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Mirror Reflection as a Photo-Instrument

Jan Sitvast

£59.99

This book highlights how photography can be a therapeutic tool for recovery and self-discovery. It explains how professionals can help people overcome the shame of stigmatization by using photography to spark a shared process of reflection in photo groups.

This book highlights several projects in which photography is used as a therapeutic tool. Nurses, therapists and social workers can help people to discover who…
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This book highlights several projects in which photography is used as a therapeutic tool. Nurses, therapists and social workers can help people to discover who they are, sometimes beyond someone’s psychosocial problems. An important target group that photo groups aim at are patients in mental health care who work on their recovery. The book gives a lot of attention to how working with photography can help to overcome shame, due to stigmatization by a diagnosis and professional treatment.
The invitation is to make photographs of one’s expectations, hope or of anything that is considered important and which is mirrored in the photographs. This is the starting point for a process of reflection. The reflection can be shared with other participants. The book will also focus on projects in which a photographer portrays participants. Beside theoretical explanation of the working of visual information the book expands on practical information on how to organize photo groups.

Dr Jan Sitvast was educated as a historian before becoming a nurse in mental health care, bringing with him his fascination with the narratives of ordinary people. He trained as a nurse practitioner (2003) and worked as such for a couple of years before becoming a researcher working in a mental health institute. He then worked as a researcher and senior lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands (Nursing Department: Educating Nurse Practitioners). He studied for his PhD in 2011. His thesis was about the therapeutic use of photography in mental health care. His thesis was part of a phenomenological and existential approach in Mental Health Care on which Sitvast published 40 articles, 4 books (of which 3 are in Dutch) and 2 chapters in other books. The book Sitvast published in English was published in 2020 with Cambridge Scholars Publishing: ‘How nurses Can Facilitate Meaning-making and Dialogue. Reflections on Narrative and Photo-stories’.

Hardback

  • ISBN: 1-0364-7270-1
  • ISBN13: 978-1-0364-7270-2

Subject Codes:

  • BIC: MQV, MBPK, MQCL5
  • THEMA: MQV, MBPK, MQCL5
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