Meaning Construction in Palliative Care: The Use of Narrative, Ritual, and the Expressive Arts

Romanoff, Bronna D.; Thompson, Barbara

doi:10.1177/1049909106290246

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“…For example, individuals with obsessivecompulsive disorder are more likely to engage in ritualistic behaviors such as elaborate and repetitive sequences of finger tapping (Reuven-Magril, Dar, & Liberman, 2008). Abuse victims (Jacobs, 1989) and palliative care patients (Romanoff & Thompson, 2006) under intense stress also adopt rituals to cope with their conditions. This foundational research provides correlational evidence that the type of people who engage in high-anxiety or high-uncertainty tasks may also be the type of people most likely to develop rituals, that moments of high anxiety increase the performance of rituals, and that people high in trait anxiety are likely to enact rituals.…”

Section: Rituals Anxiety and Performancementioning

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Don’t stop believing: Rituals improve performance by decreasing anxiety

Brooks

Schroeder

Risen

et al. 2016

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

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a b s t r a c tFrom public speaking to first dates, people frequently experience performance anxiety. And when experienced immediately before or during performance, anxiety harms performance. Across a series of experiments, we explore the efficacy of a common strategy that people employ to cope with performance-induced anxiety: rituals. We define a ritual as a predefined sequence of symbolic actions often characterized by formality and repetition that lacks direct instrumental purpose. Using different instantiations of rituals and measures of anxiety (both physiological and self-report), we find that enacting rituals improves performance in public and private performance domains by decreasing anxiety. Belief that a specific series of behaviors constitute a ritual is a critical ingredient to reduce anxiety and improve performance: engaging in behaviors described as a ''ritual" improved performance more than engaging in the same behaviors described as ''random behaviors."

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Section: Rituals Anxiety and Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

Don’t stop believing: Rituals improve performance by decreasing anxiety

Brooks

Schroeder

Risen

et al. 2016

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

120

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“…Results from the observations, interviews and diary writings that were carried out with the teenagers, depicted a renewed high awareness which changed them and a very significant difference can be seen within them. The results described above can be attributed to the findings of which have been described by Romanoff and Thompson (2006). They said art is a means of individual expression to explore the feelings and experience to create.…”

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Sharing Life Experiences of Teenage Girl Delinquents through Life Map Sketch

Husain¹,

Adibah²,

Sakari

2017

ASS

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Life map sketch is a unique technique of an expressive therapy that can be used in the process of emotional healing for clients. The purpose of this study was to explore the life experiences of teenage girls engaged in delinquent behaviour using life map sketch. Seven teenage girls from one approved school in Malaysia were selected in this study using purposive sampling. The result showed that there were some themes identified from the teenage girls delinquent sharing of life experience in this study. The themes were hardship, expression of emotion, negative behavior, meaning behind the sketch and hopeful. The use of life map sketch's technique help the participants in expressing their latent issues that they found hard to express orally. Therefore, this technique is very promising in improving the counseling services in Malaysia.

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“…As well as providing evidence of object handling as a means of distraction, some patients also appeared to use the sessions as a tool for providing meaning to their illness and current health status. Such discussions could have valuable health benefits and a means for patients to find positive meaning in their illness, which Romanoff and Thompson (2006) state can lead to less depression and better quality of life and emotional wellbeing.…”

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Object Therapy: A Student-selected Component Exploring the Potential of Museum Object Handling as an Enrichment Activity for Patients in Hospital

Chatterjee

Noble

2009

GJHS

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This study involved innovative research in a novel field, namely 'object therapy', within the framework of a student-selected component (SSC) undertaken by second year, Phase 1 Medicine students at University College London. The project had a series of intrinsic aims: to provide medical students with communication skills, methods of assessing wellbeing and research techniques and to evaluate the potential of museum object handling as an enrichment activity in hospitals. Five medical students undertook museum object handling activities at 24 patient's bedsides in order to assess the psychological impact of 'object therapy' using standard Quality of Life (QoL) measures. Quantitative analyses indicated an increase in overall well being and patient's perception of their health status at the end of the session. Qualitative analyses revealed patients felt positive about the role of object handling sessions as a distraction from everyday ward life. The study showed that this is a novel enrichment activity which has the potential to enhance patient's lives whilst in hospital. The SSC provided valuable communication and research skills to students in their pre-clinical year, affording an opportunity to interact with patients, gain ward experience and an appreciation of the importance of considering the whole person when treating a patient.

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Meaning Construction in Palliative Care: The Use of Narrative, Ritual, and the Expressive Arts

Cited by 85 publications

References 51 publications

Don’t stop believing: Rituals improve performance by decreasing anxiety

Don’t stop believing: Rituals improve performance by decreasing anxiety

Sharing Life Experiences of Teenage Girl Delinquents through Life Map Sketch

Object Therapy: A Student-selected Component Exploring the Potential of Museum Object Handling as an Enrichment Activity for Patients in Hospital

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