From pattern appraisal to unitary appreciative inquiry - a critical reflection on the development of the unitary appreciative inquiry method

Summative Assessment of the Core Module „Theoretical Developments in the Science and Art of Nursing“. The purpose of this article is to place Cowling’s unitary appreciative inquiry method in the context of nursing science and the development of unique nursing research methods. Unitary appreciative inquiry is one of a few nursing research and practice methodologies based on Martha Rogers’ theory, the Science of Unitary Human Beings. This article is reflecting the development of the unitary appreciative inquiry method in analyzing articles and literature published by Cowling and other authors that are related to Cowling’s ideas and approaches. A brief overview of the basic concepts, assumptions and principles of Rogers’ theory is given as well as some insights on other major influences on Cowling’s work. The changes that have been made over the past seventeen years from pattern appraisal to pattern appreciation and unitary appreciative inquiry in its current use are mapped and its contribution to current nursing knowledge and practice is critically reviewed. The author of this article strongly beliefs that nursing needs to develop its own research methods based on nursing theories for further development and improvement of nursing science as an independent and accepted discipline in human health care. It is from that perspective that Cowling’s work is reviewed

Negotiating uncertainty: an aspect of personal recovery in people living with mental illness - a workshop

Uncertainty in illness is a well known concept among many health conditions including chronic illnesses. Much has been investigated in research in how people adapt to different health conditions and how the concept of uncertainty in illness relates to those populations. However, in mental health, even though there is a strong interest in coping strategies, the aspect of negotiating uncertainty has not been fully investigated. In the context of a larger doctoral programme, where several researchers are focusing on aspects around negotiating uncertainty in people living with chronic health conditions, the author of this paper is focusing on people with mental illnesses and the relation of uncertainty within their personal recovery from a nursing perspective. The paper/presentation explores the available literature, interprets its findings and puts them in context with the current developments in mental health nursing, e.g. personal recovery and social inclusion. However, this is only the first step of a study conducted by the author that is still at the very beginning of its development. Therefore, the presentation is meant to be set up as a workshop in the form of a dialogue between participants of the conference and the researcher. What are important aspects in dealing with uncertainty and adapting to life with mental illness? How do we get to know about them? How could those aspects be used to support people in their personal recovery? The discussion in the workshop will hopefully help to guide the future development of the proposed research project

Guidelines for Evaluators During a PASS, PASSING, or Similar Assessment of Human Service Quality

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TIPS, Volume 03, No. 2, 1983

• The History of Human Services • Historical Tidbits From Antiquity • Historical Tidbits From the Middle Ages Through the Renaissance • The Cutting Edge of Social Developments • Scholars Beware • The Beggars\u27 Plea (excerpt from The Hyeway to the Spyttell Hous by Robert Copland) • Historical Tidbits From the Pre-Contemporary Age • Human Service in Olden Times • The Era of Social Darwinism • The Jukes • The Kallikaks Return--or Is It the Kakaliks? The Monkey Man • Apes, Men & Morons • The Feeble-Minded Flies, Mosquitoes, Snakes & Germs • A Menace of Yesteryear • Historical Tidbits From the Recent Past • Better Than Morons & Monkeys Prophecies Against Nazism • Follow Up • Parable of the Hole in the Ground (Daniel Berrigan, SJ) • Resources • Employment Exchange • Deathmaking Updateshttps://digitalcommons.unmc.edu/wolf_tips/1013/thumbnail.jp

TIPS, Volume 09, No. 3 & 4, 1989

• Imprisonment & Incarceration • Judicial Killing • Homelessness, Abject Poverty, Population Displacement, & the Welfare Helter Skelter Shelter System • No Wonder They Got an Earthquake New York Earthquake Imminent • Oppression, & the Widening Material & Mental Gulf Between Rich & Poor • Let the Babies Drink Legal Services! • PERVERSION ALERT #13 (Theft of private pensions of elderly people) • Party With Abandon for the Abandoned • Religion in Today\u27s Society • Yet Another New Religion for Our Time • That Feel-Good Religion is Good Enough for Me • The End is Near! • The Interface of Human Service & Religion • Sexually Transmitted Disease, & AIDS-Related Issues • Sexually- Transmitted Diseases Generally • AIDS: African Genesis? • AIDS: The Haitian Connection • The Natural History of AIDS • New Forms of AIDS • Data on HIV/AIDS Spread • Female Susceptibility • Other AIDS Transmission Risk Factors • Bon Appetit • Condoms for the Shins? • Condoms for the Fists? • AIDS as the Depopulator of Unwanted Classes • Efforts to Treat, or Escape From, AIDS • AIDS Expenditures • The Web of Systematic Deception That Has Surrounded AIDS • Stupid Quote of the Month ( ... AIDS really is a different issue for women than it is for men... ) • An Interesting Epistemological Aside • Deception via Displaced Forms of Address • The Lies Must Not be Condomed • Laugh Yourself to Death for Victims of AIDS • No Sexual Discrimination at Playboy • Deadly Deception at the Blood Bank • Persecution & Oppression of People With AIDS • Persecution & Oppression of People Without AIDS by the AIDS Lobby • Caring for People With AIDS • AIDS-Related Imagery Issues • Some Dateline Facts About AIDS • The Truth About AIDS (You Won\u27t Catch It by Reading TIPS!) • What Happens to Handicapped People Under Extreme Societal Stresses? • A Hobo Song (Mortimer Street Catering Employment Office, from Nelson, Sternberg & Brindley) • An Easy Essay (Slightly edited excerpts from Peter Maurin\u27s Restoring the Moral Law, 1934) • Resources • Position Open • War & Peace • Some Hell of a Way to Missionize • First World Congress on Citizen Advocacy • The Good News of the Bad News • A New Human Service Personnel Discipline • Human Service News--Some of It Good • PERVERSION ALERT #14 (Programs to train retarded people to get ready for retirement) • Many Happy Returns of the Day • The Perversion-Mongers Never Sleephttps://digitalcommons.unmc.edu/wolf_tips/1045/thumbnail.jp

