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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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The benefits of wilderness experience for mental health: An exploratory study on nature-based therapies

Goldberger, Trina Suzanne, Waters, Diane Marie 01 January 2000 (has links)
No description available.
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Listening to refugee bodies: The naturopathic encounter as a cross-cultural meeting place

Singer, Judy Unknown Date (has links)
This thesis examines the meanings of naturopathy through the experiences of twelve women with refugee backgrounds involved in naturopathic treatment at the Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture (Foundation House), a refugee torture and trauma rehabilitation service in Melbourne, Australia. The findings of this research show that the naturopathic encounter provided a transformative and meaningful meeting place for healing, a place in which the women felt at ease and in place.At Foundation House naturopathy has been practised alongside counselling since 1989, two years after the organisation’s inception. The women I interviewed for this project came from diverse sociocultural backgrounds and a wide range of countries including Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Afghanistan, Somalia, Burma and Serbia.The thesis brings together two contemporary fields of practice: Western models of refugee health care and traditional medicine. It argues for the place of non-biomedical approaches in refugee health care in a Western setting. The thesis takes an interdisciplinary approach to theorise the naturopathic encounter. The distinction between holistic and reductionist perspectives on health, illness and the body is underpinned by the theoretical work of medical anthropologists Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Margaret Lock and that of medical sociologist Aaron Antonovsky. A cultural studies perspective, influenced by the work of embodiment scholar Elspeth Probyn is employed to theorise these women’s experiences of the naturopathic encounter.This qualitative study is based on in-depth interviews and draws on grounded theory as an approach to data analysis. Descriptions of respite, renewal, and healing in the naturopathic encounter are cited as the most observable themes emerging from the women’s stories. These themes represent a health-oriented, as opposed to a disease-focused, perspective. Importantly, a health-orientated approach is congruent with the core tenets of naturopathic philosophy. Listening to the body is a crucial therapeutic tool in the naturopathic encounter, where primacy is given to supporting and strengthening health-creating strategies. I argue that this orientation disrupts the existing dominant biomedical approach to refugee health care. I draw on the work of Probyn to theorise the movement from the naturopathic encounter (NE) to the naturopathic meeting place (NMP). Central to this transposition is Probyn’s articulation of the body’s awareness of being in and out of place. This awareness lends itself to an understanding of the connectedness between past and present in the bridge-making that these particular refugee women have engaged in across cultures in the NMP.The thesis addresses an important but often neglected focus in refugee research: the resilience and agency of refugees. This positive aspect of refugee recovery is revealed in the research by theorising the women’s stories through Probyn’s embodiment analysis and cognisance of the ‘everyday’ as a productive and creative process. The research interrupts the ubiquitous image of the ‘disempowered refugee victim’. It highlights the practical wisdom and agency of these particular women that is often overshadowed in the complex resettlement process. It makes a call for further health-orientated research to broaden and deepen our understanding of the refugee experience.
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The effectiveness of the N.P.A.T. KwaZulu-Natal Midlands ecotherapy programme.

Streatfield, Gregory William. January 2003 (has links)
There is much support for ecotherapy as a psychological intervention within the current literature. Research has indicated that ecotherapy does have a detectable therapeutic effect, particularly for programmes that run for more than 20 days. Furthermore, a number of studies have provided evidence ofthe effectiveness ofecotherapy in improving self-esteem and psychological health. However, research and evaluation ofecotherapy programmes have been plagued with poor quality studies with serious methodological problems. Many past evaluations ofecotherapy programmes have used anecdotal evidence and outcome-based interpretations. The current study evaluated the effectiveness ofthe N.P.A.T. KwaZulu Natal Midlands Ecotherapy Programme. The study focused on subjects' self-esteem and the manifestation ofpsychological symptoms as outcome measures. The experimental design employed three different experimental groups and a control group. All experimental and control groups were administered a pretest and posttest consisting ofthe Symptoms Checklist-90-Revised and the Culture-Free Self-Esteem Inventory-2. The pretest was administered before the ecotherapy programme. The experimental groups were administered the posttest one month after the ecotherapy programme. The control group were given no intervention, and were administered the posttest one month after the pretest. Pretest and posttest differences were tested for significance using repeated measures analysis ofvariance (ANOVA). No statistically significant difference was found between the experimental and control groups on the pretest and posttest. This suggests that the ecotherapy programme had no detectable effect on the experimental group subjects' self-esteem or the manifestation of psychological symptoms. The implications ofthese results and future considerations were discussed. / Thesis (M.Sc.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2003.
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Listening to refugee bodies: The naturopathic encounter as a cross-cultural meeting place

