AbstrActOne of the biggest challenges in nursing educati.docxransayo
AbstrAct
One of the biggest challenges in
nursing education is to develop cul-
turally sensitive graduates. Although
theory and lecture are appropriate to
introduce cultural issues, the applica-
tion of those skills is limited by the
kinds of clinical experiences and pa-
tient populations students may treat.
Literary works are a rich source of
information for nursing. This assign-
ment was created to sensitize the
students to the influence of cultural
diversity. Students were assigned to
read one novel from an approved list
and answer the questions posed on
the Cultural Discovery worksheet.
The only direction that was given re-
garding novel selection was that the
novel had to represent a culture other
than the student’s own. The focus
was to expose students to a different
culture. Classroom discussion, based
on worksheet answers, followed. The
assignment’s good, bad, and ugly out-
comes are discussed. Suggestions for
adaptation of this assignment to an
online format are also provided.
T
he United States is home to
one of the most ethnically and
culturally heterogeneous popu-
lations in the world. There are more
than 150 ethnic groups (U.S. Census
Bureau, 2006) and 430 recognized
tribes of Native Americans in the
United States (Redish & Lewis, 2007),
all with their own diverse practices
and beliefs. Culture and ethnicity of-
ten determine the clients’ perception
of health and illness. This includes
kinds of acceptable treatment, type
of follow up permitted, and who will
make health care decisions. As a cul-
ture defines health and illness, it also
defines health care and treatment
practices. Cultural values determine,
in part, how patients will behave.
The provision of culturally compe-
tent care is a dynamic process that
requires individuals to be aware of
their own values and beliefs, as well
as understand how these affect their
responses to those from cultures dif-
ferent from their own. Leininger
(1991) defined culture as the learned,
shared, and transmitted values, be-
liefs, norms, and life practices of a
particular group that guide their
thinking, decisions, and actions in
patterned ways. Cultural competence
includes the attributes of caring, re-
spect, adaptation, honesty, appropri-
ate body language, and interest and
the ability to develop working rela-
tionships across lines of difference
(Galanti, 2004). This encompasses
self-awareness, cultural knowledge
about illness and health practices, in-
tercultural communication skills, and
behavioral flexibility (Strivastava,
2006). Even the concept of transcul-
tural nursing is relatively new in the
nursing literature. In fact, only in the
past 3 decades have nurses begun to
develop an appreciation for the need
to incorporate culturally appropriate
clinical approaches into the daily rou-
tine of client care (Giger & Davidhi-
zar, 1999). Educators strive to develop
students into sensitive practitioners,
and they are challenged .
Please write the journals in a Word document using APA format. Propearlenehodge
Please write the journals in a Word document using APA format. Provide a 3-4 page response (i.e., double-spaced, plus title page and references). You may wish to talk about your, 'learning edge' or the point at which you become less comfortable with the idea of working with Indigenous children and communities. What do you know now, and what do you want to learn?
Journals allow the instructor to witness the learning and thought process of each student. Some of the course materials and historical information may be difficult to process and students may need support and instructor feedback from time to time. It would be ideal to keep a journal notes every week or each time you review course material and reflect on this course: "Supporting Indigenous Infants and Young Children within the Context of Their Communities" and what this means to you now, during and near the end of the course.
Students are asked to submit two personal Journals documenting their learning and authentic reflections per week in the 5 week summary. In addition, students are encouraged to document the struggles, interests, curiosities and other ideas experienced throughout the course. Journal writings should document the student’s learning, areas of struggle, challenges, interests and/or passions. You may want to consider including personal reactions or responses to some of the course content and reading or resource material. Considering the following questions:
· What reactions do you experience in your body? In your mind?
· What helps you to explore these topics in greater depth and integrate the material into your existing repertoire of knowledge?
It may be helpful to acknowledge your, 'working edge' at the start of your Journal writing. A 'working edge' is the point where you become less comfortable with your knowledge of working with Indigenous families in an early childhood educational context. When you identify your working edge, ask yourself the following questions:
· What areas would you like to or do you need to know more about?
· Who or what could support you in this learning?
Native Social Work Journal Vol 7, pp. 139-161
The Cree Medicine Wheel as
an Organizing Paradigm
of Theories of
Human Development
Annie Wenger-Nabigon
Abstract
This paper explores the Cree Medicine Wheel as an
organizing construct for examining some contemporary theories of
human development. Various aspects of Medicine Wheel concepts are
discussed along with aspects of knowledge about human development
from the mainstream paradigm (Eurocentric) that is dominant in the
academy. Perspectives on indigenous wisdom and ways of knowing
are presented from an ecological position linking human development
concerns to a wholistic view of human development through the Cree
Medicine Wheel. The article highlights aspects of the teachings which
deepen understandings of parallels in human development theories.
