scholarly journals A survey of United Kingdom (UK) Bisexuals' experiences of emotional distress support

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grant Denkinson
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Distress ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
Human Sexuality ◽  
Multiple Services ◽  
And Bisexual ◽  
Area Of Concern ◽  
The Right ◽  
Underlying Pathology ◽  
Multiple Episodes

As a psychotherapist and bisexual I was concerned after reading studies showing bisexuals have worse wellbeing than others and hearing multiple anecdotes from bisexuals about poor support from mental health or counselling services.I organised a number of gatherings to collect UK bisexuals' experiences of emotional distress support and clustered the results.Participants wanted good therapeutic experiences and sometimes found tolerant therapists who would be with them on a sometimes confusing or distressing journey of self-understanding and acceptance. Some valued therapists who were able to work with people who could not label their sexuality.Some experiences with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans (LGBT) services or therapists were positive, others were not.Bisexual clients may see multiple services over multiple episodes prompting confidentiality concerns, inappropriate psychiatric referrals, fatigue from needing to explain our sexuality multiple times and a lottery of whether a supplied therapist will be bi-friendly.Many participants had their bisexuality treated as pathological, as a symptom of underlying pathology or as the cause of their problems. Therapists seemed overly fixated on looking for a cause for a client's bisexuality.Therapist ignorance was often mentioned: Disclosing that they had never worked with a bi person, using an overly simplistic coming out model from straight to gay, being unaware of biphobia as a source of stress and incorrectly assuming all LGBT groups would welcome bisexuals.Many bisexuals reported therapists focussing on sexuality rather than the client's chosen area of concern, sometimes showing excessive interest in a client's sexual activity. Alternatively, some therapists avoided the issue. Some challenged a client to justify or prove their bisexuality in ways that clients thought would not have happened for lesbian, gay or heterosexual clients.Some reported experiences were gendered and/or sexist with women / women relationships being treated less seriously, bisexuality sometimes being seen as a defense and assumptions that all abuse was of women by men.Some respondents raised important intersectional issues around madness, race, class, religion, age and political climate.Some participants were also in education to provide emotional support professionally and reported a lack of course and tutor time, knowledge and interest on sexuality in general and challenges in being openly bi as a learner.While being aware of psychological dynamics affecting reports of therapy, a number of issues were commonly reported and I recommend should be addressed: Bisexuality is not an illness or logically connected with pathology. Bisexual clients should be listened to carefully and therapists should educate themselves outside of the clinic about the complexity and diversity of human sexuality. Therapists should process their own confusion or assumptions around sexuality in order to be in the right place to accompany clients on their journeys. More bisexual visibility is likely to be helpful.

Homosexuality in K. Sello Duiker’s The Quiet Violence of Dreams: Demythologising the Imaginings and Universalising the Reality

Imbizo ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adetunji Kazeem Adebiyi-Adelabu
Keyword(s):  
Coming Out ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Black African ◽  
Sex Preference ◽  
National Allegory ◽  
Critical Attention ◽  
Sex Orientation ◽  
The Right

Sello Duiker’s The Quiet Violence of Dreams offers an extensive treatment of homosexuality, a preoccupation which, until recently, is rare in black African fiction. On this account, as well as its depth and openness, the work has attracted some critical attention. It has been read from a masculinity perspective, as a coming-out novel, as a national allegory, as a work that challenges the notion of fixed sexuality, as a work that normalises same-sex sexuality, and so forth. Unlike these studies, this article examines the representation and disquisition around same-sex preference in the novel, with a view to demonstrating how some myths about homosexuality are exploded in the groundbreaking work, and showing that the narrative could also be apprehended as intellectual advocacy for the right to same-sex orientation.

scholarly journals Management of Distress in Patients with Cancer—Are We Doing the Right Thing?

