41 research outputs found
Art therapy, arts-based research and transitional stories of domestic violence and abuse
Visual imagery within qualitative research is an established method of gathering data that has parallels to the way in which images are used within art therapy. This paper explores how visual imagery was used to investigate women’s responses to domestic violence and abuse and examines how art therapy principles shaped the development and conducting of that research. Through the use of collage, participants created visual representations of their responses to experiences of domestic violence and abuse. The visual representations were, when combined with spoken words, created stories that reference the past, present and future. The stories created have been termed transitional stories of domestic violence. These stories show that the home has special significance for women as they transition away from domestic violence and plan for their future. The home becomes both a metaphorical and physical manifestation and container of hopes for a harmonious future that often incorporates the desire for the return to the idea of a complete family. This paper will present the findings of the arts-based research conducted, and consider the implications upon art therapy practice of those findings.N
Exploring the transdisciplinary trajectory of suggestibility
Traditionally considered a deficiency in will power and rationality, suggestibility has proven a troublesome concept for psychology. It was forgotten, rediscovered, denounced, undermined experimentation and recently became the ambiguous issue at the centre of concern about child witness' credibility in sexual abuse cases. This paper traces the history of suggestibility to show how it raises the 'paradox of the psychosocial'. Drawing on the work of Deleuze and Stengers, and on interviews with legal practitioners, this paper demonstrates how suggestibility carries this paradox into theory, research and legal practice. It thereby opens up a transdisciplinary perspective, allowing for questions of power and knowledge to be asked as performative questions. In the spirit of a process-centred ontology for psychology, I argue that suggestibility constitutes a 'rhythm of problematization', a folding, giving a subversive insight into dynamics of subjectification and application, and offering new perspectives towards issues of children's credibility and protection
Feeling ‘like a minority…a pathology’: interpreting race from research with African and Caribbean women on violence and abuse
Qualitative researchers are often advised to use their emotional responses to data, and participants’ experiences are understood through those of researchers’, how this process unfolds is less clear. This paper is about role of feelings for the qualitative researcher at different stages of the process and offers strategies for working through, ‘using’ and ‘feeling together with’ participants, reflections on lived experiences. I interviewed nine African and Caribbean heritage British women about their experiences of violence and abuse where one described feeling ‘like a minority…a pathology’. This paper describes my responses to experiences of racialised and gendered intrusion in interviews, later reflection and analytic work. The paper brings recognition to a stigmatised and hidden process within qualitative interviews and data interpretation. This serves to amplify the impact of injustice and adverse experiences for participants, and researchers, and to a wider audience, and to validate its existence and emotional burden as a legitimate and crucial stage of qualitative data analysis
Flow dynamics in hyper-saline aquifers: hydro-geophysical monitoring and modeling
Saline–freshwater interaction in porous media is a phenomenon of practical
interest particularly for the management of water resources in arid and
semi-arid environments, where precious freshwater resources are threatened
by seawater intrusion and where storage of freshwater in saline aquifers can
be a viable option. Saline–freshwater interactions are controlled by
physico-chemical processes that need to be accurately modeled. This in turn
requires monitoring of these systems, a non-trivial task for which spatially
extensive, high-resolution non-invasive techniques can provide key
information. In this paper we present the field monitoring and numerical
modeling components of an approach aimed at understanding complex
saline–freshwater systems. The approach is applied to a freshwater injection
experiment carried out in a hyper-saline aquifer near Cagliari (Sardinia,
Italy). The experiment was monitored using time-lapse cross-hole electrical
resistivity tomography (ERT). To investigate the flow dynamics, coupled
numerical flow and transport modeling of the experiment was carried out
using an advanced three-dimensional (3-D) density-driven flow-transport simulator. The simulation
results were used to produce synthetic ERT inversion results to be compared
against real field ERT results. This exercise demonstrates that the
evolution of the freshwater bulb is strongly influenced by the system's (even
mild) hydraulic heterogeneities. The example also highlights how the joint
use of ERT imaging and gravity-dependent flow and transport modeling give
fundamental information for this type of study