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From Coffee in Mumbai to Marmite in Scotland: Journeying through the Sensory Stories of People Living with Dementia and Their Carers
No full textDementia affects a person’s ability to think, communicate, and remember, and affects mood, behavior, and ultimately relationships. Historically, people living with dementia were stigmatized, isolated, and segregated from society as they were viewed through the lens of psychiatry, focusing on loss of mental faculties, social roles, and the fragmentation of the self. But storytelling can help us view people who have dementia in a different light and provide them the opportunities to share their experiences of the world around them despite their difficulties. Multisensory storytelling methods in particular can help people express themselves and communicate what matters most to them, even when they struggle to communicate, as emotions and memories can be stimulated through the senses. This article explores creative ways to help people living with dementia tell their stories through collaboration, exploring common ground, and providing a way to recall fragmented memories. Our coproduced PhD Suitcase of Memories research with people living with dementia and their partners used a multisensory approach to storytelling that resulted in improved language skills and memory and supported a rekindling of their relationships. My experience of multisensory storytelling sparked off ideas that culminated in Finding the Light in Dementia, a training program for families, carers, and professionals that uses their stories to communicate their needs and wants and educates people about what it is like to live with dementia and how we can help the person
The Implications of Jack Kerouac’s Modern Flâneur in On the Road
No full textPost-World War II society became increasingly reliant on automobiles as the primary mode of transportation in the United States, fostering conditions that gave birth to a modern reconceptualization of the flâneur. Jack Kerouac’s On the Road serves as a reference for character analysis, continuing and revising the Parisian origins of the concept. Drawing from literary works such as Virginia Woolf’s Street Haunting and Sherman Young’s essay “Morphings and Ur-Forms,” this essay argues that the protagonist of On the Road, Sal Paradise, embodies a uniquely American flâneur
Show Me How You Feel on Your Face: Preschool Children’s Capacity to Modulate Emotional Expression
Get PDFEmotion regulation includes the ability to upregulate or enhance the emotional reaction and downregulate or suppress the emotional reaction in accordance with situational demands. However, children’s use of enhancement strategies has been neglected, as has the examination of whether they can flexibly alternate between enhancement and suppression strategies. In the present study, we examine whether preschool children (N = 61) could intentionally enhance and suppress their emotional expression based on situational demands and its association with modulating their expression in a real-world situation requiring emotion regulation demands. Our findings provide initial evidence that 3-year-old children can enhance positive and negative emotional expressions when the situation demands, with the former being associated with more adaptive emotion regulation strategies in a social situation. The current study identifies expressive emotion enhancement as an emergent skill during the preschool period that may have broader implications for children’s socio-emotional functioning