Jim Orford
Biographic Data
| ID | 266189 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jim Orford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jim |
| FAMILY NAME | Orford |
| SIGNATURE | ORFORD J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8316-4841 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Coping with Disorder in the Family
A scoping review on stigma by association: Advancing the understanding of concerned significant others affected by addictions.
Family Members’ Help-Seeking Behaviour for Their Relative Who Uses Substances: A Cross-Sectional National Study in Brazil
The affected family members (AFM) of relatives with substance use problems (RSU) play an important role in supporting their relatives to enter substance use treatment. This study investigated the help-seeking behaviours for their relatives by AFM in Brazil, including the characteristics of those who sought help and the risk factors for delaying it. A secondary analysis from a national cross-sectional study of 3030 AFM was performed. Participants …
The case for developing a cohesive systems approach to research across unhealthy commodity industries
OBJECTIVES: Most non-communicable diseases are preventable and largely driven by the consumption of harmful products, such as tobacco, alcohol, gambling and ultra-processed food and drink products, collectively termed unhealthy commodities. This paper explores the links between unhealthy commodity industries (UCIs), analyses the extent of alignment across their corporate political strategies, and proposes a cohesive systems approach to research a…
Turning psychology against militarism
This paper draws on material, mostly from outside psychology, which illustrates the deep rootedness of militarisation in modern culture and the numerous ways in which it permeates civic society. Children, boys especially, learn to value armed conflict. War games are now more realistic, and the distinction between gaming and military training has become blurred. War and deadly weapons are portrayed in unrealistic ways that hide their actual effect…
What is it like to be the wife of an addicted man in Iran? A qualitative study
Drug misuse is increasing and diversifying in Iran. This study is the first to explore in detail the impact on, and ways of coping used by, spouses of addicted men in Iran. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 24 spouses. Four main themes were identified in the data: heart-breaking news of the husband’s addiction; coping alone; progressive deterioration and suffering; and disruption of family relationships and finances. Reactions upon l…
Attitudes towards gambling in Finland: A cross-sectional population study
The association between young age, male gender, high net income and risky alcohol consumption, and favourable gambling attitudes was strong, and also reflects risky gambling behaviour. Experiencing gambling-related harms caused by one's own or significant other's excessive gambling seems to indicate unfavourable attitudes towards gambling
Risk and Resilience: Adults Who Were the Children of Problem Drinkers
Addiction in the family is a major but neglected contributor to the global burden of adult ill-health
Gambling in Britain: A Time of Change? Health Implications from the British Gambling Prevalence Survey 2010
Month follow-up after brief interventions in primary care for family members affected by the substance misuse problem of a close relative
Following the publication of initial and 3-month data from a prospective cluster randomised comparative trial [Copello, A., Templeton, L., Orford, J., Velleman, R., Patel, A., Moore, L., ... , Godfrey, C. (2009). The relative efficacy of two levels of a primary care intervention for family members affected by the addiction problem of a close relative: A randomised trial. Addiction, 104, 49–58.], an opportunistic 12-month follow-up was undertaken.…
School Victimization Among Adolescents. An Analysis from an Ecological Perspective
The present study has two objectives. The first is to analyze the relationships between community (integration in the community), family (perception of family climate), school (perception of school climate) and individual (social reputation and satisfaction with life) and school victimization among adolescents, from an ecological perspective. Secondly, this study aims to examine the differences in these relationships between boys and girls. The s…
The experiences of affected family members: A summary of two decades of qualitative research
This article is based upon the collective findings of a number of studies conducted in a number of countries during the past 20 years. Female partners and mothers are the family members who have been most represented in the study samples, but the latter also included sizeable numbers of male partners, fathers, sisters, brothers and adult sons and daughters. Citing examples taken from the studies, the article describes some of the most prominent e…
Gambling, alcohol, consumption, cigarette smoking and health: Findings from the 2007 British Gambling Prevalence Survey
Previous research has shown an association between gambling, alcohol and cigarette smoking. Co-occurrence of problem gambling with other behavioural and psychological disorders can exacerbate, or be exacerbated by, problem gambling. Using participant data from the 2007 British Gambling Prevalence Survey (n = 9003 adults aged 16 years and above), secondary analysis was carried out on the relationship between gambling and three particular areas of …
The role of social factors in gambling: Evidence from the 2007 British Gambling Prevalence Survey
