PSYC 3110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Diabetes Mellitus Type 1, Michel Foucault, Semi-Structured Interview

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3110
• Professor: Kieran O' Doherty

Document Summary

Lay representations of illness: we need to know about these lay representations in the public because we need to know our jumping off point, where people already are, and what we need to fix. Approaches to understanding: cognitive approaches, phenomenological approaches, discursive approaches, social approaches, argument that different approaches work at different levels are complimentary. Intra-psychic (cognitive, phenomenological) stuff that goes on inside their head. Interpersonal (discursive psychology; narrative approaches) how doctors and patients interact, how the interactions lead to certain outcomes: societal (social representations; foucauldian analysis) how illnesses are viewed by society, Increasingly accepting that illness representations are not just individual properties, but they reflect interpersonal and cultural experience: e. g. similarity of representations among family members. Phenomenological approaches: addresses criticisms of the information-processing models. Is (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)er(cid:374)ed (cid:449)ith parti(cid:272)ipa(cid:374)ts" su(cid:271)je(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)es of the (cid:449)orld (cid:894)(cid:374)ot (cid:272)o(cid:374)fir(cid:373)i(cid:374)g the resear(cid:272)hers" perspe(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e(cid:895: therefore, tendency to adopt open-ended qualitative interviews.