A5088695040- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices
- Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
- Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
- Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Social Representations and Identity
- Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Gender, Security, and Conflict
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Gambling Behavior and Treatments
- Art Therapy and Mental Health
- Autobiographical and Biographical Writing
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Memory Processes and Influences
- Marriage and Sexual Relationships
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Children's Rights and Participation
London South Bank University
2015-2024
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
2023
King's College London
2020
The Open University
2019
University of East London
2019
Sheffield Hallam University
1997
Intensive community treatment to reduce dependency on adolescent psychiatric inpatient care is recommended in guidelines but has not been assessed a randomised controlled trial the UK. We designed supported discharge service (SDS) provided by an intensive team and compared outcomes with usual care.
In this paper, we explore some of the tensions involved in process engaging with embodiment research. Although a significant volume discursive work on “the body” and its role social relations now exists, there is little way empirical research that moves focus away from discourse alone to concentrate other modalities, such as embodied feelings, sensations, engagements world. We begin by briefly reviewing turn across sciences manner which has been taken up psychology. then outline our attempts...
Abstract Background Lived Experience (LE) involvement has been shown to improve interventions across diverse sectors. Yet LE contributions public health approaches address gambling-related harms remain underexplored, despite notable detrimental and social outcomes linked gambling. This paper analyses the potential of in strategy harms. It focuses on example a UK city-region gambling reduction intervention that presented multiple opportunities for input. Methods Three focus groups 33...
This paper is based upon the work of an ongoing, collective research project that concerned with embodiment. The co-researchers have used a variety methods, including memory and analysis discourse, in order to trace ways which meanings are constructed lived, through body. These methods relied solely on transcripts text as data. Growing awareness limitations this imposed research, particularly for topics focus bodily experience, led group experiment nonlinguistic forms data production. Here,...
The concept of atmosphere is a way emplacing affect and theory. Work in contemporary social geography has done much to demonstrate how elemental forces become enveloped atmospheres. However, it tends under-theorise the role historically structured socio-cultural modes engagement persons with atmospheric. In this paper we identify core themes literature – inbetweeness atmospheres, tuning space, folding space-times engagement. We then develop these further through an encounter work...
Narratives around alcohol are important in determining how people decide who or what qualifies as problematic use. draw on common representations that subject to influences including historical and normative influences. We argue there two dominant narratives relate use disorder (AUD) is identified addressed. The first the historically embedded narrative of alcoholism disease, second more recent positive new sobriety. present an argument these alone do not capture wide heterogeneous...
The research presented in this paper uses memory work as a method to explore six women's collective constructions of two embodied practices, sweating and pain. identifies limitations the ways which social constructionist has theorized relationship between discourse materiality, it proposes an approach study embodiment enjoins, rather than bridges, discursive non-discursive. presents analysis 25 memories pain suggests that Cartesian dualism is central accounts their experiences. However, such...
Forensic mental health inpatients in medium-secure settings have a limited capacity for sexual expression during their stay hospital. This is due to number of factors, including lack willingness on behalf staff engage with issues, as result safety fears and ambiguity regarding the ability patient consent. Furthermore, UK forensic units do not provide conjugal suites patients relations, spouse or other patients. To date, there no empirical research how psychiatric (or service users) manage...
Abstract Clinical guidelines recommend intensive community care service treatment (ICCS) to reduce adolescent psychiatric inpatient care. We have previously reported that the addition of ICCS led a substantial decrease in hospital use and improved school re-integration. The aim this study is undertake randomised controlled trial (RCT) comparing an admission followed by early discharge supported with usual (treatment as usual; TAU). In paper, we report impact on self-harm other clinical...
Abstract In this paper, we explore some of the issues facing professionals in UK currently involved providing services for South Asian women who have experienced sexual abuse. The study describes part a wider Economic and Social Research Council funded project, based upon interviews focus groups with both survivors Drawing on semi‐structured two 37 including psychological therapists, refuge project workers, from range organisations, our aim paper is to provide discursive analysis key...
The aim of this article is to explore some the ways in which British South Asian women survivors sexual violence (in particular, those who are either born or have lived UK for most their lives and fluent English speakers) construct effects `culture' within accounts sexually violent experiences. We present a discursive analysis based on semi-structured interviews with eight English-speaking origin living UK, had escaped from were currently seeking help violence. Our discusses how discourse...
In this article, we argue that emergent interests in social interaction, wider context and culture with regards to memory have united formerly disparate approaches within the discipline of psychology, namely, from discursive experimental cognitive paradigms. Here, develop argument on centrality interaction continuity present an expanded approach is best able incorporate distressing events, which call ‘Vital Memory’. We here perspective provides analysis interactional dynamics, while not...