The Art of Working With Nature in Nature-Based Therapies

2020 ◽  
pp. 105382592093363
Author(s):  
Lia Naor ◽  
Ofra Mayseless
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Basic Belief ◽  
Field Observations ◽  
Therapeutic Approaches ◽  
Therapeutic Goals ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Shed Light

Background: Nature-based therapeutic approaches have largely centered on the significance of nature, as a unique setting. This article focuses on an additional perspective, that of nature as actively influencing the therapeutic process, providing significant content. Purpose: The main objective of this study was to shed light on how practitioners experience, perceive, and work with nature to serve therapeutic goals. Methodology/Approach: Grounded theory inquiry was implemented. Data included in-depth interviews conducted with 26 nature-based practitioners with different professional backgrounds from five countries and field observations of six nature-based workshops. Findings/Conclusions: Four major categories emerged: (a) A basic belief among practitioners that nature is actively influencing the therapeutic process, providing significant and relevant personal information; (b) the practitioners’ relationship with nature and its role in the therapeutic process; (c) the practice of working with nature so nature’s input is acknowledged and integrated intentionally; (d) creating the conditions for the clients’ engagement with nature as a resource via five themes. Implications: This study expands on common notions of nature-based facilitation, illuminating the possibilities and potential of integrating nature’s input as beneficial and relevant to the therapeutic process by working with nature. The operational and practical steps for working with nature are delineated.

Filipino Domestic Workers and Their Capacity Development

2016 ◽  
Vol 59 (6) ◽  
pp. 824-841
Author(s):  
Jennifer Loh ◽  
Alicia F. Estrellado
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Capacity Development ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Depth Interviews

This study explored the day-to-day experiences of female Filipino domestic workers in Singapore, including their working conditions, employee–employer relationships, and psychological health. In-depth interviews were conducted with 18 women. Using grounded theory, the emergent themes revealed high levels of variation, both within and between women, suggesting that the quality of domestic workers’ lives depends largely on the personal characteristics of their employers or the workers themselves, rather than on any system of protection. More importantly, participants displayed positive and resilient coping strategies which enabled them to thrive despite restrictive circumstances. Implications pertaining to capabilities and empowerment development were discussed.

Black-white mixed race young people in Ireland and their lived experiences of racialised exclusion

2021 ◽  
pp. 079160352110684
Author(s):  
Patti O’Malley
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
Regular Feature ◽  
Black African ◽  
Academic Scholarship ◽  
Irish Context ◽  
Irish Identity ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Shed Light

The multiracial family and the existence of mixed race children have come to be a regular feature of Irish familial life. Yet, nation-building discourses have promulgated notions of ethnic and religious homogeneity with Irish identity being racialised exclusively as white. Moreover, to date, there has been a dearth of academic scholarship related to racial mixedness in the Irish context. Through in-depth interviews, this paper sets out, therefore, to provide empirical insight into the lives of fifteen black (African) – white (Irish) mixed race young people (aged 4 to 18) with a particular focus on their experiences of racialised exclusion. Indeed, findings suggest that, as in other majority white national contexts, the black-white mixed race young people are racialised as black in the Irish public domain and as such, are positioned as ‘racialised outsiders’. In fact, their narrative accounts shed light on everyday encounters saturated by ‘us-them’ racial constructs based on phenotype. Thus, these young people, who are not fully recognised as mixed race Irish citizens, are effectively deprived of a space in which to articulate their belonging within the existing statist (i.e. inside/outside) framework.

scholarly journals Individuals' experiences of involuntary admissions and preserving control: qualitative study

BJPsych Open ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 501-509 ◽  
Author(s):  
David McGuinness ◽  
Kathy Murphy ◽  
Emma Bainbridge ◽  
Liz Brosnan ◽  
Mary Keys ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Involuntary Admission ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Therapeutic Approaches ◽  
Admission Process ◽  
Social Lives ◽  
Theoretical Sampling ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach

BackgroundA theoretical model of individuals' experiences before, during and after involuntary admission has not yet been established.AimsTo develop an understanding of individuals' experiences over the course of the involuntary admission process.MethodFifty individuals were recruited through purposive and theoretical sampling and interviewed 3 months after their involuntary admission. Analyses were conducted using a Straussian grounded theory approach.ResultsThe ‘theory of preserving control’ (ToPC) emerged from individuals' accounts of how they adapted to the experience of involuntary admission. The ToPC explains how individuals manage to reclaim control over their emotional, personal and social lives and consists of three categories: ‘losing control’, ‘regaining control’ and ‘maintaining control’, and a number of related subcategories.ConclusionsInvoluntary admission triggers a multifaceted process of control preservation. Clinicians need to develop therapeutic approaches that enable individuals to regain and maintain control over the course of their involuntary admission.Declaration of interestNone.

