaviours Associated with Selective Mutism....Pages 500-518
‘I’m Happy with Who I Am’: A Discursive Analysis of the Self-Characterisation Practices of Boys in ‘Behaviour’ Schools....Pages 519-538
Front Matter....Pages 539-539
Therapeutic Vision: Eliciting Talk about Feelings in Child Counselling for Family Separation....Pages 541-558
Parents’ Resistance of Anticipated Blame through Alignment Strategies: A Discursive Argument for Temporary Exclusion of Children from Family Therapy....Pages 559-577
Parentification: Counselling Talk on a Helpline for Children and Young People....Pages 578-596
‘And You? What Do You Think Then?’ Taking Care of Thought and Reasoning in Intellectual Disability....Pages 597-617
‘You Just Have to Be Cheerful Really’: Children’s Accounts of Ordinariness in Trauma Recovery Talk....Pages 618-635
Back Matter....Pages 636-647