Dissertations / Theses: 'Home-coming'

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Vanderpool, James D. "On Coming Home." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/art_design_theses/117.

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In today’s society, more of the population is finding itself with multiple points of reference to what they consider as home. Anyone who finds they have more than one place that they feel tied to for one reason or another, considers the impact of these places on their identity. The scale of experience with the places where we live, visit and grow up influences the scale of impact upon our identity. Even a vacation or a visit to a certain place influences us, and thus also changes the place because we interact with it. I am showing, through sculptural and creative media, the layering effect of locational identity and the journeys we make to physically and conceptually link those identities.

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Ringeborn, Ulrika. "Att komma hem : Coming home." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-12927.

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In this essay I analyze the meaning of the concepts home and at home and the feeling of coming home. What is a home and what different interpretations are there regarding the concepts of home and being at home? What kinds of feelings are aroused by coming home? The world we live in offers great opportunities to travel, which in itself creates a perspective on the meanings of the concepts. The world we live in also forces people to move from their homes, families and countries due to various reasons, which creates various problems and a certain urgency concerning the concepts. I describe basic terms concerning the concepts, both regarding concrete definitions and more abstract notions, and then compare them with my own reflections. Based on my writing project Coming home I discuss these questions in various ways. I also describe the considerations I have made regarding these issues and the impact they have made in the text collection. I present my own description of home as a result of and defined by the emotions this term creates and where the moods are decisive. The intention with Coming home is to offer different perspectives on and reflections upon the various feelings of coming home expressed by my own voice in the literary texts under study.

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Nickerson-Smith, Rhonda. "Coming home, spiritual journeyers recovering from addictions." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0024/MQ52000.pdf.

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Harris, Alexandra. "Coming home : English art & imagination, 1930-45." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.440720.

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Rathbone, Keith Allen. "Coming home political radicalization in Western Europe's front generation /." Connect to resource, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1811/29956.

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Sabo, Katherine Shelby. "GROWING YOUR OWN TEACHERS: THE ALUMNUS PERSPECTIVE OF COMING HOME." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1509722501197168.

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Collins, Loleta B. "A Coming Home: Neo-Paganism and the Search for Community." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1020253276.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Comparative Religion, 2002.
Title from first page of PDF document. Document formatted into pages; contains 74 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 64-74).

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Green, Rebecca Ryan. "Coming home to body| Moving through uncertainty healing from childhood trauma." Thesis, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10117889.

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The subject of this inquiry is the lived experience of the body healing from childhood interpersonal trauma. The questions driving this inquiry were designed to elicit the meaning body-based healing has brought to those who have endured childhood trauma and engaged in healing practices offered by the field of psychology, including both talk therapy and somatic psychotherapy and practices. The literature in psychology reveals scarce studies that privilege the lived experiences of persons who are in the process of transforming childhood trauma. Therefore, there is need for this study which foregrounds the mind, body, and spiritual lived experiences of trauma and its healing, in participant’s own words.

This study brings forth the stories of four participants who experienced interpersonal childhood trauma and also sought body-based healing modalities. Through the perspective of psyche, outcomes of this study were revealed from a deep, reflective, metaphorical standpoint. This theoretical foundation set the stage for the use of the qualitative method of narrative inquiry. Phenomenological analysis of interviews created a first-person subjective point of view into the experience of developing a deeper body consciousness.

Meaning derived from this study delineated four pathways of healing presented under the refrains of Seeking Healing, What Wants to Live, Living Within Trauma and Healing, and The Awakened Body. From here, the study provides a broader context to the experience of healing that includes the movement from dissociation to awareness in a context of uncertainty. This perspective provides a different consideration of what is happening in the healing process, important for psychotherapists, as well as trauma scholars and practitioners exploring treatments. Most importantly, the outcomes will be of interest to those who are healing from childhood trauma, sketching a trajectory of how body-based therapies and activities potentially transform many aspects of one’s life. Outcomes could guide further research related to the intersections of childhood trauma and long-term healing and transformation.

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Coolhart, Deborah Anne. "Sexual minority women exploring familial relationship development after coming out at home /." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU0NWQmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=3739.

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Brookes, Ian. "Coming home : veteran readjustment, postwar conformity and American film narratives, 1945-1948." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2002. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28846/.

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The aftermath of World War II witnessed large-scale military demobilisation and. in its wake, a vast influx of returning servicemen. Their homecoming signalled a transition from military to civilian life which was often described as 'readjustment.' The term is usually taken to imply a process of homogenisation which engendered a condition of conformity in ex-servicemen and, by extension, in society at large. This thesis argues against this view and demonstrates that 'readjustment' wasn't intended to reproduce conformity but, on the contrary, was to provide the means for the reconversion of the 'conformist' ex-serviceman into the independent, autonomous citizen necessary for the functioning of a democratic society, especially in contradistinction to the conformism associated with the totalitarian Other. It was assumed that servicemen had become habituated to the military's authoritarian regimen of regulation and command which subsumed individuality. Hence, 'readjustment' was concerned with the 'nonconformist' individual who would become indispensable to a postwar' Americanism' which was being defensively constructed against totalitarianism and, moreover, against the 'totalitarian' implications of a conformism often seen as endemic in America as a mass society. This study recontextualises postwar film narratives (1945-48) in relation to the discourse of 'readjustment' and, by treating 'conformity' as a complex, contradictory and unreliable term, it problematises 'readjustment' and its role in the construction of postwar 'conformity.' The thesis draws methodologically on Michel Foucault's work on discourse theory, and Dana Polan's approaches to 1940s' narrative and social history. The study comprises two principal areas of research: part one analyses the sociological construction of 'readjustment,' and part two examines how 'readjustment' and its ramifications were refracted through film narrative. The film readings acknowledge the incoherence and instability implicit in the title's key terms through an approach which highlights narrative inconsistency, ambivalence and contradiction, and which works to disturb the notion of postwar social history as a stable, coherent narrative.

