Amy Rossiter
Biographic Data
| ID | 5509963 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy Rossiter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy |
| FAMILY NAME | Rossiter |
| SIGNATURE | ROSSITER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8878-4887 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Axel Honneth’s theory of recognition and its potential for aligning social work with social justice
This article concerns Axel Honneth’s theory of recognition and its application to social work. It contends that recognition theory allows social work to situate its values in a direct and practical relationship to social justice. Honneth holds that identities are socially acquired and thus identity is a matter of justice because the acquisition of self-confidence, self-respect and self-esteem is the foundation of autonomy and agency. Honneth is p…
Unsettled Social Work: The Challenge of Levinas's Ethics
Journal Article Unsettled Social Work: The Challenge of Levinas's Ethics Get access Amy Rossiter Amy Rossiter Amy Rossiter is a Professor in the School of Social Work at York University. Her research interests involve theorising the practice of critical social work as a way of situating social work in social justice. She is interested in expanding conceptions of critical social work through the application of critical theory and philosophical eth…
Ethics as a Located Story: A Comparison of North American and Cuban Clinical Ethics
This paper provides a comparative perspective on applied professional ethics. As part of a multi-site research project, findings from a qualitative interview study of Cuban psychologists were compared to findings from a similar study of psychologists and social workers in three Canadian human service settings. The comparison generates insights into the contingent nature of conceptions and applications of ethics: that is, the authors found that di…
The professional is political: An interpretation of the problem of the past in solution-focused therapy
This paper proposes that therapists subject their work to radical doubt designed to uncover and interpret the micro-politics that in here in professional knowledge and practice. Using Orlie's notion of trespass, the approach to the past employed by solution-focused therapies is examined. These trespasses involve the therapy's silence about the meaning of injustice; its role in relation to social movements; and its potential to reproduce relations…
Toward an Alternative Account of Feminist Practice Ethics in Mental Health
Theoretical work on feminist psychotherapy ethics has been useful in challenging conventional psychotherapy, but its narrative assumes that the therapeutic relationship is potentially benign. In contrast, feminists in public practice who work in settings that are closer to state power and social control must assume that therapy has the potential for malignancy, on the basis of the history of mental health and the state. Therefore, they require a …
Putting order in its place: Disciplining pedagogy
This paper concerns the difficulty of curriculum transformation in higher education with respect to teachers' subjectivities. The author contends that histories of schooling and current institutional discourses create the fiction that teaching and learning are orderly and coherent pursuits. The author experiences this fiction as an impediment to the kind of pedagogical processes required in order to transform curriculum. Writing from her experien…
Chips, Coke and Rock-'N'-Roll: Children's Mediation of an Invitation to a First Dance Party
In my adolescence, I truly believed that because I couldn't dance, I would never meet a nice man, get married and have children. In other words, I was doomed to no life at all. Most of my contemporaries would go on to real lives because they attended Miss Ford's Dance School. There, they learned to foxtrot, waltz, and even (at the end of the class only), fast dance. I never asked to go to Miss Ford's classes because I had attended some dance clas…
Initiator Status and Separation Adjustment
This paper discusses initiator status and separation adjustment. The author is concerned that previous research concentrates on comparisons between non-initiators and initiators. It is argued that rigorous descriptions of the experiences of choosing or not choosing separation and divorce are needed in order to contextualize comparisons. As well, the research suffers from a lack of knowledge about the extent to which stage theories which describe …
The Use of Abstraction as Oppression in Counseling: An Attempt to Find a New Direction for Helping
No abstract available for this article
A model for group intervention with preschool children experiencing separation and divorce
A six-session group program model is described. It is designed to facilitate the adjustment of preschoolers to separation and divorce of parents. Goals are specified and the plan of each group session outlined. Some preliminary observations regarding outcome are discussed
Chips, Coke and Rock-'N'-Roll: Children's Mediation of an Invitation to a First Dance Party
In my adolescence, I truly believed that because I couldn't dance, I would never meet a nice man, get married and have children. In other words, I was doomed to no life at all. Most of my contemporaries would go on to real lives because they attended Miss Ford's Dance School. There, they learned to foxtrot, waltz, and even (at the end of the class only), fast dance. I never asked to go to Miss Ford's classes because I had attended some dance clas…
Axel Honneth’s theory of recognition and its potential for aligning social work with social justice
This article concerns Axel Honneth’s theory of recognition and its application to social work. It contends that recognition theory allows social work to situate its values in a direct and practical relationship to social justice. Honneth holds that identities are socially acquired and thus identity is a matter of justice because the acquisition of self-confidence, self-respect and self-esteem is the foundation of autonomy and agency. Honneth is p…
