Ekberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 22005 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ekberg |
| FAMILY NAME | Ekberg |
| SIGNATURE | EKBERG |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queensland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8837-7440 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Pathways to adolescent executive function in Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children: The role of early skills and learning environments
Understanding and strengthening the developmental pathways of Australian Aboriginal and Torres strait islander young people is of critical importance to efforts seeking to redress more than 200 years of disadvantage due to colonization. Although systemic factors play a key role in addressing disparities, individual-level capacities such as self-regulation and executive function are also essential for positive developmental outcomes and may act as…
Co-Designing a National Family Handbook for Childhood Brain Tumor
The use of self-efficacy theory and co-design was pivotal in this project. Integration of concepts from self-efficacy moves beyond simply presenting information to empowering the audience to feel capable of the task ahead of them. Co-design ensured the content and tone of the resulting resource are fit-for-purpose from the perspective of both clinicians and consumers. The resource is available as a physical book, digital resource, and audiobook a…
Still in Survival Mode: Trauma-Mapping Parent Experiences of Pediatric Brain Tumor
The diagnosis of a childhood brain tumor impacts the psychological well-being of parents who experience high levels of post-traumatic stress. To understand the etiology of trauma through this unique healthcare experience, a journey mapping exercise was undertaken with parents of children with brain tumor. Data were collected in an online focus group and by written responses. Framework analysis and research poetry were used to map experiences of t…
Communication in Pediatric Healthcare: A State-of-the-Art Literature Review of Conversation-Analytic Research
Communication is central to pediatric care.Conversation analytic (CA) studies of recorded naturally occurring pediatric interactions contribute distinctive understandings; however, to date there has been no detailed review of CA's unique contributions.We searched Medline, PsychINFO, Sciencedirect, Google Scholar, and the EM/CA Wiki database, identifying 74 empirical articles across diverse areas of pediatrics.Our state-of-the-art review highlight…
Managing understandings of palliative care as more than care immediately before death: Evidence from observational analysis of consultations
BACKGROUND: Evidence suggests that public, and some professional, understandings of palliative care are limited to care provided immediately before death, which contrasts palliative care's scope as care provided across a range of illness stages. OBJECTIVE: To examine how clinicians manage patients' understandings of palliative care during initial consultations. DESIGN: Initial palliative care consultations were video-recorded and analysed using c…
Clinician Perspectives of Communication with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Managing Pain: Needs and Preferences
Poor communication is an important factor contributing to health disparity. This study sought to investigate clinicians' perspectives about communicating with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients with pain. This multi-site and mixed-methods study involved clinicians from three pain management services in Queensland, Australia. Clinicians completed a survey and participated in focus groups. Clinicians rated the importance of communicatio…
Attending to child agency in paediatric palliative care consultations: Adults' use of tag questions directed to the child
Children's agency in their own lives is increasingly recognised as important, including within paediatric health care. The issue of acknowledging child agency is complex in the context of paediatric palliative care, where children have serious and complex conditions that often impact their ability to verbally communicate with others. This study explores how clinicians and parents/guardians direct talk towards a child patient when they are present…
The interactional achievement of reading aloud by young children and parents during digital technology use
Many studies that examine parent–child interactions while reading digital texts focus on the reading of e-books. Rather less is known about parent–child interactions and reading aloud of other screen texts that occur during young children’s everyday use of digital technologies at home. This article presents the findings from a conversation analytic study of a collection of 36 sequences of interaction between young children and their parents where…
Mobilising Local Resources around Integrated Palliative Cancer Care in Indonesia
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Pandemic morality-in-action: Accounting for social action during the Covid-19 pandemic
Global health pandemics (such as COVID-19) can result in rapid changes to sanctionable behaviour, impacting society and culture in a multitude of ways. This study examined how pandemic culture and accompanying moral order was produced within and through social interaction during the first and second waves of COVID-19 in Australia. The data consisted of a corpus of 29 video-recorded paediatric palliative care consultations and were analysed using …
Back to the source: Using repair to cite a source underpinning current conduct
The Experiences and Healthcare Needs of Families Living With Pediatric Brain Tumor: A Longitudinal Qualitative Study Protocol
