Witnessing, saving, serving? A relational approach to community development in the suburbs of a global city

Howitt, Richard; McLachlan, Kathryn; Tofa, Matalena; Barkat, Iqbal; Misra, Garima; Moulds, Nathan; Susanto, Johana; Osborne, Philip; Grenot, Dominic; Rajan, N; Yates, Joanne

doi:10.1080/15426432.2019.1700870

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“…Recovery from client difficulties substance use difficulties, physical health, mental health and criminal justice outcomes were reported alongside enhanced interpersonal relationships with service providers and carers/families [44,45,63,64]. Positive impacts of relational practice were reported in the reduction of health inequalities and engagement with society which included a reported sense of community belonging [28,37,86,120]. From a health impact perspective, reports of reductions in trauma and re-traumatisation [81], emotional regulation skills and buffering of stress impacts were reported as was the reduction in re-offending and violent incidents in criminal justice contexts [21].…”

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Relational practice in health, education, criminal justice, and social care: a scoping review

Lamph,

Nowland,

Boland

et al. 2023

Syst Rev

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Background Establishing and maintaining relationships and ways of connecting and being with others is an important component of health and wellbeing. Harnessing the relational within caring, supportive, educational, or carceral settings as a systems response has been referred to as relational practice. Practitioners, people with lived experience, academics and policy makers, do not yet share a well-defined common understanding of relational practice. Consequently, there is potential for interdisciplinary and interagency miscommunication, as well as the risk of policy and practice being increasingly disconnected. Comprehensive reviews are needed to support the development of a coherent shared understanding of relational practice. Method This study uses a scoping review design providing a scope and synthesis of extant literature relating to relational practice focussing on organisational and systemic practice. The review aimed to map how relational practice is used, defined and understood across health, criminal justice, education and social work, noting any impacts and benefits reported. Searches were conducted on 8 bibliographic databases on 27 October 2021. English language articles were included that involve/discuss practice and/or intervention/s that prioritise interpersonal relationships in service provision, in both external (organisational contexts) and internal (how this is received by workers and service users) aspects. Results A total of 8010 relevant articles were identified, of which 158 met the eligibility criteria and were included in the synthesis. Most were opinion-based or theoretical argument papers (n = 61, 38.60%), with 6 (3.80%) critical or narrative reviews. A further 27 (17.09%) were categorised as case studies, focussing on explaining relational practice being used in an organisation or a specific intervention and its components, rather than conducting an evaluation or examination of the effectiveness of the service, with only 11 including any empirical data. Of the included empirical studies, 45 were qualitative, 6 were quantitative, and 9 mixed methods studies. There were differences in the use of terminology and definitions of relational practice within and across sectors. Conclusion Although there may be implicit knowledge of what relational practice is the research field lacks coherent and comprehensive models. Despite definitional ambiguities, a number of benefits are attributed to relational practices. Systematic review registration PROSPERO CRD42021295958

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confidence: 99%

Relational practice in health, education, criminal justice, and social care: a scoping review

Lamph,

Nowland,

Boland

et al. 2023

Syst Rev

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Care, urban regeneration and forced tenant relocation: the case of Ivanhoe social housing estate, Sydney

Ruming

Zurita

2022

Housing Studies

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Relational practice in health, education, criminal justice and social care: A Scoping Review

Lamph

Nowland²,

Boland³

et al. 2023

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Background Establishing and maintaining relationships and ways of connecting and being with others is an important component of health and wellbeing. Harnessing the relational within caring, supportive, educational or carceral settings as a systems response has been referred to as relational practice. Practitioners, people with lived experience, academics and policy makers do not yet share a well-defined common understanding of relational practice. Consequently, there is potential for interdisciplinary and interagency miscommunication, as well as the risk of policy and practice being increasingly disconnected. Comprehensive reviews are needed to support the development of a coherent shared understanding of relational practice. Method This study uses a scoping review design providing a scope and synthesis of extant literature relating relational practice focussing on organisational and systemic practice. The review aimed to map how relational practice is used, defined and understood across health, criminal justice, education and social work, noting any impacts and benefits reported. English language articles were included that involve/discuss practice and/or intervention/s that prioritise interpersonal relationships in service provision, in both external (organisational contexts) and internal (how this is received by workers and service users) aspects. Results A total of 8010 relevant articles were identified, of which 158 met the eligibility criteria and were included in the synthesis. Most were opinion based or theoretical argument papers (n = 61, 38.60%), with 6 (3.80%) critical or narrative reviews. A further 27 (17.09%) were categorised as case studies, focussing on explaining relational practice being used in an organisation or a specific intervention and its components, rather than conducting an evaluation or examination of the effectiveness of the service, with only 11 including any empirical data. Of the included empirical studies, 45 were qualitative, 6 were quantitative and 9 mixed methods studies. There were differences in use of terminology and definitions of relational practice within and across sectors. Conclusion Although there may be implicit knowledge of what relational practice is the research field lacks coherent and comprehensive models. Despite definitional ambiguities a number of benefits are attributed to relational practices. Systematic review registration: The review protocol was registered with PROSPERO (Registration number: PROSPERO 2021 CRD42021295958) and is available at: https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?ID=CRD42021295958.

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Witnessing, saving, serving? A relational approach to community development in the suburbs of a global city

Cited by 3 publications

References 71 publications

Relational practice in health, education, criminal justice, and social care: a scoping review

Relational practice in health, education, criminal justice, and social care: a scoping review

Care, urban regeneration and forced tenant relocation: the case of Ivanhoe social housing estate, Sydney

Relational practice in health, education, criminal justice and social care: A Scoping Review

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