Introducing Psychosocial Studies of Emotion

Sclater, Shelley Day; Yates, Candida; Price, Heather; Jones, David W.

doi:10.1057/9780230245136_1

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“…More broadly, how emotions are defined is the subject of significant ontological and epistemological debate, reflecting the fact that they involve complex physiological, cognitive, neurological, social, cultural and unconscious processes (Day Sclater et al., 2009; Feldman Barrett, 2012). An extant literature on emotions emerges from sociology, psychology, psycho-social/psychoanalytical, philosophy and neuroscience disciplines.…”

Section: Emotions In Contemporary Social Workmentioning

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How social workers understand and use their emotions in practice: A thematic synthesis literature review

O’Connor

2019

Qualitative Social Work

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Emotions are intrinsic to social work. Social workers engage with people at points of crisis or need. The emotions of both practitioners and the people they interact with are central to the lived experience of practice. This paper presents a thematic synthesis of empirical studies which illuminate how social workers understand and use their emotions in practice. A search of electronic databases and reference harvesting located 28 papers which were screened against inclusion criteria and appraisal tools. Four analytic themes were identified: emotions as a dynamic relational resource; patterns of organisational and professional relationships; ambivalence, dissonance and distance and the place of emotions in professionalism and identity. Patterns and themes were found in diverse settings. This review brings together a small but valuable knowledge base. Findings suggest that emotions constitute a paradox for social work and are potentially a constructive resource. The paper concludes with suggestions for further research into the situated emotions of social work practice.

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Section: Emotions In Contemporary Social Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

How social workers understand and use their emotions in practice: A thematic synthesis literature review

O’Connor

2019

Qualitative Social Work

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“…We considered how emotional forces are culturally processed and scripted in events, as well as evoked in subjects, and thus how these forces are central to both individual and group meaning making (Goodwin and Goodwin, 2000;Hochschild, 1983;Tomkins, 1995). We could draw on the British psychosocial tradition (Blackman and Cromby, 2007;Blackman and Venn, 2010;Sclater et al, 2009), whether phrased as affect or emotion, which conceptualizes emotional experience as a dynamic embodied flow which inhabits and vitalizes meaning making, but is not necessarily or completely captured in language or talk. The British psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion (1962) conceptualized emotional experience as the basic stuff of the human relation to lived encounters and paid attention to if and how it could be thought.…”

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“Because nobody likes Chinese girls”: Intersecting identities and emotional experiences of subordination and resistance in school life

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How do emotions enter into children's negotiated understandings and situated uses of categories of identity? This question guided a revisit to an ethnographic study of a multi-cultural context in Oakland, California. A focus group discussion among four Chinese American girls just graduating from elementary school and an interviewer, also Chinese American, was chosen for closer study. This secondary analysis focuses on how the girls engaged in school events and how in the interview they shared experiences of being excluded and rejected by peers. Thus, both reports about life in school and lived life in the group discussion were analyzed in ways that followed the girls' individual and collective emotional dynamics. Emotional tension between using and being used by categories drove their stories about belonging, exclusion and subordination, and resistance. The girls' handling of social identities in relation to language use, required activities, and girly appearance in school demonstrated how they were able to draw on an eclectic and intersecting mix of categories. In the containing setting of the focus

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Warning fatigue : Insights from the Australian Bushfire Context

Mackie¹

2014

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Introducing Psychosocial Studies of Emotion

Cited by 3 publications

References 18 publications

How social workers understand and use their emotions in practice: A thematic synthesis literature review

How social workers understand and use their emotions in practice: A thematic synthesis literature review

“Because nobody likes Chinese girls”: Intersecting identities and emotional experiences of subordination and resistance in school life

Warning fatigue : Insights from the Australian Bushfire Context

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