1st Edition
Strategic Interventions in Mental Health Rhetoric
Introduction: Interventions in Mental Health Rhetoric Research
Cathryn Molloy & Lisa Melonçon
Part One: Methodological Interventions
1. A theory of collective intimacy
Lisa Melonçon & Lora Arduser
2. Reflections on Research as it Unfolds: Inclusive Tactics as a Methodological Intervention
Sean Kamperman
3. Culture-centered approaches to rhetorical research: Considering domestic violence as a site for intersectional interventions
Lisa DeTora & Tomeka Robinson
Part Two: Legal, Cultural, and Institutional Interventions
4. Facilitating Rhetoric: Paratherapeutic Activity in Community Support Groups
Nora K. Augustine
5. Women of Dignity and Grace: The Politics of Respectability in Alcoholics Anonymous
Lori J. Joseph & Stephanie Kelley-Romano
6. Rhetorical Crocheting: New Chinese Moms Fighting Postpartum Depression in Social Media
Hua Wang
7. Rerouting Stigma: Leading with Law in Mental Health Rhetoric Research
Mark A. Hannah & Susie Salmon
8. Destigmatizing Black Mental Health: A Gay Black Woman’s Experience
Tianna Cobb
9. An Autoethnographic Examination of Anosognosia in a Sibling Exhibiting Severe Psychosis:
Reimagining Inclusiveness in MHRR
Cynthia Ryan
Part Three: Pedagogical and Co-Curricular Interventions
10. Toward an Empathy-First Approach to Student Mental Health: A Guide for Faculty Development
Lynn Reid
11. "Do You Feel Like :(": Discursive Interventions in University Mental Health Rhetorics
Leslie R. Anglesey & Adam Hubrig
12. Online University Mental Health Tools: Definitions and Narratives as Interventions
Barbara George & Rachael Blasiman
Biography
Lisa Melonçon is Professor of Technical Communication at the University of South Florida. She specializes in rhetoric of health and medicine and disability studies.
Cathryn Molloy is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in James Madison University’s School of Writing, Rhetoric and Technical Communication.
