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Emebo, Blaise [Verfasser eines Vorworts]. "Healing and Wholeness in African Traditional Religion, African Islam and Christianity : An Historical-Comparative Approach from Christian Theological Perspective." Aachen : Shaker, 2006. http://d-nb.info/1166514218/34.
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Burke-Maynard, Elizabeth. "Healing from historical trauma for persons of African ancestry in the United States| An African centered psychology approach to wellness." Thesis, Pepperdine University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10248643.
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<p> This critical analysis of the literature explores the potential of African-centered psychology to address the sequelae of historical trauma in the 21st century persons of African ancestry in the United States. African American face significant health and wellness challenges including socioeconomic disparities, interpersonal violence, substance abuse, psycho-spiritual distress, and physical health issues. The literature questions the validity of mainstream psychological science to effectively conceptualize and treat persons of African ancestry, and calls for the identification of specific, culturally relevant interventions to increase physical and psychological wellness. The concept of historical trauma helps to explain the psycho-spiritual distress experienced by many persons of African ancestry in the United States, including internalized oppression, as the sequelae of unhealed wounds relates to enslavement and colonization, through the destruction of culture, language and religion, and imposition of non-inclusive systems of education, government and law. An African-centered psychology approach may alleviate suffering related to historical trauma. This dissertation further integrates the literature on the historical trauma response with the literature on African-centered psychology. Wellness goals for persons of African ancestry are identified in the literature of scholars, researchers, practitioners, activists, and community members. Concepts and strategies from an African-centered psychology framework are then explored for their potential to help illuminate challenges, address needs, and support goals, in alignment with cultural values and work currently being done in this field. Implications in the areas of epistemology, research, clinical practice, practitioner training, and public acknowledgement are explored in depth, and recommendations for incorporating African centered strategies in therapeutic interventions are made. This dissertation also identifies its own theoretical and methodological limitations, and proposes areas for future investigation. Emerging hypotheses suggest that incorporating African centered practices in therapeutic work with persons of African ancestry and their communities may offer a congruent and compatible pathway to promote psychological well-being in persons and communities of African ancestry.</p>
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Draycott, Jane Louise. "Approaches to healing in Roman Egypt." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2011. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13064/.
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This thesis examines the healing strategies utilised by the inhabitants of Egypt during the Roman period (from the late first century BC to the fourth century AD) in order to investigate how Egyptian, Greek and Roman customs and traditions interacted within the province. It explores the symbiotic relationship between 'professional' and 'amateur' medical practice within Egypt, and examines the ways in which three particularly well-attested health problems - eye complaints, febrile conditions and the injuries inflicted by wild animals - were approached, evaluated and treated. By considering a range of literary, papyrological, archaeological, and anthropological sources, this thesis argues that healing strategies were developed in response to a variety of historical, cultural and social factors, and were intimately connected to the region's climate, geography and natural resources. This thesis, then, presents a fresh and nuanced approach to understanding healing strategies in Roman provincial culture, identifies diagnostic features of healing in material culture and offers an integrated reading of ancient medical literary and documentary papyri, and archaeological evidence. By encompassing the full spectrum of healing strategies available to the inhabitants of the province, and by incorporating elements of medical, surgical, magical and religious healing, it offers a comprehensive and wide-ranging perspective on healing in Roman Egypt, and investigates new approaches to the study of medicine in the Roman world.
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Mwaura, Mercy Wangui. "Community-based social healing approaches in South Africa: a case study of the Institute for Healing of Memories." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4547.
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Magister Artium (Development Studies) - MA(DVS)<br>In this study, the researcher aim is to examine the approach to social healing used by the Institute for Healing of Memories (IHOM). The focus is to explore how the approach has been employed within the community to enhance social transformation and healing. This study comes from a most recent field of social healing which explores the ways of dealing with social ills that are caused by conflict and collective trauma. In South Africa, the majority of the population were oppressed under the apartheid regime for a period that lasted from 1948 to 1994. As a way of dealing with the ordeal after the abolition of apartheid, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was formulated. This created a space for both the perpetrator and the survivor of apartheid atrocities to have public hearings. Although the TRC contributed in laying the foundation for South Africa’s social transformation, it could not meet the population demand. To date individuals and communities in South Africa are struggling to triumph over their past experiences. IHOM is an organisation that has embarked on community healing programmes and has identified the healing needs of the communities in the Western Cape but on a small-scale, at grassroots level. The research design took the form of a case study of IHOM. A qualitative approach to the study was followed to examine the IHOM approach to social healing and the interpretation of the findings would be useful in enhancing the IHOM’s programme. In-depth interviews were used to gather data where IHOM’s facilitators and participants were interviewed.
The research found out that IHOM approach is a combination of several methods including spiritual, emotional and psychological methods and that storytelling is the core feature of the approach of IHOM. The results of the research show that the approach caters for the needs of individuals who had suffered emotionally and psychologically due to exposure to traumatic conditions caused by human rights violations. With an exploration into personal narratives, participants experienced emotional relief. Therefore at the Institute for Healing of Memories making sense of one’s suffering through empathising with another is the core finding: making sense of suffering together creates an individual inner awareness of healing strength. Own feelings plus experiences become clearer. Thus the study found that there is a correlation between narrating and healing. Listening and sharing creates sentiments of connection and commonality. Also creates the possibility of empathy and in the process something happens in the spirit and a sense of transcendence emerges. These processes prepare the ground for forgiveness and reconciliation between diverse populations, races, cultures and religions.
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Hunter, Linda M. "Traditional Aboriginal healing practices: An ethnographic approach." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26662.
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This thesis explores traditional Aboriginal healing practices as they relate to health issues by asking the research question "How do urban-based First Nations peoples use healing traditions to address their health issues?" The purpose of this thesis was to explore the healing traditions of urban-based First Nations peoples. The objectives were to describe the use of Aboriginal healing traditions, discuss how these traditions addressed health issues, and explore the link between such traditions and holism in nursing practice.
Critical ethnography was the qualitative research method used for this thesis. Data collection consisted of eight individual interviews, participant observations over a period of four months, and field notes. The three major categories that emerged from the data analysis were (a) the following of a cultural path, (b) the gaining of balance, and (c) the circle of life. The theme of healing holistically emerged. Healing holistically includes following a cultural path by regaining culture through the use of healing traditions; gaining balance in the four realms of the spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical self, and sharing culture between Aboriginal peoples and non-Aboriginal health professionals, as part of the circle of life.
Implications for practice include incorporating the concepts of balance, a holistic outlook, and healing and culture into the health care of diverse First Nations groups. Healing holistically is an ongoing process that continues throughout the lifespan. This process can contribute to empowerment for Aboriginal peoples through an enhanced state of health reached by using traditional healing and understood through a critical ethnography approach.
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Friedson, Steven M. "The dancing prophets of Malawi : music and healing among the Tumbuka /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/11238.
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Corbett, Rick Owen. "The healing community a systems approach toward emotional healing through community, scripture and music /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.
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Angarita, Arocha Rafael Enrique. "An approach for Self-healing Transactional Composite Services." Thesis, Paris 9, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA090051/document.
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Dans ce mémoire de thèse, nous présentons une approche d’exécution auto-corrective (self-healing) de services composites, basée sur des agents capables de prendre, de manière autonome, des décisions pendant l’exécution des services, à partir de leurs connaissances. Dans un premier temps, nous définissons, de manière formelle, en utilisant des réseaux de Petri colorés, les services composites, leur processus d’exécution, et leurs mécanismes de tolérance aux pannes. Notre approche offre plusieurs mécanismes de reprise sur panne alternatifs : la récupération en arrière avec compensation ; la récupération en avant avec ré-exécution et/ou remplacement de service ; et le point de contrôle (checkpointing), à partir duquel il est possible de reprendre l’exécution du service ultérieurement. Dans notre approche, les services sont contrôlés par des agents, i.e. des composants dont le rôle est de s’assurer que l’exécution des services soit tolérante aux pannes. Notre approche est également étendue afin de permettre un auto-recouvrement. Dans cette extension, les agents disposent d’une base de connaissances contenant à la fois des informations sur eux-mêmes et sur le contexte d’exécution. Pour prendre des décisions concernant la sélection des stratégies de récupération, les agents font des déductions en fonction des informations qu’ils ont sur l’ensemble du service composite, sur eux-mêmes, tout en prenant en compte également ce qui est attendu et ce qui se passe réellement lors de l’exécution. Finalement, nous illustrons notre approche par une évaluation expérimentale en utilisant un cas d’étude<br>In this thesis, we present a self-healing approach for composite services supported by knowledge-based agents capable of making decisions at runtime. First, we introduce our formal definition of composite services, their execution processes, and their fault tolerance mechanisms using Colored Petri nets. We implement the following recovery mechanisms: backward recovery through compensation; forward recovery through service retry and service replacement; and checkpointing as an alternative strategy. We introduce the concept of Service Agents, which are software components in charge of component services and their fault tolerance execution control. We then extend our approach with self-healing capabilities. In this self-healing extension, Service Agents are knowledge-based agents; that is, they are self- and context-aware. To make decisions about the selection of recovery and proactive fault tolerance strategies, Service Agents make deductions based on the information they have about the whole composite service, about themselves, and about what is expected and what it is really happening at runtime. Finally, we illustrate our approach and evaluate it experimentally using a case study
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Coats, Heather Lea. "African American Elders' Psycho-Social-Spiritual Healing across Serious Illness." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/578887.
