Language Matters

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(46 44 63 1); color: rgba(184 194 227 1)>Language matters.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(46 44 63 1); color: rgba(217 221 240 1)>The words and phrases we use can shape our experience and the experience of others. The use of appropriate language is crucial to facilitating appropriate support to people in distress.</span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(46 44 63 1); color: rgba(217 221 240 1)>Language Matters: Appropriate Language Guide for Supporting People in Distress </em><span style=background-color: rgba(46 44 63 1); color: rgba(217 221 240 1)>is a valuable real-world resource. It discusses language that is useful and language that is problematic. It provides a practical set of terms and definitions for compassionately dealing with the distress related to a broad spectrum of human difficulties experienced by many people and frequently encountered by anyone involved in the suicide prevention/mental health field.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(46 44 63 1); color: rgba(217 221 240 1)>If you are a health/welfare worker or a human resources professional or anyone with an interest in mental health and suicide prevention and you would like to use language that helps rather than harms </span><em style=background-color: rgba(46 44 63 1); color: rgba(217 221 240 1)>Language Matters </em><span style=background-color: rgba(46 44 63 1); color: rgba(217 221 240 1)>is an important resource for you.</span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(46 44 63 1); color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Language Matters </em><span style=background-color: rgba(46 44 63 1); color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>is a companion to the book </span><em style=background-color: rgba(46 44 63 1); color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Default Depression: How we now interpret distress as mental illness</em><span style=background-color: rgba(46 44 63 1); color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> published in Adelaide by Wakefield Press in 2023.</span></p><p></p>