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Exploring narratives of long-term substance addiction recovery in Norway
Get PDFIntroduction
Long-term substance addiction (SA) recovery continues to be presented as a varied concept, with conceptual consequences for how recovery is investigated and approached in practice. Social and societal aspects are often mentioned as important considerations for understanding recovery within substance use treatment, follow-up services, policies, and research. However, the concept continues to be dominantly constructed within individualised frameworks, first and foremost concerned with an idealised concept of substance use cessation prior to shorter-term treatment interventions, and a preset outcome of full substance use abstinence as the main goal. This individualised approach is limited and does not take account of the societal context in which recovery processes occur. Policy, practice and research needs to reflect the reality of people’s experiences of long-term recovery that is currently sparse. Thus, there is a need for qualitative investigations of people’s storied accounts of long-term SA recovery within their societal environment in search of mechanisms of human change and development.
Method
This research is framed within a critical realist, interpretive, and social constructionist position, aimed to identify, apply, and evaluate, relevant psycho-social and cultural factors for people in their long-term SA recovery. To achieve these aims, 10 participants with former polysubstance use and four to 11 years in recovery were
peer-interviewed concerning their storied accounts of long-term SA recovery experiences, using the following objectives:
1. Identify key factors relevant to long-term SA recovery through narrative exploration of people’s lived experiences,
2. Apply a developmental model as a framework for mapping, explaining, and developing knowledge of long-term SA recovery,
3. Propose recommendations for policy, practice, and further research in support of SA recovery.
Analysis
Using a combination of Developmental Systems Theory, an interactional-performative analytical lens, and narrative thematic analysis, distinct typologies of long-term SA recovery courses will be presented.
Findings
The research findings, presented through typologies, extend retrospective and prospective time frames often suggested for SA recovery. Three main themes were developed: Stories of loneliness, isolation and development of social connections, stories of agency development, and stories of developing self-determination. The participants’ narrations of their long-term SA recovery describe how they were able to change their performativity in society over time, in correlative relationships with others, within their societal environment. These new modes of action contributed to heightened sense of agency and purpose for the participants, which functioned as counterweights to self-stigma, loneliness, and social isolation. Their stories serve as examples of how they manoeuvred in their societal environment, alongside showing
inventiveness and entrepreneurship, while keeping their personal autonomy intact. The participants' stories of flexible re-authoring through non-linear and varied recovery courses underline human possibilities for adaptability, inventiveness, and reflective choice. This potential multiplicity of possibilities challenges idealised templates for human existence, including how change and development can occur in people’s lives, and key mechanics concerning societal expectations of normativity.
Conclusions
This is the first study of its kind to use a combination of Developmental Systems Theory and a narrative research design to study long-term SA recovery. I argue that the potential significance for long-term SA recovery stemming from reciprocal interactions with people’s social surroundings has been underplayed in practice, policy, and research, on behalf of an overrated focus on individual responsibility. This focus continues to hinder developments of broader frameworks in support of people’s recovery courses. In addition, I argue that service providers and policymakers continue to respond according to a deficit model, based on overly fixed frameworks, a lack of pragmatic timing, and normative assumptions of successful living and societal contributions. There is a need for highlighting strengths-based opportunities, depending on people’s current life situations, alongside subjective reflections on how they see their lives going forward, within their social contexts. As potential for human re-authoring, change and development exist, the person in question and their context should remain ever attentive to such possibilities, as complexity and open endings constitute all human existence. In such efforts, explorations of resources, passions, and personal strengths within peoples’ societal context are pivotal, as advantageous alternatives to focusing on individualised chronic vulnerabilities, weaknesses, and human limitations. Thus, continued investigations of necessary prerequisites for long-
term human change and development are key to contribute to hope in the SA recovery field
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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