Overview
- Offers readers a better understanding of the interactional challenges posed by dementia
- Provides practical strategies to help readers better navigate their day-to-day interactions with persons with dementia
- Shares insights into both the language and actions selected by participants
Part of the book series: The Language of Mental Health (TLMH)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Talk of Persons with Dementia: What Can It Tell Us?
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Learning from the Talk of Persons with Dementia: Practical Steps for Doing and Applying Linguistic and Social Interactional Research
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Conclusion: Keeping the Conversation Going
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About this book
This book offers an in depth analysis of the interactional challenges that arise due to various dementias and in a variety of social contexts. By assessing conversations between persons with dementia and their family members, caregivers, and clinicians, it shares insights into both the language and actions selected by the participants. Using several different research methods, authors highlight competencies and areas of struggle, as well as choices that ease interactions along with those that seem to complicate them. Each chapter provides practical strategies to help readers better navigate day-to-day interactions with persons with dementia. The book is part of a continuing effort to offer guidance and hope to those for whom such conversations have become part of their daily lives. It presents concrete recommendations for specific groups such as family members, caregivers, and clinicians; it will also be of interest to researchers in the field of dementia and early career scholars interested in the methodologies discussed.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Trini Stickle is Assistant Professor of English at Western Kentucky University, USA. She chiefly publishes on the linguistic and interactional competencies of persons with dementia and autism. Additionally, she creates curricula using US dialect data from the Dictionary of American Regional English for linguistic, literature, and history courses.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Learning from the Talk of Persons with Dementia
Book Subtitle: A Practical Guide to Interaction and Interactional Research
Editors: Trini Stickle
Series Title: The Language of Mental Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43977-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43976-7Published: 04 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43979-8Published: 05 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-43977-4Published: 03 August 2020
Series ISSN: 2946-4374
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4382
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 255
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Personality and Social Psychology, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Psycholinguistics, Applied Psychology, Health Psychology