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Making sense of paraplegia caused by violence-related gunshot injury / Gregory Bryne HopeHope, Gregory Bryne January 2005 (has links)
The overall aim of this study is to explore the subjective experiences of
psychotherapeutic interventions and the sense-making process in a group of persons
paralysed as a consequence of violence-related gunshot injury. An available and
purposive sample of ten participants was selected from public and private hospitals in and
around Johannesburg, and from the Association for the Physically Disabled in South
Africa. Three females and seven males, between the ages of 26 and 43 years, took part in
the research. The participants had all suffered penetrative damage to the spinal cord in the
thoracic region as a result of violence related gunshot injury, and are therefore classified
as having paraplegia The participants' gunshot injuries had been sustained in incidents
ranging from attempted hijacking and armed robbery, to being caught in crime-related
crossfire. In-depth interviews were conducted with the participants. A narrative approach
was used to examine participants' unique stories, utilising a systematic form of narrative
analysis. The thesis consists of three articles, namely 1) The subjective experience of
psychotherapeutic interventions in the rehabilitation of persons paralysed as a result of
violence-related gunshot injuries; 2) Making sense of paraplegia caused by
violence-related gunshot injury; and 3) Therapeutic guidelines for the management of
persons paralysed as a result of violence-related gunshot injuries.
The findings of article 1 reveal that paraplegic persons had both positive and
negative experiences during their hospital rehabilitation. Ultimately, however, positive
experiences compensated for negative experiences. This suggests that in the absence of
psychotherapeutic interventions, psychosocial adjustment may possibly not be facilitated.
The second article indicates that although several barriers prevented participants from
making sense of their trauma, meaningful relationships, spiritual growth and a greater
appreciation of the value of life were still possible. in the final article guidelines were put
forward that include meeting the holistic and adjustment needs of paraplegic persons.
Future research is suggested and limitations acknowledged. / Thesis (Ph.D. (Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2006.
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Making sense of paraplegia caused by violence-related gunshot injury / Gregory Bryne HopeHope, Gregory Bryne January 2005 (has links)
The overall aim of this study is to explore the subjective experiences of
psychotherapeutic interventions and the sense-making process in a group of persons
paralysed as a consequence of violence-related gunshot injury. An available and
purposive sample of ten participants was selected from public and private hospitals in and
around Johannesburg, and from the Association for the Physically Disabled in South
Africa. Three females and seven males, between the ages of 26 and 43 years, took part in
the research. The participants had all suffered penetrative damage to the spinal cord in the
thoracic region as a result of violence related gunshot injury, and are therefore classified
as having paraplegia The participants' gunshot injuries had been sustained in incidents
ranging from attempted hijacking and armed robbery, to being caught in crime-related
crossfire. In-depth interviews were conducted with the participants. A narrative approach
was used to examine participants' unique stories, utilising a systematic form of narrative
analysis. The thesis consists of three articles, namely 1) The subjective experience of
psychotherapeutic interventions in the rehabilitation of persons paralysed as a result of
violence-related gunshot injuries; 2) Making sense of paraplegia caused by
violence-related gunshot injury; and 3) Therapeutic guidelines for the management of
persons paralysed as a result of violence-related gunshot injuries.
The findings of article 1 reveal that paraplegic persons had both positive and
negative experiences during their hospital rehabilitation. Ultimately, however, positive
experiences compensated for negative experiences. This suggests that in the absence of
psychotherapeutic interventions, psychosocial adjustment may possibly not be facilitated.
The second article indicates that although several barriers prevented participants from
making sense of their trauma, meaningful relationships, spiritual growth and a greater
appreciation of the value of life were still possible. in the final article guidelines were put
forward that include meeting the holistic and adjustment needs of paraplegic persons.
Future research is suggested and limitations acknowledged. / Thesis (Ph.D. (Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2006.
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Preference of Chinese Undergraduate Music Majors for Chinese Xi-Qu and Western OperaChen, Hong 19 November 2015 (has links)
The purposes of this study were to explore the preference of the Chinese undergraduate music majors (N = 27) for Chinese Xi-Qu and Western opera audiovisual examples, the reasons for preference, influence of familiarity on preference, and the relationship between preference ratings and the emotions as detected by FaceReader. The mixed research method, convergent parallel design, was used to explore this topic in depth. As Xi-Qu and opera integrate multiple art forms, eight audiovisual examples (Xi-Qu, n = 4, opera, n = 4) were selected as the stimuli to show the characteristics of the two genres. The participants watched the audiovisual examples individually and responded to a questionnaire meanwhile their facial expressions were recorded for FaceReader analysis. The semi-structured interviews were administered to collect qualitative data pertaining to participants’ general opinions about the musical examples, familiarity, reasons for preference, and the emotions encompassing when watching the musical examples. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data obtained from the questionnaire. The facial expressions video files were analyzed by FaceReader. The qualitative data obtained from interviews were coded to find themes.
