The Importance of Reputation(S) for the Mental Health of Young People in a Digital Age
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Ballroom 2 - In Person Only
Wednesday, March 20, 2024 |
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM |
Overview
Dr James Tranter, Monash University
Details
Presentation Key Learnings:
1. The reputational impact and risks for mental health consumers, particularly adolescents and youth, remain poorly researched and understood.
2. Reputation underlies many key mental health principles, including stigma, confidentiality, trust, loneliness, shame, and identity formation.
3. Supporting adolescents to build healthy reputations requires attention to the unique social expectations and network relationships of youth
Speaker
Dr James Tranter
Researcher
Monash University
The Importance of Reputation(S) for the Mental Health of Young People in a Digital Age
Abstract
Building and maintaining a healthy reputation is a core aspect of social life. Up to 80% of everyday speech is gossip, which communicates reputational information (Emler 1994). The widespread uptake of social media platforms and online reputation systems (such as star ratings) has led to a rapid expansion in the complexity and reach of personal and professional reputations. Despite this, reputation has attracted curiously little attention from mental health researchers.
In this talk, Dr James Tranter will present preliminary insights from his doctoral research into reputation and mental health. He will invite you to join him in considering questions about how we understand the meaning of reputation in the context of mental health, the impacts of living with mental illness on reputations and reputational thinking, and the links between reputation and key mental health concepts such as stigma, confidentiality, trust, loneliness, shame, and identity formation.
In this talk, Dr James Tranter will present preliminary insights from his doctoral research into reputation and mental health. He will invite you to join him in considering questions about how we understand the meaning of reputation in the context of mental health, the impacts of living with mental illness on reputations and reputational thinking, and the links between reputation and key mental health concepts such as stigma, confidentiality, trust, loneliness, shame, and identity formation.
Biography
James is a PhD candidate at Monash University, Department of Psychiatry, and a Psychiatry Registrar at Alfred Health in Melbourne. He is specialising in Child/Adolescent and Psychotherapeutic psychiatry and is a training psychoanalyst. He also holds positions in Monash Psychedelic Lab (trial therapist) and Griefline (trainer). James has been fascinated by reputation for many years, which he sees as a fundamental aspect of our social selves, and an important but poorly understood dimension of mental wellbeing.