Add to ORKGThere is a consistent research base that shows that class and inequality is associated with poorer mental health and experiences of distress. Various explanations for this link have been proposed, including psychological, social, structural, material and political factors. Experiences of powerlessness and oppression have also been implicated. Nevertheless psychology focuses predominately on explanations and interventions at the individual level. To explore this incongruence, a Foucauldian Discourse Analysis was completed of texts produced by Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT), related to the development and practice within IAPT and supervision sessions of high-intensity therapists practicing in IAPT. The emerging discourse...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the link i...
With no accepted definition, conceptualisations of ‘context’ can range from considering relationship...
In this thesis, we aimed to develop our understanding of how social class-based inequalities in ment...
With a few exceptions, the subject of social class has rarely been addressed in counselling and psyc...
Background. Discourse analytic approaches to mental distress have been developed in the last two dec...
This study is concerned with ways that clinical psychologists construct the clinical psychologist’s ...
Section One: Literature Review : The literature review investigated the association between income i...
In this paper we will first take a look at some of the interest the concept of stress have received ...
Background: Class is a topic that is increasingly being explored within Counselling Psychology. Wi...
Macro level data indicate that people experiencing mental distress experience poor health, social an...
In recent years, expectations to pursue happiness have shifted to well-being—a concept that has been...
Why is context important? Because, without it, we fill in the blanks and arrive at erroneous conclus...
In my master's thesis, I research the first-person narrative of people about psychosocial distress u...
The practice of psychotherapy developed in the United States within and in response to its sociopoli...
YesDespite increasing evidence of the impact of health inequalities on mental health (Pickett and Wi...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the link i...
With no accepted definition, conceptualisations of ‘context’ can range from considering relationship...
In this thesis, we aimed to develop our understanding of how social class-based inequalities in ment...
With a few exceptions, the subject of social class has rarely been addressed in counselling and psyc...
Background. Discourse analytic approaches to mental distress have been developed in the last two dec...
This study is concerned with ways that clinical psychologists construct the clinical psychologist’s ...
Section One: Literature Review : The literature review investigated the association between income i...
In this paper we will first take a look at some of the interest the concept of stress have received ...
Background: Class is a topic that is increasingly being explored within Counselling Psychology. Wi...
Macro level data indicate that people experiencing mental distress experience poor health, social an...
In recent years, expectations to pursue happiness have shifted to well-being—a concept that has been...
Why is context important? Because, without it, we fill in the blanks and arrive at erroneous conclus...
In my master's thesis, I research the first-person narrative of people about psychosocial distress u...
The practice of psychotherapy developed in the United States within and in response to its sociopoli...
YesDespite increasing evidence of the impact of health inequalities on mental health (Pickett and Wi...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the link i...
With no accepted definition, conceptualisations of ‘context’ can range from considering relationship...
In this thesis, we aimed to develop our understanding of how social class-based inequalities in ment...