Bernadette Watson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3817498 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bernadette Watson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bernadette |
| FAMILY NAME | Watson |
| SIGNATURE | WATSON B |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Metaphorical language and psychopathological symptoms
This study establishes symptom-level metaphor usage patterns as a previously overlooked but interesting avenue in trauma evaluation, treatment, and research. While the study is confined to a single context, it nevertheless reveals the potential for metaphor research findings to be incorporated as useful materials in psychology education and therapist training
Metaphors and trauma
Interactional Adjustment
Interactional adjustment refers to people’s tendency to adjust, or adapt, their communication behavior in social interactions. In recent years, three distinctive approaches to this topic that have featured prominently in the Journal of Language and Social Psychology are communication accommodation theory (CAT), language style matching (LSM), and discursive psychology using conversation analysis (DPCA). In this article, we provide a review of thes…
Perspectives on Suicide Prevention Amongst Members of Christian Faith-Based Organizations
Travelers’ Health Risk Perceptions and Protective Behavior
Although the significance of travel health risks is well documented, the process through which people assess their vulnerability and ultimately take on preventive measures needs clarification. The purpose of this article is to better understand factors underlying travelers’ health risk perceptions and their protective behavior. Using the health psychology literature, a conceptual model that incorporates multilevel psychological constructs was tes…
‘You don’t know what’s going on in there’
In contemporary Western society, the concept of risk is mostly linked related to negative or undesirable outcomes and used to explain unusual or abnormal events that have harmful consequences. Working in a poststructuralist framework, in this article we examine how risk shapes interactions between midwives and pregnant women in the context of public hospitals in Australia. We draw on data from an observational study of clinical encounters in thre…
Intergroup Communication
Intergroup communication reflects a way of looking at communication among members of different social categories or groups (ethnicity, gender, age, health status, organizational membership, etc.), and the ways in which social identities, attitudes, and motivations influence and are negotiated in communication. The field has multidisciplinary origins, and it is diverse in theory and eclectic in methodology. This entry gives a broad overview of the…
An exploration of how health care professionals understand experiences of deafness
Findings from recent deaf education intervention programmes with health care professionals emphasise the importance of sociocultural dimensions of medicine, pointing to the need to further investigate health professionals’ current understandings of deafness. Situated within a social constructionist and critical realist framework, we investigated health professionals’ understandings of deafness and experiences of providing health services in Austr…
Self-Stigma, Perceived Stigma, and Help-Seeking Communication in People with Mental Illness
People with mental illness (PWMI) often internalise negative beliefs (self-stigma) or anticipate external sources of stigma (perceived stigma). This study examines how the two types of stigma affect the willingness to communicate for help – such communication is a vital aspect of good patient care and treatment outcome. Seventy-two participants from different ethnic backgrounds who had experienced mental illness responded to an online survey abou…
Tamar Murachver
Complex Health Communication
The articles presented in this special issue represent key issues for current day health communication scholars. The articles were commissioned by the International Association of Language and Social Psychology Taskforce and presented at the 2008 International Communication Association in Montreal. Each article tackles a specific health dilemma and demonstrates the need for immediate but theoretically based interventions
Organizational Communication
Organizational communication covers an eclectic mix of approaches, theories, and methodologies, developed within organizational settings or applied from other areas. The authors start their assessment of recent literature with 6 challenges for the field that have been delineated in previous reviews: (a) to innovate in theory and methodology, (b) to acknowledge the role of ethics, (c) to move from micro- to macrolevel issues, (d) to examine new or…
Patients' Interactions with Health Providers
Two studies investigated interactions between health providers and patients, using Semin and Fiedler's linguistic category model. In Study 1 the linguistic category model was used to examine perceptions of the levels of linguistic intergroup bias in descriptions of conversations with health professionals in hospitals. Results indicated a favourable linguistic bias toward health professionals in satisfactory conversations but low levels of linguis…
Patients' Interactions with Health Providers
Two studies investigated interactions between health providers and patients, using Semin and Fiedler's linguistic category model. In Study 1 the linguistic category model was used to examine perceptions of the levels of linguistic intergroup bias in descriptions of conversations with health professionals in hospitals. Results indicated a favourable linguistic bias toward health professionals in satisfactory conversations but low levels of linguis…
Perspectives on Suicide Prevention Amongst Members of Christian Faith-Based Organizations
Self-Stigma, Perceived Stigma, and Help-Seeking Communication in People with Mental Illness
