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View article: Review essay: Recovering assemblages: Unfolding sociomaterial relations of drug use and recovery by Aysel Sultan
Review essay: Recovering assemblages: Unfolding sociomaterial relations of drug use and recovery by Aysel Sultan Open
Unfolding sociomaterial relations of drug use and recovery by Aysel Sultan (2022), Palgrave Macmillan.
View article: Experiences of restrictive Practices: A view from people with disabilities and family carers
Experiences of restrictive Practices: A view from people with disabilities and family carers Open
This research report relates for the first time the experiences of people with disabilities and afmilies in Victoria their experiences and responses to the implementation of restrictive practcies oon people with disabilities. These practic…
View article: De-Fragmenting Social Science? A Review of Farewell to Variables
De-Fragmenting Social Science? A Review of Farewell to Variables Open
I review Farewell to Variables, a recent edited volume by cultural psychologists collaborating with Jaan Valsiner. I relate "variable thinking" to challenges faced in conducting qualitative research, and in relating to everyday life.
View article: Negotiating cultural relevance from within therapy conversations
Negotiating cultural relevance from within therapy conversations Open
Culturally-laden understandings permeate all social interactions, including therapy conversations, and have been referred to as cultural background(s) providing context to the task-at-hand. Historically, cultural backgrounds have been conc…
View article: Power and dialogue: A review of discursive research
Power and dialogue: A review of discursive research Open
Collaborative‐dialogic approaches to family therapy advise therapists to take a position of client‐as‐expert and promote an equality of multiple perspectives. This has led to debates about how to conceptualize power in dialogical therapies…
View article: Creating and Sustaining Safe and Inclusive Spaces for LGBTQ Youth: An Exploratory Investigation of the Role of Educational Professionals
Creating and Sustaining Safe and Inclusive Spaces for LGBTQ Youth: An Exploratory Investigation of the Role of Educational Professionals Open
Educators can play a critical role in buffering LGBTQ youth from potential victimization. As such, the present study explored the following questions: 1) What are the roles of educators (i.e., teachers, school administrators) with respect …
View article: Book Review of Zeavin's The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy
Book Review of Zeavin's The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy Open
Teletherapy refers to a range of mental health services facilitated at a distance by the use of different communications media. In The Distance Cure, Hannah Zeavin critically examines the history of teletherapy as a scholar of communicatio…
View article: Behind Successful Refugee Parental Engagement: The Barriers and Challenges
Behind Successful Refugee Parental Engagement: The Barriers and Challenges Open
This two-year study examined the barriers and challenges encountered by refugee parents as they negotiate their children’s successful transition into a new school system. The researchers sought to determine what can be learned from parent …
View article: Relentless Accountabilities and Co-’authoring’ our Professional Lives
Relentless Accountabilities and Co-’authoring’ our Professional Lives Open
This article summarizes activities from a workshop on the career development of counsellors. The perspective taken is borrowed from narrative psychology and therapy, and the workshop’s activities are seen as “re-authoring” opportunities. T…
View article: Issue Information
Issue Information Open
promoting social justice, developing and exchanging new theory, research, applied practice, and policy related to diverse families and systems.
View article: Doing Recovery Work Together: Clients’ and Counsellors’ Social, Discursive, and Institutional Practices
Doing Recovery Work Together: Clients’ and Counsellors’ Social, Discursive, and Institutional Practices Open
In this conceptual paper, we offer an alternative to traditional approaches to addictive behaviours and addictions counselling. We outline practice theory and tenets of an institutional ethnographic approach used to inquire into tacit or i…
View article: The Change in Classification of Asperger Syndrome: An Exploration of its Effects on Self-Identity
The Change in Classification of Asperger Syndrome: An Exploration of its Effects on Self-Identity Open
Recently, the American Psychiatric Association eliminated Asperger Syndrome (AS) and introduced the Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) diagnostic framework. This change in nosology socially implicates people who self-identify with and derive p…
View article: Insider Experiences of The Qualitative Report’s Reviewing Process
Insider Experiences of The Qualitative Report’s Reviewing Process Open
We (Pamela, Tom, and Jenn) wanted to give you our insiders’ experiences of the manuscript submission and reviewing process at The Qualitative Report (TQR). Respectively, we are a researcher-author, an instructor-reviewer, and a student-rev…
View article: A Review of Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison’s Objectivity
A Review of Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison’s Objectivity Open
Lorraine Daston’s and Peter Galison’s Objectivity (2007) traces historical and cultural developments as the word "objective" acquired different meanings and associated scientific practices. Similarly, Daston and Galison consider the changi…