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    (De)humanizing metaphors of people in pain and their association with the perceived quality of nurse-patient relationship

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    Metaphors are central in communication and sense-making processes in health-related contexts. Yet how the metaphors used by health-care-professionals to make sense of their patients and their relations to them are associated to the perceived valence of their clinical encounters is underexplored. Drawing-upon the ABC Model of Dehumanization, this study investigated how the humanizing or dehumanizing metaphors nurses’ use for making sense of their pain patients are associated with how they perceived their relationships with them. Fifty female nurses undertook individual narrative-episodic interviews about easy/difficult cases in pain care. A content analysis classified the metaphors, identifying eight classes reflecting different types of patients (de)humanization. A multiple correspondence analysis extracted patterns of metaphors and their association with the perceived characteristics of the patient-nurse relationship. It showed how these patterns were not associated with patient sex or socioeconomic status (SES) but were related to the perceived valence of the clinical relationship. By uncovering how patient metaphors guide nurses’ sense-making and potentially modulate interactions in clinical encounters, these findings may contribute to improve quality of pain care.Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologiainfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

    Guided Imagery and Music with Military Women and Trauma:A Continuum Approach to Music and Healing

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    Development, diagnosis and treatment of post traumatic stress disorder and the Vietnam veteran population

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    Over the past 15 years, mental health professionals have seen an increasing number of Vietnam combat veterans suffering from stress disorders resulting from the trauma of combat and continued exposure to life threatening situations. Prior to 1980, professional repudiation of and hostility toward Vietnam veterans and toward a clinical reality of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder was common while nondiagnosis and nontreatment was prevalen

    Self-Identification From The Professional And Social Perspectives Of Flight

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    The development of one’s identity is connected to the level of effort willing to be committed to goal achievement. Per Velleman (2006), what someone cares about, determines what they must do for survival (p.336). While identity has been dissected, the applicability of connection for social and professional ties within aviation has not been thoroughly processed. General aviation flying and that of airline pilots has been compared regarding skill and safety association, but not in identity construction. A population of airline pilots was researched, that may or may not have been actively participating GA, with attempt to establish factor recognition of identity formation via quantitative survey, and qualitative, open-ended interviews. The objective was to uncover whether a social identity in GA impacts a professional identity for airline pilots, opening doors for growth in both piloting realms. Themes were expected to emerge regarding primacy, background, and currency, that were directed by initial survey findings. Actual themes deduced through coding of qualitative interviews connected to the quantitative phase, but emphasized more strongly points of primacy, self-credibility/worth, attachment, community, and commitment

    North Korea and the Politics of Visual Representation

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    Within international discourses on security, North Korea is often associated with risk and danger, emanating paradoxically from what can be called its strengths-particularly military strength, as embodied by its missile and nuclear programs-and its weaknesses-such as its ever?present political, economic, and food crises-which are considered to be imminent threats to international peace and stability. We argue that images play an important role in these representations, and suggest that one should take into account the role of visual imagery in the way particular issues, actions, and events related to North Korea are approached and understood. Reflecting on the politics of visual representation means to examine the functions and effects of images, that is what they do and how they are put to work by allowing only particular kinds of seeing. After addressing theoretical and methodological questions, we discuss individual (and serial) photographs depicting what we think are typical examples of how North Korea is portrayed in the Western media and imagined in international politics.Visual representation, synecdoche, identity, North Korea
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