Professional Allies: The Storying of Allies to LGBTQ Students on a College Campus

Ryan, Maura; Broad, Kendal; Walsh, Clare; Nutter, Kathryn L.

doi:10.1080/00918369.2013.735942

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“…; Ryan et al . ). There is limited literature specifically addressing characteristics of allies or the role they might take in promoting consumer leadership.…”

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Doing what we can, but knowing our place: Being an ally to promote consumer leadership in mental health

Happell

Scholz

2017

Int J Mental Health Nurs

142

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Consumer participation in all aspects of mental health services is clearly articulated as an expectation of contemporary mental health policy. Consumer leadership has been demonstrated to be beneficial to mental health services. Barriers to implementation have limited the realization of this goal. In this discursive paper, we argue that non-consumers who support consumer partnerships and leadership (known as 'allies') have an important role to play in facilitating and supporting consumers in leadership roles. Allies currently have more potential to influence resource allocation, and might be viewed more credibly by their peers than consumer leaders themselves. We call for allies to ensure their role is one of support and facilitation (doing what they can), rather than directing the content or speaking on behalf of the consumer movement (knowing their place). In the present study, we address the importance of allies for the consumer movement. It proposes some 'rules of engagement' to ensure that allies do not intentionally or otherwise encroach on consumer knowledge and expertise, so that they maintain the important position of supporting consumers and facilitating the valuing and use of consumer knowledge, expertise, and ultimately, leadership.

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“…; Ryan et al . ). There is limited literature specifically addressing characteristics of allies or the role they might take in promoting consumer leadership.…”

Section: Importance Of Alliesmentioning

confidence: 97%

Doing what we can, but knowing our place: Being an ally to promote consumer leadership in mental health

Happell

Scholz

2017

Int J Mental Health Nurs

142

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“…The role of allies has been articulated as an enabler of the women's movement (LaMantia, Wagner, & Bohecker, 2015;Linder & Johnson, 2015), racial equality (Droogendyk, Wright, Lubensky, & Louis, 2016) and the LGBTQI community (Jones, Brewster, & Jones, 2014;Ryan, Broad, Walsh, & Nutter, 2013). In essence, allies come from a privileged background, relative to oppressed or minority groups, and use this privilege to actively support the quest for empowerment and advancement of the disadvantaged group.…”

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“I don't think we've quite got there yet”: The experience of allyship for mental health consumer researchers

Happell

Scholz

Gordon

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Psychiatric Ment Health Nurs

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Introduction Australia and New Zealand mental health policy requires consumer participation in all aspects of mental health services. Systemic participation informs and improves the quality of mental health services. Collaboration with consumer researchers should be similarly required. Enhanced understandings of collaborations are needed. Aim To enhance understanding of the perspectives and experiences of nonconsumer researchers in working collaboratively with consumers as researchers. Method This qualitative exploratory study involved interviews with nonconsumer mental health researchers who have worked collaboratively with consumers in research. Interviews were conducted with participants from Australia and New Zealand. Results "Allyship" emerged as a major theme. This describes nonconsumer researchers playing an actively supportive role to facilitate opportunities for the development and growth of consumer research roles and activities. Seven subthemes were identified: establishing and supporting roles, corralling resources, guiding navigation of university systems, advocacy at multiple levels, aspiring to coproduction and consumer-led research, extending connections and partnerships, and desire to do better. Discussion Allyship may have an important role to play in the broader consumer research agenda and requires further consideration. Implications for practice Embedding meaningful consumer participation within mental health services requires active consumer involvement in research. Allies can play an important facilitative role.

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“…These include the knowledge and behaviors necessary to be an ally (e.g., Bailey, 1998;Clark, 2010;DiStefano et al, 2000;Edwards, 2006;Reason et al, 2005aReason et al, , 2005bWashington & Evans, 1991), what the developmental process of becoming an ally looks like (e.g., Bishop, 2002;Case, 2012;Gelberg & Chojnacki, 1995;Getz & Kirkley, 2003;Ji, 2007), and what experiences facilitate the process (e.g., Asta & Vacha-Haase, 2013;Caldwell & Vera, 2010;Case, 2012;Fingerhut, 2011;Munin & Speight, 2010;Perrin et al, 2014;Russell, 2011;Spanierman et al, 2017). Much of the empirical literature is limited by its focus on a single, specific kind of ally (e.g., White allies in relation to race, or heterosexual allies in relation to sexual orientation; Asta & Vacha-Haase, 2013;Broido, 2000; 2 SUYEMOTO AND HOCHMAN Case, 2012;DiStefano et al, 2000;Duhigg et al, 2010;Fingerhut, 2011;Getz & Kirkley, 2003;Reason et al, 2005a;Russell, 2011;Ryan et al, 2013;Smith & Redington, 2010;Spanierman et al, 2017); or on its specific focus on college students and personnel, or psychologists and psychology trainees (e.g., Broido, 2000;Gelberg & Chojnacki, 1995;Getz & Kirkley, 2003;Munin & Speight, 2010;Reason et al, 2005a;…”

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“Taking the Empathy to an Activist State”: Ally Development as Continuous Cycles of Critical Understanding and Action

Suyemoto

Hochman

2021

Research in Human Development

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Allies are individuals who take action to end oppression in areas in which they have privilege. Although research on ally development is growing, prior research has often conceptualized allies in a binary fashion (privileged or oppressed), focused on only one specific area of privilege (e.g., race, as in White privilege), been limited to one specific context of development (e.g., college), or examined influences rather than developmental processes. We used a constructivist grounded theory approach to address the question "What is the process of being and becoming an ally?" Through a constant comparative analysis approach, we analyzed 28 semi-structured depth interviews with community participants age 26 to 73 from diverse racial, social status, and sexual identities. Results indicated that developing as allies was a lifelong process, with iterative cycles of understandings and action. Understandings of privilege and oppression were developed through education and relational learning and included understandings of concepts and systems, personal positionality, and cognitive and emotional empathy. These understandings contributed a sense of capability and multiple motivations (responsibility and integrity, relational connectedness, and personal healing and growth) that moved participants into action. Taking action also involved an iterative cycle, including active processes of deciding whether and how to intervene; action engagement with people who are privileged as well as those who are oppressed; and evaluating action. This second cycle catalyzed processes of seeking further understandings. Findings from this study have implications for future research examining ally development across the lifespan and developing interventions to foster ally development to advance social justice.In 1995, Andrea Ayvazian offered a succinct definition of "ally" stating:An ally is a member of a dominant group in our society who works to dismantle any form of oppression from which she or he receives the benefit. Allied behavior means taking personal responsibility for the changes we know are needed in our society, and so often ignore or leave to

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Professional Allies: The Storying of Allies to LGBTQ Students on a College Campus

Cited by 19 publications

References 27 publications

Doing what we can, but knowing our place: Being an ally to promote consumer leadership in mental health

Doing what we can, but knowing our place: Being an ally to promote consumer leadership in mental health

“I don't think we've quite got there yet”: The experience of allyship for mental health consumer researchers

“Taking the Empathy to an Activist State”: Ally Development as Continuous Cycles of Critical Understanding and Action

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