Singer, Judy Unknown Date (has links)
This thesis examines the meanings of naturopathy through the experiences of twelve women with refugee backgrounds involved in naturopathic treatment at the Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture (Foundation House), a refugee torture and trauma rehabilitation service in Melbourne, Australia. The findings of this research show that the naturopathic encounter provided a transformative and meaningful meeting place for healing, a place in which the women felt at ease and in place.At Foundation House naturopathy has been practised alongside counselling since 1989, two years after the organisation’s inception. The women I interviewed for this project came from diverse sociocultural backgrounds and a wide range of countries including Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Afghanistan, Somalia, Burma and Serbia.The thesis brings together two contemporary fields of practice: Western models of refugee health care and traditional medicine. It argues for the place of non-biomedical approaches in refugee health care in a Western setting. The thesis takes an interdisciplinary approach to theorise the naturopathic encounter. The distinction between holistic and reductionist perspectives on health, illness and the body is underpinned by the theoretical work of medical anthropologists Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Margaret Lock and that of medical sociologist Aaron Antonovsky. A cultural studies perspective, influenced by the work of embodiment scholar Elspeth Probyn is employed to theorise these women’s experiences of the naturopathic encounter.This qualitative study is based on in-depth interviews and draws on grounded theory as an approach to data analysis. Descriptions of respite, renewal, and healing in the naturopathic encounter are cited as the most observable themes emerging from the women’s stories. These themes represent a health-oriented, as opposed to a disease-focused, perspective. Importantly, a health-orientated approach is congruent with the core tenets of naturopathic philosophy. Listening to the body is a crucial therapeutic tool in the naturopathic encounter, where primacy is given to supporting and strengthening health-creating strategies. I argue that this orientation disrupts the existing dominant biomedical approach to refugee health care. I draw on the work of Probyn to theorise the movement from the naturopathic encounter (NE) to the naturopathic meeting place (NMP). Central to this transposition is Probyn’s articulation of the body’s awareness of being in and out of place. This awareness lends itself to an understanding of the connectedness between past and present in the bridge-making that these particular refugee women have engaged in across cultures in the NMP.The thesis addresses an important but often neglected focus in refugee research: the resilience and agency of refugees. This positive aspect of refugee recovery is revealed in the research by theorising the women’s stories through Probyn’s embodiment analysis and cognisance of the ‘everyday’ as a productive and creative process. The research interrupts the ubiquitous image of the ‘disempowered refugee victim’. It highlights the practical wisdom and agency of these particular women that is often overshadowed in the complex resettlement process. It makes a call for further health-orientated research to broaden and deepen our understanding of the refugee experience.
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Listening to refugee bodies: The naturopathic encounter as a cross-cultural meeting place

