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21	Carrying the torch of hope: survivors' narratives of trauma and spirituality Martin, James Henry Iain 30 November 2003 (has links) This research journey examines the process of co-creating, along with my co-travellers (research participants), a more holistic approach to trauma debriefing. Whilst incorporating elements of Mitchell's (1983) Critical Incidence Stress Debriefing model (C.I.S.D.), our point of difference has been to adopt a narrative pastoral approach. This was achieved by introducing spirituality and narrative therapy practices. Our research pathway has been further shaped by adopting a qualitative research approach within a postmodern, social construction discourse. My research curiosity was invited by both the mind, body and soul divide expressed in psychology; and the healing possibilities of spirituality I have witnessed in both my own and in the lives of others. While my co-travellers predominantly preferred to express their spirituality in terms of Christianity, our narrative pastoral approach to trauma debriefing is offered to people of all religious persuasions. / Practical Theology / M.Th. (with specialisation in Pastoral therapy) Trauma debriefing Spirituality Body mind & soul Postmodern social construction discourse Narrative pastoral therapeutic practices Contextual practical theology Post traumatic growth (PTG) Witnessing Hope Trauma discourses Qualitative research Alternative stories Vicarious traumatisation 253.52 Psychological debriefing Narrative therapy Spirituality Spiritual healing Pastoral counseling
22	Re-performing trauma making use of outsider witnessing : a pastoral narrative approach Fortuin, Philene 12 1900 (has links) The study focuses on women’s experiences of abuse resulting in trauma. This research performance was conducted within a practical theology framework guided by a de-centred participatory action research process. The study was conducted against a postmodern background and was informed by social construction discourse. Its aim was to explore whether and how narrative pastoral counselling using outsider witnessing could be helpful in finding new preferred ways of living, resulting in healing, resilience and hope for women who had experienced abuse and trauma. The outsider witness group explored practical ways of listening, observing and responding to the pain and suffering of others, resulting in a new performance of the self as valuable, competent, and enabling those who are witnessed to believe that they are survivors that have lived through and beyond the limited life span of abuse and trauma. The research report ends with a play, New Seasons, which is to be performed in front of live audiences in the course of 2012. / Practical Theology / M. Th. (Practical Theology with specialisation in Pastoral Therapy) Trauma Abuse Outsider witness practices and ideas Narrative pastoral counselling Searching for paths of healing and hope Creating safe and spiritual space Local knowledge Identity Co-researchers Community of concern Standing up against abuse 259.082 Church work with abused women Abused women -- Pastoral counseling of Narrative therapy
23	Teenagers interviewing problems Giliomee, Yolandé 11 1900 (has links) Patriarchal discourse has lead to the marginalisation of women, children and teenagers. The aims of this research were to deconstruct patriarchal discourse; to empower teenagers to speak out for themselves; to facilitate teenagers' identifying, questioning and 'interviewing' of important problems in their lives, and to let teenagers' voices be heard by adults. Post-modern social construction discourse, post-modern and feminist theologies were used to challenge patriarchal discourse. A narrative, pastoral approach was used to assist teenagers to accomplish these aims. Using externalisation, three problems (Depression; Drugs and Alcohol; Verbal, Physical and Sexual Abuse) were exposed for what they really are, and how they influence many teenagers' lives. Alternative stories of how teenagers stand up against these problems were told. The teenagers decided to inform parents and teachers of their lived experiences in three letters. These three interesting, innovative letters are included in this dissertation. / Practical Theology / M. Th. (Practical Theology with specialisation in Pastoral Therapy) Teenagers Narrative pastoral approach Externalising problems Interviewing problems Patriarchal discourse Depression Drug and alcohol abuse Verbal Physical and sexual abuse Post-modern epistemology Post-modern theology Feminist theology Letter writing Transparency Accountability Power discourse 259.23 Adolescent psychology Teenagers -- Religious life Interviewing in psychiatry Church work with teenagers Teenagers -- Pastoral counseling of
