Where is the child? A discursive exploration of the positioning of children in research on mental–health‐promoting interventions

Bergnéhr, Disa; Nelson, Karin Zetterqvist

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“…We also recognise that in this paper we have not represented the child's construction of their own 'normality' or 'abnormality' and have deliberately and specifically focused on parental accounts in this instance. We acknowledge that children are active co-producers of their mental health and connected to social relations and context (Bergnehr and Nelson 2015), and our future direction is to turn attention to the child's voice in the construction of the problem (see also O'Reilly et al 2016 for initial analysis).…”

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Parents’ constructions of normality and pathology in child mental health assessments

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Muskett

Karim

et al. 2019

Sociology Health & Illness

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Central to a contemporary understanding of childhood is the developmental and clinical‐medical construct of the ‘normal’ child. When judged to fall outside of culturally, socially and historically situated parameters of ‘normality’, children become labelled as ‘deviant from the norm’; for instance, in mental health contexts where this may provide the basis for psychiatric diagnosis. However, judgements of a child's ‘normality’ are further complicated by the range of individuals who may have a stake in that construction, including parents/carers, professionals and the child themselves. Using discursive psychology, we analysed 28 video‐recorded UK child mental health assessments, to examine ways that parents presented concerns about their children's development. They did this by drawing on notions of ‘ab/normal’, in ways that functioned to legitimise their need for services and built a rhetorical case to demonstrate clinical need; often by contrasting the child with other ‘typical’ children and/or contrasting the same child's behaviour in different settings or contexts. We concluded that given the growing crisis in child mental health, initial assessments play a crucial clinical role in determining diagnosis and labelling, and therefore, a critical discussion of these concepts and processes is essential.

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Parents’ constructions of normality and pathology in child mental health assessments

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Muskett

Karim

et al. 2019

Sociology Health & Illness

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“…This has led to an impetus to address the inherent adult bias in research (Ruth Evans & Becker, 2009). This reflects a long-standing epistemological position, which reflected a belief that children were less capable of articulating their experiences than adults (Bergnehr & Nelson, 2015; P. Christensen & James, 2000).…”

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Reflections on the Use of Audio Diaries to Access Young People’s Lived Experiences of HIV in Zimbabwe

Mupambireyi

Bernays

2018

Qual Health Res

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This methodological article reflects on the contribution audio diaries can make to accessing important, and commonly silenced, dimensions of the lived experience of growing up with HIV and their acceptability to children. Audio diaries were used by 12 young people, aged 11 to 13 years, as part of a longitudinal qualitative study embedded within the Anti-Retroviral Research for Watoto (ARROW) clinical trial. The method provided an alternative means for young people to express detailed reflections on their day-to-day encounters, as well as ordinarily silenced topics, including hidden and suppressed emotions regarding the circumstance surrounding their perinatal infection. Although the audio diary has great potential as method, its efficacy rests on young people's understanding of how to use it. There are ethical challenges around maintaining confidentiality while participants are in possession of the diaries and provision of appropriate support. The technology used in the study was in many ways cumbersome compared with opportunities increasingly available.

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“…As such, it paved the way for research studies to emerge in child mental health that began to give new insights into children's emotional lives and to offer provocations to think, research and practice differently. And so, over the past two decades, research and scholarship has begun to document the psychiatrisation of childhood and children's lived experiences of psychiatrisation in diverse contexts (see for example, Bergnher and Zetterqvist Nelson, 2015;Brady, 2014;Breggin, 2014;Coppock, 1997Coppock, , 2002Coppock, , 2005Kvist Lindholm and Zetterqvist Nelson, 2014;Laws et al, 1999;LeFrançois, 2008;LeFrançois and Diamond, 2014;Liegghio, 2016;Mills, 2014;Rabaia et al, 2014;Runswick-Cole et al, 2016;Singh, 2013;Skovdal, 2012;Timimi, 2002;Van Daalen-Smith et al, 2014;Wickstrom, 2013). Much of this work speaks to the institutionalised adultism and sanism that characterises and informs oppressive adult-professional-child encounters globally.…”

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Psychiatrised childhoods

Coppock

2020

Global Studies of Childhood

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Where is the child? A discursive exploration of the positioning of children in research on mental–health‐promoting interventions

Cited by 4 publications

References 36 publications

Parents’ constructions of normality and pathology in child mental health assessments

Parents’ constructions of normality and pathology in child mental health assessments

Reflections on the Use of Audio Diaries to Access Young People’s Lived Experiences of HIV in Zimbabwe

Psychiatrised childhoods

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