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Hilder, Sarah; Bettinson, Vanessa

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“…This mother suffers from depression and anxiety, and is seeing a counselor for this. The last decade saw an increase in child protection cases in the United Kingdom and the implementation of safeguarding measures (e.g., by taking children into care) as a result of domestic violence (Hilder & Bettinson, 2016). Domestic violence is now recognized as a public health issue and a significant child protection concern (Rivett & Kelly, 2016) with associated policies and legislations such as the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act (2012).…”

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Presenting Critical Realist Discourse Analysis as a Tool for Making Sense of Service Users’ Accounts of Their Mental Health Problems

Sims‐Schouten

Riley

2018

Qual Health Res

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Making sense of service users' accounts of their mental health problems requires a method able to deal with complexity. Yet the different underlying epistemological and ontological positions of the methods researchers use, based for example on biomedicine or social constructionism, produce highly partial analyses. Addressing this problem, this article offers a method of Critical Realist Discourse Analysis (CRDA) that employs a synthesised discourse analysis, informed by critical realism, to examine the discursive, material, embodied and institutional factors that might inform how mental health service users make sense of their mental health problems and associated service use. The article describes the epistemological/ontological underpinnings of CRDA and its three phase methodology, before showcasing the method using, as examples, two data sets from care leavers and mothers. With our CRDA we demonstrate a method for analysing the complexity of interacting factors informing service users' understanding of their mental health problems.

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confidence: 99%