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Bateman2015
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Bateman2015
Author(s) Amanda Bateman, Susan Danby, Justine Howard
Title Using conversation analysis for understanding children's talk about traumatic events
Editor(s) Michelle O'Reilly, Jessica Nina Lester
Tag(s) Child mental health, Children, Applied, Medical EMCA
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Year 2015
Language English
City London
Month
Journal
Volume
Number
Pages 402–421
URL Link
DOI 10.1057/9781137428318_22
ISBN 978-1-137-42830-1
Organization
Institution
School
Type
Edition
Series
Howpublished
Book title The Palgrave Handbook of Child Mental Health: Discourse and Conversation Studies
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Abstract

This chapter provides a theoretical overview of literature that uses conversation analysis (CA) to explore children’s interactions related to trauma and associated mental health matters. The relatively new approach of using CA to understand trauma reveals the importance of talk in the process of recovery, and also how the participants co-construct talk about traumatic experiences. The chapter will explore literature using a CA approach to investigate children’s trauma talk with professionals as well as literature specifically discussing children’s talk about their traumatic experiences with people who are not qualified therapists or psychiatrists. We conclude by calling for more research using a CA approach for investigating children’s traumatic experiences due to the insight it provides into each child’s personal sense making of traumatic events with a range of people.

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