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Schlecker, Markus

doi:10.1057/9781137330970_1

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“…Social support has been extensively researched identifying its positive relationship with health and well-being. 24 Findings from this study align with more current notions of social support such as those of Schlecker and Fleisher, 25 who no longer focus on the provision of services and goods to needy recipients but more broadly recognize how people benefit from mutuality and a sense of existential sharing. 26 Similarly, Thoits 27 identifies two types of social support: emotional support and active coping assistance.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 68%

“…Although both types of social support are provided by peers or other health care professionals, the former kind of support (such as a DS model) is thought to be more effective in alleviating the impacts of emotional stressors. 27 Findings from this study suggest that the DS event resonates with Schlecker and Fleisher’s 25 (p12) model where “existential sharing…and a longing for conviviality” are aspects of feeling supported. Valuing feelings of safety and hospitality was highlighted by participants at each dinner event.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 50%

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Can Writing and Storytelling Foster Self-care?

Bruce

Daudt

Breiddal

2018

J Hosp Palliat Nurs

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Research into self-care practices suggests the need for conscientious and systematic support of nurses and other health care providers. The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of an innovative self-care initiative. The goals were to explore the experience of nurses and other health care providers participating in a reflective, creative nonfiction storytelling event called “Dinner and Stories” and the potential benefits and limitations of using an informal, storytelling model for self-care. A qualitative narrative design was used. Twenty-seven participants including nurses, social workers, and hospice volunteers wrote creative nonfiction stories about a lingering experience of providing care. At predefined dates, groups of up to six met for dinner in a home setting. Participants read aloud, listened deeply, and discussed their narrated stories. Four sources of data were collected: creative nonfiction stories, online forum discussions, in-depth interviews, and host facilitator field notes. Researchers identified four themes: (1) needing a self-care culture, (2) storytelling and writing as healing, (3) co-creating layers of connection, and (4) preferring face-to-face contact. Results add to knowledge about the therapeutic benefits of writing and storytelling for nurses and other health care providers including enriched meaning-making, emotional conveyance, and therapeutic connections between storytellers and listeners.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 68%

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 50%

Can Writing and Storytelling Foster Self-care?

Bruce

Daudt

Breiddal

2018

J Hosp Palliat Nurs

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“…In this sense, this paper joins current efforts to rethink social support, its location, timings and practices that could be perceived to be fairly asymmetrical (i.e. charity worker and charity receiver) (Schlecker, 2013). Support can manifest itself in many ways, including specific practices or “acts” (Kleinman, 2015) as well as the less tangible or material aspects such as emotions, attitudes and feelings.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 81%

“…Additionally, the original emphasis that social support places on agency, participation and collaboration between those providing support and those receiving it, something which requires a more politicised view of mental health, is often lost (Campbell and Cornish, 2014). Finally, contemporary social support often misses the messier, affective and dynamic dimensions of giving, receiving, practising and supporting efforts that (may) improve lives (Alber and Drotbohm, 2015; Cabot, 2013; Nolas, 2014; Schlecker, 2013), as well as the more spontaneous and informal ways in which a feeling of being supported might come about (Kay, 2011). For instance, Wessendorf and Phillimore (2018) found that despite encouraging refugees/migrants to integrate and forge social ties, the supportive connections that migrants and refugees themselves make are much more random in practice.…”

Section: Exploring the Meanings Of Social Supportmentioning

confidence: 99%

Place, mobility and social support in refugee mental health

Nolas

Watters

Pratt-Boyden

et al. 2020

IJMHSC

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Purpose This review and theoretical analysis paper aims to bring together literatures of place, mobility, refugees and mental health to problematise the ways in which social support is practised on the ground and to rethink its possibilities. Design/methodology/approach This paper draws on an interdisciplinary understanding of social support that focusses on the social networks and significant and intimate relationships that mitigate negative mental health and well-being outcomes. The authors explore the dialectic relationship between place and mobility in refugee experiences of social support. Findings The authors argue that, in an Euro-American context, practices of social support have historically been predicated on the idea of people-in-place. The figure of the refugee challenges the notion of a settled person in need of support and suggests that people are both in place and in motion at the same time. Conversely, attending to refugees’ biographies, lived experiences and everyday lives suggests that places and encounters of social support are varied and go beyond institutional spaces. Research limitations/implications The authors explore this dialectic of personhood as both in place and in motion and its implications for the theorisation, research and design of systems of social support for refugees. Originality/value This paper surfaces the dialectics of place and mobility for supporting refugee mental health from an interdisciplinary perspective.

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“…In addition, it has biocidal properties and, therefore, is used as an industrial preservative. Because of its good solubility in water, chloroacetamide is a particularly suitable biocide for protection of the aqueous phase, e.g., in drilling fluids [76], in water-containing paints [77], and as a wood preservative [78]. Its insecticidal action on aphids [79] and its use as a hardener for urea and melamine resins [80] have also been described.…”

Section: Chloroacetyl Chloridementioning

confidence: 99%