Raised emotions: A critique of the Peshkin Approach to Reflection

Bradbury‐Jones, Caroline; Coleman, Denise; Davies, Helen W.; Ellison, Kate; Leigh, Colette

doi:10.1016/j.nedt.2009.12.002

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“…In his subjectivity audit, Peshkin (1988) identified what he termed an Ethnic Maintenance I that was biased towards people from certain ethnic groups. Through similar processes, CB-J revealed a Paladin I that was biased towards nursing students (Bradbury-Jones, 2007) and the eight nursing students who took part in developing the Peshkin Approach to Reflection identified several emotions that could be associated with bias, such as Angry I and Impatient I (Bradbury-Jones et al, 2009). Importantly, all of these analyses resulted in enhanced understandings regarding implications of the subjective ''I''s on nursing practice.…”

Section: Peshkin Approach To Reflection and Child Protection Supervisionmentioning

confidence: 90%

“…Peshkin argued that our subjective ''I''s usually reside beyond consciousness and rarely do we pause to examine them, or ponder their influence. Interpretation and application of Peshkin's work has been described in detail elsewhere (Bradbury-Jones, 2007;Bradbury-Jones et al, 2009) and will not be repeated in detail here. It is sufficient to state that Peshkin's thesis was that researchers' thoughts and feelings can have considerable influence on their work and that they hold both enabling and disenabling potential (Peshkin, 1988).…”

Section: Origins Of the Approach: Alan Peshkinmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It remains untested empirically and therefore over-zealous claims for transferability must be resisted. However, although it has not been tested per se, benefits of the approach have been published in terms of its ability to increase selfawareness and enhance learning among nursing students (Bradbury-Jones et al, 2009).…”

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Refocusing Child Protection Supervision: An Innovative Approach to Supporting Practitioners

Bradbury‐Jones¹

2013

Child Care in Practice

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There is mounting empirical evidence regarding the potential negative impact of child protection work on practitioners' emotional and psychological well-being. Stress and burnout are endemic amongst this group of workers and there is increasing recognition of the influences of this on their decision-making regarding child protection issues. Supervision has been lauded as an important element in supporting practitioners. It creates opportunities for identifying stress and potential burnout and for implementing supportive mechanisms. However, many supervision models focus almost entirely on identification, referral and procedural issues to the exclusion of addressing practitioner's emotional needs. This paper presents an argument that technicalÁrational models of supervision fall short of meeting the emotional needs of those who engage in child protection work. A refocusing is suggested that encourages practitioners to adopt a reflective stance towards child protection practice, specifically one that focuses on the affective aspects of child protection work. To achieve this, an innovative, reflective approach is proposed*termed the ''Peshkin Approach to Reflection'', it is grounded in recent developments of reflective practice from within nursing that acknowledge the primacy of emotions. The paper outlines the key stages involved and illustrates its ability to enhance practitioners' emotional well-being. Importantly, it also highlights its potential to impact positively on practice. It is advocated that the Peshkin Approach to Reflection be incorporated into child protection supervision to counter the traditional, long-standing technical-rational focus of most supervisory models. It will require empirical testing and evaluation to assess its full impact in a child protection context. However, based on use of the approach in other settings, it is likely to hold considerable benefit for practitioners who use it and, indirectly, the children they seek to protect.

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Refocusing Child Protection Supervision: An Innovative Approach to Supporting Practitioners

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2013

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“…These links are usually discovered by the use of the third pillar of the core stream pedagogy-reflective practice (Moon, 2004;Bradbury-Jones et al, 2010). In the Bachelor of Arts social enterprise core stream, reflective practice is specified as being intellectual recognition, response and evaluation of experience.…”

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Building Bridges: Constructing Social Enterprise Curriculum in the Humanities

Chamberlain¹

2013

HES

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Creating an innovative suite of courses within the Bachelor of Arts has required the development of a complex pedagogy, particularly when the needs of the context require an interdisciplinary approach. This paper, which utilises reflection on practice as its methodology, explores the Social Enterprise core stream which has been a significant element of study since 2008. While the paper deals with some of the particular circumstances of introducing practice learning to traditional theoretical disciplines, it is most concerned with the pedagogical strength of combining inquiry based learning with problem based learning, to lead to work integrated learning, and developing reflective practice to integrate all.

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“…Emotional labour involves the suppression of feelings in order to maintain an outward appearance that conveys to others a sense of being cared for (Hochschild, ). It is associated with repression of feelings (Bradbury‐Jones et al ., ). In our study many nurses reflected on the personal emotional impact of dealing with domestic abuse situations, finding different coping strategies, such as going for a walk.…”

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Domestic abuse as a transgressive practice: understanding nurses' responses through the lens of abjection

Bradbury‐Jones

Taylor

2013

Nursing Philosophy

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Domestic abuse is a worldwide public health issue with long-term health and social consequences. Nurses play a key role in recognizing and responding to domestic abuse. Yet there is considerable evidence that their responses are often inappropriate and unhelpful, such as trivializing or ignoring the abuse. Empirical studies have identified several reasons why nurses' responses are sometimes wanting. These include organizational constraints, e.g. lack of time and privacy; and interpersonal factors such as fear of offending women and lack of confidence. We propose, however, that these factors present only a partial explanation. Drawing on the work of Julia Kristeva, we suggest that alternative understandings may be derived through applying the concept of abjection. Abjection is a psychological defence against any threat (the abject) to the clean and proper self that results in rejection of the abject. Using examples from our own domestic abuse research, we contend that exposure of nurses to the horror of domestic abuse evokes a state of abjection. Domestic abuse (the abject) transgresses established social boundaries of clean and proper. Thus when exposed to patients' and clients' experiences of it, some nurses subconsciously reject domestic abuse as a possibility (abjection). They do this to protect themselves from the horror of the act, but in so doing, render themselves unable to formulate appropriate responses. Rather than understanding the practice of some nurses as wilfully neglectful or ignorant, we argue that through a state of abjection, they are powerless to act. This does not refute existing evidence about nurses' responses to domestic abuse. Rather, as a relatively unknown concept in nursing, abjection provides an additional explanatory layer that accounts for why some nurses respond the way they do. Crucially, it elucidates the need for nurses to be supported emotionally when faced with the transgressive practice of abuse.

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Raised emotions: A critique of the Peshkin Approach to Reflection

Cited by 14 publications

References 19 publications

Refocusing Child Protection Supervision: An Innovative Approach to Supporting Practitioners

Refocusing Child Protection Supervision: An Innovative Approach to Supporting Practitioners

Building Bridges: Constructing Social Enterprise Curriculum in the Humanities

Domestic abuse as a transgressive practice: understanding nurses' responses through the lens of abjection

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