Conceptualizing mental health stigma in organizational settings: a sociolinguistic perspective.

Background: Sociolinguistic research on workplace mental health stigma is scarce and consequently, there are a lack of relevant conceptual models. Drawing on Goffman's notion of stigma as a 'language of relationships', and Heller's concept of 'discursive space', this paper offers a conceptual model of how stigma is produced and reinforced in workplace settings. Specifically, the model maps the complex discursive processes of mental health stigmatization through workplace discursive practices.

"I'm not an anxious person": end-of-life care workers constructing positive psychological states.

Background: Mental health is an issue of social and economic importance. Sociocultural and scholarly attention has largely focused on the negative aspects of mental health. That is, on mental disorders and illness and how they adversely impact our lives.

"They are not taking it seriously": Constructing family dynamics in end-of-life care interactions in Hong Kong.

In Chinese culture, the family is central to the decision-making around care provided to terminally-ill patients. Previous research examined the preferences that patients and relatives have in regard to the family's role in end-of-life care. Our article takes a discourse analytic perspective and focuses on how familial dynamics are interactionally constructed by patients in audio-recorded end-of-life care consultations in Hong Kong hospitals.

A scoping review to map the research on the mental health of students and graduates during their university-to-work transitions.

Objectives: This scoping review maps the extant literature on students' and graduates' mental health experiences throughout their university-to-work transitions. The current review investigates the methodological features of the studies, the main findings, and the theories that the studies draw on to conceptualise mental health and transitions.

Design: This project used a scoping review methodology created and developed by Peters and colleagues and the Joanna Briggs Institute.

'Feel like going crazy': Mental health discourses in an online support group for mothers during COVID-19.

COVID-19 has become a mental health pandemic. The impact on vulnerable demographic groups has been particularly severe. This paper focuses on women in employment in Hong Kong who have had to balance remote work and online schooling for over 2 years.

Mental Health, Discourse and Stigma.

In this editorial to the special collection "Mental Health, Discourse and Stigma" we outline the concepts of mental, health, discourse and stigma as they are examined through sociolinguistic lenses. We examine the sociolinguistic approach to mental health and stigma and discuss the different theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches that have been applied in such contexts. Sociolinguistics views mental health and stigma as discursively constructed and constituted, i.

The relationship between personal and interpersonal mental health experiences and stigma-related outcomes in Hong Kong.

Background: Previous research indicates that personal mental health experiences (e.g. one's current mental health status) and interpersonal mental health experiences (e.

Elicitation of children's understanding of information in pediatric genetic counseling encounters: A discourse-oriented perspective.

Affirmation of children's understanding of information provided in genetic counseling encounters is crucial to obtaining children's informed consent/assent in pediatric genetic counseling encounters. It is also important for the proper management of a genetic condition. Currently, there is a relative scarcity of research on how understanding of complex genetic information by children is elicited in the process of pediatric genetic counseling.

'Do language and culture really matter?': A trans-disciplinary investigation of cultural diversity in genetic counseling in Hong Kong.

In this paper, we present evidence that in counseling culturally diverse patients, differences in spoken language and cultural beliefs of the patients and genetic counseling professionals do not necessarily impede successful counseling. We also highlight sociocultural factors, including socioeconomic background and genetic literacy, that may impact communication in multicultural/ multilingual contexts or when languages other than English are used. While genetic counseling is not short of insights and practical guidelines on sociocultural and language issues, and increasingly, research that employs interviews and surveys, empirical research that draws on authentic interactional data (in the form of video- and audio-recorded interactions and their transcripts) is limited.