Equine-Facilitated Counselling and Women With Eating Disorders: Articulating Bodily Experience

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dc.contributor.advisorStrong, Tom
dc.contributor.authorSharpe, Hillary
dc.date.accessioned2013-07-10T16:31:03Z
dc.date.available2013-11-12T08:00:14Z
dc.date.issued2013-07-10
dc.date.submitted2013en
dc.description.abstractDisordered eating is on the rise and our current conceptualization and treatment of such problems neglects a corporeal-relational understanding in favour of a more cognitive approach. In this hermeneutic phenomenological study, I explore the experiences of fourteen women with eating disorders who took part in an Equine-Facilitated Counselling group. The participants engaged in group and individual interviews that helped to articulate a language for understanding their bodily-relational experiences. Through dialogic movement and communication with their horses, the participants were able to attune in different ways to themselves and their worlds, thus interrupting some of the habitual practices of disordered eating. These changes in attunement occurred during moments of communion with their horses, but also had an influence afterwards, in a variety of ways that led to the creation of preferred ways of being and relating for a number of the participants. These changes and the moments that made a difference are explored through stories pertaining to five of the women and their horses. Implications for counselling theory, practice, and possible future research are discussed.en_US
dc.identifier.citationSharpe, H. (2013). Equine-Facilitated Counselling and Women With Eating Disorders: Articulating Bodily Experience (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/25931en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/25931
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11023/778
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher.facultyGraduate Studies
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.subjectEducation--Guidance and Counseling
dc.subject.classificationEating Disordersen_US
dc.subject.classificationequine-facilitated counsellingen_US
dc.subject.classificationhermeneutic phenomenologyen_US
dc.titleEquine-Facilitated Counselling and Women With Eating Disorders: Articulating Bodily Experience
dc.typedoctoral thesis
thesis.degree.disciplineApplied Psychology
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgary
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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