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Publication details [#66197]

O'Reilly, Michelle, Jessica N. Lester and Nikki Kiyimba. 2019. Building a case for accessing service provision in child and adolescent mental health assessments. Discourse Studies 21 (4) : 421–437.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
adolescent | child | conversational analysis | family role | health | mental state | rhetoric | spoken language
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications
Journal WWW
www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study conducted a rhetorical assay to regard how in child mental health settings, families work to propose a credible ‘doctorable’ reason for attendance. The sole resource available to families claiming the presence of mental health problems in a child was their spoken words.