Reminiscence and Life Review

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy P. Kropf ◽  
Sherry M. Cummings
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Life Review ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Trauma Survivors ◽  
Cognitively Impaired ◽  
Older Individuals ◽  
Older Woman ◽  
Major Function ◽  
Past Experiences

Chapter 11, “Reminiscence and Life Review: Theory and Practice,” examines the history and theory of reminiscence and life review, outlining their major tenets and principles. A major function of these two approaches is to foster a sense of meaning within the lives of older adults. Various types of reminiscence and life review are highlighted with the connection to meaning-making activities of older individuals. The therapeutic function of life review, which enables individuals to reconcile past experiences that have left pain or feelings of incompleteness, is discussed, and differing types of life review are described. The primary functions of reminiscence are also examined, as are the practice applications of both approaches. Additionally, particular populations for which these approaches have been successfully implemented are highlighted, including trauma survivors and the cognitively impaired. A case study of life review with an older woman experiencing depression following the loss of a son is provided.

Between sexual assault and compassion: The experience of living with a spouse’s dementia-related hypersexuality—A narrative case-study

Dementia ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 147130122110320
Author(s):  
Dovrat Harel ◽  
Tova Band-Winterstein ◽  
Hadass Goldblatt
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Psychological Symptoms ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Intimate Relationship ◽  
Older Woman ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Narrative Case Study ◽  
As If

Background Hypersexuality is one of the behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia. This symptom can lead to poor quality of life for the person who lives with dementia, as well as for his or her caregiver, who might be exposed to sexual assault. Aim This study aimed to highlight the experience of an older woman living and coping with a spouse who exhibits dementia-related hypersexuality. Method A narrative case-study of a single case was designed, composed of four semi-structured interviews conducted over a 10-month period. The data were analyzed through thematic, structural, and performance analysis. Findings Four phases were revealed, depicting the experience of being a partner and caregiver of a spouse with dementia-related hypersexuality: a) “I need help”: A distress call; b) “It depends how long I agree to go on with it”: Living with the ambiguous reality of dementia-related hypersexual behavior within an ongoing intimate relationship; c) “It’s as if I’m hugging someone who’s no longer alive”: The transition from the previous couplehood identity to a new couplehood identity; and d) “I am just taking care of him as if he is a child”: A compassionate couplehood identity construction. Conclusions Living with a partner with dementia-related hypersexuality is a distressing experience for the caregiver-spouse. Yet, positive memories from a long intimate relationship can lead to the creation of a compassionate identity, which supports the caregiving process, and creates a sense of acceptance and meaning making. This, in turn, enables a positive aging experience. These finding have some practical implications for supporting and intervening in such cases.

Personalizing the Past: A Review of Literature with Implications for Historical Interpretation

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lois H. Silverman
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Historical Interpretation ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
The Past ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
And Behavior

The recent perspective known as meaning-making has advanced the belief that understanding interpretive site visitors’ frameworks and past experiences is critical to successful interpretation. How, then, do visitors make meaning of heritage site experiences and of the past in general? This review examines and synthesizes recent studies and considers their contribution to the theory and practice of historical interpretation. In sum, research suggests three major realms of experience from which visitors draw schemata that inform meaning–making at heritage sites: (a) associations with and knowledge of history, (b) experiences and behavior regarding the past in everyday life, and (c) expectations of and behavior at heritage sites. Using this literature as groundwork, three strategies for empirically driven historical interpretation are presented: (a) addressing the nature of history and visitors’ associations, (b) incorporating everyday life behaviors, and (c) interpreting for the social nature of the heritage site visit.

Case Study: Evaluation of an Older Woman With Dementia at a University Speech and Hearing Clinic

2001 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-3
Author(s):  
Andrea Tobochnik ◽  
Kathy Esnlen ◽  
Jennifer Nobles Cora ◽  
Rene Watkins
Keyword(s):  
Older Woman ◽  
Study Evaluation

Posttraumatic Growth in Trauma Survivors: Meaning Making and Locus of Control

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Melissa Zeligman ◽  
◽  
Lindsey Grossman ◽  
Ashley Tanzosh ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Posttraumatic Growth ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Trauma Survivors

scholarly journals Understanding why impact assessment fails; a case study of theory and practice from Wafi-Golpu, Papua New Guinea

2021 ◽  
Vol 89 ◽  
pp. 106582
Author(s):  
Charles Roche ◽  
Martin Brueckner ◽  
Nawasio Walim ◽  
Howard Sindana ◽  
Eugene John
Keyword(s):  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Theory And Practice

Feelings of Quarantine: Allegories for the Lockdown

2021 ◽  
pp. 1354067X2110040
Author(s):  
Linus Paul Frederic Guenther
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Psychological Perspective ◽  
Study Analysis ◽  
Subjective Meaning ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Creative Self ◽  
Life Script ◽  
The Voice

This case study shows how allegories are a means to express the inexpressible and how Allegory Analysis can be a method to reveal it and bring out the subjective meaning making, life script ideology, and capability to deal with the ambivalent in critical life situations. From a cultural psychological perspective, the research is based on feelings during the quasi-quarantine period of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study tries to understand the coping strategies with which people deal with a psychological crisis in general concerning for the COVID-19 lockdown. It discusses further ways to deal with the ambivalences and subjective meaning making arousing through such a crisis. The case study analysis of Miss K. not only showed her meaning making processes and attitude of life but also showed how to deal with the uncertainty during the critical lockdown period. Through her allegories, she utters her current life script ideology that living nowadays means to function like a machine while being creative, self-reflective at the same time. Her meaning making process counterbalanced between the voice of being delivered to withdrawal or depression versus the voice of being able to learn, connect, and relax. Her coping strategy was bearing the ambivalence in a psychological crisis with faith.

Decolonising a landscape architecture studio: Spatial modelling of student narratives

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-47
Author(s):  
Christine Price
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Model ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Spatial Modelling ◽  
First Year ◽  
Spatial Form ◽  
Public Park ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Global North

This paper problematises the dominance of global north perspectives in landscape architectural education, in South Africa where there are urgent calls to decolonise education and make visible indigenous and vernacular meaning-making practices. In grappling with these concerns, this research finds resonance with a multimodal social semiotic approach that acknowledges the interest, agency and resourcefulness of students as meaning-makers in both accessing and challenging dominant educational discourses. This research involves a case study of a design project in a first-year landscape architectural studio. The project requires students to choose a narrative and to represent it as a spatial model: a scaled, 3D maquette of a spatial experience that could be installed in a public park. This practitioner reflection closely analyses the spatial model of one student, Malibongwe, focusing on his interest in meaning-making; the innovative meaning-making practices and diverse resources he draws on; and his expression of spatial signifiers of the Black experiences portrayed in his narrative. This reflection shows how Malibongwe’s narrative is not only reproduced in the spatial model, it is remade: the transformation of resources into three-dimensional spatial form results in new understandings and the production of new meanings.

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