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Building a Community of Inquiry Around Narrative Practice
Get PDFThis paper offers a commentary and reflection on papers included in the Narrative Practice Research Network Special Issue of The Qualitative Report. A brief introductory account is offered around the distinctive nature of narrative therapy and community work, in contrast to more widely used models of therapy. Challenges and dilemmas associated with research into counselling and psychotherapy are discussed. It is suggested that the work of the Narrative Practice Research Network represents a promising means of addressing these challenges through a combination of grounding in practice, commitment to an ethics of care, and creative reconceptualization of standard research tools such as qualitative interviews. The paper then moves on to consider possibilities around the further development of the Narrative Practice Research Network as a community of inquiry that supports dialogue among narrative researchers and practitioners, service users, and colleagues from other disciplines. The paper concludes by identifying the task of decolonialization of both therapy practice and research as an essential dimension of this field of work
Disrupted Relatedness and Shifting Perceptions of Others: Changing Moods Over Time for People Diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder
Get PDFFor people diagnosed with bipolar disorder, the relationship between mood episodes and interpersonal life is critical. Yet little is known about how their experience of other people changes during and between episodes of depression and mania. This longitudinal study aimed to investigate the experience of interpersonal change during depression, mania and euthymia (stability). Semi-structured interviews were conducted with three women at two time points and were analysed using longitudinal interpretative phenomenological analysis. One longitudinal theme, “Changing sense of others impacts relatedness,” demonstrates profound changes in participants’ experiences of other people within and between episodes. During depression, participants experienced other people as critical and threatening, making interactions impossible, whereas during mania they felt liberated from the expectations of others, who were seen as either subservient or irrelevant. For some participants, interpersonal disruption persisted during euthymia, making social interactions challenging. The findings highlight distinct forms of disrupted relatedness during depression and mania which were cumulative, impacting participants’ ability to relate to others and reconnect during stable periods. This points to the clinical value of those affected by bipolar disorder gaining insight into their trajectory of interpersonal change, along with a focus on rebuilding relationships and relational connection during euthymic phases
Development and Validation of A Home-Based Exercise Program Integrated with Patient Education Based on The Health Belief Model for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Get PDFPurpose: The purpose of this study is to develop and validate a comprehensive approach that integrates an exercise routine with patient education based on the health belief model (HBM) approach to promote effective exercise in this population. Method: A 3-phase study was conducted. In Phase I, two comprehensive scoping reviews were performed to develop the program. An initial draft of the program consisted of exercise protocols and HBM-based education. In Phase II, nine experts were chosen to further develop and refine the program’s content by providing feedback and validating it using the content validity index (CVI) and the Patient Education Material and Assessment Tool (PEMAT). In PHASE III, 15 T2DM patients were invited to evaluate the program instruments using the face validity index (FVI). Results: The program demonstrated excellent content and face validity. The proposed program included the safety sheets related to the exercise and participant booklets. It also consisted of four 60-minute education sessions, with a combination of home-based aerobic and resistance exercises over a 12-week duration. Conclusions: The proposed program shows strong validity for patients with T2DM, making it a promising intervention for primary care and community settings. The inclusion of the HBM as a theoretical underpinning contributes to understanding exercise behavior and enhances the feasibility and effectiveness of the intervention
Prevalence of Burnout Among Doctor of Physical Therapy Faculty
