Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Construction of healing'
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Hazelwood, Tobias. "Investigation of a novel self-healing cementitious composite material system." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2015. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/76766/.
Full textWilliams, Hugo Robert. "Biomimetic vascular self-healing : fundamental design concepts and application in sandwich construction." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.495823.
Full textMorelli, Paula Toki Tanemura. "Trauma and healing : the construction of meaning among survivors of the Cambodian holocaust /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/11191.
Full textAllen-Kelly, Kandie, and res cand@acu edu au. "Steel Magnolias Healing Journeys: Rural women speak of transforming their lives after the experience of childhood sexual assault." Australian Catholic University. School of Social Work, 2002. http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp13.25072005.
Full textGygi, Cameron Scott. "Crack Healing in 304L Stainless Steel Using Additive Manufacturing and Friction Stir Processing (FSP)." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2017. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6530.
Full textWinroth, AnnCristin. "Boteberättelser : En etnologisk studie av boteprocesser och det omprövande patientskapet." Doctoral thesis, Umeå University, Culture and Media, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-360.
Full textThis thesis analyse how life-histories are expressed and reformulated in connection to a life crisis of ill health. The study is based on ten interviews with people who in connection with ill health have made use of treatments within both orthodox medicine and complementary medicine and who have also developed various forms of self-treatment. The overall aim is, with a point of departure in the concepts health, healing and trust, to analyse narratives as a practice through which the respondents create identity and a life-context. The signifi cance of constructing the (auto)biography of the healing narrative – a form of narrative and performative act – runs as the main thread through the thesis. This act makes up the practice that is recurrently discussed in several of the thesis’ chapters and is synonymously termed the telling of healing narratives or or to narrate health and healing. The analysis of the narrative’s The analysis of the narrative’s healing main themes is mirrored in the order of the chapters. The study is broadly thematic and structured as a generalised healing process beginning with upheaval, continuing with crisis and social drama, and further to the endeavour of expressing values and judgements in a public context.
The interview themes of self-treatment and alternative treatment have occasioned the investigation into what an ethno-medical perspective can bring to analyses of people’s experiences of ill health in an everyday medical context. One of the points of having the concept ethno-medicine as a starting point is that every practice or narrative formation is ascribed with a potential for interpretation in its creation of knowledge. Another chapter deals with two themes of identity and life-history construction in the practice of healing narratives – the need for a chronology and reappraised perspectives on body, health and lifestyle. Healing narratives can be understood as a genre of life-historical narratives where life is often described as a linear course of events. A model by the anthropologist Victor Turner on the course and content of social drama is used as a comment to analyses of three respondents’ narratives in another chapter. A drama can be understood as a tragic course of events, based on an accident or an upsetting incident that roughly revolves around event/crisis, chaos and the striving for restoration. The concept of other journals is then used to make visible the everyday medical administrative practice and refers to the documentation used in the form of collected documents, written notes, and diaries. As an unexpected part of healing processes, the necessity of familiarising oneself with rules, laws and health insurance systems in order to be able to claim one’s rights is brought forward.
The social transformation process of various care practices in society makes up both a context and a commonly occurring theme in the narratives that the thesis is based upon. A modern health culture that gains strength from loosely composed social movements exerts infl uence on all levels of society. With an increased individual responsibility, the need grows to fi nd one’s own healing strategies and to create one’s own life-history in narratives that mirror this transformation in an everyday context. Healing narratives can be seen as a form of evaluation of health-care practices where experiences of treatment and notions of health and cure and healing are concretised.
Tallon, Valerie Patricia. "Healing the wounded self : a constructive grounded theory study on recovery from alcohol and drug addiction in Scotland." Thesis, University of the West of Scotland, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.627905.
Full textMeloy, Kierea Chanelle. "Constructive vs. Destructive Anger: A Model and Three Pathways for the Expression of Anger." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2014. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4075.
Full textStolfi, D. "Refracted truths : mediating constructions of identity through the illness and healing experience of homeless Native American men along the Wasatch Front, Utah." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2015. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1465412/.
