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Mental illness and its treatment today
No full textThis paper discusses how the treatment of people with mental illness has been affected by the changes within health and welfare provision brought about by political change and austerity measures.
It is published by the Centre for Health and the Public Interest (CHPI) which has been set up by Colin Leys and his colleagues. Colin Leys is an emeritus professor of Public Health and an activist in protecting the NHS and the Public Sector. He is co-author of 'The Plot Against the NHS'
Emotion and relatedness as aspects of the identities of adolescents with severe learning disabilities: Contributions from ‘practice‐near’ social work research
No full textThis paper considers social and personal/individual approaches to researching identities of adolescents with severe learning disabilities; suggesting that vital components of emotionality and relatedness are largely missing from research and consequently from literature informing social care professionals. This leaves untapped, rich information and communication resources for research which may improve understandings of the experiences of a socially excluded group of young people. A psychosocial view of adolescent identity development, ‘subjectivation’, offers a way forward and a case study on ‘Billy’, drawn from a ‘practice‐near’ observational study, helps to illustrate this. Observation allows the researcher to be sensitive to the subtle ways in which identities of young people with severe learning disabilities are constructed, often with a sense of fragility and uncertainty. Continuities of experience between the young people and the rest of the adolescent community may be seen, but also the impact of living with impairment can be thought about in relation to the particular psychosocial circumstances of each young person. Knowledge of these processes enhances social work practice by encouraging workers to be sensitive to, and healthily curious about, the multiple ways in which identities of young people with severe learning disabilities are shaped in relationship with those around them and the wider social field
How might parents of pre-pubescent children with gender identity issues understand their experience?
No full textWhilst in recent times there has been an increasing
interest in the popular media in families with gender variant children, there is still a paucity of
academic research into the experience of parenting
a pre-pubescent child with gender identity issues. Gender dysphoria in young children engenders
powerful reactions in adults, involving the recognition of childhood sexuality, a subject matter considered taboo in Western society. As such, this research
explores highly sensitive and intimate aspects of
family life, requiring parents to talk and think about difficult issues. This small scale study adopts a case
study design in order to explore how it might feel
for families attending the Gender Identity Development Service at the Tavistock Clinic, London to
parent such a child.
Through acting as a ‘bricoleur’ (Denzin & Lincoln: 2000: p3) different and contrasting research methods and theories of gender identity
development are explored in order to shed light on
this under-researched and hidden area of parental experience. Eight parents were interviewed and their
narratives are presented as case studies which can
both stand-alone as individual pieces of research, and be understood as a cogent group with over-
arching themes. Psychosocial research methods of Free Association Narrative Interviews and photo elicitation were used in order to gather the data which was then coded and analysed drawing on the principles of Charmaz’ (2001) constructivist version of grounded theory.
Particular
attention is also given to unconscious processes that might have been at play between researcher and interviewee such as transference, counter-
transference and containment. Five key themes relating to the process of
mourning emerged from the data: loss, uncertainty,
ambivalence, being
unable to think and acceptance. Recommendations for
both social work and
clinical practice and further research are also offered
Bending over backwards
No full textOnel Brooks relates a black practitioner’s experience of applying to train in orthodox psychoanalysi
Keeping leadership white: Invisible blocks to black leadership and its denial in white organizations
No full textThis paper explores why leadership, especially senior leadership in British organizations, is persistently nearly always white. The paper contends that beneath the veneer of our apparent commitment to equal opportunities, primitive often unconscious factors operate to ensure that leadership remains white, thus reproducing a racial hierarchy in the workplace. It argues that the barriers to black and minority ethnic people getting appointed to leadership positions in organizations today are largely invisible and are hidden within the psyches of decision makers, the cultures of white organizations, and their combined impact on the confidence of black and minority ethnic staff
