The focus of this research is the study of unity in mission and coping with conflict as a way of being faithfully present. Researching unity in mission in a divided congregation is important because it may relate, not only to the congregation, but also, in a broader sense, to the experience in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa (ELCSA) and other denominations. While the review of literature provided background information on the theology of faithful presence including the theologies of place and place presence, a further review was conducted on the theology of mission as reconciliation as a way of being faithfully present. The study addresses this gab in literature and research by investigating the role of mission in helping congregants cope with church conflict and staying faithfully present in their situation. To achieve this goal, congregants lived experience of their congregational life in the midst of conflict was revealed and analysed using phenomenology as the most suitable method for data gathering, analysis and interpretation. Phenomenological approach was chosen simple because of its capability of providing congregants’ personal account of their experience. The question that needed to be understood was whether congregants still had time, space and motivation to be with the people God is sending them to. The primary goal is to understand congregants lived experience under the influence of conflict and how these congregants remained faithfully present in their situation. The secondary aim is to recommend ways and means of reconciliation most relevant to their situation particularly where subjects are not role players in the conflict. The researcher was interested in finding out if using mission as reconciliation can, in meaningful ways, move the reconciliation process forward. The research found a direct correlation between conflict and the mission of the church. As the conflict continued to manifest, congregants developed a lack of trust in the leadership of the church, which motivated them to practice mission unilaterally outside the precincts of the church. As this unfolded, the congregation became irrelevant, its mission suffered and the congregational life became less meaningful. The congregation as a community of sent people, became too internally focused, losing its sting as a missional force in the neighbourhood. / Dissertation (MTh)--University of Pretoria, 2020. / Science of Religion and Missiology / MTh / Unrestricted

Bakgrund: I Sverige lever närmare en procent av befolkningen med venösa bensår. Såren uppstår på grund av venös insufficiens. Venösa bensår är ett stort folkhälsoproblem i hela världen. Personer som har ett stillasittande levnadssätt och är överviktiga har en högre risk än genomsnittsbefolkningen att utveckla venösa bensår. Såren är svårläkta och drabbar främst äldre personer. Sjuksköterskan har det yttersta ansvaret för patientens omvårdnad. Syfte: Syftet var att belysa personers upplevelser av att leva med venösa bensår. Metod: En litteraturöversikt har använts som metod. Ur databaserna PubMed och CINAHL Complete hämtades tio stycken vetenskapliga artiklar som grundar sig på forskning enligt kvalitativ metod. Resultat: Tre huvudteman och tre underteman identifierades. Det första huvudtemat var Smärta och dess hantering. Det andra huvudtemat var Påfrestningar till följd av odör och exsudat. Det tredje huvudtemat var Ett förändrat liv och har följande underteman; Beroende, Behandling och läkning samt Kunskapsbrist. Diskussion: I metoddiskussionen diskuterades litteraturöversiktens styrkor och svagheter. Resultatfynd associeras till vårdkontext och diskuteras i relation till bakgrund, ny forskning samt Katie Erikssons teori där lidande och vårdprocessen fokuseras. / Background: Nearly one percent of the Swedish population lives with venous leg ulcers. Venous leg ulceration is caused by venous insufficiency. This is a big public health problem worldwide. People who live their lives sedentary and are overweight suffers a greater risk of evolving venous leg ulcers. These types of ulcers are slow-healing and mostly affects elderly people.  The responsibility for patient care is the nurse. Aim: The aim of the study was to enlighten people’s experiences of living with venous leg ulcers. Method: A literature review was used as method. PubMed and CINAHL Complete were used as databases. Ten scientific qualitative articles were found. Results: Three main topics and three subtopics were identified. The first main topic was Pain and its management. The second main topic was Strains following odour and exudate. The third main topic was A different life with following subtopics; Dependence, Treatment and healing and Knowledge deficit. Discussion: The strengths and weaknesses of the literature review is discussed in the method discussion. The results are discussed in nursing context and is related to background, new research and Katie Eriksson’s theory with suffering and care process.

