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Hibsch AN, Mason SE. The New Age of Creative Expression: The Effect of Blogging on Emotional Well-Being. JOURNAL OF CREATIVITY IN MENTAL HEALTH 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/15401383.2020.1820925] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Coaston SC. Taming the Brain Weasels: Reducing Self-Criticism Through Externalization and Compassion. JOURNAL OF CREATIVITY IN MENTAL HEALTH 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/15401383.2019.1644695] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Few-Demo AL, Arditti JA. Relational vulnerabilities of incarcerated and reentry mothers: therapeutic implications. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OFFENDER THERAPY AND COMPARATIVE CRIMINOLOGY 2014; 58:1297-1320. [PMID: 23847275 DOI: 10.1177/0306624x13495378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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A qualitative study involving a follow-up interview with 10 incarcerated and reentry mothers in rural southwest and central Virginia was conducted to explore the influence that women's close relationships have on their reentry experiences with their families. The Vulnerability Conceptual Model (VCM) was used to sensitize an examination of how incarcerated and reentry mothers negotiate relational vulnerabilities in the context of varying situational vulnerability. Grounded theory analysis revealed three themes that characterized relational vulnerabilities. Given our focus on close relationships and the potential of the VCM to identify opportunities for resilience and vulnerability, we highlighted the influence of ambiguous and ambivalent relationships and unresolved loss and grief due to relationship dissolution or the death of a parent, sibling, child, or intimate partner in the reentry process. The data revealed two types of reentry mothers with divergent trajectories for social reintegration. Implications of these types for therapeutic treatment approaches for reentry women are discussed.
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Bute JJ, Comer K, Lauten KM, Sanematsu HY, Moore CM, Lynch D, Chumbler NR. Implementation of a journal prototype for pregnant and parenting adolescents. EVALUATION AND PROGRAM PLANNING 2014; 46:122-130. [PMID: 24973758 DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2014.05.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2013] [Revised: 05/25/2014] [Accepted: 05/26/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Teenage pregnancy and childbearing remain pressing public health issues that have garnered attention from public health officials and social services agencies. This paper reports on the initial implementation and formative evaluation of a journaling program used as a means of communicating health information to pregnant and parenting adolescents (young women age 15-19) while also providing participants with a means of self-expression. The journaling prototype was implemented in a community-based agency in the Midwest by Family Support Specialists (FSSs) who made home visits on a monthly basis to assist pregnant and parenting adolescents (n=52) with successful family planning and public health education. A mixed method approach of qualitative (analysis of journals, field notes, and responses of semi-structured interviews with FSSs) and quantitative (questionnaires from pregnant and parenting adolescent respondents) data with purposive sampling was employed to evaluate the implementation of the journaling intervention. Twenty of the 52 study participants were pregnant when the journaling intervention was implemented, while 32 were not pregnant, but recently had a child and were currently parenting. Two core themes emerged from analysis of the data after the implementation of the journals: (1) usefulness of the journal and responsiveness to participants' information needs and (2) functionality challenges. The results offer practical starting points to tailor the implementation of journaling in other contexts. Further, areas for improvement emerged regarding the distribution timeline for the journal and the content of the journal itself. As such, we discuss the lessons learned through this collaborative project and suggest opportunities for future phases of the journal intervention.
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- Jennifer J Bute
- Department of Communication Studies, IU School of Liberal Arts, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Cavanaugh Hall 307J, 425 University Boulevard, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.
