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An alternative history of mothering. 31 March 2019, BBC Radio 4 [Starts at 26:41]
No full textAnother year, another Mother's Day, and the usual celebration of the special love mothers have for their children. The overall message is that maternal love is powerful and instinctive, rooted in our biology, rather than our culture.
Historian Emma Griffin turns to history to debunk what she calls the Motherhood Myth. She explores how, despite constant efforts since the 18th century to insist that maternal love is as natural as sunshine, the reality is much more complex. Ideas about motherhood have changed over the past five hundred years, and so too have the actual emotions themselves.
Emma meets Jane Whittle, an Early Modernist from Exeter University, who studies a time in our culture when motherhood was not sentimentalised - both parents were expected to care for children in an extended family household and many were sent out to wet nurses until they were two or three years old. At this time, Britons had little sense of motherhood involving a particularly intense form of love and devotion.
At Audley End House, in the beautifully appointed Victorian nursery, Emma explores the emergence of new ideas about mothering and raising children, with commentary from historians Joanne Begiato and Jennie Batchelor.
She then visits the Southwell Workhouse in Nottinghamshire with Kate Gibson to explore how, while middle-class mothers were being increasingly idealised, mothers at the other end of the social scale were being separated from their children and judged to be ‘bad’ through their inability to provide appropriate care for them.
Rising living standards in the 20th century vastly improved child welfare and allowed society to create a narrative in which ‘bad’ mothers were an aberration - exceptions to the rule of selfless and devoted mothering. Emma speaks to leading child psychologist Laverne Antrobus at the Tavistock Centre in London to understand how attachment theory informs the way we approach the psychology of maternal relationships today, and how we might re-think our traditional view that mothers should be the principal providers of children’s emotional welfare
The transgender population: improving awareness for gynaecologists and their role in the provision of care
No full textKey content:
* The UK's transgender and non‐binary population is expanding, and this is reflected in the annual number of referrals to gender identity clinics.
* Gender identity clinics offer a wide range of care to transgender patients, including hormone treatment and gender reassignment surgery; however, increased demand has led to long waiting times for these clinics.
* All transgender patients who wish to transition should be offered a fertility consultation to explore their options, which may involve fertility preservation such as sperm or oocyte cryopreservation.
* Gynaecologists form a part of the multidisciplinary team who engage with transgender and non‐binary patients, either as part of the transition stage performing surgery or managing pre‐ or post‐transition gynaecological problems.
* Gynaecologists should be aware of the potential barriers to health care often faced by transgender patients, and how the way in which patients are addressed during a consultation can improve their experience within the healthcare system.
Learning objectives:
* To provide clinicians with an understanding of what transitioning entails for transgender and non‐binary patients, and the multidisciplinary input they receive during this process.
* To improve clinicians’ understanding of when transgender and non‐binary patients may access gynaecological services.
* To ensure that affirmative language and communication is used when interacting with transgender and non‐binary patients to strengthen patient encounters in a progressive and positive manner
Review of the literature on self-injurious thoughts and behaviours in gender-diverse children and young people in the United Kingdom
No full textInternational literature suggests that gender-diverse people are at increased risk of thoughts and acts of self-injury compared to their cisgender peers. The current review aimed to investigate the prevalence of self-injurious thoughts and behaviours (SITBs) among children and young people (CYP) in the United Kingdom identifying as a gender not typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth and, further, to examine relevant prevalence rates of SITBs reported both in academic and grey literature. In total, seven studies were included in the review and indicated an increased prevalence of SITBs among gender-diverse CYP compared to the general population. However, methodological limitations and significant heterogeneity in the rates of SITBs reported require that the available literature be interpreted with some caution. Important factors to consider when interpreting SITB rates, as well as recommendations for future research, are discussed
Navigating multisite research set-up and approvals: Helping researchers on the ground — a commentary
Get PDFConfirming multisite studies presents an ongoing challenge for researchers based in England. Those wishing to set up a multisite study must undergo local Research & Development review, in addition to ethical review by a Research Ethics Committee. However, both the documentation required for multisite review and the length of time it takes to complete such a review can cause significant difficulty to researchers and add to research delays. This short article will examine the process of confirming multisite studies and the implications of current practice
Laverne Antrobus on 5 News Tonight. Is TV making children prejudiced? 17 July 2019, Channel 5 [Starts at 9:12 with interview at 12:04]
No full textBetter outcomes and better justice: The Family Drug and Alcohol Court
No full textThis chapter describes the history of the Family Drug and Alcohol Court service and service/model description and the principles behind FDAC: early intervention, prevention of multiple removals of children from the most vulnerable population of mothers, specialist assessment, rapid access to treatment for substance misuse, problem-solving justice, a relational basis to the work with vulnerable mothers and fathers. It also looks at research findings about the effectiveness of the model, and how the FDAC teams work to support and promote change in parents – moving from a drug-centred lifestyle to a child-centred lifestyle. Some case studies are presented, illustrating what it’s like to work in the team, what it’s like to experience the service as a parent – a first-hand account from a service user, innovations – working with mothers pre-birth and also pre-proceedings, and working with mental health problems and domestic violence in a problem-solving manner within care proceedings. The chapter also covers the increasing relevance of treating trauma and the roll-out of the model nationally – opportunities and challenges
Babies and bathwaters: attachment, neuroscience, evolution and the left
No full textThis article challenges thinkers and activists on the left who are over-suspicious of ideas heralding from disciplines such as interpersonal neurobiology, attachment theory, developmental psychology, and perhaps especially, evolutionary theory. Although scepticism is frequently warranted, especially as such discourses are often co-opted for neoliberal or far right ends, there is much in all of them that melds well with critiques of hegemonic social orders, providing potential fuel for those working for social change. Much work, for example that of Amy Cuddy, can be interpreted both conservatively and progressively. Work from within an attachment theory paradigm can play a crucial part in the battle of ideas: it has a huge amount to teach about how to create a more humane and egalitarian world, and in countering neoliberal beliefs that humans are innately primarily aggressive, competitive or selfish, or have selfish genes. The days are now over when the biological, psychological and the social need to be pitted against each other. Rather, they now have to be seen as mutually constituted. The brain is a social organ, embedded, embodied, enactive and extended, in large part a reflection of the social conditions in which it grows
‘It’s a real critical period around gender’
No full textAn interview is presented with Sarah Davidson, consultant Clinical Psychologist for the Gender Identity Development Service at the Tavistock and Portman National Health Service Foundation Trust. Topics discussed include gender identity issues in Great Britain; how peers relate to those presenting with gender identity issues; and the role played by psychology in gender discrimination