Examensarbetet skildrar föräldrars upplevelser av att ha ett barn med Anorexia Nervosa. Föräldrarna har ett stort ansvar och en betydande roll under sjukdomstiden. Anorexia Nervosa har blivit en alltmer vanlig sjukdom som ofta drabbar flickor i tonåren och sjukdomen kännetecknas av en självsvält med en rädsla för att öka i vikt. Studien är litteraturbaserad. Nio vetenskapliga artiklar användes och analyserades i relation till syftet. Resultatet visar att föräldrarna upplevde att sjukdomen förändrade livssituationen. Äktenskapet blev drabbat och det beskrevs att det ofta fanns en oro för hur syskon påverkades. Stora delar av dygnet bestod av att se till att det drabbade barnet fick i sig näring. Föräldrar upplevde även en förändring av sitt egna liv då allt fokus låg på att hjälpa sitt barn att övervinna sin sjukdom. Frustration, oro och skuld var återkommande känslor som föräldrar upplevde i vardagen. Inledningsvis sökte föräldrarna information på egen hand för att få sina farhågor om sjukdomen bekräftade. Då de senare beslutade sig för att söka hjälp via vården upplevde ett flertal av föräldrarna att de blev dåligt bemötta av vårdpersonal. För att kunna hantera vardagen under sjukdomstiden beskrev föräldrar strategier som varit betydelsefulla för dem. Resultatet pekar på att föräldrar upplever ett behov av stöd under barnets sjukdomstid. Sjuksköterskan kan uppfylla föräldrars behov av stöd genom att bekräfta deras situation och inge ett hopp. Genom kunskap om föräldrars upplevelser kan sjuksköterskan utveckla sitt kompetensområde och öka kvalitén i omvårdnadsarbetet utifrån föräldrarnas behov. / Background Until the 80’s Anorexia Nervosa (AN) was a rare disease. With the influence from media and the growing ideal of how a human body should look like, AN is nowadays a more common disease. AN often have a negative effect on parents. Therefore, it is important that nurses and society gain an understanding of parents experiences of having a child with AN, and how it impact their lifes. Aim The aim of the study was to illuminate the experience of being a parent to a child with AN. Method This study is a literature review over qualitative scientific articles, which have been analyzed through a method of five steps according to Friberg. Results The results showed that AN has a negative impact on parents, both the personal life and family life. It also describes parents’ need for support. Parents experience many negative feelings as worrying, frustration and fear. They often had bad experiences of treatment from medical staff. Conclusion This study provides an understanding of parents’ feelings of having a child with AN. Parents have an important role for their children during their illness and on the road to recovery. If parents should be able to take the responsibility that comes with having a child with AN, they need support. Otherwise they can be a threat to their own health. This is something that the nurse should pay attention to.

We are forever shaped by the worlds we live in. The following stories are musings on the importance of time and place and on the conflicts that arise for characters who are born into and who live with or rail against those forces. The stories are set in and around Laurel County, Georgia over a period of decades. They look at the people who are made there and the lessons they learn or fail to learn as they work to make their way there.

This thesis is a short story collection set primarily New Orleans and focuses on the subject of fathers and sons. It explores the effect that the absence of a father figure or the presence of an unsuitable father may have on boys and men. The stories are literary fiction.

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People are often a product of their environment, and each of the characters in this collection is an example of that shaping effect. These stories take you to the southern plains–land of red dirt, Bluestem, and prairie wind. Themes like hope, loss, and the exploration of frontier appear throughout the collection. In each story the setting becomes a character, forcing us to recognize the importance of place in our lives.

This thesis is a collection of fictional short stories about loss and the left behind, seeking to confront grief in terms of hope, humor, and getting the oar back in the water to row on.

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Thesis advisor: George O'Har / As an untrained and self-taught painter, Scottish-born and London-bred artist Jack Vettriano draws on his own experiences to create provoking paintings that are both successful and controversial. His works, described as “pulp fiction novel covers” and “railway posters” of the 1950s, encompass scenes of ordinary people doing everyday things. His most famous work, The Singing Butler, now outsells van Gogh’s Sunflowers and Monet’s Water Lilies in Europe and the United Kingdom. In this 2005-2006 senior thesis entitled "Prime Meridian: A Collection of Short Stories," I have attempted to put a narrative to select Vettriano paintings. Based on the belief that every painting tells its own unique story, I worked to discover what this story was for me, and what the images and characters in Vettriano’s paintings incited. A series of six short pieces, set in late 20th century England, describe the realities and defining moments of life. I have attempted to make these as close as possible to actual British life through research, interviews, and my own experiences in London’s East End. This collection begins with "Tube Tension," which tracks a man in his spontaneous engagement plans and through a turbulent London Tube ride. "Brick Lane" focuses not on the woman in Vettriano’s painting, but the scene behind her. It is a story about how we remember the past, and if these memories are enough to sustain us through present. "Street Noise," a story in which a young woman has flashbacks to an event that changes her perception of the media and the world forever. In "The Pier," a son has to convince his mother why he must leave her, his hometown, and everything he knows. "Know Guardrails" follows a woman who has just been diagnosed with a terminal illness. "The Zoo" is a day in the life of a London pub worker. He is forced to the Coroner’s Office when someone who he has seen at a nightclub is found dead. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2006. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: College Honors Program.

Les écrits littéraires, à domaine historique auxquels nous nous intéressons dans le présent travail se caractérisent par leur hybridité, mettant en récits des expériences perceptives et mémorielles de soi et de l’autre qui questionnent le statut même de l’Histoire. Ils oscillent entre le biographique et l’autobiographique, entre les faits et la fiction, entre l’individuel et le collectif, entre l’actuel et l’universel. Ils se penchent sur les thèmes de la souffrance et de la mort en réfléchissant sur la condition humaine. Dans ce cadre, la nouvelle du XXème siècle, notamment celle de Kessel, Camus et Dib, semble traduire cette nouvelle perception de l’Histoire. Elle offre un cadre narratif souple et bref réunissant à la fois les portées historiques, référentielles, poétiques, symboliques et universelles de l’écriture. / The historical narratives attached to this period were mainly marked by hybridity. They oscillate between the biographical and autobiographical, fact and fiction, the individual and the collective, and the current and the universal. They immersed into the themes of anguish and death, reverberating the human condition. In this vein, the novella of twentieth century sounds reflecting this new perception of history. It is a protean genre that offers a more flexible narrative framework involving altogether referential, poetic, symbolic and universal scopes of writing.Kessel, Camus and Dib go beyond mere obsession with a specific period to provide a more personal view of history. To this end, they reshape the historical discourse and its ideologies, translating them with, by and in their fictional texts. They disrupt the chronology, linearity and totality.

Sharp Edges and Other Lessons is a collection of stories that share a loose thematic link suggested by the title. The various "lessons" encountered by the characters here represent the ways people respond to the many currents and fluctuations roiling beneath the surface of everyday life. / by Michael Gray. / Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2012. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2012. Mode of access: World Wide Web.