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- Gunnarsson, A Birgitta, 1958, et al.
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A study protocol of the photo-supported conversations about the well-being intervention (Be Well (TM)) for people with stress related disorders
- 2021
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Ingår i: Bmc Psychology. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 2050-7283. ; 9:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Stress-related illnesses constitute a huge problem in society. The primary care services in Sweden form the first line of care whose role is to coordinate interventions for reducing symptoms, as well as health-promoting interventions. There is lack of knowledge concerning health-promoting interventions for these illnesses. The aim of this study is to evaluate whether photo-supported conversations about well-being (Be Well (TM)) as an intervention, in addition to care as usual within the primary care services, improves health and well-being for patients with stress-related illnesses. The intervention will be compared to a control group, who receive care as usual. A further aim is to conduct a process evaluation. Methods/Design: This ongoing project has a quasi-experimental design, using quantitative and qualitative methods, and includes patients from primary care centres in two Swedish counties. Seventy patients, 20-67 years, with stress-related illnesses will be recruited. They constitute an intervention group, which receive the intervention together with care as usual, and a control group, which receive care as usual. The intervention, photo-supported conversations about well-being, involves 12 sessions. Care as usual entails medication, occupational therapy, physiotherapy and/or psychotherapy. Data collection is carried out at baseline, and outcomes are assessed directly after the intervention, as well as six months after completion of the intervention. The outcomes are evaluated based on factors related to health, well-being and everyday occupations. Furthermore, data concerning experiences of well-being and perceptions of the intervention will be collected in interviews. The therapists will also be interviewed about their experiences of performing the intervention. Data will be analysed with non-parametric statistics, and qualitative methodology. Discussion: The project is based on the concept that focusing on well-being despite living with stress-related illness may positively impact health and well-being as well as activity-related aspects, and that photo-supported conversations about well-being can contribute a complement to other treatment and rehabilitation. A strength is the use of a wide range of methods: such as quantitative measures, photographs, and qualitative interviews with participants and therapists. The results will thus provide knowledge about potential effects of this health-promoting intervention.
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- Gunnarsson, Birgitta, et al.
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Be WellTM – an intervention using photo-supported conversations to promote well-being in people living with stress-related illness
- 2022
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Ingår i: Caring in a changing world.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Stress-related mental health illnesses are increasing in all ages. Be-WellTM is a health-promoting intervention intended for primary healthcare. Be-WellTM involves 12 sessions based on photo-supported conversations. Patients use their mobiles to photograph situations about well-being, and the photos are used as a starting point for dialogues with their therapist. Aim: The aims of this study are to evaluate the feasibility of Be-WellTM, and to compare the outcomes concerning health and well-being in the intervention group with those of a control group. Method: This ongoing study is conducted in Swedish primary healthcare. A total of 70 patients in working age, living with stress-related disorders will be recruited. The intervention group receive the intervention Be-WellTM in addition to care as usual, and the controls only receive care as usual. Prior to and directly after the intervention, and after 6 months, the participants complete questionnaires and take part in qualitative interviews about stress and well-being in their present life-situation and experiences from participating in Be-WellTM. Non-parametric and qualitative analysis will be used. Results: Twenty-nine of 35 participants have been recruited to the intervention and 28 of 35 participants to the control group. We will present the research design and preliminary outcomes from the baseline and follow-up data.Conclusion: If the intervention Be-WellTM is found to be feasible with positive outcomes, the health-promoting intervention Be-WellTM can be useful as a complementary intervention in primary healthcare for patients with stress-related illness. Implications for Caring in a changing world: Probably, photo-supported conversations may promote well-being to other patients in different life situations, but future research is warranted.
