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‘The loss of my son defines me’: Masculinity, identity and bereavement
No full textThis chapter explores the ways in which theories of masculinity, and particularly the notion that masculine identities are diverse and dynamic, can contribute to a better understanding of men’s experience of bereavement and to improving support for grieving men. After discussing sociocultural and psychodynamic perspectives on masculinity and their implications for understanding men’s experiences of loss, the chapter explores some of the ways in which masculine identities, and men’s responses to bereavement, are changing. Finally, the chapter reviews men’s experience of bereavement support in light of these changes and highlights lessons emerging from successful initiatives to support men, focusing on key aspects of shared activity and altruism
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Introduction
No full textThe Introduction provides a rationale for this book, placing it in the context of dominant ideas and expectations surrounding men’s experience of and response to bereavement, and of existing research and literature on the topic. The Introduction gives a sense of the diverse topics and approaches included in this book. It also explains the format, style and structure of this book as a whole before providing a summary of the contents of each chapter
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Wanted men? Gendered discourses in work with children and young people
No full textThis chapter discusses efforts to redress the gender imbalance in services for children and young people, posing the question as to why there has been so much emphasis in recent years on recruiting more men to work with children, and offering a critical examination of the ‘male role model’ rhetoric that has been influential in debates around this issue. The chapter calls for a more critical understanding of how gender comes into play in work with children
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Disseminating research: shaping the conversation
No full textAbout the book:
How do views about children shape research concerned with their lives? What different forms can research with children take? What ethical issues does it involve? How does it impact on policy and practice, and on the lives of children themselves?
This book helps you to understand how research is designed and carried out to explore questions about the lives of children and young people. It tackles the methodological, practical and ethical challenges involved, and features examples of actual research that illustrate:
•Different strategies for carrying out research
•Common challenges that arise in the research process
•Varying modes of engagement that researchers can adopt with participants and audiences; and
•The impact that research can have on future studies, policy and practice
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Men talking about fatherhood: discourse and identities
No full textAbout the book: Communication and relationships have become an increasing focus of attention in debates about the future of health and social care. People working in care services are being encouraged to improve communication processes, to develop more participatory relationships with service users, and to work more closely in partnership with other professionals.
This Reader provides a comprehensive collection of literature that aims to enable those involved in care services, as workers, carers or service users, to reflect on their everyday interactions and to situate them in wider contexts. Including new material from the frontline of research and practice, as well as some classic readings, this wide-ranging volume emphasises the need to see interpersonal communication as embedded in relationships, and to take account of issues of power and diversity, as well as the emotional dimension of care work. Covering both health and social care, the Reader is divided into four sections, focusing on:
* concepts and contexts
* analysing aspects of communication
* the person in the process
* communication and relationships in organisations.
Communication, Relationships and Care will be an essential resource for students of social work, nursing, health and social policy, and for all involved in health and social care services, whether as professionals, carers or service users. It is a set book for the Open University's second level undergraduate course Communication and Relationships in Health and Social Care (K205)
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We can’t play with them, but we can play for them’: fathers uniting in grief through football
No full textThis chapter presents the findings from a study conducted with fathers who had experienced the loss of a child following miscarriage, stillbirth, or neonatal death and who had joined Sands United footballs team whose aim is to support bereaved fathers and make it possible for them to memorialise their child.
Interviews conducted with fathers suggests that these men seek unique ways to continue a bond with their baby and one which is visible and present on the football pitch. In so doing, the research outlined in this chapter challenges the social norms to which grieving men have been traditionally bound according to dominant cultural and social expectations around ‘being stoic and ‘ manly.’
Indeed, the fathers accounts demonstrate that men’s feelings of grief can find expression within the context of a supportive and shared activity. Within these supportive spaces, men can make the invisible, tangible by declaring their identity as a father, and by playing in matches dedicated to their children and from which they are able to derive a source of belonging not found elsewhere
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
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