Community, work, and family in times of COVID-19

Fisher, Jennifer; Languilaire, Jean Charles; Lawthom, Rebecca; Nieuwenhuis, Rense; Petts, Richard J.; Runswick‐Cole, Katherine; Yerkes, Mara A.

doi:10.1080/13668803.2020.1756568

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“…Parents have also become impromptu teachers as home-schooling has been adopted. The change in the educational landscape is likely to have significant and unforeseen consequences for years to come [2].…”

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“…Children in reception/Year 1 are just at the start of their education, when it is essential they build the basic foundations for a life of learning. They require consistent teaching and interaction due to the potential for decline in school performance during lockdown [2]. For me, this raised the dilemma where I was not able to focus fully on teaching my children properly as I still had to give attention to my medical education.…”

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Medical education engagement during the COVID-19 era – A student parents perspective

Arowoshola

2020

Medical Education Online

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The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the delivery of medical education and has limited the ability of student parents to fully engage with their studies. Student parents have been faced with additional challenges such as increased childcare roles and home-schooling responsibilities, splitting their focus. Identifying the issues student parents face and adopting workable solutions at all levels, will ensure the best outcomes for these students and better preparedness for the future.

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Medical education engagement during the COVID-19 era – A student parents perspective

Arowoshola

2020

Medical Education Online

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“…Greater cultural value seems to be placed on the production and consumption of commodities than on the reproduction of the lives that produce these commodities. Therefore, at a structural level, the capitalist profit‐making ethos systemically diminishes our capacities to care by placing people in competition with one another, and confining caring spaces to the private sphere which for some—but certainly not all (see Fisher, Languilaire, & Lawthom, 2020)—represents claustrophobia and even violence (Barker & Bergeron, 2017; Bartos, 2018). In short, under capitalism, care tends to be transformed into a commodified, subjugating and alienating set of duties which may induce stress, anxiety and boredom more than they do human connection or a sense of community (O'Brien, 2019).…”

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“…As community psychologists, we should seek to build such political coalitions via an empathetic intersubjective connection (e.g., speaking to one another about personal stories of resistance and struggle). Establishing political coalitions in the time of COVID‐19 will, however, necessitate a degree of innovation, meaning that we should endeavour to learn from (and even connect with) similar organising efforts which are taking place all over the world (see Fisher et al, 2020; Sitrin & Colectiva Sembrar, 2020).…”

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Community psychology and the crisis of care

Malherbe

2020

Journal Community Psychology

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In addition to the twinned crises of ecology and political economy, we face today a crisis of care. The crisis of care, I contend, is fundamentally a political and an ethical crisis. In this short commentary, I outline the structural (i.e., systemic) and reproductive (i.e., labour) character of this crisis, using the COVID‐19 pandemic as an example. From here, I argue for the imperative to centre an expansive conception of care in critical community psychology work. Specifically, I posit that by working with and alongside activist care workers, community psychologists can assist in building socially just modalities of care. After reflecting on my work with collective caring initiatives, I offer five (tentative) guiding principles for a community psychology that is committed to addressing the crisis of care, namely: (1) commitment to building political coalitions; (2) commitment to refuting capitalist conceptions of care; (3) commitment to expanding conceptions of care; (4) commitment to embracing the psychological consequences of care work; and (5) a politicoethical commitment.

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“…In many places, the imposition of lockdown restrictions has already resulted in cases of divorce. In Luxemburg, the period between March 17 and May 11, 2020 already saw couples facing family challenges, something that is likely to escalate post-COVID-19 (Yerkes et al, 2020). On their part, Yerkes et al (2020) argue that the novel coronavirus is having a major impact on everyone.…”

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