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Ethics & Politics of Family Research: Salient Issues and Psychopolitical Validity

This research explores the ethical issues and psychopolitical validity in family research, and discusses the need for transformational actions to reduce power inequalities. It also addresses particular ethical issues in longitudinal contact and the importance of feedback and dissemination of findings.

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Ethics & Politics of Family Research: Salient Issues and Psychopolitical Validity

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  1. The Ethics & Politics of Family Research: Salient issues and Psychopolitical validity Family Research Meeting Roskilde University 29th October, 2010 Rashmi Singla Cand.Psych., Ph.D. Specialist in Psychotherapy Associate Professor Department of Psychology & Educational Research Roskilde University

  2. Agenda • Background • Salient Ethical Issues • Issues of psycho-political validity • Conclusion

  3. Background: Earlier research projects “Youth Relationships, Ethnicity and Psychosocial Intervention” “Pardannelse blandt ethniske minoritetsunge i Danmark” “Now & Then: Life Trajectories & Diasporic Identities” A follow up study (Singla, 2004, Singla, 2006, Singla, 2008) Current project • Intermarriage, Children of Mixed Parentage and Mental Health: Transnationalism, Everyday life and life course perspectives

  4. Ethical Issues • Access dynamics - ‘Gatekeeper’ issues • Distance/closeness perspectives - merits and perils of ‘ethnic/family position matching’

  5. Ethical Issues • Informed Consent - how much and how precise information? • Anonymity and confidentiality - limitations of anonymity? • Right to knowledge of the findings - extent of knowledge? • Right to Remedial Services - pragmatics and economics?

  6. Control of employment opportunities - research freedom? Control of publication channels - power of bibliometrical measures? Control of research funding - ‘ordered research projects’? Political concerns in research

  7. Issues of psycho-political validity (i) Psycho-political validity to ensure • Research and action incorporate lessons about psychological and political power (Prilleltensky, 2007) • Psycho-political validity - Epistemic - oppression and liberation, at the personal, relational as well as collective domains - role of power in the life world, psychopolitical empowerment of the research participants

  8. Issues of psycho-political validity (ii) • Psycho-political validity - Transformational: Transformational validity derives from the potential of our actions to reduce power inequalities and increasing action

  9. Particular ethical issues inLongitudinal contact • Access dynamic - extent of persistence and ’persuation’ • Balance between insider and outsider perspective in context of ethnic matching as well as non-matching • ’Selective’ memory and/or intentional ’amnesia’, dilemma regarding a cue or acceptance

  10. Particular ethical issues in: Longitudinal contact • Providing feedback to the participants related to right to knowledge of the findings - form, extent, effect • Broader dissemination of results, especially the psycho-political validity • Further research and contact…the third wave

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