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Cole, Peter Joseph. "First Peoples' knowings as legitimate discourse in education, coming home to the village." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0011/NQ61632.pdf.

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Teixeira, Christopher. "THE CRIME OF COMING HOME: BRITISH CONVICTS RETURNING FROM TRANSPORTATION IN LONDON, 1720-1780." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2226.

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This thesis examines convicts who were tried for the crime of Â returning from transportationÂ at LondonÂ s Old Bailey courthouse between 1720 and 1780. While there is plenty of historical scholarship on the tens of thousands of people who endured penal transportation to the American colonies, relatively little attention has been paid to convicts who migrated illegally back to Britain or those who avoided banishment altogether. By examining these convicts, we can gain a better understanding of how transportation worked, how convicts managed to return to Britain, and most importantly, what happened to them there. This thesis argues that convicts resisted transportation by either avoiding it or returning from banishment after obtaining their freedom. However, regardless of how they arrived back in Britain, many failed to reintegrate successfully back into British society, which led to their apprehension and trial. I claim that most convicts avoided the death penalty upon returning and that this encouraged more convicts to resist transportation and return home. The thesis examines the court cases of 132 convicts charged with returning from transportation at the Old Bailey and examines this migration home through the eyes of those who experienced it. First, the thesis focuses on convicts in Britain and demonstrates how negative perceptions of transportation encouraged them to resist banishment. The thesis then highlights how convicts obtained their freedom in the colonies, which gave them the opportunity to return illegally. Finally, the thesis shows that returned felons tried to reintegrate into society by relocating to new cities, leading quiet honest lives, or by returning to a life of crime.
M.A.
Department of History
Arts and Humanities
History MA

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Abrahams, Johann. "Fairness in subjective documentary storytelling : A reflective essay supporting the documentary film 'Coming Home'." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12717.

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Ever since filmmakers started making non-fiction films, they have been plagued by the question of objectivity. Is it true, is it accurate, and is it fair? Today television consumers have become sophisticated and media savvy. They know that with any documentary, a number of editorial and creative decisions are being made often by a number of people working in a team. The question in this study is how a film can still be truthful, fair and relevant for viewers despite a clear bias on the part of the filmmaker. Michael Rabiger, Stella Bruzzi, and Sheila Bernard gave great insight into the importance of fairness toward participants, while the P.O.V series aired on PBS in the US show how to make films from a particular point of view to stimulate debate. Based on this I will argue that it is possible for a filmmaker to hold a particular view and to still make a film that is fair and accurate.

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Williamson, Benjamin Wayne. "Coming Home: The Jesus People Movement In the Midwest And Their Attempts To Escape Fundamentalism." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1619794567166103.

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Kenny, Tobias. ""Coming home to roost" : some reflections on moments of literary response to the paradoxes of empire." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0023/NQ50200.pdf.

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Shand, Daniel. "'Savage Things', &, She's leaving home : the role of space in three coming-of-age novels." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/22961.

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This thesis comprises two pieces of work – a novel and an accompanying research paper. The novel, Savage Things, is a story of a girl, removed from the home of her vulnerable mother to live with her grandparents for a summer. There, she falls in with various secondary characters: a gang of boys, the college-aged girl who lives upstairs, a housebound neighbour, and her wider family. As these relationships form, the girl feels increasingly conflicted about her own identity and her place in the world. However, the girl’s mother is not finished with her and reappears as the girl begins to find her feet in this new environment, taking her on a final trip that forces them to reconsider their relationship with each other and the world around them. The research paper, ‘She’s Leaving Home’, is an examination of three coming-of-age texts – Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping, Alan Warner’s Morvern Callar, and Eugene McCabe’s Death and Nightingales. The paper analyses all three novels via their relationship to the Bildungsroman as a form and questions the role that space plays in each. My discussion defines space in several ways – as a physical, psychological, and social concept. I argue that space is an essential component to the Bildungsroman in that it provides the context necessary for a protagonist to define herself against and within. It considers the prominent role that land plays and how it corresponds to each text’s political context – from the Depression-era transients of Housekeeping to the bitter land disputes of Death and Nightingales – while also arguing that each context assists in its protagonist’s coming-of-age.

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GOODRICH, DERRICK IAN. "COMING HOME TO ROOST: TACTICS OF U.S. INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES AGAINST FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC THREATS, 1964-1974." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/190420.

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Daugaard-Hansen, Flemming. "'Coming home' the return and reintegration of Belizean returnees from the United States to Belize, Central America /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0024672.

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Gilreath, Heather Rhea. "Coming Home, Staying Put, and Learning to Fiddle: Heroism and Place in Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain." [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2004. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-0716104-120033/unrestricted/GilreathH081004f.pdf.

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Thesis (M.A.)--East Tennessee State University, 2004.
Title from electronic submission form. ETSU ETD database URN: etd-0716104-120033 Includes bibliographical references. Also available via Internet at the UMI web site.

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Ravizza, Eleonora [Verfasser]. "(Be)Coming Home : figurations of exile and return as poetics of identity in contemporary Anglo-Caribbean literature / Eleonora Ravizza." Gießen : Universitätsbibliothek, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1068773634/34.

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Dickson, Deborah. "Coming home : a study of values change among Chinese postgraduates and visiting scholars who encountered Christianity in the U.K." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2013. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13458/.

