Aim  The aim of the present synthesis was to review the literature on bullying in the nursing workplace and develop an explanatory model for patterns of victimization and contagion within the workgroup. Background  Although research has demonstrated that bullying can cause significant harm there has been little investigation or theorizing into the place of the workgroup as a vehicle for magnify...

This study intended to investigate issues on the relationship between paradoxical virtual leadership and emotional intelligence; accordingly, two main questions were addressed; first one was, investigating what is known unknown about concept of leadership; second question was describe intelligence, in existing literature. In this regard, methodologically, employed narrative review strategy 38 r...

This paper is part of a work in progress that aims to define a narrative theory adapted for optimal use in the Virtual Reality (VR) medium. In addition to theoretical results and findings on the development of an Emergent Narrative (EN) concept, the authors present their convictions regarding Virtual Storytelling (VS) and narrative consideration. Finally, an Emergent Narrative model is describe...

Knowing what perpetrators want can inform strategies to achieve safe, secure, and sustainable societies. To help advance the body of knowledge in counterterrorism, this research applied natural language processing machine learning techniques a comprehensive database terrorism events. A specially designed empirical topic modeling technique provided machine-aided human decision process glean six ...

Any system designed to model or simulate narrative intelligence will have to take into account how stories encode mental representations of emergent spatial relationships between items in narrated worlds. Intelligent agents, for example, need to be able to use sequences of referring expressions as cues for making inferences about agents, places, and objects and about the dynamic relations betwe...

This article suggests that narrative meaning structures have different modes of existence: the “told”, the “inner” and the “lived” modes. Their definitions and mutual relationships are presented in the form of a schematic model. The inner narrative represents the experiental mode of narrative form. It is an individual’s interpretation of his/her life, in which the past events, present situation...

narrative has being existed in many different forms through communities in all places and all times. it began with human history, and there has been no nation with any narrative. narrative is just like life. since the man is under the influence of story’s narrative logic, the structure of [1]narration has an extensive range just like the variety of lives of human societies. what makes the narra...

Written to honor the immense contribution of Michael White as a leader in the development of narrative therapy, this historical essay contrasts the origins of psychoanalysis, family therapy and narrative therapy. Changes in the understanding of therapeutic strategies, methods of training and supervision, styles of leadership, the involvement of audiences in the therapeutic and training processe...