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Inflammatory projective identification in fundamentalist religious and economic terrorism
No full textThis paper contains the reflections and thoughts of the author, a psychoanalyst and consultant psychotherapist who through his work with violent patients at the Portman Clinic, and later as a specialist consultant with migrants, asylum seekers and political groups has developed some understanding of lone attackers and terrorist behaviour. He uses psychoanalytic theories such as inflammatory projective identification to understand how people can become inflamed through their experience of exploitation, economic and political hegemony, and loss of identity, so that they turn to violent evacuations into others. This violence toward the other is also reflected he says in western economic policy which has also been violent toward those who have been exploited through colonialism and more recently an unfettered market driven economy. This provides the drive to grievance and hate that can be so easily exploited by unscrupulous fundamentalist regimes
Rory Conn on One to One, Julia Bradbury on emotionally challenging work. 17 January 2017, BBC Radio 4
No full textJulia Bradbury talks to Dr Rory Conn, a Specialist Registrar in Psychiatry. Rory works in a Mental Health In-Patient Unit for adolescents, and he discusses the challenges of regularly dealing with intense mental and emotional situations as part of your working life, and how you switch off at the end of the day
Laverne Antrobus on 5 News tonight. Gender stereotyping following Clarks branding shoes for girls as 'Dolly Babe' and shoes for boys as 'Leader'. 14 Aug 2017, Channel 5 [Starts at 20:30]
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Five priorities for improving children's mental health. The mental wealth of the nation is critical to our future – young people’s mental wellbeing should be paramount
No full textThe mental health of the nation is built on foundations laid in the early years of our lives. Yet our mental health system is designed and funded to pay the price of our failure to act on the evidence and invest in the right family support in those childhood years.
We go through many life changes and transitions in our childhood and teenage years. It’s why the age of 18 is the wrong time for child and adolescent mental health services (Camhs) to “hand over” to adult services. A joint report by the health and education select committees has turned the spotlight on the role schools can play.
According to a study by Martin Knapp at the London School of Economics, the costs of poor mental health land disproportionately in our schools. Over half of the mean cost of addressing emotional and behavioural problems is incurred in frontline education
Family courts are a revolving door for too many parents. Family drug and alcohol courts can help break the patterns that blight children’s lives; this innovation should be shared
No full textHow do we upgrade the family justice system so that it disrupts patterns of family violence, drug abuse and mental distress, which blight children’s lives, at great human cost and expense to the taxpayer?
These behaviours of violence, drug abuse and mental distress are passed down from generation to generation. They are amplified by traumatic childhoods, social isolation and social injustice. Standard care proceedings fail to address them.
For too many parents, the family court is a revolving door, with child after child removed, often for similar reasons. Indeed, the parents themselves have often been subject to care proceedings as children. Our conventional model of family justice is not working for children. There is a need to innovate.
That is why my trust, the Tavistock and Portman, has developed a family drug and alcohol court (FDAC); and we want to spread the concept
Evolutionary considerations on the emerging subculture of the E-psychonauts and the novel psychoactive substances: A comeback to the shamanism?
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Evolutionary research on drug abuse has hitherto been restricted to proximate studies, considering aetiology, mechanism, and ontogeny. However, in order to explain the recent emergency of a new behavioral pattern (e.g. ‘the e-psychonaut style’) of novel psychoactive substances’ (NPS) intake, a complementary evolutionary model may be needed.
Objective:
A range of evolutionary interpretations on the ‘psychonaut style’ and the recent emergency of NPS were here considered.
Method:
The PubMed database was searched in order to elicit evolutionary theory-based documents commenting on NPS/NPS users/e-psychonauts.
Results:
The traditional ‘shamanic style’ use of entheogens/plant-derived compounds may present with a range of similarities with the ‘e-psychonauts’ use of mostly of hallucinogen/psychedelic NPS. These users consider themselves as ‘new/technological’ shamans.
Conclusion:
Indeed, a range of evolutionary mechanisms, such as: optimal foraging, costly signaling, and reproduction at the expense of health may all cooperate to explain the recent spread and diffusion of the NPS market, and this may represent a reason of concern
Can a reflective space be established in a family assessment centre and what might such a space provide for the staff observing contact? An exploration into the benefits and challenges of this intervention
Get PDFThis study explored the challenges, nature and tasks
of contact supervision, through offering a reflective intervention to contact supervisors. The researcher visited a family assessment centre on a weekly basis for a period of four months, offering staff the chance to discuss and process their observations of supervised
contact sessions. A review of the literature highlighted that there is a lack of research on the challenges of contact supervision, particularly from the perspective of contact supervisors themselves. Process notes from the reflective consultations were used alongside interviews to gather data. A thematic analysis was used to examine the findings. There were three main themes that emerged; the first highlighted the different understandings of
supervised contact; the second studied the effects of trauma noticed in both contact staff and children from distressing contact sessions; the third focused on the reflective intervention itself. The study found that supervised contact is an emotionally challenging job, yet underdeveloped and undervalued. Similarly to other studies, this project found that negative contact can be distressing and damaging for children. Furthermore, the study also tentatively found that if contact supervisors are provided with reflective support, the quality of contact maybe improved. The study recommends greater professional development, training and reflective practice for contact supervisors to improve current practice
A mixed methods inquiry into the experiences of Designated Safeguarding Leads working with young people at risk of Child Sexual Exploitation.
Get PDFThis study attempts to explore the experiences of Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSLs) in secondary schools in England working with young people at risk of Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) and identify what facilitating factors and barriers they believe they face in their role. The study followed a two phase mixed methods exploratory sequential model based on a critical realist epistemology. In Phase 1 qualitative data was gathered from individual and paired interviews, conducted using a focus group process and script in the researcher’s local authority. The data was analysed using Inductive Content Analysis and initial categories identified for facilitating factors and barriers. These initial categories were then used to develop a questionnaire. For Phase 2 the questionnaire was sent out via Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCBs) in England to DSL in secondary schools. The questionnaire involved both open and closed questions. The quantitative data from the questionnaire was analysed using descriptive statistics and Multinomial Logistic Regressions and the qualitative data was analysed using Content Analysis to assess the validity and transferability of the categories identified in Phase 1. The data analysis from Phase 1 and Phase 2 were interpreted together to explore the experiences of DSLs in England and identify the facilitating factors and barriers in their role. A Systems-psychodynamics lens was used to consider the implications of the findings. These included the need for supervision and protected time for DSLs , evidence-based intervention programmes for young people at risk, improved sharing of information between agencies, shared training opportunities and an increased understanding of the roles and boundaries within the local safeguarding system. The development of guidelines should be considered. A potential role for Educational Psychologists (EPs) to develop targeted interventions for young people (including those with Special Educational Needs [SEN]) and provide supervision for DSLs should be considered further