Unsettled Social Work: The Challenge of Levinas's Ethics
Journal Article Unsettled Social Work: The Challenge of Levinas's Ethics Get access Amy Rossiter Amy Rossiter Amy Rossiter is a Professor in the School of Social Work at York University. Her research interests involve theorising the practice of critical social work as a way of situating social work in social justice. She is interested in expanding conceptions of critical social work through the application of critical theory and philosophical eth…
Toward an Alternative Account of Feminist Practice Ethics in Mental Health
Theoretical work on feminist psychotherapy ethics has been useful in challenging conventional psychotherapy, but its narrative assumes that the therapeutic relationship is potentially benign. In contrast, feminists in public practice who work in settings that are closer to state power and social control must assume that therapy has the potential for malignancy, on the basis of the history of mental health and the state. Therefore, they require a …
A model for group intervention with preschool children experiencing separation and divorce
A six-session group program model is described. It is designed to facilitate the adjustment of preschoolers to separation and divorce of parents. Goals are specified and the plan of each group session outlined. Some preliminary observations regarding outcome are discussed
The Use of Abstraction as Oppression in Counseling: An Attempt to Find a New Direction for Helping
No abstract available for this article
Initiator Status and Separation Adjustment
This paper discusses initiator status and separation adjustment. The author is concerned that previous research concentrates on comparisons between non-initiators and initiators. It is argued that rigorous descriptions of the experiences of choosing or not choosing separation and divorce are needed in order to contextualize comparisons. As well, the research suffers from a lack of knowledge about the extent to which stage theories which describe …
Chips, Coke and Rock-'N'-Roll: Children's Mediation of an Invitation to a First Dance Party
In my adolescence, I truly believed that because I couldn't dance, I would never meet a nice man, get married and have children. In other words, I was doomed to no life at all. Most of my contemporaries would go on to real lives because they attended Miss Ford's Dance School. There, they learned to foxtrot, waltz, and even (at the end of the class only), fast dance. I never asked to go to Miss Ford's classes because I had attended some dance clas…
Putting order in its place: Disciplining pedagogy
This paper concerns the difficulty of curriculum transformation in higher education with respect to teachers' subjectivities. The author contends that histories of schooling and current institutional discourses create the fiction that teaching and learning are orderly and coherent pursuits. The author experiences this fiction as an impediment to the kind of pedagogical processes required in order to transform curriculum. Writing from her experien…
Toward an Alternative Account of Feminist Practice Ethics in Mental Health
Theoretical work on feminist psychotherapy ethics has been useful in challenging conventional psychotherapy, but its narrative assumes that the therapeutic relationship is potentially benign. In contrast, feminists in public practice who work in settings that are closer to state power and social control must assume that therapy has the potential for malignancy, on the basis of the history of mental health and the state. Therefore, they require a …
The professional is political: An interpretation of the problem of the past in solution-focused therapy
This paper proposes that therapists subject their work to radical doubt designed to uncover and interpret the micro-politics that in here in professional knowledge and practice. Using Orlie's notion of trespass, the approach to the past employed by solution-focused therapies is examined. These trespasses involve the therapy's silence about the meaning of injustice; its role in relation to social movements; and its potential to reproduce relations…
Ethics as a Located Story: A Comparison of North American and Cuban Clinical Ethics
This paper provides a comparative perspective on applied professional ethics. As part of a multi-site research project, findings from a qualitative interview study of Cuban psychologists were compared to findings from a similar study of psychologists and social workers in three Canadian human service settings. The comparison generates insights into the contingent nature of conceptions and applications of ethics: that is, the authors found that di…
Unsettled Social Work: The Challenge of Levinas's Ethics
Journal Article Unsettled Social Work: The Challenge of Levinas's Ethics Get access Amy Rossiter Amy Rossiter Amy Rossiter is a Professor in the School of Social Work at York University. Her research interests involve theorising the practice of critical social work as a way of situating social work in social justice. She is interested in expanding conceptions of critical social work through the application of critical theory and philosophical eth…
Axel Honneth’s theory of recognition and its potential for aligning social work with social justice
This article concerns Axel Honneth’s theory of recognition and its application to social work. It contends that recognition theory allows social work to situate its values in a direct and practical relationship to social justice. Honneth holds that identities are socially acquired and thus identity is a matter of justice because the acquisition of self-confidence, self-respect and self-esteem is the foundation of autonomy and agency. Honneth is p…
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