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Brown, Naoko Nakano. "Lived Experience of Loneliness| A Narrative Inquiry." Thesis, Saybrook University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10842478.
Full textLoneliness is a human experience that often influences the individual’s mood, perception, self-concept, relationship, and physical heath. The existing body of research on loneliness often associates loneliness with a mental illness (e.g., anxiety or depression) and/or a cognitive deficit. Moreover, although, researchers have identified different types of loneliness, there is limited research on the experience of profound loneliness while in the company of another person with whom one is in a close relationship. Therefore, this study was framed to contribute information in the field by exploring the meaning of this particular type of loneliness as a lived experience. The question this research sought to answer through narrative inquiry was: “What is the meaning of participants’ experience of loneliness while in the company of another person with whom they were in a close relationship?”
The current study examined oral narratives of adult participants. Five participants were recruited and interviewed. The transcribed data was analyzed following Gee’s (1991) structural analysis of oral narrative. Through analysis of the narrative data this study aimed to gain an understanding of subjective, psychological meanings of this particular loneliness experience.
The results of the analysis showed that participants, in relationship with another, characterized as close but not experienced as intimate, was retrospectively experienced as loneliness and was lived with a sense of profound hopelessness in a multidimensional manner, which implied the participant’s desired ideals for intimate relationship.
Many factors appear to influence the loneliness experience while in the company of a close other for adults, including the individual’s desire to avoid experiencing pain and loss. The findings indicate that increasing the individual’s awareness of their multidimensional experience through non-pathologizing reflection in a clinical context could allow him or her to reach a deeper understanding of the experience.
Seeger, Augustine. "Parapsychological Beliefs and the Effects of Exposure to Skeptical Inquiry." TopSCHOLAR®, 2001. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/700.
Full textSlater, Michelle McHugh. "National Inquiry of Clinical Nurse Leadership in the Operating Room." Case Western Reserve University Doctor of Nursing Practice / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=casednp1476639876263273.
Full textScholz, Lisa Marie. "A Phenomenological Inquiry of Transition from Clinical Expert to Academic Novice." Case Western Reserve University Doctor of Nursing Practice / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=casednp1619892432083884.
Full textLumaj, Blerina. "What is the Experience of Albanian-Americans' Bicultural Lifestyle? A Heuristic Inquiry." Thesis, Michigan School of Professional Psychology, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10636928.
Full textThis qualitative study explored the question, What is the experience of Albanian Americans’ bicultural lifestyle? The heuristic research method was utilized to explore and better understand the phenomenon presented, as well as the primary researcher’s personal experience. In this study, literature relevant to the research topic is included which contains information on Albania, reasons why Albanians immigrate, Albanian in the United States, global immigration challenges, acculturation, racism, prejudice, and discrimination, cultural trauma, and mental health and immigration. This study included 12 co-researchers that identified as Albanian-Americans who were willing to share their experience of living a bicultural lifestyle. Individual and detailed portraits of three co-researchers is included as well as a composite description of an Albanian-Americans experience of their bicultural lifestyle integrated with the primary researcher’s personal experience. Five common themes were identified: gratitude, sacrifice and separation, culture clash, discrimination, cultural preservation, and acceptance of the new culture. Finally, in this study is included a creative synthesis of the phenomenon explored as well as a correlation of the research findings with the literature review, trustworthiness, and applications for future studies, as well as the clinical, social, and personal relevance. This study will be beneficial to Albanian-Americans, psychologists, social workers, counselors, doctors, educators, law enforcements, and society in general.
Taylor, Kathleen. "Experiencing a secure attachment to God among Christians| A phenomenological inquiry." Thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10164665.
