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Children and Mental Health Talk: Perspectives on Social Competence

Children and Mental Health Talk: Perspectives on Social Competence

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Series: Language of Mental Health

Child PsychologyCognitionGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 303028428X
ISBN13: 9783030284282
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jan 21 2021
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This timely collection explores how children display social competence in talking about their mental health and wellbeing. The authors analyse recorded conversations of young people's interactions with professionals in which they disclose particular mental health concerns and their ways of coping, drawing on insights from ethnomethodology, conversation analysis and discursive psychology. Across a diverse range of institutional and international settings, chapters examine how children and young people employ interactional strategies to demonstrate their competence. The research reveals how young people resist or protect claims that they lack competence, especially in contexts where they might be seen as seeking or asking for support, or when their (dis)abilities and mental health is explicitly up for discussion.

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