24	Stories of survival in the wake of violence and abuse on the Cape Flats Wilkinson, Katheryn Lynn January 1900 (has links) The Cape Flats is characterised by widespread poverty, unemployment and frequent incidents of domestic and gang related violence. The presence of gangs in and around many of the schools in this area poses a serious problem for the community and the Western Cape Education Department. Schools are disrupted, while principals, teachers and learners are in constant fear and danger of gangsters' bullets. Families in these communities are exposed to chronic traumatisation from both gang and domestic violence. This qualitative study was concerned with exploring a narrative pastoral therapy approach to trauma counselling in schools. It focused specifically on crisis counselling as well as counselling with regard to loss and abuse. Informed by contextual and feminist theology, an action research model was used in this study. I documented my own developing practice by telling the stories of adults and children struggling against the trauma threatening to overwhelm their lives. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / M. Th. (Practical Theology -Pastoral Therapy) Trauma Abuse Gang violence Traumatic loss School based counselling Crisis counselling Spiritual counselling Narrative pastoral therapy Action research Feminist theology 259.2 Pastoral theology Gangs -- South Africa -- Cape Flats
25	Narrative pastoral practice at a primary school Basson, Nerine Celeste 01 January 2002 (has links) South African schools provide an enormous challenge for transformation towards inclusive and caring communities of learners, facilitators and caregivers. This qualitative study conducted at a primary school used narrative pastoral therapy-as-research and participatory action research-as-therapy to develop inclusive and caring practices. Co-authoring conversations with learners and caregivers from a diverse cultural and religious traditions and collaborating with facilitators challenged me to develop pastoral care as political care. This paved a way for future transformation of a school as a multi-religious community of care and respect. I engaged with participants in finding alternative ways of dealing with loss due to death of loved ones or separartion from caregivers. Children with chronic illness challenged their experiences of rejection and marginalisation at school by writing and producing a play while those whose voices were silenced chose other ways to inform learners and facilitators about their illness. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / M. Th. (Practical Theology with specialisation in Pastoral Therapy) Cultural and religious inclusivity Eco-spirituality Pastoral care as political care Loss School-desk theology Childhood chronic illness Respectful listening Transformation Narrative pastoral therapy Primary school Commitment Understanding Acceptance Collaboration Co-author Co-search Co-create 616.8914 Narrative therapy Pastoral counseling Counseling -- Religious aspects Counseling in elementary education Children -- Counseling of Child psychotherapy
26	Storying widowhood in Shona culture Shumbamhini, Mercy 30 June 2005 (has links) A group of four widows undertook this research journey with me. They reflected on their widowhood experiences. Narrative and participatory practices guided our conversations. Participatory, contextual, postmodern, liberational feminist theology, poststructuralism and the social construction theory of reality informed this work. Reflective and summarising letters after each group meeting played a central part in the research. The letters were structured to make visible the "taken-for-granted" which informed the widows about who and what they are. The alternative stories of preferred widowhood practices that emerged during and between sessions were centralised in the letters. Elements of transformation, hope and empowerment surfaced as counter stories to the culture of oppression, providing the scaffolding for re-storying their lives. The group formed Chiedza Widows Association in order to support other widows who are still marginalised. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / (M.Th - Specialisation Pastoral Therapy)) Widowhood Shona culture Participatory approach to theology Deconstructing cultural practices Participatory action research Inheritance Pastoral care Community of care Widows' ritual Narrative pastoral practices Church work with widows -- Zimbabwe Widows -- Pastoral counseling of
27	Wellness pastoral care and women with new babies Millar, Candida Sharon 30 November 2003 (has links) As participants, we agreed that women's silenced voices need to be heard, more specific to this participatory action research, the voices of women with new babies. Through wellness pastoral care, we co-laboured in finding ways of standing up to prescribed religious and cultural ideas regarding womaness and motherhood. Pastoral care in partnership with feminist theology and mutuality in community opened a safe place to renegotiate our own preferred ways of seeing our bodies, selves, sexuality, and womaness. The pastoral care, counselling, and mutuality experienced as a research group became the prevalent characteristic of our wellness that we wished to extend beyond the group and into families, churches, community cohorts, and the planet. This research is one platform on which the participating women shared hurts, found a place to be heard, and having come to know our Self more deeply, offer this Self as a gift to the reader. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / M.Th. Feminist theology Planetary theology Women's wisdom Women's bodies Community Women's sexuality Women's knowing Motherhood/womaness Wellness Mutuality 259.0852 Mothers -- Religious life Mothers -- Pastoral counseling of Feminist theology Pastoral theology Participant observation Narrative therapy
