Jos Twist
Biographic Data
| ID | 163889 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jos Twist |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jos |
| FAMILY NAME | Twist |
| SIGNATURE | TWIST J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
I don’t want to say the wrong thing”
Trans, gender diverse and gender questioning adults are highly likely to experience mental health difficulties, for multiple reasons including transphobia or minority stress. However, gender diverse adults often describe having negative experiences accessing mental healthcare in the UK. Concurrently, health professionals have described feeling inadequately skilled, and lacking confidence in their ability to support gender diverse people. There ha…
How do mental health professionals describe their experiences of providing care for gender diverse adults? A systematic literature review
Gender diverse people experience significantly high levels of mental health difficulties, face significant barriers accessing mental healthcare, and often report negative experiences with mental health professionals. At the same time, healthcare professionals describe feeling deskilled when providing care for gender diverse adults. This paper aims to systematically review research into mental health professionals’ experiences of providing care fo…
Non-Binary Lives
LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST ‘Essential reading’ - THE INDEPENDENT ‘Vital and insightful’ - OWL FISHER What does it mean to be non-binary in the 21st Century? Our gender identity is impacted by our personal histories; the cultures, communities and countries we are born into; and the places we go and the people we meet. But the representation of contemporary non-binary identities has been limited, until now. Pushing the narrative around non-bina…
Cutting Ties With Pro-Ana
Websites advocating the benefits of eating disorders ("Pro-Ana") tend to reinforce and maintain restrictive eating and purging behaviors. Yet remarkably, no study has explored individual accounts of disengagement from these sites and the associated meanings. Using narrative inquiry, this study sought to address this gap. From the interviews of six women, two overarching storylines emerged. The first closely tied disengagement to recovery with var…
Cutting Ties With Pro-Ana
Websites advocating the benefits of eating disorders ("Pro-Ana") tend to reinforce and maintain restrictive eating and purging behaviors. Yet remarkably, no study has explored individual accounts of disengagement from these sites and the associated meanings. Using narrative inquiry, this study sought to address this gap. From the interviews of six women, two overarching storylines emerged. The first closely tied disengagement to recovery with var…
How do mental health professionals describe their experiences of providing care for gender diverse adults? A systematic literature review
Gender diverse people experience significantly high levels of mental health difficulties, face significant barriers accessing mental healthcare, and often report negative experiences with mental health professionals. At the same time, healthcare professionals describe feeling deskilled when providing care for gender diverse adults. This paper aims to systematically review research into mental health professionals’ experiences of providing care fo…
Cutting Ties With Pro-Ana
Websites advocating the benefits of eating disorders ("Pro-Ana") tend to reinforce and maintain restrictive eating and purging behaviors. Yet remarkably, no study has explored individual accounts of disengagement from these sites and the associated meanings. Using narrative inquiry, this study sought to address this gap. From the interviews of six women, two overarching storylines emerged. The first closely tied disengagement to recovery with var…
Non-Binary Lives
LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST ‘Essential reading’ - THE INDEPENDENT ‘Vital and insightful’ - OWL FISHER What does it mean to be non-binary in the 21st Century? Our gender identity is impacted by our personal histories; the cultures, communities and countries we are born into; and the places we go and the people we meet. But the representation of contemporary non-binary identities has been limited, until now. Pushing the narrative around non-bina…
How do mental health professionals describe their experiences of providing care for gender diverse adults? A systematic literature review
Gender diverse people experience significantly high levels of mental health difficulties, face significant barriers accessing mental healthcare, and often report negative experiences with mental health professionals. At the same time, healthcare professionals describe feeling deskilled when providing care for gender diverse adults. This paper aims to systematically review research into mental health professionals’ experiences of providing care fo…
I don’t want to say the wrong thing”
Trans, gender diverse and gender questioning adults are highly likely to experience mental health difficulties, for multiple reasons including transphobia or minority stress. However, gender diverse adults often describe having negative experiences accessing mental healthcare in the UK. Concurrently, health professionals have described feeling inadequately skilled, and lacking confidence in their ability to support gender diverse people. There ha…
Psychology (3 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (2 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (2 works) · Mental health (2 works) · Psychiatry (2 works) · Applied Psychology (1 work) · Applied Psychology (1 work) · Developmental psychology (1 work) · Feeling (1 work) · Gender Studies (1 work)