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Background: Disparities in care for seriously ill African American (AA) elders exist because of gaps in knowledge regarding culturally sensitive physiological, psychological, social, and spiritual needs and preferences. Conceptual Framework: The foundation of culturally sensitive patient-centered PC is formed from social, spiritual, psychological and physical experiences of serious illness. Purpose: Aim 1 was to describe categories and patterns of psych-social-spiritual healing from the perspective of AA elders with serious illness. Aim 2 was to examine the NIH Clinical Center's psych-social-spiritual healing measure as a valid, culturally appropriate measure for this population. Methods: A purposive sample of 28 AA elders with serious illnesses and from the Jackson MS area participated in this study. Aim One used the qualitative method of narrative analysis. Aim Two used cognitive interviewing methodology, including verbal probing and think aloud techniques. Findings: Aim One: Prior experiences, I changed, and Across past, present experiences and future expectations were the three main of the thematic analysis. The thematic categories in prior experiences were: been through it...made me strong, I thought about…others, and went down little hills...got me down. The thematic categories in I changed were: I grew stronger, changed priorities, do things I never would have done, and quit doing. The thematic categories in Across past, present experiences and future expectations were: God did and will take care of me, close-knit relationships, and life is better. The most prevalent theme of God did and will take care of me was divided into subthemes of: God did, God will and developing faith. Aim Two: Of the fifty-three items on the Psychological-Social-Spiritual Healing instrument, thirty-seven items were retained, eight items revised, and eight items deleted. Conclusions: Aim one: The narratives were stories of remarkable strength. This strength was grounded in the participants' "faith" in God that helped the aging seriously ill AA elder "overcome things." Aim Two: Linguistic validity was enhanced with expert input from the seriously ill AA elders. Pragmatic validity, using both the research team and participants' input, improved the content validity. These findings provide evidence towards a more valid and culturally sensitive tool.
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Sanders, Michael Steven. "Contextualizing a theology of divine healing for African independent churches." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.
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Affam, Rafael Mbanefo. "Traditional healing of the sick in Igboland, Nigeria." Aachen : Shaker, 2002. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/52188514.html.
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Stratford, Candice Taylor. "“Healing a Hurting Heart”: FEMRITE's Use of Narrative and Community as Catalysts for Traumatic Healing." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4436.
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FEMRITE, the Ugandan Women Writers Association, was created in 1996, and over the last twenty years, it has become the largest and most successful women's writing group in East Africa and one of the most influential literary communities on the African continent. It has become an essential element of Ugandan literary society, and a large proportion of its writings reflect various forms of trauma, begging an engagement with trauma theories. I will argue that through strategies of narrative recuperation and the establishment of communities, FEMRITE has created avenues for women writers, their subjects, and their readers to engender healing from trauma. After discussing FEMRITE's social programs, such as interviewing war refugees or AIDS victims, I will analyze two texts by FEMRITE author Beatrice Lamwaka to demonstrate the manifestations of trauma and the ways it is narrated, as well as the way Lamwaka uses narrative and community in working through her own trauma. Through an analysis of its organizations and publications, I hope to show that FEMRITE represents a uniquely optimistic and socially persuasive approach to trauma and healing.
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Ojelade, Ifetayo Iyajoke. "Use of Indigenous African Healing Practices as a Mental Health Intervention." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cps_diss/36.
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The purpose of this qualitative study was to describe the ways in which Orìsà priests and their clients conceptualize issues and concerns described by Western based approaches as mental health problems. The two research questions guiding this inquiry included: (a) how do Orìsà priests and their clients conceptualize issues and concerns associated with mental health problems in Western psychology and (b) what methods and techniques do Orìsà priests and their clients use to address issues or concerns associated with mental health problems in Western psychology? This study was grounded in African-centered theory by providing a cultural lens to guide the research design, data collection, and analysis. Data were collected during semi-structured individual interviews with four Orisa priests in a three phase model, for a total of 12 interviews. The study also included three focus groups (six informants per group), who did not participate in the individual interviews. Each group met for two sessions, for a total of six focus groups. Bracketing of assumptions by research team members and use of a reflexive journal was used to ensure credibility and dependability of the data (Creswell, 1998). Data analysis consisted of a recursive process divided into multiple steps, to help strengthen methodological rigor and verification of study procedures. The three part process included codebook development, code application, and data analysis. Three major themes emerged from the data. The first theme, The Conceptualization of Mental Health Problems as Spiritual Matters included one subtheme, Transgenerational Transmission. The second theme, Origins of Mental Health Problems, included three subthemes (Western Socialization, Spiritual Forces, and Ifa as a Healing System). The final theme, Addressing Mental Health Problems, included three subthemes (The Divination Process, Referrals, and Western Therapy). Results of this study indicate that respondents primarily conceptualize mental health problems as spiritual matters and seek to address these problems with the help of an Orìsà priest. In addition, some respondents sought the services of a Western trained therapist for the same issue. Practice and research implications are discussed.
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Rankin, John. "Healing the African Body: British Medicine in West Africa, 1800-1860." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. http://amzn.com/0826220541.
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This timely book explores the troubled intertwining of religion, medicine, empire, and race relations in the early nineteenth century. John Rankin analyzes the British use of medicine in West Africa as a tool to usher in a “softer” form of imperialism, considers how British colonial officials, missionaries, and doctors regarded Africans, and explores the impact of race classification on colonial constructs.
Rankin goes beyond contemporary medical theory, examining the practice of medicine in colonial Africa as Britons dealt with the challenges of providing health care to their civilian employees, African soldiers, and the increasing numbers of freed slaves in the general population, even while the imperialists themselves were threatened by a lack of British doctors and western medicines. As Rankin writes, “The medical system sought to not only heal Africans but to ‘uplift’ them and make them more amenable to colonial control . . . Colonialism starts in the mind and can be pushed on the other solely through ideological pressure.”<br>https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1089/thumbnail.jpg
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Eastman, Michael. "Reach out and be healed : constitutional rights to traditional African healing." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4673.
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Includes abstract.<br>Includes bibliographical references.<br>The introduction of the Traditional Health Practitioners Act 22 of 2007 has made lawful the practice of traditional healing. As everyone has the right of access to health care services, the question of whether the state bears a duty to reasonably provide access to traditional healing as an element of its public health care service, is raised. In a democratic society, law must be responsive to the needs of the populace. Ethnographic fieldwork demonstrates that traditional healing is used not in opposition to, but as a complementary twin of, biomedicine. Considering this, it shall be argued that economically, socially and medically, the incorporation of traditional healing into the public health care service is neither appropriate nor required by the Constitution.
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Chapman, Anne Marie. "Asthma and self-healing, a holistic art therapy approach." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape16/PQDD_0009/MQ29150.pdf.
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Grau, Batlle Marta. "Toward an Integral Approach to Understanding and Healing Trauma." Thesis, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13424261.
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<p> Situated at the interface of the fields of trauma, psychology, and spirituality, this dissertation develops an integral approach to understanding and healing of trauma. Contemporary trauma research suggests that Western psychological models lack adequate understanding of the role of spirituality in trauma. This dissertation should be considered a search for such an epistemology. Sri Aurobindo’s integral psychology provides a theoretical framework within which the indivisible existential and transcendental aspects of trauma may be understood in a body–mind–psyche–spirit continuum. By adopting an integrative hermeneutic methodological approach this dissertation will seek to overcome the limitations of the way trauma is understood in mainstream psychology and psychiatry. This dissertation offers a preliminary framework towards the formulation of a whole-person approach to trauma uniquely positioned to address the multidimensionality of trauma, the diversity of responses to traumatic events and uniqueness of individuals’ healing and self-integration process. This dissertation proposes that two important aspects of integral psychology, the psychic being (evolving soul) and psychic transformation are the keys to this healing process toward wholeness.</p><p>
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Norridge, Zoe Cecilia. "Perceptions of pain : Narratives of hurt and healing in contemporary African literature." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.500143.
