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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Locations of Therapeutic Benefit: An Ethnography of Child and Youth Mental Health Services in Ontario, Canada

Stride-Darnley, Ben 01 1900 (has links)
<p> This dissertation focuses on young people's and staffs discourses about, and participation in, day treatment mental health programs in Ontario. These experiences and perspectives are situated within broader structural contexts of power, policy and societal expectations. In doing so, I adapt and update Scheper-Hughes and Lock's (1987) Three Bodies model as an overarching structure for the thesis. I differ from their distinct division between the three bodies as my grounded theory approach to fieldwork data highlights the relational aspects of therapeutic practices, and in turn I draw attention to the interaction between and within Scheper-Hughes and Lock's individual-social-politic bodies. </p> <p> I completed fieldwork at two services, one for 13-18 and one for 5-12 year olds. These institutional settings are primarily concerned with (re)creating mental health and educational well-being. As such both they and my research are at the intersection of multiple academic disciplines, which means that my dissertation draws heavily on a variety of anthropological, sociological and childhood studies literatures and methodologies, as well as on influences from psychiatry and psychology, in addition to a broad range of post-structuralist I post-modem theorizing. </p> <p> In addition to this academic approach, my work has applicability, which was necessitated in part by the fieldwork sites' demand that they see benefits from research. My applied approach was also necessitated by my position that anthropological research can fruitfully combine both applied and academic approaches to research, known as praxis. </p> <p> Key issues addressed within my thesis are: the need for multiple qualitative methodologies, both to address questions around working with young people and questions arising from fieldwork sites primarily informed by quantitative research; the usefulness of combining aspects from the theoretical work of Bourdieu and Foucault in understanding how mental health therapies act to reenculturate young people; the importance of the role that the young people play in their own therapeutic recovery which I explore through my concept of con.fined agency; that (perhaps surprisingly) rites de passage and liminality can be useful conceptual frameworks to approach the sociality of individual bodies in the daily material activities at the fieldwork sites; and the negotiation by young people and staff of the ongoing negative impacts of stigma associated with mental illness. Within my ethnographic theorizing is the importance ofrelational interaction between individual-social-politic level bodies. </p> / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Smoke and mirrors : reflections of policy and practice for those with a mental illness and who are in conflict with the law

Thibault, Kathleen January 2005 (has links)
This study examined the use of language in the development and implementation of mental health policy. It focused on the current discourse of mental health reform in Ontario as it related to individuals with a mental illness and who are in conflict with the law. Using a qualitative design, informed by critical inquiry and a postmodern perspective, the researcher explored administrative perceptions of the accomplishments and challenges faced at different levels of the mental health and criminal justices systems in Ontario. The participants' understandings of the provincial mental health reform policy, Making it Happen, and the extent they felt that their organizations and related policies were able to create positive change in the lives of service users were also examined. While the language of mental health policy encompasses an empowerment, community integration approach to providing services, findings indicated that a biomedical-model, public safety discourse appear to inform both policy and practice. A number of questions and apparent inconsistencies in the manner in which the mental health and criminal justice systems deal with the needs of this population were also identified. This thesis concludes with recommendations for future research.
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Smoke and mirrors : reflections of policy and practice for those with a mental illness and who are in conflict with the law

Thibault, Kathleen January 2005 (has links)
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