Doing fence sitting: a discursive analysis of clinical psychologists' constructions of mental health

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Doing fence sitting: a discursive analysis of clinical psychologists' constructions of mental health

A growing body of research indicates that the way health care professionals conceptualize mental health might have important clinical implications. We adopted a discursive psychology approach to explore clinical psychologists’ accounts of mental health and its effects. Semistructured interviews were...

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Main Authors:	Lofgren, Axel, Hewitt, Vanessa, das Nair, Roshan
Format:	Article
Published:	Sage Publications 2015
Subjects:	Critical Methods Discourse Analysis Health and Well-Being Health Care Professionals Interviews Semistructured Knowledge Construction Mental Health and Illness Psychology Qualitative Analysis
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34528/

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