The quantitative findings suggested that the operatic examples received higher mean preference ratings than the Xi-Qu examples. The top three preferred examples were all operatic pieces while the three least preferred examples were Xi-Qu pieces. Results of one-way ANOVA showed that the difference among the preference mean ratings showed the statistical significance, F (7, 208) = 14.15, p < .01. The operatic examples also received higher familiarity ratings than Xi-Qu examples. The difference among the familiarity mean ratings also showed the statistical significance, F (7, 208) = 2.99, p < .01. The preference and familiarity ratings showed a modest but statistically significant relationship (r = .45, p < .01). A statistically significant relationship was found between the preference ratings and tempo (r =. 23, < . 01). Furthermore, singing was always among the top three most liked elements in the operatic examples, but singing was always among the top three most disliked elements in the four Xi-Qu examples despite that singing was also among the top three liked elements in two Xi-Qu examples.
Numerical FaceReader results showed a strong negative relationship between “angry” and preference (rho = -.976, p < .01). The moderate relationship was found between “sums of negative emotions” and preference (rho = .741, p < .05). No statistically significant relationship was found between valence and preference and between arousal and preference. The results of temporal FaceReader analysis showed that the participants’ emotional response to the audiovisual examples changed with the unfolding visual and audio information.
The qualitative analysis revealed a model of Xi-Qu and opera preference. The model contained the factors influencing preference for Xi-Qu and opera, including personal factors, cultural and environmental factors, visual factors, musical factors, and musical response. Formal voice training was the most reliable indicator of preference for operatic examples. Familiarity gained through guided listening instead of random repetition was positively related preference for Xi-Qu examples. The unexpected findings were the influence of religion and static perspective on preference for music. Implications and recommendations were discussed, and the suggestions for future research were included.
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Leadership development as reflexive practiceTalucci, Sam January 2012 (has links)
This thesis examines Leadership Development in both a corporate setting and an expedition-based setting. The assumptions that are the foundations of current Leadership Development originate, and are informed by, aspects of the natural sciences. These methods are critiqued in terms of usability and applicability in the context of human relating. An alternative approach is investigated based on nonlinear causality and the complex responsive process of relating using the work of Stacey (2003, 2007, 2010), Stacey and Griffin (2005), Stacey et al. (2000). What is explored is the Leader as expert and the ability through communication, decision making, and planning to create certainty. What is problematized is the fantasy that this creates in ongoing day-to-day interactions. The work explores interactions between a leadership consultant/coach and clients in varied domains: the role of the practitioner in the delivery and creation of theory, models, best practices and standard operating procedures; and the reflections of both the practitioner and clients that what is emerging cannot be foreseen. This leads to a further exploration cycle of the human experience in organizations and how reification, the uncanny, and the struggle for recognition might offer other ways of making sense of the experience. The work examines the role of the consultant/teacher and the client/student and the emergence of knowledge. It further investigates the relationship of time and causality and how this is connected to theoretical knowledge and knowledge in action. This leads to a further connection of thinking, reflecting and reflexivity and what this means as practice for leadership development. Using the context of leadership coaching for management teams and connecting the reflexive aspect of knowledge, what is argued is that sensemaking as developed by Weick (1995, 2001, 2009), Weick and Sutcliffe (2007) is not a sufficient practice to explain and create best practices, standard operating procedures, models, and theories. What is also necessary, and is identified as sensemaking and connected to Elias (1987) work, is our own involvement and detachment as we abstract to understand what is happening in the moment between human agents. It is argued that paying attention to these aspects of ongoing human relating offer the possibility of thicker and a more contextualized understanding of the emergent unpredictable outcomes that leaders deal with every day.
