Autumn Roesch-Marsh
Biographic Data
| ID | 5098882 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Autumn Roesch-Marsh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Autumn |
| FAMILY NAME | Roesch-Marsh |
| SIGNATURE | ROESCH-MARSH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7421-3418 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The importance of friendship in early intervention for people with an experience of psychosis
This article describes the findings of a research project exploring the importance of friendship for people with an experience of first-episode psychosis. Data collection methods included analysis of 46 surveys completed by service users with the Early Intervention in Psychosis service, two focus groups with Early Intervention staff, and one interview with an independent advocacy organization. The importance of friendship and the barriers and ena…
Social workers’ views and experiences of self-care practices
Self-care is increasingly advocated as necessary for improving social workers’ wellbeing. However, it remains a contested term, with limited understanding of social workers’ views and experiences of what it constitutes in practice. This qualitative study employed semi-structured interviews with nine social workers from three local authorities in Scotland. Informed by vulnerability theory, a six-phase thematic analysis was applied to explore socia…
Feeling well, feeling cared for? Using participatory and arts-engaged research to improve understanding and professional responses to the mental health needs of care-experienced young people
Care-experienced young people face significant levels of mental distress yet the nature and lived reality of this is poorly understood and undermines the degree to which professional caregivers can provide effective support. This is exacerbated by the lack of ‘voice’ and control care-experienced young people have as active producers of knowledge through research. Using a small-scale, knowledge exchange project, we sought to address these concerns…
Mind the Gap
Kinship care is a historically persistent phenomenon that has been utilised as a form of alternative care across the world for centuries. It is increasingly being considered as the first choice in national and regional policies for alternative care of children. This paper will focus upon the literature surrounding the paradoxical position that formal kinship care holds in the public and private spheres of child welfare. Considering the added comp…
Self-care in social work
In recent years, the self-care of social workers has become a focus for research and practice in recognition of the demands of the social work role. As part of a research project to explore ways to embed self-care into a social work degree programme at a Scottish university, a narrative literature review was undertaken to examine existing research on self-care for social work students and practitioners. This article reports on the findings from t…
Reconceptualising coproduction as activism together
The COVID‐19 pandemic disrupted life across the world in multiple ways and those already minoritised and disenfranchised, like care‐experienced young people, bore the brunt of losses and mental health difficulties. This article reports on the findings of ‘Feeling Well, Feeling Cared For’ an innovative knowledge exchange project on care experience and mental health in Scotland that was seriously disrupted by the pandemic. The article explores how …
The space before, the space beyond
The last 20 years have seen exponential growth in participatory research methods in child and youth studies, social work, education and allied disciplines. Scholars internationally have highlighted the ways these methods can connect with other areas of scholarship including children's rights, citizenship and activism. The Binks Hub is a new initiative committed to supporting, promoting and delivering transformative, co‐creative research. The fund…
The Natural Dye Garden
An agenda for future research regarding the mental health of young people with care experience
Young people who are currently or were previously in state care have consistently been found to have much higher rates of mental health and neurodevelopmental difficulties than the general youth population. While a number of high-quality reviews highlight what research has been undertaken in relation to the mental health of young people with care experience and the gaps in our knowledge and understanding, there is, until now, no consensus, so far…
Covid-19 and Co-Production in Health and Social Care Research, Policy, and Practice
Care Experience and Friendship
Drawing on a review of recent international literature, this article argues for the first time that an understanding of, and engagement with, the theory and practice of friendship is essential to working alongside those who have care experience. Drawing on theory from philosophy, psychology and sociology, the care system is explored as a unique and challenging context for making and keeping the reciprocal, caring friendships which research sugges…
Reflecting on boundaries and the use of self in professional relationships
Social workers are often entreated to ‘make use of the self’ when they seek to form helping relationships with service users. This can raise tricky questions for the practitioner seeking to be professional and maintain ‘appropriate boundaries’ with service users: what and how much of my self can I share? This article reflects on a concept from social pedagogy known as the ‘3 Ps’ to explore the challenge of managing boundaries in relationships as …
Relationship expectations
Writing Analytical Assessments in Social Work, Chris Dyke
This is a book about writing assessments aimed primarily at student social workers and newly qualified social workers. Its objective is to offer practical guidance on the ‘nuts-and-bolts’ of writing assessments and, for this reason, there is limited reference to theory or research. The author has worked primarily in the field of statutory child and family social work in England and many of his examples are drawn from this specific context. The bo…
The Ecology of Judgement
Professional judgement is viewed as a crucial yet complex aspect of social work practice. Significant factors in judgement are understood to include individual psychological and emotional processes, interpersonal communication and the relationship between social work as a profession and society. Each contributory factor must be described and understood clearly in its own right and there is also a need to describe and understand the ways in which …
Nurturing the virtuous circle
Children's participation in decision making of all kinds is of increasing interest across the world as more and more countries seek to comply with Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The participation rights of children who are in the care of the state are of particular concern. Recent research in England suggests that Independent Reviewing Officers (IROs) can play a crucial role in ensuring that looked after a…