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How Does It Feel? : Making Sense of Pain
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This volume represents a multi-disciplinary investigation of the puzzle of pain. The concept of pain is immensely broad, encompassing psychological, physical and existential suffering; it enters into many areas of personal life and can acquire deep personal meanings and be expressed in a myriad of ways. At the same time, the ways in which we think of pain are influenced by collective understandings which are historically situated, embedded as they are, at any given time, in mutual engagements that result from shared stories of suffering. Pain both challenges and changes attention, and daily life must be adapted to accommodate it. The communication of pain is a complex nested relationship where a great deal can be at stake; therefore meanings are constructed, often in order that the dread of uncertainty may be bypassed. In this process, the actual nature of the pain and the attendant suffering are often obscured. The body of scholarly work presented in this volume has contributed to our understanding of pain-in-context through incisive studies of a variety of exigencies of life where pain and suffering occur, and where personal and collective suffering are intertwined. Our pervasive anxiety about suffering is grounded in its enormous complexity and in the intricate connections that exist between the vicissitudes of pain and our responses to it. Pain is ambiguous, sometimes even mysterious; it is anxiety-provoking and disruptive, and yet we can also learn from it. Sadly, we inflict it, too, intentionally or in the course of actions directed toward other aims. The contributors to this volume address a variety of these intricate issues, though not always in a conclusive way. Pain remains enigmatic, elusive and endlessly fascinating, just like human existence itself.
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- Johansson, Anna, 1980-, et al.
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Iconography of suffering in social media : images of sitting girls
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Ingår i: World suffering and quality of life. - Dordrecht : Springer. - 9789401796699 - 9789401796705 ; , s. 341-355
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper examines the online iconography of mental suffering by using the visual trope of a hunched-over sitting girl as a case in point. By analyzing images of sitting girls found in YouTube video montages on self-harm, and also tracking their further online existence through image search engines, we suggest that the popularity of this trope stems from its generic character, where the girl can be read as simultaneously docile and as actively refusing to engage with the world around her. While not new in itself, the trope is circulated and put to use in new ways through social media with emphasis on remix and visual communication. We argue that media-specific features, together with gender and mental health discourses, enable particular representations and aesthetic styles that may both reinforce and alleviate suffering.
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- Johansson, Anna, et al.
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Ridiculing suffering on YouTube : digital parodies of Emo style
- 2014
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Numerous YouTube videos represent and comment on self-injury, as evidenced by a search for this term which returns about 123 000 results (June 6, 2014). In previous studies, we have explored how suffering, embodiment and gender are performed in such personal videos through the use of digital technology and the YouTube platform in particular (Johansson 2013, Sternudd and Johansson forthcoming, Johansson & Sternudd in press). There is, however, one category of video clips that deserves further discussion: those that parody self-injury videos and ridicule people who self-injure through imitation and trivialization.In this paper, we analyse a number of such video parodies in order to demonstrate how humour is used to convey norms and ideas regarding mental suffering and gender. The existence of parodies implies that there is in fact a recognizable genre of self-injury videos to parody. Mockery, then, is not only aimed at self-injury as an embodied performance of mental suffering, but also at its digital display which tend to be ridiculed as mere attention-seeking. Furthermore, jokes often allude to gender stereotypes, revealing how performances of mental suffering are denigrated when associated with young femininity. Hence, we aim to discuss what these parodies tell us about the wider social and cultural context of suffering and about the relation between conceptualizations of suffering and constructions of community. To conclude, we suggest that humour in this context may be seen as transgressive insofar as it jokes about a controversial topic – suffering – and insofar as it is reappropriated or articulated by the very individuals who self-harm, but that the videos largely reinforce hegemonic ideas and the stigmatization of individuals who already suffer.
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- Johansson, Anna, 1980-, et al.
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Ridiculing suffering on YouTube : digital parodies of emo style
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Ingår i: Blunt traumas. - Oxford : Inter-Disciplinary Press. - 9781848884694 - 9789004370432 ; , s. 31-40
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Numerous YouTube videos represent and comment on self-injury, as evidenced by a search for this term, which produces about 123,000 results (6 June 2014). In previous studies, we have explored how suffering, the body, and gender are performed in such personal videos. During our YouTube study, we have also encountered a specific category of video clips that merits further discussion: videos that in different ways attempt to parody or make fun of self-injury and mental distress. What most of them have in common is that they focus on self-injury as part of the so-called emo subculture or emo style. The purpose of this chapter is to discuss what such videos tell us about cultural conceptions of suffering and gender. Our analysis builds on a small sample of three YouTube videos in which emo culture and mental distress are parodied and ridiculed through exaggeration. We demonstrate that the parodies revolve around two main points: emo as a stylised performance of suffering, and emo as queer masculinity. The chapter concludes by suggesting that this ridiculing of emo culture builds upon discourses of hegemonic masculinity and normative heterosexuality which are also likely to have consequences for the understanding of mental suffering, emotional sensitivity, and gender in a broader context.