Using data from the 2007 British Gambling Prevalence Survey, relationships were explored between gambling variables and each of the three key indices of a person's social position, controlling for age and sex. Personal income was found to be positively and linearly related to gambling prevalence, to number of gambling activities engaged in, and to positive attitudes towards gambling; household occupational category was significantly associated wi…
Internet Gambling, Health, Smoking and Alcohol Use: Findings from the 2007 British Gambling Prevalence Survey
Women, Alcohol and Femininity: A Discourse Analysis of Women Heavy Drinkers' Accounts
Qualitative interviews were conducted with 24 women who were heavy drinkers, as part of a larger, longitudinal study of heavy drinking in the West Midlands of England. Critical discourse analysis was used to analyse the interviews, and resulted in the identification of two main discursive constructions: drink as self-medication, and drink as pleasure and leisure. However, women need to resist and negotiate stigmatizing subject positions of the `w…
Pub and community: The views of Birmingham untreated heavy drinkers
This paper reports the results of a qualitative analysis of semi‐structured interviews with 79 members of the Birmingham Untreated Heavy Drinkers Cohort. The cohort was recruited in 1997 when all participants were drinking 50 or more standard units of alcohol (men) or 35 or more units (women) most weeks. Present interviews were carried out as part of the fourth wave of interviews, held in 2003. The topic was the participants' places of drinking i…
Community Psychology: Challenges, Controversies and Emerging Consensus
Three Ways of Talking about Health in Communities Targeted for Regeneration: Interviews with Community Professionals
Interviews were held with nine peripatetic professionals-district nurses, health visitors and social workers-working in New Deal for Communities (NDC) urban areas in the English West Midlands. They spoke of health in the community in three distinct ways: health as individual and family lifestyle; the local environment and health; and `life is a struggle for some'. Those who emphasized the individual and family lifestyle approach expressed frustra…
Self-directed change or specialist help? Understanding the pathways to changing drinking in heavy drinkers
This article uses qualitative methods to compare two groups of heavy drinkers – those who had recently sought specialist help, and those who were currently ‘self-directing’ change in drinking. Thirty-six heavy drinkers, selected from a larger cohort in the English West Midlands, took part in semi-structured interviews on drinking change. Key themes for the ‘self-directed change’ group were: confidence in self-sufficiency to change, internalised s…
Improving health in deprived communities: What can residents teach us
The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how residents of disadvantaged communities believe where they live influences their health. The authors describe focus group work they have undertaken with older and younger adults resident in three neighbourhoods in the West Midlands region of England, which are participating in the New Deal for Communities initiative. Drawing on the narratives of residents, examples are given of specific 'pathways' the…
Assessing the Participatory Potential of Britain's New Deal for Communities: Opportunities for and constraints to ‘bottom-up community participation’
Community participation is a key characteristic of the British Labour Government's New Deal for Communities (NDC). However, the National Evaluation reports serious difficulties involving local communities in the programme. This article assesses the NDC's potential as a site for bottom-up community participation by reviewing government policy guidance, programme notes and strategy documents. We identify themes and mechanisms within the programme t…
A four-year follow-up of close family members of Birmingham untreated heavy drinkers
Aim. To explore the positions towards their relatives’ heavy drinking adopted by close family members of a community sample of untreated heavy drinkers over a period of four years.Design. Detailed interview and questionnaire study of a sample of close family members and the heavy drinkers to whom they were related, interviewed three times at intervals of two years over a period of four years.Sample. Twenty-five close family members of 25 heavy dr…
On the Road to Damascus? A Qualitative Study of Life Events and Decreased Drinking
This article presents a qualitative exploration of the relationship between life events and reduction in drinking. The 17 participants were all heavy drinkers who had experienced a life event in the previous two years and who had decreased their alcohol consumption. They were selected from a cohort of 500 untreated heavy drinkers in the English West Midlands. Data were obtained through in-depth interviews and subjected to thematic analysis. Parti…
Addiction in the family is a major but neglected contributor to the global burden of adult ill-health
Women, Alcohol and Femininity: A Discourse Analysis of Women Heavy Drinkers' Accounts
Qualitative interviews were conducted with 24 women who were heavy drinkers, as part of a larger, longitudinal study of heavy drinking in the West Midlands of England. Critical discourse analysis was used to analyse the interviews, and resulted in the identification of two main discursive constructions: drink as self-medication, and drink as pleasure and leisure. However, women need to resist and negotiate stigmatizing subject positions of the `w…
