| Strategic Interventions in Mental Health Rhetoric Subjects: Behavioral Sciences; Communication Studies; Health and Social Care; Language & Literature; Medicine Dentistry Nursing & Allied Health; Social Sciences; Communication Research Methods; Health Communication; Rhetoric; Technical Communication; Psychological Science; Mental Health; Health & Society; Public Health Policy and Practice; Language & Linguistics; Medicine; Anthropology - Soc Sci; Sociology & Social Policy; Research methods; Mental Health; Medical Ethics; Health & Medical Anthropology; Psychological Methods & Statistics; Psychiatry & Clinical Psychology - Adult; Language and Communication; Medical Sociology; 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. Lisa Melonçon is Professor of Technical Communication at the University of South Florida. She specializes in rhetoric of health and medicine and disability studies. Cathryn Molloy is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in James Madison University's School of Writing, Rhetoric and Technical Communication. |