Risk Assessment and Secure Accommodation Decision‐Making in Scotland
Risk assessment has become a key area of focus for child protection practice in recent years. Recent research has begun to identify how risk assessment practices and discourses in social work are gendered, particularly in relation to parenting and offending. There has been less attention paid to how gender impacts upon risk assessment practice with young people who present risks to themselves and/or others. This article begins to address this gap…
Out of Control
In social work practice, there are often concerns raised about young people who are felt to be beyond the control their parent(s) or carer(s). However, few studies have attempted to unpick what practitioners mean when they describe young people as being ‘out of control’. Drawing on the findings of a study of secure accommodation decision making in Scotland, this article explores the significance managers, practitioners and young people attached t…
Secure Accommodation Handbook
In England and Wales, Secure Accommodation is defined under Regulation 2 of the Children (Secure Accommodation) Regulations 1991 as ‘accommodation which is provided for the purpose of restricting the liberty of children’. Similar definitions apply elsewhere in the UK and North America. There are three types of secure accommodation in England and Wales: secure children's homes, secure training centres and young offender institutions. Children and …
Better together? Learning lessons for group decision‐making practice from a study of secure accommodation in Scotland
This paper draws on the findings of a research study that examined the factors that influence local decision‐making in cases where a child or young person is being considered by residential workers, social workers and senior managers for placement in a secure unit. After outlining the research problem and case study approach taken, the paper focuses on explicating the findings of the study that relate to the impact of group membership, goals, rol…
The Ecology of Judgement
Professional judgement is viewed as a crucial yet complex aspect of social work practice. Significant factors in judgement are understood to include individual psychological and emotional processes, interpersonal communication and the relationship between social work as a profession and society. Each contributory factor must be described and understood clearly in its own right and there is also a need to describe and understand the ways in which …
Out of Control
In social work practice, there are often concerns raised about young people who are felt to be beyond the control their parent(s) or carer(s). However, few studies have attempted to unpick what practitioners mean when they describe young people as being ‘out of control’. Drawing on the findings of a study of secure accommodation decision making in Scotland, this article explores the significance managers, practitioners and young people attached t…
Care Experience and Friendship
Drawing on a review of recent international literature, this article argues for the first time that an understanding of, and engagement with, the theory and practice of friendship is essential to working alongside those who have care experience. Drawing on theory from philosophy, psychology and sociology, the care system is explored as a unique and challenging context for making and keeping the reciprocal, caring friendships which research sugges…
An agenda for future research regarding the mental health of young people with care experience
Young people who are currently or were previously in state care have consistently been found to have much higher rates of mental health and neurodevelopmental difficulties than the general youth population. While a number of high-quality reviews highlight what research has been undertaken in relation to the mental health of young people with care experience and the gaps in our knowledge and understanding, there is, until now, no consensus, so far…
Nurturing the virtuous circle
Children's participation in decision making of all kinds is of increasing interest across the world as more and more countries seek to comply with Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The participation rights of children who are in the care of the state are of particular concern. Recent research in England suggests that Independent Reviewing Officers (IROs) can play a crucial role in ensuring that looked after a…
Better together? Learning lessons for group decision‐making practice from a study of secure accommodation in Scotland
This paper draws on the findings of a research study that examined the factors that influence local decision‐making in cases where a child or young person is being considered by residential workers, social workers and senior managers for placement in a secure unit. After outlining the research problem and case study approach taken, the paper focuses on explicating the findings of the study that relate to the impact of group membership, goals, rol…
Relationship expectations
Better together? Learning lessons for group decision‐making practice from a study of secure accommodation in Scotland
This paper draws on the findings of a research study that examined the factors that influence local decision‐making in cases where a child or young person is being considered by residential workers, social workers and senior managers for placement in a secure unit. After outlining the research problem and case study approach taken, the paper focuses on explicating the findings of the study that relate to the impact of group membership, goals, rol…
Risk Assessment and Secure Accommodation Decision‐Making in Scotland
Risk assessment has become a key area of focus for child protection practice in recent years. Recent research has begun to identify how risk assessment practices and discourses in social work are gendered, particularly in relation to parenting and offending. There has been less attention paid to how gender impacts upon risk assessment practice with young people who present risks to themselves and/or others. This article begins to address this gap…
Out of Control
In social work practice, there are often concerns raised about young people who are felt to be beyond the control their parent(s) or carer(s). However, few studies have attempted to unpick what practitioners mean when they describe young people as being ‘out of control’. Drawing on the findings of a study of secure accommodation decision making in Scotland, this article explores the significance managers, practitioners and young people attached t…
Secure Accommodation Handbook
In England and Wales, Secure Accommodation is defined under Regulation 2 of the Children (Secure Accommodation) Regulations 1991 as ‘accommodation which is provided for the purpose of restricting the liberty of children’. Similar definitions apply elsewhere in the UK and North America. There are three types of secure accommodation in England and Wales: secure children's homes, secure training centres and young offender institutions. Children and …
