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Epistemic injustice in experiences of young people with parents with mental health challenges
Yates, Scott Gladstone, Brenda Foster, Kim Narelle Silvén Hagström, Anneli Reupert, Andrea O’Dea, Lotti Cuff, Rose McGaw, Violette Hine, Rochelle
Yates, Scott
Gladstone, Brenda
Foster, Kim Narelle
Silvén Hagström, Anneli
Reupert, Andrea
O’Dea, Lotti
Cuff, Rose
McGaw, Violette
Hine, Rochelle
Abstract
Amongst the impacts of growing up with a parent with mental health challenges is the experience of stigma-by-association, in which children and young people experience impacts of stigmatisation due to their parent’s devalued identity. This article seeks to expand our understanding of this issue through an abductive analysis of qualitative data collected through a codesign process with young people. Results indicate that young people’s experiences of stigmatisation can be effectively understood as experiences of epistemic injustice. Participants expressed that their experiences comprised ‘more than’ stigma, and their responses suggest the centrality to their experiences of being diminished and dismissed in respect of their capacity to provide accurate accounts of their experiences of marginalisation and distress. Importantly, this diminishment stems not only from their status as children, and as children of parents with mental health challenges but operates through a range of stigmatised identities and devalued statuses, including their own mental health status, sexual minoritisation, disability and social class. Forms of epistemic injustice thus play out across the social and institutional settings they engage with. The psychological and social impacts of this injustice are explored, and the implications for our understanding of stigma around family mental health discussed.
Keywords
abductive inquiry, codesign, epistemic injustice, mental health, parental mental health, stigma
Date
2023
Type
Journal article
Journal
Book
Volume
Issue
Page Range
1-20
Article Number
ACU Department
School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine
Faculty of Health Sciences
Faculty of Health Sciences
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Open Access Status
Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access
License
CC BY 4.0
File Access
Open
Notes
© 2023 The Authors. Sociology of Health & Illness published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Foundation for the Sociology of Health & Illness.
This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.