Negotiating mental health rehabilitation plans: Joint future talk and clashing time talk in professional client interaction

Let's talk about mental health.

Computers in talk-based mental health interventions

3 The cost to society of mental illness is substantial. A large scale international study has identified mental 4 illnesses as the second leading cause of disability and premature mortality in the developed world (Murray 5 & Lopez, 1996). Unfortunately, research also suggests that the majority of people suffering from treatable 6 mental health disorders do not have access to the required treatm...

Consumer-driven health plans: are they more than talk now?

This paper reports marketplace developments for consumer-driven health plans in spring 2002. Findings are from interviews with executives from start-up and health insurance firms, benefit consultants, employee benefit managers, Wall Street analysts, consumer organizations, thought leaders, and policymakers. We detail available evidence about the performance of consumer-driven health plans conce...

We Need to Talk About Corruption in Health Systems

The health sector consistently appears prominently in surveys of perceived corruption, with considerable evidence that this has serious adverse consequences for patients. Yet this issue is far from prominent in the international health policy discourse. We identify five reasons why the health policy community has been reluctant to talk about it. These are the problem of defining corruption, the...

Therapy talk and talk about therapy: Client-identified important events in psychotherapy

Capturing and studying the moments in psychotherapy that clients find most important can help us understand more about how psychotherapy works, what the curative ingredients are, and by what processes they are mediated. Qualitative research in this area has, so far, mainly focused on describing, and categorizing clients’ experiences of important factors and events. The methods employed to analy...