Full textThis interpretive phenomenological analysis research study articulates the experiences of 3 Christians who manifest secure attachment to God characteristics. Human infant attachment theory and subsequent attachment to God conceptualizations were the perspectives used in order to explore the phenomenon. Analysis of the data led to 4 emergent themes focused on the psychological implications of having a secure attachment to God: View of God as Kindhearted, View of Self Transformed by God, Theological Exploration without Fear, and Need for Closeness When Suffering. Findings indicated that participants experienced God as a loving parent who fully accepted an authentic self. Across time, participants were able to deconstruct theological concepts incongruent to life experiences and explore new theological ideas and practices without anxiety of experiencing negative responses from God. Participants? need for closeness to God when experiencing painful events, in particular when feeling powerless to fix the circumstances, was described as needing authentic conversation with God. These findings suggest that secure attachment to God may have psychological benefit and encourages clinicians to validate and explore attachment to God dynamics with clients who indicate having a relationship with God.
Franchi, Aldo. "Affective Well-Being A Qualitative Inquiry of Experience in an Emotion-Focused Workshop." Thesis, Union Institute and University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10107970.
Full textA qualitative inquiry was conducted on the experiences of nine participants who attended an emotion-focused, experiential program, Tri-Life Leadership Training (TLT). The purpose of the TLT program is the development of self-leadership via improved emotional functioning, defined as affective well-being. The program structure is an 8-day workshop in two segments composed of psychoeducation, experiential group exercises, and individually tailored, emotion-focused work. Participants were referred adults who met program selection/exclusion criteria. Participants were individually interviewed one week after the program about their experiences (process) and if any changes (outcome) resulted. Outcome was assessed based on participants’ experience of emotional resolutions, diminution of negative core beliefs, positive behavioral changes, and improved relationships. Self-report questionnaires (Outcome Questionnaire-45.2, Rosenberg Self-Esteem Inventory, General Self-Efficacy Scale, and PANAS-X), used in a descriptive manner, were administered pre- and post-program. Interviews were coded using Thematic Analysis to determine patterns across the data set. Themes were derived theoretically based on Emotion-focused Therapy (EFT), and results discussed in light of program interventions and outcomes to elucidate EFT theory and process. The value of the TLT program and the EFT model appeared to be supported by the data. The findings suggested that the TLT program had a positive impact on perceived affective well-being. The participants attributed process and outcome changes to both relationship and task factors. The findings showed that an empathic therapeutic and working relationship along with experiential tasks designed to arouse and process emotional material may explain the high level of experienced change. Results confirmed the value of an emotion-focused perspective, and further that experiential work can be successfully conducted in a group format.
Zapko, Karen A. "The use of reflection and inquiry in an online clinical post-conference." Thesis, Kent State University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3617767.
Full textAn important goal of nursing education is to produce graduates who are problem solvers and competent clinical practitioners able to practice in a very complicated health care environment; reflection and inquiry are two ways to accomplish this goal. This qualitative study explored how eight senior baccalaureate nursing students developed in their ability to utilize reflection and inquiry at higher stages over time through the use of the online clinical post-conference conducted as an asynchronous discussion board. Transcripts of participant postings were examined weekly to determine the stage of reflection and inquiry displayed and a comparison was done to determine if the stages increased over time. Boud's model of the reflective process and the practical inquiry model of Garrison, Anderson, and Archer provided the theoretical framework for this study.
Findings from this study demonstrated that participants developed in their ability to utilize reflection and inquiry at higher stages over time by engaging in the online clinical post-conference and that the online clinical post-conference was an effective venue that encouraged the use of reflection and inquiry. The social aspect of the online clinical post-conference (reading others' posts, having others read and comment on their posts, and asking each other questions) was seen as promoting learning from peers.
Findings of this study could be used by nurse educators to change their pedagogy to produce nurses who learn from experiences and are lifelong learners. Nurse faculty should consider incorporating the use of reflection, inquiry, and the online clinical post-conference in all clinical courses.
Zapko, Karen A. "The use of reflection and inquiry in an online clinical post-conference." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1383645020.
Full textBuck, Janet. "Using Appreciative Inquiry to Improve RN Retention in a Clinical Float Pool." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1254.
Full textAnanda-Stout, Beth G. "Tender in the field| A hermeneutic inquiry of psychodynamics within compassion fatigue." Thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3702844.
