Constructivism in the Human Sciences back issues from January 2004:
EDITORIAL
Jan 01, 2004; ... Luis Borges once penned the line, "everything is connected to everything." This is the essence of the logo that appears on the cover of this journal and on the first page of every article. Members of the Society for Constructivism in the Human Sciences receive a lapel pin and an annual ...
Without The Observer There Is Nothing: A Conversation1
Jan 01, 2004; ... Humberto R. Maturana, born in 1928, first studied medicine in Chile, then anatomy in England, was awarded a Ph. D. in biology at Harvard in 1958, and subsequently worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.). In 1960, he returned to work with the University of Chile at Santiago, ...
Honouring the Body in Psychotherapy: Using Neuroscience to Strengthen Gendlin's Directive
Jan 01, 2004; ... Philosopher and psychotherapy theorist Eugene Gendlin proposes that clients' autonomie somatic responses during therapy provide a more trustworthy gauge of the experiential usefulness of therapist interventions than do consciously mediated assessments. Building on this basic proposition Gendlin ...
A Pilot Investigation of the Repertory Grid as a Heuristic Tool in Teaching Historical Foundations of Psychology
Jan 01, 2004; ... Repertory grid has been used by clinicians, researchers, and educators to examine personal construct systems in different domains. In the present, pilot study of repertory grid in a condensed, history of psychology course, I generated a list of bipolar meaning dimensions (constructs) on which ...
Mindfulness-Training: Exploring Personal Change Through Sensory Awareness
Jan 01, 2004; ... The relationship between mindfulness training and sensory awareness is outlined. The experiential nature of Sensory Awareness training is elaborated, with emphasis on experiencing from four bodily positions and activities: walking, standing, sitting, and lying down. Basic teaching elements in ...
An Integral Approach to Group Therapy: Filling a Gap in Wilber's Model of Integral Psychology
Jan 01, 2004; ... In a series of seminal contributions within and beyond psychology, Ken Wilber has offered a scaffolding for integrating diverse approaches at multiple levels. The one area of integral psychology not explicitly examined in Wilber's model is that of group therapy and group-based therapeutic ...
Connecting Cognitive Development and Constructivism: Implications from Theory for Instruction and Assessment
Jan 01, 2004; ... This paper provides an overview of the developmental theories of Dewey, Piaget, Vygotsky, and Bruner that provide the basis for the educational application of constructivism. Activities for developing instruction and assessment built on constructivistic theories are also ...
Re-Constructing Political Identities: Post-dictatorship Narratives of Chileans in Exile
Jan 01, 2004; ... Adriana's Story. On October 16, J 998, the news of Augusta Pinochet's arrest in London, in response to an extradition order from Spain, spread throughout the world. As a Chilean-Canadian, my emotions fluctuated from surprise to intense happiness and then to sadness. The images of tanks ...
Integral Counseling
Jan 01, 2004; ... Integral counseling is an application of Ken Wilber's integral psychology (2000a). Integral refers to that which is essential to comprehensive understanding, emphasizing the need "to bring together, to join, to link, to embrace" (Wilber, 2000a, p. 2). Rather than being a subspecialization of ...
Taking A New Look: Using a Social Constructionist Theoretical Model in Child Welfare
Jan 01, 2004; ... Child protective service agencies received 2.7 million referrals of cases of abuse and neglect in 2001. Of those reports, 903,000 children were confirmed to be abused or neglected (USDHHS, 2003). The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services suggests this number greatly underestimates the ...
It's Not Just About Grades: One Student's Strategies For Successfully Completing The Ph.D.
Jan 01, 2004; ... Not everyone who begins a training program in clinical psychology is able to complete the program. Being successful in graduate school goes well beyond being able to pass tests and write term papers, but also includes understanding the training process and the informal rules and politics that ...
Keeping The Spirit Alive
Jan 01, 2004; ... A Response to Walfish and Hess (2004): "It's not just about grades: One student's strategies for successfully completing the Ph.D. Wolfish and Hess (2004) offer students in psychology a list of nine guidelines to improve students' chances in completing the Ph.D. Their anonymous informant ...
Re-Searching: A Story in Nine Parts
Jan 01, 2004; ... Despite the writing and conferencing that conies about with research projects, there can be intense and unscripted revelations on the part of the researcher. These revelations, deep emotional responses, and personal embodiment of consultants' stories sometimes defy conventional presentation. In ...
I Say "I Love You"
Jan 01, 2004; ... Words flow from my wounds, Metaphors bear my pain, and images mask hurts, fears, insecurities. Shaking and crying in your arms, I am bled dry of poems and scarred toward healing. Feeble excuses drip from my lips, For my reluctance to utter ...
The Rythm of Each
Jan 01, 2004; ... I think each comfort we manage- each holding in the night, each opening of a wound, each closing of a wound, each pulling of a splinter or razored word, each fever sponged, each dear thing given to someone in greater need-each passes on the ...
BIPOLAR: Top Ten Reasons to Put it on Your License Plate
Jan 01, 2004; ... Reason 10: Then You Won't Need A Medic Alert Bracelet Reason 9: If You Get Stopped For Speeding, The Police Officer Will Already Know Your First Excuse Reason 8: When You Are Not Speeding, You Will Offer Inspiration To Other Bipolars Reason 7: Friends Won't Ask To Borrow ...