Introduction
Language socialization is discussed in this chapter with reference to the recovery or improvement of one's social use of language. Principles discussed will refer primarily to people with chronic schizophrenia who have moved from hospital to community settings, but will also be relevant to other groups of people with mental health disorders (MHDs) living in the community. From existing definitions of language socialization, many concepts apply to this group of language users. For example, language socialisation has been described as a process that encompasses ‘socialization through language and into language’ (Ochs and Schieffelin, 1984; 1995; Schieffelin and Ochs, 1986a, 1986b, Ochs and Schieffelin, Language Socialization: An Historical Overview, Volume 8). It involves ‘an interactional display (covert or overt) to a novice of expected ways of thinking, feeling and acting’ (Ochs, 1986, p. 2). Furthermore, language socialization examines ‘how [people] are socialized by...
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Notes
- 1.
Linscott ( 2005, 226) states that formal thought disorder is a set of language features ‘that are constructed as indicating that the form of underlying information processing is disorganized.’
References
Barham, P. and Hayward, R.: 1995, Relocating Madness, Free Association Books, London.
Bayley, R. and Schecter, S.R.: 2003, ‘Toward a dynamic model of language socialization’, in R. Bayley and S.R. Schecter (eds.), Language Socialization in Bilingual and Multilingual Societies, Multilingual Matters, Clevedon.
Bellack, A.S.: 2004, ‘Skills training for people with severe mental illness’, Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal 27, 4, 375–391.
Bellack, A.S., Mueser, K.T., Gingerich, S., and Agresta, J.: 1997, Social Skills Training for Schizophrenia, The Guildford Press, London.
Burnard, P.: 2003, ‘Ordinary chat and therapeutic conversation: Phatic communication and mental health nursing’, Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 10, 678–682.
Buterin, N. and Liberman, R.P.: 1998, ‘Adaptation and cross‐cultural validation of the basic conversational skills module in Bulgaria’, International Review of Psychiatry 10(1), 67–70.
Byrne, M.E., Crowe, T.A., and Griffin, P.S.: 1998, ‘Pragmatic language behaviours of adults diagnosed with chronic schizophrenia’, Psychological Reports 83, 835–846.
Chambon, O. and Marie‐Cardine, M.: 1998, ‘An evaluation of social skills training modules with schizophrenia inpatients in France’, International Review of Psychiatry 10 (1), 26–29.
Cutting, J. and Charlish, A.: 1995, Schizophrenia: Understanding and Coping with the Illness, Thorsons (Harper Collins), London.
Emerson, J. and Enderby, P.: 1996, ‘Prevalence of speech and language disorders in a mental health unit’, European Journal of Disorders of Communication 31, 221–236.
Garrett, P.B. and Baquedano‐López:2002, ‘Language socialization: Reproduction and continuity, transformation and change’, Annual Review of Anthropology 31, 339–361.
Gibbons, J.S. and Butler, J.P.: 1987, ‘Quality of life for ‘new’ long stay psychiatric in‐patients: The effects of moving to a hostel’, British Journal of Psychiatry 151, 347–354.
Hayes, C.: 1997, ‘Applying personal construct psychology: Communication skills groups for people with mental health problems’, in J. France and N. Muir (eds.), Communication and the Mentally Ill Patient, Jessica Kingsley, London.
Hayes, C. and Collins, L.: 2001, ‘Personal construct psychology’, in J. France and S. Kramer (eds.), Communication and Mental Illness: Theoretical and Practical Approaches, Jessica Kingsley: London.
Ikebuchi, E., Anzai, N., and Niwa, S.: 1998, ‘Adoption and dissemination of social skills training in Japan: A decade of experience (1988–1997)’, International Review of Psychiatry 10, 71–75.
Henton, R., Sinclair, R., and Sideras, V.: 2001, ‘Interpersonal skills as part of social skill training for patients with schizophrenia’, in J. France and S. Kramer (eds.), Communication and Mental Illness, Jessica Kingsley, London.
Kallert, T.W., Leisse, M., and Winiecki, P.: 2004, ‘Needs for care of chronic schizophrenic patients in long‐term community treatment’, Social Psychiatry Psychiatric Epidemiology 39(5), 386–396.
Kelly, G.A.: 1955, The Psychology of Personal Constructs, Volumes 1 and 2, Norton, New York.
Kopelwicz, A. and Liberman, R.P.: 2003, ‘Integrating treatment with rehabilitation for persons with major mental illnesses’, Psychiatric Services 54(11), 1491–1498.
Liberman, R.P., De Risi, W.J., and Mueser, K.T.: 1989, Social Skills Training for Psychiatric Patients, Allyn and Bacon, London.
Liberman, R.P., Blair, K.E., Glynn, S.M., Marder, S.R., Wirshing, W., and Wirshing, D.A.: 2001, ‘Generalization of skills training to the natural environment’, in H.D. Brenner, W. Boker, and R. Genner (eds.), The Treatment of Schizophrenia: Status and Emerging Trends, Hogrefe & Huber, Seattle, WA.