Get PDFObjective: Growing numbers of physical therapy (PT) educational programs (PTEPs) creates a challenge in recruiting and retaining faculty, potentially having negative ramifications for PT education. Burnout may be contributory as it has known physiological, psychological, and behavioral consequences in numerous clinical and academic populations, creating widespread negative outcomes. This study aimed to investigate burnout prevalence among PT faculty. Methods: Eligible participants, including current full and part-time PTEP faculty members in the United States with emails listed on public-facing program websites, were emailed study information and a link to the consent and survey. Consenting participants completed a Qualtrics survey consisting of 49-items including demographics, academic experience, and burnout. Frequencies, percentages, medians, and interquartile ranges were used for descriptive analyses. Participants were subcategorized into groups: “Burnout” or “No Burnout” from their current faculty position. Descriptive statistics by group were analyzed and Mann-Whitney U tests were used to analyze differences between groups. Chi-square tests were used to determine whether associations existed between categorical independent variables and, 1) participant-reported burnout and 2) faculty intent to leave. Significance was set at pResults: Three hundred thirty-three (333) individuals responded, with a 70% prevalence of burnout. Fourteen percent (14%) reported job dissatisfaction, 54% considered leaving their role, 9% indicated taking a leave of absence, and 24% disclosed having sought professional help due to burnout. Burnout was significantly associated with intent to leave. Factors associated with burnout and intent to leave included number of years as a faculty member and in current faculty role, whether perceived workload efforts matched expectations, and perception of resource adequacy. Conclusion: This study presents disquieting statistics related to PTEP faculty burnout with potential ramifications at personal, programmatic, and organizational levels. Further investigation is warranted to better understand associated factors and the magnitude of their impact to identify targets for intervention, with the goal of fostering a healthier and more balanced work environment for individuals entrusted with the crucial task of educating future PTs. Without action, PT education may face negative consequences such as increased administrative costs, disruption to programs, and ultimately reduction in the quality of education provided to PT students
A Quasi-Experimental Study Examining the Effects of a Proprioceptive Rehabilitation Protocol for the Cervical Spine on Balance and Function Using a Laser Head Light in Older Community Dwelling Individuals
Get PDFPurpose: Falls continue to be a major health issue when considering health risks for older individuals. The multi-factorial nature of falls in older adults leads to an overwhelming number of causal factors. Cervical joint position sense and joint position error could be additional factors that could influence the fall risk of older individuals. This research examined the effects of a proprioceptive rehabilitation protocol for the cervical spine using a laser head set in older community dwelling individuals. Methods: Sixty (60) subjects were purposively assigned into an experimental and a control group. Control group subjects were given a general lower extremity strengthening home exercise program (HEP) to adhere to for eight weeks. Experimental group subjects were given the same 8-week lower extremity HEP along with a defined cervical proprioceptive protocol utilizing a laser head light. All subjects were pre-tested and post-tested on several impairment and functional level measures. Results: Data analysis indicated moderate to excellent reliability of the laser head-set tool utilized to measure cervical joint position error. The ICC values for six of the eight positions ranged from 0.700 (p = .016) to 0.953 (p \u3c 0.001). Cervical joint position error decreased more significantly in the experimental group indicating increased cervical joint position sense. Post change cervical joint position error score differences between groups indicated a significant difference in improvement in six of the eight test positions. F values drawn from these positions ranged from 8.825 (p = .004) to 29.991 (p \u3c .001). Significant between group post change improvement was also observed on gait speed measures, F = 19.053 (p \u3c .001) and timed up and go measures, F = 5.809 (p = .019). Additional analysis revealed significant post change score differences between groups for improved Berg balance scale scores U = 208.500 (p = .002) and improved falls efficacy scale scoring U = 264.500 (p = .024). Conclusions: The findings have the potential to enable an additional training modality to effect fall risk in older community dwelling adults who are displaying imbalance issues
Fostering Future Professional Contemporary Collaboration
Get PDFCollaborative teamwork needs to be fostered early and often to meet contemporary practice ideals. This qualitative phenomenological designed study’s purpose was to investigate student physical therapists (SPTs) and student physical therapist assistants\u27 (SPTAs) perceptions of an intraprofessional online activity reflective of contemporary home health and telehealth settings. A convenience sample of 25 SPTs from one program and 24 SPTAs from another program met synchronously online to view a video case of an ambulatory patient with dementia, develop a plan of care, and discuss appropriate interventions reflective of practice in Virginia. Following interactions, students wrote reflections on their experiences that were analyzed using Word Clouds. This experience allowed SPTs/SPTAs to practice their respective roles and responsibilities as future PT/PTAs, including communication, critical thinking, evaluation, exercises, and treatment. Overarching goals were met. Conducting this simulated experience online allowed students to collaborate mitigating cost barriers in travel, time to complete, and the need for in-person meeting space. Students were able to integrate APTA core values in a safe and practical learning experience. The authors plan to adapt this activity considering student feedback and realigning objectives with the 2024 Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education criteria
