Yes Craig and fellow list members
Dr Sue Roffey (Adjunct Fellow, Uni of Western Sydney) meeting may or may
not address these matters
It is Thursday 5th July 7.00 to 9.00 on the Birmingham side of Derby
(Venue to be confirmed. I will email after the weekend)
Sue wrote an interesting piece in June 2007 DECP 'DEBATE' :
"Oppositional - Yes, defiant - yes, disordered - who says?"
Maybe see you there.
Keith Venables
Subject: [EPNET] "Most disablement is created by oppressive social
systems"
Isn't labelling children part of that? What about the self-fulfilling
prophecy, the power of attribution, the calling out of behaviours? Do
we forget that when we use constructs such as ADHD, OCD, ASD, How Did,
do-di-do-di-do, miniMe, RAD, BAD, SAD, FAD. How do ensure that the
contribution of psychology sits outside of the oppression? How many of
these labels are simply to assuage the anxieties, or act as a rhetorical
backdrop for the needs, of an adult? Parental guilt, professional power,
hierarchy and status....maintaining the status quo....
Isn't all this mental health deficit vocabulary just all pure non-sense?
Whose needs does it really serve? Can someone tell me? And...been
thinking about our history (EPs, UK) of entering into a discourse of
segregation, built on a foundation of the use of closed tests.
What has been the costs of all of that?
How does your work build hope and possibilities?
So have a little look at this, when you have 5 mins-
http://www.selfdirection.org/dat/training?cmd=guest&p=%2Fcourse01%2Fwelc
ome.html
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