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This research examines representations of pain in literature from West and Southern Africa, written in English and French. Exploring how and why African novelists tell stories of suffering in their autobiographical and fictional writing, I consider the aesthetic and ethical issues surrounding such emotive literature. Theoretical approaches to violence and pain can be found within the existing metanarratives of African literary criticism. Bearing witness to the suffering caused by the colonial project and giving voices to the powerless in pain are key features of both nationalist and feminist theory. However, in much current academic research there seems to be an emphasis on bearing witness to the violent acts of an aggressor rather than exploring the experiences of the person in pain. This theoretical emphasis is not echoed in the literary texts I study, which instead focus almost exclusively on the subjective sensations of suffering. My research asks why this is the case and questions the motivations for and impact of literary pain narratives. I begin by exploring how Yvonne Vera uses surprising bodily metaphors and other aesthetic devices to create literary worlds of pain in her novel The Stone Virgins. Next, I examine the location of pain between minds and bodies in J.M. Coetzee's Life and Times of Michael K and Bessie Head's A Question of Power. Developing questions of pain and meaning, I then turn to a series of texts from Francophone West Africa which address the cultural, individual and symbolic contexts of pain associated with gendered violence. The following chapter builds on testimonial aspects of pain writing to reflect on literature describing the Rwandan genocide, reading works by Rwandan survivors alongside those by visiting African witnesses. Finally, I consider the potential impact of narratives of healing in Ayi Kwei Armah's The Healers and Antjie Krog's Country of My Skull.
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Krishnan, P. R. "In vitro wound healing effects of single and combined African herbal medicines." Thesis, Durham University, 2005. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/2761/.
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Impaired and aberrant wound healing imposes a huge financial burden in the developed world and is an insurmountable problem in the undeveloped one. Many new approaches, such as gene therapy and tissue engineered skin have met with limited success. The application of plant-based medicines provides, in principle, a cost effective therapy; a major criticism of herbal medicines, however, is that they are not subjected to the rigours of their pharmaceutical counterparts. This work scientifically investigates the effects of four African herbal medicines used generally in the treatment of wounds; the behaviour of normal human dermal fibroblasts (NHDF) is known to be crucial to the onset of wound healing disorders and culture of this cell type was the means by which effects were gauged. The herbs are Cissus rotundifolia leaf extract (C. rotundifolia(L)), Cassia abbreviate bark extract (C. abbreviata(B)) Zanthoxylum chalybeum bark extract (z chalybeum(B)) and Zanthoxylem chalybeum leaf extract (Z chalybeumQS)).Aqueous extractions of herbal medicines were used in all experiments. Single and paired combinations of the herbal medicines were assessed. The effects of combinations were compared to a theoretical additive (obtained by the summation of individual herbal extract effects); thus, combination behaviour was defined in terms of being additive, greater than additive or less than additive The effects of single and combined herbal extracts on cultured NHDF were assessed with respect to the following wound healing parameters:1. Growth of NHDF in basal media (to unequivocally establish the extent of effects) and basal media /2%FBS (to simulate impaired healing).2. Growth of NHDF in basal media /10% FBS + 70 μg / ml of insulin-like growth factor (to simulate fíbrotic healing)3. NHDF exposed to H2O21 FeSOa oxidant environment (to simulate impaired healing). NHDF were either pre-incubated with herbal extracts for 12 һ (to assess protective effects) or exposed to oxidants and extracts simultaneously (to assess the ability of extracts to neutralise oxidants) 4. NHDF production of pro-collagen type I carboxypeptide (PICP) and keratinocyte growth factor (KGF)For growth related effects and the extent to which NHDF were damaged by exposure to oxidants, the MTS assay was used as an indirect determination of viable cell number. The production of biomolecules (PICP and KGF), was measured by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).С. rotmdifolia(L) and c. abbreviate(B) enhanced the growth of NHDF in basal media and basal media /2% FBS.Combinations of these herbal extracts, when applied in basal media, produced less than additive effects when the c. rotundifolia(L) proportion exceeded 1:1 but greater than additive effects at с rotundifolia(L) proportions of 1:1 or less.In the case of c. rotundifolia(L) I c. abbreviata(B) combinations applied in basalmedia / 2% FBS, the effects were greater than additive at all proportions.Ζ chalybeum(B) had antiproliferative effects on the NHDF fibrotic model. When combined with Z chalybeum{B) in proportions greater than 1:1, с rotundifoliaQS) reduced the extent to which z chalybeum(B) was able to inhibit growth; when present in proportions of 1:1 or less, c. rotundifolia(L) was not able to influence the effects of Z chalybeum(s).Neither single nor combined herbal extracts had any effect on the production of biomolecules such as PICP and KGF. The apparent changes corresponding to the application of с rotundifoliaÇL), с. abbreviata(B) and z chalybeum(B) were due entirely to their growth-related effects. In terms of antioxidant effects, none of the herbal extracts (single or combined), when incubated with NHDF prior to oxidant addition, were able to protect cells from damage. C. rotundifoliai(L), z. chalybeum(L) and z chalybeum(B), in descending order of potency, demonstrated an ability to neutralise the effects of oxidants when oxidant and herbal extracts were added simultaneously. Combinations of c. rotundifolia(L) and z chalybeum(L) produced effects which were additive at all proportions. Combinations of c. rotundifolia(L) and z chalybeum(L) produced effects which were additive at z chalybeum(L) proportions greater than 1:1 but super-additive at X. chalybeum(L) proportions of 1:1 or less. Combinations of z chalybeum(B) and z chalybeum(L) were less than additive at all proportions. The work has provided an appropriate platform for the broader study of the four herbal medicines and it is reasonable to conclude that there is a scientific basis for the application of these herbal extracts to the treatment of wounds and wound healing disorders. All of the herbal extracts have influenced at least one of the selected wound healing aspects, whether singly or in combination; in particular, c. rotundifolia(L) and Z chalybeum(L) have demonstrated growth related and antioxidant properties. The further investigation of effective herbs, in terms of other skin cell types (keratinocytes or endothelial cells) or more involved study (organ culture, human trials) would be of merit.
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Miller, Marla A. "Inner healing a theological treatment of Ruth Carter Stapleton's approach /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.
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Vitali, Francesca, Simone Marini, Martina Balli, et al. "Exploring Wound-Healing Genomic Machinery with a Network-Based Approach." MDPI AG, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/626101.
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The molecular mechanisms underlying tissue regeneration and wound healing are still poorly understood despite their importance. In this paper we develop a bioinformatics approach, combining biology and network theory to drive experiments for better understanding the genetic underpinnings of wound healing mechanisms and for selecting potential drug targets. We start by selecting literature-relevant genes in murine wound healing, and inferring from them a Protein-Protein Interaction (PPI) network. Then, we analyze the network to rank wound healing-related genes according to their topological properties. Lastly, we perform a procedure for in-silico simulation of a treatment action in a biological pathway. The findings obtained by applying the developed pipeline, including gene expression analysis, confirms how a network-based bioinformatics method is able to prioritize candidate genes for in vitro analysis, thus speeding up the understanding of molecular mechanisms and supporting the discovery of potential drug targets.
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Wheatley, Ricardo. "African international relations: A metafunctional approach." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2011. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/254.
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This study examines the descriptive utility of a meta-theoretical approach over the traditionally applied general theory approach to African International Relations. It argues in favor of the meta-theoretical approach commonly employed in US foreign policy studies as yielding greater explanatory capacity to describing the behavior and relations of the African state than traditional approaches based on a single primary determinant. It suggests that a multiple primary determinant approach to assessing African state behavior and relations grants greater theoretical and empirical parallels to state and system structure and behavior than analysis based on a single determinant.
This study builds a meta-theory of International Relations (metafunctionalism) by which to assess African state behavior and relations utilizing the most commonly applied and descriptive conventional and non-conventional theories within the discipline. Metafunctionalism combines multiple theoretical approaches while negating the contradictions between them that would limit their relative explanatory capacity. It employs the theories of functionalism, evolution, realism, liberalism, neomarxism(international class theory). The presentation of a metafunctional model of African International Relations will provide an alternative lens by which to view African state behavior and relations and address the fundamental problems of “description” and “consensus” within African political discourse.
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Fett, Sharla M. "Body and soul : African-American healing in Southern antebellum plantation communities, 1800-1860." Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest Information and Learning, 2005. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?res_dat=xri:ssbe&url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_dat=xri:ssbe:ft:keyresource:G_Sla_Diss_04.
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Gothard, Elizabeth Jane. "Wound healing : a multidisciplinary approach : combining mathematical models and biological experiments." Thesis, University of York, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/17204/.