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This thesis examines changes in core values held by postgraduate students and visiting scholars from China who professed belief in Christianity while studying in UK universities. It is the first study to ascertain whether changes remain after return to China. Employing a theoretical framework constructed from work by James Fowler, Charles Taylor, Yuting Wang and Fenggang Yang, it identifies both factors contributing to initial change in the UK and factors contributing to sustained change after return to China. It shows that lasting values change occurred. As a consequence, tensions were experienced at work, socially and in church. However, these were outweighed by benefits, including inner security, particularly after a distressed childhood. Benefits were also experienced in personal relationships and in belonging in a new community, the Church. This was a qualitative, interpretive study employing ethnographic interviews with nineteen people, from eleven British universities, in seven Chinese cities. It was based on the hypotheses that Christian conversion leads to change in values and that evidence for values can be found in responses to major decisions and dilemmas, in saddest and happiest memories and in relationships. Conducted against a backdrop of transnational movement of people and ideas, including a recent increase in mainland Chinese studying abroad which has led to more Chinese in British churches, it contributes new insights into both the contents of sustained Christian conversion amongst Chinese abroad who have since returned to China and factors contributing to it. Bringing the afore-mentioned theories together for the first time it provides an illuminating, original lens for further study of conversion amongst returned Chinese. It also adds to knowledge of the effects of Chinese students’ UK education experience on their values.

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Charléz, Sara. ""A Mere Dream Dreamed in a Bad Time" : A Marxist Reading of Utopian and Dystopian Elements in Ursula K. Le Guin's Always Coming Home." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-156031.

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In Ursula K. Le Guin’s novel Always Coming Home, utopian and dystopian elements interact according to patterns inspired by anarchism and Taoism to criticise material excesses and oppressive social structures under capitalism. Via discussions of gender, state power, and forms of social (re)production, this Marxist reading proposes that the novel’s separation of utopia from dystopia hinges on the absence or presence of a state. The reading also suggests that the novel’s utopia is by its own admission a “mere dream” with limited relevance to anti-capitalist politics, and employs the novel’s own term “handmind” to show that the aesthetic and philosophical dimensions of its anti-capitalist sentiments encourage a reconsideration of utopia, to be viewed not as a fixed future product – a good-place – but as a constant process of becoming – a no-place.

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Clark, Edith Ilse Victoria. "Ursula K. Le Guin : the utopias and dystopias of The dispossessed and Always coming come." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26801.

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The thesis deals with the Utopian and dystopian aspects of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed and Always Coming Home. To provide a basis for comparison with the endeavours of previous utopists, the first part is devoted to a historical account of literary Utopias, and to an examination of the signposts of the genre. This history is restricted to practical blueprints for the ideal commonwealth and excludes creations of pure fantasy. In tracing Utopian development from Plato to Wells, the influence of historical events and the mainstreams of thought, such as Renaissance humanism, the Reformation, the rising importance of science, the discovery of new lands, the Enlightenment, Locke's Theory of Perfectability, Bentham's utilitarianism, the Industrial Revolution, socialism, the French Revolution, Darwinism, and the conflict between capital and labour is demonstrated. It is also shown how the long-range results of the Russian Revolution and the two world wars shattered all Utopian visions, leading to the emergence of the dystopia, and how the author reversed this negative trend in the second part of the twentieth century. In a study of forms of Utopian presentation, the claim is made that The Dispossessed features the first Utopia that qualifies as a novel: not only does the author break with the genre's tradition of subordinating the characters to the proposal, she also creates the conflict necessary for novelistic structure by juxtaposing her positive societies with negative ones. In part two, the Utopias and dystopias of both books are examined, and their features compared to previous endeavours in the genre. The observation is made that although the author favours anarchism as a political theory, she is more deeply committed to the Chinese philosophy of Taoism, seeing in its ideals the only way to a harmonious and just existence for all. In order to prove her point, Le Guin renders her Utopias less than perfect, placing one society into an inhospitable environment and showing the other as suffering from genetic damage; this suggests that the ideal life does not rest in societal organization or beneficent surroundings, but in the minds of the inhabitants: this frame of mind—if not inherent in a culture—can be achieved by living in accordance with the tao. Lastly, an effort is made to determine the anthropological models upon which Utopian proposals are constructed. The theory is put forth that all non-governed, egalitarian Utopias represent a return to the societal arrangements of early man, when his communities were still small and decentralized, and before occupational specialization began to set in; that all democratic forms of government are taken from the Greek examples, that More's Utopia might well have been modelled on the Athenian clans of the pre-Cleisthenes era, and that the Kesh society of Always Coming Home is based exclusively on the kinship systems of the Pueblo Indians of the American Southwest.
Arts, Faculty of
English, Department of
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Poon, Yan Chee. "Does music make coming home easier? : musical and sociological analyses of selected compositions commemorating the 1997 return of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2002. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/443.

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Matthiessen, Sven. ""Going to the Philippines is like coming home" : Japanese pan-Asianism and the Philippines from the Meiji era to the Greater East Asia co-prosperity sphere." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2012. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2565/.

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Benson, Emily A. "A Second Universe." FIU Digital Commons, 2016. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2507.

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A SECOND UNIVERSE is a memoir-in-essays that traces the author’s coming of age and her pursuit of self-discovery, belonging, and healing in all its forms. The book opens in the past, diving into the lives of the author’s parents before she was born and shedding light on the many obstacles they overcame to bring her earth-side. Set against the backdrop of the Southern Utah deserts and the clarity the author finds in the natural world, these essays wind through the author’s different childhood homes, down the lonely and desolate road of a sister’s addiction, and into the darkness that comes as she braces for her father’s impending blindness. Similar to Brenda Miller’s LISTENING AGAINST THE STONE, this collection explores the inherent desire for human connection and spiritual insight that we search for in the places we live, the people we love, and the nature that surrounds us.

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Andersson, Annika, Ida Johansson, and Kajsa Sjunnesson. "Föräldrars upplevelser av att komma hem med sitt prematurt födda barn." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för hälsa och välfärd, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-36758.

