http://hdl.handle.net/10179/3223 Tue, 23 Jan 2018 17:00:27 GMT 2018-01-23T17:00:27Z http://mro.massey.ac.nz:80/bitstream/id/9953/ http://hdl.handle.net/10179/3223 http://hdl.handle.net/10179/3389 Refereed Proceedings of Doing Psychology: Manawatu Doctoral Research Symposium 2011 Busch, Robbie; Rogerson, Ann © Copyright 2011. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 New Zealand License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/nz/ Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10179/3389 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10179/3388 Making Sense of Epistemological Conflict in the Evaluation of Narrative Therapy and Evidence-Based Psychotherapy Busch, Robbie; Strong, Tom; Lock, Andy This paper outlines the epistemological and theoretical formation of narrative therapy and implications for its evaluation. Two authoritative paradigms of psychotherapy evaluation have emerged in psychology since the mid- 1990s. The Clinical Division of the American Psychological Association established the empirically supported treatment (EST) movement. A more inclusive but medically emulative model of evidence based practice in psychology (EBPP) then emerged. Some therapies such as narrative therapy do not share the theoretical commitments of these paradigms. Narrative therapy is an approach that values a non-expert based, collaborative, political and contextual stance to practice that is critical of normalising practices of medical objectification and reductionism. Post-positivist theoretical influences constitute narrative therapy as a practice that values the social production and multiplicity of meaning. This paper problematises a conflictual relationship (a differend) between the evaluation of narrative therapy and evidence based psychotherapy. Firstly, it briefly outlines the EST and EBPP paradigms and their epistemology. This paper then provides an overview of some of the key epistemological and theoretical underpinnings of narrative therapy and concludes with some cautionary notes on its evaluation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10179/3388 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10179/3387 The Problem with Death: Towards a Genealogy of Euthanasia Ryan, Anne; Morgan, Mandy; Lyons, Antonia A hugely contentious issue in society today is whether individuals have the right to choose when and how to die. The ethics, legality and morality of euthanasia have been hotly debated in many countries around the world. However, the phenomenon of euthanasia has not just emerged recently, on the contrary a wide ranging and diverse network of events have all played some part in our present day understanding. This paper presents a genealogical analysis, an overview of a Foucauldian ‘history of the present’, that addresses the issue of how euthanasia has emerged as a possible solution to terminal illness. It examines the conditions present at particular periods of time and a specific, but disorderly collection of incidents that have allowed our present constructions of euthanasia to come about. This focus recognizes the intrinsic relationship between discourse, knowledge and power as the construction of particular discourses of euthanasia that may prevail in our society today, and are accepted as ‘common sense,’ provide the potential to act in certain ways, while marginalizing alternative practices. This genealogy challenges both the origins and functions of our present day ‘knowledge’ regarding euthanasia and the assumptions of self-evidence and inevitability that accompany prevailing discourses. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10179/3387 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10179/3386 Care as a Contemporary Paradox in a Global Market Rogerson, Ann; Morgan, Mandy; Coombes, Leigh The contemporary mother faces difficult choices when deciding whether to be either a ‘stay at home’ or a ‘working mother’. Conflicting discourses of good and bad mothering revolve around a political divide under pressure, one that territorialises the public and private domains. Gilligan (1982) famously highlighted the existence of these domains by challenging Kohlberg’s findings that men were endowed with higher moral reasoning powers than women. Disappointed by what she identified as the masculinist bias of Kohlberg’s work, Gilligan conducted her own research, finding that men and women reasoned differently but equitably. Gilligan’s thesis now theoretically informs a feminist ethics of care that has reputedly transformed political spatial boundaries of the public and private domains, domains traditionally gendered as masculine and feminine. Yet the ‘care’ that Gilligan has drawn our attention to is seemingly a new phenomenon. Appearing in language around the same time as the birth of Gilligan’s feminist ethics and indeed amidst the growing dilemma of the working mother, this care shows no visible sign of its maternal origins. In this paper, I attempt to define and locate care amidst the dismantling of the spatial divide that separates the public and private, a dismantling that coincides with the commodification of care within a global market. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10179/3386 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z