Showing papers by "Brett Smith published in 2010"
TL;DR: In this article, a typology of different ways in which stories can be analyzed is introduced, with two contrasting standpoints toward narrative analysis (storyteller and story analyst) and three specific methods (structural, performative, and autoethnograpic creative analytic practices) that each standpoint might use to analyse the whats and hows of storytelling.
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TL;DR: The authors focused attention on five main issues within ongoing conversations among sport and exercise psychology researchers who promote and/or engage in narrative research, including, motivations for why researchers have turned to narrative, the concept of self-the self, interviewing, the issue of "truth" and representation.
Abstract: Narrative inquiry, as one form of qualitative research, has recently attracted some interest within the field of sport and exercise psychology. Seeking to be theoretically imaginative and instigate dialogue, this article focuses attention on five main issues within ongoing conversations among sport and exercise psychology researchers who promote and/or engage in narrative research. Theoretically inspired and grounded, these interrelated issues include, motivations for why researchers have turned to narrative, the concept of ‘the self’, interviewing, the issue of ‘truth’, and representation. Some implications of these issues for sport and exercise psychology are also highlighted. The article closes with some reflections about the future directions that narrative inquiry might take.
153 citations
TL;DR: The most common kinds of hope used and offered by the physiotherapists in the process of working with people with neurological disease were evident in five themes: 1) Realistic Hope, 2) False Hope, 3) Accepting Hope and No Need to Hope, 4) Hope in Faith, and 5) No Hope.
Abstract: Drawing on data from a qualitative study of a small group of physiotherapists, this article explores the meaning of hope in neurological physiotherapy practice. Nine female physiotherapists (43.2 8.5 years) each took part in a one-off semistructured interview. The most common kinds of hope used and offered by the physiotherapists in the process of working with people with neurological disease were evident in five themes. These are termed 1) Realistic Hope, 2) False Hope, 3) Accepting Hope and No Need to Hope, 4) Hope in Faith, and 5) No Hope. Neurological experience with patients in physiotherapy provides stories that relate to hope and this informs the way they understand it. It is important that when considering therapeutic outcome, the physiotherapists recognised the need for having a realistic hope and the danger of having a false hope. However, both were balanced with the need to accept that the unknown was possible and not limiting this or losing their dream. Where hope in relation to recovery was not possible, hope in other areas of life was emphasised. The implications of this dynamic process of working with different kinds of hope in relation to people with neurological disease are considered.
48 citations
TL;DR: Demand elasticities are derived from choice elasticities for a separable group of close substitutes as discussed by the authors, and they are shown to be similar for minor group members but radically different for the dominant member.
7 citations