28	Carrying the torch of hope: survivors' narratives of trauma and spirituality Martin, James Henry Iain 30 November 2003 (has links) This research journey examines the process of co-creating, along with my co-travellers (research participants), a more holistic approach to trauma debriefing. Whilst incorporating elements of Mitchell's (1983) Critical Incidence Stress Debriefing model (C.I.S.D.), our point of difference has been to adopt a narrative pastoral approach. This was achieved by introducing spirituality and narrative therapy practices. Our research pathway has been further shaped by adopting a qualitative research approach within a postmodern, social construction discourse. My research curiosity was invited by both the mind, body and soul divide expressed in psychology; and the healing possibilities of spirituality I have witnessed in both my own and in the lives of others. While my co-travellers predominantly preferred to express their spirituality in terms of Christianity, our narrative pastoral approach to trauma debriefing is offered to people of all religious persuasions. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / M.Th. (with specialisation in Pastoral therapy) Trauma debriefing Spirituality Body mind & soul Postmodern social construction discourse Narrative pastoral therapeutic practices Contextual practical theology Post traumatic growth (PTG) Witnessing Hope Trauma discourses Qualitative research Alternative stories Vicarious traumatisation 253.52 Psychological debriefing Narrative therapy Spirituality Spiritual healing Pastoral counseling
29	Re-performing trauma making use of outsider witnessing : a pastoral narrative approach Fortuin, Philene 12 1900 (has links) The study focuses on women’s experiences of abuse resulting in trauma. This research performance was conducted within a practical theology framework guided by a de-centred participatory action research process. The study was conducted against a postmodern background and was informed by social construction discourse. Its aim was to explore whether and how narrative pastoral counselling using outsider witnessing could be helpful in finding new preferred ways of living, resulting in healing, resilience and hope for women who had experienced abuse and trauma. The outsider witness group explored practical ways of listening, observing and responding to the pain and suffering of others, resulting in a new performance of the self as valuable, competent, and enabling those who are witnessed to believe that they are survivors that have lived through and beyond the limited life span of abuse and trauma. The research report ends with a play, New Seasons, which is to be performed in front of live audiences in the course of 2012. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / M. Th. (Practical Theology with specialisation in Pastoral Therapy) Trauma Abuse Outsider witness practices and ideas Narrative pastoral counselling Searching for paths of healing and hope Creating safe and spiritual space Local knowledge Identity Co-researchers Community of concern Standing up against abuse 259.082 Church work with abused women Abused women -- Pastoral counseling of Narrative therapy
30	Teenagers interviewing problems Giliomee, Yolandé 11 1900 (has links) Patriarchal discourse has lead to the marginalisation of women, children and teenagers. The aims of this research were to deconstruct patriarchal discourse; to empower teenagers to speak out for themselves; to facilitate teenagers' identifying, questioning and 'interviewing' of important problems in their lives, and to let teenagers' voices be heard by adults. Post-modern social construction discourse, post-modern and feminist theologies were used to challenge patriarchal discourse. A narrative, pastoral approach was used to assist teenagers to accomplish these aims. Using externalisation, three problems (Depression; Drugs and Alcohol; Verbal, Physical and Sexual Abuse) were exposed for what they really are, and how they influence many teenagers' lives. Alternative stories of how teenagers stand up against these problems were told. The teenagers decided to inform parents and teachers of their lived experiences in three letters. These three interesting, innovative letters are included in this dissertation. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / M. Th. (Practical Theology with specialisation in Pastoral Therapy) Teenagers Narrative pastoral approach Externalising problems Interviewing problems Patriarchal discourse Depression Drug and alcohol abuse Verbal Physical and sexual abuse Post-modern epistemology Post-modern theology Feminist theology Letter writing Transparency Accountability Power discourse 259.23 Adolescent psychology Teenagers -- Religious life Interviewing in psychiatry Church work with teenagers Teenagers -- Pastoral counseling of

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