All Outputs (5)

“Nothing's changed, baby”: How the mental health narratives of people with multiple and complex needs disrupt the recovery framework (2023)
Journal Article
Llewellyn-Beardsley, J., Rennick-Egglestone, S., Callard, F., Pollock, K., Slade, M., & Edgley, A. (2023). “Nothing's changed, baby”: How the mental health narratives of people with multiple and complex needs disrupt the recovery framework. SSM - Mental Health, 3, Article 100221. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmmh.2023.100221

The dominant narrative in mental health policy and practice has shifted in the 21st century from one of chronic ill health to a ‘recovery’ orientation. Knowledge of recovery is based on narratives of people with lived experience of mental distress. H... Read More about “Nothing's changed, baby”: How the mental health narratives of people with multiple and complex needs disrupt the recovery framework.

‘Maybe I Shouldn’t Talk’: The Role of Power in the Telling of Mental Health Recovery Stories (2022)
Journal Article
Llewellyn-Beardsley, J., Rennick-Egglestone, S., Pollock, K., Ali, Y., Watson, E., Franklin, D., …Edgley, A. (2022). ‘Maybe I Shouldn’t Talk’: The Role of Power in the Telling of Mental Health Recovery Stories. Qualitative Health Research, 32(12), 1828-1842. https://doi.org/10.1177/10497323221118239

Mental health ‘recovery narratives’ are increasingly used within teaching, learning and practice environments. The mainstreaming of their use has been critiqued by scholars and activists as a co-option of lived experience for organisational purposes.... Read More about ‘Maybe I Shouldn’t Talk’: The Role of Power in the Telling of Mental Health Recovery Stories.

“I don’t have any emotions”: An ethnography of emotional labour and feeling rules in the emergency department (2021)
Journal Article
Kirk, K., Cohen, L., Edgley, A., & Timmons, S. (2021). “I don’t have any emotions”: An ethnography of emotional labour and feeling rules in the emergency department. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 77(4), 1956-1967. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.14765

Aims: This study aims to apply Hochschild's theory of emotional labour to emergency care, and uncover the 'specialty-specific' feeling rules driving this labour. Despite the importance of positive nurse wellbeing, the emotional labour of nursing (a g... Read More about “I don’t have any emotions”: An ethnography of emotional labour and feeling rules in the emergency department.

‘Socialised care futility’ in the care of older people in hospital who call out repetitively: an ethnographic study (2020)
Journal Article
Beaver, J., Goldberg, S. E., Edgley, A., & Harwood, R. (2020). ‘Socialised care futility’ in the care of older people in hospital who call out repetitively: an ethnographic study. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 107, Article 103589. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2020.103589

Background People living with dementia may call out repetitively, sometimes called disruptive vocalisation, or verbal agitation. In literature and policy, patients who call out repetitively are assumed to be expressing an unmet need, which should... Read More about ‘Socialised care futility’ in the care of older people in hospital who call out repetitively: an ethnographic study.

The experiences of spirituality among adults with mental health difficulties: a qualitative systematic review (2019)
Journal Article
Milner, K., Crawford, P., Edgley, A., Hare-Duke, L., & Slade, M. (2019). The experiences of spirituality among adults with mental health difficulties: a qualitative systematic review. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 29, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1017/s2045796019000234

Aims Despite an increasing awareness of the importance of spirituality in mental health contexts, a ‘religiosity gap’ exists in the difference in value placed on spirituality and religion by professionals compared with service users. This may be du... Read More about The experiences of spirituality among adults with mental health difficulties: a qualitative systematic review.