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“I look forward. I feel insecure but I am ok with it”. The experience of young HIV+ people attending transition preparation events: a qualitative investigation
- Author:
- CAMPBELL Tomas
- Journal article citation:
- AIDS Care, 22(2), February 2010, pp.263-269.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Transition programmes (moving young people from child-centred to adult-oriented health care) that help prepare young people with HIV to manage the medical, social and psychological consequences of the condition can provide clinical benefits for both young people and their families. The London-based Looking Forward Project (LFP), set within a NHS HIV family clinic, uses a group work approach and aims to provide HIV positive young people over the age of 12, who know their status, with the emotional, psychological and behavioural skills necessary to face the challenges of living with HIV. This small qualitative study investigated the experience of attendance, explored the factors which facilitated participation in the groups and investigated the impact on their lives as a result of participation. Most participants reported that the LFP events were educational but different to school-like activities, and that being with other young people reduced isolation and that receiving a voucher was an incentive to attend. Participation was facilitated through family support. Attendance at the LFP facilitated a positive attitude towards medication and hope for the future.
A review of the psychological effects of vertically acquired HIV infection in infants and children
- Author:
- CAMPBELL Tomas
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Health Psychology, 2(1), 1997, pp.1-13, 1997.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Looks at how mother to child transmission of HIV is the main source of paediatric HIV in the UK and worldwide. Neurological and associated conditions are common in children and frequently take the form of developmental delay, neurological symptoms, specific cognitive difficulties and sometimes behavioural problems. However, there are a growing number of children who survive for longer, due in part to advances in medical understanding, but in whom visio-spatial and language problems are common. Examines the possible cause other than HIV.
The social model of disability as an oppositional device
- Authors:
- BECKETT Angharad E., CAMPBELL Tomas
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 30(2), 2015, pp.270-283.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article engages with debates about the UK Disabled People’s Movement’s ‘Big Idea’ – the social model of disability – positioning this as an ‘oppositional device’. This concept is adapted from the work of the art theorist and activist Brian Holmes, elaborated using insights from Foucault and others. The model’s primary operation is introducing contingency into the present, facilitating disabled people’s resistance-practices. The authors recognise, however, that the device can operate in a disciplinary manner when adopted by a machinery of government. Whilst the primary goal is to understand the character and operation of the social model, by providing a more general definition of an oppositional device as the concrete operation of technologies of power, the authors also propose a concept potentially useful for the analysis of the resistance-practices of activists involved in a wide variety of struggles. This concept may thus have implications for wider social and political analysis. (Edited publisher abstract)
Preparing HIV-positive young people for the challenges of adult life: a group-work approach
- Authors:
- WILKINS Rebecca, CAMPBELL Tomas, BEER Hannah
- Journal article citation:
- AIDS and Hepatitis Digest, 119, May 2007, pp.1-3.
- Publisher:
- Royal Society of Medicine Press
The improved life expectancy of children born with HIV means that HIV services now face the challenge of developing mechanisms for helping young people with the transition from paediatric or family services to adult-centred health care. This article briefly describes a project in the London Borough of Newham to facilitate the transition of young people between services and to help prepare them for the challenge of adult life. The project took the form of 'Looking Forward' days for small groups of clients and was run by a multi-disciplinary team.