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The Value Of Play in Infant and Child Psychotherapy in a Group Attachment-Based Intervention (GABI)
Get PDFThere is growing interest in examining how attachment-based therapeutic interventions in early childhood can strengthen the bond between parent and child and prevent the transmission of intergenerational trauma. In recent decades, advances in attachment research have contributed to a greater understanding of how important the parent-child relationship is for a child’s well-being and subsequent years in life. This thesis explores the value of play in children’s therapy, specifically its use in dyadic play therapy as a therapeutic technique to strengthen the bond between parent and child. Two case studies from an attachment-based intervention are presented, and focus is given to the implicit nonverbal cues of communication expressed during the parent- child interaction in dyadic play. The value of play between the dyad is assessed from an attachment-based perspective and the correlation between the progression of play in relation to the quality of the parent-child attachment is explored. The therapeutic space of the case studies present play with two primary functions: play exposes the underlying relational dynamics of the parent-child relationship and it serves as the vehicle in which the parent and child can work together to create a shared meaning of their experience
Somewhere Warm: A Collection of Short Stories
Get PDF“Somewhere Warm” is a collection of short stories about the journey of a middle-aged woman whose house is foreclosed. The collection focuses on the relationships between the woman and the people in her life and how losing her house affected not just her, but also her family, particularly her daughter.https://digitalcommons.slc.edu/undergrad_selectedworks/1004/thumbnail.jp
The True Meaning Of Etiquette: The Choreography Of Idealized Womanhood
Get PDFIn this MFA thesis, I use Emily Post’s famous manual Etiquette (1940) as point of departure for my investigation of the implications of the various demanding, yet often unacknowledged, social requirements made of women. Rather than aspiring to one, consistent manner of comportment, there are social demands placed on women to perform a variety of roles depending on the situation. Of course, all people, regardless of gender, shift their behavior in some way depending on the context. Yet I propose that women in particular learn to choreograph their conduct in order to live up to the many contradictory, simultaneous requirements presented by Western patriarchal society. Dance, an artistic field rooted in nuanced physical performance, offers a valuable lens through which to understand the complications of idealized femininity. Like much concert dance, which seeks to hide the labor of choreography to present a slick, smooth creation, a woman must not reveal the labor that shapes her into a “beautiful” product. I am interested in cracking open this façade by investigating the work that goes into choreographing the ideal woman and displaying the consequences of this labor. I argue, using examples from sociology, neurology, dance studies and the work of Pina Bausch and Adrian Piper, that these consequences include: an essentialist conception of gender that incorrectly blames women for their own oppression; a sense of dissociation from the body; and a connection between women and blankness. Finally, I demonstrate the ways in which I incorporated these theories into my own performance work and website, Refrain from Doing Things Badly, and how I worked to both complicate and reclaim the relationship between performer and audience during the period of social distancing brought about by COVID-19 in 2020
Puppets in The Garden: Artifice and Nature in Angela Carter’s The Magic Toyshop
No full textPuppets are uncanny figures, both in and beyond literature. They embody a ‘thing life’, according to author and academic Kenneth Gross, combining object materialism with imitations of human thought, emotion, and action. The combination of unrelatable object life and relatable human narrative combines to create the emotion Sigmund Freud terms the uncanny, in which something strange and unknown invokes a sense of the familiar. British feminist author Angela Carter uses puppets, and their uncanniness, in her novel The Magic Toyshop. Her characters remind us of puppets, treading a line between familiar and unrecognizable.https://digitalcommons.slc.edu/undergrad_selectedworks/1008/thumbnail.jp
Pediatric Hospital Social Work
Get PDFThe role of a pediatric hospital social worker is very unique and the job requires a different skill set than do jobs for social workers who work outside the hospital. This thesis will provide a literature review on the history of hospital social work, hospital social work skills, social work roles and the effects of long-term hospitalization on children’s development. This thesis will include a discussion of the author’s experience interning as a pediatric hospital social worker, as well as a comparison between the role of a child life volunteer and that of a pediatric hospital social work intern. Additionally, this thesis will include descriptions of the author’s personal experience of supervision and support while working as a pediatric hospital social work intern and of the training given prior to entering the field. Finally, this thesis will include suggestions for future training. The hope is that this thesis will provide those going into the field of social work and other medical professionals an overview of the role of a pediatric hospital social worker
