Facilitate First Thyself: The Person-Centered Dimension of Facilitator Education

2008 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glyn Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Naturalistic Inquiry ◽  
Inquiry Approach ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Personal Qualities ◽  
Potential Issue

This paper discusses the role of the person-centered dimension of facilitator education, which emphasises the attitudes, personal qualities, and/or presence of a facilitator. An overview of person-centered facilitator education, as described in the literature, is provided to enable the interpretation of the findings of a study that explored the theories and practices of facilitator educators. Operating within the interpretivist paradigm; and using a naturalistic inquiry approach, thematic analysis was used with semistructured interviews, participant observation, and graduate surveys. The findings confirmed the importance of helping emerging facilitators to develop high levels of self-awareness and a better understanding of how to manage their presence in the group. The possibility of person-centered facilitator education acting as a form of psychotherapy was flagged as a potential issue even though this was not the case in the programs observed. The study also highlighted the importance of informing emerging facilitators, before enrolment in a program, that some participants may find person-centered facilitator education challenging and confrontational.

Exploring novice Indian school counsellors’ experiences collaborating with teachers and administrators

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Aashna Sadana ◽  
Aneesh Kumar
Keyword(s):  
School Climate ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Indian School ◽  
School Counsellors ◽  
Improved Outcomes ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Collaboration Strategies

Abstract Previous studies have shown that collaboration between school counsellors and other stakeholders such as teachers and administrators leads to improved outcomes for students and a better school climate. The current qualitative study explored the experiences and perceptions of novice school counsellors in India regarding collaboration with teachers and administrators. The sample included 11 novice school counsellors working in five different cities who were recruited using purposive sampling. The thematic analysis of the data collected via semistructured interviews revealed six main themes: ‘Counsellors’ perceptions about collaboration’, ‘Collaboration with teachers’, ‘Collaboration with administrators’, ‘Challenges faced during collaboration’, ‘Strategies helpful in collaboration’ and ‘Impact of training’. Implications discussed include the need for school counsellors to advocate for their role, the need for training programs to prepare stakeholders for collaboration, and the need for policies to integrate the role of a school counsellor into schools.

scholarly journals “Coach Really Knew What I Needed and Understood Me Well as a Person”: Effective Communication Acts in Coach–Athlete Interactions among Korean Olympic Archers

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (9) ◽  
pp. 3101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Youngsook Kim ◽  
Inchon Park
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Sports Performance ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Communicative Actions ◽  
Practical Implications

The purpose of this study is to qualitatively explore situations in which athletes perceived communication with their coach to be important and determine the effect of this communication on the athletes. Literature on the communication process in sports emphasizes the distinct characteristics of each sports and its setting. However, previous research has not studied various settings in detail, and archery is yet to be explored. The qualitative process included an in-depth, semi-structured interview with eight Olympic archers. Thematic analysis was used to interpret the data. Athletes perceived communication with coaches to be important during their performance, while dealing with psychological crises, and during their training. Our analysis suggests that, depending on the communicative actions, a coach may positively or negatively impact an athlete’s self-awareness, self-confidence, anxiety, autonomy, and motivation. A noteworthy finding of this study is that archers perceive communication with coaches about the selection and management of equipment as important. This study emphasizes the critical role of an athlete’s communication with the coach in various situations and discusses the theoretical and practical implications in the context of sports performance.

The Nightly Round: Space, Social Capital, and Urban Black Nightlife

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus Anthony Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Spatial Mobility ◽  
The Social ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Spatial Isolation ◽  
Urban Blacks ◽  
Black Lesbians ◽  
Using Data

Using data generated from participant observation and semistructured interviews, I consider the ways in which nightlife, or what might be imagined as the nightly round—a process encompassing the social interactions, behaviors, and actions involved in going to, being in, and leaving the club—is used to mitigate the effects of social and spatial isolation, complementing the accomplishment of the daily round. Through an analysis of the social world of the Spot, I argue that understanding the ways in which urban blacks use space in the nightclub to mediate racial segregation, sexual segregation, and limited social capital expands our current understanding of the spatial mobility of urban blacks as well as the important role of extra–neighborhood spaces in such processes. Further, I highlight the ways that urban blacks use space in the nightclub to leverage socioeconomic opportunities and enhance social networks. While I found that black heterosexual and lesbian and gay patrons used space in similar ways at the Spot, black lesbians and gays were more likely to use the club as a space to develop ties of social support.

