Sharing Stories, Building Bridges, Moving Mountains: An Action-Oriented Inquiry with Children of Incarcerated Parents

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dc.contributor.advisorStrong, Tom
dc.contributor.authorPickering, Barbara Jane
dc.contributor.committeememberWalsh, Christine Ann
dc.contributor.committeememberSitter, Kathleen C.
dc.date2020-06
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-04T17:29:00Z
dc.date.available2020-05-04T17:29:00Z
dc.date.issued2020-04-30
dc.description.abstractMost people rarely think about children of incarcerated parents (COIPs) and when they do, these children are usually dismissed as not worth the effort. However, in Canada there are likely more than 400,000 children affected by parental incarceration. This became apparent to me when I was working with women recently out of prison, most of them mothers, who mentioned the hardest part of their experience was being separated from their children and the lack of support. There is a body of predominantly quantitative research that tells a bleak story of how COIPs are destined to have trouble in school, misuse substances, be gang involved, have contact with the justice system, and likely be incarcerated themselves. I was curious about a different, and less problem-saturated, life story that COIPs might tell. In this research I invited seven adult COIPs to share their experiences in a collaborative relationship that would privilege strength and resilience with the hope that we could turn toward some type of advocacy through action-oriented practices. Informed by Collaborative Therapy and Allan Wade’s Response-Based Practice, and the ethical guideposts of Vikki Reynolds, I joined participants in creating safe spaces for their stories to emerge. The research design unfolded in three stages. Stage I included two individual interviews and a focus group: Seven participants engaged in at least one interview, five completed a second interview, and four joined together for the focus group. The four participants who agreed to join the focus group chose to engage in discussion around ways to engage in advocacy for COIPs. Consequently, Stage II consisted of 10 group meetings that culminated in the planning and filming for a documentary. Stage III became the editing processes with the eventual release of the documentary Bonds that Hurt; Bonds that Heal to the public. This is the story of our journey.en_US
dc.identifier.citationPickering, B. J. (2020). Sharing Stories, Building Bridges, Moving Mountains: An Action-Oriented Inquiry with Children of Incarcerated Parents (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/37795
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/111984
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisher.facultyWerklund School of Educationen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
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.en_US
dc.subjectDialogicalen_US
dc.subjectNarrativeen_US
dc.subjectChildren of Incarcerated parentsen_US
dc.subjectAction Oriented Researchen_US
dc.subjectParticipatoryen_US
dc.subjectVisual Dataen_US
dc.subject.classificationEducation--Social Sciencesen_US
dc.subject.classificationCriminology and Penologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationIndividual and Family Studiesen_US
dc.subject.classificationPsychology--Developmentalen_US
dc.subject.classificationPsychology--Socialen_US
dc.titleSharing Stories, Building Bridges, Moving Mountains: An Action-Oriented Inquiry with Children of Incarcerated Parentsen_US
dc.typedoctoral thesisen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineApplied Psychologyen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgaryen_US
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)en_US
ucalgary.item.requestcopytrueen_US
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