The Role of Religious Actors in Fostering Hope in Violent Times
No full textWe are witnessing an unprecedented spike in protracted conflicts around the world. In 2024, the conflicts between Palestine-Israel, Russia-Ukraine, Sudan have occupied the headlines. The ripple effect of the conflict in Palestine-Israel has also led to wider escalations across the Middle East region in Lebanon, Syria, Iran and Yemen. There are also other conflict hot spots which have been less on the radar such as Kashmir which still continue to linger in the background. This paper will explore the role and impact that Religious Actors have in fostering hope in violent times. It will also examine and critique what are termed as Religious Actors in the theological or Religio-Political Actors and geopolitical space interspersed in the matrix of violence and warfare. Finally, the paper will touch on what role can religious actors play in instilling hope in the virtues of our common shared humanity and fostering peace
Conflict Resolution, Late Capitalism, and Socialism
No full textPanel Discussion: Structural Conflict Resolution in the Era of Late Capitalism
1. Title: CONFLICT RESOLUTION, LATE CAPITALISM, AND SOCIALISM
Author: Richard E. Rubenstein (George Mason University). [email protected]
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A question infrequently dealt with in the literature of peace and conflict studies, but one that seems increasingly urgent to explore, is the relationship of late capitalism to apparently intractable conflicts. By extension, this inquiry also raises the issue of the relationship of alternative socioeconomic systems such as socialism to conflict resolution.
The theoretical work dealing with these related questions is not only slim in volume but largely limited to considering the impact of selected types of socioeconomic systems on international conflicts. Examples familiar to readers of the Peace and Conflict Studies Journal are Faruk Ekmekci, “Democratic vs. Capitalist Peace: A Test for the Developing World,” JPCS 21:1 (2014), and Juliet Bennet, “Peace politics and the political spectrum: A co-creative approach to left and right” (presentation at the JPCS Conference, October 2021). The proposed paper offers a more general analysis, rooted in empirical data, of three subtopics: The tendency of late capitalist systems to generate serious intergroup conflicts that are very difficult or impossible to resolve within the accepted institutional and discursive structures of those systems. The possibility, if not substantial probability, that such conflicts could be mitigated or resolved if late capitalist institutions and policies were altered or replaced by social-democratic or socialist institutions, norms, and policies. The practical steps that might be taken to move late capitalist societies toward more effective forms of conflict mitigation and resolution based on significant alteration of existing systems.
Each of these subtopics is discussed in the context of a particular conflict internal to many late capitalist societies – the struggle over policies toward would-be and recently arrived immigrants – and a particular international conflict – the growing antagonism between most late capitalist nations and the People’s Republic of China. In each case the paper explores the systemic sources of the conflict, possible links between conflict mitigation or resolution and systemic change, and practical steps that might be taken to forge those links.
2. Title: CONFLICT RESOLUTION AS A SUPPORT FOR COUNTERPOWER
Author: Michael D. English (University of Colorado Boulder).
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The origins of conflict resolution in the post-WWII period might be read as a radical experiment to do politics differently under the specter of nuclear Armageddon. Yet today, most analysts and observers view conflict resolution in relation to neutral third-party techniques of dispute settlement. While many authors recognize a wide range of roles conflict intervenors might play in relation to serving all parties involved in a conflict, less attention is paid to party-specific roles (coaching, allyship, etc.) that assist to advance political goals or to challenge underlying structural conditions. Even less consideration is given to conflict resolution within the paradigm of nonviolent civil resistance, treating the subject as merely a question of technique for managing differences between affinity groups.
The past decade has seen a continuation of struggles for justice and equality, yet conflict resolution has remained largely on the sidelines in struggles that sit at the core of the field’s emergence. This presentation reconsiders the roles conflict resolution might play alongside and within these contemporary movements building on the work of Hardt and Negri on counterpower.
