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Construction of adult life course and identity has typically been built around norms of partnering and parenting, placing single women who do not have children outside the norm. Studies undertaken with single women have found that relationship status was a key factor in their identity construction. In this study, we conducted semi-structured interviews with five single women without children living in Australia. Drawing on critical discursive psychology, we found that participants negotiated two contesting discourses to construct their identities: the Heterosexual Relationship and Family Life discourse and the Independent Single Woman discourse. In crafting identities, tensions were identified between the positioning of self and the positioning of self by others, particularly with respect to the Heterosexual Relationship and Family Life discourse. This was evident in some women contesting the positions afforded by the discourse, instead drawing on an asset identity. This asset identity enabled the women to pursue positive life opportunities.

For families with limited opportunities for face-to-face interaction, social media can be a vital communication medium to help shape the family identity, maintain bonds, and accomplish shared tasks. This mixed-methods systematic review of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method empirical studies published between 1997 and 2019 uses a convergent data-based framework to explore how long-distance families engage in family practices using various modes of social media. Fifty-one papers were synthesized into four domains: (1) doing family in a social media environment, (2) performing family through stories and rituals, (3) the nature of online communication practices, and (4) privacy, conflict, and the quality of family relationships. Given the value of patterned routines to families, research into the role of family kinkeepers is suggested. Finally, families use chat (messages) extensively for both assuring behaviour and conflict resolution so further investigation of the impact of this asynchronous mode is recommended.

Introducing normative and different childhoods, developmental trajectory and transgression / Lindsay O'Dell, Charlotte Brownlow, & Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist -- Deconstructing ?developmental tasks -- Exploring leisure, hobbies and special interests : the constructive role of special interests for children with asd / Georgena Ryder & Charlotte Brownlow -- Beyond boy and girl : gender variance in childhood and adolescence / Katherine Johnson -- Becoming a popular girl : exploring constructions of friendships in teen magazines / Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist & Charlotte Brownlow -- Locating development -- The failed child of the failing mother? : situating the development of child eating practices and the scrutiny of maternal foodwork / Maxine Woolhouse -- Family relationships and troubled masculinities : the experience of young men in contact with social care services / Martin Robb, Brid Featherstone, Sandy Ruxton, & Michael Ward -- Beyond vulnerability : working with children who have experienced domestic violence / Jane Callaghan, Joanne Alexander, & Lisa Fellin -- The limits of childhood -- Independent migrant children, humanitarian work and statecraft : mapping the connections in south africa / Stanford Mahati & Ingrid Palmary -- Working children / Lindsay O?Dell, Sarah Crafter, Guida de Abreu, & Tony Cline -- Parricides, school shootings and child soldiers : constructing criminological phenomena in the context of children who kill / Amanda Holt -- Conclusion: theorising transgressive developmental trajectories and understanding children seen as "different" / Lindsay O'Dell, Charlotte Brownlow, & Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist

"Different Childhoods: Non/Normative Development and Transgressive Trajectories opens up new avenues for exploring children's development as contextual, provisional and locally produced, rather than a unitary, universal and consistent process. This edited collection frames a critical exploration of the trajectory against which children are seen to be 'different' within three key themes: deconstructing 'developmental tasks', locating development and the limits of childhood. Examining the particular kinds of 'transgressive' development, contributors discuss instances of 'difference' including migration, work, assumptions of vulnerability, trans childhoods, friendships and involvement in crime. Including both empirical and theoretical discussions, the book builds on existing debates as part of the interrogation of 'different childhoods'. This book provides essential reading for students wishing to explore notions of development while also being of interest to both academics and practitioners working across a broad area of disciplines such as developmental psychology, sociology, childhood studies and critical criminology."--Provided by publisher.

Chapter 1. Introduction – situating the scholarship and identifying the issues (Tanya Machin and Charlotte Brownlow) -- Chapter 2. Technology use of children 0-6: A diary study (Kylie Laing, Tanya Machin, Michelle Adamson, and Kristen Lovric) -- Chapter 3. Talkin' bout my generation: The utility of different age cohorts to predict antisocial behaviour on social media (Molly Branson, Evita March, and Jessica Z. Marrington) -- Chapter 4. The impact of ease of online self-expression during adolescence on identity in young adulthood (Jaimee Stuart, Riley Scott, Karlee O'Donnell, and Paul E Jose) -- Chapter 5. Communication, social support, and families (Susan Abel and John Gilmour) -- Chapter 6. Making links Between telehealth, work, and caring responsibilities (Fiona Russo and Shalene Werth) -- Chapter 7. The effects of Facebook based social support on health across metropolitan and regional Australians (John Gilmour, Carla Jeffries, Tanya Machin and Charlotte Brownlow) -- Chapter 8. What grief isn't: Dead grief concepts and their digital-age revival (Morna O'Connor and Elaine Kaskett) -- Chapter 9. Final reflections (Charlotte Brownlow and Tanya Machin).

AbstractModels that conceptualize family are employed by psychologists, governments, legislators, and policymakers to inform professional practice and formulate public policy. However, extant models are notably Western‐centric in both origin and context. Given the cultural diversity of today's globalized world, it is timely to question whether such models can adequately represent populations within their ambit. This paper takes Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems model as one representative way of thinking about family and employs it as the point of contrast with Pacific family arrangements. Particular consideration is given to Indigenous Fijian (iTaukei), Tongan, and Māori perspectives. The model was found to be inadequate for representing Pacific family arrangements. This finding has important implications as it creates a space for new insights and possibilities. To this end, key family‐related metaphors common among Pacific peoples have been incorporated to conceptualize one potential alternative.

AbstractThe aim of this study was to understand the 'farming life' factors that affect the mental health help‐seeking of farmers. Semi‐structured interviews were completed with 10 farmers, 10 farmers' partners, and eight General Practitioners (GPs), covering mental health help‐seeking. Interview data were then analysed using thematic analysis resulting in three themes: Lifestyle and culture, farming priorities, and the challenges of farming. The findings showed that the lifestyle and culture of farming values traits such as stoicism and self‐reliance, which is ingrained in farmers' identities and appears antithetical to mental health help‐seeking. The farming priorities theme highlighted that farmers are time‐poor and believe mental health help‐seeking to be time‐consuming and an interference to their work, which is their primary priority. Lastly, this research revealed that farming challenges, such as financial volatility, increase the need for help, but can also reduce the ability to seek help. Implications of the findings highlight a need to carefully engage with farming cultures more broadly when seeking to support the mental health of the farming community.

Many of the contemporary treatment recommendations and guides for adapting therapy for men originates from the context of the United States. This qualitative study invited 15 Australian therapists, who advertised themselves as working with men, to describe their recommendations for male-friendly counseling. Three themes and 14 subthemes were identified, each explained from an understanding of their male client group's experiences and common male norms. The themes included ensuring a safe space, to enact masculinity-informed respect, and to enhance client awareness and motivation. Therapists' suggestions for working with Australian men were congruent with recommendations in the existing literature; however, variations were noted in how traditionally masculine or feminine-consistent their emphasis was.