Medicine Wheel teachings support development that ...
Empathy, Entrepreneurship and the Liberal ArtsOlaf Kuhlke
This is a presentation I gave on March 6, 2013 at the opening plenary of the University of Minnesota Duluth's Day of Empathy. The presentation explores the intellectual roots of the new BA program in Cultural Entrepreneurship in the College of Liberal Arts at UMD. A video recording of the presentation is available at http://okuhlke.tumblr.com/
Healing Dolls as therapeutic Art Therapy interventionhome
The doll as a healing image and the doll-making process are an art therapy intervention utilized in mental health settings by trained Art Therapists to process grief, loss, trauma, gender identity, substance abuse etc. This is a presentation prepared for the Michigan Association of Art Therapists "Healing Doll Workshop"
Changelings: Children, Culture and Trauma
Vincenzo Di Nicola
Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma
Global Mental Health Course
Educational Objectives
The presentation will sensitize participants to appreciate basic questions about working with traumatized children and their families across culture to create trauma-informed care:
Why development matters – and how it changes the clinical presentation of trauma at different ages
Why family matters – and how it creates models for the experience of trauma that attenuate or amplify both developmental neurobiology and sociocultural influences
Why culture matters – and how it offers or limits the range of socially privileged perceptions and culturally sanctioned solutions
Outline
Children, Culture and Trauma: Three lenses
Children & Culture: “Looking Across at Growing Up”
Children & Trauma: “Changelings”
“The Nightmare of Childhood”
“The Longest Shadow”
“The Experimental Child”
Culture & Trauma: “Two trauma communities”
Clinical and cultural trauma studies
Healing
Rebrith
Aporias/Puzzles
How does bringing childhood, culture, and trauma together affect our understanding of each?
What does an archaeology of trauma reveal?
(R Mollica: What is the nature of trauma?)
What can be done?
AbstrActOne of the biggest challenges in nursing educati.docxransayo
AbstrAct
One of the biggest challenges in
nursing education is to develop cul-
turally sensitive graduates. Although
theory and lecture are appropriate to
introduce cultural issues, the applica-
tion of those skills is limited by the
kinds of clinical experiences and pa-
tient populations students may treat.
Literary works are a rich source of
information for nursing. This assign-
ment was created to sensitize the
students to the influence of cultural
diversity. Students were assigned to
read one novel from an approved list
and answer the questions posed on
the Cultural Discovery worksheet.
The only direction that was given re-
garding novel selection was that the
novel had to represent a culture other
than the student’s own. The focus
was to expose students to a different
culture. Classroom discussion, based
on worksheet answers, followed. The
assignment’s good, bad, and ugly out-
comes are discussed. Suggestions for
adaptation of this assignment to an
online format are also provided.
T
he United States is home to
one of the most ethnically and
culturally heterogeneous popu-
lations in the world. There are more
than 150 ethnic groups (U.S. Census
Bureau, 2006) and 430 recognized
tribes of Native Americans in the
United States (Redish & Lewis, 2007),
all with their own diverse practices
and beliefs. Culture and ethnicity of-
ten determine the clients’ perception
of health and illness. This includes
kinds of acceptable treatment, type
of follow up permitted, and who will
make health care decisions. As a cul-
ture defines health and illness, it also
defines health care and treatment
practices. Cultural values determine,
in part, how patients will behave.
The provision of culturally compe-
tent care is a dynamic process that
requires individuals to be aware of
their own values and beliefs, as well
as understand how these affect their
responses to those from cultures dif-
ferent from their own. Leininger
(1991) defined culture as the learned,
shared, and transmitted values, be-
liefs, norms, and life practices of a
particular group that guide their
thinking, decisions, and actions in
patterned ways. Cultural competence
includes the attributes of caring, re-
spect, adaptation, honesty, appropri-
ate body language, and interest and
the ability to develop working rela-
tionships across lines of difference
(Galanti, 2004). This encompasses
self-awareness, cultural knowledge
about illness and health practices, in-
tercultural communication skills, and
behavioral flexibility (Strivastava,
2006). Even the concept of transcul-
tural nursing is relatively new in the
nursing literature. In fact, only in the
past 3 decades have nurses begun to
develop an appreciation for the need
to incorporate culturally appropriate
clinical approaches into the daily rou-
tine of client care (Giger & Davidhi-
zar, 1999). Educators strive to develop
students into sensitive practitioners,
and they are challenged .