Full textThe purpose of this inquiry was to develop an understanding of psychodynamic perspectives, which would serve as a lens for the conceptualization of clinician compassion fatigue. A Gadamerian hermeneutic methodology provided the process, which also paralleled a psychoanalytic psychological stance. A theoretical description of the psychodynamic nature of the experience of the clinician in terms of self and other in the clinical moment emerged through several themes, which referenced the expanded understanding of compassion fatigue. The results offer a new view of psychodynamic psychology with application to the phenomenon of compassion fatigue.
The intersubjective field was investigated through select depth psychological, nursing, medical, and philosophical textual analyses, which revealed implications of the therapist’s subjectivity, empathy, the therapeutic relationship and presence, compassion, countertransference phenomena, and the analytic field. The hermeneutic nature of this qualitative study concurrently brought the lived experience into the process, which both enriched the process itself and ultimately the findings. The rationale for the inquiry included contributing to the development of psychological theory on the psychodynamic nature of compassion fatigue, in particular with clinical relevance to those treating the traumatized or otherwise suffering, and supporting the development and sustainability of a cadre of clinical providers in the field individually, in the nation, or globally.
Implications of conceptual understanding of psychodynamic processes were illustrated in clinical practice and organizational systems. Suggestions for systems policy development extended the findings to the organizational field. Recommendations for areas of further research including methodological considerations were delineated.
Key words: analytic field, compassion, compassion fatigue, countertransference, empathy, intersubjective, embodied presence, psychodynamic, vicarious traumatization
Weijer, Charles. "Selecting subjects for participation in clinical research : an empirical inquiry and ethical analysis." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ30414.pdf.
Full textAllrich, Raymond Philip. "The investigation of learning within a nursing preceptorship clinical experience a naturalistic inquiry /." Access restricted to users with UT Austin EID Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3035931.
Full textSchweitzer, Jeffrey R. "Encountering the Significant Dead: A Narrative Inquiry into Grief and Dreams." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1406838672.
Full textMcKnight, Katherine May 1963. "Psychological responses to athletic injury: An inquiry into self-discrepancy theory." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278393.
Full textHellström, Magnus. "Business concepts based on modularity : a clinical inquiry into the business of delivering projects /." Åbo : Åbo Akademis Förlag, 2005. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0611/2006370431.html.
Full textDunkle, Jennifer T. "Using appreciative interviews to explore speech-language pathologists' (SLPs') views of their clinical values, clinical effectiveness, and work-related social support systems." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1366886380.
Full textBloch, Joan R., Maureen R. Courtney, and Myra L. Clark. "Practice-based Clinical Inquiry in Nursing for DNP and PhD Research: Looking Beyond Traditional Methods." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://www.amzn.com/0826126944.
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Boghosian, Sara. "Counseling and Psychotherapy with Clients of Middle Eastern Descent: A Qualitative Inquiry." DigitalCommons@USU, 2011. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/898.
Full textEnderlyn, Laouyane Allyn. "Narrative inquiry into psyche| Life story and trauma expressed through the photographs, novel, and memoire of three war veterans." Thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3588553.
Full textAs our war veterans are growing in exponential numbers, so also are their psychic wounds in need of urgent treatment. This qualitative study explores the lives of three war veterans using a narrative-inquiry methodology, informed by their personal creations: a century-old photographic archive, a published novel, a memoire, interview transcripts, military and photography historians' accounts, and recently declassified documents in the National Security Archive of The George Washington University. The researcher addressed the questions: What are the main themes and functions of the coresearchers' self-expressive works? Can the creative process assist in restorying the lives and reconstructing the relationships of individuals? Can such works include those constructed from living memory, as well as those from the past?