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Reflecting on a period of change in a governmental development agency : understanding management as the patterning of interaction and politicsMukubvu, Luke January 2012 (has links)
Management was once described as the art of getting things done through the efforts of oneself and other people (Follett, 1941) and is functionalised through acts of planning, organising, leading and controlling tasks and people for pre-defined objectives. These four cardinal pillars of management are translated into various models, tools and techniques of best practice of how to manage. While acknowledging that the substance of the current management models, tools and techniques have for years broadly contributed to how organisations are run, my research sheds more light on the shortcomings underlying some of the assumptions and ways of thinking behind these models and tools. My research findings based on my experience in working for the Department for International Development suggests that management practice and organisational change occur in the context of human power relationships in which people constrain and enable each other on the basis of human attributes such as identities, attitudes, values, perceptions, emotions, fears, expectations, motives and interests. I argue that these human attributes, human power relations and the totality of human emotions arise in the social, and understanding the ways in which these attributes shape local interaction and daily human relating is critical in making sense of the reality of organisational change and management. I suggest that management practice occurs in the context of everyday politics of human relating. It is that type of politics that takes place within families, groups of people, organisations, communities, and indeed throughout all units of society around the distribution of power, wealth, resources, thoughts and ideas. This way of thinking has enormous implications for the way we conceptualise management theory and practice. I am suggesting that managers do not solely determine, nor do employees freely choose their identities, attitudes, values, perceptions, emotions, fears, expectations and motives. These human dimensions arise from social relationships and personal experiences. As such, it is simply not for a manager to decide or force other employees on which of these human attributes to influence their behaviour. I am arguing that the social nature of management practice and role of human agents is inherently complex and cannot, in the scientific sense, be adequately reduced to discrete, systematic, complete and predictive models, tools and techniques without losing some meaning of what we do in management.
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Neither Here Nor There, But Altogether Elsewhere : A Brief Study of DistanceChang, Jonathan January 2019 (has links)
Knowing is often framed by language; this moving arrangement of parts helps us make sense of our surround, rendering possible ways of relating, acting, and responding. Situated yet unsettled, the play of language enables us to mediate distances, to make sense of our frames while seeking other ways of being with and for. Through dialogue, these works attempt to reroute and reorient so that we may learn to see each other — and to see ourselves.
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Action in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: an Enactive Psycho-phenomenological and Semiotic Analysis of Thirty New Zealand Women's Experiences of Suffering and RecoveryHart, M J Alexandra January 2010 (has links)
This research into Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) presents the results of 60 first-person psycho-phenomenological interviews with 30 New Zealand women. The participants were recruited from the Canterbury and Wellington regions, 10 had recovered. Taking a non-dual, non-reductive embodied approach, the phenomenological data was analysed semiotically, using a graph-theoretical cluster analysis to elucidate the large number of resulting categories, and interpreted through the enactive approach to cognitive science.
The initial result of the analysis is a comprehensive exploration of the experience of CFS which develops subject-specific categories of experience and explores the relation of the illness to universal categories of experience, including self, ‘energy’, action, and being-able-to-do.
Transformations of the self surrounding being-able-to-do and not-being-able-to-do were shown to elucidate the illness process.
It is proposed that the concept ‘energy’ in the participants’ discourse is equivalent to the Mahayana Buddhist concept of ‘contact’. This characterises CFS as a breakdown of contact. Narrative content from the recovered interviewees reflects a reestablishment of contact.
The hypothesis that CFS is a disorder of action is investigated in detail.
A general model for the phenomenology and functional architecture of action is proposed. This model is a recursive loop involving felt meaning, contact, action, and perception and appears to be phenomenologically supported.
It is proposed that the CFS illness process is a dynamical decompensation of the subject’s action loop caused by a breakdown in the process of contact.
On this basis, a new interpretation of neurological findings in relation to CFS becomes possible. A neurological phenomenon that correlates with the illness and involves a brain region that has a similar structure to the action model’s recursive loop is identified in previous research results and compared with the action model and the results of this research. This correspondence may identify the brain regions involved in the illness process, which may provide an objective diagnostic test for the condition and approaches to treatment.
The implications of this model for cognitive science and CFS should be investigated through neurophenomenological research since the model stands to shed considerable light on the nature of consciousness, contact and agency.
Phenomenologically based treatments are proposed, along with suggestions for future research on CFS. The research may clarify the diagnostic criteria for CFS and guide management and treatment programmes, particularly multidimensional and interdisciplinary approaches.
Category theory is proposed as a foundation for a mathematisation of phenomenology.
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