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Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, Mar 1, 2022

OBJECTIVE The COVID-19 pandemic brought unparalleled pressure, stress, and a dramatic change in p... more OBJECTIVE The COVID-19 pandemic brought unparalleled pressure, stress, and a dramatic change in practice to health care systems across the world. National Health Service (NHS) staff have reported higher levels of burnout, stress, and other mental health issues that they relate directly to the impact of the pandemic. Burnout is often used as a "catch-all" term for psychological distress in the workplace, and it has been suggested that, during the pandemic, experience of "burnout" may be influenced by "moral injury": the distress that can arise from actions, or lack of action, that are seen to violate one's ethical code. This study investigates NHS staff experiences of burnout and betrayal-based moral injury, in which a trusted authority betrays "what is right." METHOD Sixteen NHS staff members were interviewed in relation to their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, and data were thematically analyzed. RESULTS Three themes were identified: abandonment as betrayal; dishonesty and lack of accountability; and fractured relationship to management or the NHS. CONCLUSIONS This analysis concludes that self-identified "burnout" in NHS staff may include a significant moral component, and that failure to engage in moral repair following betrayal-based moral injury may relate to a long-term loss of trust or fractured relationship with the organization. In addition to traditional trauma-informed psychological support, leadership at all levels should be trained to be aware of betrayal-based moral injury and to engage in moral repair to reduce staff intent to leave and encourage mutual trust. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2022

Feminism & Psychology, 2022

Theoretical approaches have tended to understand perinatal distress through either individual or ... more Theoretical approaches have tended to understand perinatal distress through either individual or socio-cultural factors. In contrast, Natasha Mauthner proposed a relational model that understands perinatal distress in the context of interpersonal relationships. This study aims to build on Mauthner's work to explore how women speak about their relationships in connection to their stories of perinatal distress and recovery. Eight women were interviewed for the study. All women had at least one child under the age of three and self-identified as having experienced distress in the perinatal period. Interviews were recorded, transcribed and analyzed using Voice Centred Relational Analysis. Four broad themes were identified: (i) the role of practical support, (ii) the role of emotional support, (iii) relational dynamics, and (iv) the role of socio-cultural norms. Whilst some women experienced practical and emotional support in their relationships, those who did not linked a lack of su...

Building a New Community Psychology of Mental Health, 2017

Meet John. His story is an amalgamation of the insights we’ve got from a number of people one of ... more Meet John. His story is an amalgamation of the insights we’ve got from a number of people one of us has interviewed over the years for various different projects related to sex. He’s just come back from a hippy tantra festival overseas. He thought it might help him with his porn addiction. He doesn’t call his problem a porn addiction, but like many men in the UK, if even conservative estimates are anything to go by, he’s addicted alright.

As this is a book about the ways in which very normal settings, groups, activities and social rel... more As this is a book about the ways in which very normal settings, groups, activities and social relations can have often subtle and profound impacts on people’s mental well-being, it would probably be remiss to exclude an example of a project that included some form of exercise. After all exercise is something that most people can do to some extent and that doesn’t require a great deal of expertise. At this juncture the reader may begin to experience a creeping sense of dread that this may be one of the many chapters and papers that informs the world that exercise is good, not only for physical health, but for mental well-being too. And Lord knows there is plenty such research out there. So much so that people may be forgiven for developing a yet to be named sense of ‘exercise is good for mental health fatigue’—an increasingly widespread syndrome whereby normal people keep hearing how good exercise is for their mental health. To name but a few, recent years have seen publicly dissemin...

The Handbook of Mental Health and Space, 2018

In recent years debates surrounding the human impact on climate change have proliferated in polit... more In recent years debates surrounding the human impact on climate change have proliferated in political, academic, and public rhetoric. Such debates have also played out in the context of tourism though discussions surrounding the extent to which anthropocentric climate change exists and the degree of public understanding in relation to climate change and tourism. This paper takes these contemporary debates as its point of departure. The paper aims to critically engage with such debates via the analysis of 780 public comments to an online BBC news article concerning climate change and suggest how we might understand such discursive resources in the context of tourism.

