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Youth suicide bereavement and the continuum of risk
No full textBackground: There is limited research investigating the risks for young friends exposed to the suicide of peers. Aims: This study aimed to better understand the impact of suicide bereavement on rural young people. Method: Participants in this a mixed-method study were 18 young people who had been exposed to a friend's suicide and who resided in rural Australia. Quantitative data were analyzed with SPSS and qualitative data were analyzed thematically. Results: Participants reported high levels of depression, anxiety, and alcohol use. Key themes were communication about the death, responses to the death, and coping with the death. Young people identified as close friends with the person who died were at less risk of their own suicidal behavior, but demonstrated increased mental health concerns. More peripheral friends were identified at greater risk of suicide. Limitations: The limitations of the study were the purposeful sampling open to selection bias, lack of randomization, and results from one point in time. Conclusion: These findings support that guidelines and interventions following a youth suicide need to better target both the peripheral friends, owing to their greater suicide risk, and the closer friends, owing to other mental health concerns
Work Matters: Consulting to leaders and organizations in the Tavistock tradition
No full textWork is complicated: It can be fulfilling and exciting, or disappointing and disruptive. We spend most of our adult lives at work; it shapes our identities and provides a context for our creativity and talents. It can be the source of great pleasure – and of profound distress.
In Work Matters, organizational consultant and Tavistock lecturer Francesca Cardona examines our changing relationship with work today. Drawing on case studies from a wide range of individuals and organizations, she considers the dynamics at play in our working lives. Cardona examines how to navigate times of transition, and the balance of power in the work place, while also addressing latent issues such as the effects of shame, the cost of ill-conceived organizational structures and tasks, the interface between the personal and the professional, and the manager’s most precious skill: the ability to be psychologically present. Finally, Cardona casts an eye on the consultant’s role in helping organizations move forwards in ways that are professionally and personally rewarding.
Whether you are a business leader, manager, consultant or student, or simply interested in how your work affects you, Work Matters offers essential insights into an area that occupies so much of our lives
The Tavistock and Portman: A history of ideas
No full textThe story of psychoanalytic, psychodynamic and systemic thought is enmeshed in the story of the Tavistock and Portman
"You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.": Exploring the view of practitioners from a local authority educational psychology service, of a socio-political approach within UK educational psychology
Get PDFEmpirical literature on educational psychologists’ (EPs) views of socio-political or critical community psychology (CCP) focuses on single-issue aspects of oppression such as sexuality or racism. Some research examined EPs’ views of psychology from a broader ideological perspective, examining individualism, neo-liberal austerity, colonialist practices within educational psychology, and social justice. Having identified a gap in the empirical literature; research was modelled on Thompson (2007), with an emancipatory aim of contributing to EPs’ socio-political conscientisation. Critical realist-based, discursive, Q-methodology involved 16 UK local authority EP service participants ranking 51 expertly updated socio-political statements by relevance to the future of EP practice. Following three-Factor resolution from Factor analysis, interpretation was supported by qualitative data. Findings were considered theoretically and alongside current literature, deriving practice implications. Research limitations and possible future research were discussed. The aim was to contribute to addressing Fox’s (2005) hypothesis that UK EPs do not appreciate, or know how to respond to, socio-politically rooted suffering and so risk colluding with a non-emancipatory status-quo. In conclusion, the EP practitioner group viewed CCP ideas as highly relevant but varied in their responses to them such that the three core discourses derived in factorisation mapped onto the areas of mainstream psychology, mainstream community psychology, and critical community psychology