Caring for a child with disabilities: a psychosocial case study

Saville Young, Lisa; Berry, Jessie

Title: Caring for a child with disabilities: a psychosocial case study
Creator: Saville Young, Lisa, Berry, Jessie
Date: 2015
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/143860
Identifier: vital:38289
Identifier: https://ischp.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/ischp_2015_abstract_booklet.pdf
Description: This paper presents a psychosocial analysis of an interview with a mother of a child with disabilities. A psychosocial perspective (conceptualizing the subject as both discursively and psychically constituted) has been argued for recently in critical disability studies by Goodley (2011) who advocates for psychoanalysis’ rich vocabulary for affective processes to explore the emotional elements of disablism, where disablism refers to ways in which society discriminates against people with disabilities (‘barriers out there’). While rejecting the use of psychoanalytic theory to pathologise and individualise people with disabilities, Goodley argues that how “oppression is felt psychically, subjectively and emotionally” (p.716) (‘barriers in here’) should not be overlooked, alongside subjectivity as always socially, politically, culturally and economically produced. This psychosocial analysis of a carer’s perspective thickens our understanding of how the caregiver is a social being, both not disabled but at the receiving end of disablism, and an interpersonal subject who may also be an ‘agent’ or ‘carrier’ of disablism.
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: International Society of Critical Health Psychology (ISCHP), Saville Young, L. and Berry, J., 2015. Caring for a child with disabilities: A psychosocial case study. International Society of Critical Health Psychology (ISCHP). 9th Biennial Conference, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, International Society of Critical Health Psychology (ISCHP) volume 2015 number 0 2015
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