Women's experiences of workplace bullying: Changes in social relationships
This article reports a qualitative study, which investigated social processes in workplace bullying, based on in‐depth interviews with ten British women professionals who were targets of workplace bullying. Data were analysed using grounded theory methods. The resulting analysis showed links between disclosures of bullying, reactions of others, and some impacts on targets' psychological health. Key themes which emerged from the data included ‘bei…
Assessing the Participatory Potential of Britain's New Deal for Communities: Opportunities for and constraints to ‘bottom-up community participation’
Community participation is a key characteristic of the British Labour Government's New Deal for Communities (NDC). However, the National Evaluation reports serious difficulties involving local communities in the programme. This article assesses the NDC's potential as a site for bottom-up community participation by reviewing government policy guidance, programme notes and strategy documents. We identify themes and mechanisms within the programme t…
The role of social factors in gambling: Evidence from the 2007 British Gambling Prevalence Survey
Using data from the 2007 British Gambling Prevalence Survey, relationships were explored between gambling variables and each of the three key indices of a person's social position, controlling for age and sex. Personal income was found to be positively and linearly related to gambling prevalence, to number of gambling activities engaged in, and to positive attitudes towards gambling; household occupational category was significantly associated wi…
Three Ways of Talking about Health in Communities Targeted for Regeneration: Interviews with Community Professionals
Interviews were held with nine peripatetic professionals-district nurses, health visitors and social workers-working in New Deal for Communities (NDC) urban areas in the English West Midlands. They spoke of health in the community in three distinct ways: health as individual and family lifestyle; the local environment and health; and `life is a struggle for some'. Those who emphasized the individual and family lifestyle approach expressed frustra…
Meaningful patterns of activity amongst the long‐term inner city unemployed: A qualitative study
A number of studies have sought to establish the social psychological factors involved in the maintenance of active lifestyles during long‐term unemployment. The aim of this study was to describe and account for the development and maintenance of different patterns of activity, with reference to their perceived meaningfulness. This was undertaken with a sample of Birmingham's inner city, long‐term unemployed population recruited from three inner …
Turning psychology against militarism
This paper draws on material, mostly from outside psychology, which illustrates the deep rootedness of militarisation in modern culture and the numerous ways in which it permeates civic society. Children, boys especially, learn to value armed conflict. War games are now more realistic, and the distinction between gaming and military training has become blurred. War and deadly weapons are portrayed in unrealistic ways that hide their actual effect…
Fear during Alcohol Detoxification: Views from the Clients' Perspective
Little is known about fears experienced during alcohol detoxification. Using qualitative research this preliminary study analysed descriptions of fears during one-to-one interviews about the experience of undertaking alcohol detoxification. Fears about detoxification centred around four main areas: the setting in which the process takes place, the physical consequences of withdrawal, the medication given to manage detoxification and the experienc…
European Community psychology in theory, practice and praxis?—The European Network of Community Psychology (ENCP) fourth European congress of community psychology and business meeting, Barcelona, 2002…
Understanding how Families Cope with Alcohol Problems in the UK West Midlands Sikh Community
Twenty-four British Sikh wives of men with identified alcohol problems, plus ten of their husbands and seven of their daughters, were interviewed using a semistructured procedure that focused upon the ways in which wives and daughters had attempted to cope with their husbands'/fathers’ excessive drinking. In addition each completed the Coping Questionnaire (CQ) which has the same focus (husbands were instructed to indicate ways in which their wiv…
The Interpersonal Circumplex: A Theory and Method for Applied Psychology
The major properties of the interpersonal circumplex model, and measurement procedures that accompany it, are described. It is suggested that the model and procedures can handle social interaction at a variety of levels from micro to macro, and are ideally suited to studying the interface between interpersonal behavior and social structure. Areas of present and potential application are described including psychotherapy and family processes, conf…
Ways of coping with excessive drug use in the family: A provisional typology based on the accounts of 50 close relatives
This paper outlines an eight‐fold typology of coping actions based upon a qualitative analysis of the accounts provided by 50 close relatives of people with drug problems. In a number of different ways relatives draw attention to the contrasts between these distinguishable ways of coping. Emphasis is placed upon the provisional nature of this typology and upon the compromises between, and combinations of, ways of coping that are often used by rel…