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Varje år föds drygt 15 miljoner barn prematurt. Ett prematurt fött barn är i behov av specialiserad vård med fokus på hens välmående. Detta kan medföra att föräldrars involvering i omvårdnaden av sitt barn åsidosätts och möjligheten till anknytning försämras. Syftet med litteraturstudien var att beskriva föräldrars upplevelser av att komma hem med sitt prematurt födda barn. En allmän litteraturstudie genomfördes med systematiska sökningar i databaser och med stöd av innehållsanalys. Resultatet presenterades i tre huvudteman: Upplevelser av att få komma hem, Upplevelser av att ta hand om sitt barn i hemmet och Upplevelser av stöd. Resultatet påvisade att känslor som positivitet och lättnad var övervägande men föräldrar upplevde även osäkerhet och oro. Hemma präglades vardagen av nya rutiner och olika hinder. Föräldrar fick stöd från sjuksköterskan, stödgrupper och anhöriga. Stödet från sjuksköterskan ansågs viktigt för att föräldrar skulle uppleva hemkomsten som positiv. Denna litteraturstudie kan ge sjuksköterskan en ökad förståelse för föräldrars upplevelser av att komma hem med sitt prematurt födda barn och leda till bättre stöd från sjuksköterskan i de områden där osäkerheten hos föräldrar är störst.
Every year roughly 15 million children are born prematurely. A premature born child is in need of specialized care focusing on his or her well-being. This may cause parents' involvement in the care of their child to be overridden and the possibility of connection becomes impaired. The aim of this literature study was to describe parents' experiences of coming home with their premature born child. A general literature study was conducted with systematic searches in databases and supported by content analysis. The result was presented in three main themes: Experiences of coming home, Experiences of caring for one's child at home and Experiences of support. The result showed that feelings like positivity and relief were predominant, but parents also experienced insecurity and concern. At home everyday life was characterized by new routines and various obstacles. Parents' received support from the nurse, support groups and relatives. The support from the nurse was considered important for parents to experience homecoming as positive. This literature study can give the nurse an increased understanding of parents' experiences of coming home with their premature born child and lead to better support from the nurse in those areas where the insecurity among parents' is the greatest.

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Veitzman, Shoshana. "Coming home to a strange land : empowering Ethiopian immigrant students by teaching self-determination skills : the case of an intervention programme in a youth village in Israel." Thesis, University of Bath, 2004. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.411990.

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Salameh, Hadeel J. "Dancing with Birds." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1552037191445985.

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Harrison, Jen. "Incarnations: exploring the human condition through Patrick White�s Voss and Nikos Kazantzakis� Captain Michales." University of Sydney. School of Modern Languages and Cultures, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/671.

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Nikos Kazantzakis� Captain Michales is a freedom fighter in nineteenth century Crete. Patrick White�s Voss is a German explorer in nineteenth century Australia. Two men struggling for achievement, their disparate social contexts united in the same fundamental search for meaning. This thesis makes comparison of these different struggles through thematic analysis of the texts, examining within the narratives the role of food, perceptions of body and soul, landscapes, gender relations, home-coming and religious experience. Themes from the novels are extracted and intertwined, within a range of theoretical frameworks: history, anthropology, science, literary and social theories, religion and politics; allowing close investigation of each novel�s social, political and historical particularities, as well as their underlying discussion of perennial human issues. These novels are each essentially explorations of the human experience. Read together, they highlight the commonest of human elements, most poignantly the need for communion; facilitating analysis of the individual and all our communities. Comparing the two novels also continues the process of each: examining the self both within and outside of the narratives, producing a new textual self, arising from both primary sources and the contextual breadth of such rewriting.

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Harrison, Jen. "Incarnations: exploring the human condition through Patrick White's Voss and Nikos Kazantzakis' Captain Michales." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/671.

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Nikos Kazantzakis' Captain Michales is a freedom fighter in nineteenth century Crete. Patrick White's Voss is a German explorer in nineteenth century Australia. Two men struggling for achievement, their disparate social contexts united in the same fundamental search for meaning. This thesis makes comparison of these different struggles through thematic analysis of the texts, examining within the narratives the role of food, perceptions of body and soul, landscapes, gender relations, home-coming and religious experience. Themes from the novels are extracted and intertwined, within a range of theoretical frameworks: history, anthropology, science, literary and social theories, religion and politics; allowing close investigation of each novel's social, political and historical particularities, as well as their underlying discussion of perennial human issues. These novels are each essentially explorations of the human experience. Read together, they highlight the commonest of human elements, most poignantly the need for communion; facilitating analysis of the individual and all our communities. Comparing the two novels also continues the process of each: examining the self both within and outside of the narratives, producing a new textual self, arising from both primary sources and the contextual breadth of such rewriting.

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French, Brent. "The Reintegration Myth: An Interpretive Phenomenological Inquiry into the Reentry Experiences of Air Force Reservists Returning from Afghanistan." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1338316378.

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Balsawer, Veena. "Auto/ethnographical Métissage of Ho[me] Stories in the Hyphens: A Living Pedagogy of Indo-Canadian Women’s Be/coming and Be/longing." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/36851.

