Applying Critical Discourse Analysis to Cross-Cultural Mental Health Recovery Research
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how critical discourse analysis (CDA) frameworks can be used in cross-cultural mental health recovery research. CDA is a qualitative approach that critically appraises how language contributes to producing and reinforcing social inequalities. CDA regards linguistic productions as reflecting, consciously or unconsciously, the narrators' understandings of, or attitudes about, phenomena. Mental health recovery research aims to identify and address power differentials, making CDA a potentially relevant approach. However, CDA frameworks have not been widely applied to mental health recovery research. We adapted established CDA frameworks to our cross-cultural mental health recovery study. The adapted methodology comprises (1) selecting discourses that indicate positive changes and (2) considering sociocultural practices informed by relevant cultural characteristics identified in our previous research, without placing value judgments. Our adapted framework can support cross-cultural mental health recovery research that uses CDA.
Authors
- Divya Bhandari (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7720-9150)
- Merly McPhilbin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5746-3829)
- Mike Slade (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7020-3434)
- Yasutaka Ojio (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9660-206X)
- Amy Ronaldson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8369-9168)
- Estefanía Guerrero (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1433-0532)
- Tesnime Jebara (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6848-8845)
- Claire Henderson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6998-5659)
- Yasuhiro Kotera (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0251-0085)
- Jonathan Simpson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4285-5782)
- Mariam Namasaba (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7941-3769)
- Sara Vilar-Lluch (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5495-9386)
- Vanessa Kellermann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-5969-3769)
- Simran Kaur Takhi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3248-8912)
- Jessica Jepps (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-5495-2674)
- Benjamin-Rose Ingall (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2449-2719)
- Riddhi Daryanani (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8316-6986)
- Oliver Skipper
Institutions
- Harvard University (US)
- University of Nottingham (GB)
- King's College London (GB)
- Nord University (NO)
- Institute of Mental Health (GB)
- National Institute of Mental Health (JP)
- Universitat de Barcelona (ES)
- The University of Osaka (JP)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JMIR Formative Research
- Published
- 2024-10-11
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.2196/64087
- Citations
- 4
- Primary Topic
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 3.40