Participants included World War II veteran Captain Arthur Enderlin, U.S.N.R, (deceased), former Chief, Office of Telecommunications, National Security Agency; and Vietnam War army veterans, "Harry George," Lieutenant Colonel, retired, former infantry company commander, 6/31 Infantry Battalion/9 th Infantry Division; and "Mr. Tu," regulatory policy analyst, Federal Civil Service Grade GS-15, Sergeant (E-5), Delta Company 3/187 Infantry Batallion/101st Airborne Division.
The intensive in-depth research process illuminated the creative healing journey of psyche, coconstructed by both the researcher and the participants. The relational approach and sensibility integrated Jungian analytical psychology, self-psychology, and other contemporary thought in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The outcome supports that creating and expressing "new" life narratives support (a) new self-construction born from fragments, (b) relationship construction, and (c) recovery from trauma. In their interviews and writings, the Vietnam War army veterans echoed themes from their life journeys and healing from trauma, which supported and validated those of the third coresearcher's nonverbal photographic narrative. The researcher employed visual reading and professional curating practices to reach a cohesive understanding of the life narrative of Arthur Enderlin.
The researcher combined approaches in an innovative synthesis which will be valuable to clinical and depth psychotherapists and researchers as avenues for future narrative inquiry using photographic images, writings, and creative modalities with patients and their families. The results and implications will also be accessible to individuals and groups tending to victims of diverse trauma, visual-literacy scholars, archivists, and historians.
Dürr, Elzabe. "A phenomenological inquiry into the lived experience of low sexual desire in women : implications for clinical practice." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1287.
Full textIt is a common phenomenon that women’s sexual desire diminishes in relationships, yet, to date, limited research has been done locally on this topic. International studies indicate that low sexual desire affects more than half of women, and that an even greater proportion of women indicate that they have sexual intercourse with their husbands without they themselves having a desire to do so. In spite of this, there is an expectation in society that couples should continue to have an active sex life. Low sexual desire may lead to distress in the individual or discord in the couple, and in this aspect the practitioner can render a service. The aim of this study was to gain a better understanding of the life-world of women with low sexual desire towards their life-partners, and the extent to which this causes her distress or impedes on her relationship. The objectives of the study thus included providing an overview of models of sexual response, an evaluation of the diagnostic criteria for sexual dysfunctions, and an exploration of factors affecting the experience of sexual desire, including the role of social scripts on sexual behaviour. The context for the study is provided by a review of relevant literature, and a qualitative study with a phenomenological interpretative approach was executed. Data gathering focused on a nonprobable purposive sample of ten participants, and used an interview schedule with open-ended questions. Seven themes emerged from the analysis of the data, namely (1) perceptions of sexual desire, (2) experience of sexual desire, (3) experience of sex life without desire, (4) the perceived impact of low desire on the individual or the relationship, (5) personal reasons for decline in desire, (6) relationship factors affecting sexual desire, and (7) the experience of low desire in the socio-cultural context. It was found that ‘desire’ is difficult to conceptualise, that women put a higher premises on the emotional component of desire, and that there is a difference between innate sexual desires and desire that is evoked by stimuli. Reasons for low sexual desire include an array of personal medial, psychological, and life context factors, and in many cases the lack of desire is specific to the present life-partner. Women are especially sensitive to a wide variety of aspects in the relationship and with regards to their partners, and it emerged that even in happy and intimate relationships low sexual desire is experienced. Women experience a loss of emotional intimacy as a result of low sexual desire but do not necessarily feel that their low desire is abnormal. The impact on the relationship is limited mostly because women concede to sex for many reasons, including a need for emotional intimacy. Many strategies, including faking orgasms, are implemented to cope with sexual relationships in the absence of desire. It also appears that social scripts have a big influence on the inception of negative perceptions on sexuality, and generate unreasonable and idealistic expectations of sexual experiences in long-term relationships. Several recommendations flowed from the findings and conclusions. The most important recommendation is that professional people should gain a deeper understanding of the complexity of the phenomenon of low desire in women, in order to render a more effective therapeutic intervention.
Knutzen, Mark D. "A Phenomenological Inquiry Into the Client Experience of the Psychotherapy Relationship." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1608325158481581.