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My auto/ethnographical journey stems from my experience where, as an I-m-migrant, I feel like I live in the hy-phens negotiating between “a here, a there and an elsewhere” (Trinh, 2011), straddling cultures, homelands, I-dentities, and languages. This identity crisis has made me quest/ion how other i-m-migrant women, especially the Indo-Canadian women in Ottawa, navigate their hyphe-nated existence(s) with/in these liminal spaces which are both home and not-home. As both insider and outsider, I engaged in complicated conversations with Indo-Canadian women to hear about their live(d) experiences and to understand the process of my / our be/com/ing’ and be/long/ing in these hybrid spaces. The questions that guided me through this inquiry are: How do Indo-Canadian women re-produce and re-create this notion called home? What are some of influences of (im)migration on this notion of ho[me]? How do they navigate and per/form their hyphenated currere with/in these hybrid liminal spaces which are both home and not-home? What do these performances dis/close about the women’s understanding of their lives in the hyphens? Through a post-colonial, feminist perspective, and drawing from qualitative research methodologies such as “autoethnography” (Ellis, 2003), “bricolage” (Denzin & Lincoln, 2008; Kincheloe, 2001), “narrative inquiry” (Clandinin, 2013), and “found poetry” (Butler-Kisber, 2010), I perform a “literary métissage” (Hasebe-Ludt, Chambers & Leggo, 2009) of the live(d) narratives of women who, like me, are members of the Indo-Canadian diaspora. I juxtapose our conversations with artifacts, photographs, recipes, and literary pieces that depict our hyphe-nation(s). From an educational perspective, I hope that my “performance [auto]ethnography” (Alexander, 2000) of ho[me]stories of Indo-Canadian women will become a “living pedagogy” and have “the potential to become trans/formative curriculum inquiry” (Hasebe-Ludt, et al, 2009), which might help to de/construct the stereotypical image of the “universal Indian woman” (Sharma, 2009).

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Doucette, Catherine. "Coming home : essays." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/11863.

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In her collection of nonfiction essays, Coming Home, Catherine Doucette explores themes of space, loneliness, community, and relationship. Landscape and setting play essential roles as Doucette struggles to fit in and find where she belongs. From the Swiss Alps, Guatemala, New York, and Oregon, to her childhood home in New Hampshire, she grapples with ideas of place, family, and connection. Often Doucette best understands her relationships when entwined with the experience of the outdoors, the brutal realities of nature, and breathtaking mountain experiences. Doucette also seeks to root herself in the midst of shifting contexts from new dynamics in friendships, to births, deaths, and unexpected gifts.
Graduation date: 2009
This Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) in Creative Writing thesis is indefinitely restricted to the OSU community per the author's request.

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Liou, Jing-Yi, and 劉靜宜. "Plays：Heroine、Home Coming." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/15475817662659060060.

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碩士
國立臺灣大學
戲劇學研究所
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The thesis contains two parts－two Chinese Opera plays and the analysis. Heroine is a work of creative writing. Home Coming was adapted from the traditional Peking Opera play The Shepherd Su Wu. Heroine inspired by the heroines in Tang legendary and Pu Songling’s “Heroine” in Strange Tales of Liaozhai, Heroine rebuilds the heroine’s motivation for revenge and deepens the exploration of her inner world. Home Coming based on Peking opera The Shepherd Su Wu and Kun opera The Story of Shepherd, attempts to challenge the historical evaluation of Su Wu and Li Ling. Through reconstructing their conversation, the existing images of the two protagonists are subverted. The discussion after the script will be divided into three parts: “Explanation”, “Analysis”, and “Examination” about Heroine and Home Coming, respectively. In “Explanation”, I will reveal my motivation to write the two scripts and describe my understanding about the roles.In “Analysis”, I will elaborate my idea of creation by analyzing the plots, conversations, and characters in the two scripts. “Examination” as the end of my thesis and creation will shed light on the difficulties I confronted during my writing and some unsolved problems that require further studies.

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SHIN, LI WAN, and 黎宛欣. "Where Is Home Coming." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/58858279896874349126.

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碩士
中國文化大學
戲劇研究所
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This thesis is divided into two parts: the study of the creative theory on which the play Where Is Home Coming is based and that of producing the play. There are four chapters for the first part. The first chapter describes the reasons of choosing the historical events as materials for the play Where Is Home Coming, including motive, thoughts, subject-matter, and the arrangement of events. The second chapter is to expound Aristotle’s Poetics used in this play, focusing on how to use Aristotle’s dramatic theory to produce the play Where Is Home Coming and to shape the characters in it. The third chapter is to discuss the creative process of how to choose historical events and the characters, and of how to shape the characters to express the theme of the drama. The fourth chapter concludes that the value of this drama is to convey the merit of the time. The second part of this discourse is the presentation of the drama. The author takes “mass demonstration” as the theme to make up a historical play about a zilch that faces the social upheaval of the Age. Through the historical contradiction and the cognitive dissonance about politics, this drama Where Is Home Coming embodies the universally spiritual appeal for home-coming.

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HSIEH, PEI-CHEN, and 謝珮真. "Leaving for Coming Home." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/4znqct.

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碩士
東吳大學
心理學系
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This research is an only child who face the tangled with her father by using the self-narrative research. Researcher review through the growth process and knew the dogma that researcher had been obeying all the time was irrationality.Researcher lost herself to complete her father's expectation.When researcher begins to write down the past , she gain strength from the listener and start to fight against her father and the greater religious power behind him. The beginning of the action research , the distance of researcher and her family give researcher the opportunity to grow strong and picture the person researcher wants to be like. Finally , researcher decide to chose the opposite side of her father’s expectation and see the person who maintaining the stability of the family is her mother. In addition to presenting how a daughter get rid of her father's control , this study also provides a different frame to see the problems that families with religious belief may encounter.

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Córdoba, Tania. "Coming home as resistance : an anti-colonial process." 2004. http://link.library.utoronto.ca/eir/EIRdetail.cfm?Resources__ID=81134&T=F.

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"Back home: Research with people coming from Psychiatric Hospitals." Tese, BIBLIOTECA DIGITAL DE TESES E DISSERTAÇÕES - METODISTA, 2006. http://ibict.metodista.br/tedeSimplificado/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=419.

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Jeffrey, James Richard Francis. "Is the international coffee market coming home to Ethiopia?" Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2012-05-5211.

