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Screened history: nostalgia as defensive formation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This article reconsiders the much-lauded transformative potential of nostalgia and proposes that an adequately psychological engagement with nostalgia is necessary if the critical capacities of this phenomenon are to be adequately assessed.
Hook, Derek
core   +1 more source

Manoeuvring Among Institutions and Pandemic Restrictions: When the Fantasy of Parenting After Divorce or Breakup and the Respective Emotions Matter

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Understanding social factors that affected how people interpreted the meanings of COVID‐19 measures is important in postpandemic times. This study applies perspectives from research on emotions as one of the possible explanations and focuses on how institutions and their measures are perceived in the context of individual emotional situations.
Eva M. Hejzlarová
wiley   +1 more source

Once more with feeling: What is the psychosocial anyway? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This article asks if psychosocial studies can be distinguished from neighbouring fields of inquiry and what, if anything, constitutes a ‘shared language’ among the psychosocial field’s different ‘dialects’.
Redman, Peter
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Conversational Democracy: Facilitating Children's ‘Unprompted Talk’ in Social Work Dialogues

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In child and family social work dialogues, social workers address topics that are relevant to children's well‐being and safety. In doing so, they inevitably prioritize one conversational direction over another. This means that while one topic is being addressed, other possible topics are put on hold or are simply never developed.
Kristina Edman
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring the Capacity to Love: Development of the CTL-Inventory

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2018
Objective: The individual capacity to love (CTL) has been linked to various mental health parameters and is considered to be an important outcome parameter of psychotherapeutic treatment.
Nestor D. Kapusta   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Navigating Ambiguity: Considerations When Making Decisions on Out‐Of‐Home Placement of Siblings

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Policy‐makers and professionals recognize the importance of relationships between children and their family system and between children and their siblings in out‐of‐home placement. However, it is not always possible to keep siblings together; separation may be necessary for the child's normal development and even to protect the child's well ...
Vered Shenar‐Golan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Suicide prevention: The contribution of psychoanalysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The contemporary relevance of psychoanalysis is being increasingly questioned; Off the Couch challenges this view, demonstrating that psychoanalytic thinking and its applications are both innovative and relevant, in particular to the management and ...
Briggs, Stephen
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Colonial Trauma in Márquez and Rushdie’s Magical Realism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children are hallmarks of the genre of magical realism. A typically problematic genre in terms of classification, this article looks at magical realism from a Freudian
Miller, Rachel
core   +1 more source

‘We Are Only Playing’: Reflections on the Pandemic's Effects on Immigrant Preschoolers' Mentalisation and Play During the Sand Play Workshops

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mentalisation and symbolisation are important processes to support children in understanding their lived experience. By expressing what is most salient to them through pretend play, children can normally develop their capacity to mentalise and symbolise, which helps them cope with adversity.
Caroline Beauregard
wiley   +1 more source

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