Examining Family Transition with the Current Narratives

Examining narrative transportation to anti-alcohol narratives.

This study examined the transportation effects of alcohol consequence narratives varying in source (written by the narrative protagonist vs. protagonist's partner) and type of heath consequence (physical or emotional). Additionally, this study examined the role of narrative transportation and cognitive and discrete affective responses in the persuasion process. In this study, 501 students of a ...

Examining Family Stress: Theory and Research

Family narratives, culture, and patient-centered medicine.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES As part of our family medicine clerkship seminar on the patient-physician relationship, third-year students write about an illness episode within their own families. METHODS Using a grounded research approach, we examined 260 student narratives to extract the most significant meanings. RESULTS Significant themes that emerged include the role of family members in il...

Narratives of family transition during the first year post-head injury: perspectives of the non-injured members.

AIM To explore the narratives created by non-injured family members in relation to themselves and their family in the first year after head injury. BACKGROUND A head injury is a potentially devastating injury. The family responds to this injury by supporting the individual and their recovery. While the perspective of individual family members has been well documented, there is growing interes...

Preventing adolescent depression with the family check-up: Examining family conflict as a mechanism of change.

Family-centered prevention programs are understudied for their effects on adolescent depression, despite considerable evidence that supports their effectiveness for preventing escalation in youth problem behavior and substance use. This study was conducted with 2 overarching goals: (a) replicate previous work that has implicated the Family Check-Up (FCU), a multilevel, gated intervention model ...