Silke Schwarz

Silke Schwarz

PhD

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Historically, psychiatry and clinical psychology focused on understanding how stressful life conditions led to psychiatric disorders. With the rise of positive psychology, the focus shifted to thriving through adversity and to concepts such as resilience. However, the number of mental disorders is still increasing. Due to a neoliberal Western decon...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the relation between religion and psychiatry and psychotherapy in mainstream psychology and it introduces a context-oriented approach to religion. Design/methodology/approach The paper opted for a selective literature review to highlight significant issues with regard to the relation of religion an...
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Since the beginning of the 1990ies, gender mainstreaming and related women`s economic empowerment programs became an integral part of development programs and global disaster management. Gender―or more generally speaking social―justice is defined as its end goal, that is a condition in which diverse needs and interests are acknowledged and shared p...
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Infolge eines Erdbebens erhielt ein javanisches Dorf Unterstützung von lokalen NGOs, die Gendermainstreaming-Anliegen mit ihren Wiederaufbauhilfen verbanden. In der vorliegenden Arbeit untersuche ich, inwiefern die bestehenden Genderverhältnisse durch diese Ausnahmesituation möglicherweise beeinflusst, wenn nicht sogar in Frage gestellt werden. Umg...
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Dieses Kapitel widmet sich den Themen Subjektivität und Reflexivität und legt mögliche Einflüsse durch meine eigene Person und Involviertheit offen: „Notions of subjectivity and reflexivity are drawn from postmodern, poststructuralist and social constructionist epistemologies that have challenged the heavy reliance of psychology (and most modern sc...
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In diesem Kapitel werden Ergebnisse der Analysearbeit mit den eingangs eingeführten Theorien und Konzepten zusammengeführt und anhand weiterer Forschungsergebnisse diskutiert. Zuerst gehe ich auf das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen sozialem Wandel und sozialen Beständigkeiten sowie zwischen Selbstund Fremdbestimmung ein (siehe 7.1.). Ich diskutiere, i...
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Im ersten Unterkapitel 5.1. des Ergebnisteils wird dargestellt, was Dorfbewohner_innen und Aktivist_innen als erstrebenswert und gerecht in Bezug auf die Geschlechterverhältnisse empfinden (5.1.1.). Es folgt ein Analysefokus auf den Lebensbereich ‚Haushalt und Kinder’ (5.2.2.). Dabei gehe ich der Frage nach, in welchem Verhältnis die Idealvorstellu...
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Zu Beginn dieses Kapitels zeige ich die vier methodologischen Zugänge dieser Arbeit auf. Anschließend wird die Datenbasis der vorliegenden Untersuchung erläutert und die gewählten Datenerhebungs- sowie Auswertungsmethoden vorgestellt.
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Diese Untersuchung folgt dem Forschungsstil der Grounded Theory (siehe Kapitel 4). Dieser ist durch ein Spannungsfeld von Unvoreingenommenheit bzw. Offenheit für den Untersuchungsgegenstand und bestimmten sog. sensibilisierenden Konzepten gekennzeichnet. Letztere bezeichnen ein Vorwissen über bestehende Theorien, Untersuchungen und Alltagserfahrung...
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In mainstream psychology, rather specific (and therefore restrictive) research perspectives on coping with disaster dominate. Research uses quantitative methods to build knowledge about the mechanisms and conditions by which disasters affect mental health. The focus of analysis is on measures of individual differences with regard to experiences, co...
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As the interdependence between human activities and natural forces on earth grows in instability, disaster research is maturing as a discipline, employing concepts and methods from fields as disparate as psychology, history, and engineering. But psychological studies have mainly focused on post-disaster pathology or standard themes of coping, rarel...
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The cultural psychological approach to disaster coping grounds coping processes in social contexts, accounting for specific local settings. This chapter offers an exemplary contextualization of the case study of the 2006 Java earthquake. Javanese culture, as any other culture, is not a monolithic static entity but dynamic and diverse. Representatio...
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Mainstream psychological coping theories that are predominantly individualistic and apolitical tend to neglect diverging interests and social conflicts. Sociological approaches to social conflicts and their resolution and social capital approaches are able to capture these universal features of post-disaster contexts. However, socioculturally disti...
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If individual and social features of psychological phenomena are understood as co-constituting and permeating each other, coping becomes a social phenomenon that extends traditional understandings of social support dynamics in mainstream psychology. In order to thoroughly investigate the social settings and interactions in crises, this chapter give...
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In mainstream psychology, person-centered concepts, such as the Big Five personality traits, self-efficacy, and optimism, are regarded as substantial factors that impact on coping and its trajectory. We do not challenge the existence of these individual differences in coping styles in this chapter, but we do advocate abandoning the trend toward the...
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This chapter addresses the behavior, thoughts, experiences, and feelings of individuals who have been exposed to strain and stress. First, we introduce the many different approaches associated with both psychological and broader social science-based understandings of coping. We then analyze the extent to which these approaches can be applied in a d...
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Disaster management, among other things, refers to the process of mitigating or avoiding the future impact of disasters, ideally in a sustainable manner. The accepted international framework of risk management assumes an opposition between an objective explainable environment and a biased subjectivity. This assumption is used to educate people abou...
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To many people in the world, being able to turn to a transcendental sphere provides a key resource in coping with adversity. Religious beliefs shape the way humans face disaster, as they provide interpretative frames for meaning-making, values with which believers can face hardship, solace through religious practices, or support from religious comm...
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In this chapter, the concept of coping is understood as the capacity for societally assimilative and accommodative development rather than in terms of the individual, subjective, and intrapsychic (above all, cognitive) processes popular in mainstream psychology. Instead of examining individuals' well-being from a value-free perspective, this chapte...
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Incorporating the notion of complexity from recent approaches into disaster research, we argue for a theory of coping that transcends the universalist and individualist assumptions of coping theory. We locate this approach in cultural psychology and base our reconceptualization of coping processes on the core assumption of a permeating co-constitut...

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