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the paper presents preliminary qualitative analysis of data from a dissertation
study exploring the interaction between two types of
discourse in a community mental health setting. transcript data has
been collected from a literature reading group formed to investigate
interactions of mental health discourse with literary/poetic discourse.
this work investigates a liberatory approach to narrative psychotherapy
suggested by Ricoeur’s contention that when people engage with
stories, they realize the possibility of telling and living their own stories
differently. Other theoretical influences include Bakhtin’s notion
of the centrifugalizing force of novelization, Deleuze and Guattari’s
notion of the deterritorializing possibilities of the text-reader assemblage,
and Gaston Bachelard’s phenomenological work on the poetic
imagination. Discourse, narrative, and conversation analytic methods
are employed in the investigation.
PANEL B: ELABORATING TRANSFORMATIVE RESEARCH AND
ACTION IN CRITICAL COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY: THE
CONTRIBUTION OF QUALITATIVE METHODS
Inuit Community Action for Suicide Prevention in the High Arctic
Michael Kral, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Suicide among Indigenous youth in the circumpolar Arctic is at an epidemic
level. Interventions by government and outside organizations
have had no effect on a rising suicide rate in Arctic Canada. When
Inuit communities have themselves developed programs and activities
for youth well-being, suicides have usually stopped in their communities.
I have been documenting and helping with this community
action, usually by youth, and will provide examples of such community
success stories. the reclamation of control by Inuit is part of a
global indigenism of human rights. Critical community psychology is
participating in Inuit community research and action with qualitative
and participatory methods, and influencing Indigenous mental health
policy in Canada.
Critical Community Psychology and Qualitative Methods
Geoffrey Nelson, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
this paper describes the intersection between critical psychology and
community psychology. Based on this integration, a theoretical
approach is advanced that is: (a) driven by values of power-sharing
and social justice, (b) rooted in a paradigm of pragmatism and empowerment,
and (c) praxis-oriented, emphasizing researchers working
with oppressed people to create transformative social change (nelson
& Prilleltensky, 2010). My argument is that qualitative research, by
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