Dear Angela.


She needs to be both honest, transparent and respectful.


So she will have to explain what she hopes to get out of the research. Does she hope to receive knowledge from young kids on how they cope with life in school? Or: How they got fat? I know she would never use that language, but that is the point: That she needs to know the narrative approach and respect. It is not so much not being intruisive, but honestly being interested in their children-wisdom, curious. So she needs to step in to the narrative spirit, then she will know how to phrase the consent form.


Also she has to acknowledge that any interaction has the potential of being therapeutic, and doing collaborative research with children is immensely gratifying. Kids who are overweight knows this. So she should step into a respectful position and talk with them about who they are and who they want to be. Ask them how they experience their body, their relationship with their body, their attitudes towards skinnyness and obesity etc.


Is this in any way helpful?


Br Nina Tejs Jørring


Med venlig hilsen
Nina Tejs Jørring
overlæge, supervisor i psykoterapi
Psykoterapeutisk Enhed
Børne- og Ungdomspsykiatrisk Center, Region H
Centervænget 19
3400 Hillerød

nina.tejs.joerring@regionh.dk
 
Fra: list-manager@psychotherapyresearch.org <list-manager@psychotherapyresearch.org> på vegne af Angela Abela <angela.abela@um.edu.mt>
Sendt: 11. maj 2016 08:29
Til: caftr@psychotherapyresearch.org
Emne: CaFTR Ethical Dilemma
 
Hello everybody:))

I have an ethical dilemma Which I would like to share with you. One of my clinical trainees, is interested in carrying out a piece of research on children who are obese and food insecure from a resilience perspective.

She would like to seek the children's consent for the study... In terms of her methodology, she will adopt a narrative ethnography ... her method of inquiry is not intrusive...she will be asking them for stories and will also be observing them in the school context.

Can she simply tell them that she would like to study their lives and gloss over obesity and food insecurity in her request for their consent? How does one reconcile non intrusive research with transparency with  children aged 8?

Thanks for any ideas

Angela
-- 
Professor Angela Abela PhD
Department of Family Studies
Faculty for Social Wellbeing
University of Malta


Website http://www.um.edu.mt/socialwellbeing/familystudies

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