Recovering from Silence. Composing Self in Time, Spaces, and Friendships: A Narrative Inquiry with Four Mothers Supporting Adolescent Children through Long-Term Addictions Treatment

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dc.contributor.advisorEstefan, Dr. Andrew
dc.contributor.advisorCaine, Dr. Vera
dc.contributor.advisorEwashen, Dr. Carol
dc.contributor.advisorSt. George, Dr. Sally
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Jacqueline
dc.date.accessioned2015-08-26T14:20:46Z
dc.date.available2015-11-20T08:00:36Z
dc.date.issued2015-08-26
dc.date.submitted2015en
dc.description.abstractAddiction is a complex and growing phenomenon that affects many people in many different contexts. Mothering a child through long-term addiction treatment is an under-researched context. This study is a narrative inquiry into the experiences of four mothers parenting children through long-term addiction treatment. Narrative inquirers explore experience by attending to features of temporality, sociality, and place as they feature in stories that are both lived and told. During 12 months of narrative inquiry fieldwork, four participants and myself inquired into their experiences as mothers of children with addictions. Four narrative accounts of these experiences are presented. These co-composed accounts speak powerfully to participants’ experiences on complex personal, familial, social, and addiction landscapes. The narrative accounts provide a basis for theorizing four narrative threads: navigating complexities; loud silences; living within one another’s stories, and; places, spaces, and the in-between. This dissertation concludes in the midst of participants’ lives. Recommendations for practice, research, and narrative inquiry fieldwork are made.en_US
dc.identifier.citationSmith, J. (2015). Recovering from Silence. Composing Self in Time, Spaces, and Friendships: A Narrative Inquiry with Four Mothers Supporting Adolescent Children through Long-Term Addictions Treatment (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/27562en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/27562
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11023/2406
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher.facultyGraduate Studies
dc.publisher.facultyNursing
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.publisher.placeCalgaryen
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.
dc.subjectNursing
dc.subject.classificationNursingen_US
dc.subject.classificationIndividual and Family Studiesen_US
dc.subject.classificationMental Healthen_US
dc.titleRecovering from Silence. Composing Self in Time, Spaces, and Friendships: A Narrative Inquiry with Four Mothers Supporting Adolescent Children through Long-Term Addictions Treatment
dc.typedoctoral thesis
thesis.degree.disciplineNursing
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgary
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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