2016, Beachy Head, East Sussex, England. James, stinking to high heaven, stands on the cliff edge... more 2016, Beachy Head, East Sussex, England. James, stinking to high heaven, stands on the cliff edge, his eyes fixed on a boat far out to sea. He’s about to step out. He can see a bridge that leads to his personal pirate ship. He shouts back to a woman begging him to stay put. ‘Don’t worry, it’s all going to be okay mum .’

In a lovely article on many of the inherent contradictions of being a clinical psychologist, Davi... more In a lovely article on many of the inherent contradictions of being a clinical psychologist, David Smail (1) said that ‘we cannot escape the clinic’. When it comes to helping people experiencing mental distress, it would be a callous society that stood back and offered them nothing on the presumption that, as Charles Waldegrave points out, therapy is little more than making poor people feel a bit better about themselves (2). Perhaps the problem however is not with therapy per se but with what therapy has become. The therapeutic relationship, when understood as an instance of ordinary humanity and as a source of solidarity can be eminently valuable. When it is treated as a technology of change with a progressive emphasis on what’s inside people’s heads, and that culminates in people becoming patients schooled to bear responsibility for circumstances beyond their control, then it loses its value (1). If we pare back the therapeutic process to understand Roger’s unconditional positive ...

This article presents a brief account of research which embraced the notion of research participa... more This article presents a brief account of research which embraced the notion of research participant choice by adopting a flexible approach to the medium through which the semi-structured interviews were conducted. The following short paper provides an insight into the ways in which using Skype as a research medium can allow the researcher to reap the well-documented benefits of traditional face-to-face interviews in qualitative research, while also benefiting from the aspects Holt suggests telephone interviews bring to such research. This article presents a brief account of research which embraced the notion of research participant choice by adopting a flexible approach to the medium through which the semi-structured interviews were conducted. The following short paper provides an insight into the ways in which using Skype as a research medium can allow the researcher to reap the well documented benefits of traditional face-to-face interviews in qualitative research, while also benefiting from the aspects Holt (2010) suggests telephone interviews bring to such research. One of the aims suggested in post-structuralist psychology is to offer the participants in each study a degree of control over the research process, encouraging a more equal relationship between the researcher and the researched (Rappaport and Stewart, 1997). In my doctoral research the choice of face-to-face, telephone or Skype interviews was given to all participants. This choice was deemed important to the research process due to the ethical nature of the research subject – sustainable tourism. For example, it was considered essential for the participants to have a choice in the research medium as conflict could have arisen between their ecological principles in relation to transport and

Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 2020

Informal carer experiences of UK dementia services-A systematic review.

Qualitative Research in Psychology, 2014

This article attempts to address a novel dilemma the author recently faced when undertaking quali... more This article attempts to address a novel dilemma the author recently faced when undertaking qualitative psychological research into sustainable tourism. The article embraces notions of reflexivity to highlight how the research process was far removed from the sanitised version often presented in research methods textbooks. The article provides a reflexive account of the struggles of analysing Internet and interview data in relation to sustainable tourism via the dominant version of Foucauldian Discourse Analysis familiar to many qualitative/critical psychologists. Turning to an account of Foucault's later work on ethics, this article presents an alternative approach to Foucauldian Discourse Analysis that adopts a hybrid reading of Foucault's work on power, knowledge, and ethics. Drawing on Foucault's four precepts helps us explore the ways individuals "cultivate the self as an ethical subject," and interview data are presented to highlight the ways such an approach can enrich analysis. It is concluded that while presenting issues surrounding understandings of structure and agency, such an approach did offer a pragmatic solution to an ethical question and may indeed be useful in a range of other areas.

Social and Psychological Dimensions of Personal Debt and the Debt Industry

This paper focuses broadly on ethical consumption and more specifically on an emerging consumptio... more This paper focuses broadly on ethical consumption and more specifically on an emerging consumption practice within the tourism industry, sustainable tourism. The paper engages with ethical consumption and sustainable tourism in order to establish if we ...

Theory & Psychology, 2012

Self, selves, and subjectivity have long been an important field of study in philosophy, sociolog... more Self, selves, and subjectivity have long been an important field of study in philosophy, sociology, and particularly in psychology. Accounts of individuals attempting to understand the “self” can be traced back as far as the late medieval period. However, it was during the ...