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This MA Report explains the impact coffee cooperatives are having on the Ethiopian coffee industry. It analyses how the current multi-billion dollar global coffee industry began in what remains one of the world’s poorest countries, where arabica coffee was discovered sometime before the sixth century. It explains the emergence of coffee cooperatives historically, as well as their present role offering an alternative to the country’s previous reliance on the assistance of Western nongovernmental organizations with their possible negative impact, including arguments they enforced a dependency on Ethiopia that impeded the country’s development. In discussing coffee buyers and coffee consumption, the report focuses on America, although the same points made apply to the vast majority of Western countries. The report investigates whether cooperatives offer a business model sufficient to achieve self-sustainability for Ethiopian coffee farmers, and discusses how the interaction between and among cooperatives, unions, the Ethiopian government, and specialty coffee buyers in America is enabling Ethiopian coffee to increase its leverage on the international coffee market, generating essential income for the struggling Ethiopian economy. The report focuses on the following areas: the connection between poverty and linkage to markets; how coffee travels from smallholding farmers in Ethiopia to be sold in American cities like Austin, Texas; the emergence of certification systems like Fair Trade to protect farmers and ensure they receive a fair price for their produce, as well as the chain of commerce that Fair Trade is part of; the quality and characteristics of Ethiopian coffee; and whether cooperatives and unions can remain true to the original goals of serving their farmer members—not turning into purely profit-orientated businesses. While this report focuses on Ethiopia, it dissects and debates economic trends that usually affect developing nations producing coffee. It explores the logistics and ethics of prices paid in the West for coffee from developing countries like Ethiopia. The report ultimately aims to enlighten readers so they’re able to make an ethical purchase of a good quality coffee, while aware of the myriad factors and trends affecting the international coffee market.
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McChesney, Sarah Jane. "Coming home : death and identity in contemporary Australian society." Thesis, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/147276.

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Thomas, SL. "Coming home : university exchange students’ narratives of cultural re-entry." Thesis, 2009. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/10674/2/PhD_Final.pdf.

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Cultural re-entry – the process of returning to one’s home culture after an overseas sojourn – is ostensibly a return to the familiar: familiar places and familiar people. Yet, this simplistic understanding of the phenomenon belies its multi-layered, complex nature. More appropriately framed as a psychological process than one of physical relocation, re-entry is characteristically challenging for sojourners, its impact being felt affectively, behaviourally and cognitively. Despite being a focus of research for half a century, the challenges associated with re-entry remain primarily unexpected, by both sojourners and those at home. The cost –personal, social and financial – of such ignorance is great. As globalization and concomitant increased travel becomes a reality, an increasing number of people world-wide will experience the phenomenon of re-entry. This longitudinal qualitative study sought to explore the experiences and perceptions of six university students during the first six months of their return to their home culture from an international exchange. Employing a narrative inquiry approach, this study sought openended exploration, the purpose of which was to understand rather than explain the experience. It was motivated by a desire to enhance multiple meanings as opposed to enhancing certainty. In presenting six individual stories this study gave voice to experience, and in doing so, traded generalisation for particularisation. There are a number of provocative findings from this study. First, the study underscored the inherently idiosyncratic nature of each person’s re-entry experience. Second, it reinforced the notion of cultural adjustment as a process, the symbiotic relationship between the overseas experience and re-entry clearly discernible. Third, affective and cognitive processes (internal) – as opposed to behavioural processes (external) – were found to dominate the participants’ re-entry experiences. Finally, relationships emerged as the most significant and powerful variable in the re-entry experience, a finding which positions re-entry as a social rather than a personal phenomenon. While students were the lens through which the phenomenon of re-entry was explored in this study, these findings may be of interest to the myriad groups who undertake sojourns – not only prospective sojourners, but also their families, friends and colleagues, and those responsible for organizing and managing sojourner travel.

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SHENG, LIU PEI, and 劉沛陞. "A Home-Coming study for Taiwanese enterprise in Mainland China : Is it a special case ?A Home-Coming study for Taiwanese enterprise in Mainland China : Is it a special case ?A Home-Coming study for Taiwanese enterprise in Mainland China : Is it a." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/32989440391695507699.

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國立暨南國際大學
國際企業學系
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A huge flow of direct investment from Taiwan toward China started in 1992 after China ended its after-math of Cultural Revolution. This outflow was also strengthened by the legalization of Taiwan Government. There are three forces that influence this rapid outflow, namely pulling, pushing and squeezing forces. Taiwanese investments are pulled by attractive factors such as low wages, huge market and abundant resources; pushed by domestic factors such as increasing wage, restricting environment regulations and land prices; and squeezed by international and/or domestic competitors entering China. However, since 1998, there has a weak but audible voice about the ugly side of China’s business environment that breaks the lucrative dreams of many Taiwanese investors and therefore a number of firms, although not easy to be accounted for, returns Taiwan to invest, like salmons returning home. Is this home-coming investment a special case not explainable by theories of foreign direct investment? The purpose of this research is to address this question by collecting reports from news media, firm survey and interviews of those home-coming firms. Our usable sample size is 25 under a very small population of perhaps not exceeding 100 firms. This research concludes that 90% of these home-coming investments is not a special case and can be explained by theories of foreign direct investment.

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Thau-eleff, MAYA. "Coming Home: Sovereign Bodies and Sovereign Land in Indigenous Poetry, 1990-2012." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/7460.