Please write the journals in a Word document using APA format. Propearlenehodge
Please write the journals in a Word document using APA format. Provide a 3-4 page response (i.e., double-spaced, plus title page and references). You may wish to talk about your, 'learning edge' or the point at which you become less comfortable with the idea of working with Indigenous children and communities. What do you know now, and what do you want to learn?
Journals allow the instructor to witness the learning and thought process of each student. Some of the course materials and historical information may be difficult to process and students may need support and instructor feedback from time to time. It would be ideal to keep a journal notes every week or each time you review course material and reflect on this course: "Supporting Indigenous Infants and Young Children within the Context of Their Communities" and what this means to you now, during and near the end of the course.
Students are asked to submit two personal Journals documenting their learning and authentic reflections per week in the 5 week summary. In addition, students are encouraged to document the struggles, interests, curiosities and other ideas experienced throughout the course. Journal writings should document the student’s learning, areas of struggle, challenges, interests and/or passions. You may want to consider including personal reactions or responses to some of the course content and reading or resource material. Considering the following questions:
· What reactions do you experience in your body? In your mind?
· What helps you to explore these topics in greater depth and integrate the material into your existing repertoire of knowledge?
It may be helpful to acknowledge your, 'working edge' at the start of your Journal writing. A 'working edge' is the point where you become less comfortable with your knowledge of working with Indigenous families in an early childhood educational context. When you identify your working edge, ask yourself the following questions:
· What areas would you like to or do you need to know more about?
· Who or what could support you in this learning?
Native Social Work Journal Vol 7, pp. 139-161
The Cree Medicine Wheel as
an Organizing Paradigm
of Theories of
Human Development
Annie Wenger-Nabigon
Abstract
This paper explores the Cree Medicine Wheel as an
organizing construct for examining some contemporary theories of
human development. Various aspects of Medicine Wheel concepts are
discussed along with aspects of knowledge about human development
from the mainstream paradigm (Eurocentric) that is dominant in the
academy. Perspectives on indigenous wisdom and ways of knowing
are presented from an ecological position linking human development
concerns to a wholistic view of human development through the Cree
Medicine Wheel. The article highlights aspects of the teachings which
deepen understandings of parallels in human development theories.
Medicine Wheel teachings support development that ...
Empathy, Entrepreneurship and the Liberal ArtsOlaf Kuhlke
This is a presentation I gave on March 6, 2013 at the opening plenary of the University of Minnesota Duluth's Day of Empathy. The presentation explores the intellectual roots of the new BA program in Cultural Entrepreneurship in the College of Liberal Arts at UMD. A video recording of the presentation is available at http://okuhlke.tumblr.com/
Healing Dolls as therapeutic Art Therapy interventionhome
The doll as a healing image and the doll-making process are an art therapy intervention utilized in mental health settings by trained Art Therapists to process grief, loss, trauma, gender identity, substance abuse etc. This is a presentation prepared for the Michigan Association of Art Therapists "Healing Doll Workshop"
Changelings: Children, Culture and Trauma
Vincenzo Di Nicola
Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma
Global Mental Health Course
Educational Objectives
The presentation will sensitize participants to appreciate basic questions about working with traumatized children and their families across culture to create trauma-informed care:
Why development matters – and how it changes the clinical presentation of trauma at different ages
Why family matters – and how it creates models for the experience of trauma that attenuate or amplify both developmental neurobiology and sociocultural influences
Why culture matters – and how it offers or limits the range of socially privileged perceptions and culturally sanctioned solutions
Outline
Children, Culture and Trauma: Three lenses
Children & Culture: “Looking Across at Growing Up”
Children & Trauma: “Changelings”
“The Nightmare of Childhood”
“The Longest Shadow”
“The Experimental Child”
Culture & Trauma: “Two trauma communities”
Clinical and cultural trauma studies
Healing
Rebrith
Aporias/Puzzles
How does bringing childhood, culture, and trauma together affect our understanding of each?
What does an archaeology of trauma reveal?
(R Mollica: What is the nature of trauma?)
What can be done?
"Creative Collaboration For Emotional Social Spiritual Care Post Disaster" by...
