scholarly journals Reconciling the Uniquely Embodied Grief of Perinatal Death: A Narrative Approach

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 976
Author(s):  
Tamarin Norwood ◽  
John Boulton
Keyword(s):  
Fetal Development ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Perinatal Death ◽  
Continuing Bonds ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Symbiotic Relationship ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Material Basis ◽  
Insight Into

The death of a baby, stillborn or living only briefly after birth, is a moral affront to the cycle of life, leaving parents without the life stories and material objects that traditionally offer comfort to the bereaved, nor—in an increasingly secularized society—a religious framework for making sense of their loss. For the grieving mother, it is also a physical affront, as her body continues to rehearse its part in its symbiotic relationship with a baby whose own body is disintegrating. Attempting to forge continuing bonds with her child after death makes special demands upon the notion of embodied spirituality, as she attempts to make sense of this tragedy in an embodied way. This paper, which reconciles the distinct perspectives of bereaved mothers and children’s doctors, proposes that the thoughtful re-presentation of medical insight into pregnancy and fetal development may assuage parents’ grief by adding precious detail to their baby’s life course, and by offering the mother a material basis to conceptualize her own body as part of the distributed personhood of her baby.

Investigating Life-Stories: Personal Narratives in Pastoral Psychology

1993 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 277-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Ruard Ganzevoort
Keyword(s):  
Life Stories ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Pastoral Psychology ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Narrative Approaches ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Function ◽  
Pastoral Practice ◽  
Insight Into

The subject of this article is the meaning of the personal narrative in pastoral practice and research. A hermeneutical, narrative approach is used to explore the nature and function of the personal narrative, and gives insight into the dynamics of pastoral counseling. Narrative approaches are also both possible and valuable for research and counseling. This reflects the new interest in hermeneutics found in Dutch pastoral psychological literature. Implications for research in pastoral psychology are discussed and possibilities for practice are described. The article concludes with a discussion of the hermeneutical approach.

scholarly journals Children helping to co-construct a digital tool that is designed to increase children’s participation in child welfare investigations in Sweden

2021 ◽  
pp. 147332502199086
Author(s):  
Helena Blomberg ◽  
Gunnel Östlund ◽  
Philip Rautell Lindstedt ◽  
Baran Cürüklü
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Constructionism ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Visual Ethnography ◽  
Digital Tool ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research Project ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Children's Participation

How do children (aged 6–12 years) understand and make use of a digital tool that is under development? This article builds on an ongoing interdisciplinary research project in which children, social workers (the inventers of this social innovation) and researchers together develop an interactive digital tool (application) to strengthen children’s participation during the planning and process of welfare assessments. Departing from social constructionism, and using a discursive narrative approach with visual ethnography, the aim of the article is to display how the children co-construct the application and contribute with “stories of life situations” by drawing themselves as characters and the places they frequent. The findings show that the children improved the application by suggesting more affordances so that they could better create themselves/others, by discovering bugs, and by showing how it could appeal to children of various ages. The application helped the children to start communicating and bonding when creating themselves in detail, drawing places/characters and describing events associated with them, and sharing small life stories. The application can help children and social workers to connect and facilitate children’s participation by allowing them to focus on their own perspectives when drawing and sharing stories.

Drawing Light(ning) from the Clouds of Social Aggression

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 347-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin K. Willer
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Social Aggression ◽  
Visual Narrative ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
Master Narrative ◽  
Middle School Girls ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
School Girls ◽  
Negative Feelings ◽  
Insight Into

The master narrative about social aggression is that it is devastating for girls. Absent from the narrative, however, are girls' voices and a consideration of the positive benefits that targets might incur. Girls' stories of social aggression can be hard to communicate, as adolescents experience challenges making sense of emotionally difficult events. Using Burke's dramaturgical perspective and visual narrative metaphor method, the present study provided girls with a means of purification or a way of identifying both the devastating and redeeming nature of social aggression, including a sequential move from pollution to redemption. Forty-two middle school girls drew and orally described metaphors representing their negative feelings and positive outcomes associated with an experience of social aggression. The analysis revealed four categories of pollution metaphors and four categories of redemption metaphors, as well as five discourse structures that provided insight into how participants constructed their pollution and redemption narratives.