Singer, Judy Unknown Date (has links)
This thesis examines the meanings of naturopathy through the experiences of twelve women with refugee backgrounds involved in naturopathic treatment at the Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture (Foundation House), a refugee torture and trauma rehabilitation service in Melbourne, Australia. The findings of this research show that the naturopathic encounter provided a transformative and meaningful meeting place for healing, a place in which the women felt at ease and in place.At Foundation House naturopathy has been practised alongside counselling since 1989, two years after the organisation’s inception. The women I interviewed for this project came from diverse sociocultural backgrounds and a wide range of countries including Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Afghanistan, Somalia, Burma and Serbia.The thesis brings together two contemporary fields of practice: Western models of refugee health care and traditional medicine. It argues for the place of non-biomedical approaches in refugee health care in a Western setting. The thesis takes an interdisciplinary approach to theorise the naturopathic encounter. The distinction between holistic and reductionist perspectives on health, illness and the body is underpinned by the theoretical work of medical anthropologists Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Margaret Lock and that of medical sociologist Aaron Antonovsky. A cultural studies perspective, influenced by the work of embodiment scholar Elspeth Probyn is employed to theorise these women’s experiences of the naturopathic encounter.This qualitative study is based on in-depth interviews and draws on grounded theory as an approach to data analysis. Descriptions of respite, renewal, and healing in the naturopathic encounter are cited as the most observable themes emerging from the women’s stories. These themes represent a health-oriented, as opposed to a disease-focused, perspective. Importantly, a health-orientated approach is congruent with the core tenets of naturopathic philosophy. Listening to the body is a crucial therapeutic tool in the naturopathic encounter, where primacy is given to supporting and strengthening health-creating strategies. I argue that this orientation disrupts the existing dominant biomedical approach to refugee health care. I draw on the work of Probyn to theorise the movement from the naturopathic encounter (NE) to the naturopathic meeting place (NMP). Central to this transposition is Probyn’s articulation of the body’s awareness of being in and out of place. This awareness lends itself to an understanding of the connectedness between past and present in the bridge-making that these particular refugee women have engaged in across cultures in the NMP.The thesis addresses an important but often neglected focus in refugee research: the resilience and agency of refugees. This positive aspect of refugee recovery is revealed in the research by theorising the women’s stories through Probyn’s embodiment analysis and cognisance of the ‘everyday’ as a productive and creative process. The research interrupts the ubiquitous image of the ‘disempowered refugee victim’. It highlights the practical wisdom and agency of these particular women that is often overshadowed in the complex resettlement process. It makes a call for further health-orientated research to broaden and deepen our understanding of the refugee experience.
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Akteur im Ausnahmezustand

Barkleit, Gerhard 17 April 2014 (has links) (PDF)
No description available.
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Akteur im Ausnahmezustand: Manfred von Ardenne und das Konzept der Mehrschritt-Therapien

Barkleit, Gerhard January 2005 (has links)
No description available.
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Researching the relation of Music and Main Meridians with Ontology / 以本體論為基礎探討音樂對經絡影響之研究

Chun-Ju Chen, 陳君如 January 2009 (has links)
碩士 / 雲林科技大學 / 資訊管理系碩士班 / 97 / Because allopathy always cures the symptoms, not the disease, there are still many incurable diseases not solved in 21 centuries. For this reason, the medical profession starts to explore in ancestors’ wisdom for breaking through the bottleneck of the contemporary medicine. Then, Naturopathy (Complementary and Alternative Medicines, CAM) comes with this tide. And various field professionals believe the potential of Music Therapy. Therefore, the purpose of this study is designing the experiment with Chinese Five Elements Tonal music and collects subjects’ physiology response by Ryodoraku to analysis with Decision Tree. The result of this study is the relationship between music and Twelve Main Meridians. Finally,it will be established by Ontology for clinical applications.
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Cyklotrasy Přírodního parku Džbán / Cycle traces of Nature park Džbán