scholarly journals The Trials and Tribulations of Applied Triangulation: Weighing Different Data Sources

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian G. Kern
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Practical Research ◽  
The Status ◽  
Analytical Strategies ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Illustrative Application

Researchers employ triangulation to increase the validity of inference in qualitative and quantitative research. Leuffen, Shikano, and Walter have presented guidance as to which strategies to use when triangulating data sources. In this article, I explore how their findings can be translated for practical research purposes. I offer an illustrative application concentrating on the political power of traditional political authorities in Uganda and Tanzania. I analyze the status quo of political power and the preferred political power of traditional leaders. To triangulate, I use three sources: (1) constitutional-legal texts, (2) the Afrobarometer survey, and (3) in-depth interviews. I shed light on possible problems and analytical strategies for triangulation in practice, with a specific focus on convergence and divergence of sources.

State of the Art — 1973

1973 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 175-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan B. Epstein ◽  
Duane S. Bishop
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Therapeutic Approaches ◽  
Training And Education ◽  
Rigorous Approach ◽  
The Family ◽  
Process And Outcome ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
Made In

In summary, it can be said that progress is being made in the field, but slowly. The ‘art’ is vigorous, vital and exciting. The ranks of family therapists are swelling and they are coming from backgrounds of different theoretical persuasions and with varying degrees of sophistication in their training and education. This mélange does lead to excitement and turbulence but often detracts from the necessary rigour that a scientific discipline must develop in order to reach maturity. Systems theory allows for easy conceptualization of one another's behaviour in the system, and permits a much clearer understanding of the therapeutic process based upon it, in contrast to therapeutic approaches based on other models. The authors found negotiation to be therapeutically effective when made explicit. In addition they place the focus on the ‘here and now’ and encourage the increased labeling by family members of interactions (affective and behavioural) and their effects (affective and behavioural), according to the Family Categories Schema previously referred to. Efforts are directed especially towards dealing with the current resistances to problem solutions. Epstein et al. have reported on an ongoing program of research which attempts to examine the process and outcome of family therapy (7,10,21,22,25,26). What is needed now is a more rigorous approach to research and the development of a necessary theoretical base in order that a more systematic and scientific approach can be developed for treating families.

scholarly journals ‘They Eat Potatoes, I Eat Rice’: Symbolic Boundary Making and Space in Neighbour Relations

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 22-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gwen Van Eijk
Keyword(s):  
Personal Information ◽  
Spatial Proximity ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Symbolic Boundaries ◽  
Personal Privacy ◽  
Social Mixing ◽  
Boundary Making ◽  
Close Spatial Proximity ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Symbolic Boundary

This article examines ‘neighbouring’ as the setting in which cross-category relations develop and symbolic boundaries are constructed. The study is based on thirty in-depth interviews with residents living in a multi-ethnic and a mono-ethnic neighbourhood in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The findings challenge the hoped-for outcomes of social mixing in neighbourhoods, as well as the view that boundary making is something inherent to multi-ethnic neighbourhoods only. Neighbour relations are often setting-specific (relations are interchangeable, scripted and bounded, and passively maintained), which is relevant for understanding the spatiality of neighbouring and the limited exchange of personal information between neighbours. Because neighbouring involves the balancing of personal privacy and close spatial proximity, the exchange of personal information is limited, while spatial proximity ensures easy access to observable (through seeing, hearing and smelling) categorical markers that signify class, ethnicity, lifestyle, etc. In this way, neighbour interaction reconstructs symbolic boundaries rather than breaking them down.

scholarly journals Experience with the triple fixed combination in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

2022 ◽  
pp. 80-85
Author(s):  
I. V. Demko ◽  
M. G. Mamaeva ◽  
E. A. Sobko ◽  
A. Yu. Kraposhina ◽  
N. V. Gordeeva
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease ◽  
Pulmonary Disease ◽  
Fixed Combination ◽  
Symptom Control ◽  
Chronic Obstructive ◽  
Therapeutic Approaches ◽  
Obstructive Pulmonary Disease ◽  
Therapeutic Goals ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Impact