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Cutaneous wound repair occurs as a continuous process in both space and time; however, studies of healing mechanisms and outcomes frequently generate spatially and temporally sparse datasets. We propose a range of techniques that allow the size, cellular processes and scar tissue properties of wounds to be measured and predicted at high spatial and temporal resolution. A non-invasive wound imaging system is shown to provide reliable measurements of wound diameter, perimeter and surface area, but is less reliable in producing 3D metrics such as volume and depth. Wound size and time post healing have a combined effect on reliability, with more reliable measurements obtained at earlier timepoints. A semi-automated pipeline is found to be appropriate for determining the cellular composition of the wound space, but cannot be applied to areas of healthy epidermis due to the close packing of keratinocytes. A range of mathematical models are employed to predict cell numbers within the wound space. An extended domain, partial differential equation model with spatial control of cell proliferation and migration is found to best recapitulate the cellular dynamics observed in vivo. However, if epidermal stratification is to be incorporated, an agent-based description may be preferable. Finally, we formulate a model system that can predict the alignment of collagen fibres and fibroblasts over continuous orientation space. Parameter sets that include large shear forces (which may result from elongated wound geometries or interventions such as suturing) can produce skewed distributions of orientation that cannot be established using discontinuous approaches. Together, this suite of computational approaches provides a powerful set of tools with which the mechanisms of cutaneous wound healing can be investigated, quantified and elucidated.
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Davhula, Mudzunga Junniah. "Malombo Musical Art in VhaVenda Indigenous Healing Practices." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/64353.
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The traditional healing practices of the Vhavenda people include one very important
component, the malombo ritual healing practice.
This healing practice has been conducted for centuries. It involves the use of music
(including singing and the use of drums and shakers for rhythm), dance and elements
of theatre performed by the person to be healed, the healer, invited malombe
(community members who have been through the same ritual), as well as family
members and supporters.
The importance of this ritual as a healing process has long been acknowledged. Of
interest in this study, however, is the role-played by the music itself in facilitating the
healing process. The ritual cannot take place without the music; neither is the music
used outside this specific ritual.
Seven representative malombo songs have been partially notated by John Blacking
and N. J. van Warmelo also as recorded texts. However, since this ritual is closed and
seldom open to strangers, their research was, of necessity, limited. Through long-term
fieldwork, and from an insider perspective, this thesis is based on participation in
more than fifteen malombo rituals during the field research period (2005-2014).
Songs and performances were recorded as possible and some are included on the
accompanying CD. In addition, transcription was utilized as a tool to demonstrate the
core melody of selected songs, with the acknowledgement that transcription in
Western notation limits the demonstration of the creative mato1 process that is
fundamental to the malombo ritual.
This thesis argues that that music plays a vital role in this healing ceremony, and it is
through the mato process that the ancestors are called to heal. The texts of the songs at
times include words of the Tshikalanga language that is spoken by the Vhakalanga of
Zimbabwe. Most significantly, music is seen as the bridge between the ancestral
spirits and the patient and participants in the ceremony, thus underscoring its
fundamental importance in Vhavenda culture.<br>Thesis (DMus)--University of Pretoria, 2017.<br>SAMRO<br>Music<br>DMus<br>Unrestricted
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Brown, Marvellè. "African and African-Caribbean Londoners' experiences of cancer services : a narrative approach." Thesis, University of West London, 2014. https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1001/.
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Cancer is a major illness in the United Kingdom with differences in prevalence, morbidity and mortality, across the population. The focus of this study is two-fold: firstly, to explore African and African-Caribbean Londoners' experience of cancer services and secondly to use a narrative approach, focused on cancer, specifically related to African and African-Caribbean Londoners, an approach that has not been undertaken previously. Therefore, I also aim to explore whether such a research approach has value as a reseearch tool for these communities. Five research questions frame the focus of the study, namely: What factors affected their experiences of cancer services? How did culture, ethnicity and societal factors influence their experiences? How do those factors influence the stories they tell and the way they tell them? What were good and bad practices which affected their experiences? What is the value of the narrative approach in research related to cancer focused on African and African-Caribbeans? It is intended that this thesis will have a wider methodological relevance for BME health research, as well as relevance for BME cancer service research and provide suggestions on practical application of actions to address some challenges. The African and African-Caribbean communities together form the second largest minority ethnic group in the UK, but health research foucusing specifically on cancer related to these two communities is limited. The incidence of cancer is expected to increase amongst minority ethnic communities for a number of reasons: an aging minority ethnic population and changes in lifestyle and environment. It is therefore essential to gain a greater understanding of issues for African and African-Caribbean communities which either hinders or aids in providing an enhanced positive experience of cancer services in London. London was chosen because it is the most diverse, multicultural, multiracial city in the UK and hence the assumption that it has well-developed health structures and systems in relation to cancer, which meet the diversity of its population. Narrative research using dialogic analysis is the methodology used. In-depth interviews were conducted with twelve participants who were recruited through convenience and snowballing. The nine women and three men in the study originated from Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Trinidad and Jamaica. The findings demonstrate that ethnicity, religion and community play a significant part in impacting on their experience with cancer services. The narratives identify factors which reflect positive and negative experiences of the engagement of Africans and African-Caribbeans with cance services. Positive experiences of cancer services were articulated from the narratives, which included clinicians apologising for mistakes and clinicians creating an environment which encouraged a positive relationship between themselves and the patient. Some of the challenges patients articulated have been addressed in previous research. These include: cultural sensitivity, lack of access to information on cancer services, lack of respect, feelings of powerlessness and vulnerability. However, areas this research unearthed from the narratives that are not addressed elsewhere are: the power of church leaders, breast self-examination (BSE) and cultural issues associated with self-examination, acknowledgement of the heterogeneity of African and African-Caribbean communities and how that is played out in health seeking behaviour and beliefs surrounding cancer. Courage and resilience are concepts which are rarely explicitly mentioned or recognised in earlier UK research, including the role black men play as carers, a subject virtually non-existent in health research. As a qualitative research method, narrative research proved valuable in enablinig an understanding of issues that affect African and African-Caribbean communities in relation to cancer and receiving cancer services. Dialogic analysis provides a basis to reveal the depth of the participants lived experience and how those experiences shape their behaviour in relation to cancer care. This thesis illustrates that like all patients with cancer, the cancer experience is an individual phenomenon. However, narratives demonstrate that those experiences are bound up in historical, cultural, social, religious and spiritual perspectives.
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Fulford, Portia. "The use of folk healing medicines by selected African-American women as gynecological resistance." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2011. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/244.
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This study examines the active presence of folk healing medicines in selected urban, African-American women’s pregnancy experiences. These experiences were found be collectively recognized as gynecological resistance. Furthermore, this study sought to clarify the epistemological frame of knowledge constructed within the African- American women’s cultural base, which motivates, influences, and constructs rationales for pregnancy choices, decision making, and the pursuits of resistance.
This study was based on the premise that some African-American women continue to resist control of their reproduction, by empowering themselves using a variety of folk medicines practices. A case study analysis approach was used to analyze data gathered and it reflected that the collective reproductive resistances stemmed from a shared memory known as the African Ancestral Maternal Memory.
The researcher found that selected urban African-American women utilized several forms of folk healing medicines to gynecologically resist control of their reproduction. The conclusions drawn from the findings suggest that the need for continued gynecological resistance by African-American women was not only rooted in the reproductive oppression of enslaved African women, but correlated with the systematic gynecological control of urban African-American women.
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Kasambala, Amon Eddie. "The interplay between God-images and healing in pastoral ministry : engaging an African spirituality." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53772.
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Thesis (DTh)--Stellenbosch University, 2004<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study can as well be termed as "an attempt to interpref' pastoral care and
counseling methods and modules in an African understanding. For this reason, the study
engages concepts, metaphors and images that reflect an African understanding of pastoral
ministry. It is argued that pastoral ministry will be enriched more by accommodating an
African spirituality and cosmology that usually influences the world view of African
people on God, life and the cosmic life-force.
The study attempts to work with God-images that will help people to gain meaning in
moments of pain and suffering, and much more also that will help them appropriate faith
to life situations in a more meaningful way. Thus the study gives attention to defming
God-images in light of pain and suffering within a given pastoral care situation. Two
God-images are therefore proposed for use in a pastoral care setting in Africa, namely,
God as a friend (Mubwezi) and God as companion (woyenda naye).
