Who defines role?

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aída Martínez-Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Communicative Behaviors ◽  
Prison Setting ◽  
Collaboration Patterns

Abstract This article analyzes the communicative behaviors of non-professional interpreters and primary participants in the context of therapy/counseling sessions in a prison setting. It describes the negotiation and collaboration patterns established among all members of the communicative triad in order to co-construct the interpreter’s role dialogically, in a corpus of 26 mental health interviews in a prison setting between therapists/counselors and allophone prisoners, with other inmates as interpreters. Using Goffman’s (1981) concept of footing as the main analytical tool, it sheds light on the conversational strategies that all members of the triad use to initiate, accept, or resist the interpreter’s shifts to different footings, especially those that depart most dramatically from widely accepted “translator” ones.

scholarly journals Toward a Race-Conscious Critique of Mental Health-Related Exclusionary Immigration Laws

2021 ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Monika Kashyap
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
The United States ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Immigration Law ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
White Supremacist ◽  
Immigration Laws ◽  
Health Related

This Article employs the emergent analytical framework of Dis/ability Critical Race Theory (DisCrit) to offer a race-conscious critique of a set of immigration laws that have been left out of the story of race-based immigrant exclusion in the United States—namely, the laws that exclude immigrants based on mental health-related grounds. By centering the influence of the white supremacist, racist,and ableist ideologies of the eugenics movement in shaping mental health-related exclusionary immigration laws, this Article locates the roots of these restrictive laws in the desire to protect the purity and homogeneity of the white Anglo- Saxon race against the threat of racially inferior, undesirable, and unassimilable immigrants. Moreover, by using a DisCrit framework to critique today’s mental health-related exclusionary law, INA § 212(a)(1)(A)(iii), this Article reveals how this law carries forward the white supremacist, racist, and ableist ideologies of eugenics into the present in order to shape ideas of citizenship and belonging. The ultimate goal of the Article is to broaden the conceptualization of race-based immigrant exclusion to encompass mental health-related immigrant exclusion, while demonstrating the utility of DisCrit as an exploratory analytical tool to examine the intersections of race and disability within immigration law.

scholarly journals Mirrors of Prison Life—From Compartmentalised Practice Towards Boundary Crossing Expertise

2021 ◽  
pp. 59-85
Author(s):  
Søren Walther Nielsen ◽  
Anu Kajamaa
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Boundary Crossing ◽  
Professional Boundaries ◽  
Prison Life ◽  
Prison Setting ◽  
Professional Groups ◽  
New Models

AbstractIn this chapter, our aim is to broaden the understanding of the compartmentalisation of practices within and between different service providers in the prison setting and to emphasise the need to cross professional boundaries between these services treating the same inmates. For this, we will provide a multidimensional “mirror” into prison life by bringing forth the different voices of the professional groups involved in the provision of mental health and prison services. A key finding is that the tensions emerging during the activities between the service providers are historically accumulated and caused by the inflexible division of labour and the lack of interagency expertise. New models to enable the crossing of the organizationel boundaries between parties are thus needed.

scholarly journals Inventing Mental Health First Aid: The Problem of Psychocentrism

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Nadine DeFehr
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Crisis Intervention ◽  
First Aid ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Mental Health First Aid ◽  
Intervention Model ◽  
Neoliberal Governance ◽  
International Image ◽  
Global Movement ◽  
Psychiatric Profession

This article provides a sociopolitical critique of contemporary Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) discourses. The concept of psychocentrism, adopted as an analytical tool, critiques the problematic nature of MHFA premises and practices that automate, expedite, enforce, and normalize the global movement to psychiatrize human distress. Contesting MHFA’s international image as a benevolent, individual crisis intervention model, this essay discusses MHFA as a technique of neoliberal governance, moral surveillance, and social control, responsible for reinvigorating the psychiatric profession while dividing and demoting the populace.

