Outputs (4)

Impact of Social Exclusion, Intersectionality and Discrimination on Children and Young People’s Mental Health (2025)
Book Chapter

This chapter commences by examining the links between inequalities and mental health, exploring the impact of the social gradient of health as well as examining national and international policies aimed at addressing health inequities. The chapter de... Read More about Impact of Social Exclusion, Intersectionality and Discrimination on Children and Young People’s Mental Health.

Reversing a one-track history: listening to minority voices at the intersections of gender, race, and intellectual disability (2024)
Book Chapter

This chapter applies Black feminist theoretical methodologies of intersectionality to post-colonial social work in the context of working with women with Intellectual Disabilities. A case study has been used to deconstruct the experiences of a young... Read More about Reversing a one-track history: listening to minority voices at the intersections of gender, race, and intellectual disability.

Seen but not understood, responding to emotional distress at the intersection of neurodivergence and learning disability. (2023)
Journal Article
Udonsi, P. (2023). Seen but not understood, responding to emotional distress at the intersection of neurodivergence and learning disability. Learning Disability Practice, 26(6), https://doi.org/10.7748/ldp.2023.e2227

People who are neurodivergent and have lived experience of learning disabilities may communicate their distress through behaviours which people around them may interpret as challenging. Distress may be as a result of the trauma of living, learning, w... Read More about Seen but not understood, responding to emotional distress at the intersection of neurodivergence and learning disability..

Young, gifted and black: the intersectionality of race, intellectual disability and neurodivergence (2022)
Journal Article
Udonsi, P. (2022). Young, gifted and black: the intersectionality of race, intellectual disability and neurodivergence. Critical and Radical Social Work, 10(2), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1332/204986021x16530492120870

This article critically examines the impact of health and social care provision on separated categories of race, disability and neurodivergence. It deconstructs the racist impacts of the neoliberal individual budgets agenda as experienced by a young... Read More about Young, gifted and black: the intersectionality of race, intellectual disability and neurodivergence.