Essays about: "ambiguous loss"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 essays containing the words ambiguous loss.

  1. 1. Enduring Together : Psychosocial Support for Involuntary Family Separation in the Wake of Migration

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för socialt arbete

    Author : Joel Persson; [2021]
    Keywords : social work; psychosocial support; family separation; migration; ambiguous loss; resilience; narrative theory; narratology; coping; universalism; cultural-relativism; community; professional support; civil society;

    Abstract : Background Involuntary family separation due to forced migration is a particular form of suffering to which contemporary methods of psychosocial support seem scarce. It has been shown to cause mental and physical impairments that are often misdiagnosed for pathologies. READ MORE

  3. 2. Hanging by a Thread

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledning

    Author : Louise Ljungälv; Maja Sjöblom; [2021]
    Keywords : Strategic decision-making; Sensemaking; COVID-19; Crisis; Restaurant industry;

    Abstract : Out of the blue, the pandemic hit the, at the time, prosperous restaurant industry (RI) and imposed unprecedented challenges to encounter. The ambiguity of the environment in which decision-makers now operated in, did not comply with the old rules as it by tradition depends on a flow of visitors, long opening hours and gathering of humans, sparking an increase in sensemaking (SM). READ MORE

  4. 3. Cognitive bias and welfare of egg-laying chicks: Impacts of commercial hatchery procedures on cognition.

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Biologi

    Author : Tiphaine Palazon; [2020]
    Keywords : Cognition; Cognitive bias; Depression; Early life stress; Emotion; Memory; Optimistic; Pessimistic; Prenatal stress; Welfare; White leghorn.;

    Abstract : Egg-laying hens coming from commercial hatchery go through hatchery procedures considered as stressful and engaging prolonged stress response in adult chickens. The aim of our study was to evaluate the impact of commercial hatching procedure on the affective state of chicks, on their short- and long-term memory and on their need for social reinstatement. READ MORE

  5. 4. Making Sense of Creative Destruction : Anticipating the Looming Threat

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen; Uppsala universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Niels Groenewegen; Pierre Chatin; [2019]
    Keywords : sensemaking; prospective sensemaking; future-oriented sensemaking; creative destruction; Weick;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study is to find how managers make sense of a future threat that does not have an urgent trigger. The method applied in this study is qualitative case study. Nine semi-structured interviews were conducted of managers at the case company. READ MORE

  6. 5. ”Förtätning” : en studie över begreppets definition och tillämpning som stadsbyggnadsstrategi

    University essay from SLU/Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

    Author : Ellen Wenner Tångring; [2019]
    Keywords : förtätning; stad; hållbar stadsutveckling; täthet; densification; urban density; compact city; urban sprawl;

    Abstract : Våra städer växer sig allt större i takt med den ökade urbaniseringen. För att möta kraven på en växande befolkning i våra städer utvecklar vi idag våra städer genom förtätning. Men definition av begreppet förtätning är diffus och bilden av förtätning variera även inom stadsbyggnadsbranschen. READ MORE