Nurturing the virtuous circle
Children's participation in decision making of all kinds is of increasing interest across the world as more and more countries seek to comply with Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The participation rights of children who are in the care of the state are of particular concern. Recent research in England suggests that Independent Reviewing Officers (IROs) can play a crucial role in ensuring that looked after a…
The Ecology of Judgement
Professional judgement is viewed as a crucial yet complex aspect of social work practice. Significant factors in judgement are understood to include individual psychological and emotional processes, interpersonal communication and the relationship between social work as a profession and society. Each contributory factor must be described and understood clearly in its own right and there is also a need to describe and understand the ways in which …
Writing Analytical Assessments in Social Work, Chris Dyke
This is a book about writing assessments aimed primarily at student social workers and newly qualified social workers. Its objective is to offer practical guidance on the ‘nuts-and-bolts’ of writing assessments and, for this reason, there is limited reference to theory or research. The author has worked primarily in the field of statutory child and family social work in England and many of his examples are drawn from this specific context. The bo…
Reflecting on boundaries and the use of self in professional relationships
Social workers are often entreated to ‘make use of the self’ when they seek to form helping relationships with service users. This can raise tricky questions for the practitioner seeking to be professional and maintain ‘appropriate boundaries’ with service users: what and how much of my self can I share? This article reflects on a concept from social pedagogy known as the ‘3 Ps’ to explore the challenge of managing boundaries in relationships as …
Relationship expectations
Care Experience and Friendship
Drawing on a review of recent international literature, this article argues for the first time that an understanding of, and engagement with, the theory and practice of friendship is essential to working alongside those who have care experience. Drawing on theory from philosophy, psychology and sociology, the care system is explored as a unique and challenging context for making and keeping the reciprocal, caring friendships which research sugges…
Covid-19 and Co-Production in Health and Social Care Research, Policy, and Practice
An agenda for future research regarding the mental health of young people with care experience
Young people who are currently or were previously in state care have consistently been found to have much higher rates of mental health and neurodevelopmental difficulties than the general youth population. While a number of high-quality reviews highlight what research has been undertaken in relation to the mental health of young people with care experience and the gaps in our knowledge and understanding, there is, until now, no consensus, so far…
Reconceptualising coproduction as activism together
The COVID‐19 pandemic disrupted life across the world in multiple ways and those already minoritised and disenfranchised, like care‐experienced young people, bore the brunt of losses and mental health difficulties. This article reports on the findings of ‘Feeling Well, Feeling Cared For’ an innovative knowledge exchange project on care experience and mental health in Scotland that was seriously disrupted by the pandemic. The article explores how …
The space before, the space beyond
The last 20 years have seen exponential growth in participatory research methods in child and youth studies, social work, education and allied disciplines. Scholars internationally have highlighted the ways these methods can connect with other areas of scholarship including children's rights, citizenship and activism. The Binks Hub is a new initiative committed to supporting, promoting and delivering transformative, co‐creative research. The fund…
The Natural Dye Garden
Social workers’ views and experiences of self-care practices
Self-care is increasingly advocated as necessary for improving social workers’ wellbeing. However, it remains a contested term, with limited understanding of social workers’ views and experiences of what it constitutes in practice. This qualitative study employed semi-structured interviews with nine social workers from three local authorities in Scotland. Informed by vulnerability theory, a six-phase thematic analysis was applied to explore socia…
Feeling well, feeling cared for? Using participatory and arts-engaged research to improve understanding and professional responses to the mental health needs of care-experienced young people
Care-experienced young people face significant levels of mental distress yet the nature and lived reality of this is poorly understood and undermines the degree to which professional caregivers can provide effective support. This is exacerbated by the lack of ‘voice’ and control care-experienced young people have as active producers of knowledge through research. Using a small-scale, knowledge exchange project, we sought to address these concerns…
Mind the Gap
Kinship care is a historically persistent phenomenon that has been utilised as a form of alternative care across the world for centuries. It is increasingly being considered as the first choice in national and regional policies for alternative care of children. This paper will focus upon the literature surrounding the paradoxical position that formal kinship care holds in the public and private spheres of child welfare. Considering the added comp…
Self-care in social work
In recent years, the self-care of social workers has become a focus for research and practice in recognition of the demands of the social work role. As part of a research project to explore ways to embed self-care into a social work degree programme at a Scottish university, a narrative literature review was undertaken to examine existing research on self-care for social work students and practitioners. This article reports on the findings from t…
The importance of friendship in early intervention for people with an experience of psychosis
This article describes the findings of a research project exploring the importance of friendship for people with an experience of first-episode psychosis. Data collection methods included analysis of 46 surveys completed by service users with the Early Intervention in Psychosis service, two focus groups with Early Intervention staff, and one interview with an independent advocacy organization. The importance of friendship and the barriers and ena…
Psychology (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Political science (11 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (9 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (6 works) · Nursing (5 works) · Social Work (5 works)