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (12) ◽  
pp. 978-984
Author(s):  
Joost Dekker ◽  
Kristi D Graves ◽  
Terry A Badger ◽  
Michael A Diefenbach
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Support ◽  
Hybrid Approach ◽  
Psychosocial Care ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Case Finding ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Distress Screening ◽  
Underlying Assumption ◽  
Patients With Cancer ◽  
The Right

Abstract Background Screening for distress and referral for the provision of psychosocial care is currently the preferred approach to the management of distress in patients with cancer. To date, this approach has shown a limited effect on the reduction of distress. Recent commentaries have argued that the implementation of distress screening should be improved. On the other hand, the underlying assumption that a referral for psychosocial care is required for distressed patients can be questioned. This has led to the development of an alternative approach, called emotional support and case finding. Purpose In the context of finding innovative solutions to tomorrow’s health challenges, we explore ways to optimize distress management in patients with cancer. Methods and Results We discuss three different approaches: (i) optimization of screening and referral, (ii) provision of emotional support and case finding, and (iii) a hybrid approach with multiple assessments, using mobile technology. Conclusions We suggest continued research on the screening and referral approach, to broaden the evidence-base on improving emotional support and case finding, and to evaluate the utility of multiple assessments of distress with new interactive mobile tools. Lessons learned from these efforts can be applied to other disease areas, such as cardiovascular disease or diabetes.

Tragedies of Communion: Seeking Reconciliation amid Colonial Legacies

2015 ◽  
Vol 97 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-412
Author(s):  
Ross Kane
Keyword(s):  
Human Sexuality ◽  
Global South ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Western Discourse ◽  
Colonial Legacies ◽  
The Right ◽  
White Gaze

In seeking justice for LGBT persons, many Episcopalians have found ourselves in significant moral tragedies over recent decades. Support for same-sex relationships often emerged from a concern to stand up for the marginalized and to be “on the right side of history.” At the same time, however, we inadvertently alienated many of those historically marginalized in global Anglican conversations, specifically those in the global South. The content and form of the Episcopal Church's public statements in Anglican debates over human sexuality proved subtly—and usually unintentionally—neocolonial. The content of the debate privileged a specifically Western discourse based in the designation of homosexuality, while the form of the debate often resembled an abstracted “white gaze.” In seeking a path to reconciliation, the essay concludes by engaging H. Richard Niebuhr's thought, suggesting that he enables us to conceive how we ended up in such tragedies and offers a means to reconciliation by way of repentance.

Evaluation of Lebanon’s National Helpline for Emotional Support and Suicide Prevention: Reduction of Emotional Distress among Callers

Intervention ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 197
Author(s):  
PiaA Zeinoun ◽  
FarahE Yehia ◽  
LilaZ Khederlarian ◽  
SereneF Yordi ◽  
MiaM Atoui ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Emotional Distress ◽  
Emotional Support

All change please: education, mobility and habitus dislocation

2019 ◽  
pp. 119-136
Author(s):  
Jill Wilkens
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Bisexual Women ◽  
Affinity Groups ◽  
And Bisexual ◽  
Positive Ageing

This chapter examines the intersection of ageing, gender, class and sexual identity, and highlights the significance of same-sexuality social groups for older lesbians and bisexual women. Interviews with 35 women aged between 57 and 73, discussed ‘coming out’ in the 1950s and 1960s, loneliness and isolation and the experience of attending affinity groups. Many participants were rendered ‘out of place’ by aspects of their social mobility, generation, gender and sexuality. The chapter draws on Bourdieu’s concept of ‘cleft habitus’ to consider the contradictions of these mobilities, suggesting that these women faced unprecedented and unique disjuncture between their original habitus and the new classed, sexual and gendered locations in which they finally ‘arrived’. The chapter looks at the potential of social groups to alleviate loneliness and isolation; for many, they are sites of resilience, helping to promote positive ageing for those who have faced marginalisation across their life course.

scholarly journals The Right to Discriminate

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell Sandberg
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Judicial Review ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Human Sexuality ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Broadcast Media ◽  
High Profile ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Right

The first decade of the 21st century has witnessed a number of controversies surrounding the interaction between law and religion in the United Kingdom. In particular, tensions have emerged between laws protecting religious freedom and those which prohibit discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation. In particular, Parliament has repeatedly examined the scope and ambit of exceptions afforded to religious groups which allow them to discriminate on grounds of sexual orientation when specific conditions are met. And these exceptions have reportedly led to tensions within both the Blair and Brown cabinets and rebukes from the Vatican and the European Commission, criticising the exceptions for being too narrow and too broad respectively. The exceptions have also been challenged by way of judicial review, have been applied or commented upon in a number of high-profile cases and have attracted comment in the print and broadcast media. A number of employees have brought claims asserting that new legal requirements promoting equality on grounds of sexual orientation are incompatible with their religious beliefs. This article seeks to explore the legal changes that have occurred in the first decade of the 21st century affecting religion and sexual orientation with particular reference to how courts and tribunals have dealt with clashes between the two. It discusses the extent to which English law allows religious groups and individuals to follow their own beliefs regarding human sexuality.

