Learning and Unlearning: Two Social Workers’ Autoethnographic Exploration into Mad Studies

IF 2.3 Q1 SOCIAL WORK

Journal of Progressive Human Services Pub Date : 2021-12-03 DOI:10.1080/10428232.2021.2007456

Karen MacPhee, Lynsey Wilson Norrad

引用次数: 3

Abstract

ABSTRACT Mad studies focuses on the lived experiences of people involved with the mental health system, a system that is structured so that well-intentioned social workers can become complicit in the oppression of individuals with “mental illness.” Mad studies offers social work an alternative to the biomedical construction of mental health. This autoethnography explores the ways in which two seasoned social workers and graduate students experienced a Mad studies informed social justice class. Through the use of journal entries and discussion, we explore the process of learning new ways of thinking and working alongside individuals from a more socially just perspective.

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学习与解放：两位社会工作者对疯狂研究的民族志探索

摘要：疯狂研究关注的是心理健康系统参与者的生活经历，这个系统的结构使善意的社会工作者可以成为压迫“精神疾病”患者的同谋。疯狂研究为社会工作提供了一种替代心理健康生物医学构建的选择。这本民族志探索了两位经验丰富的社会工作者和研究生体验疯狂研究知情社会正义课程的方式。通过使用日记条目和讨论，我们从更社会公正的角度探索了学习新思维方式和与个人共事的过程。

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Journal of Progressive Human Services SOCIAL WORK-

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3.20

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8.30%

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期刊介绍： The only journal of its kind in the United States, the Journal of Progressive Human Services covers political, social, personal, and professional problems in human services from a progressive perspective. The journal stimulates debate about major social issues and contributes to the development of the analytical tools needed for building a caring society based on equality and justice. The journal"s contributors examine oppressed and vulnerable groups, struggles by workers and clients on the job and in the community, dilemmas of practice in conservative contexts, and strategies for ending racism, sexism, ageism, heterosexism, and discrimination of persons who are disabled and psychologically distressed.