Nothing about us without us: civic activism as a mental health intervention

没有我们就没有我们：公民行动作为心理健康干预

• 批准号: MR/T046546/1
• 负责人: Angie Hart
• 金额: $ 12.82万
• 依托单位: University of Brighton
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR%2FT046546%2F1
• 关键词: Nothing; about; us; without; civic

Research, including some that we have done, says other ways of improving young people's mental health might be just as good, if not better, than current mental health services. This project would explore another way. Does getting involved in 'civic activism' benefit young people (YP for short) who face many disadvantages? 'Civic activism' means doing community projects together that make not just our own individual lives better; but other YP's too. It involves developing what university researchers call our 'civic identity'. This involves feeling we belong to a community whether face to face, online or both -'glocal' communities is what academics call them. Our hunch is that creating belonging through civic activism could help us have positive identities. We think adolescence, a word used to describe the age group between 11-25 years old, is the ideal time for this support because we are developing identity as we move out of childhood. Research tells us that a strong and positive identity offers us direction in life and indicates that we matter in the world. All this is good for our current and future mental health. We know civic activism needs researching because in Blackpool we have already had success experimenting with a new way of supporting YP's mental health. This is based on an approach to resilience that is about 'Beating the Odds and Changing the Odds' which we call Boingboing Resilience. Our approach helps us build our own resilience as well as challenge the disadvantages that increase risks in the first place. This project would help us build on that work and share it with other YP and their adult supporters in Cornwall and Newham. These are other areas facing big challenges. We also want to learn from Newham and Cornwall's YP's work, including on climate change activism. Our new and equal partnership of co-researchers come from different generations, professions and backgrounds; YP facing many disadvantages, adult community researchers, academics and mental health professionals. What we will do1. Our new research will survey 300 YP in Blackpool, Newham and Cornwall. This will test survey questions already available about YP's identity, civic activism and mental health. We will involve YP with learning difficulties because they often get left out. 2. We will do a 'literature review'. This means exploring what academics worldwide have already published on building YP's positive identities against the odds. This includes resilience, mental health and civic activism aimed at improving mental health. 3. We will organise and run a big meeting (a 'networking summit') and invite lots of people interested in our work and who have influence. Young co-researchers will present the literature review findings with adults and we will motivate people to do a new big bid together. 4. Blackpool, Brighton, Newham and Cornwall team members will plan and run 3 events using YP-friendly technologies, co-designed and co-led by YP, including YP with learning difficulties. We call these 'social learning spaces' (SLSs for short). They will find out about: a) YP connecting with their communities' historyb) YP getting actively involved with their present communities, to get involved in making positive changes c) YP actively contributing to their communities' future through civic activism.5. With everyone's permission, we will record what happens in the SLSs. This will be written up as 'findings'. The findings will help us plan a civic activist approach (called an intervention framework). We will share work in academic publications but also in ways that more people can understand it, including on the internet. With more people joining in, together we will write a big bid so we can test our civic activism intervention framework.

包括我们所做的一些研究在内的研究表明，改善年轻人心理健康的其他方法即使不比目前的心理健康服务更好，也可能同样好。该项目将探索另一种方式。参与“公民行动主义”是否有利于面临许多不利条件的年轻人（简称YP）？“公民行动主义”意味着一起做社区项目，不仅让我们自己的个人生活更好，也让其他YP的生活更好。它涉及发展大学研究人员所说的“公民身份”。这包括感觉我们属于一个社区，无论是面对面的，在线的还是两者兼而有之--学者们称之为“全球本地化”社区。我们的直觉是，通过公民行动主义创造归属感可以帮助我们拥有积极的身份。我们认为青春期，一个用来描述11-25岁年龄组的词，是这种支持的理想时间，因为我们正在发展身份，因为我们走出童年。研究告诉我们，一个强大而积极的身份为我们的生活提供了方向，并表明我们在世界上很重要。这对我们现在和未来的心理健康都有好处。我们知道公民行动主义需要研究，因为在布莱克浦，我们已经成功地试验了一种支持YP心理健康的新方法。这是基于一种关于“击败赔率和改变赔率”的弹性方法，我们称之为Boingboing弹性。我们的方法帮助我们建立自己的韧性，并首先挑战增加风险的劣势。这个项目将帮助我们在这项工作的基础上，并与其他YP和他们在康沃尔和纽汉的成年支持者分享。这些是面临巨大挑战的其他领域。我们也想从纽汉和康沃尔的YP的工作，包括对气候变化的行动。我们的合作研究人员的新的和平等的伙伴关系来自不同的世代，专业和背景; YP面临着许多劣势，成人社区研究人员，学者和心理健康专业人员。我们将做什么1我们的新研究将调查布莱克浦、纽汉和康沃尔的300名青年。这将测试已经存在的关于YP的身份、公民活动和心理健康的调查问题。我们会让有学习困难的YP参与进来，因为他们经常被遗漏。2.我们会做一个“文学评论”。这意味着探索世界各地的学者已经发表了什么关于建立YP的积极身份的赔率。这包括复原力、心理健康和旨在改善心理健康的公民活动。3.我们将组织和运行一个大型会议（“网络峰会”），并邀请许多对我们的工作感兴趣的人和有影响力的人。年轻的合作研究人员将与成年人一起展示文献综述的发现，我们将激励人们一起做一个新的大出价。4.布莱克浦、布莱顿、纽汉和康沃尔的团队成员将使用YP友好的技术规划和运行3项活动，由YP共同设计和共同领导，包括学习困难的YP。我们称之为“社会学习空间”（简称SLS）。他们会发现：a）青年党与他们社区的历史联系b）青年党积极参与他们现在的社区，参与做出积极的改变c）青年党积极通过公民活动为他们社区的未来做出贡献。如果大家同意的话，我们会记录下SLS中发生的事情。这将被记录为“发现”。调查结果将帮助我们规划公民活动家方法（称为干预框架）。我们将在学术出版物上分享工作，但也会以更多人可以理解的方式分享，包括在互联网上。随着越来越多的人加入，我们将一起写一个大的出价，这样我们就可以测试我们的公民行动干预框架。