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Showing 1 to 20 of 127 for “"life story"”.
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Life-Story Book Program: An Art Narrative Approach to Make a Life-Story Book of Japanese American Former Internees
… art techniques to create a book based on their life including internment camp experiences. The process can provide the chance for accessing, externalizing, verbally and nonverbally processing their closed past rather than holding their past quietly within. The study will consist of 20 former …
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The Life Story Analysis of Those Suffering from Autoimmune Thyroiditis
… and Graves’ disease. To accomplish this, the life story methodology was utilized to gather individual experiences from 11 participants diagnosed with Hashimoto’s or Graves’ disease. The participants completed a background and general health questionnaire and 45- to-100-minute virtual interview …
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Temporal representation in narratives of forced removals : a narrative analysis of life story texts
In this thesis I have examined the life stories of three victims of forced removals. It is based on an understanding that there is much that we can learn from the lives of 'ordinary people' and that the oral medium is a rich source of understanding other aspects of society. Chapter 1 sketches the …
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Born into the midst of Parental Drug Misuse: the Voice and Life Story of a Child 'Survivor'
Although parental drug misuse is becoming an increasing concern for child welfare, little is known about the impact it has on children from their unique perspective. In the majority, research fails to listen to the voices of children, as the focus has been on the drug users themselves. …
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The use of life story work in an age inclusive dementia service: a participatory action research study.
… aim of this qualitative study was to examine how life story work can be embedded into an age-inclusive dementia service. The objectives were to: explore the cultural and organisational changes required for practitioners to internalise life story work as part of delivering high-quality dementia …
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The Undergraduate in the “New Urban University”: Recognizing the Role of Agency and its Correlates in the Student’s Academic Life Story
… over time, is growth affected by age, pivotal life experiences, or both?</li> <li>What role can institutions of higher learning play in creating pivotal life experiences to foster growth of students’ academic agency?</li> </ol> <p>This research study utilizes a mixed-methods design divided …
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Hospice Nurses Knowledge, Attitudes, and Reported Confidence in End-of-Life Story Telling and Perceptions of the Dying Experience: Intervention Study
… examined the relationship between an end-of-life story telling class and subsequent nurse’s knowledge, attitudes, and confidence. A convenience sampling method was used. The sample consisted of 6 Hospice Nurse Case Managers. The study findings support offering Hospice Nurses a class on client …
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Who am I? Self and identity narratives told by second-generation ex-members of high control cultic groups. A life story narrative inquiry
This Life Story Narrative Inquiry explores the stories told of self and identity by four individuals who identified themselves as having been raised from infancy in high control, cultic groups and who subsequently left. When a person leaves a group of this kind they often do not leave behind just …
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"Ma vie est vraiment différente de ce que je pensais": A life-story analysis of geographies and gendered subjectivities of Francophone mothers in Kingston
… It exposes how elements of these women’s life-stories, namely mothering, migration, and minority language, intersect with experiences of places to orient their subjectivities, their material conditions and practices, and their future possibilities in various ways. These intersections of …
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Understanding African Refugee/Migrant Educational Transitions from Country of Origin to Refugee Camp to the US: Using Life Story Narratives to Compare Educational Experiences
… students utilizing phenomenological lived story narratives. Comparisons were made between the home country, refugee camp, and the US educational experiences. In this study, the empirical research recognized that US schools made an effort to support newly arrived immigrants by providing ESL, …
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Queer Public Figures in Biopics
… the morality of artifice when representing the life story of a real figure. How does a figure’s representation impact their legacy, reputation, and the perception of queer people in general? The biopic is defined and analysed in terms of genre, subgenre, and conventions. Filmmaker intentions and …
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The Gentleman’s War: The Preservation of Historical Fact Within a Dramatic Structure
… Gentleman’s War" examines and explores the true life story of Arthur Richardson, who was the first Canadian to be awarded the Victoria Cross in a Canadian contingent in the South African (Boer) War.
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Telling life stories and creating life books: a counseling technique for fostering resilience in children
Research on storytelling in counseling and psychotherapy with children has typically involved literary and metaphoric techniques that foster client change. There is limited research on the efficacy of telling one's personal life story as a counseling technique, especially in the school setting. The …
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Technicolor Memoirs of Miss Gene Lily Richardson
… Richardson. She sits down to finally tell her life story to an interviewer. These stories are actual stories from my life that have been changed to fit with the time-period with only slight embellishment. The fictional Miss Gene Lily Richardson is the persona and character through which these …
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Narratives of Continuity & Change: British Theatre Design 1945-2003, An Oral History
… on the basis of evidence from 23 in-depth oral history life story recordings created with a representative sample of theatre design practitioners. These are analysed in combination with three existing life stories available at the British Library Sound Archive to encompass almost half a century of …
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Life Stories in Everyday Practice: A Feminist Communication Study of Life Stories at the Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College
"In this particular community of practice life story fragments played an active role in the development of ""community"" and in the ability of fellows to engage in effective cross-disciplinary dialogue. Stories-on-the-fly grounded academic subject matter in the lives of the fellows, and often …
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A history of the present : recognizing the complex and shifting nature of racism and resistance in the life narratives of the Khayelitsha Internal Forces
… research attempts to represent and analyze the life-story narratives of a group of five former anti-apartheid combatants. Narratives were collected from a total often, in-depth, life-history interviews with five former-members of the Khayelitsha Internal Forces. The Internal Forces represent a …
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Overcoming the Cancer Experience: Narrative Identity in Young Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer
… growth suggests that developing a coherent life-story narrative, making meaning, and finding benefits from negative life events, can contribute to better psychosocial adjustment. The aim of the present study was twofold: understanding the mechanisms that link young adults’ cancer experience …
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A Realist Review and Evaluation of Spark: An Online, Arts in Health Intervention for Older People Experiencing Social Isolation and Loneliness in Wales
… how Spark, an online, community-based creative life story intervention that took place between May 2021 and June 2022 worked to reduce social isolation and loneliness amongst older people in Wales. The thesis also explores why Spark, an intervention run by Cardiff-based, WalesWide Life Story …
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