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This thesis probes the ways in which land-based and bodily violence inform contemporary North American Indigenous poetry. Since the “Oka Crisis” of 1990, English-speaking North American Indigenous writers have produced a substantial body of poetry that has significant implications in forwarding national sovereignty struggles. Gender violence enabled settler colonial land appropriation; resource exploitation also harmed Indigenous bodies. This project considers the ways in which Indigenous authors with diverse geographic, cultural and embodied experiences employ common strategies toward using poetry as an emancipatory tool. A poem is both whole, and a fragment of a larger body of work; engaging with the works of individual poets, and multi-authored anthologies allows for varied readings of the same poems and their engagements with the project’s key themes of homeland and embodiment. This paper is informed by the reading of many Indigenous theorists and poets, and aligns with an Indigenous-feminist critique that suggests that nationalist sovereignty struggles are meaningless as long as bodily violence against Indigenous women and Two-Spirit people is still prevalent. As such, contemporary struggles for reclaiming Indigenous lands must also be struggles toward a sovereign erotic, sovereignty over one’s sexuality and gender identity.
Thesis (Master, Gender Studies) -- Queen's University, 2012-09-12 03:07:52.957

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Jones, Alysha. "Coming home: A study of the military family interactions and relationships after deployment." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/14418.

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This thesis examines familial interactions and relationships between military veterans and their spouses and children after returning from foreign deployment. Although always an overly joyous occasion, post deployment is a transitional process that tends to strain the family system. Five Canadian Forces families were interviewed, fifteen participants in total. Through qualitative interviews, three superordinate themes emerged: Stressors and coping skills, family dynamics, and support networks. Communication with the military member during deployment plays an integral part in the transition back into the family. Communication patterns between family members are one of the determinants in the effectiveness of role and relationship negotiation during the reunion. The effectiveness of relationship renegotiation is also aided by the family’s support system. Informal and formal support networks are crucial in helping military families during and post deployment. However, the effectiveness of reintegration programs requires active consultation with military families in the design and implementation of these programs.

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Lin, Chih-Yun, and 林芷筠. "How do Meinung Daughters Return? Meinung Daughters’ Home Coming Mobility and Reconstruction of Place." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/u2552w.

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國立臺灣大學
建築與城鄉研究所
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In the 1960s and 1970s, Taiwan’s economic takeoff propelled the transition of the agricultural sector into industrial production and the emigration of the agricultural population into urbanized areas. Following the emergence of urban problems, the accumulation of cultural and economic capital, and the inspiration of Meinung’s social movement and community empowerment projects, many a progressive intellectual and activist determined to return to the homeland of Meinung. Being a Meinung ‘daughter’ who attempts to embark on a homecoming journey after more than twenty years of exodus for better education, I encounter many like-minded women who are drawn back to the place of symbolic significance but are also endowed with and confined within the social role of ‘daughter.’ We are critically self-conscious but constrained by the conundrums of disarticulation from local society due to long-term departure from home and the structural exclusion from being a member of rightful subjectivity of the patriarchal familial institution. The process of the daughters’ homecoming journey to reconstruct the place identity as well as our own identities not only reflects the struggles between the urban and the rural, the young and the aged, and the mobile and the rooted; but also, from the feminist perspective, manifests the multiple issues of the traditional patriarchal system in the era of modern development and gender equality. I contend that the patriarchal familial institution continues to dominate Meinung’s social belief and property ownership - though occasionally challenged in the course of modernization, through the rituals of ancestral worship and the custom of inheritance, and compels the emigrated offspring to be connected with the homeland through patriarchal familial lineage. Familial kinship does not simply represent the social relations of the domestic sphere, but also extends into the public arena of socio-spatial organization and influences the development of the local. I intend to compare the patriarchal familial institution as an intrinsically fixed concept of place with the diverse spatial practices of the homecoming daughters as a more inclusive and sustainable paradigm of place. The collaborative and dialogical network of the daughters in present-day Meinung also facilitates the reconstruction of the familial relationship in which the subjectivity of the daughter is traditionally absent. This thesis reveals the subjective experiences of the female characters often excluded from the patriarchal system, while the employed feminist methodology of praxis further combines theory and practices to foster the mutual empowerment and network building of Meinung daughters. It is hoped that the research activates the cooperative experiments of the daughters to substantially reform the oppressed conditions of living in a place of patriarchal domination.

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"Coming Home, Staying Put, and Learning to Fiddle: Heroism and Place in Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain." East Tennessee State University, 2004. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-0716104-120033/.

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Chen, Chien-Hao, and 陳建豪. "Going through the lust to find a way home---- A coming-out gay son's narrative story." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/81375554914673079861.

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中國文化大學
心理輔導學系
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This study focuses on the process of improving the parent-child relationship after the children come out. The research method adopted here is self-narration. By tracing my own homosexuality identities and gay relationship experiences, I learn to accept myself and understand where everyone stands in the parent-child relationship. Then I transform the understanding and realization from writing into power to improve my own parent-child relationship. There are four findings in the study: 1) Life experiences can not be separated. The opportunities to grow come from the interaction of different contexts of life, such as self-identification, homosexual partnership and parent-child relationship. (2) To Build and consolidate the closeness between parents and children, it first takes reframing their ideas of conflicts. The two parties need to build consensus, face the conflicts with reason and recognize the positive meaning of it. Then they need to create a safe atmosphere and build up a sense of trust in their emotions to accommodate the happening of conflicts. All these are preparation to embrace the honest and straightforward interaction between the two parties, so that the true emotions can flow spontaneously. Finally, the two parties need to have the ability and willingness to accept the true emotions from each other. (3) Through self-narration and writing, one can increase the ability of psychological displacement and learn to separate "the present me" and "the past me", which facilitates self-acceptance. (4) During the writing of the thesis, the change and growth of the researcher empower me to help and influence other gay people and their parents, which is an augmentation of the change level from an individual to a group. Finally, with these findings, I re-examined the issue of coming out and realized that the idea of coming out or staying in the closet being the cause of a dysfunctional parent-child relationship is an erroneous attribution, which leads to avoidance of responsibility. The emphasis should be put on "relationship" in terms of how to strengthen the bonds and bring the relationship closer, as what really worth our efforts is the parent-child relationship itself and cultivation of the ability of amending a dysfunctional parent-child relationship.

