Mindfulness research and applications in the context of neoliberalism: a narrative and critical review

P Chachignon, E Le Barbenchon… - Social and Personality …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This narrative and critical review outlines the implications of scientific production on
Mindfulness and the widespread diffusion of the practice under neoliberal capitalism. This …

Between rhetoric and reality: Real-world barriers to uptake and early engagement in digital mental health interventions

J Jardine, C Nadal, S Robinson, A Enrique… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Digital mental health interventions (DMHIs) have potential to provide effective and
accessible care to entire populations, but low client uptake and engagement are significant …

“TikTok≠ therapy”: Mediating mental health and algorithmic mood disorders

H Avella - New Media & Society, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Popular and professional psychology merge to produce novel forms on TikTok—a platform
on which therapeutic content grew enormously during the pandemic, rendering it a …

Service user storytelling in social work education: goals, constraints, strategies, and risks

J Voronka, J Grant - Social Work Education, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Social work education increasingly prioritizes including service user narratives as part of
classroom curriculum. Lived experience has also become valorized in health and social …

Exposure to motivational messages promotes meritocratic beliefs and an individualistic perception of social change

A Vázquez, C Reyes Valenzuela… - Social …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Some critics claim that the self-help industry legitimizes inequality by enhancing
individualism and meritocratic beliefs. The present research aims to provide experimental …

The religiosity of the secular: the case of self-help

M Davari-Torshizi - Journal for the Study of Spirituality, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Religious decline is an oft-repeated fact proposed by secularization-based studies. It stems
from the preconceived notion that religion and the secular are against each other. A major …

“Think Positive, Save a Life”? Resilience and Mental Health Interventions as Political Abandonment in a Refugee Settlement in Northern Uganda

C Torre - Civil Wars, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This article investigates the entanglements of resilience-based refugee policies and mental
health interventions in the refugee settlement of Palabek, northern Uganda. I argue that both …

[PDF][PDF] Decentering histories of identity

M Bamberg, M Dege - The Cambridge handbook of identity …, 2021 - wordpress.clarku.edu
The individual, as the basic social unit from which other social organizations and social
relations form, is another system of ideas which needs to be understood as part of the West's …

'Hey lovely! Don't miss this opportunity!'Digital temporalities of wellness culture, email marketing, and the promise of abundance

NA Hendry - Journal of Sociology, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
For the wellness industry, email communication, albeit mundane, remains an essential
practice even as wellness entrepreneurs embrace newer digital technologies. Drawing on …

Like a finely-oiled machine: Self-help and the elusive goal of hormone balance

NA MacKendrick, H Troxel - Social Science & Medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
For over twenty years, medical doctors writing self-help books for major trade publishers
have promoted hormone balance as a desirable physical state, particularly for women. To …