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Constructing positive narrative identities in a forensic setting: a single case evaluation of phototherapy
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the use of a phototherapeutic technique called “Talking Pictures” within the forensic setting. This approach involves the use of a set of photographs to facilitate clients’ disclosure, self-growth and promote the development of positive self-narratives. The use of art therapies and the construction of adaptive identity narratives have been proven to support desistance and increase resocialization in the prison population. Design/methodology/approach: A 42-year-old Italian male offender was met for six therapy sessions and invited to talk about his past, present and future through the use of photographs. Session transcripts were analysed using the software for linguistic analysis T-LAB. Findings: Results show a progression in the language used during the sessions: in the beginning the client uses a denotative language with many concrete nouns and no emotional words, in subsequent sessions his speech begins to assume more symbolic connotations and emotional words are used to describe past traumas as well as to find new meanings to present events. Moreover, the fixity of the client’s self-image is contrasted with the emergence of new sides to his personality encompassing agency and self-worth. Research limitations/implications: The study is based on a single case, therefore results cannot be generalised to the prison population; moreover, the absence of any follow-up and standardized measurements of the client’s progression should be addressed by future research by both involving larger samples and including follow-up and quantitative measures of the study results. Practical implications: The paper provides details on an innovative technique that might be used to explore the offenders’ goods and values and to develop truly redemptive rehabilitation programmes. Originality/value: This paper adds to the scant literature on phototherapy in prisons and connects it with a reflection on desistance indicating that phototherapeutic interventions might be used to promote positive self-narratives, thus increasing desistance.
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Discourse analysis; Forensic setting; Health Professions (miscellaneous); Narrative identity; Phototherapy; Prisoner resocialization; Settore M-PSI/07 - PSICOLOGIA DINAMICA; Sex offender
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URL: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=ijph
https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPH-11-2017-0057
http://hdl.handle.net/10807/131852
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Changing the Record: Narrative policy analysis and the politics of emissions trading in New Zealand
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Beyond the clinic? Eluding a medical diagnosis of anorexia through narrative
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На пути к новой академической грамматике ... : Towards the New Russian Academic Grammar ...
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Worlds with Words: Discourse and Frame Analysis of Performance Storytelling
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In: Electronic Theses and Dissertations (2018)
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The Udi additive clitic -al in prose discourse ; Удинская аддитивная клитика -al в прозаическом дискурсе
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Tales from the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea: Psycholinguistic and Anthropological Linguistic Analyses of Tales Told by Trobriand Children and Adults
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Análise de interações interlocutivas em um portal educacional online: tema e valoração ; Interlocutive interaction analysis in an online educational platform: theme and valuation
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Vieira, Inlgyde Jeane da Silva. - : Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, 2018. : Curitiba, 2018. : Brasil, 2018. : Mestrado em Estudos de Linguagens, 2018. : UTFPR, 2018
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Storia familiare e memoria narrativa in due testimonianze provenienti dalla Prussia orientale. Lineamenti di ricerca
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(Re) Constructing Identities: South African Domestic Workers, English Language Learning, and Power
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Toward a typology of ranking elements of narrative discourse in languages and cultures : a cross-linguistic survey [Online resource]
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In: International journal of literary linguistics : IJLL 6 (2017) 1, Art. 2, 1-22
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Non-Speech-Act Participants in Chiricahua Apache Narrative: With Special Reference to the Fourth Person
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Narrative Discourse Analysis and Bible Translation: Training materials based on Acts 16:16–40
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Discourse Patterns in Lord Randall, a Traditional English Ballad: Storyline and Information Structure ; แบบแผนสัมพันธสารในลำนำนิทานภาษาอังกฤษเรื่องลอร์ด เรนดัล: การดำเนินเรื่องและโครงสร้างสาร
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Inter-individual variability in discourse informativeness in elderly populations.
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In: Clinical linguistics & phonetics, vol. 31, no. 5, pp. 391-408 (2017)
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The role of the English language in Oman English Foreign Radio Station 90.4FM in broadcasting local content across Oman
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Al Shehhi, Faisal. - : The University of Queensland, School of Communication and Arts, 2017
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'Grandmas' in debate: A first-person story told in Taiwan's presidential debate as a rhetorical device and public reactions to its credibility
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In: Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; Vol 2 (2017): Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; 13:1–15 ; 2473-8689 (2017)
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Narrative approaches in language sciences : what light do they shed on temporality ? Answer from a corpus of stories collected by accounting students from chartered accountants
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In: Les SHS face au foisonnement biographique : innovations méthodologiques et diversité des approches ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01326314 ; Les SHS face au foisonnement biographique : innovations méthodologiques et diversité des approches, Mar 2016, Paris, France (2016)
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