Investigating the effects, and most effective use, of metaphors for depression in mental health support.

调查抑郁症隐喻在心理健康支持中的效果和最有效的使用。

• 批准号: 2593716
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Birmingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2593716
• 关键词: Investigating; effects; most; effective; use

My project addresses an institutionally acknowledged need to improve UK mental health support services. Government efforts to improve mental health literacy produced the 'Every Mind Matters' website (2019), but mental health charities still face increasing demand under the "looming mental health crisis" during coronavirus lockdown (rethink.org, 2020). Based on depression and metaphor literature, and guided by trends in corpus data, I will test the extent to which conventional and novel metaphorical framings can conceptualise depression in more nuanced, personalised, and healthy ways to boost recovery rates. Recent collaborative study with a Birmingham sexual health campaign, demonstrated that informed use of figurative language can improve engagement with health-based messages and more effectively encourage people to self-refer to health support services (Perez-Sobrino et al., 2021). Similar collaboration with local mental health support services or charities (e.g. Birmingham Mind) will help these findings to inform metaphor use in both clinical practice and mental health awareness campaigns, whilst also facilitating the analyst-practitioner dialogue needed to improve the effectiveness of mental health metaphor research (Tay, 2020). My aim is not to prescribe or dictate 'optimal' metaphors, but to improve mental health literacy and support by diversifying the metaphor strategies and resources used to communicate and frame depression.Previous studies have already demonstrated the potential of metaphor in wider health communication. Developing health literacy using tailored metaphors helps patients to understand medical concepts (Talley, 2016), and facilitates greater emotional disclosure and amounts of talk in patient-practitioner interactions (Padfield et al., 2018). For patients, engaging with metaphor helps to convey personal experience with invisible symptoms in more diverse and creative ways, making patients feel better understood (Gameiro et al., 2018; Semino et al., 2018). For professionals, engaging with clients' metaphors alongside broader life context can help with understanding symptoms, and provide insight into the emotional and contextual factors which motivate their choice of metaphor (McMullen, 2008; Talley, 2016; Littlemore and Turner, 2019).As for the existing scope of metaphor resources, the developmental history of conventional depression metaphors is well-documented (Jadhav, 1996; Conway and McMullen, 2002; Kövecses, 2007). I will further this by investigating the influence of such factors as technological advancement, the dominance of a biomedical approach to healthcare, and the impact of Covid-19. As well as considering the macro level, I will test for correlations between specific metaphor trends and individual variables like gender or profession (Charteris-Black, 2012; Talley, 2016) to better inform tailored metaphor use.

我的项目解决了一个机构承认需要改善英国心理健康支持服务。政府为提高心理健康素养所做的努力产生了“每个心灵都很重要”的网站（2019年），但在冠状病毒封锁期间，心理健康慈善机构仍面临着“迫在眉睫的心理健康危机”的日益增长的需求（rethink.org，2020年）。基于抑郁症和隐喻文献，并在语料库数据趋势的指导下，我将测试传统和新颖的隐喻框架在多大程度上可以以更微妙，个性化和健康的方式概念化抑郁症，以提高康复率。最近与伯明翰性健康运动的合作研究表明，知情使用比喻语言可以改善与健康信息的接触，并更有效地鼓励人们自我参考健康支持服务（Perez-Sobrino等人，2021年）。与当地心理健康支持服务或慈善机构（例如伯明翰头脑）的类似合作将有助于这些研究结果为临床实践和心理健康意识活动中的隐喻使用提供信息，同时也促进了提高心理健康隐喻研究有效性所需的分析师-从业者对话（Tay，2020）。我的目的不是规定或规定“最佳”的隐喻，而是通过多样化的隐喻策略和资源来提高心理健康素养和支持，用于沟通和框架depression.Previous研究已经证明了隐喻在更广泛的健康沟通中的潜力。使用量身定制的隐喻发展健康素养有助于患者理解医学概念（塔利，2016），并促进患者-医生互动中更多的情感披露和谈话量（Padfield等人，2018年）。对于患者来说，参与隐喻有助于以更多样化和创造性的方式传达个人对无形症状的体验，使患者感到更好地理解（Gameiro等人，2018; Semino等人，2018年）。对于专业人士来说，与客户的隐喻以及更广泛的生活背景相结合可以帮助理解症状，并深入了解促使他们选择隐喻的情感和背景因素（McMullen，2008;塔利，2016;至于隐喻资源的现有范围，常规抑郁症隐喻的发展历史是有据可查的（Jadhav，1996年; Conway和McMullen，2002年; Kövecses，2007年）。我将通过调查技术进步、生物医学方法在医疗保健中的主导地位以及新型冠状病毒肺炎的影响等因素的影响来进一步推动这一点。除了考虑宏观层面，我还将测试特定隐喻趋势与性别或职业等个体变量之间的相关性（Charteris-Black，2012;塔利，2016），以更好地为量身定制的隐喻使用提供信息。