Ccahte Journal 7 Editorial
1. The Canadian Creative Arts in Health, Training and Education Journal (CCAHTE)
A Canadian based international and interdisciplinary peer reviewed journal.
Issue 7, “The Creative Response”, 2009
complete full text journal issues, back issues, news, information at the CCAHTE website
visit: http://www.cmclean.com Publisher, C. McLean
Creative Responses Explore Concept of
Home and Issues of Loss
Cheryl McLean
The Canadian Creative Arts in Health Training and Education Journal (CCAHTE), established in
March, 2006, is an international and interdisciplinary peer reviewed open access journal. Our
mission is to publish, disseminate and make accessible worldwide, quality information, research
and knowledge about the creative arts in health and interdisciplinary practice.
I n this issue we present new inquiries and creative responses from researchers, artists and
educators who share with our readers innovative arts informed approaches applied in staff
training and nursing home care and articles exploring themes around death, and loss. These
provocative articles ask important questions and open the way for dialogue and discussion.
What makes a place a home? What role might reader’s theatre play in research, staff training
and in practice?
Dr. Maura McIntyre, Centre for Arts Informed Research, Department of Adult Education,
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, explains how she has used
Reader's Theatre (part of the growing genre of performance ethnography) to present a dramatic
rendering of research results. Maura discusses how the approach can be helpful in raising
awareness about staff working in nursing homes, and what staff can teach us about the place and
people of nursing homes. She writes, "As audience members speak the words as staff they
experience the narrative and the complexities of nursing home life. By joining in and celebrating
the work of caregiving and honouring the capacity to care, we broaden and extend the
community supporting people living lives with dementia. The process of deconstructing practices
of homemaking through alternative forms allows my work to inform and educate diverse
audiences, including the general public, family caregivers and academics alike, about the people
who work in nursing homes and the complexity of making home in the institution."
How can art physically communicate death related themes within the public sphere?
Dance and Movement Psychotherapist, Dr. Eila Goldhahn (Dartington College of Arts,
University of Plymouth, Devon) a visual artist and lecturer in the UK and in Germany, has led a
number of publicly funded arts and research projects and has collaborated across disciplines with
2. architects, artists, biologists and dancers. In her research paper “Sculptural Installations on the
Theme of Obliteration: A Response to Themes Embodied in the MoverWitness Exchange”, she
explains how she embodies, through sculptural art, new ways for individuals and groups to
experience and communicate death related themes within safe and ritualistically constructed
public spaces.
In her writings she reflects on her process. “The installation process required considerable
strength and skill of my moving body. I physically moved and laboured whilst setting out and
installing these works. The actions of carrying the empty crates on my back, of stemming my
own weight against the weight of the wood, of straightening and balancing them, of hammering
long iron rods into the earth in order to ground and anchor them, all this left memories and
imprints within my own body….The image of doorways became a metaphor for the questions
that I posed with my work. ... in moving and witnessing I experienced questions, intuitions, and
clear knowledge in vivid images and these always occurred in relationship to the rhythms of my
dancing and witnessing body."
How do we deal with the loss of a parent? How might writing autoethnographical stories help
offer a place for self expression and healing?
Dr. John J. Guiney Yallop is a parent, a partner, and a poet and an Assistant Professor in the
School of Education at Acadia University. His research includes poetic inquiry, narrative
inquiry, autoethnography, and performative social science. He uses these arts informed
methodologies to explore identities, communities, and emotional landscapes.
In his profound, poetic and deeply moving account, "My Mother's Body: A Story of Grieving,
Remembering and Touch" John J. Guiney Yallop courageously shares his writings and the
emotions he and his family experienced around the loss of his mother. In the following account
he articulates his healing connections to the landscape and his beloved Atlantic Ocean;
"My writing led me to understanding, to acceptance, and to healing. In writing about my mother
I would compare her body to the landscape that had surrounded me in my childhood, the
landscape of the island of my birth, the island that held me like my mother held me, the island
whose shores were entered, formed and transformed by the Atlantic Ocean, an ocean that moves
in me, that forms and transforms me every time I write."
Each contribution, each story, offers within it a message of transformation and hope for
understanding and change. I invite you to read these articles and to share the work with
colleagues and friends. It has been an honour and a privilege to meet and work with our writers
on this special issue. I wish to thank our contributors and the many reviewers who worked with
us on the CCAHTE Editorial Committee as well as our CCAHTE Advisory Board. I am
indebted to you all for your expert advice and ongoing support. The journey continues.