TIPS, Volume 01, No. 4, 1981

• Let There Be Peace on Earth & Mercy Mild for Every Woman, Man & Child • The International Scene • An Example of Total Comprehensive Delegated Emergency Planning • The Third World • Violence in Society • Violence in Human Services • Violence By Whom, Against Whom? • Do Societally Devalued People Enjoy Being Restrained or Even Abused? • Human Service Workers as Executioners? • A Dubious Love at Love Canal • The Dynamics of Violence • Remember the Underworld • Nightmares of Human Service & Our Times • Describe Hell! • Remember Those in Prison • The Lady Who Forgives Us • The Financial Situation of the Training Institute • Miscellaneous News & Reviews of/for the Season • Good News of Comfort & Joyhttps://digitalcommons.unmc.edu/wolf_tips/1003/thumbnail.jp

TIPS, Volume 08, No. 5, 1989

• Contemporary Human Service Practices • Post-Primary Production Phenomena in the Larger Culture • A Fish Story of Our Time • Post-Primary Production Dynamics Expressed in Human Services • Human Service Counterfeits • Human Service Therapies • Conclusion of the PPP • Coverage A Few Tidbits of Social Role Valorization • The Deathmaking Scene Abortion Facts & News • Child Deathmaking & Child Rescue • Deathmaking of the Poor by Poor Medical Care, or its Denial • PERVERSION ALERT #12 (Medical services decreasing for the poor in the US) • Miscellaneous Human Service News • Miscellaneous News • He Didn\u27t Use His Rabbit Foot • AIDS • Citizen Advocacy Forum (flyer) • Mission Statement • Editorial Board • Subscription Formhttps://digitalcommons.unmc.edu/wolf_tips/1042/thumbnail.jp

TIPS, Volume 08, No. 1, 1988

• Three Tales of Samaritanship • Tale No.1: The Good Samaritan: Original & Updated Versions • An Updated Version of the Good Samaritan • Tale No.2: A Parable of Good Samaritans--Then & Now • Tale No.3: The Samaritans of Laramie • Social Role Valorization (SRV) • The Human Service Craze Scene • Health & Environment • A Cure for Alzheimer\u27s • Water Water Everywhere & Not a Drop to Drink • Homelessness • Miscellaneous Human Service-Related News • The Poor, & Those Who Eat Them • Somebody Done Somebody Wrong • Signs of Things Going Downhill • A Little Sex • Octopus and Octopussy? • Peculiar Achievements • Organizations & Movements • Women\u27s Issues • Expensive Rights • Tom or Bess-Foolery Award of the Month • Miscellaneous Miscellaneous • Discrimination!!! • Frog With Apple? • Deathmaking • The Complexity Implosion of Contemporary Hospital Medicine, & Its Relation to Deathmaking • Emendation • Utilitarian Motives or Exploitations of Deathmaking • Modern Aztecshttps://digitalcommons.unmc.edu/wolf_tips/1038/thumbnail.jp

TIPS, Volume 12, No. 2 & 3, 1992

• The Realities of Human Services in a Post-Primary Production Economy: Overview • Examples of Our Post-Primary Production Economy Outside of Human Services • Clients as Commodities in a Post-Primary Production Human Service System • The Extent of Human Services in a Post-Primary Production Economy • Illustrations of the Perversity of the Human Service Sector in a Post-Primary Production Economy • Human Services as a Displaced Substitute for the Real Thing • Care Bear Psychotechnology • Giving Money to Services Instead of to Needy People • Now This We Call Real Habilitation • Expansion of Clientage by Defining Ever More Population Groups as Service-Needy • Serving Clients in More Structured, Less Effective, & More Expensive Ways Than is Needed or Good for Them • Overcomplicating & Bureaucratizing Services • Requiring That Workers be Overqualified • Using Up Skilled Manpower to Conduct Worthless Research • Employing Service Strategies That Increase or Maintain Impairment, Deviancy, and/or Dependency • Deploying Workers Without Aptitude for Their Tasks or for Human Service • Generally • Arranging Services so as to Function Chaotically • Maximizing Personnel Turnover • Keeping/Making the Quality of Services Low • Structuring Services so as to Make Clients Worse • When in Doubt, Shock • Setting Up Services That Render No Service at All • Making Claims for Services That Far Exceed Their Capacity to Deliver • Overall Conclusion to the Theme of PPP Services • Human Service & Fairy Tales (Milton Baker) • The Facilitated Communication Craze: The Cold Fusion of Human Services • What FC is Supposed to be • The Craze Nature of FC, & the Claims Made by Its Culture, or on Its Behalf • The Mythical & Historical Context of Facilitated Communication • The Nature of the Invalid Claims on Behalf of Facilitated Communication, & the Harm Caused Thereby • Conclusion • Miscellaneous Human Service Newshttps://digitalcommons.unmc.edu/wolf_tips/1056/thumbnail.jp