This study aimed to investigate difficulties experienced by the wives of Palestinian men arrested and held in Israeli prisons. 16 captives' wives were interviewed using a semi-structured interview to provide them with a greater opportunity to speak about their experiences. Three main research questions were discussed; community difficulties, social support, and coping strategies. A thematic analysis was used throughout the interviews. We concluded that in addition to the stress of being separated from their husbands, the frustrating visitation process to prison and the ongoing political conflict, the wives expressed a frustrating social network characterized by constant interferences in their personal lives and the choices they make. Most women expressed a lack in psychosocial support given through governmental and non-governmental organizations; in addition they expressed a need for that kind of support. Coping strategies ranged from religious, acceptance, distraction, to planning strategies.

This article demonstrates the power of using two qualitative research methods, namely, the Listening Guide and art-based methods, to learn about the selfhood of Palestinian adolescents. Both methods were embedded within ethnographic fieldwork that took place at the Friends School in Ramallah. Participants created expressive self-portraits, which were used to facilitate an interview or dialogue, the Listening Guide Method was then used to analyze the narratives. This article specifically presents one case example of Lubna, a 15year-old Palestinian girl. Lubna's visual and narrative represent the struggle of dissociation and entering the adult world (Brown & Gilligan, 1992;Gilligan, 2011). By applying the Listening Guide to the narrative, a strong voice of "knowing" about the "system," "culture," and "order" could be heard throughout Lubna's narrative, in which she responded to and resisted through creating a body that looked different in her expressive self-portrait, heard in the voice of wanting to be "humanized." At the same time her constructed body was partially connected to that system, hence embodying the struggle of dissociation. This contribution provides an example of how relational approaches to doing research create alternative knowledge about adolescents and more specifically about Palestinian adolescent girls.