Young men in 'crisis': attending to the language of teenage boys' distress
Young men in 'crisis': attending to the language of teenage boys' distress
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DOI：
10.1016/s0277-9536(01)00186-1
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发表时间：
2002-11-01
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
Henwood, K
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作者：
McQueen, C;Henwood, K
在过去的二十年里，英国年轻男性的心理健康状况发生了变化，包括自杀和准自杀行为的增加。对于心理健康专业人员有效和适当地应对，以满足这些不断变化的需求，需要进一步理论化和知识的发展年轻人的心理过程，特别是，他们如何使他们的经验在他们的生活的文化背景下的意义。通过借鉴当代的主体性理论，本文试图开始解决其中的一些问题。书中详细讲述了两个年轻人对自己精神健康问题经历的描述。通过使用叙事，主题和话语分析，作者考虑了年轻人借鉴的文化概念，以及他们用来表达他们的痛苦的语言。本文的重点是性别和传统的男性气质如何约束和影响的青年男子的叙述在他们的个人生活史的背景下，以及如何这些可能成为他们的心理健康的问题。这些分析提供了一个当代的语言敏感和文化敏感的阅读的青年男子的帐户的精神痛苦。它强调了年轻人如何谈论他们的痛苦的方式是不能立即识别，并扩展了当代话语的知识，由年轻人在英国社会今天使用。男性主体性和心理健康和治疗参与的影响进行了讨论。(C)2002爱思唯尔科技有限公司版权所有。
The last two decades have seen a changing profile of young male mental health in Britain, including increased suicidal and parasuicidal behaviours. For mental health professionals to respond effectively and appropriately to meet these changing needs there needs to be further theorising and development of knowledge of young men's psychological processes and, in particular, how they make sense of their experiences within the cultural context of their lives. By drawing upon contemporary theories of subjectivities, this paper attempts to begin to address some of these issues. It looks in detail at two young men's accounts of their experiences of mental health problems. By using narrative, thematic and discourse analyses, the authors consider the cultural concepts the young men draw upon, and the language they use to voice their distress. The paper focuses on how gender and traditional masculinities constrain and influence the young men's narratives within the context of their individual life-histories and how these may become problematic for their mental health. The analyses provide a contemporary language-sensitive and culturally-sensitive reading of the young men's accounts of mental distress. It highlights how young men may talk about their distress in ways that are not immediately recognisable and extends the knowledge of the contemporary discourses used by young men in British society today. The implications for male subjectivities and mental health and therapeutic engagement are discussed. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.