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CJS Noon Lecture Series | Examining and Understanding Distress Experiences for Japanese Women: A Retrospective

Denise Saint Arnault, Professor of Nursing; Director, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan
Thursday, October 3, 2024
12:00-1:30 PM
Room 555 Weiser Hall Map
Please note: This lecture will be held in person in room 555 Weiser Hall and virtually via Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Once you've registered, the joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at: https://myumi.ch/ypN5E

This presentation will introduce the development of the Clinical Ethnographic Narrative Interview, which was developed in the early 2000s to understand the cultural aspects of distress for Japanese women sojourners in Detroit. Since then, I have done studies comparing these sojourners with Japanese women in Japan, as well as a series of studies in Japan talking with survivors of domestic and sexual violence. This presentation will show drawings produced by interview participants and highlight what we have learned about the cultural aspects of social, physical, and mental distress for our participants.

Denise Saint Arnault, Ph.D., RN, FAAN is a Professor of Nursing at the University of Michigan. Her work addresses culture, illness, and help seeking. She developed, refined, and adapted her Cultural Determinants of Help Seeking and Trauma Recovery to advance culture and mental health theory. She is the founder and director of the Multicultural Study of Trauma Recovery (MiStory). MiStory is an international research collaboration that aims to understand barriers and facilitators of mental health help seeking and trauma recovery after Gender-Based Violence (GBV) from a cultural perspective. She uses mixed methods to understand internal variables that influence symptom experience and self-management, including beliefs about cause, stigma, and social network dimensions. Her qualitative work includes ethnographically informed methods such as photo-elicitation, card sorts, lifelines, body maps, fieldwork, grounded theory, and clinical ethnography. She has worked with Japanese women in the U.S., Japan, and Brazil since 1993.

This lecture is made possible with the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at [email protected]. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
Building: Weiser Hall
Event Type: Lecture / Discussion
Tags: Asian Languages And Cultures, japan, Japanese Studies
Source: Happening @ Michigan from Center for Japanese Studies, International Institute, Asian Languages and Cultures