The Prayer of a Married Man Is Equal to Seventy Prayers of a Single Man

1999 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 617-632 ◽  
Author(s):  
BAHIRA SHERIF
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Societal Norms ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Two Generations ◽  
Upper Middle Class ◽  
The Life Course

This study examines the central role of marriage among upper-middle-class Muslim Egyptians in Cairo, Egypt. It is based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out over a total of 20 months by the author between 1988 and 1996. Using religious and legal sources as well as semistructured interviews and participant observation among two generations of 20 households, this study indicates that marriage continues to occupy a significant place in the life course of both upper-middle-class Muslim men and women. This article indicates that societal norms, as well as family structure and expectations, influence the prevalence of marriage as a necessary rite of passage for achieving adulthood among this class of Egyptians. Furthermore, this article describes the actual customs, beliefs, and practices associated with Muslim Egyptian marriages to counteract the Western bias that often obscures studies of this area of the world.

scholarly journals Role of Technology in Self-Assessment and Feedback Among Hospitalist Physicians: Semistructured Interviews and Thematic Analysis (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Lukas Yin ◽  
Pargol Gheissari ◽  
Inna Wanyin Lin ◽  
Michael Sobolev ◽  
John P Pollak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Specific Objective ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Data Points ◽  
Self Assessments ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Patient Relationships

BACKGROUND Lifelong learning is embedded in the culture of medicine, but there are limited tools currently available for many clinicians, including hospitalists, to help improve their own practice. Although there are requirements for continuing medical education, resources for learning new clinical guidelines, and developing fields aimed at facilitating peer-to-peer feedback, there is a gap in the availability of tools that enable clinicians to learn based on their own patients and clinical decisions. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to explore the technologies or modifications to existing systems that could be used to benefit hospitalist physicians in pursuing self-assessment and improvement by understanding physicians’ current practices and their reactions to proposed possibilities. METHODS Semistructured interviews were conducted in two separate stages with analysis performed after each stage. In the first stage, interviews (N=12) were conducted to understand the ways in which hospitalist physicians are currently gathering feedback and assessing their practice. A thematic analysis of these interviews informed the prototype used to elicit responses in the second stage. RESULTS Clinicians actively look for feedback that they can apply to their practice, with the majority of the feedback obtained through self-assessment. The following three themes surrounding this aspect were identified in the first round of semistructured interviews: collaboration, self-reliance, and uncertainty, each with three related subthemes. Using a wireframe, the second round of interviews led to identifying the features that are currently challenging to use or could be made available with technology. CONCLUSIONS Based on each theme and subtheme, we provide targeted recommendations for use by relevant stakeholders such as institutions, clinicians, and technologists. Most hospitalist self-assessments occur on a rolling basis, specifically using data in electronic medical records as their primary source. Specific objective data points or subjective patient relationships lead clinicians to review their patient cases and to assess their own performance. However, current systems are not built for these analyses or for clinicians to perform self-assessment, making this a burdensome and incomplete process. Building a platform that focuses on providing and curating the information used for self-assessment could help physicians make more accurately informed changes to their own clinical practice and decision-making.

scholarly journals The student as a subject of transformative activity in the period of professional training

2020 ◽  
Vol 175 ◽  
pp. 15013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatyana Scherbakova ◽  
Dinamutdin Misirov ◽  
Marina Akopyan ◽  
Larisa Ogannisyan
Keyword(s):  
Personal Growth ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Individual Student ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Transforming Activity ◽  
Personal Qualities ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Function ◽  
Meaning And Function

The work includes a detailed analysis of the specifics of the current activity and description of its role in the development of professional success of future specialists in the context of modern sociorealism. Based on the results of the analysis of modern requirements to the student as a subject of autopsychological activity, the psychological factors of its productivity are identified. The paper presents a review of significant personal qualities of students, considered as internal determinants of successful transforming activity of a modern specialist: features of the value-semantic sphere, psychological, emotional and volitional characteristics of subjectivity. Factors that facilitate and block constructive activity aimed at promising transformations are shown. Considered extraction and interactively transformative in nature, their meaning and function in the development of the individual student. Various vectors of transformative activity in childhood are considered. The role of self-attitude, self-awareness, reflection of students’ experience and knowledge in ensuring the productivity of their professional and personal growth is revealed. Based on the analysis of the results of an empirical study, we describe the content features of modern students’ ideas about the essence and determinants of the positive transformative activity of its role in achieving future professionalsuccess.

scholarly journals Role of Technology in Self-Assessment and Feedback Among Hospitalist Physicians: Semistructured Interviews and Thematic Analysis

10.2196/23299 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (11) ◽  
pp. e23299
Author(s):  
Andrew Lukas Yin ◽  
Pargol Gheissari ◽  
Inna Wanyin Lin ◽  
Michael Sobolev ◽  
John P Pollak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Specific Objective ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Data Points ◽  
Self Assessments ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Patient Relationships

