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Stress Management in the Practice and Training of Performing Arts
Ildikó Gaál
Hungarian Dance University, Hungary
Stress Management in Performing Arts
Ildikó Gaál (DLA)
The presence of stage-related fears and anxieties can adversely affect artistic performance. This struggle is supported via the interiorization of stress management methods and techniques specifically related to the stage.
I developed a dedicated training programme for managing stress for student musicians. Later I developed a professional course for artist teachers, through which the treatment of stage-related anxiety can be included in talent management. Thank to these courses it became possible to prepare students for an appropriate artistic performance on stage.
It is worthwhile to teach stress management techniques at an early age. I apply this training, which strengthens performing artist performance both at the Hungarian University of Dance and at the University of Theatre and Film Arts. This mental health attitude could be made part of everyday life on the long run, including regular practice of stress management techniques. This way the student would be able to arrive at the often-stressful situation on stage in a more balanced mental state and to perform a high artistic quality in the long term. Performing artists have an exceptional role in conveying culture, their mental welfare contributes to shaping the well-being of society.
9:15am - 9:30am
The role and characteristics of self-justification in the conflict stories of healthcare professionals
Dóra Kocsis1,2, Márta Csabai2,3, Ágnes Kuna4
1ImproversGroup, Hungary; 2Institute of Psychology, University of Szeged; 3Institute of Psychology, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church; 4Department of Applied Linguistics and Phonetics, Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences
Background and aims: Conflicts among healthcare professionals can lead to stress, burnout and affect the quality of patient care, so understanding conflict characteristics is a priority in this area. Self-justification is often present in conflicts. Our aim was to explore the characteristics of self-justification in conflict stories of healthcare professionals.
Methods: The semi-structured interviews had been recorded in a previous research. For the present study 25 conflict stories of doctors and 25 of nurses were processed, analyzing the expressions indicating self-justification by using the qualitative methodology of content analysis.
Results: 371 expressions indicating self-justification and 42 expressions indicating avoidance were identified in the conflict stories. These expressions were categorized into 10 self-justification-related and 1 avoidance-related categories based on similar content. Most of the expressions come from the judgement category. 71.7% of the expressions related to self-justification come from conflict stories of doctors and 28.3% from conflict stories of nurses. The unresolved conflict stories contain on average more expressions referring to self-justification and fewer expressions referring to avoiding self-justification.
Discussion: Self-justification appearing at several points in the conflict stories may discourage the parties to seek constructive conflict resolution, therefore supporting healthcare professionals in recognizing and transforming self-justification is of particular importance.
9:30am - 9:45am
Addressing key ethical concerns in Photovoice projects
Sarah Cilia Vincenti, Michael Galea, Vince Briffa
University of Malta, Malta
Photovoice aims to empower marginalised communities through critical dialogue and exhibition of photographic images taken by participants. Consequently, this generates complex ethical considerations. These may include lack of promised social change, misinterpretation of images by the public, ambiguity over ownership over photographs, dangers inherent in online circulation of images and compromised integrity of the method via excessive researcher control.
This presentation details the strategies implemented to circumvent ethical difficulties in an ongoing photovoice project designed to empower Maltese adult women with ADHD. Some of these strategies, such as the incorporation of an ethics session in the first focus group for participants, were borrowed from the literature. Other strategies, like the inclusion of an additional third focus group intended to explore participants’ perceptions of the outcomes of the study, were conceived by the authors.
This discussion will lay out how the ethical responsibilities of researchers extend far beyond safeguarding individual participants in participatory action research. Researchers must adhere to rigorous standards imposed by research ethical committees, whilst honouring the right to self-determination of the community they are set to empower. Moreover, the presentation will seek to inspire potential photovoice researchers who may be discouraged by the ethical complexities interwoven in photovoice.
9:45am - 10:00am
Alceste, a qualitative software to evaluate latent content of speech: the trajectory of spousal bereavement.
1University of Strasbourg, France; 2Sorbonne Paris North University, France; 3The Catholic University of Lille, France
Worldwide, approximately 8 million people receive palliative care and 34% are cancer patients.
This study aims to highlight the spouse’s experience in the context of sedative practices. The spouse is the patient's attachment figure and the person most at risk for developing potential psychopathological complications following the loss.
3 bereaved women (mean age = 60 years old) were interviewed three months after their partner’s death.
Their husbands (mean age = 64 years old) died of solid cancer.
A thematic analysis of the interviews was performed using the ALCESTE software, a tool for statistical analysis of textual data based on word co-occurrences.
Preliminary results highlight the following five themes: history of the disease; care and relationship with healthcare teams; new responsibilities related to the disease; bereavement and family support; and the need for life continuing.
The results highlight the more practical elements related to the disease, including the burden of assisting the patients in all their needs (a specific aspect of women caregivers) and the feeling of emptiness following the loss.
There appears to be a need for longitudinal research to follow the grieving process and better understand what may complicate it.