People with mental illness (PWMI) often internalise negative beliefs (self-stigma) or anticipate external sources of stigma (perceived stigma). This study examines how the two types of stigma affect the willingness to communicate for help – such communication is a vital aspect of good patient care and treatment outcome. Seventy-two participants from different ethnic backgrounds who had experienced mental illness responded to an online survey abou…
Complex Health Communication
The articles presented in this special issue represent key issues for current day health communication scholars. The articles were commissioned by the International Association of Language and Social Psychology Taskforce and presented at the 2008 International Communication Association in Montreal. Each article tackles a specific health dilemma and demonstrates the need for immediate but theoretically based interventions
Patients' Interactions with Health Providers
Two studies investigated interactions between health providers and patients, using Semin and Fiedler's linguistic category model. In Study 1 the linguistic category model was used to examine perceptions of the levels of linguistic intergroup bias in descriptions of conversations with health professionals in hospitals. Results indicated a favourable linguistic bias toward health professionals in satisfactory conversations but low levels of linguis…
Organizational Communication
Organizational communication covers an eclectic mix of approaches, theories, and methodologies, developed within organizational settings or applied from other areas. The authors start their assessment of recent literature with 6 challenges for the field that have been delineated in previous reviews: (a) to innovate in theory and methodology, (b) to acknowledge the role of ethics, (c) to move from micro- to macrolevel issues, (d) to examine new or…
Complex Health Communication
The articles presented in this special issue represent key issues for current day health communication scholars. The articles were commissioned by the International Association of Language and Social Psychology Taskforce and presented at the 2008 International Communication Association in Montreal. Each article tackles a specific health dilemma and demonstrates the need for immediate but theoretically based interventions
Self-Stigma, Perceived Stigma, and Help-Seeking Communication in People with Mental Illness
People with mental illness (PWMI) often internalise negative beliefs (self-stigma) or anticipate external sources of stigma (perceived stigma). This study examines how the two types of stigma affect the willingness to communicate for help – such communication is a vital aspect of good patient care and treatment outcome. Seventy-two participants from different ethnic backgrounds who had experienced mental illness responded to an online survey abou…
Tamar Murachver
Intergroup Communication
Intergroup communication reflects a way of looking at communication among members of different social categories or groups (ethnicity, gender, age, health status, organizational membership, etc.), and the ways in which social identities, attitudes, and motivations influence and are negotiated in communication. The field has multidisciplinary origins, and it is diverse in theory and eclectic in methodology. This entry gives a broad overview of the…
An exploration of how health care professionals understand experiences of deafness
Findings from recent deaf education intervention programmes with health care professionals emphasise the importance of sociocultural dimensions of medicine, pointing to the need to further investigate health professionals’ current understandings of deafness. Situated within a social constructionist and critical realist framework, we investigated health professionals’ understandings of deafness and experiences of providing health services in Austr…
Travelers’ Health Risk Perceptions and Protective Behavior
Although the significance of travel health risks is well documented, the process through which people assess their vulnerability and ultimately take on preventive measures needs clarification. The purpose of this article is to better understand factors underlying travelers’ health risk perceptions and their protective behavior. Using the health psychology literature, a conceptual model that incorporates multilevel psychological constructs was tes…
‘You don’t know what’s going on in there’
In contemporary Western society, the concept of risk is mostly linked related to negative or undesirable outcomes and used to explain unusual or abnormal events that have harmful consequences. Working in a poststructuralist framework, in this article we examine how risk shapes interactions between midwives and pregnant women in the context of public hospitals in Australia. We draw on data from an observational study of clinical encounters in thre…
Perspectives on Suicide Prevention Amongst Members of Christian Faith-Based Organizations
Interactional Adjustment
Interactional adjustment refers to people’s tendency to adjust, or adapt, their communication behavior in social interactions. In recent years, three distinctive approaches to this topic that have featured prominently in the Journal of Language and Social Psychology are communication accommodation theory (CAT), language style matching (LSM), and discursive psychology using conversation analysis (DPCA). In this article, we provide a review of thes…
Metaphors and trauma
Metaphorical language and psychopathological symptoms
This study establishes symptom-level metaphor usage patterns as a previously overlooked but interesting avenue in trauma evaluation, treatment, and research. While the study is confined to a single context, it nevertheless reveals the potential for metaphor research findings to be incorporated as useful materials in psychology education and therapist training
Psychology (12 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (3 works)