Full textPair, Janet M. "A Qualitative Inquiry into the Phenomenon of Vicarious Resilience in Law Enforcement Officers." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5244.
Full textCronin, Antonia J. "The development and evolution of organ transplantation : an ethical and legal inquiry into the clinical translation of transplant immunobiology." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.516336.
Full textTee, Stephen R. "A co-operative inquiry : participation of mental health service users in the clinical practice decisions of mental health student nurses." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2005. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/57948/.
Full textKabamba, Beatrice Mubanga. "An inquiry into the feasibility of integration of the advanced midwifery and neonatology clinical nurse specialist in the district health system: the Zambian experience." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2004. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&.
Full textRandall-James, James. "Narrative accounts of parenthood following the death of a child to muscular dystrophy." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/19858.
Full textMace, Janet-Lee. "An inquiry into the meaning of Guillain-Barré syndrome : a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts." Massey University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10179/1180.
Full textHall, Tracy D. "Internet-based Family Therapy from the Perspective of the Therapist: A Qualitative Inquiry." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1373400516.
Full textMcClure, Anne Carey. "Ritualized Futility via Clinical Momentum at the End of Life in the Intensive Care Unit:An Ethical Inquiry into Moral Distress in Nurses as a Response to a Culturally MediatedHealthcare System Failure." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1587082543896911.
Full textPalm, Anna. "Studies on routine inquiry about violence victimization and alcohol consumption in youth clinics." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Obstetrik & gynekologi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-307393.
Full textHong, Shu-Jiun, and 洪淑君. "An Inquiry into Innovation in Clinical Care." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/47463423831384498049.
Full text國立彰化師範大學
教育研究所
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This research aims to understand innovation in clinical care by exploring its content and practice and to discuss its implication for nursing education. In the first stage of the study, 12 experts and scholars in nursing field were chosen and the Delphi technique was used to investigate the content of innovation in clinical care. In the second stage of the study, a grounded theory of the innovative experiences of clinical care innovation emerged from the interview data of 41 prizewinners in the National Nursing Innovation Competition. The key findings of the Delphi study are as follows: 1. The clinical care innovation contains five dimensions: nursing equipment, nursing technique, nursing model, nursing material, and nursing management. 2. The clinical care innovation contains eight indicators: new-to-the-world, new category, improvement, easy to popularize, security, user-friendly, comprehensiveness, and reasonable price. The key findings of the grounded theory study are as follows: (1) The clinical care innovation is related to the innovator’s personal characteristics. (2) The clinical care innovation is influenced by contextual factors. (3) The clinical care innovation is enacted through the action strategies. (4) The clinical care innovation results in positive outcomes. The implications of this resesrch for nursing education includes: strengthening the professional identity of nursing students; relating innovation in clinical care to the teaching methods of nursing educators; enriching nursing educators’ innovative expertise and skills; using innovation in clinical care to enhance nursing professional development; and applying the dimensions and indicators of innovation in clinical care to enhancing nursing profession.
"Process consultation, action research, and clinical inquiry : are they the same?" Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology], 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/2583.
Full textBrett, Janet L. "Postpartum depression : the process of clinical inquiry into the health problem and clinical problem-solving for community health nurses." 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/9395.
Full textChen, Chiu-Fang, and 陳秋芳. "The Formation Process of Experiential Clinical Knowledge in Public Health Nurses with Critical Reflective Inquiry." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/69369624013458670665.
