{"title":"Remembering Donna Rockwell (1957–2023)","authors":"Andrew M. Bland","doi":"10.1177/00221678241251505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678241251505","url":null,"abstract":"Donna embraced, embodied, and modeled mindful living and authentic loving. She approached neither mindfulness nor love as a buzzword or an obligatory topic. Rather, she profoundly lived and breathed those principles as her essence—ongoingly committed to cultivating clarity, wisdom, and perspective-taking through deep listening and to promoting inclusivity and compassion via caring relationships and unconditional positive regard.","PeriodicalId":47290,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanistic Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141008987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Bartos, M. Posadas, Wendy Wrapson, Chris Krägeloh
{"title":"The CRAFT Program: Mindfulness and Yoga for Enhancing the Well-Being and Academic Experience of Higher Education Student Musicians","authors":"L. Bartos, M. Posadas, Wendy Wrapson, Chris Krägeloh","doi":"10.1177/00221678241233991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678241233991","url":null,"abstract":"The Consciousness, Relaxation, Attention, Fulfillment, and Transcendence (CRAFT) program, based on yoga, mindfulness, positive psychology, and emotional intelligence, was conceived as a neuroeducational method for self-actualization, happiness, and well-being. Previous quantitative research suggests the CRAFT program is a feasible intervention to improve student musicians’ health and well-being. The current study was devised to capture a wider understanding of student musicians’ experiences and perceived benefits from following the CRAFT program and how this exposure may affect their well-being and academic life. Participants were higher education student musicians ( n = 37) who had received CRAFT instruction at a conservatory of music as part of their curriculum, once a week for 1 hr, during the academic years 2017 to 2019. They completed an evaluation survey, comprising 36 5-point Likert-type items and one open-ended question. Descriptive statistics from participants’ Likert-type item evaluations supported the potential of the program to bestow numerous hypothesized benefits related to its five elements and viability. A content analysis conducted on participants’ responses to the open-ended question confirmed, clarified, and expanded these findings revealing additional benefits and insights across humanistic, educational, well-being, and music dimensions. This study rendered further supporting evidence for the CRAFT program as a viable intervention for promoting student musicians’ well-being and academic careers with relevant implications to other educational contexts, settings, and populations. Large mixed-methods investigations are needed to comprehensively understand and ascertain the efficacy and effectiveness of the CRAFT program to enhance the well-being and academic experience of student musicians.","PeriodicalId":47290,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanistic Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140236163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Experience Sensitive Approach to Care With and for Autistic Children and Young People in Clinical Services","authors":"Elaine McGreevy, Alexis Quinn, Roslyn Law, Monique Botha, Mairi Evans, Kieran Rose, Ruth Moyse, Tiegan Boyens, Maciej Matejko, Georgia Pavlopoulou","doi":"10.1177/00221678241232442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678241232442","url":null,"abstract":"Many support schemes in current autism clinical services for children and young people are based on notions of neuro-normativity with a behavioral emphasis. Such neuro-disorder approaches gradually undermine a person, restrain authentic self-expression, and fail to address the impact of a hostile world on autistic well-being. Furthermore, such approaches obscure attention from a fundamental challenge to conceptualize an alternative humanistic informed framework of care for staff working with diagnosed or undiagnosed autistic children and young people. In this article, we offer an appreciation of the lifeworld-led model of care by Todres et al. We discuss how mental health practitioners can adopt an experience-sensitive framework of health care by incorporating the eight dimensions of care into practice. This neuroinclusive approach creates a culture of respect, honors the sovereignty of the person, prioritizes personalization of care based on collaborative decision-making, and enables practitioners to support well-being from an existential, humanistic view, grounded in acceptance of autistic diversity of being. Without a fundamental shift toward such neurodivergence-affirming support with practitioners being willing to transform their understanding, real progress cannot happen to prevent poor mental health outcomes for autistic people across the lifespan. This shift is needed to change practice across research, clinical, and educational contexts.","PeriodicalId":47290,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanistic Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140240676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rachel E. Williamson, Selina Hardt, Emily P. Courtney, Jamie L Goldenberg
