Storytelling: an approach that can help to develop resilience

East, Leah; Jackson, Debra; O’Brien, Louise; Peters, Kathleen

doi:10.7748/nr2010.04.17.3.17.c7742

Cited by 111 publications

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“…Some researchers also describe the impacts of storytelling on the development of personal resilience (East et al 2010). For individuals, chances to enhance adaptive capacity are promoted through engagement in various experiences accompanied by reflectivity, and a community with such competent individuals possibly has a higher adaptive capacity (Fazey et al 2007).…”

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Social-ecological memory in an autobiographical novel: ecoliteracy, place attachment, and identity related to the Korean traditional village landscape

Kim¹,

Vaswani²,

Lee³

2017

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ABSTRACT. Our study discusses how literature, in particular an autobiographical novel, can be approached as a valuable reservoir of social-ecological memory (SEM). Through our analysis of acclaimed Korean writer Park Wan-suh's autobiographical novel Who Ate Up All the Shinga?, we discuss how an individual (the author) manifests ecoliteracy, place attachment, and identity in relation to Korea's traditional village landscape that can serve as a suitable setting for understanding Korea's local social-ecological contexts. We find a rich account of knowledge and practices related to living and ecological components, resource and landscape management systems, social institutions, and worldviews. The author's descriptions of her native village landscape show the role of village resource and landscape management practices in enhancing local biodiversity and developing ecoliteracy in relation to indigenous ecosystemlike concepts. In addition, several social capitals are mentioned as key to sustaining the village community. The author's knowledge of local plants is the result of her childhood experiences in nature, and her place attachment is tightly linked with her worldview that is cultivated through intricate human-nature relationships within the Korean traditional village landscape. Furthermore, the novel contributes to comprehending resilience thinking by providing a narrative of social changes and interactions between humans and nature. Thus, SEM retained in literature can facilitate a meaningful understanding of social-ecological contexts in a given socialecological system. Our study therefore suggests new functions of autobiographical memory in literary work for delivering SEM, and informs the study of SEM across the fields of humanities, social sciences, and natural resources management.

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Social-ecological memory in an autobiographical novel: ecoliteracy, place attachment, and identity related to the Korean traditional village landscape

Kim¹,

Vaswani²,

Lee³

2017

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“…Narrative enquiry and analysis have been positioned under the realms of qualitative research. While it is recognised that there are differing strands of narrative analysis, there are several works which have suggested that narrative and story are indeed the same concept, which are, and can be used interchangeably (East, Jackson, O'Brien, & Peters, 2010;Polkinghorne, 1988). The notion of the 'narrative' 295 or 'story' is not new, as Czarniawska (2004) articulated.…”

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Childhood Parental Mental Illness: Living with Fear and Mistrust

Murphy

Peters

Wilkes

et al. 2015

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

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This paper presents one major theme of findings from a doctorate study. The study used a narrative enquiry approach, to gather parenting narratives of adult children of parents with mental illness. A Partnership Model for a Reflexive Narrative for Participant and Researcher (Partnership Model) was used to invite participants into the study, while encouraging a space for reflection for both the adult children and researcher. In total, 13 adult children participants constructed their narratives of living with childhood parental mental illness, alongside their current parenting role. Their stories reflected childhood experiences of fear and emergence of mistrust of others, particularly their parent with mental illness. For some participants, fear and mistrust continued into adulthood. Many adult children reported their childhood experiences of feeling lonely and isolated. They felt unable to disclose their experiences of parental mental illness to others. In addition, participants were unable to access information about their parent's condition, leaving them feeling unprepared and unskilled, despite their childhood desire to help their parent. This furthermore, compounded their sense of fear and isolation. Early identification of children and families experiencing mental illness is important to facilitate dialogue, psychoeducation and support. Social and health professionals have an important opportunity to enhance the social integration and support for families experiencing parental mental illness, to reduce long-standing fear, isolation and mistrust.

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“…Narrative inquiry highlights that all human experiences are meaningful (Polkinghorne, 1988); narratives are used by all groups within society to express experiences, cultural values, and interpretations (Czarniawska, 2004;Daiute & Light-foot, 2004). Narrative inquiry methods provide the opportunity for participants to tell their story, which has been identified as a potentially cathartic process (East, Jackson, O'Brien, & Peters, 2010). Further, listening to their stories attributes value to participants (Frank, 1995).…”

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Events Prior to Completed Suicide: Perspectives of Family Survivors

Peters

Murphy

Jackson

2013

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

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Relatively little is known about the experiences of those bereaved by suicide, particularly in the weeks leading to the death of a loved one. This study used a qualitative methodology to explore the perspectives of close survivors of a completed suicide. Ten people who were bereaved by suicide participated in face-to-face interviews that were digitally recorded, transcribed verbatim, and thematically analysed. Analysis revealed the following three themes: He Tried to Hang Himself: Purposeful indications of the intent to end life; They Still Ignored It: Disappointment with health services; and Nobody Talked to Me: Exclusion of family members from treatment information. Prior to the suicide of their loved one, participants had identified that the loved one was at risk and perceived they were unable to acquire appropriate assistance from services. Rather, services were perceived by participants as unsupportive and inadequate. Health and social service professionals could benefit from further specialised education concerning suicide and its sequelae to ensure more effective and sensitive care delivery to suicide survivors.

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Storytelling: an approach that can help to develop resilience

Cited by 111 publications

References 31 publications

Social-ecological memory in an autobiographical novel: ecoliteracy, place attachment, and identity related to the Korean traditional village landscape

Social-ecological memory in an autobiographical novel: ecoliteracy, place attachment, and identity related to the Korean traditional village landscape

Childhood Parental Mental Illness: Living with Fear and Mistrust

Events Prior to Completed Suicide: Perspectives of Family Survivors

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