The study proposes a working model that can be used by pastoral ministry in the process
of assessment of God-images. It is argued that unless pastoral ministry undertakes to
work with models that are going to help African people come to terms with situations of
pain and suffering, the work of pastoral ministry will be limited to a large extent. For this
reason, the study proposes that pastoral ministry should reckon with African cultural
values that are always expressed through metaphors and symbols. It is argued further that
pastoral ministry should work with Christian rituals, such as Holy Communion, Baptism
and the Cross which are going to help African people understand the involvement of God
in their lives and also in times of pain and suffering.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die navorsing is 'n poging om 'n pastorale hermeneutiek te ontwikkel wat in die prosesse
van heling rekening hou met die eiesoortigheid van 'n Afrika-konteks. Vandaar die fokus
op 'n Afrika-spiritualiteit en 'n Afrika-kosmologie. Die navorsing is 'n poging om die
verstaan van die lewe as 'n werklikheid, beinvloed deur spirituele werkinge en kosrniese
lewenskragte, te kombineer met 'n pastorale antropologie.
Die navorsingsvoorveronderstelling is dat 'n bepaalde kulturele verstaan en
ervaring van God (Godsbeelde en Godsvoorstellinge) menslike identiteit en
derhalwe ook prosesse van heling en terapie wesenlik beinvloed. Die navorsing
konsentreer daarom op die interaktiewe en wisselwerkende verband tussen
Godsbeelde en die vraagstuk van lyding en heling.
Die uitkoms van die navorsing is die ontwerp van 'n beradingsmodel vir die pastoraat
waarin rekening gehou word met die eiesoortige spiritualiteit van 'n bepaalde
kultuurkonteks. Vandaar die ontwerp van 'n ses-fase model vir die maak van 'n pastorale
diagnose (pastorale assessering). Verskillende simbole en metafore vanuit 'n Afrika
lewenservaring kan help om her na te dink oor die verstaan van God binne lyding in 'n
pastorale gesprek oor die vraagstuk van teodisee.
Die beradingsmodel wat voorgestel word, verskuif die fokus weg van 'n analitiese,
individualisties-georienteerdheid na 'n meer holistiese en sisterniese kommunale
georienteerdheid. In die verb and moet die dinarnika van verhoudinge saam met 'n
narratiewe benadering opnuut herontgin word vir pastorale berading.
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Dortzbach, Karl. "Wholeness and healing in community toward understanding effective African church interventions following community violence /." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2005. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10242005-153932/.
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Taba, Makomane Lucas. "Cost accounting practices in African traditional healing: a case study of Makhuduthamaga Traditional Healers." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/1527.
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Thesis (M. COM. (Accounting)) -- University of Limpopo, 2015<br>Cost accounting has been seen as one of the most effective management tools in strengthening an organisation’s performance through effective decision making and systematic cost accounting formulation and implementation. Although cost accounting was more prevalent in the private sector and public sector, it is still insubstantial and unpopular in African traditional healing in the sense that there is limited literature or evidence that supports the use of cost accounting in African traditional healing.
The main aim of this the study is to examine the need of cost accounting practices in African traditional healing and the reason for its partial application. In so doing, this requires examining the necessity of cost accounting practices’ adoption to improve product and service pricing in African traditional healing, examine the reasons for the partial application of cost accounting practices in African traditional healing and to suggest or recommend how the adoption of cost accounting practices can improve product and service pricing in African traditional healing.
This research was undertaken with the traditional healers in the Makhuduthamaga Local Municipality. Data were collected through the focus group interview which was conducted with African traditional healers. One focus group interview was conducted with seven African traditional healers consisting of six females and one male participant.
The research findings revealed that there is a need to facilitate decisions in traditional healing through cost accounting principles regarding the appropriate costing of products and services of the traditional healers through the provision of accurate cost accounting information in traditional healing. However, there were also a number of factors that encouraged traditional healers to use cost accounting in the context of African Traditional Healing and have confidence in integrated cost accounting in traditional healing.
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Lange, Isabelle. "Ship to shore : Mercy Ships, healing and faith along the southern West African coast." Thesis, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (University of London), 2016. http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/2548625/.
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In Benin in mid 2004, radio stations began announcing the forthcoming arrival of a Christian hospital ship. It was going to dock in the country’s main port in Cotonou and provide free surgeries for hundreds of people over a period of four months. Presenting the first ethnographic account of Mercy Ships, this dissertation provides a lens for reflecting on the ever-growing number of faith-based organisations in West Africa. This dissertation addresses the following questions: does sought-out contact with the services and environment of this hospital ship change people – both patients and crewmembers – and the way they live, think about and understand their lives? In those circumstances when changes occur, how do they come about? By addressing these questions, this dissertation contributes to a body of work in the anthropology of faith, healing, medical humanitarianism and international development. It not only explores the personal value and meaning for people volunteering with and treated by this faith-based organisation, but it also explores how the hospital ship is enacted and experienced, and how, perhaps surprisingly, it is both the lives of the crewmembers as well as the patients that are changed, as they project their faith and visions of lives well lived onto their ship experience. The promise of the ship as a catalyst for change in the imaginations of crew and patients; the blend of medical and social care on board; the perseverance through physical and emotional challenges; and the separation of the ship from land all blend to create powerful encounters that shape their experiences. These encounters demonstrate how the act of faith can become a form of healing, and likewise, how healing can create and strengthen faith. Throughout their journeys, patients and volunteers grapple with their faith which is intimately intertwined with their physical, social and spiritual well-being.
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Gouge, Bryan. "The Lived Experiences of Trauma Counselors in Uganda Implementing Scripture Based Trauma Healing." Thesis, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3643952.
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<p> The relationship between international development and psychological aid is a very complex one. The conversations regarding societal restoration, restorative justice and healing are full of theoretical frameworks aimed at centering on a plan for rehabilitation. The Great Lakes Region of Africa has endured longstanding conflict, famine and poverty and has been the focus of both psychological aid and international relief efforts. While much research focuses on the needs of the communities within the Great Lakes Region, there is a need for the voices of those who are carrying out the restorative work on the ground to be heard. This dissertation focuses on acknowledging the voices of those trauma counselors in Gulu, Uganda and Nakivale Refugee Settlement who have been trained to carry out a specific form of trauma counseling called Scripture Based Trauma Healing. These words reflect their stories.</p>
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Adams, Brenda Byrne. "Patterns of healing and wholeness in characterizations of women by selected black women writers." Virtual Press, 1989. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/720157.
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Some Black women writers--Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Cade Bambara, Paule Marshall, Gloria Naylor, and Alice Walker--of American fiction have written characterizations of winning women. Their characterizations include women who are capable of taking risks, making choices, and taking responsiblity for their choices. These winning women are capable of accepting their own successes and failures by the conclusions of the novels. They are characterized as dealing with devastating and traumatic personal histories in a growth-enhancing manner. Characterizations of winning women by these authors are consistently revealed through five developmental stages: conditioning, awareness, interiorizing, reintegrating, and winning. These stages contain patterns that are consistent from author to author.While conditioning and awareness of the negative influcences of conditioning are predictable, this study introduces the concept of interiorizing and reintegrating as positive steps toward becoming a winning woman. Frequent descriptions of numbness and disorientation mark the most obvious stages of interiorizing. It is not until the Twentieth Century that we see women writers using this interiorizing process as a necessary step toward growth. Surviving interiorizing, as these winning women do, leads to the essential stage of reintegrating.Interiorizing is a complete separation from social interaction; reintegrating is a gradual reattachment to social process. First, elaborate descriptions of bathing rituals affirm the importance of a woman's body to herself. Second, reintegrating involves food rituals which signal social reconnection. Celebration banquets and family recipes offer an important reminder to the winning woman that the future is built on the past. Taking the best of what has been learned from the past into the future provides strength and stability.The characterization of a winning woman stops with potential rather than completion. A winning woman must still take risks, make choices, and bear the consequences of her choices. The winning woman does not accept a diminished life of harmful conformity. She is characterized as discovering how to use choice and power. Novels included in this study are: Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Are Watching God; Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters; Paule Marshall's Brownstone, Brown Girl; The Chosen Place, the Timeless People; and Praisesong for the Widow; Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place, Linden Hills; and Alice Walker's Meridian, and The Color Purple.<br>Department of English
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Turyomumazima, Bonaventure. "The Church's pastoral approach to the practice of healing among the Banyankore of the Archdiocese of Mbarara: Toward an integrated healing mission." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/29334.
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From time immemorial, the search for healing has been an essential and universal dimension of human life. Human beings are motivated by the natural and spontaneous instinct to preserve life in its entirety, especially when health is threatened by, sickness or disease. The mission to heal belongs to all members of the human family, regardless of gender, race, age, or religion. The Church bases her mission to heal on this prerogative and on Jesus' mandate to his disciples to preach and heal.
