American Psychological Association Marks Health Awareness Month with Focus on Immigrant and Child Mental Health Issues

2012 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Child Mental Health ◽  
American Psychological Association ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Health Awareness ◽  
American Psychological ◽  
Mental Health Issues

‘I was just thinking’

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Hutchby ◽  
Michelle O’Reilly ◽  
Alison Drewett ◽  
Victoria Stafford
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Cognitive Processing ◽  
Child Mental Health ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Health Assessment ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Mental Health Assessment ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
Health Assessments

Based on a corpus of child mental health assessment meetings, this article explores how practitioners use reports on their own cognitive processing, such as I was just thinking or I’m just wondering, in interaction with children and adolescents presenting with potential mental health issues. Using the methods of conversation analysis, the findings reveal different ways in which this device is used to encourage the child to engage with a particular topic, interpretation, or version of events from the standpoint of subjective experience; in other words, to produce feelings-talk. The analysis contributes further towards the understanding of child–adult interaction in professional arenas of action: in this case child mental health assessments.

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