How counselling psychologists address issues of race with clients from black Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds: a discourse analysis by Madre de Deus de Sousa, Filipe Alexandre, Banbury, Samantha, Phillips, Olaide, Lusher, Joanne

“…Semi-structured interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of six counselling psychologists (mean age 40 years) who had engaged with clients or supervisees from a BAME background. A Discourse Analysis (DA) was employed to analyze dialogue used by participants in discussing race and discrimination in counselling psychology practice. …”
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The social construction of professional counselling practice in UK embedded higher education counselling services: a Foucauldian discourse analysis of practitioner perspectives by Oliver, James Robert

“…Semi-structured interviews were undertaken with six student counsellors working across UK universities and the transcripts were analysed using Foucauldian Discourse Analysis (FDA). The study identified four dominant discourses: Academic achievement, Life-stage, Mental-health crisis and Professional counselling practice which were seen to influence the counsellor role as they manifested through a series of sub-discourses including, the Precedence of educational attainment sub-discourse, the Loco-parentis sub-discourse and the Risk-vulnerability sub-discourse. …”
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A discourse analysis looking at the way counselling psychologists discuss and address issues of race with individuals from black Asian and minority ethnicities by Madre de Deus de Sousa, Filipe Alexandre

“…Participants’ accounts were recorded, verbatim transcribed and analysed using Discourse Analysis (DA). Results: The analysis indicated that three main discourses were present when counselling psychologists were describing their therapeutic interactions with BAME clients and supervisees. …”
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‘Welcome to favelas, but in Italy’: urban precariousness, right-wing ideology and phatic nihilism on social media by Levy, Helton

“…Using visual metadata and LDA-generated topics, this paper anchors a visual and critical discourse analysis interested in mapping creators’ phatic strategies. …”
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"You know, what is overspending" : working with compulsive buying : a critical discursive account by Parnes, Harriette Sophie

“…The transcripts were analysed using critical discursive psychology, a branch of Discourse Analysis. Findings Four main discourses were elicited from the data: ‘it’s self medicating’, ‘how should I work with this?’…”
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Defending, contesting and rejecting formal drinker categories: how UK university students identify as ‘light-drinkers’ or ‘non-drinkers’ by Conroy, Dom, Griffin, Christine, Morton, Charlotte

“…Semi-structured interviews with ten 18-27-year-old UK University students self-identifying as non-/light-drinkers were analysed using critical discourse analysis. A first data pattern saw participants working to defend and maintain self-identified ‘light drinker’ status in the face of contradictions to such claims. …”
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