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July 2025 • Rebecca Tipton, Jemina Napier, Natalia Rodríguez Vicente, Alys Young, Sarah Vicary, Celia Hulme
Abstract This article explores the lived experience of signed and spoken language interpreters in the context of Mental Health Act (1983) assessments (MHAAs) in England, based principally on data from 10 interviews from a wider corpus of the Interpreters for Mental Health Act assessments (INforMHAA) study (2021–2024). Informed by Braun and Clarke’s (2022) reflexive thematic analysis and Dean and Pollard’s (2001) Demand Control Schema, the present study investigated the interpersonal demands arising in interpreted …