Štekl, Martin January 2007 (has links)
title Cycle traces of Nature park pitcher. The aim of the work The aim is to optimize the cycling infrastructure in the Natural Park Jug. A method The thesis is elaborated research method of comparison analyzed Data selected natural parks of the Czech Republic with a defined territory Naturopathy Pitcher Park. It was also used method of unstructured observation, in the form of polls among the population of the site and determine the state interest in the issue involved entities. Then processing of results was a proposal that has been validated demonstrations. results The result of this work is the finding that cycling at least in the eastern half The pitcher has a natural park in the near future justified his place. Another the result is treated by a certified Master Plan of bike paths own information running traditional conception of stimulating an increase in the experience of wandering through the countryside. Keywords Cycling, biking, bike trail, park, Pitcher, GPS. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Savoirs, confiance et risque : la vaccination chez les naturopathes québécois

Malo, Benjamin 10 June 2022 (has links)
Les médecines alternatives et complémentaires (MAC) gagnent en popularité dans de la population québécoise, dont la naturopathie. En parallèle, un phénomène d’hésitation à la vaccination gagne de l’ampleur mondialement. Si cette tendance perdure, les taux de vaccination pourraient chuter et plusieurs maladies graves pourraient connaître une recrudescence. La littérature sur les MAC montre que ces praticiens de la santé et leurs usagers ont des attitudes plutôt négatives envers la vaccination. Il est dès lors impératif d’étudier les liens entre l’hésitation à la vaccination et la naturopathie québécoise. Dans le cadre de ma maîtrise, je me suis penché sur l’influence des savoirs et de la confiance sur les manières de penser les risques liés à la vaccination des naturopathes, en plus d’examiner la façon dont ceux-ci gèrent ces risques. Pour ce faire, j’ai réalisé 15 entrevues semi-dirigées auprès de naturopathes québécois. Les résultats de ma recherche montrent que l’approche naturopathique québécoise de la santé cherche à déterminer les causes des maladies dans une perspective holiste afin de stimuler la vitalité du corps. Les maladies ont ainsi pour origine les déséquilibres de ce que les naturopathes nomment le « terrain ». À travers leurs pratiques, principalement axées sur la nutrition, ils cherchent à rendre leurs clients autonomes et responsables de leur santé afin qu’ils puissent rééquilibrer eux-mêmes leurs terrains et ainsi accéder à la santé. Cette conception de la santé et des soins, jumelée à la confiance que les naturopathes ont envers leur savoir expérientiel, est centrale dans la manière dont ils pensent les risques inhérents à la vaccination et aux maladies infectieuses. Les risques que la vaccination rompe l’homéostasie du terrain sont conçus comme plus grands que ceux liés aux maladies infectieuses. C’est pourquoi les naturopathes adoptent plusieurs stratégies pour gérer ces risques, lesquelles visent le maintien de l’équilibre du terrain. / Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), particularly naturopathy, has increased in popularity among the Quebec population. Simultaneously, vaccine hesitancy is gaining momentum worldwide. If this trend persists, vaccination rates could decrease and there could be a resurgence of many deadly illnesses. Scientific literature suggests that CAM practitioners and their users have generally negative attitudes towards vaccination. It is therefore of the utmost importance to study the links between vaccine hesitancy and naturopathy in Quebec. Within the scope of my Master’s, I studied the influence of knowledge and trust on naturopaths’ ways of reasoning about risks associated with vaccination and I investigated how they manage these risks. To achieve this goal, I conducted 15 semi-structured interviews with Quebec naturopaths. The results of my research suggest that Quebec naturopaths believe that health can be achieved through a study of the causes of diseases in a holistic perspective and through the stimulation of the body’s vitality. Diseases, in this perspective, come from the imbalances of what naturopaths call the “field”. Through their practice, primarily based on nutrition, they encourage their clients to autonomously take responsibility for their health so they can restore the balance of their fields themselves, and therefore, return to health. This notion of health and care, paired with the trust naturopaths have toward their experiential knowledge, play a key role in how they think about risks inherent to vaccination and infectious diseases. Concerns about the risks that vaccination might break the homeostasis of the field are far greater than those associated with the risk of infectious diseases. Therefore, to manage these risks, naturopaths adopt many strategies that target the upholding of the field’s balance.

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