Social work practice involves acknowledging the interconnection between the personal and professional. Organizations hiring Indigenous staff are responsible to recognize the lived experience that comes with being an Indigenous person. Critical reflections of who benefits in an employment relationship are important to address issues of tokenization and exploitation. The language of ‘lived experience’ is most commonly used in the social work field to imply that a professional has experienced trauma, hardship, and systemic violence similar to individuals receiving or accessing services. In the context of a helping role, ‘lived experience’ is better represented by ‘healing experience’ because it recognizes the responsibilities of leadership and staff in ensuring supports are healing-focused. Anti-oppressive, decolonizing, and Indigenist methods were used to speak with Indigenous staff who self-identified lived experience similar to the people who access services to learn how supervisors and organizational leadership can provide helpful support. The findings contributed to a supervision model based in the buffalo teachings of sharing, reciprocity, and valuing each aspect of a person as the starting place for relationship and good work. Building on this knowledge, changing the language from lived experience to healing experience offers a shift in the philosophical approach to recruitment and supervision. Each conversation naturally aligned with a quadrant of the Medicine Wheel where tangible insights into practice are shared into the spiritual, physical, emotional, and mental aspects of the self in an employment context. This study accounts for the non-Indigenous researcher’s personal journey to this topic, the importance of developing and contributing to the success of Indigenous social workers, and the ways organizations are responsible to their workforce beyond minimum legislated requirements. / Graduate

This Dissertation combines the investigation of the sedimentological impacts of the Deepwater Horizon (DwH) blowout event in the deep-sea benthos, with the refinement and advancement of methods and approaches for high-resolution investigations of events preserved in sedimentary records. An approach that combined, rapid collection of cores, a continued annual time series collection of cores, and high-resolution sampling and analyses, in particular short-lived Radioisotopes (SLRad), enabled the temporal resolution required to detect the sedimentary response to the short-duration DwH event, and evaluate post-event sedimentation patterns at a comparable time scale (months). The collection of 179 sediment cores from 80 sites between the fall of 2010 and 2016 included four sites that were utilized as an annual time-series collection to define the sedimentary response to the DwH blowout event and how the sedimentary system evolved/recovered post-event. High-resolution (2mm) sub-sampling was utilized to maximize the temporal resolution of analyses and age control using SLRad. The rapid collection of cores to define the immediate benthic impact(s), as well as the use of time-sensitive indicators of the event that may degrade over time, as well as indicators for very short time scale (months) sedimentation, such as 234Thxs. 234Thxs inventories and mass accumulation rates (MAR’s) were one of the most diagnostic characteristics of the sedimentary response. The DwH blowout event led to a Marine Oil Snow Sedimentation and Flocculent Accumulation (MOSSFA) event that caused a depositional pulse to the seafloor. This was defined by increased sedimentation rates and the shutdown of bioturbation as indicated by 234Thxs inventories and MAR’s. The annual collection of sediment cores as a time-series allowed for continued high-resolution analyses and use of 234Thxs to determine post-event sedimentation rates and baselines on monthly time scales for direct comparison to the depositional pulse. Within ~one year sedimentation rates decreased and within three years site specific return of bioturbation occurred and sedimentation rates on monthly scale (234Thxs) stabilized. Also, within ~three years the sedimentary signature of the depositional pulse became undetectable with respect to sediment texture and composition possibly due to dilution of this indicator by mixing/bioturbation and/or compaction of the event layer. Without the use of high-resolution sampling and geochronological tools such as 234Thxs the depositional pulse would not have been detected in the sedimentary system. The continued use of these high-resolution methods allowed for further defining the magnitude of the sedimentary response to the DwH event as well as provide baseline sedimentation patterns at a monthly time scale. The annual time series defines the post-event evolution of the sedimentary system as well as the assessment of the post-depositional alterations that influence the integration and preservation of such sedimentation events in the sedimentary record. This includes the potential for re-mobilization of event sediments, potential re-exposure of ecosystems to contaminated sediments and redistribution of event sediments. Alternatively, burial and alteration of the sedimentary signature over time influences the preservation potential of sedimentation events such as DwH, with decreasing ability to detect events due to bioturbation, degradation of signature and compaction. The refinement of methodology and approaches, in particular short-lived radioisotope (SLRad) geochronology, allowed for the high-resolution determination of the sedimentary impacts of the DwH blowout event. In turn, the opportunity to investigate the DwH event in real time provided the opportunity to advance high-resolution methodologies in an applied fashion. Continued refinement of high-resolution approaches and methods, in particular geochronologies, will allow for the detection of short-duration and subtle sedimentary events in real time as well as in the sedimentary record. Through the application of such approaches and methods to real events, these methods can be further refined and assessed for their utility and limitations.

