Barry Coughlan

How do we make sense of risk and adversity in child and adolescent mental health services? Do risk and adversity shape diagnostic practices?

In this blog, we reflect on our programmatic research on youth mental health and our collaboration with the wonderful colleagues @ncb.org.uk

“My view is that the only information we should teach en masse is where a young person should get help, both inside and outside school, if they’re struggling. That’s it.”

Thought-provoking piece about the effectiveness (and harms) of universal mental health supports in school.

Constructing a Mothers’ Culture: Affective Bargains in Branding Discourses - Sophie M Mary, Robbie Duschinsky, Barry Coughlan, Susan Dunnett, 2025 The fantasy of traditional motherhood, according to which women find fulfilment through family care, still dominates market texts. However, there is increasing ...

New publication🚨

How can we make sense of marketing that tells us traditional motherhood will bring us happiness, but also take up all our time, energy, and sanity? What does that contradiction mean politically?
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