Repositioning the research encounter: exploring power dynamics and positionality in youth research

McGarry, Orla

doi:10.1080/13645579.2015.1011821

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“…Using icebreakers can make it easier for children to start the discussion (Coyne & Carter, 2018;Coyne, Hayes, & Gallagher, 2009;Daley, 2013;Fielden et al, 2011;Greene & Hogan, 2005;Griffiths et al, 2014;McGarry, 2015;Moffat et al, 2009). This may involve something simple, such as making and wearing their own name badges, drawing pictures, or listening to themselves speak on tape.…”

Section: Introduction and Arrangementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Focus Group Interviews in Child, Youth, and Parent Research: An Integrative Literature Review

Adler

Salanterä

Zumstein‐Shaha

2019

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

165

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Focus groups are becoming increasingly popular in research, especially in parent and child research. Focus group interviews allow participants to tell their own stories, express their opinions, and even draw pictures without having to adhere to a strict sequence of questions. This method is very suitable for collecting data from children, youths, and parents. However, focus group interviews must be carefully planned and conducted. The literature on focus group interviews with adult participants is extensive, but there are no current summaries of the most important issues to consider when conducting focus group interviews with children, youths, or parents. This article outlines the use of focus groups in child, youth, and parent research and the important factors to be considered when planning, conducting, and analyzing focus groups with children, youths, or parents.

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Section: Introduction and Arrangementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Focus Group Interviews in Child, Youth, and Parent Research: An Integrative Literature Review

Adler

Salanterä

Zumstein‐Shaha

2019

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

165

103

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“…Eventually, the challenges of this method of studying young people's engagement are that new political ideology and viewpoints are missing (Mierina & Koroleva, 2015). The contradiction to the tune of non-involvement is fostered by methods that turn down the training of youth as a phase of transformation to maturity rather than explore youth practice from a generational perception (McGarry, 2015). It indicates that research must report different socio-political, socio-cultural, high-tech, and economic surroundings by which young lives are considered and in what ways youth conceptualize and react to part-politics and governments (Marsh et al, 2007).…”

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Understanding Young People’s Political Engagement in Niger Delta Nigerian

Vite¹

2018

UCER-B

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The study focuses on the way Niger Delta youth participation in policies is formed through the ideas of youth citizenship. In this research, it will explore the current text and recognized means of comprehending youth participation that acknowledge the modern democracy. It will give attention to research that addresses the process through which young lives participate in democracy and why they do not. It considers the issues that either hinder or promote engagement with young peoples and the way that is affected by some groups in context and practice. It explores the proposition of a new paradigm shift in the human development approach in engagement that identifies and reveals that political literacy and party expectation among politicians are less concerning Nigeria youth and that some small numbers unite with political gatherings, organizations, and other official political associations.

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“…Advocated for is a shift of power away from objectified forms of knowledge to the lived knowledges situated in the everyday realities of the people whose lives are rendered under study (Costa et al, 2012; Landry, 2017; Sweeney et al, 2009). Such a shift has the potential to transform current pathologizing and stigmatizing practices to emancipatory practices – practices in which research and service programming are not just based on the opinions as tokenistic gestures, but rather are led by the knowledge and ways of knowing of the youth whose lives we are sanctioned to serve (McGarry, 2016). In adult mental health, this is an underlying principle of consumer-led or controlled research (Costa et al, 2012; Landry, 2017; Sweeney et al, 2009).…”

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Allyship and solidarity, not therapy, in child and youth mental health: Lessons from a participatory action research project with psychiatrized youth

Liegghio

2020

Global Studies of Childhood

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While globally advances have been made to recognize children as social actors in their own right, for psychiatrized young people their experiences of distress are often seen as a limitation and thus used as a justification for denying their meaningful participation in matters of concern to their lives. However, what would it mean if ‘mental illness’ was not seen as a ‘limitation’, but rather as an ‘epistemological position’ from which the social world is experienced, understood and acted upon? What would it mean if our theories about ‘distress’ and ‘helping’ were premised on the subjugated knowledges of psychiatrized children and youth? The consumer/survivor-led research movement has made significant gains in answering these questions for the adult, but not necessarily for the child and youth mental health field. The purpose of this article is to critically examine the significance of psychiatrized young people setting and executing their own research and, ultimately, practice agendas. Presented are the outcomes of an evaluation of a participatory action research project examining the stigma of mental illness conducted with seven psychiatrized youth, 14 to 17 years old. The outcomes suggest our roles as practitioners and researchers need to shift from being ‘agents’ working on behalf of to ‘allies’ working in solidarity with young people to change the social conditions of their marginalization. The article concludes with the limits of consumer/survivor-led research for addressing adultism and, instead, ends with a call for decolonizing children’s mental health.

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Repositioning the research encounter: exploring power dynamics and positionality in youth research

Cited by 44 publications

References 35 publications

Focus Group Interviews in Child, Youth, and Parent Research: An Integrative Literature Review

Focus Group Interviews in Child, Youth, and Parent Research: An Integrative Literature Review

Understanding Young People’s Political Engagement in Niger Delta Nigerian

Allyship and solidarity, not therapy, in child and youth mental health: Lessons from a participatory action research project with psychiatrized youth

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