Growing Up in Ireland

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 531-546
Author(s):  
Eoin McNamara ◽  
Aisling Murray ◽  
James Williams
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Health And Development ◽  
The Many

Growing Up in Ireland (GUI) is a two-cohort, longitudinal study of children and young people. The study aims to describe the health and development of Irish children across a range of topics; these include physical and mental health, family socio-demographic status, education, and the child’s behaviour, attitudes and key relationships. The study has been collecting data since 2007, beginning with a child cohort at nine years old (n = 8,568) and then an infant cohort at nine months old (n = 11,134). These data provide researchers and policy makers with a unique analytical tool to explore the well-being of children in Ireland. This paper provides an overview of all the stages involved in the development of the study, from its inception, to the establishment of the study’s aims, objectives and design, the ongoing data collection and panel maintenance, and the many uses of GUI data today.

scholarly journals A composite case

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Natassia F. Brenman
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Mental Health Setting ◽  
Immigration Status ◽  
Political Narratives ◽  
Cultural Minorities ◽  
Push Forward ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Minority Ethnic

In this think piece, I discuss a composite category – Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) – that has emerged and expanded to incorporate race, ethnicity, and now also immigration status, in a somewhat clumsy meeting of political narratives and sanitised public health-speak. I look at how this category has been interrogated and put to work in a particular UK mental health setting, one that is committed to improving access and inclusion for ethnic and cultural minorities. Using the analytical tool of ‘thinking with’, I explore how the category was used in relation to an absent majority or mainstream, and consider what such a category might show ‘us’ in all its glaring imperfection. I ask: Is it possible to push forward anthropological thinking by paying attention to these composite, unwieldy categories? Might this be one way to embrace the clumsy conspicuousness of our proverbial elephant in the room?

scholarly journals Treating Multiple Incident Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in an Inner City London Prison: The Need for an Evidence Base

2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine A. Campbell ◽  
Idit Albert ◽  
Manuela Jarrett ◽  
Majella Byrne ◽  
Anna Roberts ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
General Population ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Prison Setting ◽  
Post Traumatic

Background: Mental health problems have been found to be more prevalent in prison populations, and higher rates of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have been found in sentenced populations compared to the general population. Evidence-based treatment in the general population however has not been transferred and empirically supported into the prison system. Aims: The aim of this manuscript is to illustrate how trauma focused work can be applied in a prison setting. Method: This report describes a two-phased approach to treating PTSD, starting with stabilization, followed by an integration of culturally appropriate ideas from narrative exposure therapy (NET), given that the traumas were during war and conflict, and trauma-focused cognitive behavioural therapy (TF-CBT). Results: PTSD and scores on paranoia scales improved between start and end of treatment; these improvements were maintained at a 6-month follow-up. Conclusion: This case report1 illustrates successful treatment of multiple incident PTSD in a prison setting using adaptations to TF-CBT during a window of opportunity when individuals are more likely to be free from substances and live in relative stability. Current service provision and evidence-based practice for PTSD is urgently required in UK prisons to allow individuals to engage in opportunities to reduce re-offending, free from mental health symptoms.

scholarly journals Contextual factors as an analytical tool: Exploring collaboration and negotiation in mental health interviews in prisons mediated by non-professional interpreters

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aída Martínez-Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Negotiation Processes ◽  
Professional Interpreting

This article proposes a framework for analysing interpreted events mediated by non-professionals. It is based on an examination of individual contextual factors rather than on traditional definitions of setting-based features. This approach promises to be more productive for the study of non-professional interpreting and for analysing contexts that do not fit into existing categories of setting. For these purposes, this article examines a corpus of 26 prison-based mental health interviews mediated by non-professional interpreters in order to analyse the collaboration and negotiation processes that emerge among the members of the communicative triad. First, it outlines contextual factors from a conceptual perspective. Second, it describes those contextual factors that are most relevant to analysing collaboration and negotiation processes. Finally, it describes the context of prison-based mental health interviews through the lens of these factors and examines their influence on specific instances of collaboration and negotiation extracted from this corpus.

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