SAUDI ARABIA: MAKING SENSE OF SELF‐SERVICE

1986 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hussein M.A. Alawi
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Self Service

scholarly journals Hidden voices: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of the experience of surviving breast cancer in Saudi Arabia

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 122-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wafa ALmegewly ◽  
Dinah Gould ◽  
Sally Anstey
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Breast Cancer Survivors ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
God's Will ◽  
Saudi Women ◽  
Making Sense

Background Women with breast cancer often have difficulties in making sense of and understanding their experiences, specifically the ways in which cultural sensitivities impact on and shape their lifeworlds. Aims The aim of this study is to explore the experience of being a breast cancer survivor in Saudi Arabia. Methods Qualitative, in-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 18 Saudi breast cancer survivors aged between 30 and 50 years who had finished treatment 6–47 months before data collection. The data were transcribed verbatim, translated from Arabic into English and analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Results Three themes emerged: the meaning of cancer; hidden survival; and the cultural meaning of survival. For women in Saudi, breast cancer has a cultural stigma linked to death. It changes the sense of self and of society, leading some women to hide their diagnosis from the public and their families. The meaning of survival in a Muslim context has a cultural and religious base, linked to God's will, normality and resumption of activities. Conclusions The study helps give Saudi women a ‘voice’ through the understanding of their experiences of surviving breast cancer. The unique cultural perspectives provide new insights, which can guide healthcare practice and inform the development of programmes to support women who survive breast cancer.

scholarly journals Making Sense of an Unknown Terrain

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas D. Hughes ◽  
Louise Locock ◽  
Sue Simkin ◽  
Anne Stewart ◽  
Anne E. Ferrey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Narrative Interviews ◽  
Considerable Effort ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Self Harm ◽  
The Impact

Self-harm is common in young people, and can have profound effects on parents and other family members. We conducted narrative interviews with 41 parents and other family members of 38 young people, aged up to 25, who had self-harmed. Most of the participants were parents but included one sibling and one spouse. This article reports experiences of the parent participants. A cross-case thematic analysis showed that most participants were bewildered by self-harm. The disruption to their worldview brought about by self-harm prompted many to undergo a process of “sense-making”—by ruminative introspection, looking for information, and building a new way of seeing—to understand and come to terms with self-harm. Most participants appeared to have been successful in making sense of self-harm, though not without considerable effort and emotional struggle. Our findings provide grounds for a deeper socio-cultural understanding of the impact of self-harm on parents.

Noisy Places, Noisy People

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Ferzacca
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Small Community ◽  
Creative Potential ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Gathering Place

Making noise in a basement corner of an ageing mall in Singapore affords a small community of musicians, family and friends a gathering place to meet, eat, drink, smoke and jam loud amplified music. The Doghouse is a ‘device of saturation’, a way of making sense of self and others: it exists so that this sonic community can exact possibilities and creative potential within the limits of official use of public space. Bodily scales are realized in cosmopolitan spaces where local and global interrogations in dialogue, in space, and among things, make trouble and meaning. And so some noisy people have, for now, found a playground where their urban dreams and aspirations are imagined and realized.

Making Sense of Self: An Autoethnographic Study of Identity Formation for Adolescents in Music Therapy

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-150
Author(s):  
Allison Echard
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Developmental Disabilities ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Ego Identity ◽  
Core Concept ◽  
Formation Theory ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Clinical Thinking

Abstract Told through my experiences of working with three teenagers who had mild and moderate developmental disabilities, this autoethnographic study considers identity formation as a core concept in music therapy clinical practice. In doing so, I explored theories of identity formation, including those described by Erikson (1950, Childhood and society, Norton), Marcia and colleagues (1993, Ego identity: A handbook for psychosocial research, Springer), and Crocetti, Rubini, and Meeus (2008, Journal of Adolescence, 31(2), 207–222), relating these concepts to each of the teenagers I worked with. This article, therefore, chronicles the ways in which my clinical thinking shifted from a skills-based approach to one that considers the client’s identity as a whole, leading to suggestions of ways to integrate identity formation theory into clinical practice.

scholarly journals Towards making sense of self through emotional experiences in craft-art

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-227
Author(s):  
Milla Ojala ◽  
Seija Karppinen ◽  
Erja Syrjäläinen
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Making Sense

Dementia, Selves, and Stories

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars-Christer Hydén
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Physical World ◽  
First Century ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Self And Identity ◽  
Over Time

This chapter provides information on the social and cultural background of dementia from the early twentieth century into the early twenty-first century. The chapter presents an overview of the discussions about dementia, self, and identity, with a particular emphasis on research on narrative and dementia. The ideas around identity in dementia, from Kitwood to Sabat and Kontos, are discussed, together with research on storytelling in dementia. A general conclusion from this chapter is that although persons with dementia over time will become increasingly challenged as storytellers, they are still active meaning-makers. They are obviously still engaged in the never-ending activity of making sense of their social as well as physical world—events in the world, as well as what people are saying and doing. Telling stories is central to this endeavor, which entails “world-making” as well as “self-making” through constructing, presenting, and negotiating a sense of self and identity.

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