Full text國立陽明大學
社區護理研究所
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The application of experiential clinical knowledge is essential to deal with complex situations related to health and illness in the community. The critical reflective inquiry attempts to draw from the situated, individual instances of community health nursing practice in order to develop and augment the experiential clinical knowledge necessary to improve its practice. The critical reflective inquiry includes three phases(1)narratives or scripting(2)reflection and analysis, and(3)critique and emancipation. The purpose of this research was to explore how community health nurses develop practical knowledge and how to improve their practice through descriptive, reflective and critical/emancipation phases of the critical reflective inquiry. The principle of theoretical sampling was applied. Two groups were recruited from two community health centers. Group A meet 8 times from 4/2/2001 to 5/28/2001, and group B meets 9 times from 6/27/2001 to 8/24/2001. Each group meeting lasted for 2 hours was tape-recorded and transcribed verbatim. After each group meeting, the leader and the co-leader reflected on group dynamic immediately and self-reflection. Each phase usually goes through and is completed in 2-3 group sessions. The data analysis with constant comparison method generated eight themes: (1)Facilitator’s Ability to Catalysis: The facilitator creates an open and free environment to facilitate self-reflection. (2)Enlightenment: Community health nurses reconstruct the meaning of community health nursing practice. (3)Shocking and Struggling: The process of self-opening makes oppression in practical situation revealed. (4)The Burden of Community Health Nurses: Strive for perfection increases community health nurse’s burden. (5)Enter the Cycle of Reflection: Through mirror phenomenon, the cycle of reflection occurs. (6)Empowerment: Community health nurses gained the competency critical reflection from group dialogue. (7)Action: Community health nurses express and change herself courageously, examined and improved their own practice. (8)Uncover Experiential Clinical Knowledge: The「learned in doing」practical model is integrated from community health nurses’ personal knowledge, situation-specific knowing, and public knowledge. Clinical nursing practice is a rich source of knowledge as practitioners engaged in creating as well as modifying knowledge to respond to specific clinical situations. Through the researcher’s questioning and probing, practitioners can engage in self-dialogue and argumentation with themselves in order to achieve self-emancipation. The critical reflective inquiry helps community health nurses to generate knowledge through practice, to correct and improve practice through self-reflection, and to generate models of good practice.
Lionberg, Carrie Ann. "A narrative inquiry of clinical supervision in psychology : a discourse analysis of the storying-restorying process." 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/18950.
Full textLIN, TING-YU, and 林亭妤. "The Experience of Clinical Psychologists to Be in Practice after Graduating from Graduate School: A Phenomenological Inquiry." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/suxsc3.
Full text輔仁大學
臨床心理學系碩士班
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Background:The development of Taiwan’s clinical psychology is stemmed from USA, and the base of USA’s current clinical psychology is scientist-practitioner model. The model advocates that practice must be based on science and integrate both of them into a whole. However, evidence-based practice in psychology faces challenges from practical community. In addition, the practice-oriented scholars propose scholar-practitioner model and advocate that practice should lead science. The above-mentioned phenomenon hasn’t had relative empirical studies to research and discuss in Taiwan. Therefore, the present research intends to investigate by means of clinical psychologists’ practical experience obtained in practice after graduating. We expect this research could give reflection for the training in the graduate school of clinical psychology. Methods:Researcher finds five clinical psychologists who have graduated for less than five years in social network. Every participant accepted semi-structured interviews one or two times. The total time spent for interviewing is 1 hour and 47 minutes to 2 hours and 50 minutes. All the interviews are recorded and transcribed. Full verbatim texts are analyzed through phenomenological method suggested by Li and Lai (2009) including data collection, empathic immersement, meaning units, constituent themes, situated structure, and general structure. Results:This research investigates clinical psychologists’ experience about how to learn practical action and obtains thirty situated structures and three general structures. When reviewing lessons of the graduate school, participants want that the practice and learning materials are more relative to the clinical field. This hope indicates that “lesson situation” is different from “ clinical situation”. In other words, lessons don’t have patients to make the space for the profession. Teachers can design practical activities to imitate the real situation at the most. Participants enter the clinical field to do professional work in person and imitate teachers’ “preprogrammed maneuver” for practice. Under the condition that they have not completely connected theories yet, they gradually obtain intermediary support. Even when reviewing theoretical contents, they fully agree with them. Furthermore, participants also connect every kind of experience by means of their own strengths and abilities and present unique learning processes. They not only apply theories in their daily life and the clinical field and review their perception to connect themselves with theories, but also acquire knowledge from doing experiments in daily life to construct their own “preprogrammed maneuver”. Discussions:According to the results of phenomenological analysis, we submit our proposals as follows. (1) The clinical psychologists’ learning processes of practical action in this research act in coordination with Li’s (2011) discourse about “situated actionconceptual knowledge”. After entering the clinical field and participating in practical work, they gradually grasp the connection between things and themselves and can respond patients by practical action. (2) No matter what teaching method is used, it should match situated learning. Furthermore, situated learning had better be similar to the clinical field as much as possible. (3) Practical training of clinical psychology in the graduate school should refer to clinical psychologists’ practical experience to adjust the sequence of contents of training so as to product essential innovation. (4) Clinical psychologists’ qualification is master degree in Taiwan, and it makes scientist-practitioner model be limited. Even evidence-based practice in psychology also involves the process of “situated actionconceptual knowledge”. Therefore, we should think continuously about the model which is coincident with the local contexts. (5) When encountering patients by face to face, clinical psychologists should put aside theories to stand in patients’ shoes without any assumptions. Therefore, the practical training of clinical psychology should focus on the training of clinical psychologists.
