posted on 2023-08-30, 15:36authored byEmma Kaminskiy, W. M. L. Finlay
Decisions concerning psychiatric medication are complex and often involve a protracted process of trial and error. We examine three recorded meetings for power-sharing and power-taking discourse strategies employed by both the psychiatrist and mental health service-user, when discussing psychiatric medication. We identify examples of good practice, as well as missed opportunities to engage service-users in co-constructed dialogue, and highlight that participation and active involvement in decisions is
not best seen as a fixed pattern, but is a complex interplay that changes both between and within
interactions.