3. Title: CAN WAR EVER BE STOPPED? ANALYZING THE MILITARISTIC SYSTEM
Author: Victor Wallis (Berklee School of Music). [email protected]
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With each passing year, the costs of war increase -- not only in terms of the amounts spent on armaments, but also in terms of the irreparable damage arising from war\u27s continuation. The question of how to reverse course is the question of how to transform a social order for whose ruling class waging war has become a necessity for survival. The rest of the population has largely acquiesced, though not without being subjected to a remarkably comprehensive, historically evolved set of institutions, material factors, and cultural forces that maintain the militaristic system. Describing the modus operandi of this complex -- whose military/industrial component is buttressed by ideology and repression – is an essential prerequisite to developing a coherent, possibly effective strategy to eliminate military conflicts
Conflict Transformation Training and Research with Ukrainian Students and Veterans
No full textThis presentation centers on the training and research Dr. Georgakopoulos and her team from the Department of Conflict Resolution Studies is conducting with BRDGS ACADEMY and former President of Mediator Beyond Borders Lynn Cole in partnership with Pereiaslav University (located in Ukraine) to train and certify students and faculty advisors from University at Pereiaslav to adapt to a post war Ukraine with conflict resolution approaches and processes. Also, the presentation will include a discussion of the Peer Mentorship Program that has been developed between both universities to develop community across borders.
The presentation will cover the elements of the training involved in the Ukrainian Ambassador program, where involved Ukrainians will learn about conflict and how to approach it through conflict resolution mechanisms of using local action, resistance movements, social media coverage, mediation, sustainable dialogue, media...etc. The training will explore how these techniques can be uniquely applied in Ukrainian Communities. The focus will be on collaborative practice involving interdisciplinary teams working together to solve disputes. It is a conflict approach that harnesses the power of the people through local action, grassroots activism, community engagement, civic leadership, and the global response. This presentation will share how people at various levels have agency and power to promote change and conflict transformation for a future Ukraine
“K-Pop in Public”: Vietnamese Youth Using Dance to Queer the Public Space
Get PDFIn Vietnam, where public protests are criminalized (Kerkvliet, 2022), young people continue finding creative ways to advocate for their rights through different venues, particularly the arts. This research combines digital ethnography and duoethnography to examine K-pop dance covers in Vietnamese public spaces as a platform for youth to explore their gender identities, connect, and visibilize queerness.
K-pop is a music genre, pop culture, and cultural phenomenon that emerged in South Korea and has gained significant popularity and influence around the world (Aini, 2020). We, two researchers (one is a K-pop dancer), began the research by using digital ethnography (Zorn, & Underberg, 2013) to critically examine 20 YouTube videos (2017 – 2024) from Vietnamese non-professional dance groups using the search term “K-pop in public Vietnam,” covering music from 20 K-pop girl groups (GG, groups made up of female members) and boy groups (BG, groups made up of male members). Utilizing queer theories (Paiz, 2018; Trinh 2020), we use duoethnography (Dong & Damasceno, 2024; Sawyer & Norris, 2015) to add insights from our lived experiences.
We find that more female dancers crossdress to appear masculine than male dancers dressing femininely, which reflects how societal binary norms affect youth’s ability to express queerness. From Researcher 2’s observation as a K-pop dancer, many youth change their fashion, hairstyle, and make-up as they enter the K-pop dance cover community. Many feel accepted and come out to the community or families. This demonstrates “K-pop in public” creates a community of belonging for youth to express their gender identities and challenge gender norms.
However, many youth continue operating within a binary paradigm. When female dancers cover BG songs, most cut their hair short or tie their hair up, as these hairstyles are historically considered to be masculine (Eyssel & Hegel, 2012; Zipkin, 1999). Dancing in public attracts diverse audiences, giving exposure to a more inclusive gender expression than what is shown in the news media. To queer public spaces, we must deconstruct the binary paradigm of gender, center marginalized voices, and re-imagine a more inclusive world where gender is fluid and human worth is not bounded by oppressive societal expectations