Transitions to adulthood

Self-Governance and Disciplining in the Making of Patient Citizens

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2249651
AutoresAlicia Renedo (0000-0001-7159-1723, Public Health, Environments and Society Faculty of Public Health and Policy London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine London UK, autor de correspondencia), Sam Mile (0000-0003-0836-1209, Public Health, Environments and Society Faculty of Public Health and Policy London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine London UK, autor de correspondencia), Cicely A Marston (0000-0002-5529-4646, Public Health, Environments and Society Faculty of Public Health and Policy London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine London UK, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen42
Número3
Páginas481-495
Fecha de publicación2020-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-9566.13019
PMID31663619
OpenAlexW2982646646
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas42

Young people develop new behaviours and redefine their identities during health transitions when they move from paediatric to adult healthcare environments. Their identities help to guide their health-related actions in response to life changes. Young people's health is increasingly recognised as important, yet we lack understanding of how health transitions shape identities and how they relate to other transitions to adulthood. We conducted a longitudinal interview study with young people with sickle cell disease to explore how young people define new identities as they transition to adulthood. We show how 'disciplining at a distance' via healthcare self-management discourses and neoliberal norms governing adolescence play out in the tensions participants encounter when they are crafting new identities. Health transitions involve struggles to negotiate competing demands for self-discipline. It is crucial to create enabling spaces for young people to protect their health while still developing identities that help them achieve life goals

Business · Corporate governance · Developmental psychology · Health care · Identity (music · Life course approach · Negotiation · Political science · Sociology · Transition (genetics · Young adult · Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare · Children's Rights and Participation · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Psychology · Social Psychology