The potential of transformative video design for improving caregiver’s wellbeing

Abstract

The existing interventions for informal caregivers assist with managing health outcomes of the role burden. However, the deeper meaning-making needs of informal caregivers have been generally neglected. This paper reflects on the meaning-making needs of informal caregivers, through the theory of narrative identity, and proposes a new approach – the Transformative Video Design technique delivered via video storytelling. Transformative Video Design assists informal caregivers to re-create a cohesive caregiving story and incorporate it into the narrative identity. The technique is used as a stimulus for triggering the self-re-structure within the narrative identity and facilitating role transformation.

Using the Transformative Storytelling Technique to Generate Empowering Narratives for Informal Caregivers: Semistructured Interviews, Thematic Analysis, and Method Demonstration

“…This study implemented the TST [ 5 ] for developing empowering narratives in an informal care context. We demonstrated how to use the TST to obtain and categorize building blocks of a universal informal caregiver life story to develop an empowering fictional story.…”

“…Guided by the idea of expanding narrative therapy principles to the individuals belonging to wider groups and populations, we developed the transformative storytelling technique (TST) [ 5 ] as a top-down approach to traditional narrative therapy.…”

Beyond influence: Contextualization and optimization for new narrative techniques and story-formats. Perspective paper

“…However, no existing mental health digital storytelling technique for guiding and designing group and target population support was discovered. Therefore, we developed the Transformative Storytelling Technique (Petrovic and Gaggioli, 2021;Petrovic et al, 2022) that can be adapted to both audio and video formats and is applicable to large populations or target groups.…”

“…In fact, narratives were shown to engage the audience in qualitatively deeper ways than other forms of messages (Grall et al, 2021). This perspective paper reflects on the utilization of the recently developed Transformative Storytelling Technique (Petrovic and Gaggioli, 2021;Petrovic et al, 2022) for structuring and optimizing empowering narratives to deliver prosocial and health stories. We developed the Transformative Storytelling Technique (TST) as a hybrid method for merging fictional structure and real-life accounts to guide the audiences' experience and provide support for the often solitary and exposed role of informal caregivers caring for spouses, relatives, and friends.…”