Narrative Therapy and Mindfulness: Intention, Attention, Ethics. Part 1

This is the first of a matched pair of articles that present concepts and practices for expanding the territory of narrative therapy to include working with attention and present moment awareness. While the narrative literature richly describes how persons are recruited by normative discourses into problem stories and offers a wide range of practices for developing counter narratives, less has been written about how dominant discourse also captures moment-by-moment attention. The authors share ideas about working with attention in much the same way as working with story. In this first article, the authors identify parallels and differences between narrative therapy and the attentional practices associated with mindfulness before providing a preliminary account of work that draws from both traditions. The practices are depicted in terms of the ethics of daily life, in the sense that enhanced moment-by-moment attention promotes intentional ethical choice.

Download Full-text

Counseling Adolescents With Hearing Loss Using a Narrative Therapy Approach

Perspectives on Administration and Supervision ◽

10.1044/aas19.2.72 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 19 (2) ◽

pp. 72-78

Author(s):

Rebecca L. Nelson Crowell ◽

Julie Hanenburg ◽

Amy Gilbertson

Keyword(s):

Hearing Loss ◽

Process Evaluation ◽

Narrative Therapy ◽

Daily Life ◽

Hearing Aid ◽

Self Esteem ◽

Therapy Approach ◽

Self Worth ◽

Counseling Adolescents

Abstract Audiologists have a responsibility to counsel patients with auditory concerns on methods to manage the inherent challenges associated with hearing loss at every point in the process: evaluation, hearing aid fitting, and follow-up visits. Adolescents with hearing loss struggle with the typical developmental challenges along with communicative challenges that can erode one's self-esteem and self-worth. The feeling of “not being connected” to peers can result in feelings of isolation and depression. This article advocates the use of a Narrative Therapy approach to counseling adolescents with hearing loss. Adolescents with hearing loss often have problem-saturated narratives regarding various components of their daily life, friendships, amplification, academics, etc. Audiologists can work with adolescents with hearing loss to deconstruct the problem-saturated narratives and rebuild the narratives into a more empowering message. As the adolescent retells their positive narrative, they are likely to experience increased self-esteem and self-worth.

Download Full-text

Unexpectedness

Kalfou A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies ◽

10.15367/kf.v6i1.235 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

Author(s):

John-Carlos Perea ◽

Jacob E. Perea

Keyword(s):

American Indian ◽

San Francisco ◽

Interdisciplinary Research ◽

Ethnic Studies ◽

College Of Education ◽

Present Moment ◽

State University ◽

Research Projects ◽

Short Survey ◽

Wide Range

The concepts of expectation, anomaly, and unexpectedness that Philip J. Deloria developed in Indians in Unexpected Places (2004) have shaped a wide range of interdisciplinary research projects. In the process, those terms have changed the ways it is possible to think about American Indian representation, cosmopolitanism, and agency. This article revisits my own work in this area and provides a short survey of related scholarship in order to reassess the concept of unexpectedness in the present moment and to consider the ways my deployment of it might change in order to better meet the needs of my students. To begin a process of engaging intergenerational perspectives on this subject, the article concludes with an interview with Dr. Jacob E. Perea, dean emeritus of the Graduate College of Education at San Francisco State University and a veteran of the 1969 student strikes that founded the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University.

Download Full-text

“I wouldn’t call them Muslims!”: Constructing a Respectable Islam

Numen ◽

10.1163/15685276-12341365 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 62 (2-3) ◽

pp. 243-264

Author(s):

Jonas Otterbeck

Keyword(s):

Young Adults ◽

Young Adult ◽

Daily Life ◽

Sociology Of Religion ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

Dominant Discourse ◽

The Media ◽

Mainstream Society

This article addresses the understanding of Islam of nine young adult Muslims living in the Malmö and Copenhagen region.1 Throughout the interviews with the young adults, they mark their distance from what they perceive as unacceptable forms of Islamic ideas and practices, labeling these ideas as extremist and inconsistent. They develop discursive techniques of distancing themselves from the mediated Islam of radicals and the often negative rendering of Islam that they encounter in daily life and in the media. By negotiating with the dominant discourse on what a “respectable religion” should look like, the young adults construct a religiosity that shares much of theformprescribed by mainstream society, but is different incontent. The theoretical framework is drawn from the study of sociology of religion and, in particular, from Beverley Skeggs’ theories on respectability (1997).