Magister Artium (Child and Family Studies) - MA(CFS) / HIV/AIDS is one of the major challenging illnesses globally and is increasingly recognised as an illness that affects families and not just the individual. While HIV/AIDS has brought many challenges to infected individuals and their families, the focus has primarily been on individuals with HIV/AIDS in relation to their needs. Families often provide most of the emotional and physical care to a family member with HIV/AIDS, placing a huge strain on them that could lead to tension between family members. There is a paucity of research exploring the phenomenon of being a member of a family affected by HIV/AIDS. Therefore, the aim of this study was to explore the lived experiences of family members adjusting to HIV/AIDS disclosure within their families.

Single motherhood is a growing phenomenon in South Africa, as it is in the world at large. The concept and structure of a family have changed over the last few decades and no single definition will suffice to describe or define it anymore. Various factors impact on the psychological wellbeing of the single mother. The psychological wellbeing or mental health of the single mother can influence her parenting abilities. The aim of this study is to explore the lived experience of a single mother with three dependent children, to gain a deeper understanding of her experiences as a single mother and the meaning she attaches to it. The point of view of this research is from a constructivist-interpretivist paradigm and from an ecological systems theory approach. This qualitative research study uses a single case study method with unstructured interviews to explore the participant’s experiences. Interpretative phenomenological analysis is used to analyse data, to identify main and sub-themes from the collected data, and to compare these themes with identified themes on single motherhood from existing research. The participant’s lived experience reveals that financial hardship is not the main contributing factor to stress experienced by this single mother. The accumulative effect of diverse stressors and the lack of social support due to prejudice and stigma seem to have a greater effect. This study generates questions around the stigma of single motherhood in South Africa. The reading of this text could raise the reader’s awareness of the challenges faced by single mothers and of prejudice against them. Single mothers are not less capable as individuals of handling the challenges of motherhood and parenting, but they are often exposed to more demands and stressors, compared to partnered mothers. Changing our perspectives on single motherhood can reduce prejudice, offer more social support and improve access to other needed resources. / Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2012. / Psychology / unrestricted

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The main purpose of this study is to illustrate to what extent lived religion is expressed in textbooks intended for use in late middle school to early high school. This was done with the hope of bringing relevance to the idea of involving lived religion in the religious education in Swedish schools. Lived religion, as described by Meredith McGuire, Katarina Plank and Daniel Enstedt, refers to how everyday people experience and express their religiosity, unlike how official representatives of certain religious faiths like priests and rabbis do. In addition to the previous description of lived religion, Nancy Ammerman’s four categories concerning lived religion as a scientific field, will also work as an underlying factor for further specification. Also worth mentioning is that this study is structured diachronically, which means that the survey material consists of four textbooks, each one from a different decade. This idea exists to also involve how the representation of lived religion has changed over time. Lastly the textbooks were put in correlation with the curricula provided by the Swedish national agency for education, to see if these could have had an impact on the content concerning lived religion. The textbooks were examined using a qualitative content analysis, as well as a comparative one. This allowed for the result to be divided into two different themes: the text within the textbooks, and the influence of the curricula.  This study produced multiple conclusions, each one varying depending on which textbook was examined. In summary, the representation of lived religion varied in range from book to book. The book published in 1989 saw a relatively small amount of examples concerning lived religion, and instead focused on the history of religions. The following book from 1994 started to show an increase in content regarding lived religion, with it reaching its peak in the book from 2003. Lived religion in the study’s final book from 2014 did although decrease, with the authors instead choosing to base the book entirely on the active curriculum. Although descriptions of how three of these textbooks based their content on the certain curricula were lacking, every textbook nevertheless corresponded with the content of its curriculum. The conclusion drawn from this was thereby that the authors intentionally or unintentionally based the contents of their books on the then active curriculum.

