Publications

Publication details [#59086]

Antaki, Charles and Michelle O’Reilly. 2014. Either/or questions in child psychiatric assessments: The effect of the seriousness and order of the alternatives. Discourse Studies 16 (3) : 327–345.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

assessment | doctor-patient conversation | psychiatric disturbance | question-answer sequence | therapeutic conversation

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper discusses the pros and cons of putting the most serious alternative as first item in the pair of alternatives in either/or questions in child psychiatric triage.