Case Report: The resiliency journey of a Vietnamese female sexual abuse survivor: an exploration in life history

Currently, the studies on sexual abuse trauma, and resilience in Confucian survivors are still limited. The purpose of this study is to explore the resilience of Confucian women after sexual abuse trauma to provide evidence to support in counseling and psychotherapy practices. The article describes the resiliency story of a Vietnamese Confucian female survivor who was abused by her brother from the age of 8 to 16. The life history approach used in qualitative narrative research was applied in this study. The researcher identified two factors that strongly influence the survivor’s resilience: (1) the effectiveness of passive education in the general education curriculum is oriented to both competence and quality development; and (2) an authentic understanding of the core Confucian philosophical doctrine: the neutrality and the self-nurture. Based on the findings, we propose a 7-stage flow diagram of a Confucian women's resilience following sexual abuse. These findings provide important evidence-based practice for counselors and clinicians in supporting and intervening for sexually abused Confucian women and contribute to the impact of studies on religious and spiritual factors affecting the resilience of sexual abuse survivors.

The closer we are, The harder it gets

For the researcher, long-term qualitative investigation of a given subject matter represents an opportunity to acquire comprehensive knowledge of that subject matter in all of its dynamism and complexity. The author of this paper has been carrying out such research among Holocaust survivors, mainly employing the oral history method. This paper is an impressionistic story, a genre not commonly found in Slovak ethnological literature. It constitutes a first attempt to revisit material emerging from years of collaborative investigation with one particular female survivor. The paper alternates between reflections of selected situations and interpretations of events and processes which resulted from the research partner’s activities between 1995 and 2015.

You get to stop him! Gendered violence and interactive witnessing in Netflix’s Kimmy vs The Reverend

Across four seasons of her Netflix hit comedy, Kimmy Schmidt emerged as a strong, female survivor of sexual violence. However, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt would often walk a fine line between post-feminist and feminist understandings of rape and gendered violence, while reinforcing harmful racial tropes rooted in ‘white feminism’. In 2020, Netflix brought Kimmy back for her ‘biggest adventure yet’ in Kimmy vs the Reverend, but, this time, the viewer had the power, as the tagline read, to ‘decide what happens’, with Netflix’s interactive feature. The article argues that Netflix’s interactivity feature is employed in potentially transformative ways, providing a call-to-action to fans and implicating the audience as both spectators and witnesses to injustices of systemic violence against women. However, the 2020 film's investment in, and deployment of white feminist politics mirrors a broader media erasure of the experiences of racialised women, while closing down the interactive potential of identification across difference.

Voces femeninas en la guerra de independencia de Cuba: Lila de Luáces y Eva Adán de Rodríguez

During the war of independence in Cuba, which started in 1868 and lasted ten years, a number of texts appeared in Cuba and the United States detailing the conflict. All of these texts were written by men with the exception of one, published in the US, that was written by a woman. In this article I discuss this testimony and I compare it with another one published in Cuba after the war, also written by another female survivor. I discuss the way violence and the self is represented in these narrations, and most importantly how they build an archive of deeds to criticize Spain’s official (hi)story of the Cuban conflict.

Cardiac Arrests and Outcomes at Accident and Emergency (A&E) Department in A Tertiary Care Hospital of Sri Lanka.

Background : Witnessed cardiac arrest is a common occurrence in an A&E department. The reported incidence of witnessed cardiac arrest is variable around the world. The overall unadjusted survival to hospital discharge rate was18.4% at the time of performing this study [1]. Methods: This descriptive study was conducted between January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016 ( one year) at the A&E department of Provincial General Hospital Kurunegala. The objective was to assess the aetiology, factors associated in outcomes of witnessed cardiac arrests, and the rate of occurrence of cardiac arrest at the A&E of Provincial General Hospital Kurunegala (PGHK). Survivors were followed up on for a one-year period following the study’s conclusion. Results: There were 123 witnessed cardiac arrests (mean age 64 (+/- 15.9) years, 64% male), out of which 25 patients were successfully resuscitated and transferred to intensive care units for further care. However, only 6 (4.9%) patients were discharged from the hospital. The three-month and one-year survival numbers were 6 (4.9%) (males: 4, females: 2) and 4 (3.3%) (males: 3, female: 1) respectively. The age of the sole female survivor after one year was 43 years and the ages of the three male survivors were 46, 54, and 55 years respectively. The most common aetiology for cardiac arrest was myocardial infarction (43.1%) while the most common initial rhythm was non-shockable (82%). The initial rhythm was shockable in all 6 survivors. Conclusion: The overall ratio of survival to discharge in this study was much lower in comparison to international figures. The poor survival rate in this study may be due a very high rate of cardiac arrests with initial non-shockable rhythms in this study’s population.

From personal narrative to global call for action

This paper examines personal narratives and how they change according to the context in which they are narrated. In particular, it argues that personal narratives change as they are mediated by various discourses, genres and modes, as well as by the peculiarities that emerge when speaking and writing in different languages and when undertaking translation. It uses a case-study approach to analyse the different narratives told by Islamic State’s Yezidi female survivor, and United Nations Goodwill ambassador, Nadia Murad, in different contexts in 2014 and in 2015. In 2014, when two Western mass media outlets interviewed Murad, her narrative was compacted and less detailed. This shifted in December 2015 when Murad testified about her ordeal before the Security Council. Mediated by the discourse of the latter and by the genre of testimony, Murad’s narrative became more detailed, and transformed from a description of a personal suffering into a call for action.

Erzählmotive im Zeitzeugeninterview

To speak about the horror of the Holocaust is still extremely difficult. An exploration of our data, a video testimony of a female survivor of the Ghetto in Łódź, showed that she employs certain styles of narration (narrative motifs). This paper first examines some of those motifs and suggests that they might function as a means of self-regulation. In our data they either assist in preventing retraumatization or facilitate the re-experiencing of the dreadful past. The features of those motifs are analysed on a semantic, a prosodic and an embodied level through the usage of Conversation Analysis, PRAAT and Multimodal Analysis.

Adolescent survivor of childhood Acute Myeloid Leukaemia undertakes pregnancy with a severe anthracycline induced cardiomyopathy and risk taking behaviours

A 16-year-old female survivor of childhood Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML) presented 12 weeks pregnant to her haematology oncology late effects appointment. Having failed to attend recent healthcare appointments her severe cardiomyopathy secondary to chemotherapy during childhood was poorly managed and she had missed the opportunity to discuss her reproductive plans and have her periconceptional care delivered. This case emphasises the challenges in engaging Adolescent and Young Adult-aged (AYA-aged) cancer survivors with their healthcare and the importance of narrative medicine, adequate health literacy and early transition to adult services for improved medical care.

Recovering Identity: A Qualitative Investigation of a Survivor of Dissociative Identity Disorder

This qualitative study investigated the subjective experience of a female survivor of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). The study utilized the narrative method, interviewing the participant three separate times. Each semi-structured interview reconstructed a particular time in the participant's life (past, present, and future) as it related to the disorder. Three themes emerged from the participant's experiences with DID: (a) therapeutic outcomes, (b) chronology of DID, and (c) misperceptions of DID.