The purpose of this article is to inform emerging theoretical understanding of medicalization by challenging, updating, and affirming a previously published essay on this topic by Hall. We accomplished this through the creation of a discourse among the 3 authors using the essay, written entirely from a personal perspective, and integrated our own personal experiences as nurses and patients. Hal...

Illicit drug use amongst criminalized Aboriginal women is a serious health concern in Canada. Little is understood about how women 's healing is impacted by their views of themselves as, and the stigma associated with being, a drug user, involved in crime and an Aboriginal woman in Canadian society. In this article we address two ways in which women's often silenced voices have uniquely guided ...

This paper raises the possibility that a dialogical, or discursive, model of human experience may be useful in helping someone who experiences verbal hallucinations. The model regards verbal hallucinations as a variety of inner speech with dialogical properties. The explication of these properties in the context of a personal narrative allowed the individual to engage in dialogue with the voice...

The world turned upside down as the newly discovered virus affects millions of people across globe. Covid-19 has pros and cons that need to be considered by everyone especially in Philippine Education System. This study wanted determine actions taken transformative leaders’ despite their challenges Covid-19. It will deal on contribution ordinary employees University who were part skeletal force...

Migration can be understood as a breach in life experience, creating transition, and identity narratives strategy to repair this breach. Our study focuses on how two classical dilemmas that characterize process are navigated the narrative of migration participant (An Ecuadorian migrant woman Andalusia): self versus others, continuity over time, despite changes. A semi-structured interview was c...

The Therapeutic Conversations (TC 1) Conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1991 was a historic event in the advancement of postmodern therapies. We (David, a narrative therapist, and Jeff, a solution-focused therapist) were profoundly affected by this summit of the pioneering voices in narrative, solution-focused, strategic, and systemic therapy. This article highlights the evolution of both narrati...

Children with autism exhibit a deficit in the comprehension and creation of narrative which impacts their social world. Our ongoing research agenda is to find ways of developing interactive learning environments which enhance the ability of individual children with autism to deal with narrative and thus the social world. The study reported here involved 12 children in a longitudinal study which...