Qualitative Examination of Voting Empowerment and Participation Among People Living With Traumatic Brain Injury.

Objective: To examine political participation after traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Design: Qualitative, participatory research via interviews and observations. Each participant was interviewed to discuss their experience of voting in 2007 or 2008.

A Time to Live and a Time to Die: Heterotopian Spatialities and Temporalities in a Pediatric Palliative Care Team.

The death of a child creates especially poignant feelings and extreme stress, distress, and devastation for family members and healthcare providers. In addition, serious or long-term illness forces a reconstruction of our experiences with time and space. In this paper, we report on a long-term ethnographic study of a Pediatric Palliative Care Team (PPCT).

Constructing the dead: Retrospective sensemaking in eulogies.

Eulogies serve a sensemaking function of identity construction--both for the deceased and for the survivors. This work examines the communicative construction of identity in eulogies and shows how eulogia discourse affirms and reconstructs our relational identity through communication. The article extends scholarship on eulogies by using relational communication theories to investigate how eulogic discourse functions as identity construction, considering eulogies of ordinary people, and exploring the gendered nature of eulogies.

Relational dimension of irritability following traumatic brain injury: a qualitative analysis.

Background: Irritability is a common long-term sequelae of traumatic brain injury (TBI). In a prior study on TBI irritability, relational interactions were one of four dimensions of irritability occurrence and precipitation. This present analysis examines these same data in greater detail.

Marital adjustment and stability following traumatic brain injury: a pilot qualitative analysis of spouse perspectives.

Background: Traumatic brain injury (TBI), causing various impairments and functional changes, may adversely impact marital relationships. However, dynamics of the interactions that contribute to these marital difficulties are complex and poorly understood. There has been little research on marital quality and stability in families of a person with TBI.