Search results for "Autobio"
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Toxic Bios: Toxic Autobiographies—A Public Environmental Humanities Project
2019
Abstract In this article, we present Toxic Bios, a public environmental humanities (EH) project that aims to coproduce, gather, and make visible stories of contamination and resistance. To explain ...
Access to autobiographical memory as an emotion regulation strategy and its relation to dispositional mindfulness
2016
Mindfulness research has extensively focused on mechanisms that make it work. Emotional regulation (ER) has been proposed as one of the mechanisms to explain the effects of mindfulness on health. ER is composed of a broad set of strategies, such as the use of autobiographical memory (AM), which refers to the recollection of personally experienced past events to regulate the emotion (i.e., remembering a positive past event in order to calm anxiety). Authors suggest that mindfulness and AM are related. However, few studies exist to explore this relationship that could promote a more adaptive ER. The aim of this study is to explore the relationship between the mindfulness trait and the use of …
How do people talk decades later about their crisis that we call psychosis? : A qualitative study of the personal meaning-making process
2019
Psychosis refers to a severe mental state that often significantly affects the individual’s life course. However, it remains unclear how people with the lived experiences themselves view these phenomena, as part of their life story. In order to evaluate this personal meaning-making process, we conducted in-depth life-story interviews with 20 people who had been diagnosed with non-affective psychosis 10 to 23 years previously in one catchment area. 35% of them were still receiving mental health treatment, and 55% of them were diagnosed with schizophrenia. Only a minority named their experiences as psychosis. On the basis of narrative analysis, two types of stories appeared to encompass how m…
Effectiveness of follow-up reminiscence therapy on autobiographical memory in pathological ageing
2015
The objective is to examine the effects of reminiscence therapy (RT) on total, episodic and semantic autobiographical memory in amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) groups, testing the effects of RT on different stages of autobiographical memory, and its effectiveness at follow-up. A sample composed of 43 aMCI (27 treatments, 16 controls) and 30 AD (15 treatments, 15 controls) subjects were evaluated with the Autobiographical Memory Interview (AMI) test. The RT consisted of 10 sessions lasting 60 minutes each. Both groups, aMCI and AD, showed significant effects on overall autobiographical memory; aMCI showed significant main effects on episodic and semanti…
La construcció del subjecte autobiogràfic femení en la literatura catalana de la immigració
2013
Com a conseqüència dels moviments migratoris de recepció de les dues últimes dècades del segle XX, la literatura catalana ha incorporat noves veus, noves fesonomies i noves identitats. En aquesta investigació ens centrem en les obres autobiogràfiques escrites per dones migrants i analitzem quin ha estat el procés de construcció identitària que han volgut legitimar.
Un programa constructivista de prevención de drogodependencias derivado de la hipótesis de la susceptibilidad
2001
Los programas de prevención de drogodependencias tienen que estar apoyados en determinados presupuestos teóricos.La hipótesis de susceptibilidad sugiere implicaciones para la realización de programas preventivos: que los programas de prevención deben dirigirse a los sujetos antes de la entrada en la segunda etapa de separación. Y que sería conveniente que la prevención se realizara en grupo por la influencia del grupo de iguales.Además se tendría que reforzar el rol parental para que desarrollen estrategias que permitan expresar a los padres su capacidad afectiva con los hijos y fomentar el auto-concepto.Por otro lado, los programas de prevención tienen que incluir en su diseño módulos para…
Gli avantesti delle opere abbandonate. Georges Perec e la disseminazione dei fantasmi del romanzo
2022
The abandoned work is a form of voluntary incompletion because the interruption of the writing process is decided by the author himself. Abandonment is preceded by considerations and traces that make the process intelligible, especially when identified in avant-textual documents in which the author often not only plans the construction of the text but also reasons about it by tracing the criticalities that condition its progress. The article aims to reflect on some aspects of Georges Perec's abandoned works, showing how these are integrated within the completed works through the processes of dissemination and proliferation.
Selective deficits in episodic feeling of knowing in ageing: A novel use of the general knowledge task
2015
Failure to recall an item from memory can be accompanied by the subjective experience that the item is known but currently unavailable for report. The feeling of knowing (FOK) task allows measurement of the predictive accuracy of this reflective judgement. Young and older adults were asked to provide answers to general knowledge questions both prior to and after learning, thus measuring both semantic and episodic memory for the items. FOK judgements were made at each stage for all unrecalled responses, providing a measure of predictive accuracy for semantic and episodic knowledge. Results demonstrated a selective effect of age on episodic FOK resolution, with older adults found to have impa…
Autobiographical Memory Impairment in Adolescents in Out-of-Home Care.
2020
Childhood maltreatment is a major risk factor for emotional problems in adolescence and adulthood and has deleterious effects on cognitive functions such as working memory. A key aspect in the study of the cognitive and affective consequences of maltreatment is autobiographical memory, especially regarding the difficulty retrieving specific memories, known as overgeneral memory. In this study, autobiographical memory tests, working memory, and a depressive symptom assessment were administered to 48 adolescents in care with a history of maltreatment (22 abused and 26 neglected) without mental disorder, who had been removed from their family and were living in residential child care, and to …