Professionalization and Reflexivity in Critical Health Psychology Practice

Bolam, Bruce; Chamberlain, Kerry

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“…Reflection is described as an important component of professionals' education and training (10). In a professional context, reflexivity is seen as challenging the practices, roles, beliefs and values of practitioners and promoting learning and re-development of practice (11). When reflexivity is deliberately structured, learning processes are made more explicit (12).…”

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The Anatomy of a Successful Caribbean Substance Abuse Training Programme

Reid¹,

Downes²,

Khenti³

2015

WIMJ Open

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Objectives: This paper describes the components of the Caribbean Institute on Alcoholism and Other Drug Problems (CARIAD), a long-standing substance abuse training programme. It seeks to explain how certain strategies and pedagogic techniques may be contributing to its success. Methods: Authors deconstruct the core elements of CARIAD to demonstrate how the programme effectively meets the characteristics of a community of practice. The processes used to develop the learning community and the specific pedagogic strategies and techniques that foster collaborative knowledge construction and sharing are described. Results: Caribbean Institute on Alcoholism and Other Drug Problems brings together a multidisciplinary, multinational group of individuals with interest in substance abuse. The programme provides a range of formal and informal learning activities which focus on sharing best practices and creating new sociocultural relevant knowledge to advance the domain of professional practice in substance abuse. The components of CARIAD promote interactivity, rapid bonding and a sense of identity. Caribbean Institute on Alcoholism and Other Drug Problems provides a unique platform for cultural sharing that gives participants an opportunity to reveal insights into local and regional expressions of substance abuse challenges. Participants, however, recognize the absence of structured continuity and the diminution of what could be accomplished by graduates over time. Conclusion: The success of CARIAD as a regional learning platform may be related to its success as a Caribbean community of practice for substance abuse. Caribbean Institute on Alcoholism and Other Drug Problems would do well to sustain the community of practice, generating and maintaining ongoing participation and collaboration among graduates. This can potentially serve to create new strategies for advancing the region in the area of substance abuse.

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The Anatomy of a Successful Caribbean Substance Abuse Training Programme

Reid¹,

Downes²,

Khenti³

2015

WIMJ Open

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“…In fact, authors interested in reflexivity have often opposed various ideal-types of this concept, each emphasizing a specific function of the activity. Often, these types of reflexivity are opposed in the way they question the experiences and practices of research: one type may "improve best practice within currently accepted boundaries", 14 whereas the other may question and challenge the research practices of the whole system by raising the researcher's awareness and critical conscience from a broad social perspective. 7,14 This latter exercise, as a process for assessing the impact of research on social dynamics, can potentially transform the researcher into an engaged and invested social actor who is able to promote true social change.…”

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“…Often, these types of reflexivity are opposed in the way they question the experiences and practices of research: one type may "improve best practice within currently accepted boundaries", 14 whereas the other may question and challenge the research practices of the whole system by raising the researcher's awareness and critical conscience from a broad social perspective. 7,14 This latter exercise, as a process for assessing the impact of research on social dynamics, can potentially transform the researcher into an engaged and invested social actor who is able to promote true social change. 7,14,15 We believe that a sound contribution of PHIR to society can only come with this kind of reflexivity, where assumptions, power dynamics and moral issues underlying research practices are questioned.…”

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“…7,14 This latter exercise, as a process for assessing the impact of research on social dynamics, can potentially transform the researcher into an engaged and invested social actor who is able to promote true social change. 7,14,15 We believe that a sound contribution of PHIR to society can only come with this kind of reflexivity, where assumptions, power dynamics and moral issues underlying research practices are questioned. There is almost nothing in the six propositions of the reflective researcher domain that allows us to think that a reflective researcher should question the system of practice within which he or she is embedded.…”

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Reflexivity in PHIR: Let’s have a reflexive talk!

Tremblay

Parent²

2014

Can J Public Health

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“…For example, Bolam and Chamberlain (2003) argued that positivism positions the health professional as the powerful "expert". Further, other authors have suggested that expert positioning can have implications for the patient-centered practice model that is generally accepted in physiotherapy, as in other health professions, as the preferred and most ethical way to practice Trede & Higgs, 2003;Wikstrom-Grotell & Eriksson, 2012).…”

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Weight stigma in health: (re)thinking weight in a physiotherapy context

Setchell¹

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The physiotherapy profession increasingly considers weight management to be part of its scope of practice. Ostensibly this may seem like a good idea: popular media and biomedical discourses highlight a global "obesity epidemic", and physiotherapists, considered "experts in movement", may be well placed to help address obesity by encouraging activity. On the other hand, an excessive focus on weight can have negative consequences. A large body of research now highlights negative attitudes towards those who are overweight (weight stigma) among health professionals, including doctors, nurses, dieticians, psychologists and exercise scientists. Yet, despite the size and impact of the profession, there has been little work exploring weight stigma in the context of physiotherapy.My aims are two-fold. First, I investigate weight-related interactions in physiotherapy, and second, I investigate how weight might be (re)thought in this context. The first three thesis chapters provide a theoretical exploration of concepts relevant to weight in physiotherapy. In the introductory chapter I argue that it is helpful to draw from scholarship in critical psychology and the emerging field of critical physiotherapy. In Chapter 2 I consider traditional social psychological theories that provide a social and embodied understanding of weight stigma. However, I outline how these theories are notably apolitical, acultural, ahistorical and lack mechanisms for understanding power in stigma. To address this issue, I introduce post-structuralist perspectives (particularly those of Michel Foucault) that are often used in critical social science. Using a poststructural psychological lens, I critically examine the literature on weight and its associated stigma.As context specific understandings are desirable, I use Chapter 3 to examine the nature of the physiotherapy profession, to determine what might be relevant to "thinking weight" and considerations of stigma. Here I look in depth at this profession, discussing where power, the body, reflexivity and the profession's ontological underpinnings might be relevant to weight-related physiotherapy interactions.In Chapter 4 I outline the empirical approaches I took to further address the aims of the thesis, and discuss their underlying assumptions. Following this, in Chapters 5 to 7 I present three empirical studies, each of which is published in peer-reviewed journals (or under review). In a previous study (described in Chapter 3) I tested weight stigma in physiotherapists using attitude tests in an online survey. I found that participating physiotherapists held explicit and implicit weight stigmatising attitudes similar to those in related professions. Building on this earlier work, Iconducted an inductive thematic analysis of interviews with patients who had experienced weightrelated interactions with physiotherapists (described in Chapter 5). Participants spoke of perceiving weight stigma in a number of elements of physiotherapy interactions, elements of the physiotherapy environment and...

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Professionalization and Reflexivity in Critical Health Psychology Practice

Cited by 21 publications

References 10 publications

The Anatomy of a Successful Caribbean Substance Abuse Training Programme

The Anatomy of a Successful Caribbean Substance Abuse Training Programme

Reflexivity in PHIR: Let’s have a reflexive talk!

Weight stigma in health: (re)thinking weight in a physiotherapy context

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