Download Full-text

Grasp to See—Object Classification Using Flexion Glove with Support Vector Machine

Sensors ◽

10.3390/s21041461 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 21 (4) ◽

pp. 1461

Author(s):

Shun-Hsin Yu ◽

Jen-Shuo Chang ◽

Chia-Hung Dylan Tsai

Keyword(s):

Support Vector Machine ◽

Daily Life ◽

Object Classification ◽

Target Object ◽

The Other ◽

Support Vector ◽

Wide Range ◽

Dark Space ◽

Flex Sensors ◽

Shape And Size

This paper proposes an object classification method using a flexion glove and machine learning. The classification is performed based on the information obtained from a single grasp on a target object. The flexion glove is developed with five flex sensors mounted on five finger sleeves, and is used for measuring the flexion of individual fingers while grasping an object. Flexion signals are divided into three phases, and they are the phases of picking, holding and releasing, respectively. Grasping features are extracted from the phase of holding for training the support vector machine. Two sets of objects are prepared for the classification test. One is printed-object set and the other is daily-life object set. The printed-object set is for investigating the patterns of grasping with specified shape and size, while the daily-life object set includes nine objects randomly chosen from daily life for demonstrating that the proposed method can be used to identify a wide range of objects. According to the results, the accuracy of the classifications are achieved 95.56% and 88.89% for the sets of printed objects and daily-life objects, respectively. A flexion glove which can perform object classification is successfully developed in this work and is aimed at potential grasp-to-see applications, such as visual impairment aid and recognition in dark space.

Download Full-text

Opium and the Romantics

10.4324/9780815394266-rom25-1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Robert Morrison

Keyword(s):

Samuel Taylor Coleridge ◽

Daily Life ◽

John Keats ◽

Medical Community ◽

Thomas De Quincey ◽

Wide Range ◽

Minor Ailments

Opium was an unremarkable part of daily life in Romantic Britain. It was highly prized by the medical community as a painkiller, and people of every age and class actively and unselfconsciously used it to treat a wide range of major and minor ailments. The Romantic age, however, also marks the crucial moment when British opium-eaters began to celebrate the drug, not for its medicinal powers, but for its recreational properties, as seen especially in the works of John Keats, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Thomas De Quincey.

Download Full-text

JTrack: A Digital Biomarker Platform for Remote Monitoring of Daily-Life Behaviour in Health and Disease

Frontiers in Public Health ◽

10.3389/fpubh.2021.763621 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 ◽

Author(s):

Mehran Sahandi Far ◽

Michael Stolz ◽

Jona M. Fischer ◽

Simon B. Eickhoff ◽

Juergen Dukart

Keyword(s):

Data Management ◽

Open Source ◽

Remote Monitoring ◽

Daily Life ◽

Smartphone Application ◽

Valuable Insight ◽

Motion Sensors ◽

General Data Protection Regulation ◽

Wide Range ◽

Health And Disease

Health-related data being collected by smartphones offer a promising complementary approach to in-clinic assessments. Despite recent contributions, the trade-off between privacy, optimization, stability and research-grade data quality is not well met by existing platforms. Here we introduce the JTrack platform as a secure, reliable and extendable open-source solution for remote monitoring in daily-life and digital-phenotyping. JTrack is an open-source (released under open-source Apache 2.0 licenses) platform for remote assessment of digital biomarkers (DB) in neurological, psychiatric and other indications. JTrack is developed and maintained to comply with security, privacy and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requirements. A wide range of anonymized measurements from motion-sensors, social and physical activities and geolocation information can be collected in either active or passive modes by using JTrack Android-based smartphone application. JTrack also provides an online study management dashboard to monitor data collection across studies. To facilitate scaling, reproducibility, data management and sharing we integrated DataLad as a data management infrastructure. Smartphone-based Digital Biomarker data may provide valuable insight into daily-life behaviour in health and disease. As illustrated using sample data, JTrack provides as an easy and reliable open-source solution for collection of such information.

