Abstract
This chapter provides a brief overview of the book series 'The Language of Mental Health'. Thus, this chapter offers a foundation for discussing the contribution that social constructionism has made to mental distress. We differentiate between macro and micro, and objective and interpretivist, social constructionism. We recognise that the academic literature on theoretical perspectives and on social constructionism and mental distress has presented differing opinions. In this chapter, we thus note the common confusion in academic discourse around social constructionism and social constructivism. For context, we first provide a brief introduction to the discursive turn and some of the major theoretical positions that have contributed to understanding language and mental distress.
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