Journal of Consumer Culture, 2013

In recent years concerns surrounding the impact of humans on the environment and other humans hav... more In recent years concerns surrounding the impact of humans on the environment and other humans have been increasingly voiced in the West, particularly in relation to the production–consumption chain. This article aims to explore the trajectories of these social and environmental concerns via the promotion of an explicitly ethical product: sustainable tourism. What follows shall presents a brief account of the ways in which consumer goods are increasingly suggested to offer a means to the ‘external’ promotional of an ‘internal’ self. With this in mind it will then be suggested that such a vision of the self is too simplistic and Foucault’s understanding of power, knowledge and ethics briefly presented. This article shall then move on to explore the methodology adopted in the present research, offering an account of the use of the internet in data collection and the framework for analysis employed. Following this the article will turn to explore, via the promotion of sustainable touris...

Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-jtr-10.1177_00472875211037748 for The Rich Kids of Instagram: Lu... more Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-jtr-10.1177_00472875211037748 for The Rich Kids of Instagram: Luxury Travel, Transport Modes, and Desire by Scott Cohen, Hongbo Liu, Paul Hanna, Debbie Hopkins, James Higham and Stefan Gössling in Journal of Travel Research

Building a New Community Psychology of Mental Health, 2017

Social Approaches to Distress: From Enclosures to Fluid Spaces One day, while I was being light h... more Social Approaches to Distress: From Enclosures to Fluid Spaces One day, while I was being light heartedly told by a centre user that I would eventually follow the 'monkey with a typewriter in a room' scenario and fluke a decent cup of tea, I realised that there was a woman sat in the corner. I noticed her because she looked out of place. I asked who she was and I was told that she was a worker from the local mental health charity, Mind, who did afternoon mental health sessions where people could informally pop over and chat to her. I had already been told that the majority of people using the centre were current or recent mental health service users. However, very few people seemed to be going over to her corner. I remember being a little surprised by this at the time. She certainly seemed like a pretty approachable and friendly person. The quality of my tea might have improved over time had I spent less time staring at what was happening in the room and more on the tea itself. Eventually I was removed from tea bar altogether. They were polite and said that, since they found out I was an academic, they had decided my volunteering could be put to better use helping them with their research evaluations. But we all knew deep down that it was due

Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2021

Difficulties associated with Autism Spectrum Disorders can cause considerable impact on personal,... more Difficulties associated with Autism Spectrum Disorders can cause considerable impact on personal, familial, social, educational and occupational functioning. Living with a child who has an Autism Spectrum Disorder can therefore pose a challenge to family members, including typically developing siblings. However, it is only in recent years that the experience of typically developing siblings has become a focal point. A systematic review using keywords across six databases was undertaken to summarise qualitative studies that focused on the experience of being a sibling of a child with an Autism Spectrum Disorder. Fifteen studies met inclusion criteria and a thematic synthesis was completed. The synthesis found that having a sibling who has an Autism Spectrum Disorder can impact typically developing sibling’s self-identity and personal development in a number of ways. Similarly, interactions with the sibling who has Autism Spectrum Disorders and with other individuals can evoke a myria...

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, Mar 1, 2022

Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2022

Feminism & Psychology, 2022

Building a New Community Psychology of Mental Health, 2017

The Handbook of Mental Health and Space, 2018

Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 2020

Informal carer experiences of UK dementia services-A systematic review.

Qualitative Research in Psychology, 2014

Social and Psychological Dimensions of Personal Debt and the Debt Industry

Theory & Psychology, 2012

Journal of Consumer Culture, 2013

Building a New Community Psychology of Mental Health, 2017

Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2021

The current trend of increasing demand for air travel runs contrary to climate-related sustainabi... more The current trend of increasing demand for air travel runs contrary to climate-related sustainability goals. The absence of behavioural and near-term technological solutions to aviation's environmental impacts underscores the importance of policy levers as a means of curbing carbon emissions. Where past work has used qualitative methods to sketch public opinion of environmental aviation policies, this work uses data drawn from a survey of 2066 British adults to make a quantitative assessment of the acceptability of a broad range of aviation climate policy options. The findings indicate that there is significant support across demographic groups for a large number of policies, particularly those that place financial or regulatory burdens on industry rather than on individuals directly. Support for aviation policies strengthens with pro-environmental attitudes and is weaker among people who are aeromobile. Though self-interested considerations appeared to dominate policy option preferences, concern for fairness may also shape policy acceptability. Overall, this paper provides to policymakers a quantitative evidence base of what types of policies for addressing aviation climate emissions are most publically palatable.

