Novel Approaches for Resilience Research Relevance. Research/2. Dialogue and Ideas Lab...
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Novel Approaches for
Resilience Research RelevanceChristine Wekerle, Ph.D.,
McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @DrWekerle #CIHRTeamSVYoutube: ResilienceInYouth
#CIHRTeamSV Research Project: https://www.researchgate.net/project/Understa
nding-health-risks-and-promoting-resilience-in-male-youth-with-sexual-violence-experience-
CIHR-Team-Grant-TE3-13830
Resilience research part of emerging landscape:
Child Abuse & Neglect terms 2010-2014
Citation
impact:
Interpersonal Resilience
“... the capacity to foster, engage in,
and sustain positive relationships and to
endure and recover from life stressors
and social isolation.
Its unique signature is the transformation
of adversity into personal, relational,
and collective growth
through strengthening existing social
engagements, and developing new
relationships, with creative collective
actions.”
(Cacioppo et al., 2011, p. 44)
Lived Experience – Youth Voices
Wisdom- to-Action Event: From Trauma to
Resilience (#W2ATR)
Partnership with Teens Ending Abusive
Relationships (TEAR) Toronto Police VS
#TEARtalk Twitter chat Thursdays 7 pm
EST
Archived on Storify
https://storify.com/ChurchVeronique/cons
entculture-teartalk-vstoronto-whiteribbon
Watch videos from the #W2ATR event on
our YouTube page at
www.youtube.com/cyccnetwork
“There is a large number of like minded
people who feel that the, system has
serious flaws. Frontline people are not
consulted with enough … and therefore
the outcomes of research is wide of the
mark.”
Canadian Institutes of Health
Research (CIHR)
Awarded IHDCYH Video Talks 2015 The Maltreatment and Adolescent
Pathways (MAP) Research Study – Key
Findings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z
es-
PJi2OY&list=PLxWz0fEGuv6oBzjm34lYd2
ykUH8IoXkCX&index=4
For a listing of MAP Study Publications –
Please email to [email protected]
Avoidance & Dissociation for victims
“Gaze aversion” for professionals
AVOIDANCE (REJECTING PRESENT) DISSOCIATION (LEAVING PRESENT)
Art approach: Language to emotions
Toronto Alexithymia Scale Avg. Diff. - 11 PTSD studies
1) Difficulty identifying feelings, and distinguishing from bodily sensations
I am often confused about what emotion I am feeling
I don’t know what’s going on inside of me
2) Difficulty describing-communicating feelings with words
It is difficult for me to find the right words for my feelings
People tell me to describe my feelings more
3) Externally-oriented thinking style
I prefer to just let things happen rather than to understand why they turned out that way
I prefer talking to people about their daily activities than their feelings
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Control PTSD
TAS-20
Bagby, Parker, & Taylor (1994) J Psychosomatic Research Results based on Frewen et al. (2008) J Traumatic Stress
Perspectives: Art as change-maker
The idea of the work of art as part of a
process
…creation-in-process…the witnessing of
the challenges, struggles and
achievements
The statues are no longer dead in their
cases. Our histories are no longer mute.
The hierarchy of value is being replaced by
an equality of curiosity and exchange.
From Frieze.com by Nana Oforiatta-Ayim is a writer and
filmmaker based in Accra, Ghana, where she runs the cultural
research platform, ANO.
“Butcher Boys” (1986) by South African artist Jane Alexander
Why is art relevant to clinical science &
practice?
Shared methodology: Artists are experimenters
Attention naturally drawn to contrasts: hard-
edge boundaries of light and dark
Careful “vision” is an effort to separate out
impact of context on perception (“look & look
again”)
Context-dependent “seeing” (thinking)
depends on current situation and lived
experiences
Application of the formal art analysis approach
to increase perceptual acuity
The longer you look, you see a change…(Dromointerferencia Espacial 17 by Carlos Cruz-Diez)
#PicturingWellness Initiative Considering resilience across systems; part of a series of Peace
exhibits
(1) Art- & Case-Based Approach to Child Maltreatment Knowledge
(2) Art with Impact McMaster University Student Video Competition
Craig Kung, “Picturing Wellness” https://vimeo.com/125338794
(3) Picturing Wellness I & II Exhibit - McMaster Museum of Art
I: Faculty group selected from Museum collection that resonated
with theme of trauma to resilience, from their client base
(pediatrician, adolescent medicine, palliative care, child abuse
& neglect specialty team, child developmental disability,
psychiatry, family medicine)
Using formal art analysis approach, coached to write art piece
reflection
Pamphlet with child abuse & neglect definitions (law),
prevalence and population research, permissive and mandatory
reporting; help resources
II: Contemporary art pieces
“Errata”: Catherine Heard
“Tensor Teddy” - Michelle Bellmare
Thank you for your attention!
We invite you to submit resilience work to www.in-car.ca, International Journal of Child and Adolescent Resilience – Submit by August 1st