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- Collaborative Research & Health Geoinformatics, The Polis Center, 1200 Waterway Boulevard, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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- Survey Research Center at IUPUI, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, 425 University Boulevard, CA133, Indianapolis, IN 46202-5140, USA
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- Visual Communication Design, Herron School of Art and Design, Indiana University, 735 W. New York St., Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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- Attic Design Collective, 212 W 10th Street Suite D385, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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- Attic Design Collective, 212 W 10th Street Suite D385, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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- Department of Health Policy and Management, College of Public Health, University of Georgia, 110 E. Clayton Street, Ste. 300, Athens, GA 30602, USA
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Ricks L, Kitchens S, Goodrich T, Hancock E. My Story: The Use of Narrative Therapy in Individual and Group Counseling. JOURNAL OF CREATIVITY IN MENTAL HEALTH 2014. [DOI: 10.1080/15401383.2013.870947] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Nevinski RL. Self-expressive writing as a therapeutic intervention for veterans and family members. JOURNAL OF POETRY THERAPY 2013. [DOI: 10.1080/08893675.2013.849044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Peterkin A, Esplen MJ, Hann J, Lawson A. A pilot study of a narrative competence group to enhance coping and quality of life in patients with HIV. Arts Health 2013. [DOI: 10.1080/17533015.2012.693513] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Mosavel M, Ahmed R, Daniels D, Simon C. Community researchers conducting health disparities research: Ethical and other insights from fieldwork journaling. Soc Sci Med 2011; 73:145-52. [PMID: 21680071 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.04.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2010] [Revised: 03/31/2011] [Accepted: 04/27/2011] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Lay persons who are trained to conduct research in their own communities form an essential part of many research projects. However, the effects of conducting research in their own communities have not been adequately explored. This paper examines the experiences, perceptions, and challenges faced by a group of community researchers during their involvement in a research project that examined if, and how, the relationships between mothers and their adolescent daughters could be harnessed to develop a daughter-initiated cervical cancer intervention. Seven community researchers interviewed 157 mother-daughter pairs in Cape Town, South Africa. We examine the use of journaling as a tool to document the experiences of community researchers, and we consider how journaling may help the community-based researcher grapple with the research process, and, more broadly, what such journal content illustrates with respect to the nature and challenges of community-engaged health research. An analysis of the content of the journals provides a strong indication of how personal and intimate the research process can be for community researchers by virtue of the background that they bring into the process as well as the additional weight of the research process itself. The complexities of navigating dual and somewhat oppositional roles - the role of impartial scientist or researcher and the role of invested community person - has been both underestimated and insufficiently researched.
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Davis J, Ward DB, Storm C. The unsilencing of military wives: wartime deployment experiences and citizen responsibility. JOURNAL OF MARITAL AND FAMILY THERAPY 2011; 37:51-63. [PMID: 21198688 DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2009.00154.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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One of therapists' contemporary moral imperatives is to support American service members and their families regardless of personal position on the Global War on Terrorism. One way therapists can respond to this imperative is by seeking to understand Army wives' experiences during their husbands' wartime deployments. Therefore, this study utilized a combination of individual interviews with Army wives and a reflecting team of military wives and civilians to explore military wives' experiences. Two main themes were identified: the wives' experience was an emotional roller coaster and they felt silenced--and could be unsilenced--in their interactions with civilians. Therapists working with Army wives should (a) normalize the roller-coaster experience; (b) encourage wives to recognize negative and positive influencers and explore their idiosyncratic coping skills; (c) support positive civilian-military connections; and (d) as a civilian and as a therapist, seek to be a positive civilian connection by proactively showing support.
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- Jennifer Davis
- Department of Marriage and Family Therapy, Pacific Lutheran University, USA.
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Stigma is a social justice problem that plagues persons with psychiatric disabilities, their families, and society. It fuels the fear underlying discrimination; undermines consumer self-efficacy; and blocks rehabilitation, recovery, and social integration. The author hopes to create a passion for change and suggest a way that everyone can help stop stigma. This approach is simple: to nurture the artistic talent many clients possess and connect them with public venues for their artworks. On display, too, will be the “ability” in “disability.” This will reduce stigma while building self-efficacy and empowerment. Anecdotal evidence supports this hypothesis. However, research is needed; a design for a study to test this hypothesis is described. Significantly, an antistigmal arts intervention can be conducted by any aware practitioner; one does not need to be an art therapist or have any background in art, only a desire to make a difference and resources on which to draw.
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Reynolds F, Lim KH, Prior S. Narratives of therapeutic art-making in the context of marital breakdown: older women reflect on a significant mid-life experience. COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY QUARTERLY 2008. [DOI: 10.1080/09515070802334732] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Keeling ML, Piercy FP. A careful balance: multinational perspectives on culture, gender, and power in marriage and family therapy practice. JOURNAL OF MARITAL AND FAMILY THERAPY 2007; 33:443-463. [PMID: 17935529 DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2007.00044.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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In this study, we examined how marriage and family therapists from various countries and diverse cultural backgrounds address the intersection of gender, power, and culture in therapy. Twenty participants from 15 countries responded to an Internet survey that included several hypothetical, clinical vignettes not associated with any one particular culture or nationality. Participants selected a vignette based on its similarity to clinical situations they face in practice within their cultural contexts, and provided information about their conceptualizations of gender, culture, and power, along with treatment recommendations. We analyzed data using analytic induction and constant comparison methods. Results indicate the careful balance with which the participants work to engage clients in therapy, respect cultural values and practices, and promote equitable gender relationships.
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- Margaret L Keeling
- Department of Human Development, Marriage and Family Therapy Doctoral Program, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0515, USA.
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