Gender, Work & Organization , 2020

Despite increasing geographic mobility among academic staff, gendered patterns of involvement in ... more Despite increasing geographic mobility among academic staff, gendered patterns of involvement in academic mobility have largely escaped scrutiny. Positioned within literatures on internationalisation, physical proximity, gender and parenthood in academic mobility and understandings of gender as a process enacted through both discursive and embodied practices, we use discourse analysis based on interviews with academics in New Zealand to examine differences in language that create differing realities with regards to gender and obligations of care in academic mobility decisions. The findings reveal how academic mobility is discursively formulated as 'essential' to successful academic careers, with the need for frequent travel justified despite advances in virtual communication technologies. Heteronormative discourses are shown to disrupt and fragment the opportunities female academics have to engage in academic mobility. However, we also uncover ways in which these discourses are resisted, wherein fathers articulate emotional strain associated with academic mobility. The paper shows how discourse works to constitute the essentialisation of academic mobility, and the uneven gendered practices associated with it, whilst also giving voice to gender inequities in academic mobility from the southern hemisphere.

Annals of Tourism Research, 2020

Tourism is central to late-modern life, and tourism research that threatens this centrality is pr... more Tourism is central to late-modern life, and tourism research that threatens this centrality is prone to media attention. Framed by sociotechnical transitions theory, we introduce the concept of 'shadowcasting' to show how tourism knowledge disseminated through the media, combined with public comments on its reporting, cast shadows that co-constitute imagined futures. We illustrate shadowcasting through a mixed method approach that demonstrates how media reporting and public comments on a recent paper on autonomous vehicles in tourism emerged and diverged from the original paper. Our findings reveal that issues around sex and terrorism were sensationalised, generating diverse public discourses that challenge linear visions of future transport efficiency. Our concluding discussion indicates other tourism research contexts that are most inclined to shadowcasting.

Journal of Travel Research, 2021

The Rich Kids of Instagram (RKOI) portray luxury lifestyles on social media. The potential roles ... more The Rich Kids of Instagram (RKOI) portray luxury lifestyles on social media. The potential roles of travel and transport within these online displays of affluence have not yet been examined. This paper's purpose is to analyse how transport modes and luxury travel are depicted and interrelated through RKOI images. Co-occurrence analyses were conducted using a data set of Instagram posts with RKOI as a hashtag (2012-2018) to visualize the roles of transport modes and luxury travel in RKOI image construction. The findings demonstrate that both energy-intensive transport modes and luxury travel, whether through air/watercraft or luxury cars, play a vital role in signaling RKOI's self-image on Instagram, with gendered differences. The article contributes an original conceptual model of how RKOI construct their image using transport modes and luxury travel. Implications for the social normalization of carbon-intensive transport choices, coupled with luxury destinations as a backdrop, are discussed.

Journal of Travel Research, 2021

Aviation remains a problematic sector of the global economy in times of climate emergency. Ground... more Aviation remains a problematic sector of the global economy in times of climate emergency. Grounded in the ideology of reconfiguration, we adopt a system transitions perspective to address high emissions leisure travel. Our focus falls upon the marketing communications of airlines as a critical component in the prevailing socio-technical regime. Thematic analysis of the email marketing communications of selected airlines revealed three prominent tropes: adventure and discovery; privilege; and urgency. These communications bring air travel into the everyday lives of consumers and accelerate the turnover time of tourist consumption. Time is mobilised to create a sense of resource scarcity and urgency to consume; paradoxically in a situation characterised by oversupply. The COVID-19 pandemic has presented a unique opportunity for structural reform of the airline industry. Component substitution to address airline marketing is required as an important step towards overcoming consumer moral disengagement and reconfiguring the airline industry.