Full textKaranja, Daniel Njoroge. "Perpetrator and Victim Constructions of Justice, Forgiveness and Trauma Healing: Results of a Thematic Narrative Study of Intra-group Conflict in Colonial Central Kenya, 1952-1962." NSUWorks, 2015. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_dcar_etd/21.
Full textBuchanan, Lee Reeve. "The social construction of Agape Healing Community." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/3444.
Full textThe aim of this study was to examine how the members of Agape came to construct themselves as a healing community. An ecosystemic epistemology and social constructionism were used as a lens by which to view the events unfolding at Agape Healing Community and to illuminate how meanings, expressed through language and ritual, are negotiated and shared. Discourse analysis was used as an analytical tool to infer meaning from the participants’ speaking and to locate these discourses in the fabric that constitutes South African society.
de, Necker Gustav Tiedt. "Healing Architecture: creating an overall healing environment for children at Baragwanath Hospital." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/23024.
Full textChildren often find hospitalisation an intimidating experience because hospitals are not always the most child-friendly place. This research report is about understanding the way in which an environment can be created that will aid recovery of children in hospitals, in order to inform the redesign process of the pediatric facility at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital (CHBH). Literature on the history of hospital design, architectural and evidence based design surrounding health-care architecture, and the psychological aspects that contribute towards a healing environment, shows that important design drivers are positive distraction, personal control and social support. These devices are used in precedent studies that successfully deinstitutionalised the hospital in the eyes of a child, in order to produce comfort and less anxiety. An indepth study is conducted of CHBH, with specific emphasis on the pediatric department, compiled from literature and site research. The history and challenges of the largest hospital in Africa are explored in order to arrive at an appropriate design response, which is taken through as a design proposal for a new pediatric facility at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital.
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Johnston, Emma Rebecca. "Construction of truth and forgiveness : healing and hurting in the TRC-experience." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/6870.
Full textThe present study explores experiences of loss, disconnection, truth, hurting, healing, non-forgiveness and forgiveness associated with the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Using a social constructionist perspective, the concepts of truth and forgiveness are explored through a theoretical background to psychology and subsequently in the stories and reflections of individuals who participated in the Commission. The issue of truth has been central to debates across the broader intellectual landscape, as well as to the theory and practice of psychology. In the following study, the historical shift from more modernist conceptions of truth to postmodern views is explored through a brief overview of the philosophy of science. These perspectives are explored further in the epistemological shifts underlying therapeutic endeavours and methodology in the field of psychology. Approaches to therapy in South Africa are subsequently reviewed, focusing particularly on positions of truth adopted by the profession in this context. The themes of truth, reconciliation, healing and hurting in the discourse surrounding the Commission are subsequently explored further. This discussion includes some of the literature regarding experiences of people who have been involved with the Commission. Following this, the narratives from interviews held with a group of mothers who attended the Truth Commission and one of the journalists working with the Commission are included. These narratives are related to participants' experiences in having attended/been involved with the Truth Commission and their experiences around truth and forgiveness. A qualitative, reflexive approach to the interviews and analysis thereof, is used. In conclusion, reflections on the process are included. These reflections present a dialectic between the importance of the ongoing nature of the journey in this multi-dimensional context, as well as the author's perspective on the need for the notion of absolute truth in this journeying.
Wu, Chun-ju, and 吳俊儒. "Adult as a Healing Toy Consumer: Construction of Product Meaning, Consumption Experience, and Value Creation." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/15961402273184289201.
Full text"Women in prison: the communal (re)construction of crisis and the (trans)formation of healing identities." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/1404.
