Stasis and Change: Innovators, Affective Poles, Reflexivity, Irony

2020 ◽  
pp. 113-136
Author(s):  
Steven Threadgold
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
The Future ◽  
Ways Of Being

Chapter Six considers aspects of social change through a Bourdieusian lens. It outlines the autonomous and heteronomous poles of fields, emphasising their affective nature. The chapter uses the examples of subversive innovators and how the importing of illusio from different fields can affect an individual’s disposition to illustrate how change occurs. It then examines recent social changes around the rise of reflexivity, irony, cynicism and anxiety. In a precarious global labour market, where even the well-educated experience forms of insecurity about the future, reflexive and ironic ways of being are becoming normalized, while mental health issues effect an ever-greater proportion of the population. This produces a relation of cruel optimism. If the illusio of specific fields increasingly come under scrutiny as being unachievable, unsustainable or violent, this may open a space for emancipatory social change.

scholarly journals Mental health issues in pregnant women in Nepal

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 499-501
Author(s):  
Edwin Van Teijlingen ◽  
Padam Simkhada ◽  
Bhimsen Devkota ◽  
Padmadharini Fanning ◽  
Jillian Ireland ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Maternal Mental Health ◽  
Postnatal Period ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
New Mothers ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
Area Of Concern ◽  
The Uk

Mental health of pregnant women and new mothers is a growing area of concern in both low- and high-income countries. Maternity services in the UK, for example, have focused more attention on maternal mental health. We recognise that pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period is a time of major psychological and social change for women.

Good Boy Gone Bad

2021 ◽  
pp. 39-65
Author(s):  
Kai Arne Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Music Video ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Public Identity ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Ways Of Being

This chapter details Zayn’s construction of “post boy band masculinity.” His departure from One Direction instigated an extensive reconfiguration of his public identity, and the bulk of the chapter concerns the creation of discursive distance between his solo persona and his boy band past. The chapter opens with a thorough assessment of the prevailing prejudices that characterize boy bands as innocent, immature, and inauthentic. It is in response to such prejudices, it is argued, that Zayn’s transformation was undertaken in a bid to authenticate his solo persona in both musical and masculine terms. This is achieved in the music video, Pillowtalk (2016), wherein a sonic alignment with rock idioms and the audiovisual construction of a seductive dreamscape largely maintains gender norms and affirm his heterosexual virility. At the same time, Zayn’s openness about mental health issues and his devotion to fashion have spurred descriptions of him as ushering in new ways of being masculine. These contradictory facets of his persona indicate that even seemingly heteronormative expressions of identity may contain potentially subversive aspects, and vice versa.

Multi-voiced assessment in a mental health final statement

2014 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsi Günther
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Reported Speech ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
The Future ◽  
Client Knowledge ◽  
Development Tasks

AbstractThe focus of this article is on the records written during an intensive assessment and rehabilitation course targeted at young adults suffering from severe mental health issues. The ability of the clients to cope with everyday life is assessed during the rehabilitation course and the final statement compiled by the keyworker includes the combined results of the assessments of each client. Using intertextual analysis, I examine these final statements and utilize the concepts of voice and direct and indirect reported speech. I ask how and what kinds of voices are used in final statement to assess the clients’ progress during the course and to define the future development tasks for them. Firstly, it is shown that the final statements are multi-voiced texts. They are persuasive statements about the clients’ development stories and descriptions of how the rehabilitation course practitioners have helped the client. Secondly, the analysis shows how voice and client knowledge are present in the final statement. The voices of assessment build the argument dialogically and highlight temporality, and in this way they produce a convincing description of the mental health client’s current ability to function and progress on the rehabilitation course.

scholarly journals Shifting roles of Employers: At the Intersection of Employment and Social Work: A case study from Norway

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 116-130
Author(s):  
Janne Paulsen Breimo ◽  
Cecilie Anvik ◽  
Terje Olsen
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Young People ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Occupational Rehabilitation ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Organizational Changes ◽  
Active Labour Market Policies ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
Active Labour

Active labour market policies (ALMPs) are often seen as a panacea for dealing with labour market exclusion, especially when it comes to young people with mental health issues. Such policies demand considerable involvement from employers, placing more responsibility in their hands. Yet, there remains a notable knowledge gap concerning the actual role that employers play in processes of inclusion in the labour market. In this article, we provide knowledge about what employers do in order to include young people with mental health issues into the workforce, what roles they play in these processes, and what motivations underlie their endeavours. We argue that, due to organizational changes to occupational rehabilitation in Norway, employers must increasingly occupy a vacancy left open by social workers. While this situation has demanded further responsibility from employers, they are quite often insufficiently educated or trained to deal with such issues.We address what consequences this could have for young people with mental health issues striving to enter the labour market.

Psychiatry in contemporary Irish cinema: a qualitative study

2006 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 74-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brendan D Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Feature Films ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
The Future ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

AbstractObjective: Media portrayals of mental illness and psychiatry have a considerable impact on public perceptions of mental health issues. This paper aims to focus on portrayals of psychiatry and psychiatrists in four contemporary Irish feature films in order to make wider points on this theme.Methods: Contemporary Irish feature-films that made substantial reference to psychiatry, psychiatrists or mental health in Ireland were identified though electronic searches and consultation with the Film Institute of Ireland. Selected films were viewed. Electronic searches were performed in the medical and film literatures, with broad search terms related to film, psychiatry, psychiatrists or mental health in Ireland. Additional books and papers were identified by tracking back through references and consulting with colleagues.Results: The portrayal of psychiatrists in film is closely related to the development of both twentieth century psychiatry and twentieth century cinema. In common with recent European films, certain recent Irish films have tended to show psychiatrists as sympathetic, humane individuals (with some notable exceptions). While there have been a number of portrayals of dissocial personally disorder and various states of chronic alienation in recent Irish film, there have been fewer portrayals of psychosis or learning disability. Recent Irish films emphasise the role of alcohol in causing and perpetuating psychological distress. They generally provide unflinching portrayals of the effects of psychological distress and alienation, suicide and substance abuse at individual, family and community levels; nonetheless, there is still a regrettable tendency for films to associate mental illness with dissocial behaviour.Conclusions: The portrayal of mental health issues in film presents both challenges and opportunities to film-makers, mental health service-users and general audiences alike. It is to be hoped that the recent trend towards realistic explorations of mental health issues in many European films continues into the future. Increased research in this area would help clarify the role of cinema in shaping public understandings of mental illness, and may also help identify additional ways of addressing stigma in the future.

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