Shayamal Kumar Saha
 

Promotion of Self-help in Development & Social Change
Constructing Non Subject-Object Processes
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Susan Kay Riva-Mossman (June 2009)
 
The Narrative Model in mediation provides a theoretical framework that can be used to better
understand the relevance of intercultural case studies in mediation that took place in Valais,
Switzerland between 2001 and 2008. This process-oriented model distinguishes itself from
more classical problem-solving models in mediation. The descriptions presented in the
conflict narratives analyze and reflect upon the performative, relational, and dialogical nature
of the transformative processes inherent in the narrative mediation model.
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Bill Blaine Wallace (June 2009)
 
My eight years of ministry among the dying and bereaved in two settings rife with
sorrow and suffering—The Grady Hospice Program at Grady Memorial Hospital in
Atlanta, Georgia and The Hospice at Mission Hill, an acute inpatient hospice in Boston,
Massachusetts for persons dying of AIDS—left me with an indelible awareness of and
curiosity about the ironic joy and creative energy for justice-making that emanated from
these communities. This dissertation is an attempt to further substantiate, better
understand, and test the validity of my awareness and the legitimacy of my curiosity.
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Janice DeFehr (2008)
 
This dissertation extends my longstanding interest in reciprocity and mutual influence in social work and counselling/psychotherapy practice. In this project, fourteen Collaborative practitioners from six countries utilize ‘in person’ conversation and an extended period of journal writing to respond to our project’s central question: How can you describe your practice as generative and transforming for yourself?
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Kathleen Clark (2008)

The subject of my dissertation is the use of collaborative law in medical error/mistake situations. Collaborative law is a non-litigation process which seeks to bring compassion, admission of error, when appropriate, conversations, and forgiveness to situations in which medical error or an adverse event has taken place. At the present time, collaborative law in medical error situations has not proven effective due, in part, to fear and mistrust among the stakeholders necessary to the process.
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Peggy Penn (2008)
  
My dissertation is called, Joined Imaginations. In the mid-nineties, my late colleague, Marilyn Frankfurt, and I were investigating what language is and what it does and had already begun a project on language and writing. We had read and studied Mikhail Bakhtin and were intrigued by his idea of "dialogism in therapy".
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Marvin Shaub (April 2008)

A qualitative dissertation discussing adjustments of American immigrants from the viewpoint of development of acculturation as a social process. Four phases are constructed---mono-cultural, bi-cultural, hybrid cultural and post cultural. Illustrative material is developed through interviews with immigrants from Hispanic, Muslim, Japanese and other cultures. Relevant theory is reviewed, culminating with an integrative overall model by John Berry. My own interpretive framework ACES is presented and discussed. Examples from my own life experience show how post cultural orientation can be developed either aided by modern information technology or separately. The Ether-World, an endogenous condition of relationship to technology, is introduced.
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Doug Shadel and Karla Pak (2007)
Doug Shadel and Karla Pak worked together on this research project. The dissertation studies financial exploitation of older consumers through the lens of social construction by scrutinizing the relationship between the sender of the message (con man) and the receiver of the message (victim) and by studying the differences between victims and non-victims.
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Sandra Cottingham (2007)

Dr. Cottingham's dissertation is on the topic of "inclusive schools". Although inclusion has been mandated by government and has become common language found at every level of school planning, it remains at the conceptual stage. In fact, the prerequisites for successful educational integration of students with disabilities are so frequently ignored that the very principle of inclusion has become threatened. The call for social change in education on the issue of inclusion is at a critical juncture.

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Myra Virgil (2006)

This inquiry invites participants to reflect upon how their fundamental belief systems, as influenced by their experiences as, and with, members of different racial groups, genders and social class constructs for example, impact their working relationships and decision-making practices. The cross-disciplinary participants' "stories" on how aspects of identity, both their own and others, mediate between the organization's fundamental philosophies and how people in the organization relate, function and task on a daily basis. The participant's stories reflect not only their own identities, but of the individual in relation to other organizational participants within the co-constructed and shared system factors that are alive in all organizations.
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Liesbeth Gerritsen (2006)

In this thesis Liesbeth Gerritsen explores the role of metaphor in the public and private realms of organizational life. Metaphors that appear in group settings are compared and contrasted with metaphors that are used by individuals privately to describe the organization. She examines how people's private metaphors of the organization relate to metaphors used by members in a group context. Are people's private metaphors embedded within the group metaphors? Do group metaphors intersect with the private domain? This discussion is framed against the backdrop of six traditional, dominant assertions on metaphor in organizations found in the literature. A highlight of this discussion is an examination of metaphors as discursive implements used pragmatically to perform certain functions in conversations.
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Bella Borwick (2005)
Dissertation title: A Hidden Child: Identity and Reconstructed Self: A Quest for Transparency in Psychotherapy. Her dissertation examines the role of the therapist in couple's therapy and the influence that this temporary third person brings to bear in the construction of this triad. Therapists, a surprisingly neglected group in the copious literature on couple's therapy, bring into the relationship the representation of an additional system with a set of values, life experiences, opinions and notions that give additional meaning and understanding of what it is to be a couple. The way in which this authority may direct the outcome of the therapy is examined through in-depth interviews.

Arne Vestegaard (2005)
is an independent organizational psychologist based in Copenhagen, Denmark. His PhD. project is an exploration of project management processes in projects under high complexity, change and unpredictability based on the concept of the reflective practitioner. Focus is on collective sense-making, management of meaning and building of trustful relations in and around projects.
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Jane Seiling (2005)

Dissertation title: Moving from Individual to Constructive Accountability
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Franklin Olson (2003)

Franklin works in counseling and program development for a 6,000 member Methodist church in Houston. As he describes his dissertation, "It explores the role of archetypal symbol and myth in developing relational collaborations in a diverse community using qualitative action research. Social constructionist and appreciative inquiry methodology is used to bridge between various religious, ethnic, and economic groups to build relationships and social capital through identification of common archetypal themes and then acting on those themes through community action.
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Madelyn Blair (2001)
Dissertation title: A Conversation on Gender - Women and Men Working in International Organizations: Using Research as a Catalyst to Address the Issues of Women.
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