Drinking Behavior and Attitudes and Their Correlates among University Students in England; I. Principal Components in the Drinking Domain. II. Personality and Social Influence. III. Sex Differences
The responses of 1323 first-year students at an English university to a questionnaire concerning their drinking patterns and attitudes are examined in terms of the correlations between the drinking-related variables, the relationship of personality and social factors to drinking, and sex differences in the questionnaire responses
Simplistic thinking about other people as a predictor of early drop‐out at an alcoholism halfway house
Not Quite Like Home: Small Hostels for Alcoholics and Others
Is excessive gambling seen as a form of dependence? Evidence from the community and the clinic
The environmental intergenerational transmission of alcohol problems: A comparison of two hypotheses
Two competing hypotheses concerning the mechanism of transmission of excessive substance use from one generation to the next are tested, using data from a study of 16‐ to 35‐year‐old offspring of problem‐drinking parents. The ‘positive influence’ hypothesis predicts that the more positive has been the offspring's relationship with the problem‐drinking parent during upbringing, the greater the risk of excessive drinking or drug taking in young adu…
Ways of coping with excessive drug use in the family: A provisional typology based on the accounts of 50 close relatives
This paper outlines an eight‐fold typology of coping actions based upon a qualitative analysis of the accounts provided by 50 close relatives of people with drug problems. In a number of different ways relatives draw attention to the contrasts between these distinguishable ways of coping. Emphasis is placed upon the provisional nature of this typology and upon the compromises between, and combinations of, ways of coping that are often used by rel…
The Interpersonal Circumplex: A Theory and Method for Applied Psychology
The major properties of the interpersonal circumplex model, and measurement procedures that accompany it, are described. It is suggested that the model and procedures can handle social interaction at a variety of levels from micro to macro, and are ideally suited to studying the interface between interpersonal behavior and social structure. Areas of present and potential application are described including psychotherapy and family processes, conf…
Editors’ Preface
Editors' Preface
Have a Sip of This”: The Impact of Family on the Drinking Patterns of Untreated Heavy Drinkers Living in the West Midlands, UK
In a project investigating the experiences of heavy drinkers in the community, one aspect of it focused on family interactions and family drinking patterns. Two-hour, one-to-one confidential interviews were conducted with 501 male and female participants, ages 25–55, drinking a weekly average of 50+ units if male and 35+ units if female, and untreated for their drinking in the last 10 years. A mixture of qualitative and quantitative data was coll…
The Close Relatives of Untreated Heavy Drinkers: Perspectives on Heavy Drinking and its Effects
Aims. To describe the positions adopted by close family members of a community sample of untreated heavy drinkers. Design. Detailed interview and questionnaire study of a sample of close family members and the heavy drinkers to whom they were related. Sample. 50 close relatives of 50 heavy drinkers drawn from a community cohort of 500 in the English West Midlands. Data. Perceived benefits and drawbacks of drinking checklist (family members and he…
How is Excessive Drinking Maintained? Untreated Heavy Drinkers' Experiences of the Personal Benefits and Drawbacks of their Drinking
The present paper reports results from a larger study of 500 heavy drinkers (men drinking more than 50 units of alcohol per week, women more than 35 units), untreated for their drinking within the last ten years, recruited by advertising and snowballing in the English West Midlands. Data on participants' perceived benefits and drawbacks of their own drinking were obtained by 1) a computer-administered set of ratings of benefits and drawbacks in t…
The Role of Religion and Spirituality in Recovery from Drink Problems: A Qualititative Study of Alcoholics Anonymous Members and South Asian Men
Aim: The purpose of this study was to explore the spiritual aspect of recovery for people with drink problems through carrying out a comparative analysis of South Asian men recovering from drink problems and White members of AA. Method: In-depth semi-structured interviews were carried out with participants to explore significant factors that assisted recovery. Interviews were analysed using grounded theory. Participants: Ten participants in total…
Meaningful patterns of activity amongst the long‐term inner city unemployed: A qualitative study
A number of studies have sought to establish the social psychological factors involved in the maintenance of active lifestyles during long‐term unemployment. The aim of this study was to describe and account for the development and maintenance of different patterns of activity, with reference to their perceived meaningfulness. This was undertaken with a sample of Birmingham's inner city, long‐term unemployed population recruited from three inner …
Untreated Heavy Drinkers: A Qualitative and Quantitative Study of Dependence and Readiness to Change
The Birmingham Untreated Heavy Drinkers (BUHD) project recruited 500 untreated heavy drinkers directly from the community. All participants completed the Leeds Dependence Questionnaire (LDQ) and the Readiness to Change Questionnaire (RCQ) and two sub-samples of 25 participants each were interviewed in depth about their experiences of dependence and readiness to change. Quantitative and qualitative data were used to make comparisons with previous …
