HLTHAGE 2B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Leadership Studies, Focus Group, Social Control
5 Apr 2018
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Ryan: finding a new voice: writing through health adversity. Article talks about how disability/public illness narratives put a face on disability. Engender empathy, advocate for a disability-friendly society, and show how the human spirit can transcend disability. Focus: writing for oneself and for others can assist individuals in finding their stories and sharing them. Offers a way to develop the inner voice, sense of identity, and one"s legitimate power; aka. source of empowerment. Can facilitate selective assertiveness throughout the experience of disability. Elements of assertiveness: calm, confidence in identity, clarity in issues, empathy for another"s point of view, what to say. Offers control, away from the shaping power of the communication predicaments in conversation. The act of transforming emotions and images into words can subsequently alter the way in which traumatic memories are organized, contemplated, and even forgotten. Authors with disabilities use their social voices to empower others through their own written narratives.