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is one of the most important problems of modern medicine associated with a high mortality rate, high costs of treatment and relief of exacerbations of COPD. The main objectives of COPD treatment are symptom control, reduce the frequency of exacerbations and hospitalizations, and reduced risk of exacerbation in the future. The recommendations of the GOLD initiative propose a treatment approach based on the assessment of exacerbation rates external respiratory function indicators (spirometric classification of GOLD), the severity of symptoms assessed on the CAT test and mMRC. When choosing therapy, the physician must first of all take into account the effectiveness, safety of the drug, adherence to treatment in order to achieve the therapeutic goals of treating patients with COPD. The change in therapeutic approaches in COPD treatment is associated with the accumulation of knowledge in physiology, clinical pharmacology, and the isolation of new clinical phenotypes of COPD. Currently, the main classes of drugs for the treatment of COPD are long-acting beta-agonists (LABA), longacting anticholinergics (LAMA), and inhaled glucocorticosteroids (ICS). The evolution of therapeutic approaches in COPD treatment has led to the creation of new fixed inhalation combinations of the main groups of drugs for COPD treatment. The therapeutic strategies recommended by GOLD and the Russian Federal Guidelines determine the long-term goals of COPD treatment – the impact on the risk of exacerbations in the future. The presented clinical observation of a patient with severe COPD demonstrates the effectiveness of a triple fixed combination vilanterol/umeclidinium/fluticasone furoate 55/22/92 μg as a basic therapy. The  chosen treatment strategy not only reduces the  severity of  the  symptoms of  the  disease, but also reduces the  risk of exacerbations in the future.

scholarly journals Kontanthjælpsmodtagerens kritiske register

2015 ◽  
pp. 63-77
Author(s):  
Mathias Herup Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Political Protest ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Joint Work ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Protests ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Domestic Form ◽  
Shed Light

This article investigates different acts of political protests currently floating from unemployed citizens who are being affected by recent retrenchment policy reforms. Whereas most of the existing literature tends to portray political protest as either collective and public or individual and private, this article attempts instead to shed light on the plurality of normative resources activated by the unemployed in a highly critical situation. Thereby the analysis moves between the collective and the individual as well as between the public and the private. Using the theoretical framework developed by Laurent Thévenot and Luc Boltanski in their joint work on justification, the article analyses a specific case, namely unemployed Danish recipients of social assistance who are affected by a new policy initiative meaning that their income has been lowered. Drawing on newspaper articles and qualitative in-depth interviews with affected citizens, the analysis unfolds and theorizes upon three very different forms of protesting: a civic, an industrial and a domestic form of resistance.

scholarly journals PROGRAM PEMULIHAN PELANCONGAN PASCA BENCANA GEMPA BUMI 2015 DI SEKITAR PINGGIRAN GUNUNG KINABALU, KUNDASANG: CABARAN DAN STRATEGI

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raihan Anas ◽  
Rosazman Hussin ◽  
Badariah Ab Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Field Observations ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Main Approach ◽  
Depth Data ◽  
Mount Kinabalu ◽  
Recovery Program ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Post Disaster

This study is on the post-earthquake disaster recovery program in Kundasang located on the outskirts of Mount Kinabalu, Ranau Sabah. Therefore, this study reviews the post-disaster tourism recovery program conducted by members of the local community to revive existing tourism products. The main approach of this study is the qualitative approach. Methods of collecting data such as in-depth interviews with seven informants involved. Besides, field observations have been applied to obtain more in-depth data for this study. The results show that the community in Kampung Mesilou Kundasang has been directly and actively involved in the post-disaster tourism recovery program. The findings show that there are issues and challenges faced by community members whose issues and challenges are different in the process of implementing and implementing the post-earthquake earthquake recovery program in Sabah Kundasang.   ABSTRAK Kajian ini adalah mengenai program pemulihan pelancongan pasca bencana gempa bumi di Kundasang yang terletak di pinggiran Gunung Kinabalu, Ranau Sabah.Gempa bumi yang berlaku pada 05 Jun 2015 di kawasan Gunung Kinabalu telah menyebabkan aktiviti pelancongan di sekitar Kundasang telah terjejas. Oleh itu, kajian ini meninjau program pemulihan pelancongan pasca bencana yang dilakukan oleh ahli komuniti setempat untuk memulihkan semula produk pelancongan yang sedia ada. Pendekatan utama kajian ini adalah pendekatan kualitatif. Kaedah kutipan data seperti temubual mendalam kepada tujuh orang informan yang melibatkan ahli komuniti yang berkepentingan. Selain itu, pemerhatian di lapangan telah diaplikasikan untuk mendapatkan data yang lebih mendalam bagi kajian ini. Hasil kajian mendapati bahawa komuniti di Kampung Mesilou Kundasang telah terlibat secara langsung dan aktif dalam program pemulihan pelancongan pasca bencana. Hasil kajian mendapati bahawa wujud isu serta cabaran yang dihadapi oleh ahli komuniti dimana isu dan cabaran yang dihadapi adalah berbeza dalam proses melaksanakan dan semasa melaksanakan program pemulihan pelancongan pasca bencana gempa bumi di Kundasang Sabah.                                                                                                         

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