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The vagina problem: a step too far in parent-child sex communication with young children
(2024)Parents describe a want for better sex education for their young children compared to their own myth and silence-led experiences while growing up. However, introducing the vagina has proved a challenging step too far for ... -
Putting outcomes into practice: The implementation of a framework of outcomes measures within a child and family service
(2024)Of utmost concern for effective child protection and child and family services is evidence-based practice. There is an onus of accountability on providers of therapeutic services to establish the merit and cost efficiency ... -
New-Materialist Bricolage: Presenting an Ontological Position for Qualitative Internet-Based Research
(2024)The purpose of this paper is to make a novel contribution to new-materialist approaches, toward advancing existing ontological debates. We present a new-materialist bricolage method that was developed from an existing ... -
Pregnant Box: What Happens When Opera Enacts an Embodied Analysis of Concealing Pregnancy
(Bloomsbury Academic, 2023)This chapter discusses a project that originated as policy-commissioned research initiated by Health Service practitioners to address concerns about recurring presentations of ‘concealed pregnancy’ to health care settings ... -
Disability in Narrative Inquiry: A Case of Methodologically Unusable Data from a Participant with Intellectual Disability
(2024)This paper considers methodological and ethical implications of qualitative interview data that was deemed unusable for research analytic purposes, where the interviewee had an intellectual disability. Critical disability ...