“Is it us or is it me ?”: Family experiences of connectedness following a reflecting team intervention

COVID-19 was declared a pandemic in March 2020, and the world has witnessed significant changes since then. Spain has been forced to go into extreme lockdown, cancelling all school classes and outdoor activities for children. Our study explores how parents of a group of school children aged 7 to 8 years have experienced confinement due to the COVID-19 health crisis. Following a narrative methodology, the results have been organized around a story that takes as a reference the period of confinement for a mother and worker in times of confinement. The conclusions of our study suggest that participants have experienced significant changes in their routines, having faced numerous personal and professional dilemmas in a climate of great emotional burden. This study is the first of its kind in investigating how the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced the ways that children and their families live and its possible implications for their futures.

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Ongoing processes of managing consent: the empirical ethics of using video-recording in clinical practice and research

Clinical Ethics ◽

10.1258/ce.2011.011040 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 6 (4) ◽

pp. 179-185 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Michelle O'Reilly ◽

Nicola Parker ◽

Ian Hutchby

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Video Recording ◽

Empirical Ethics ◽

Video Data ◽

Care Practice ◽

Reflecting Team ◽

Recording Equipment ◽

Health Care Practice ◽

Ethical Concerns ◽

Sensitive Topics

Using video to facilitate data collection has become increasingly common in health research. Using video in research, however, does raise additional ethical concerns. In this paper we utilize family therapy data to provide empirical evidence of how recording equipment is treated. We show that families made a distinction between what was observed through the video by the reflecting team and what was being recorded onto videotape. We show that all parties actively negotiated what should and should not go ‘on the record’, with particular attention to sensitive topics and the responsibility of the therapist. Our findings have important implications for both clinical professionals and researchers using video data. We maintain that informed consent should be an ongoing process and with this in mind we present some arguments pertaining to the current debates in this field of health-care practice.

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