Making sense of humour among men in a weight-loss program: A dialogical narrative approach

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Timothy Budden ◽  
James A. Dimmock ◽  
Brett Smith ◽  
Michael Rosenberg ◽  
Mark R. Beauchamp ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Weight Loss ◽  
Weight Loss Program ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Making Sense

Story and Identity

2020 ◽  
pp. 151-181
Author(s):  
Karen E. Shackleford ◽  
Cynthia Vinney
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Narrative Identity ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way

This chapter explores the way fictional stories impact personal identity. It discusses how identity develops with a particular focus on adolescence. Then, it sheds light on how fiction contributes to identity construction as teens gain insight into things like careers, relationships, values, and beliefs through stories and how these insights can impact their choices for their futures. The chapter also looks at the way people’s emotional investments in their favorite stories can cause them to become extensions of themselves and how this may lead them to use these stories as symbols of who they are. Finally, it explores the topic of narrative identity—the internalized, constantly evolving life story each person tells of himself or herself—and how fiction influences and becomes incorporated into people’s life stories.

scholarly journals Life after the loss: protocol for a Danish longitudinal follow-up study unfolding life and grief after the death of a child during pregnancy from gestational week 14, during birth or in the first 4 weeks of life

BMJ Open ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. e024278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorte Hvidtjørn ◽  
Christina Prinds ◽  
Mette Bliddal ◽  
Tine Brink Henriksen ◽  
Joanne Cacciatore ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neonatal Period ◽  
Perinatal Death ◽  
Emotional Health ◽  
Post Partum ◽  
Continuing Bonds ◽  
General Description ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Death Of A Child ◽  
Psychometric Measures ◽  
Gestational Week

IntroductionAfter the death of a child during pregnancy, birth or in the neonatal period, parents often experience feelings of guilt, disenfranchisement, feelings of betrayal by one’s own body and envy of others. Such bereavement results in high rates of distress: psychologically, emotionally, physiologically and existentially. These data are collected using a national, longitudinal cohort to assess grief in mothers and their partners after the death of a child during pregnancy, birth or in the neonatal period. Our aim is to achieve a general description of grief, emotional health, and existential values after pregnancy or perinatal death in a Danish population.Methods and analysisThe cohort comprises mothers and their partners in Denmark who lost a child during pregnancy from gestational week 14, during birth or in the neonatal period (4 weeks post partum). We began data collection in 2015 and plan to continue until 2024. The aim is to include 5000 participants by 2024, generating the largest cohort in the field to date. Parents are invited to participate at the time of hospital discharge or via the Patient Associations homepage. Data are collected using web-based questionnaires distributed at 1–2, 7 and 13 months after the loss. Sociodemographic and obstetric variables are collected. Validated psychometric measures covering attachment, continuing bonds, post-traumatic stress, prolonged grief, perinatal grief and existential values were chosen to reach our aim.Ethics and disseminationThe study was approved by The Danish National Data Protection Agency (no. 18/15684, 7 October 2014). The results will be disseminated in peer-reviewed and professional journals as well as in layman magazines, lectures and radio broadcasts.

“It’s Not Just Your Dad, It’s Not Just Your Coach…” The Dual-Relationship in Female Tennis Players

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 224-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivier N. Schmid ◽  
Malayna Bernstein ◽  
Vanessa R. Shannon ◽  
Catherine Rishell ◽  
Catherine Griffith
Keyword(s):  
Dual Role ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Tennis Players ◽  
Role Relationship ◽  
Dual Relationship ◽  
Role Relationships ◽  
Volunteer Coaches ◽  
Insight Into

Tennis has been identified as an ideal context for examining the dynamics of parenting and coaching relationships (Gould et al., 2008) but coaching dual-role relationships remain unexplored in this sport and related investigations only included volunteer coaches (Jowett, 2008; Harwood & Knight, 2012). An open-ended interview approach was used to examine how female tennis players previously coached by their fathers (professional coaches) before competing in college tennis perceived their experiences with the dual-role relationship and the coaching transition. A holistic narrative approach was used to reconstruct retrospectively the stories of the participants’ experiences and understand their development. Despite some beneficial aspects, a majority of participants emphasized their challenging experiences with regards to their needs to manage blurred boundaries, receive paternal approval, and endure their fathers’ controlling and abusive behaviors. Coaching transitions helped normalize father-daughter relationships and provided insight into the respective needs that were fulfilled through the dual-role relationships.

Endurance

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deb Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Farm Families ◽  
Rural Australia ◽  
Insight Into

Endurance presents stories of ordinary Australians grappling with extraordinary circumstances, providing insight into their lives, their experiences with drought and their perceptions of climate change. The book opens with the physical impacts, science, politics and economics of drought and climate change in rural Australia. It then highlights the cultural and historical dimensions — taking us to the Mallee wheat-belt, where researcher Deb Anderson interviewed farm families from 2004 to 2007, as climate change awareness grew. Each story is grouped into one of three themes: Survival, Uncertainty and Adaptation. Illustrated with beautiful colour photographs from Museum Victoria, Endurance will appeal to anyone with an interest in life stories, rural Australia and the environment.

scholarly journals Making sense of terrorism: a narrative approach to the study of violent events

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 561-581 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Homolar ◽  
Pablo A. Rodríguez-Merino
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Violent Events
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