Outputs (934)

From outsiders to motherhood to reinventing the family: Constructions of lesbian parenting in the psychological literature - 1886-2006 (2008)
Journal Article

This article provides a feminist critical psychological analysis of the psychological literature on lesbian parenting. Rather than offer an overview of the findings and methods and an evaluation of the scientific merit of the literature, the aim of t... Read More about From outsiders to motherhood to reinventing the family: Constructions of lesbian parenting in the psychological literature - 1886-2006.

Why teach social work students psychosocial studies? (2008)
Journal Article

This paper is primarily concerned with examining how the current re-emergence of psychosocial theory, mainly emanating from sociology, is useful for informing social work theory. Firstly it considers two extended examples of the limitations and/or co... Read More about Why teach social work students psychosocial studies?.

Men not included? A critical psychology analysis of lesbian families and male influence in child rearing (2007)
Journal Article

This paper explores debates about male presence and influence in lesbian families from a critical psychology standpoint. Critical psychology encompasses a variety of radical approaches to psychological research that reject traditional psychological a... Read More about Men not included? A critical psychology analysis of lesbian families and male influence in child rearing.

Evaluation of art lift: A partnership arts and health project (2008)
Report

The national evaluation of patient advice and liaison services in England (2008)
Report

Sociology and health (2008)
Book Chapter

Evaluation of a computer-based psychosocial intervention for individuals with visible differences (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Skin scar preconceptions must be challenged
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Financial affairs? Money management in same-sex relationships (2008)
Journal Article

The present paper offers a qualitative analysis of how 22 co-habiting same-sex couples manage and think about their finances. Results show that partial-pooling and independent management are the most popular systems with emphasis placed on egalitaria... Read More about Financial affairs? Money management in same-sex relationships.

Appearance anxiety and intimacy: development of a new scale (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Culture and identity (2008)
Book Chapter

Psycho-social research: Relating self, identity and otherness (2008)
Book Chapter

This chapter contains a detailed analysis of how to practice psycho-social research using a case study vignette to illustrate the application of method

Object relations and social relations: The implications of the relational turn in psychoanalysis (2008)
Book

Introduces some of the key themes and assumptions behind relational psychoanalysis and there application beyond the consulting room, in the social, the organisational and political realms

Man not included? A critical psychology analysis of lesbian families and male influences in child rearing Lesbian and gay parenting (2008)
Book Chapter

This paper explores debates about male presence and influence in lesbian families from a critical psychology standpoint. Critical psychology encompasses a variety of radical approaches to psychological research that reject traditional psychological a... Read More about Man not included? A critical psychology analysis of lesbian families and male influences in child rearing Lesbian and gay parenting.

Review of Jeffrey P. Dennis, Queering teen culture: All American boys and same-sex desire in film and television (2008)
Journal Article

In Queering Teen Culture, Jeffery Dennis displays an encyclopaedic knowledge of US television shows and films that foreground teenage characters. Focusing on representations of teenage boys, Dennis aims to ‘queer’ US teen culture. Citing Foucault and... Read More about Review of Jeffrey P. Dennis, Queering teen culture: All American boys and same-sex desire in film and television.

Gender (2008)
Book Chapter

From farmyards to town square, managing continuity through rupture: Montepulciano’s Bruscello theatre (2008)
Journal Article

Montepulciano’s Bruscello declares itself to be the only survivor of a popular theatre tradition once present across the whole of Tuscany and parts of Emilia-Romagna. The original agrarian tradition consisted of a range of calendrical musical repres... Read More about From farmyards to town square, managing continuity through rupture: Montepulciano’s Bruscello theatre.

Conditions for creative social work: a cycle of discourse action research (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Patient Advice and Liaison Services: Results of an audit survey in England (2008)
Journal Article

Objective: To assess the extent national standards for Patient Advice and Liaison Services (PALS) were achieved across England. Context: PALS are an important element of patient and public involvement strategy in England. Seven national standards for... Read More about Patient Advice and Liaison Services: Results of an audit survey in England.

Benign schizotypy: investigating differences between clusters of schizotype on paranormal belief, creativity, intelligence and mental health (2008)
Book Chapter