For most children and adolescents diagnosed with a brain tumor, whether malignant or not, there will be an irrevocably negative impact on their life and that of their family. In Australia, 5 year disease-free survival is 76% meaning that many young people will go on to live with the negative consequences-including neurological and cognitive deficits, reduced school performance, psychological problems, and problems with peer social relationships-o…
The Palgrave Handbook of Child Mental Health: Discourse and Conversation Studies Michelle O’Reilly and Jessica Nina Lester (eds)
This large volume encompasses a range of insights for those interested in the relationship between text, talk, and social interaction and child mental health. As the editors highlight in their introduction, this handbook comes at a time when the World Health Organization estimates one in five children meet contemporary diagnostic criteria for mental health conditions. Mental health conditions, diagnoses and services are therefore either already p…
Gendering occupations
In spite of increasing gender diversity in employment roles, presumptions persist about the gender of people employed in particular occupations. Focusing on healthcare data collected in Australia and the United Kingdom within the past decade, we use conversation analysis to identify how presumptions about gender are displayed within social interaction through the use of gender-specific pronouns. We show how gender-specific pronouns are asymmetric…
Managing clients’ expectations at the outset of online C ognitive B ehavioural T herapy ( CBT ) for depression
BACKGROUND: Engaging clients in psychotherapy by managing their expectations is important for therapeutic success. Initial moments in first sessions of therapy are thought to afford an opportunity to establish a shared understanding of how therapy will proceed. However, there is little evidence from analysis of actual sessions of therapy to support this. OBJECTIVE: This study utilised recorded session logs to examine how therapists manage clients…
Let's see if you can see me: Making connections with Google EarthTM in a preschool classroom
Bringing a social interaction approach to children's geographies to investigate how children accomplish place in everyday lives, we draw on ethnomethodological and conversation analytic approaches that recognize children's competence to manipulate their social and digital worlds. An investigation of preschool-aged children engaged with Google EarthTM shows how they both claimed and displayed technological understandings and practices such as mano…
Orienting to Emotion in Computer-Mediated Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Exploring emotions is a defining feature of psychotherapy. This study explores how therapists orient to emotions when they cannot see or hear their clients. In analyzing 1,279 sessions of online text-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), we focused on therapists’ commiserations (e.g., “I’m sorry to hear that”) and their affective inferences (e.g., “that sounds very scary for you”). Both practices routinely prefaced moves to pursue a range of …
Identifying and addressing equivocal trouble in understanding within classroom interaction
Maintaining intersubjectivity is crucial for accomplishing coordinated social action. Although conversational repair is a recognised defence of intersubjectivity and routinely used to address ostensible sources of trouble in social interaction, it is less clear how people address more equivocal trouble. This study uses conversation analysis to examine preschool classroom interaction, focusing on practices used to identify and address such trouble…
Making arrangements in talk-in-interaction
Arrangement making is understood to be a “closing-relevant action” (Schegloff and Sacks 1973), but little attention has been given to how people arrive at mutually acceptable plans for the future. Telephone conversations between clients and staff of community and home care (CHC) services were studied to identify how arrangements for future services were made. A recurrent sequence was observed in which clients were informed of future arrangement a…
Addressing a source of trouble outside of the repair space
‘So what the hell are you talking about?’ The undergraduate experience of discursive psychology at an Australian University
Pandemic morality-in-action: Accounting for social action during the Covid-19 pandemic
Global health pandemics (such as COVID-19) can result in rapid changes to sanctionable behaviour, impacting society and culture in a multitude of ways. This study examined how pandemic culture and accompanying moral order was produced within and through social interaction during the first and second waves of COVID-19 in Australia. The data consisted of a corpus of 29 video-recorded paediatric palliative care consultations and were analysed using …
Attending to child agency in paediatric palliative care consultations: Adults' use of tag questions directed to the child
Children's agency in their own lives is increasingly recognised as important, including within paediatric health care. The issue of acknowledging child agency is complex in the context of paediatric palliative care, where children have serious and complex conditions that often impact their ability to verbally communicate with others. This study explores how clinicians and parents/guardians direct talk towards a child patient when they are present…
Let's see if you can see me: Making connections with Google EarthTM in a preschool classroom