{"title":"Sexual Victimization and the Existential Impact of #MeToo","authors":"Rachel E. Williamson, Selina Hardt, Emily P. Courtney, Jamie L Goldenberg","doi":"10.1177/00221678241234949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678241234949","url":null,"abstract":"The MeToo movement heightened reminders of sexual violence, while also providing opportunities for collective support and meaning. To explore the existential impact of exposure to online content related to sexual violence, we randomly assigned participants ( N = 537) to one of three conditions involving reading tweets presenting statistics about either: sexual violence, sexual violence paired with the #MeToo hashtag, or property theft. Participants then completed a measure of unconscious death thought accessibility (DTA) and the Existential Concerns Questionnaire (ECQ). Participants also reported on history of sexual victimization and described their views on the MeToo movement. Open-ended responses were coded as reflecting neutral, positive, or negative views of the movement. An inductive content analysis resulted in eight central themes, including: sense of community, raising awareness/promoting change, and movement being misused. Following coding, and with both DTA and ECQ as outcomes, we ran a 3 (condition) x 3 (MeToo views: positive, negative, neutral) x 2 (victimization history) ANOVA. A significant main effect of victimization was found for both implicit and explicit measures of existential anxiety: those with a history of sexual victimization reported higher DTA and ECQ scores compared with those with no reported history. A significant Condition x Views interaction was also found, such that, within the MeToo condition, those with positive views of the movement had lower DTA compared with those with neutral or negative views. Results highlight the relevance of existential impact to sexual victimization, as well as the potential for social movements to buffer these impacts.","PeriodicalId":47290,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanistic Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140245155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Story of Compassion: From Ancient Texts to Modern Practice","authors":"R. Maurya, A. DeDiego","doi":"10.1177/00221678241233786","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678241233786","url":null,"abstract":"There is a lack of consensus on the definition of compassion among mental health professionals. In addition, mental health professionals also differ in how compassion is connected to related constructs including pity, sympathy, and empathy. This article explores the evolution of compassion from ancient times to contemporary conceptualization in western mental health treatment. Application of compassion in therapeutic practice, mindfulness, and wellness is discussed.","PeriodicalId":47290,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanistic Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140247139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Sense of Certainty and the Access to Inner Experience: A Qualitative Investigation","authors":"Jonas Göken, Ulrich Weger","doi":"10.1177/00221678241234779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678241234779","url":null,"abstract":"Questions about private experiences such as future-related thinking or anger rumination are standard repertoire in many types of psychological research. Evaluating the quality and reliability of participant reports in response to such questions is, however, a complex endeavor—especially for third-person research where observer and observed are distributed across two different individuals and disparate scales of reference may hence challenge the interpretation of findings. Reliable tools to assess an individual’s actual experience are thus needed. In the present article, we conceptually specified and empirically explored the sense of certainty as a vehicle to assess participant’s access to their experience. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 20 participants performing mathematical calculation, imagination, and memory tasks and cross-validated the qualitative reports with their certainty ratings. The results of the Thematic Analysis revealed affective, cognitive, somatic, and rudimentary behavioral dimensions of the sense of certainty. The qualitative data provide the basis for a sense of certainty scale that we argue can assess the sense of certainty as an internal criterion for access to inner experience in a more differentiated manner than standard rating tasks.","PeriodicalId":47290,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanistic Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140262178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Authenticity: Conceptual Analysis and Relevance in the Indian Sociocultural Context","authors":"Prachi Sharma, Amrita Deb","doi":"10.1177/00221678231225495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678231225495","url":null,"abstract":"This article attempts to understand the concept of psychological authenticity, identifies gaps in the literature, and emphasizes its significance in the Indian context. Studies on authenticity in global and Indian contexts were reviewed for this purpose and the multifacetedness of the concept was specifically highlighted. A comparison of Indian and Western accounts of authenticity shows that Indian researchers are more prescriptive while defining the authentic self than their Western counterparts, who have provided descriptive accounts of authenticity. Sociocultural factors impact authenticity, but whether they enrich or hinder authenticity across contexts is unclear. Factors such as fear of negative evaluation or the need for belongingness are expected to impact the expression of authenticity at the behavioral level in the unique sociocultural context of India. Considering context-specific factors, the process of becoming authentic is more central to understanding authenticity than perceiving it as an end state of being. This discussion shows that authenticity as a construct is yet to be adequately explored globally, as well as in the Indian sociocultural context. Future research on authenticity holds great