Contact! unload : a narrative study and filmic exploration of veterans performing stories of war and transition
department or school: Education, Faculty of
department or school: Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education (ECPS), Department of
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCV
creator: McLean, Blair William
issued: 2017-03-27T18:39:14Z
issued: 2017
related degree: Master of Arts - MA
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: This study uses narrative methods and filmmaking to understand the experiences of six war veterans who performed "Contact! Unload," the theatre component of “Man, Art, Action,” a recent (2015/16) Movember-funded arts-based project, designed to engage veterans and the Canadian public with issues of military mental health. This research harnesses participants’ personal change narratives over the course of creating, rehearsing and performing Contact! Unload to understand therapeutic benefits for participants, to contribute to existing theories on action-oriented and theatre-based approaches to psychotherapy, and to inform a discussion of the needs of veterans in transition.
aggregated CHO: https://circle.library.ubc.ca/rest/handle/2429/61004
note: CONTACT! UNLOAD: A NARRATIVE STUDY AND FILMIC EXPLORATION OF VETERANS PERFORMING STORIES OF WAR AND TRANSITION by BLAIR WILLIAM McLEAN B.A., The University of British Columbia, 2009 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS in THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL STUDIES (Counselling Psychology) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Vancouver) March 2017 © Blair William McLean, 2017 ii ABSTRACT This study uses narrative methods and filmmaking to understand the experiences of six war veterans who performed Contact! Unload, the theatre component of “Man, Art, Action,” a recent (2015/16) Movember-funded arts-based project, designed to engage veterans and the Canadian public with issues of military mental health. This research harnesses participants’ personal change narratives over the course of creating, rehearsing and performing Contact! Unload to understand therapeutic benefits for participants, to contribute to existing theories on action-oriented and theatre-based approaches to psychotherapy, and to inform a discussion of the needs of veterans in transition. iii PREFACE This thesis is an original and unpublished work by the author, Blair McLean. Ethical approval was obtained by the University of British Columbia Behavioural Research Ethics Board on February 16, 2015 (H15-00111) under “Contact! Unload” (sponsored by Movember Canada). The author of this work utilized data that he collected as part of his employment in “Man/Art/Action” at UBC. As such, archival data is being utilized in this independent study. iv TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT ............................................................................................................................................ ii PREFACE .............................................................................................................................................. iii TABLE OF CONTENTS ................................................................…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2017-05
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0343358
language: eng
degree discipline: Counselling Psychology
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
type: Text
type: Moving Image
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/61004