Bringing a social interaction approach to children's geographies to investigate how children accomplish place in everyday lives, we draw on ethnomethodological and conversation analytic approaches that recognize children's competence to manipulate their social and digital worlds. An investigation of preschool-aged children engaged with Google EarthTM shows how they both claimed and displayed technological understandings and practices such as mano…
Addressing a source of trouble outside of the repair space
Orienting to Emotion in Computer-Mediated Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Exploring emotions is a defining feature of psychotherapy. This study explores how therapists orient to emotions when they cannot see or hear their clients. In analyzing 1,279 sessions of online text-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), we focused on therapists’ commiserations (e.g., “I’m sorry to hear that”) and their affective inferences (e.g., “that sounds very scary for you”). Both practices routinely prefaced moves to pursue a range of …
Back to the source: Using repair to cite a source underpinning current conduct
Gendering occupations
In spite of increasing gender diversity in employment roles, presumptions persist about the gender of people employed in particular occupations. Focusing on healthcare data collected in Australia and the United Kingdom within the past decade, we use conversation analysis to identify how presumptions about gender are displayed within social interaction through the use of gender-specific pronouns. We show how gender-specific pronouns are asymmetric…
‘So what the hell are you talking about?’ The undergraduate experience of discursive psychology at an Australian University
Addressing a source of trouble outside of the repair space
Making arrangements in talk-in-interaction
Arrangement making is understood to be a “closing-relevant action” (Schegloff and Sacks 1973), but little attention has been given to how people arrive at mutually acceptable plans for the future. Telephone conversations between clients and staff of community and home care (CHC) services were studied to identify how arrangements for future services were made. A recurrent sequence was observed in which clients were informed of future arrangement a…
Managing clients’ expectations at the outset of online C ognitive B ehavioural T herapy ( CBT ) for depression
BACKGROUND: Engaging clients in psychotherapy by managing their expectations is important for therapeutic success. Initial moments in first sessions of therapy are thought to afford an opportunity to establish a shared understanding of how therapy will proceed. However, there is little evidence from analysis of actual sessions of therapy to support this. OBJECTIVE: This study utilised recorded session logs to examine how therapists manage clients…
Let's see if you can see me: Making connections with Google EarthTM in a preschool classroom
Bringing a social interaction approach to children's geographies to investigate how children accomplish place in everyday lives, we draw on ethnomethodological and conversation analytic approaches that recognize children's competence to manipulate their social and digital worlds. An investigation of preschool-aged children engaged with Google EarthTM shows how they both claimed and displayed technological understandings and practices such as mano…
Orienting to Emotion in Computer-Mediated Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Exploring emotions is a defining feature of psychotherapy. This study explores how therapists orient to emotions when they cannot see or hear their clients. In analyzing 1,279 sessions of online text-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), we focused on therapists’ commiserations (e.g., “I’m sorry to hear that”) and their affective inferences (e.g., “that sounds very scary for you”). Both practices routinely prefaced moves to pursue a range of …
Identifying and addressing equivocal trouble in understanding within classroom interaction
Maintaining intersubjectivity is crucial for accomplishing coordinated social action. Although conversational repair is a recognised defence of intersubjectivity and routinely used to address ostensible sources of trouble in social interaction, it is less clear how people address more equivocal trouble. This study uses conversation analysis to examine preschool classroom interaction, focusing on practices used to identify and address such trouble…
The Palgrave Handbook of Child Mental Health: Discourse and Conversation Studies Michelle O’Reilly and Jessica Nina Lester (eds)
This large volume encompasses a range of insights for those interested in the relationship between text, talk, and social interaction and child mental health. As the editors highlight in their introduction, this handbook comes at a time when the World Health Organization estimates one in five children meet contemporary diagnostic criteria for mental health conditions. Mental health conditions, diagnoses and services are therefore either already p…
Gendering occupations
In spite of increasing gender diversity in employment roles, presumptions persist about the gender of people employed in particular occupations. Focusing on healthcare data collected in Australia and the United Kingdom within the past decade, we use conversation analysis to identify how presumptions about gender are displayed within social interaction through the use of gender-specific pronouns. We show how gender-specific pronouns are asymmetric…
The Experiences and Healthcare Needs of Families Living With Pediatric Brain Tumor: A Longitudinal Qualitative Study Protocol
For most children and adolescents diagnosed with a brain tumor, whether malignant or not, there will be an irrevocably negative impact on their life and that of their family. In Australia, 5 year disease-free survival is 76% meaning that many young people will go on to live with the negative consequences-including neurological and cognitive deficits, reduced school performance, psychological problems, and problems with peer social relationships-o…