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Painful conversations : making pain sens(e)ible
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Painful Conversations is an interdisciplinary anthology about pain. Problems concerning communicating and understanding pain are discussed with examples that stretches from literature to caretaking, from self-induced pain in religious and cultural contexts to problems of pain in theological and philosophical perspectives.
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- Sternudd, Hans T., 1955-, et al.
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A room of your own : Photographs of situations of well-being taken by patients suffering from a stress-related illness
- 2023
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Ingår i: Visual Studies. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1472-586X .- 1472-5878.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The study presented in this article is part of the project‘Finding Viability in Daily Life’. In the project, participantproducedphotographs of situations of well-being were usedin interviews. A knowledge gap was identified: mediaspecificaspects of photographic material used in relatedresearch were not considered. In this study, photographstaken by twelve women aged 27–54 with a stress-relatedillness were examined. The research questions was: Howare situations of well-being visually represented inphotographs produced by the participants in the project,and how are these situations described in words by theparticipants? The results show that a typical photographhad a balanced composition, depicted a closed space withisolated object/s situated close to the beholder, and wastaken from above. Indoor settings were more dominantthan outdoor ones. The outdoor settings showed an openspace and horizontal depictions more often than the indoorones. A typical photograph depicted an activity or objectsrelated to activities. By portraying calm and manageablespaces, the photographs visually suggested that qualitieslike balance and control are important aspects ofexperiencing well-being. These qualities of spaces forexperiencing well-being were confirmed in interviews withthe participants and by previous studies in the project.
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- Sternudd, Hans T., 1955-, et al.
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Att etablera konstvetenskap i det 21:a århundradet : Exemplen Växjö och Karlstad
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Ingår i: Hundra år av svensk konsthistoria – och sen?.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- 1960-talets Sverige präglades av expansion och utbyggnad av viktiga samhällsinstitutioner och ökad efterfrågan på högre utbildning. Riksdag och regering beslutade att universitets-filialer skulle etableras i Karlstad, Linköping, Växjö och Örebro från 1967, så att den högre utbildningen skulle komma fler människor till del och fler delar av landet få tillgång till avancerad kunskap. Det dröjde ett tag innan denna utbyggnad kom det konstvetenskapliga ämnet till del. Det fanns dock efterfrågan från flera håll. Den expanderande lärarutbildningens inslag av bildpedagogik krävde konst- och bildkunniga lärare, designutbildningarna efterfrågade designhistorisk kunskap och de kulturhistoriska institutionerna mötte önskemål om utbildning i konsthistoria.I detta kapitel kommer vi att redogöra för hur ämnet konst- och bildvetenskap etablerades vid universiteten i Växjö och Karlstad vid det senaste millennieskiftet, det vill säga ca 100 år efter den första etableringen av ämnet i Sverige. Vi avser att diskutera de olika förutsättningar som rådde inom akademin och samhället, och jämföra hur de påverkade inriktning och möjlighet till profilering den första gången ämnet instiftades i Lund och Uppsala med den sista, i alla fall den senaste, gången, i Karlstad och Växjö.Vi avser att beskriva hur ämnena har vuxit fram inom de båda universiteten och hur de utvecklats. Vår text kommer att analysera hur organisatoriska strukturer på lärosätena och allianser med andra ämnen påverkade ämnena i såväl undervisnings- som forskningshänseende. Vi avser att beskriva hur likheter och skillnader mellan konstvetenskap och bildpedagogik breddade repertoaren av relevanta metoder och teorier, vilket var betydelsefullt för utvecklingen av mellanliggande områden såsom konstpedagogik. Samarbete med designutbildning gav konstvetarna praktisk förankring av teoretiska kunskaper och bidrog till de blivande designernas utveckling av historisk och teoretisk förståelse av sin yrkesmässiga verksamhet.Intresset för ämnets verksamhet inom regionala konst- och kulturorganisationer har också gett en god förankring inom arbetslivet, vilket också kan kopplas till studenternas deltagande i utbildningsprogram med stor samhällsrelevans.
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