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A Trauma-Informed Approach to Child Victimization: Global and Rural Considerations
No full textChild victimization, including child maltreatment, is a global public health concern with serious and potentially life-long consequences (Djeddah et al., 2000; World Health Organization, 2020). Global estimates suggest that upwards of one billion youth under 18 years of age are victims of child maltreatment each year (Hills et al., 2016). The consequences that stem from exposure to child maltreatment range from noncommunicable diseases to violence perpetration (Nelson et al., 2020). These findings, in conjunction with the lasting impact trauma has on the brain and body (Siegel, 2001; Thomason & Marusak, 2017) and the potential influence trauma has on the health of societies (Magruder et al., 2017), highlight the need to create trauma-informed systems. While implementation of a trauma-informed approach may look different across contexts, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has developed four key assumptions to guide trauma-informed work, often referred to as the “Four Rs” (i.e., Realize, Recognize, Respond, and Resist Re-Traumatization). The Four Rs operate under six fundamental principles: (1) safety, (2) trustworthiness and transparency, (3) peer support, (4) collaboration and mutuality, (5) empowerment, voice, and choice, and (6) cultural, historical, and gender issues. This paper aims to provide practical applications of SAMHSA’s trauma-informed approach across all societal levels (i.e., individual, system, and community levels), focusing on cultural and rurality considerations
A Space to Be: Ability, Disability, and the Inevitability of Corporeal Decline in Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea
No full textOn July 2, 1961, nine years after he published The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway died by suicide in his home in Ketchum, Idaho. With his death a persona was born. To many, Hemingway represents the quintessential anti-disability writer, the author who lived for ability, who lost ability, and who ended his life when no hope of regaining ability remained. Drawing from disability scholars such as Michael Bérubé, Timothy Jay Dolmage, David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder, I demonstrate the ways The Old Man and the Sea complicates this narrative. In particular, the novella works to legitimize the disabled body, actively subverting several common narrative tropes such narrative prosthesis, the overcoming narrative, and the kill-or-cure dichotomy. In doing so, Hemingway creates a space in which the inevitable decay of the human body must be seriously and honestly addressed. Through this research, a new more nuanced picture of Hemingway emerges, one that recognizes the complicated and dynamic nature his view of the able-bodied individual took
Bipolar in the Academy: A Case of Testimonial Smothering
No full textThis paper explores my active suppression of my bipolar identity as a case of “testimonial smothering” (Dotson, 2011) in the academy. Dotson theorizes testimonial smothering as a distinctly epistemic injustice. I explicate concepts of epistemic injustice—both testimonial and hermeneutical injustice (Fricker, 2007)—and testimonial smothering and argue that the pervasive nature of stereotypes and overarching discourses about Madness in society may lead a person who identifies as Mad to smother their identity. Following a discussion of the ways that people who identify as Mad are subject to epistemic injustice that wrongs them in their capacity as knowers, I point to the necessity of being understood as a “knower” in academia. Subsequently, I argue that having to “pass” as sane constitutes epistemic violence and further explore the distinctly hermeneutical dimensions of the injustice that shapes the often invisibility of Mad people in the academy. Discussion about the complexities of decisions about passing and disclosure follows. I ultimately assert that visibility and representation of Mad people and the recognition of the epistemic value of Mad perspectives are crucial to moving forward
Why do I like Schumann more than Chopin? A Physiological Analysis of Pianists' Affinities for Composers
No full textUnderstanding students' physiological characteristics is essential in piano teaching. However, how can teachers in the field know what music suits their students physiologically? This paper explores a new theory in sport science called, "the Four-Stance Theory" to provide teachers with a simple yet practical method to understand students' physiological nature. A survey-based experiment with 20 research participants (10 male and 10 female pianists) was conducted. Research participants were physically tested for their physiological "Stance Types" to see if pianists' physiological characteristics can predict their preferences for certain composers' music. Chi-square tests of independence showed that Stance Type can indeed predict what type of composers they favor (p < .05); further, this simple 10-minute physical test could also predict what types of composer's works they feel most technically comfortable to perform (p < .01) and feel are easier to understand (p < .05). These results indicate that this remarkably simple method could effectively discern pianists' physiological nature and predict which composer's music suits them physiologically. The authors envision that this 10-minute test could be useful for bringing physiological preparedness to both teachers and students
Commentary on: "Perception of Structure in Collective Free Improvisation and its Context Dependency" by Arthur Faraco
No full textThis short commentary on Arthur Faraco's target paper investigating the perception of structure in collective free improvisation addresses the question of whether the concept of the "interrupt generator" can be used to explain the segmentations annotated by listeners. In addition, the commentary points to opportunities for further modelling of the musical and perceptual data through the use of modern tools from music information retrieval (MIR)
Commentary on David Temperley's "Melodic Pattern Repetition and Efficient Encoding: A Corpus Study"
No full textThe following is a commentary of David Temperley's article on melodic pattern repetition and encoding. The article advances our understanding of patterns that could foster efficient encoding of melodies in Western tonal music. The research has room to grow in the theoretical context and provides opportunities for experimental work to test its predictions
The Music of Matrescence: The Missing Link in our understanding of Mother-Infant Bonding through Interactive Music. A Commentary on Vazquez-Diaz de Leon (2024)
No full textVazquez-Diaz de Leon’s (2024) study explores mothers’ uses of music in everyday life, illuminating the potential of this reciprocal process in supporting the quality of mother–infant interactions and maternal bonding, while also supporting maternal identity, regulation and coping during motherhood. This commentary calls for further matricentric focused research that acknowledges the social and cultural context of ‘matrescence’ as a significant and transformation shift into motherhood that is largely underrepresented and warrants further exploration and discourse into how this period may intersect with mothers’ musical engagement in everyday life
An Interesting Analysis on a Curious Convergence Series
No full textThe authors extend the work of Kempner as they investigate a peculiar convergence series derived from the harmonic series through the exclusion of terms containing specific digits in their decimal representation. The authors introduce a novel set S and its corresponding series S' which converge under certain digit-exclusion criteria. By generalizing this approach, they explore the mathematical and pedagogical implications of such series, highlighting their potential to enrich student experiences with proof and inspire further research in series convergence. This work not only broadens the understanding of Kempner’s series but also invites educators and mathematicians to reconsider the convergence of series through the lens of digit exclusion