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PO-ING, TSAI, and 蔡柏英. "Long, Long Distant Home-Coming: The Analysis of Abused Children’s Adaptations of Foster Care Placements in Kaoshiung City, Taiwan." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/45504309079249322038.

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國立高雄師範大學
成人教育研究所在職專班
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Abstract : The aim of this study is to analyze abused children’s adaptations of foster care placements through the application of focus groups. It intentionally sampled 8 abused children from 8 years old to 12 years old who had been in foster care family for six months to one year by way of intensive, continuous discussions in the form of focus groups for 5 times. The main purpose of this study is to understand these 8 abused children’s initiate feelings and living experiences, to realize their earlier abusive life styles in their biological families, and to see whether they have some changes after placements. The author of the study therefore indicates five different types of adaptations and provides some specific suggestions and recommendations for the implementation of the policies and practice. The Results of the Study 1.Initiate Feelings and Living Experiences in Foster Care Families They have the initiate feelings such as fearing, crying, and missing their own parents, siblings, kinfolk and familiar environments. They are eager to be loved and cared attentively and afraid of neglect, abuse, abandonment and exploitation. They sometimes suffer those nightmares but still dream of leisure life in foster families. 2.Abused Experiences in Biological Families These children have felt sad, worried, nervous, empty, angry, violent, rebellious, bitter, guilty, ashamed and paralyzed. They are deeply impressed on stressful abusive treatments. 3.The Changes of Their Adaptations after the Placements They have some changes and improvements after foster care placements, including normal daily habits, well-behaved adaptations in school, positive social relationships and resilience. 4.Five Types of Adaptations A.Acceptance: They can adapt well to foster families. B.Caution: They still worry about abused treatments. C.Friendship: They gradually recover from abused treatments. D.Rejection: They fail to accept foster family cares and need to be transferred to another placement. E.Confusion: They are puzzled what to do in foster care families. Suggestions of the Study 1.Further Research The subjects of further research can widely include infants, the disabled, sex abusers and delinquents. It is still available to compare the differences between institutional care placement and foster care placement and do follow-up studies after returning to the biological families. 2.Strategies of Practice A.Practice in Foster Families The social agencies have the obligations to train the professionals of foster parents and to monitor the placement situations. Negotiations between specialized social workers and foster parents about specific tasks to be performed are essential. The foster parents should respect the abused children’s identities with their biological families. Besides, the social agencies have to consider these children’s attachment to their siblings and kinfolk and arrange the same placements in foster care families as much as possible. B.Practice in Biological Families Separation is an extremely stressful and traumatic experience for children. Therefore, biological parents should prepare suitable occasions to welcome family reunification. The social agencies and services should make plans and set objectives for family reunification in detail and cautiously evaluate the family rebuilding projects. The study emphasizes the empowerment of biological parental participation in order to ensure their rights. C.Practice in Institutional Care a.Child welfare social workers should cooperate with foster care social workers. b.Child Welfare League should connect Family Violence Center to construct protective systems and network. c.After placement, the social agencies should take family rebuilding into consideration as follow-up assessment. d.Government should provide multi-faceted fiscal subsidies for the cost of treatments of foster care. e.The social agencies should reinforce the previous investigation and preparation of the foster care placement. f.Government should lay stress on child welfare social workers’ experiences as well as foster care social workers’ ones to keep on training specialized professionals. g.Administrators should respect and keep the correspondence with professionals. h.The social agencies should provide the guideline and assistance for the growth groups of child maltreatment and child abuse. i.The social agencies should not only arrange abused children’s foster placement free of abuses but also reinforce specialized psychological assistance for them. 3.Government Policies A.Central government should carry out the assessment and evaluation of the foster care placements. B.Following the regulations of Child Welfare Law, government should establish a responsible authority of Child Welfare Units and provide adequate personnel supports. C.Child welfare systems and foster care programs should closely connect with each other under government’s supervision. D.Protecting the minority of children is the first priority in terms of implementing children’s rights.

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WANG, XIN-WEI, and 王信為. "Soul Coming Back Home From Nomadism──The Dialectics of the Existential Meaning in the Writing of CHEN, YU HUI." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/wdzemd.

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靜宜大學
中國文學研究所
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In the related researches of CHEN, YU HUI, the aspects of the country fables, and family identification were researches’ focal points in the past. This research paper also focuses on identification, but “the meaning of existence” as the mainly point through the whole texts. In the writings of CHEN, YU HUI, “who I am” is the significant theme, which involves with the self-identification and self-realization of the “Subject” that can be discussed in the dialectics of the existential meaning. From these aspects, it seems the concepts of country fables and family identification can fit into the process of “Subject” in the authentication of the existence. This research paper mainly focuses on “who I am”, the meaning of “Nomadism” and “Soul Coming back Home” which make the focal point stand out. CHEN as a nomad, how did she reach the return to the self-spirit in the conscious nomadism? What is an abstract word “soul” play the role in the writing of CHEN? What is the connection with soul coming back home? These are the essential contents will be discussed in this paper. Therefore, subject forms of the processes of continuously authenticating and establishing, and nomadism and soul coming back are the paths in our lives--- to leave, to look for, and to regression. The contexts in this paper from chapter two to five are discussed the focus of identification with existence. The experiences in childhood, as the three domains among plays, news, and literature of CHEN in chapter two; the sense of homeless which related to the proofs of existence of self and others in chapter three; the concept of nomadism in chapter four; and in the chapter five, as the soul coming back —body, social self, and soul as the main point from three domains. Through three domains—what, where, and how--- to discuss the reasons of soul coming back, it’s hard to define soul, but for CHEN, the more important is how to getting close to soul rather than what the soul is. In the discussion of chapters, the sense of homeless, the conscious nomadism, and soul coming back makes the focus stand out the path in lives--- to leave, to look for, and to regression, which people can learn lifeline and authentication of existence in the writing of CHEN, YU HUI.

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