This study is a theological and pastoral analysis of the Church's involvement in the healing ministry among the Banyankore of the Archdiocese of Mbarara. The research investigates the Church's pastoral activity in this regard, examining the successes but also the challenges encountered. From the hypothesis that a theological and pastoral analysis of the Church's approach to the practice of heating in the context of Christian living today, will help to develop an integrated healing mission for the Church in the Archdiocese of Mbarara, the study set out to investigate the Church's contribution to the healing ministry at the local or diocesan level. It is an attempt to discover how best the Church can use an integrated approach to healing to fulfill Christ's legacy.
As illustrated in Chapter one, the present study uses the contextual approach to theology inspired by Stephen Bevans' Anthropological and Synthetic models of contextual theology, and Theresa Okure's Incarnational paradigm as theological key to inculturating the Church's healing mission. The local Church is perceived as agent and mediator of healing. The present study takes seriously people's cultural and native practices of healing, while at the same time acknowledging the contribution of other healing traditions.
Grounded in the above approach, Chapter two of the thesis looks at the Church's past and present approach to healing in the Archdiocese of Mbarara. It becomes apparent that the Church's ministry of healing at this level lays greater emphasis on the medical model - through health care services offered hospitals, dispensaries, medical clinics. Yet this approach alone is Insufficient to care for all the sick and afflicted, and does not treat sicknesses that are not physiological in nature. People search for alternatives, thus showing that there is a need for a more integrated approach to healing.
Chapter three studies the Banyankore native concepts and practices of healing. The study reveals that because of their holistic world view, many sick Banyankore are attracted to native practices of healing. This discovery further emphasizes the need for integration: some of the native beliefs and practices of healing could enlighten the Church's healing ministry.
Chapter four is a christological analysis of the healing dimension in the various African faces of Christ. All the dimensions contribute toward the image of Christ the Divine Healer. In other words, Christ's healing ministry as presented in the New Testament, and the Gospels in particular, finds expression in the various metaphors or images employed by African theologians. In this way African Christology makes an invariable contribution toward an integrated approach to healing.
Chapter five highlights inculturation as theological key to help the Church in the actualization her healing mission. Just like Jesus' mission of healing was facilitated by his Incarnation, so does the success of the Church's healing mission depend on how much this mission is inculturated in the concrete lives of the people. Thus, inculturation, based on the incarnational model becomes essential for the realization of integral healing.
The last chapter proposes that the local Church mediate the various healing traditions: conventional medicine, native healing, and religious or faith healing. The search for integration in this regard requires that the local Church be attentive and learn the components of each healing tradition so as to contribute to healing the individual and the community as a whole. With the urgent need for integration in mind, the chapter makes various suggestions for improving the Church's healing ministry.
In the final analysis the study reemphasizes the need for the Church in Mbarara to adopt an integrated approach to healing. Even if this thesis focuses on one particular region of the Banyankore of the Archdiocese of Mbarara, the findings are pertinent for the rest of the Church in Africa as well as the universal Church. This work does not answer all the questions regarding healing, but it is certainly a valuable contribution in the search for an integrated approach to healing.
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Ritchie, Ian. "African theology and social change : an anthropological approach." Thesis, McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=41148.
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The dissertation documents the rise of African Christian theology in anglophone and francophone Africa, exploring the possibility that following the development of the two long-recognized phases of "adaptation" and "incarnation" there has been a "third phase." In the period since 1980 we find an explosion into theological diversity and maturity, marked by serious wrestling with all the social problems facing Africans in contemporary African life. Since 1980 there is a proliferation of new Christological paradigms, and increased inter-religious tensions have brought new urgency to inter-faith dialogue, with a growing number of theological responses. An explosion in the numbers of African women theologians brings a new voice on women's roles. Economic and ecological crises bring increasing reflexion on justice, peace and the integrity of creation.<br>The paradigmatic diversity is strongly linked with changes in the concrete social conditions in which the various theologians live. This discovery confirms the thesis that theology in Africa is always related to social context.
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Tan, Elaine Shek Yan. "Understanding African international society : an English School approach." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2160/13785.
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This thesis seeks to explore an English School understanding of regional international society and construct a conceptual framework derived from the body of English School literature that can provide significant insights into international society at the regional level. This conceptual framework will be applied to an analysis of three case studies from continental Africa: the Union Government debate, the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), and the African Union (AU) position on United Nations Security Council (UNSC) expansion. The framework is comprised of two multifaceted main themes: the degree of solidarism in regional international society, and the potential tensions between regional and global international societies. The analysis of the case studies through the conceptual framework indicates that African international society is characterised by a low degree of solidarism; while the ambit of African international society has expanded considerably, there is still minimal consensus on the character of the African state, and minimal commitment to law enforcement, or the prioritisation of regional over national interests. Despite the presence of significant collaborative aspects, African international society's relationship with global international society is also marked by significant tensions, with a particularly prominent link between the desire to militate against global hegemony and global-regional identity dynamics. Through the utilisation of the conceptual framework in the case studies, this thesis demonstrates viability of the framework and the potential of the English School in studying politics at the regional level. In addition to providing a better understanding of African international relations therefore, this thesis makes a theoretical contribution that could form the basis of future English School research on regions.
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Parker, Francesca L. "Healing historical trauma in Native American communities| A liberation psychology approach to wellness." Thesis, Pepperdine University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3589872.
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<p> This critical analysis of the literature explores the potential of liberation psychology to address the sequelae of historical trauma in Native American communities. 21st century Native America faces significant health and wellness challenges including socio-economic disparities, interpersonal violence, substance abuse, psycho-spiritual distress, and physical health issues (Brave Heart, 2004; Dickerson & Johnson, 2010; Manson, 2000; Manson, Beals, Klein, Croy, & AI-SUPERPFP, 2005; United States Department of Health and Human Services, 2001). The literature questions the validity of mainstream psychological science to effectively conceptualize and treat Native Americans, and calls for the identification of specific, culturally relevant interventions to increase physical and psychological wellness (Duran, 2006; Manson, 2000; Wendt & Gone, 2011). The concept of historical trauma helps to elucidate the psycho-spiritual distress experienced by many Native Americans, including internalized oppression, as the sequelae of unhealed wounds from 500 years of physical and cultural genocide (Brave Heart, Chase, Elkins, & Altschul, 2011; Duran, 2006; Gone & Alcantara, 2007; Manson, 2000; Struthers & Lowe, 2003; Whitbeck, 2006). Duran, Firehammer, and Gonzalez (2008) suggest a liberation psychology approach may alleviate suffering related to historical trauma. This dissertation further integrates the literature on the historical trauma response with the literature on liberation psychology. Native American wellness goals are identified in the literature of scholars, researchers, practitioners, activists, community members, and allies. Concepts and strategies from a liberation psychology framework are then explored for their potential to help illuminate challenges, address needs, and support goals, in alignment with cultural values and work currently being done in this field. Implications in the areas of epistemology, research, clinical practice, practitioner training, and public acknowledgement are explored in depth, and recommendations for incorporating liberatory strategies in therapeutic interventions are made. This dissertation also identifies its own theoretical and methodological limitations, and proposes areas for future investigation. Emerging hypotheses suggest that incorporating liberatory practices in therapeutic work with Native American communities may offer a congruent and compatible pathway to promote psychological well-being in this community.</p>
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Amoateng-Boahen, Gabriel. "Integral pastoral care in Ghana proposals for healing in the Asante context /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.
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Healey, Martha W. "A Complementary Health Approach to Facilitate Healing and Integration Among Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse: The Shamanic Practitioner’s Perspective." Thesis, Boston College, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:107240.
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Thesis advisor: Danny G. Willis<br>Abstract Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) survivors are at risk of suffering from myriad physical, emotional, relational, spiritual, and energetic aftereffects. Scant research has addressed healing of spiritual and energetic aftereffects, especially sense of fragmentation/soul loss. No published research has addressed shamanic healing for CSA survivors. Thus, the purpose of this qualitative descriptive research was to describe the use of shamanic healing as a complementary health approach for adult CSA survivors from the perspectives of shamanic healers. A qualitative descriptive design was used in this research. In-depth semi-structured individual interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of 15 shamanic practitioners. Interviews focused on the shamanic practitioners’ perspectives of CSA healing from western and shamanic viewpoints, shamanic methods of assessment, intervention, evaluation of outcomes, and benefits for adult CSA survivors. Interview data were analyzed using conventional qualitative content analysis, including coding, sorting, and categorizing. Shamanic practitioners described the Western viewpoint on CSA healing as limited in scope by not adequately addressing energetic and spiritual aftereffects, with the potential to leave the survivor stuck in victim mode. In contrast, the shamanic perspective was described as an expanded paradigm for CSA healing, extending beyond the individual to multigenerational healing. CSA was framed as an event in the survivor’s life that served as a teacher of life lessons, inviting the survivor to live up to one’s full potential and not be defined by CSA. The findings indicated that shamanic healing has the potential to facilitate transformative integrative healing of the adult CSA survivor by addressing the relational, spiritual, energetic, and multigenerational impact of CSA. Shamanic healing involved integrating the survivor’s perceived lost soul parts (vital energy) back into consciousness, clearing toxic energy, and restoring energy flow. The findings have implications for nursing education, theory, practice, research, and policy. The findings can serve as a foundation for designing future research on shamanic healing to address the full spectrum of healing needs of adult CSA survivors<br>Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2016<br>Submitted to: Boston College. Connell School of Nursing<br>Discipline: Nursing
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Sherry, Richard Conan. "Integrated systems healing : a unified assessment and psycho-educational approach in psychological trauma treatment." Thesis, Middlesex University, 2014. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/13668/.