Full textThis study is an exploration of the experiences of crisis and identity. It looks specifically at these experiences from within the context of imprisonment from the concrete to the abstract. Imprisonment is not merely looked at from the physical point of view, but also the metaphorical. This means that the sense of imprisonment is not only limited to people who are serving out sentences imposed by the courts of law. We can all experience the sense of being imprisoned at some level or another, whether though a sense of isolation, being labelled and controlled, or experiencing restriction in various forms. The post-modern worldview that underlies this study is social constructionist theory. From this perspective, our sense of what is real is communally created within specific cultural and historical contexts. Language is used as the vehicle through which our meanings are constructed between people. The social constructionist view of people holds that we are open systems so that our sense of self is not only impacted by perturbing “others”, but is also shaped and transformed in relationship. The shaping of identity takes place through language processes and is circumscribed by particular contextual constraints. Identity is not viewed as a constant entity, but as an ever-evolving narrative (story) and a product of interaction with others in the world. Whereas the modern definition of “crisis” underscores the idea that it is, at best, “something” to be avoided, social constructionists describe it as a boundary experience that is communally constructed. Furthermore, if we draw on chaos theory, crisis can also be seen as a bifurcation point. This means that it is a moment in our experiences in which we are moved to make decisions and potentially proceed into new directions. Therefore, crisis holds transformational potential. The notion of exploring the transformative potential of crisis and the construction of identity sprung from a personal crisis experience around the discomfort of progressing into a professional identity. My practical training within the Johannesburg Female Prison provided a context fertile with stories of imprisonment, crisis and how these impact on identity construction. Therefore, the context of this study is prison, so that a discussion around constructions of criminality and its treatment is important to paint a fuller picture. These are discussed from the perspectives of modern criminology theories, as well as post-modern impressions of criminality and its treatment as embedded in historical and social contexts. Since this study underscores an intervention-action research approach, the implications of crisis as a potential catalyst for therapeutic change is also considered. The social constructionist understanding of therapeutic practice is that it is a relational process. Therapy is a co-creation between the client and therapist so that new ways of moving forward is a collective, not an individual achievement. This study, as a form of action research, was born out of a one and a half-year long therapeutic endeavour with a group of women offenders in the Johannesburg Female Prison. The theoretical principles of Appreciative Inquiry were used to guide the process of inquiry. Three levels of participants were involved in the collection of data: A diverse mix of women incarcerated in the Johannesburg Female Prison, the core group of women participating in the “Who am I?” therapeutic group, as well as myself. Information was in the form of written personal texts, interviews (conducted by the core group) and a newsletter. Thematic analysis was used to scrutinise the information and the following themes were identified: Loss and gain, power and helplessness, hope and despair, differentness and sameness as well as connection and disconnection. Typical character types (identities) and whether there were progressive, regressive or stable narrative plots (directionality of stories) were considered in the various themes as points of crisis. Finally, the findings are integrated with the theory by exploring social constructionist ideas about identity as being ever-changing, multiple and created in our togetherness. The principles of first and second order cybernetics are also used as systemic explanatory models of identity transformation and/or “stuckness”. The creation of therapeutic communities was explored as a tool to facilitate the reconstruction of crisis and the transformation of healing identities of women in prison.
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Gunter, Rianda. "A journey to healing: conversations of women survivors of sexual abuse." Diss., 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/812.
Full textPractical Theology
M.Th. (Pastoral Therapy)
Esterhuizen, Estelle Leonie. "Making meaning in anticipatory mourning : reflections by caregiving spouses of cancer patients." Diss., 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/3384.
Full textPractical Theology
M. Th. ( Practical Theology, with Specialisation in Pastoral Therapy)
Angus, Catherine Clare. "Co-constructing the self : a phenomenological-dialogal case study of a patient's journey to healing." Thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/22767.
Full textChristodoulou, Esther. "Narrative reflections on charismatic discursive practices." Diss., 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/991.
Full textPractical Theology
M.Th. (Pastoral Therapy)
Viljoen, Hester Josephina Isabella. "Rekindling hope: deconstructing religious power discourses in the lives of Afrikaans women." Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1553.
Full textReligious Studies and Arabic
D. Litt. et Phil. (Religious Studies)
Martin, James Henry Iain. "Carrying the torch of hope: survivors' narratives of trauma and spirituality." Diss., 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1311.
Full textPractical Theology
M.Th. (with specialisation in Pastoral therapy)