Liberman, R.P., Wallace, C.J., Blackwell, G., Eckman, T.A., Vaccaro, J.V., and Kuehnel, T.G.: 1993, ‘Innovations in skills training for the seriously mentally ill: The UCLA social and independent living skills modules’, Innovations & Research 2(2), 43–59.
Linscott, R.J.: 2005, ‘Thought disorder, pragmatic language impairment and generalised cognitive decline in schizophrenia’, Schizophrenia Research 75, 225–232.
McQuaid, J.R., Granholm, E., McClure, F.S., Roepke, S., Pedrelli, P., Patterson, T.L., and Jeste, D.V.: 2000, ‘Development of an integrated cognitive‐behavioral and social skills training intervention for older patients with schizophrenia’, Journal of Psychotherapy Practice Research 9(3), 149–156.
Mueser, K.T. and Mc Gurk, S.R.: 2004, ‘Schizophrenia’, The Lancet 363, 2063–2072.
Newby, D.: 2001, ‘Communication and formal thought disorder in schizophrenia’, in J. France and S. Kramer (eds.), Communication and Mental Illness, Jessica Kingsley, London.
Ochs, E.: 1986, ‘Introduction’, in B. Schieffelin and E. Ochs (eds.), Language Socialization Across Cultures, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Ochs, E. and Schieffelin, B.B.: 1984, ‘Language acquisition and socialization: Three developmental stories’, in R.A. Shweder and R.A. LeVine (eds.), Culture Theory: Essays on Mind, Self, and Emotion, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Ochs, E. and Schieffelin, B.B.: 1995, ‘The impact of language socialization on grammatical development’, in P. Fletcher and B. MacWhinney (eds.), The Handbook of Child Language, Blackwell, Oxford.
Pilling, S., Bebbington, P., Kuipers, E., Garety, P., Geddes, J., Martindale, B., Orbach, G., and Morgan, C.: 2002, ‘Psychological treatments in schizophrenia: II. Meta‐analyses of randomized controlled trails of social skills training and cognitive remediation’, Psychological Medicine 32(5), 783–791.
Puri, B.K., Laking, P.J., and Treasaden, I.H.: 2002, Textbook of Psychiatry, Churchill Livingstone, London.
Roder, V., Studer, K., and Brenner, H.: 1987, ‘Experiences with an integrated therapy program for training communication and cognitive abilities in the rehabilitation of severely ill chronic schizophrenic patients’, Schweiz Archiv Neurologie Psychiatry 138(1), 31–44.
Rustin, L. and Kuhr, A.: 1999, Social Skills and the Speech Impaired, Whurr, London.
Schieffelin, B.B. and Ochs, E. (eds.): 1986a, Language Socialization across Cultures, Cambridge University Press, New York.
Schieffelin, B.B. and Ochs, E.: 1986b, ‘Language socialization’, in B.J. Siegel, A.R. Beals and S.A. Tyler (eds.), Annual Review of Anthropology, Annual Reviews,Inc, Palo Alto.
Shepherd, G.: 1986, ‘Social skills training and schizophrenia’, in C.R. Hollins and P. Trower (eds.), Handbook of Social Skills Training: Clinical Applications and New Directions, Volume 2, Pergamon Press, Oxford.
Walsh, I.: 1997, ‘Conversational skills and schizophrenia: An exploration’, in J. France and N. Muir (eds.), Communication and the Mentally Ill Patient, Jessica Kingsley, London.
Walsh‐Brennan, I.: 2001, Conversational Sociability: An Emergent Ability Amidst Perceived Disability in Chronic Schizophrenia, Unpublished PhD thesis, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
Walsh, I., Regan, J., Sowman, R., Parsons, B., and Mc Kay, P.: 2004, Language, communication and swallowing disorders among psychiatric service users, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, (July, 2004). Harrogate, UK.
Wenger, E.: 1998, Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning and Identity, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
World Health Organisation (WHO): 2002: Towards a Common Language for Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), WHO, Geneva.
Wing, L., Cooper, J.E., and Sartorius, N.: 1974, Description and Classification of Psychiatric Symptoms, Cambridge University Press, London.
Wong, S.E., Martinez‐Diaz, J.A., Keith Massel, H., Edelstein, B.A., Wiegand, W., Bowen, L., and Liberman, R.P.: 1993, ‘Conversational skills training with schizophrenic inpatients: A study of generalisation across settings and conversants’, Behaviour Therapy 24, 285–304.
Yildez, M., Vezbnedariglu, B., Eryavuz, A., and Kayahan, B.: 2004, ‘Psychosocial skills training on social functioning and quality of life in the treatment of schizophrenia: A controlled study in Turkey’, International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice 8, 219–225.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2008 Springer Science+Business Media LLC
About this entry
Cite this entry
Walsh, I. (2008). Language Socialization Among People with Mental Health Disorders. In: Hornberger, N.H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30424-3_216
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30424-3_216
Publisher Name: Springer, Boston, MA
Print ISBN: 978-0-387-32875-1
Online ISBN: 978-0-387-30424-3
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law