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This doctoral study examines the aspects of psychological trauma and investigates why singular explanatory models fail compared with a holistic approach. Part of this integrated approach includes the development of a benchmarked psychometric test, the Sherry Trauma Assessment Test [STAT]) (Copyrighted © Richard Sherry 2011). The test’s reliability was evaluated using Chronbach’s alpha (p< 0.001 levels of significance), which these findings were crosschecked with the findings from eleven other psychometric tests to standardise the results. In comparing the data sets, the STAT test project data was used to both answer fundamental questions within the field of clinical trauma psychology and confirm the reliability of the newly developed psychometric test. Furthermore, the information was collected and used to derive a principle component analysis (PCA) to help in developing a model to support current thinking within the social neuro-scientific arenas as well as to better organize clinical psychology assessment and treatment approaches. These findings have important implications on how trauma, in particular, the human neuropsychological learning process, is addressed. This psychometric foundation was then used to develop this newer model and adaptive tele-medicine platform (Zielinski et al., 2006). This multidisciplinary integration of information, expertise and models, has served to clarify the effects of maturation in relationship to traumatic response and helped to refine the understanding of how traumatic phenomena serves to fragment the integration of embedded systems, and what can be done to reverse these problematic processes in order to replace them with positive cycles of development. The STAT test findings have shown statistically significant results (p< 0.001 level), which provide quantitatively grounded evidence in support of this psychometric measure and improve clinical assessment and treatment approaches. The theoretical model of the STAT test is included in the concept of Integrated Systems Healing, which was developed independently, but has similar theoretical roots in Goetz and Caron’s (2005) bio-psychosocial model of the Systemic Healing used in the treatment of sick children. The author describes further conceptual developments within the concept of Integrated Systems Healing (Copyrighted © Richard Sherry 2011) to include the holistic systems approach, which could be used for a large-scale treatment with specific interacting components of Integration, Compassion, Developmentally scaled interventions, and Sustainability or the ICDS Model (Copyrighted © Richard Sherry 2011). This project has evolved improved strategies for integrative assessment, feedback, and holistic approaches for learning and programme development to improve people’s lives. These foundations of improved internal and external dynamic assessment connect to flexible tele-health approaches, using defined cut-off scores, elearning modules, and strategies for checking and reassessment. Further work links and integrates processes to identify and reduce vulnerability and strengthen resiliency and support.
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Ntibagirirwa, Symphorien. "Philosophical premises for African economic development : SEN’S capability approach." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25560.
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The focus of this research is the cultural assumptions underpinning Africa’s strategies of economic development, taking the Lagos Plan of Action (LPA) and the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) as case studies. It considers the issue whether the neglect of Africa’s cultural beliefs and values in African plans and policies of economic development may not lead to a development impasse. Accordingly, three major objectives are pursued. The first objective is to attempt a critical assessment of the two strategies of economic development, LPA and NEPAD, against the background of theories of economic development that informed them respectively and their cultural assumptions. Using both a theoretical reflection and an empirical approach, I argue that LPA and NEPAD relied on theories of economic development whose cultural foundations are not African. Consequently, although they were designed in Africa, their respective philosophical bases are not African. The second objective is to investigate the relationship between African cultural values and economic development and the extent to which the neglect of the African value system in African policymaking and planning could lead to a development impasse. Based on a theoretical reflection as well as empirical research, I argue that in both LPA and NEPAD, the beliefs and values that structure the African value system have been neglected to the extent of being ignored. The major implication of this neglect is that there is insufficient room for people’s participation in the process of their economic development. Participation makes possible the democratisation and the inculturation of economic development, and thus translates the universal conception of economic development to its local, cultural feasibility. The third objective is to propose certain philosophical premises that could guide development planning in Africa. I revisit the African value system and retrieve the Bantu concept of the human person as umuntu-w’-ubuntu / umuntu-mu-bantu in order to ground the future economic development of Africa on the African foundation. Using Sen’s capability approach which defines development in terms of the ability of people to lead the life they value and have reason to value, human agency and the expansion of capabilities (or real freedoms people enjoy), I suggest four philosophical premises which link African economic development to what Africans believe and value. The first premise consists of the shift from extroversion to the freedom of people to lead the lives they value and have reason to value. This premise deals with the spirit of extroversion which prevents Africans from appreciating their beliefs and values in the process of economic development. It emphasises the fact that development is not a project, but rather a process by which people create and recreate themselves and the conditions by which they can flourish fully. The second premise is the human agency. It deals with the shift from the conception of development as an autonomous process to the conception of development as an agency-based process. It emphasises that the development conceived of as an agency-based process, has as its starting-point and end-point the people. The third premise deals with the shift from the conception of development as an end product to development as an expansion of capability or the real freedoms people enjoy. This premise emphasises three major things. The first is that the expansion of people’s capability is both the end and the means of development. People’s capabilities are not only the primary end of development, they are also its principal means. The second is that development conceived of as the expansion of people’s capability is the concern of both the people and their structural institutions. The third is that the interaction between people and their structural institutions makes it possible to transcend the various dualities often observed in certain development approaches such as the bottom-up and topdown development. The fourth and last premise is the principle of baking the cake together. This premise follows from the fact that the capability approach leads to development as a participatory and inclusive process. It expresses the traditional practice of collaboration in the African community. It emphasises that the three major actors in the development process, namely, the state, the people and the market which tend to exclude each other, are all agents and must work together inclusively to achieve a sustainable economic development. These are the premises suggested to lead future economic development in Africa. Each of these assumptions has implications which are unpacked in the conclusion.<br>Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2012.<br>Philosophy<br>unrestricted
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Seleke, Bobedi. "South African competition law's approach to dual distribution arrangements." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/73062.
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Dual distribution arrangements are arrangements that, for the purposes of competition law, can simultaneously be classified as vertical and horizontal. In terms of the Competition Act No, 89 of 1998 (“the Act”), the actions that can be taken, and the legal consequences of those actions, are vastly different depending on the type of relationship between the parties. Unlike in a conventional horizontal relationship, in a dual distribution arrangement the manufacturer creates competition with itself. This type of hybrid relationship has confused competition authorities, as it is difficult to decide whether the horizontal or vertical aspect should prevail in order to characterise the agreement. In some instances, competition authorities have elected to disregard the other elements of the relationship and prosecute parties for contraventions of the Act based purely on one dimension of the relationship.<br>Mini Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2019.<br>Mercantile Law<br>LLM<br>Unrestricted
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Park, Jinho. "The saints of African Independent Churches in Namibia : empirical research from Korean missionary perpective." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/46160.
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The history of African Independent Churches (AICs) in Southern Africa goes back
for more than a hundred years. They have proliferated geographically and
demographically in Africa more than the mainline churches could ever have
imagined. They have grown to be as widespread and as influential as the African
mainline churches. The reason for this growth is that the AICs are the churches of
African indigenous people. They are launched by Africans from a background of
an African traditional and cultural frame of reference. The most significant reason
is that the founders of these churches are not Westerners, but Africans. Western
missionaries find it difficult to understand the AICs from their perspective. Thus the
Western churches describe the AICs as sectarian, separatist, syncretist, nativitist,
and so on. Nevertheless, some scholars are attempting to view the AICs in
positive ways.
The fact that these two different churches have never acknowledged each other as
true churches is a big challenge for Christian missions in Namibia. Each group has
been viewing and judging the other party through suspicious eyes from their own
perspective, each driving the other to block the channel of reconciliation before the
presence of God. With the aim of solving this problem, this thesis attempts to
answer the following questions about the AICs in Namibia:
• What are the reasons that the AICs in Namibia have been seceded from
mission churches?
• What are the activities in civil society in which the AICs in Namibia are
currently involved?
