How to manage feelings and emotions in a pandemic? the importance of affective containment

In this short reflective piece, we first outline how feelings and emotions (or ‘affections’) are understood in psychodynamic approaches, and briefly discuss how these may be controlled or ‘contained’ in organisational contexts. We then reflect on the recent experiences of one of us (Rachael) as a sc...

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Autores principales: Fraser, Rachael, Hordern, Jim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2021
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Reflective Piece
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10333553/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/08920206211044158
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spelling pubmed-103335532023-07-11 How to manage feelings and emotions in a pandemic? the importance of affective containment Fraser, Rachael Hordern, Jim Management in Education Reflective Piece In this short reflective piece, we first outline how feelings and emotions (or ‘affections’) are understood in psychodynamic approaches, and briefly discuss how these may be controlled or ‘contained’ in organisational contexts. We then reflect on the recent experiences of one of us (Rachael) as a school leader seeking to contain feelings and emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic. SAGE Publications 2021-10-22 2023-07 /pmc/articles/PMC10333553/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/08920206211044158 Text en © 2021 British Educational Leadership, Management & Administration Society (BELMAS) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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