promise in areas related to mental health and personality.","PeriodicalId":47290,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanistic Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139801184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Authenticity: Conceptual Analysis and Relevance in the Indian Sociocultural Context","authors":"Prachi Sharma, Amrita Deb","doi":"10.1177/00221678231225495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678231225495","url":null,"abstract":"This article attempts to understand the concept of psychological authenticity, identifies gaps in the literature, and emphasizes its significance in the Indian context. Studies on authenticity in global and Indian contexts were reviewed for this purpose and the multifacetedness of the concept was specifically highlighted. A comparison of Indian and Western accounts of authenticity shows that Indian researchers are more prescriptive while defining the authentic self than their Western counterparts, who have provided descriptive accounts of authenticity. Sociocultural factors impact authenticity, but whether they enrich or hinder authenticity across contexts is unclear. Factors such as fear of negative evaluation or the need for belongingness are expected to impact the expression of authenticity at the behavioral level in the unique sociocultural context of India. Considering context-specific factors, the process of becoming authentic is more central to understanding authenticity than perceiving it as an end state of being. This discussion shows that authenticity as a construct is yet to be adequately explored globally, as well as in the Indian sociocultural context. Future research on authenticity holds great promise in areas related to mental health and personality.","PeriodicalId":47290,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanistic Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139861048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Hlava, John Elfers, Dawn Celeste McGregor, Sonia Arreguin, Farrah Sharpe
{"title":"From Wonder to Transformation: The Lived Experience of Profound Awe","authors":"P. Hlava, John Elfers, Dawn Celeste McGregor, Sonia Arreguin, Farrah Sharpe","doi":"10.1177/00221678231211972","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678231211972","url":null,"abstract":"This grounded theory study addressed the question: What model explains the lived experience of profound awe? It emerged out of a recognition that awe continues to be defined as a distinct emotion, and fails to account for the possible range of intensity of affect inherent to awe. Forty interviews were conducted with participants who identified as having had a profound experience of awe. A meditation script was used to induce a high level of memory recall of their experience. Results of the grounded theory analysis yielded three major themes: readiness, overwhelm, and beyond the everyday self. Profound awe was found to be a self-transcending emotion experience that dissolves self/other boundaries of the ego-identity into a small self or expansive self. The varied emotion appraisals ranged in intensity from mild to profound peak experience, with the potential to be transformative.","PeriodicalId":47290,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanistic Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139004679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zeno Franco, Christopher S. Davis, Adina Kalet, Katinka Hooyer, David Nelson, Que El Amin, Michael Stevenson, Kathryn Cox, Andrew Yaspan, Heather Perkins, Thad Kryshak, Mike Kryshak, R. Spellecy, Aziz Abdullah, Mara Lord, Sarah O’Connor, Syed M. Ahmed
{"title":"Medical School Civic Engagement During COVID-19: Activating Institutions for Equitable Community Response","authors":"Zeno Franco, Christopher S. Davis, Adina Kalet, Katinka Hooyer, David Nelson, Que El Amin, Michael Stevenson, Kathryn Cox, Andrew Yaspan, Heather Perkins, Thad Kryshak, Mike Kryshak, R. Spellecy, Aziz Abdullah, Mara Lord, Sarah O’Connor, Syed M. Ahmed","doi":"10.1177/00221678231206202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678231206202","url":null,"abstract":"The Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) serves the Milwaukee metro area, one of the most diverse and segregated urban areas in the United States. In the acute crisis phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, MCW’s Civic and Community Engagement (C/CE) efforts were leveraged to address community concerns around four key initiatives: (a) availability of personal protective equipment in community; (b) food and housing issues for homeless individuals; (c) the need for multi-lingual, culturally tailored public health information around infection control through work with artists, influencers, and community health workers; and (d) later, addressing vaccination disparities and fears in an equitable way. These efforts were undertaken in collaboration with the City of Milwaukee Health Department, the Milwaukee County Office of African American Affairs, and other external partners. A multi-actor case study approach examined the intersection of Institutions of Higher Education, government, and community—with a particular emphasis on how Schools of Medicine can serve a unique role in bridging these domains to create a more robust framework for equitable, humanistically informed community crisis response. Implications for future public health disasters, as well as institutional civic engagement in response to pervasive, day-to-day problems around upstream determinants of health are explored.","PeriodicalId":47290,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanistic Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138981742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}