• Do the AICs engage in any activities which go against the Word of God?
• What causes other churches to be suspicious of the AICs?
• What level of enculturation is inherent to the AICs in Namibia? In other
words, what is the relationship between the liturgies of the AIC and African
traditional religion and African culture?
• What makes the AICs in Namibia regard themselves as a church?
Would it be possible for the AICs and the mainline churches in Namibia to
cooperate in Christian missionary work?
• What is a possible Korean missionary perspective on this particular
situation?
This will be dealt throughout this thesis from a Korean missionary missional
perspective.<br>Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2014.<br>tm2015<br>Science of Religion and Missiology<br>PhD<br>Unrestricted
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Bellhorn, Margaret Mary. "A Comparative Approach to Slave Life on Bermuda, 1780-1834." W&M ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625720.
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Naccarato, Celia. "The Experience of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing as a Therapeutic Approach in Healing Trauma." Scholarly Repository, 2008. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/100.
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Grounded theory method was used to explore the experiences of patients suffering the effects of psychological trauma who had received eye movement desensitization and reprocessing approach (EMDR) as treatment. Saturation of the categories was achieved with the analysis of 15 interviews. The basic social psychological process that emerged is transforming suffering and the core category is changes in perception. The three subcategories, relinquishing, presencing and emerging, form the conceptual framework for the stages of transforming suffering. The stages of relinquishing, presencing and emerging contain concepts and their properties to guide practice. The two dimensions of processing subsumed within each stage are temporal perspectives (past, present and future) and processing fields (physical field, cognitive field and transformative field). These concepts help explain the progression of the patient to experience resolution of the trauma and/or related symptoms/behaviors. Transforming suffering: changes in perception using EMDR is the resultant substantive theory. The implications of this theoretical framework for psychotherapeutic practice and future research are reviewed.
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Perry, Diana Lauren. "Talking Circle| A culturally appropriate approach to healing intergenerational trauma within an evidence-based paradigm." Thesis, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3559722.
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<p> There is currently widespread debate in the psychological community with regards to research on and provision of evidence-based practices. The American Psychological Association recently developed clinical and research guidelines for the implementation and investigation of culturally appropriate treatment interventions. As of 2000, there were 562 tribal entities recognized and eligible or funding and services from the Bureau of Indian Affairs (Ogunwole, 2002). This United States Indigenous contingent continues to be marginalized by diagnostic classification and treatment interventions that perpetuate or discount the role of cultural oppression (Gone, 2009). Whereas current literature speaks to a relationship between colonization and intergenerational trauma (Gone & Alcántara, 2007; Duran & Duran, 1995), the reenactment of this relationship in the Evidence-Based paradigm is under-researched (Smith-Morris, 2007). </p><p> This integrative literature review (ILR) ucovers the benefits of Talking Circle for Native and Native-minded persons and communities. Advocates for the implementation of culturally-appropriate diagnostic, treatment, and research methodologies report that inclusion assists in healing socio-historical wounds (Gone & Alcántara, 2007; Sue, Zane, Hall, & Berger, 2009). This is extremely relevant for contemporary Indigenous individuals, families, and communities. </p><p> The current study presents the viability of Talking Circle for slowing the transmission of trauma by offering a compelling argument supporting its evidence-based nature through a comparison of available research on trauma-informed treatment models with published findings on Talking Circle. Assumptions, literature review, critique of the literature review, and commentary on and appraisal of potentially translatable healing rituals supports a postcolonial driven conceptual model for the treatment of the soul wound, the Native equivalent of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Disorder of Extreme Stress Not Otherwise Specified (DESNOS). </p><p> This ILR assists in substantiating the logical inclusion of Talking Circle into the existing set of available evidence-based PTSD treatment interventions (as outlined in Jennings, 2004, 2008). Providing this conceptual model via an ILR allows for adequately assessing the specific aspects of the research on intergenerational trauma, available interventions, and existing needs. This project illuminates, in a multilayered way, the role of Talking Circle in indigenous life and for healing intergenerational trauma, the soul wound, in the Native community.</p>
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Knight, Elizabeth Dawn. "Psychosocial Stress And Delayed Wound Healing: A Novel Approach To Increase Nursing Awareness And Knowledge." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/556602.
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Background: Chronic wounds are a significant health problem in various populations. Psychosocial stress is a lifestyle factor that has been shown to directly influence wound healing. Current findings support roles for assessment and reduction of psychosocial stress in the comprehensive management of chronic wounds, however, a gap remains between current research and current clinical practice. Purpose: To develop a novel method by which to educate nurses about the effects of psychosocial stress on wound healing while incorporating state-of-the-art technology that is sensitive to the needs of individuals with various learning styles. Objectives: To review current literature documenting the relationship between chronic psychosocial distress and delayed wound healing to identify essential content to include in educational modules for nurses. To develop three educational modules for nurses in inpatient and outpatient settings that address the relationship between chronic psychosocial distress and delayed wound healing, and the effects of stress-reduction interventions in formats that meet the needs of different learning styles. To conduct a focus group discussion with nurse-participants regarding educational module content and delivery methods in order to evaluate and improve these educational modules. Methods: A series of literature reviews were performed between June, 2010 and October, 2013, using articles identified through searches using the databases PubMed and CINAHL. Essential content regarding psychosocial stress and its impact on wound healing was identified, and was used in the development of educational modules, designed to meet the basic needs of individuals with different learning styles. A purposive sample of nurses was recruited through the use of flyers, reviewed the educational modules online, and met for a focus group to discuss their experiences with these modules. Outcomes: A novel method was developed by which to deliver educational material to nurses about psychosocial stress and delayed wound healing. Participants were motivated to learn, had self-awareness of their preferred learning styles, and responded positively to this method of education delivery; they were able to articulate the basic concepts presented in the modules. These findings may be generalizable to a larger audience and may inform the development of future education-delivery approaches in this area.
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Mirzaei, Narek. "Healing By Design: Evidence-Based Approach in Designing Brain & Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Center." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1491315343286767.
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Menke, Nathan. "A COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY APPROACH TO THE ANALYSIS OF COMPLEX PHYSIOLOGY: COAGULATION, FIBRINOLYSIS, AND WOUND HEALING." VCU Scholars Compass, 2010. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/2093.
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The birth of complexity research derives from the logical progression of advancement in the scientific field afforded by reductionist theory. We present in silico models of two complex physiological processes, wound healing and coagulation/fibrinolysis based on two common tools in the study of complex physiology: ordinary differential equations (ODE) and Agent Based Modeling (ABM). The strengths of these two approaches are well-suited in the analysis of clinical paradigms such as wound healing and coagulation. The complex interactions that characterize acute wound healing have stymied the development of effective therapeutic modalities. The use of computational models holds the promise to improve our basic approach to understanding the process. We have modified an existing ordinary differential equation model by 1) evolving from a systemic model to a local model, 2) the incorporation of fibroblast activity, and3) including the effects of tissue oxygenation. Possible therapeutic targets, such as fibroblast death rate and rate of fibroblast recruitment have been identified by computational analysis. This model is a step toward constructing an integrative systems biology model of human wound healing. The coagulation and fibrinolytic systems are complex, inter-connected biological systems with major physiological roles. We present an Agent Based Modeling and Simulation (ABMS) approach to these complex interactions. This ABMS method successfully reproduces the initiation, propagation, and termination of blood clot formation and its lysis in vitro due to the activation of either the intrinsic or extrinsic pathways. Furthermore, the ABMS was able to simulate the pharmacological effects of two clinically used anticoagulants, warfarin and heparin, as well as the physiological effects of enzyme deficiency/dysfunction, i.e., hemophilia and antithrombin III-heparin binding impairment, on the coagulation system. The results of the model compare favorably with in vitro experimental data under both physiologic and pathophysiologic conditions. Our computational systems biology approach integrates reductionist experimental data into a cohesive model that allows rapid evaluation of the effects of multiple variables. Our ODE and AMBS models offer the ability to generate non-linear responses based on known relationships among variables and in silico modeling of mechanistic biological rules on computer software, respectively. Simulations of normal and disease states as well as effects of therapeutic intervention demonstrate the potential uses of computer simulation. Specifically, models may be applied to hypothesis generation and biological advances, discovery of new diagnostic and therapeutic options, platforms to test novel therapies, and opportunities to predict adverse events during drug development. The ultimate aim of such models is creation of bedside simulators that allow personalized, individual medicine; however, a myriad of opportunities for scientific advancement are opened through in silico experimentation.
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Polzenhagen, Frank. "Cultural conceptualisations in West African English : a cognitive-linguistic approach /." Frankfurt am Main [u.a.] : Lang, 2007. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=016163259&line_number=0004&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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