Kgafela, Nkola Sabina. "Views of pre-graduate students regarding clinical accompaniment at a Nursing Education Institution in Gauteng." Diss., 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/33328.
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Nyelisani, Maggie. "Evaluating the clinical learning environment of first year nursing students at a nursing education institution in Gauteng : an appreciative inquiry approach." Diss., 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/56942.
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Jones, Logan Carroll. "You must change your life a narrative and theological inquiry into the experiences of transformative learning in clinical pastoral education students /." 2010. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-03242010-125335/unrestricted/etd.pdf.
Full textSolinski, Ronald John. "An inquiry into child and youth care narratives of experience in children's mental health treatment." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3034.
Full textDartey, Anita Fafa. "The role of midwives in the implementation of maternal death review (MDR) in health facilities In Ashanti region, Ghana." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/3978.
Full textBackground and Problem Statement: Maternal mortality is a global health issue, which mostly affects the developing countries. The United Nations (UN) member states have made a commitment to reduce maternal mortality by 75% by 2015. However, one of the biggest challenges in monitoring maternal deaths in Sub-Sahara Africa including Ghana, is the lack of adequate information for the accurate estimation of the maternal mortality rate (MMRate), and to identify causes of death. The World Health Organization (WHO) developed strategies and guidelines to assist countries to generate accurate information regarding maternal deaths. Maternal death review is one such strategy that was implemented in Ghana. Midwives are among the health workers who participate in the implementation of this strategy in different health facilities.However, what is not well understood is the role that midwives play in the implementation of Maternal Death Review (MDR).The purpose of the study: To explore and describe the roles that midwives play in the implementation of MDR in selected health facilities in Ghana‟s Ashanti Region.Methodology: A qualitative descriptive design was used to guide the research.Purposive sampling was conducted to select midwives who have been involved in maternal death review from the teaching, regional and district referral hospitals. Data was collected by conducting semi-structured individual interviews. Data saturation was reached after twenty interviews. Thematic Content Analysis was used to manage and analyse data. The Facility-based maternal death review model was used to assist the researcher to identify and organize the emerged themes. Ethical clearance was obtained from the University, as well as approval from the management of the health facilities prior to approaching the informants.Main findings: The results of this study indicate that midwives in Ghana‟s Ashanti Region are undertaking various activities and duties in all the stages of the Facilitybased maternal review model. The type of activities and duties undertaken by midwives varied according to their seniority and the level of the health facilities.Conclusion and recommendation: The findings of this study bring insight into the roles played by midwives in the implementation of the Facility-based maternal death review process in the health facilities in Ghana‟s Ashanti Region. These findings have a direct implication for the training and education of midwives. It is recommended that issues related to maternal death review methods and processes be included in the formal and continuing training and education of midwives. However, further research considering the training and practice development needs of midwives in respect of implementation of maternal death review is required.
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