A Preliminary Investigation of Depression in People with Pathological Dissociation

16 pagesDepression is a common and challenging comorbid condition in people with pathological dissociation. To our knowledge, this preliminary study is the first study that has looked at the clinical correlates of depression in a sample of people with pathological dissociation (N = 72). We found that severe depression is common in this sample and that depression is associated with dissociative symptoms, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, borderline personality disorder symptoms and clinical recovery; the level of depression is also associated with both childhood and adulthood betrayal trauma but not with childhood and adulthood trauma with less betrayal. PTSD symptoms are the most significant correlates of the level of depression in this sample. Some clinical implications are discussed. Our initial findings imply that it may be important to manage depression by preventing adulthood betrayal trauma and stabilizing PTSD and dissociative symptoms when working with service users with pathological dissociation. Further studies are needed

The performance of youth voice on the airwaves

This paper uses the case study of a youth-led community radio station, KCC Live, to argue that community radio is not a cure-all solution for disenfranchised and silenced young people. Drawing on 18 months of participant observation at KCC Live and data from in-depth interviews with volunteers, I argue that, owing to institutional constraints by station management; college management; and the regulatory body Ofcom, young people consider the airwaves to be a supervised, as opposed to emancipatory, arena. However, in attempting to combat the restricting nature of the airwaves, young people find new, performative ways to communicate. This paper provides empirical evidence which goes beyond previous simplistic conceptualisations of voice in youth media production and argues that romanticised notions of youth voice preclude performance and creativity. This paper offers an important contribution to children’s geographies in finding that pretend play, characterised by performance, can be considered a ‘life-span activity’

Youth Identities and Media Production In The Digital Age : An Eduacational Case Study In Hong Kong

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The representations of youth in liberal studies student works in Hong Kong

The study explored whether the deficit approach to understanding youth, which has been widely critiqued in contemporary youth studies, could still be a dominant paradigm in the student works of an emerging curriculum emphasizing multiple-perspective thinking. The study analyzed the student works in the Enquiry Study Award Scheme organized by Hong Kong Education City (HKEdCity), which was a region-wide competition awarding Liberal Studies (LS) student projects. The findings indicated that although there were diverse theoretical labels presented by the student works, a deficit approach to understanding youth was still a dominant paradigm. This also implied that negative representations of youth were not merely enforced by authoritative institutional discourses, but were partly supported and endorsed by the students themselves