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Introduction: Why relationships matter for mental health
Full text linkIn this brief introductory chapter, we set out our hopes for the book and provide an overview of the chapter structure
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Concluding thoughts: Relational hopes, relational realities
Full text linkIn this chapter we revisit the structure of the book, and reflect on what we have learned from our contributors. We briefly discuss some next steps for research and practice
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Conceptual Foundations: Relational thinking for mental health contexts
Full text linkWhat we are loosely referring to as ‘relational thinking’ is an assemblage of ideas drawn from extensive literatures across the fields of philosophy, psychology, psychotherapy, sociology and social work that explore what it means to be inter-connected with others; interpersonally, socially, existentially. This chapter will sensitise the reader to relevant relational concepts and ideas, and will contextualise these within the frame of mental health. The chapter starts with existential-phenomenological understandings about the foundational nature of intersubjectivity and our social situation, making connections with feminist care ethics. We go on to look at socio-psychological concepts, such as trust, attachment and intimacy and their importance for understanding distress and recovery, before thinking about how concepts like social capital and stigma help to explain how patterns of distress manifest across our societies. We end by arguing that relational thinking – as a nuanced and pluralistic concept – offers a significant lens for understanding the lived experiences of distress and recovery, and the services and contexts that aim to support mental health and wellbeing
Relatedness and Connectedness Over Time:How Young People Make Sense of Their Relationships During Their Recovery from First-Episode Psychosis
No full textResearch suggests that relatedness and connectedness to others are important for recovery from mental health problems. Relationships with others may be particularly important for young people recovering from a first episode of psychosis (FEP). The current study explored young peoples’ experiences of their relationships during recovery from FEP. Eight young people were interviewed about their experiences of relationships, six of whom were interviewed twice allowing exploration of temporal aspects. The young people also created visual representations of their relational networks. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was used to gain an understanding of how relationships are experienced during recovery, and how they may change over time. Three superordinate themes and ten subordinate themes emerged. Superordinate themes included Relatedness and Connectedness are Vital to Recovery; Re-constructing the Self in Relation to Others; and Re-engaging in a Reciprocal Network. Temporal aspects included how relationships can thrive and wither, and relationships are re-appraised. Visual representations of networks highlight that the number of others around the young person changes over time, as does perceived relational quality. Findings foreground how psychosis and recovery take place within a relational context. Early Intervention for Psychosis services can support recovery by ensuring that they help young people to meet their relational needs
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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