Discursive stickiness: Affective institutional texts and activist resistance

Ciszek, Erica; Mocarski, Richard; Price, Sarah F.; Almeida, Elaine Regina Delicato de

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“…The nascent nature of this area necessitates recommendations that are grounded in the needs of diverse TGD communities. Especially given the history of marginalization of TGD people by mental health communities (Ciszek et al, 2021; Riggs et al, 2019), it is essential that the voices of TGD individuals are central in identifying what constitutes TGD-affirmative behavioral health care.…”

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Bridging the gap between practice guidelines and the therapy room: Community-derived practice adaptations for psychological services with transgender and gender diverse adults in the central United States.

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Holt²,

Woodruff³

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Professional Psychology: Research and Practice

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Individuals who identify as transgender and gender diverse (TGD) are presenting at mental health clinicians' offices with increasing frequency. Many TGD clients are seeking care related to affirming their gender identity but also may present with anxiety, depression, trauma, substance abuse, or other problems for which a clinician may commonly provide services. Some clinicians may hesitate to accept TGD clients into their practice if they have little specialized training to work with this population in an affirming manner, especially in more underserved areas where a generalist practice is the norm. Numerous professional associations and experts have developed guidelines for affirmative behavioral health care for TGD people. However, what is needed are community-informed recommendations to bridge from the official guidelines to clinicians' in-session activities. The Trans Collaborations Practice Adaptations for Psychological Interventions for Transgender and Gender Diverse Adults are derived from iterative interviews with TGD community members and affirming mental health clinicians in the Central United States. The 12 practice adaptations are intended to guide clinicians to adapt their usual treatment approach to be TGD affirming, especially in underserved and rural areas. The practice adaptations cover numerous aspects of practice including the office setting and paperwork, understanding gender identity and incorporating it into the case conceptualization, therapist's self-awareness, and referrals. The Trans Collaborations Practice Adaptations will help

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Bridging the gap between practice guidelines and the therapy room: Community-derived practice adaptations for psychological services with transgender and gender diverse adults in the central United States.

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Holt²,

Woodruff³

et al. 2022

Professional Psychology: Research and Practice

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“…A second strand of research focuses on how (in)equalities are produced through internal and external communicative practices. These studies have shown that public relations has the capacity to contribute to a more equitable society (Austin et al, 2019;Ciszek et al, 2021;Ciszek and Logan, 2018;Logan, 2018Logan, , 2021, but that communication about inequality is complex, does not always have the required effects, and that avoidance of inauthenticity or 'wokewashing' is essential (Capizzo and Iannacone, 2023;Ciszek et al, 2023;Vardeman and Sebesta, 2020).…”

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Public relations recruitment as boundary-making: The client, the ‘fit’ and the disposability of diversity

Edwards,

Aulakh

2023

Public Relations Inquiry

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In this article we explore the ways in which specialist recruitment practices for the PR industry influence the pursuit of diversity in the profession. Drawing on interviews from an exploratory study of specialist PR recruitment in the UK, we combine Abbott’s theory of boundary-making between professional fields with existing research on the exclusionary dynamics of recruitment in professions, to explain how PR recruitment consolidates the focus on client and candidate ‘fit,’ and is likely to work in favour of preserving the dominance of middle-class, white and gendered identities in the profession. In this context, diversity is perceived as a risk rather than an opportunity and becomes a casualty of professional logic.

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“…In the field of psychology, TGD people have historically been mistreated, pathologized, and had their lives and access to gender-affirming care regulated in oppressive ways (Schuster, 2021). This history can create affective blocks of stigma and oppression (Ciszek et al, 2021), resulting in many TGD people being cautious when seeking therapy services. TGD clients may expect mistreatment and poor outcomes, particularly if they have had negative experiences in the past (Applegarth & Nuttall, 2016).…”

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Transgender and gender diverse clients’ experiences in therapy: Responses to sociopolitical events and helpful and unhelpful experiences.

Puckett,

Kimball,

Glozier

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We examined transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) people’s reports of their therapy experiences over the course of a year. We explored how participants’ therapists integrated discussions about current events, as well as their more general perspectives on helpful and unhelpful experiences. A total of 107 participants provided data on these questions at least once over 12 months of surveys (M age = 33.79; 70.1% White), reflecting on their current therapy experiences. Through thematic analysis of qualitative data, the following themes were constructed regarding discussing sociopolitical events: (a) facilitating coping via bearing witness to clients’ internal experiences and implementing other therapeutic interventions; (b) moving beyond the individual by integrating identity, systems, or contexts; (c) feeling disconnected and misunderstood. We grouped participants’ helpful experiences into the following themes: (1) availability, connection, and therapeutic approaches facilitate positive experiences; (2) the necessity of knowledge, education, and affirmation of TGD identities; (3) helpful therapy means seeing the world in which clients live. We grouped participants’ unhelpful experiences into the following themes: (1) logistical issues can interfere with therapy; (2) lack of depth and disconnection results in subpar therapy; (3) insufficient understandings of TGD identities results in potentially harmful practices. These findings deepen understandings of how to integrate discussions about current events into therapy and provide competent and affirming care to TGD clients.

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Discursive stickiness: Affective institutional texts and activist resistance

Cited by 9 publications

References 41 publications

Bridging the gap between practice guidelines and the therapy room: Community-derived practice adaptations for psychological services with transgender and gender diverse adults in the central United States.

Bridging the gap between practice guidelines and the therapy room: Community-derived practice adaptations for psychological services with transgender and gender diverse adults in the central United States.

Public relations recruitment as boundary-making: The client, the ‘fit’ and the disposability of diversity

Transgender and gender diverse clients’ experiences in therapy: Responses to sociopolitical events and helpful and unhelpful experiences.

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