scholarly journals Analysing tutor feedback to students: first steps towards constructing an electronic monitoring system

2003 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Denise Whitelock ◽  
Stuart Watt ◽  
Yvonne Raw ◽  
Emanuela Moreale
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Support ◽  
Student Motivation ◽  
Electronic Monitoring ◽  
Feedback System ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Students First ◽  
Additional Support ◽  
The Right ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Larger Sample

Virtual Learning Environments provide the possibility of offering additional support to tutors, monitors and students in writing and grading essays and reports. They enable monitors to focus on the assignments that need most attention. This paper reports the findings from phase one of a feasibility study to assist the monitoring of student essays. It analyses tutor comments from electronically marked assignments and investigates how they match the mark awarded to each essay by the tutor. This involved carrying out a category analysis of the tutors' feedback to the students using Bales's 'interactional categories' as a theoretical basis. The advantage of this category system is that it distinguishes between task-orientated contributions, and the 'socio-emotive' element used by tutors to maintain student motivation. This reveals both how the tutor makes recommendations to improve the assignment content, and how they provide emotional support to students. Bales's analysis was presented to a group of tutors who felt an electronic feedback system based on this model would help them to get the right balance of responses to their students. These findings provide a modest start to designing a model of feedback for tutors of distance education students. Future work will entail refining these categories and testing this model with a larger sample from a different subject domain.DOI:10.1080/0968776030110304

scholarly journals PSEUDOMYXOMA ON APPENDICULAR MUCOCELE

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 842-846
Author(s):  
Yehouenou Tessi T. Romeo ◽  
◽  
Asaad El Bakkari ◽  
Adeyemi A. Boris ◽  
Khadija Ben El Hosni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Symptoms ◽  
Iliac Fossa ◽  
Disease Onset ◽  
Vermiform Appendix ◽  
Complete Resection ◽  
Mucocele Of The Appendix ◽  
Thin Walled ◽  
Ct Density ◽  
The Right ◽  
Underlying Pathology

Mucocele of the appendix is a descriptive term for mucinous distension of the appendiceal lumen (vermiform appendix) regardless of the underlying pathology. It refers to the progressive retrograde dilatation of the vermiform appendix with concomitant intraluminal accumulation of the mucoid substance. It is an uncommon pathology that occurs in both sexes. it especially poses the problem of differential diagnosis in particular in women because of the location of clinical symptoms in the right iliac fossa. The incidence is estimated between 0.2 % and 0.4 % of the appendectomied specimens.The estimated incidence is approximately 1/1 000 000/year. The disease onset is usually after the age of 40 years and more frequently affects females.The means of medical imaging are mainly ultrasound and scanner. On CT typical mucocele appears as a cecal-based, rounded and well-defined mass, thin-walled, with fine parietal calcifications CT density is variable, from fluid to tissue. A stercolith is sometimes visible at the base of the appendix. The wall of the mucocele may be thickened, irregular, taking the contrast there may be peri-appendicular inflammation, which may be inflammatory or tumor, without specificity.The treatment of unbroken appendicular mucocele is surgical, preferably by laparotomy than laparoscopy. The appendectomy is performed, without breaking the appendix, with complete resection of the meso-appendix, and sampling for cytology of the peritoneal fluid.

scholarly journals Sexual Fluidity: An Integrative Review

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (32) ◽  
pp. 182
Author(s):  
Steve Hunt ◽  
Elena Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Sexuality ◽  
Integrative Review ◽  
Sexual Agency ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Sexual Fluidity ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
And Bisexual ◽  
Bisexual People

Historically, sexuality had been considered a fundamental, biologically determined characteristic of humans. Lately, better protection of human rights and recognition of non-traditional relationships have been leading to acceptance towards gay, transgendered and bisexual people. Nonetheless, little advancement has been made into fully understanding the intricacies of human sexuality and recent research has found that sexuality may not be fixed after all; instead, it appears to be more variable and fluid. This integrative review on sexual fluidity has drawn four discussed themes: Sexuality as a Continuum, Sexual Fluidity of Women, Sexual Agency and Hetero/Homosexuality Binary of Men. Several questions call for more research into understanding sexual fluidity across the lifespan and the development of initiatives to help individuals to both understand and accept this trait. Furthermore, advocacy is needed to ensure equal rights and freedoms without discrimination, both socially and economically.

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