Background Lifelong learning is embedded in the culture of medicine, but there are limited tools currently available for many clinicians, including hospitalists, to help improve their own practice. Although there are requirements for continuing medical education, resources for learning new clinical guidelines, and developing fields aimed at facilitating peer-to-peer feedback, there is a gap in the availability of tools that enable clinicians to learn based on their own patients and clinical decisions. Objective The aim of this study was to explore the technologies or modifications to existing systems that could be used to benefit hospitalist physicians in pursuing self-assessment and improvement by understanding physicians’ current practices and their reactions to proposed possibilities. Methods Semistructured interviews were conducted in two separate stages with analysis performed after each stage. In the first stage, interviews (N=12) were conducted to understand the ways in which hospitalist physicians are currently gathering feedback and assessing their practice. A thematic analysis of these interviews informed the prototype used to elicit responses in the second stage. Results Clinicians actively look for feedback that they can apply to their practice, with the majority of the feedback obtained through self-assessment. The following three themes surrounding this aspect were identified in the first round of semistructured interviews: collaboration, self-reliance, and uncertainty, each with three related subthemes. Using a wireframe, the second round of interviews led to identifying the features that are currently challenging to use or could be made available with technology. Conclusions Based on each theme and subtheme, we provide targeted recommendations for use by relevant stakeholders such as institutions, clinicians, and technologists. Most hospitalist self-assessments occur on a rolling basis, specifically using data in electronic medical records as their primary source. Specific objective data points or subjective patient relationships lead clinicians to review their patient cases and to assess their own performance. However, current systems are not built for these analyses or for clinicians to perform self-assessment, making this a burdensome and incomplete process. Building a platform that focuses on providing and curating the information used for self-assessment could help physicians make more accurately informed changes to their own clinical practice and decision-making.

Adherence to Fitness Training of Elite Netball Players: A Naturalistic Inquiry

1999 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire L. Palmer ◽  
Les Burwitz ◽  
Nickolas C. Smith ◽  
David Collins
Keyword(s):  
Exercise Adherence ◽  
Naturalistic Inquiry ◽  
Large Variability ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Maintenance Behaviors ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Facilitators And Barriers ◽  
Fitness Training ◽  
Cross Case Analysis

This study uses naturalistic inquiry to identify fitness training facilitators and barriers experienced by elite netball players and to determine whether they were related to types of Fitness training behavior. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 15 female national netball players. Inductive analysis revealed large variability between players’ fitness-training behaviors. Four case families of training behavior based on similar adoption and maintenance behaviors were identified. Cross-case analysis revealed that (a) self-motivation, enjoyment, attitude toward fitness training, and role of an England netball player were key facilitators of fitness training behavior; (b) facilitators and barriers appeared similar to those identified in the exercise-adherence literature; and (c) most facilitators and barriers could be viewed as operating through a revised theory of planned behavior (Maddux, 1993). Practical applications of the findings are discussed.

Tour Guide Perspectives on Representations of Slavery at a Heritage Museum

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Velvet Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Tour Guides ◽  
Memorial Museum ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
The Us ◽  
Museum Staff ◽  
Guided Tours

In recent years, scholars have called for greater recognition and representation of the role of slavery and the contributions of the enslaved at a multitude of heritage sites in, and outside, of the US. The framework of difficult heritage, as grounded in difficult knowledge, draws attention to the problems associated with the processes of heritage-making, including the challenges faced by those tasked with representing traumatic pasts as well as by those who encounter the representations. Thus, the purpose of this exploratory study was to obtain the perspectives of tour guides regarding a greater representation of slavery at one possible heritage museum, the Sam Houston Memorial Museum in Huntsville, Texas, USA. These guides are crucial actors because they are responsible for both representing the heritage of slavery and managing a potentially complex range of visitor responses to these representations. The study drew from participant observation of guided tours of the museum property and semistructured interviews with museum staff, including those individuals who are directly responsible for guiding tours or play a supporting role in tours. While the guides indicated that they felt slavery was, indeed, an appropriate topic at the site, they expressed concerns about expanding representation of the topic. These concerns included the logistical constraints faced on tours, their knowledge of and comfort with the topic, and their perceptions about visitor expectations for the museum.

Understanding Experiences of Diabetes Medications Among African Americans Living With Type 2 Diabetes

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 363-371 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denise Bockwoldt ◽  
Beth A. Staffileno ◽  
Lola Coke ◽  
Rebekah Hamilton ◽  
Lou Fogg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Type 2 Diabetes ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Roy Adaptation Model ◽  
Self Blame ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Adaptation Model

African American (AA) adults are disproportionally affected by type 2 diabetes and are diagnosed at an earlier age, but are less adherent to diabetes medications compared with the general population. This qualitative study sought to describe the experiences of taking diabetes medications among midlife AA men and women with type 2 diabetes and to identify factors that influence these experiences. Fifteen AAs completed semistructured interviews. Using the Roy adaptation model, thematic analysis coded for both adaptive and ineffective experiences. Adaptive experiences included self-confidence in one’s ability to control diabetes, a belief in the value of diabetes medication, assuming responsibility for one’s health, developing a routine for taking medication, and positive relationships with the care team. Ineffective experiences for medication taking included: feeling powerless over diabetes, self-blame, and fear. One’s self-concept as a person with diabetes, as well as assuming the role of “medication taker,” were prominent themes.

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