Strategic Interventions in Mental Health Rhetoric

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.

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