My heart is beaming for you Rebecca! Thank YOU, thank YOU, thank YOU for all you do for us! I can't imagine the courage it took for you to persevere! YOU are a shining STAR to me!
Thank you for your perseverance Rebecca! Congrats again! I am SO glad your outstanding work has come to fruition. It will be so very helpful in making more mental health clinicians aware of this damaging form of abuse. Yes it’s laughable (and harmful) that some PhD’s deem people’s lived experience not important or credible when those very same views are often at the core of Family Scapegoat Abuse.
Thank you, Lavada. Laughable, annoying, and sad - yet understandable, given the scientific, evidence-based paradigm that the health system is wrapped up within. Including Mental Health systems.
Appreciate it, Pamela. I certainly have been internally driven to promote the reality of FSA, and there are many reasons for that. Without experiencing FSA myself, I'm not sure I would have been so motivated to prove the clinical and human reality of this phenomenon. So making lemonade out of lemons, perhaps - not just for myself, but for all FSA survivors as we are an overlooked group in the Mental Health field - tragically so. I love the first two sentences here that you wrote. You nailed it - and so succinctly. Thank you.
Yes! FG well said! Congratulations! This is exciting news and well deserved acknowledgment of all your hard work and research. It astounds me PhDs - who are probably SG themselves - are invalidating of your research. I can imagine some days were hard and yet you persevered bc you know your truth thats badass!! Thank you! You are supported here.
Congratulations for the achievement! As an anthropologist, I feel deeply what you mean by qualitative studies being disregarded as less of a science (anthropology even more, I feel, than psychology). However, subjectivity is present both in qualitative and quantitative studies. It is weather and how we achnowledge and address it that makes the difference, I think. Numbers are more attractive than "thick writing". But both are important. Thank you for all your work! I learn so much in every new article! Much gratitude
My heart is beaming for you Rebecca! Thank YOU, thank YOU, thank YOU for all you do for us! I can't imagine the courage it took for you to persevere! YOU are a shining STAR to me!
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Couldn't put it better myself Fierce Goat, I second everything you say !
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Thank you for your perseverance Rebecca! Congrats again! I am SO glad your outstanding work has come to fruition. It will be so very helpful in making more mental health clinicians aware of this damaging form of abuse. Yes it’s laughable (and harmful) that some PhD’s deem people’s lived experience not important or credible when those very same views are often at the core of Family Scapegoat Abuse.
Thank you, Lavada. Laughable, annoying, and sad - yet understandable, given the scientific, evidence-based paradigm that the health system is wrapped up within. Including Mental Health systems.
Your work is giving me a courage.I didn't know I had and i'm just beginning! Congratulations on a munch deserved accolade!
Thank you, Jan. Very glad you're here!
Medicine is a science and as such has a lopsided preference for the quantifiable, the easily measurable.
The problem is when research is looking into things that aren't.
I've always known this was true when it came to so-called IQ tests. Most of which overly rely on the easily quantifiable, like spatial reasoning.
But how sloppy and impossible it would be if IQ tests tried to include things such as "survival skills in an oppressive circumstance."
Or the creative adaptations, problem solving necessary to survive, adapt to chronic stressors.
Rebecca, you are truly a powerhouse for all you've accomplished.
Thank you.
Appreciate it, Pamela. I certainly have been internally driven to promote the reality of FSA, and there are many reasons for that. Without experiencing FSA myself, I'm not sure I would have been so motivated to prove the clinical and human reality of this phenomenon. So making lemonade out of lemons, perhaps - not just for myself, but for all FSA survivors as we are an overlooked group in the Mental Health field - tragically so. I love the first two sentences here that you wrote. You nailed it - and so succinctly. Thank you.
Congratulations and thank you. This is amazing and a well-deserved moment of validation for you.
Thank you, Brooke - Yes, and ultimately validation for us ALL (as FSA survivors).
Yes! FG well said! Congratulations! This is exciting news and well deserved acknowledgment of all your hard work and research. It astounds me PhDs - who are probably SG themselves - are invalidating of your research. I can imagine some days were hard and yet you persevered bc you know your truth thats badass!! Thank you! You are supported here.
Congratulations for the achievement! As an anthropologist, I feel deeply what you mean by qualitative studies being disregarded as less of a science (anthropology even more, I feel, than psychology). However, subjectivity is present both in qualitative and quantitative studies. It is weather and how we achnowledge and address it that makes the difference, I think. Numbers are more attractive than "thick writing". But both are important. Thank you for all your work! I learn so much in every new article! Much gratitude