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Aspects of Graduateness in Computing Studentsâ Narratives
In this paper, we explore graduatesâ characterisations of their learning experiences at university and beyond. Using a narrative methodology, we elicited life stories from graduates of the School of Computing at the University of Kent. We initially review and situate our approach within the wide variety of existing narrative approaches. Then, we turn to an aspect of the student experience that struck us as particularly significant: the âyear in industryâ. We discuss the accounts of ten participants who completed a year in industry and highlight their perspectives of the effect it had on them. Finally, we propose a narrative construction of the concept of graduateness â of what it means to complete a university degree
Innovative moments and poor outcome in narrative therapy
To analyse a poor outcome case of narrative therapy with a woman victim of intimate violence. Method: The Innovative
Moments Coding System: version 1 was applied to all sessions to track the innovative moments (i-moments) in the therapeutic
process. I moments are the narrative details that occur in psychotherapeutic conversations that are outside the influence of
the problematic narrative. This research aims to describe the processes involved in the stability of meanings in
psychotherapy through a dialogical approach to meaning making. Findings: Contrarily to what usually occurs in good
outcome cases, re-conceptualization i-moments are absent. Moreover, two specific types of i-moments emerged with higher
duration: reflection and protest. Qualitative analysis showed that the potential meanings of these i-moments were surpassed
by a return to the problematic narrative. Conclusion: The therapeutic stability seems to be maintained by a systematic return
to the problematic narrative after the emergence of novelties. This process was referred from a dialogical perspective as a
mutual in-feeding of voices, one that emerges in the i-moment and another one that supports the problematic narrative,
which is maintained by an oscillation between these two types of voices during therapy.This article was supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), by the Grant PTDC/PSI/72846/2006 (Narrative Processes in Psychotherapy, 2007-2010) and by the PhD Grant SFRH/BD/16995/2004
Recovered memories, satanic abuse, Dissociative Identity Disorder and false memories in the UK: a survey of Clinical Psychologists and Hypnotherapists
An online survey was conducted to examine psychological therapistsâ experiences of, and beliefs about, cases of recovered memory, satanic / ritualistic abuse, Multiple Personality Disorder / Dissociative Identity Disorder, and false memory. Chartered Clinical Psychologists (n=183) and Hypnotherapists (n=119) responded. In terms of their experiences, Chartered Clinical Psychologists reported seeing more cases of satanic / ritualistic abuse compared to Hypnotherapists who, in turn, reported encountering more cases of childhood sexual abuse recovered for the first time in therapy, and more cases of suspected false memory. Chartered Clinical Psychologists were more likely to rate the essential accuracy of reports of satanic / ritualistic abuse as higher than Hypnotherapists. Belief in the accuracy of satanic / ritualistic abuse and Multiple Personality Disorder / Dissociative Identity Disorder reports correlated negatively with the belief that false memories were possible
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