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On being a university student in therapy: Exploring the process of therapy and its impact on the process of learning (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Historically, the client’s experience of therapy has not featured centrally in psychological research. Research into student mental health shares this past bias towards the practitioner’s viewpoint. While some research has been carried out into the... Read More about On being a university student in therapy: Exploring the process of therapy and its impact on the process of learning.

On being a university student in therapy: Exploring the process of therapy and its impact on the process of learning (2005)
Thesis

Historically, the client’s experience of therapy has not featured centrally in psychological research. Studies of student mental health share this past bias towards the practitioner’s viewpoint. While some research have been carried out into the pr... Read More about On being a university student in therapy: Exploring the process of therapy and its impact on the process of learning.

'The illness is part of the person': Discourses of blame, individual responsibility and individuation at a centre for spiritual healing in the North of England (2005)
Journal Article

While the growth in usage and practice of varying forms of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) continues apace, social science has increasingly turned to CAM's often individualistic approach to health and illness. CAM has been perceived as b... Read More about 'The illness is part of the person': Discourses of blame, individual responsibility and individuation at a centre for spiritual healing in the North of England.

From schism to continuum? The problematic relationship between expert and lay knowledge - An exploratory conceptual synthesis of two qualitative studies (2005)
Journal Article

Ideas about lay and expert knowledge increasingly underscore debates within qualitative health research. In this article, the authors develop an exploratory synthesis of two qualitative studies in which they critique the lay-expert divide, suggesting... Read More about From schism to continuum? The problematic relationship between expert and lay knowledge - An exploratory conceptual synthesis of two qualitative studies.

The relationships between objective and subjective ratings of disfigurement severity and psychological adjustment (2005)
Journal Article

The paper explores the impact of disfigurement severity on psychological adjustment, utilising the DAS24 (output 3) to rate subjective severity. Severity was rated objectively by plastic surgeons. The complex findings provide evidence supporting the... Read More about The relationships between objective and subjective ratings of disfigurement severity and psychological adjustment.

They kind of think that i’m better than they are’: Risk, identity and change in the lives of mature students in higher education (2005)
Book Chapter

© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005. Widening participation has become a central plank of the British government’s education agenda, with the target of increasing participation in higher education to 50 per cent of t... Read More about They kind of think that i’m better than they are’: Risk, identity and change in the lives of mature students in higher education.

The DAS24: A short form of the Derriford Appearance Scale DAS59 to measure individual responses to living with problems of appearance (2005)
Journal Article

Objectives. To develop a psychometrically robust and widely applicable short form of the Derriford Appearance Scale, (DAS59), which (1) will reliably and validly assess the distress and difficulties experienced in living with problems of appearance,... Read More about The DAS24: A short form of the Derriford Appearance Scale DAS59 to measure individual responses to living with problems of appearance.

'We're not living on planet lesbian': Constructions of male role models in debates about lesbian families (2005)
Journal Article

The notion that children (especially boys) need male role models has been used in the past to attack lesbian parents in custody cases, and more recently in debates about donor insemination, adoption and fostering. We are interested in how lesbian par... Read More about 'We're not living on planet lesbian': Constructions of male role models in debates about lesbian families.

Implementing the Rock Challenge: Young people's perspectives on a drug-prevention and performing-arts programme (2005)
Journal Article

This paper presents the qualitative process findings from an evaluation of a school-based performing arts programme, “Rock Challenge”. Rock Challenge aims to promote healthy life styles “by building resilience amongst young people involved”. The rese... Read More about Implementing the Rock Challenge: Young people's perspectives on a drug-prevention and performing-arts programme.