The interactional achievement of reading aloud by young children and parents during digital technology use
Many studies that examine parent–child interactions while reading digital texts focus on the reading of e-books. Rather less is known about parent–child interactions and reading aloud of other screen texts that occur during young children’s everyday use of digital technologies at home. This article presents the findings from a conversation analytic study of a collection of 36 sequences of interaction between young children and their parents where…
Mobilising Local Resources around Integrated Palliative Cancer Care in Indonesia
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Pandemic morality-in-action: Accounting for social action during the Covid-19 pandemic
Global health pandemics (such as COVID-19) can result in rapid changes to sanctionable behaviour, impacting society and culture in a multitude of ways. This study examined how pandemic culture and accompanying moral order was produced within and through social interaction during the first and second waves of COVID-19 in Australia. The data consisted of a corpus of 29 video-recorded paediatric palliative care consultations and were analysed using …
Back to the source: Using repair to cite a source underpinning current conduct
Clinician Perspectives of Communication with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Managing Pain: Needs and Preferences
Poor communication is an important factor contributing to health disparity. This study sought to investigate clinicians' perspectives about communicating with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients with pain. This multi-site and mixed-methods study involved clinicians from three pain management services in Queensland, Australia. Clinicians completed a survey and participated in focus groups. Clinicians rated the importance of communicatio…
Attending to child agency in paediatric palliative care consultations: Adults' use of tag questions directed to the child
Children's agency in their own lives is increasingly recognised as important, including within paediatric health care. The issue of acknowledging child agency is complex in the context of paediatric palliative care, where children have serious and complex conditions that often impact their ability to verbally communicate with others. This study explores how clinicians and parents/guardians direct talk towards a child patient when they are present…
Communication in Pediatric Healthcare: A State-of-the-Art Literature Review of Conversation-Analytic Research
Communication is central to pediatric care.Conversation analytic (CA) studies of recorded naturally occurring pediatric interactions contribute distinctive understandings; however, to date there has been no detailed review of CA's unique contributions.We searched Medline, PsychINFO, Sciencedirect, Google Scholar, and the EM/CA Wiki database, identifying 74 empirical articles across diverse areas of pediatrics.Our state-of-the-art review highlight…
Managing understandings of palliative care as more than care immediately before death: Evidence from observational analysis of consultations
BACKGROUND: Evidence suggests that public, and some professional, understandings of palliative care are limited to care provided immediately before death, which contrasts palliative care's scope as care provided across a range of illness stages. OBJECTIVE: To examine how clinicians manage patients' understandings of palliative care during initial consultations. DESIGN: Initial palliative care consultations were video-recorded and analysed using c…
Co-Designing a National Family Handbook for Childhood Brain Tumor
The use of self-efficacy theory and co-design was pivotal in this project. Integration of concepts from self-efficacy moves beyond simply presenting information to empowering the audience to feel capable of the task ahead of them. Co-design ensured the content and tone of the resulting resource are fit-for-purpose from the perspective of both clinicians and consumers. The resource is available as a physical book, digital resource, and audiobook a…
Still in Survival Mode: Trauma-Mapping Parent Experiences of Pediatric Brain Tumor
The diagnosis of a childhood brain tumor impacts the psychological well-being of parents who experience high levels of post-traumatic stress. To understand the etiology of trauma through this unique healthcare experience, a journey mapping exercise was undertaken with parents of children with brain tumor. Data were collected in an online focus group and by written responses. Framework analysis and research poetry were used to map experiences of t…
Pathways to adolescent executive function in Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children: The role of early skills and learning environments
Understanding and strengthening the developmental pathways of Australian Aboriginal and Torres strait islander young people is of critical importance to efforts seeking to redress more than 200 years of disadvantage due to colonization. Although systemic factors play a key role in addressing disparities, individual-level capacities such as self-regulation and executive function are also essential for positive developmental outcomes and may act as…
Psychology (16 works) · Conversation (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Communication (6 works) · Conversation analysis (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Nursing (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works)