Download Full-text

JuTrack: A Digital Biomarker Platform for Remote Monitoring in Neuropsychiatric and Psychiatric Diseases (Preprint)

10.2196/preprints.27476 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Mehran Sahandi Far ◽

Michael Stolz ◽

Jona Marcus Fischer ◽

Simon B Eickhoff ◽

Juergen Dukart

Keyword(s):

Data Management ◽

Open Source ◽

Remote Monitoring ◽

Daily Life ◽

Smartphone Application ◽

Valuable Insight ◽

Motion Sensors ◽

Management Tools ◽

General Data Protection Regulation ◽

Wide Range

BACKGROUND Health-related data being collected by smartphones offer a promising complementary approach to in-clinic assessments. OBJECTIVE Here we introduce the JuTrack platform as a secure, reliable and extendable open-source solution for remote monitoring in daily-life and digital phenotyping. METHODS JuTrack consists of an Android-based smartphone application and a web-based project management dashboard. A wide range of anonymized measurements from motion-sensors, social and physical activities and geolocation information can be collected in either active or passive modes. The dashboard also provides management tools to monitor and manage data collection across studies. To facilitate scaling, reproducibility, data management and sharing we integrated DataLad as a data management infrastructure. JuTrack was developed to comply with security, privacy and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requirements. RESULTS JuTrack is an open-source (released under open-source Apache 2.0 licenses) platform for remote assessment of digital biomarkers (DB) in neurological, psychiatric and other indications. The main components of the JuTrack platform and examples of data being collected using JuTrack are presented here. CONCLUSIONS Smartphone-based Digital Biomarker data may provide valuable insight into daily life behaviour in health and disease. JuTrack provides an easy and reliable open-source solution for collection of such data.

Download Full-text

PEERING INTO THE DUSTY CORNERS: MICRO-DEBRIS ANALYSIS AND USE OF SPACE AT THE SITE OF ABU TBEIRAH (NASIRIYAH, IRAQ)

Iraq ◽

10.1017/irq.2018.7 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 80 ◽

pp. 79-111

Author(s):

Susanna Cereda ◽

Licia Romano

Keyword(s):

Daily Life ◽

Economic Structure ◽

Use Of Space ◽

Wide Range ◽

University Of Rome

Excavations carried out in the last five years by “La Sapienza” University of Rome and Iraqi teams at the site of Abu Tbeirah (Nasiriyah, Iraq) exposed a large multi-phased mud-brick building (Building A), internally articulated into various rooms with different purposes, which probably hosted a wide range of activities. This building presents an opportunity to investigate the use of these spaces in order to glimpse the daily life and the socio-economic structure of its past inhabitants. In this paper we present the preliminary outcomes of this study, based on the results of a micro-debris analysis that looked at the distribution of the material residues embedded within the floor of Room 5 of the building.

Download Full-text

A Survey of Information Entropy Metrics for Complex Networks

Entropy ◽

10.3390/e22121417 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 22 (12) ◽

pp. 1417

Author(s):

Yamila M. Omar ◽

Peter Plapper

Keyword(s):

Probability Distribution ◽

Literature Review ◽

Complex Networks ◽

Information Entropy ◽

Future Research ◽

Wide Range ◽

Growing Body ◽

Narrative Literature ◽

Narrative Literature Review ◽

Further Development

Information entropy metrics have been applied to a wide range of problems that were abstracted as complex networks. This growing body of research is scattered in multiple disciplines, which makes it difficult to identify available metrics and understand the context in which they are applicable. In this work, a narrative literature review of information entropy metrics for complex networks is conducted following the PRISMA guidelines. Existing entropy metrics are classified according to three different criteria: whether the metric provides a property of the graph or a graph component (such as the nodes), the chosen probability distribution, and the types of complex networks to which the metrics are applicable. Consequently, this work identifies the areas in need for further development aiming to guide future research efforts.

Download Full-text

Creating a Sexually Just Campus Culture

10.1093/oso/9780190268503.003.0012 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Jennifer Beste

Keyword(s):

Sexual Assault ◽

Cultural Transformation ◽

Sexual Consent ◽

Campus Culture ◽

Present Moment ◽

Just Culture ◽

Wide Range ◽

Hookup Culture ◽

Collective Commitment ◽

Social Scientific

Drawing on the theology of Johann Metz, students’ reflections concerning sexual assault, and social scientific research, this final chapter identifies three essential commitments needed to create a sexually just culture. Those three commitments are: endorsing an affirmative sexual consent standard, embracing a culture of zero tolerance for sexual violence, and forming a conscious, collective commitment among undergraduates to free one another from the constrictive sexual, gender, and social norms of typical party and hookup culture. Citing recent changes in federal regulation on sexual assault and recent social movements by undergraduate activists nationwide, the author suggests that the possibility of cultural transformation and sexual justice on college campuses has never been more within our reach than at the present moment. As the author explains, such transformation will require the collaboration of a wide range of constituents on local, state, and federal levels.

Download Full-text