European Community psychology in theory, practice and praxis?—The European Network of Community Psychology (ENCP) fourth European congress of community psychology and business meeting, Barcelona, 2002…
Understanding how Families Cope with Alcohol Problems in the UK West Midlands Sikh Community
Twenty-four British Sikh wives of men with identified alcohol problems, plus ten of their husbands and seven of their daughters, were interviewed using a semistructured procedure that focused upon the ways in which wives and daughters had attempted to cope with their husbands'/fathers’ excessive drinking. In addition each completed the Coping Questionnaire (CQ) which has the same focus (husbands were instructed to indicate ways in which their wiv…
Drinking in second generation black and asian communities in the english midlands
Previous research has suggested low levels of drinking and high rates of abstinence amongst members of ethnic minority groups in Britain, but it was not clear that those conclusions applied equally to those born or educated in Britain. Using quota sampling and street interviewing methods, a sample of 1684 second or subsequent generation men and women from Black (African), African-Caribbean, and Black (British), Indian Hindu, Indian Sikh, Bengali,…
A qualitative study of the meaning of exercise for people who could be labelled as ‘addicted’ to exercise –can ‘addiction’ be applied to high frequency exercising
This is a qualitative study exploring the meaning of exercise for individuals who could be labelled as ‘addicted’. Sixty people originally volunteered to participate of whom twelve scored above the midpoint on the Exercise Dependence Questionnaire (Ogden, J., Veale, D. and Summers, Z., 1997). Ten people were subsequently interviewed. A grounded theory approach was employed to analyse the data (Strauss, A. and Corbin, J., 1990). Themes that emerge…
Women's experiences of workplace bullying: Changes in social relationships
This article reports a qualitative study, which investigated social processes in workplace bullying, based on in‐depth interviews with ten British women professionals who were targets of workplace bullying. Data were analysed using grounded theory methods. The resulting analysis showed links between disclosures of bullying, reactions of others, and some impacts on targets' psychological health. Key themes which emerged from the data included ‘bei…
A four-year follow-up of close family members of Birmingham untreated heavy drinkers
Aim. To explore the positions towards their relatives’ heavy drinking adopted by close family members of a community sample of untreated heavy drinkers over a period of four years.Design. Detailed interview and questionnaire study of a sample of close family members and the heavy drinkers to whom they were related, interviewed three times at intervals of two years over a period of four years.Sample. Twenty-five close family members of 25 heavy dr…
On the Road to Damascus? A Qualitative Study of Life Events and Decreased Drinking
This article presents a qualitative exploration of the relationship between life events and reduction in drinking. The 17 participants were all heavy drinkers who had experienced a life event in the previous two years and who had decreased their alcohol consumption. They were selected from a cohort of 500 untreated heavy drinkers in the English West Midlands. Data were obtained through in-depth interviews and subjected to thematic analysis. Parti…
Fear during Alcohol Detoxification: Views from the Clients' Perspective
Little is known about fears experienced during alcohol detoxification. Using qualitative research this preliminary study analysed descriptions of fears during one-to-one interviews about the experience of undertaking alcohol detoxification. Fears about detoxification centred around four main areas: the setting in which the process takes place, the physical consequences of withdrawal, the medication given to manage detoxification and the experienc…
Assessing the Participatory Potential of Britain's New Deal for Communities: Opportunities for and constraints to ‘bottom-up community participation’
Community participation is a key characteristic of the British Labour Government's New Deal for Communities (NDC). However, the National Evaluation reports serious difficulties involving local communities in the programme. This article assesses the NDC's potential as a site for bottom-up community participation by reviewing government policy guidance, programme notes and strategy documents. We identify themes and mechanisms within the programme t…
Self-directed change or specialist help? Understanding the pathways to changing drinking in heavy drinkers
This article uses qualitative methods to compare two groups of heavy drinkers – those who had recently sought specialist help, and those who were currently ‘self-directing’ change in drinking. Thirty-six heavy drinkers, selected from a larger cohort in the English West Midlands, took part in semi-structured interviews on drinking change. Key themes for the ‘self-directed change’ group were: confidence in self-sufficiency to change, internalised s…
Psychology (42 works) · Sociology (27 works) · Social Psychology (25 works) · Social Psychology (22 works) · Medicine (20 works) · Qualitative research (16 works) · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (16 works) · Psychiatry (15 works) · Clinical Psychology (14 works) · Gambling Behavior and Treatments (12 works)