Bakgrund: I Sverige drabbas årligen cirka 8000 till 9000 personer av hjärtstopp. De flesta överlever inte, men i takt med att allmänheten utbildats i hjärt- och lungräddning och fler hjärtstartare finns tillgängliga överlever fler personer hjärtstopp. Sjuksköterskan kan i yrkeslivet träffa patienter som överlevt hjärtstopp, varför det är av vikt att beskriva patienters erfarenheter av att överleva hjärtstopp. Det skapar förståelse för patientens upplevelse och därmed underlättar i mötet mellan patient och sjuksköterska.Syfte: Syftet var att beskriva patienters erfarenheter av att ha överlevt hjärtstopp.Metod: Denna studie har genomförts som en litteraturöversikt och baserades på elva kvalitativa och fyra kvantitativa artiklar publicerade mellan år 2005–2020. Sökningarna utfördes i databaserna CINAHL och PubMed. Artiklarna kvalitetsgranskades och analyserades sedan i fyra steg.Resultat: Resultatet mynnade i tre huvudkategorier: Behov av stöd och information, Existentiella frågor och Livsförändringar. Patienter som överlevt hjärtstopp har ofta behov av att bearbeta händelsen, de vill få information om vad som hänt under tiden de varit medvetslösa och hjälp av sjukvården att känna trygghet hemma. Hjärtstoppet väcker frågor om livet, döden och varför hjärtstoppet inträffat. Efter hjärtstoppet förändras kroppen i olika grad både fysiskt och psykiskt vilket leder till förändringar i livssituation och socialt. Patienter kan göra olika livsstilsförändringar för att anpassa till det nya livet efter hjärtstopp.Slutsats: Antalet personer som överlever hjärtstopp ökar för varje år vilket leder till ökade kunskapskrav på vårdpersonalen avseende denna patientgrupp. De fynd som gjorts i denna litteraturstudie kan skapa förståelse för patientens erfarenheter av att överleva hjärtstopp, vilket i sin tur kan användas för att optimera rehabiliteringen för dessa patienter. / Background: In Sweden, approximately 8,000 to 9,000 people suffer from cardiac arrest every year. As the general public increasingly are trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and defibrillators are more available, people who survive cardiac arrest are a rising crowd. The nurse can in the professional life meet these patients, which is why it is important to describe patients' experiences of surviving cardiac arrest. It creates an understanding of the patient's experience and thus facilitates the meeting between patient and nurse.Aim: The aim of this literature review was to describe the patients experience of surviving cardiac arrest.Method: This study has been conducted as a literature review. It was based on eleven qualitative and four quantitative articles published between year 2005 and 2020. The articles were searched through the databases CINAHL and PubMed. The articles have been quality reviewed and then analyzed in four steps.Result: The result fell into three main categories: Need for support and information, Existential issues, and Life changes. Patients who have survived cardiac arrest have a need to process the event, they want information about what happened during the time they were unconscious and help to feel safe at home. The cardiac arrest raises questions about life, death and why the cardiac arrest happened. After the cardiac arrest, the body changes in varying degrees both physically and mentally, which leads to changes in life situation and socially. Patients can do lifestyle changes to adapt to the new life situation.Conclusion: The number of cardiac arrest survivors are increasing which leads to higher knowledge requirements for healthcare professionals. The findings of this literature review can create understanding for patients experiences after surviving cardiac arrest, which can be used to improve the recovery process for these patients.

This thesis explores how women experience their friendships with other women. The aim is to investigate the experience of female friendship through a feminist perspective and what meaning these relationships have for the women involved. To critically discuss the role it plays in their everyday lives, how norms and different power structures such as gender and class affect how women create and experience female friendships. Qualitative and semi-structured interviews with seven women were utilised to analyse how friendships are experienced. The women are all white, middle-class, between 25 and 68 years old and they have been interviewed individually.  The thesis applies a phenomenological perspective and focus on the lived experience of friendship throughout both the data collection and the analysis. The thesis discusses how friendship is experienced in different stages of the participants lives, using theory about temporality and life schedules. Friendships are expected to be central relationships in some stages of our lives, but then expected to be subordinate to romantic relationships at other times. This affects the temporality of friendships, forcing it to be among our most flexible relationships. Drawing on theories of class, social and cultural capital this thesis also explores how friendship relates to surrounding power structures. These become central in the women’s understanding of who they can become friends with, how the friendship is organized, as well as the temporality of friendship. The thesis also discusses how negative friendships are experienced, and how women negotiate these relationships. How the temporality of friendship also allows for ways and strategies to end friendships.