Department Chair; Associate Professor University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Findings will be shared from the memory elicitation and digital storytelling components of a narrative study of grief among mothers of a child with cancer. Used as complement to traditional interviewing, these techniques deepened understanding of participants’ grief narratives. Implications for social work education, theory, and practice will be discussed.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this session, attendees should be able to:
To explore how memory elicitation (e.g., memory boxes), journal reflections, and digital storytelling (social media feeds; personal blogs) techniques can be used to augment traditional narrative approaches, deepening qualitative grief research and approaches to practice-based approaches to grief work alike.
To consider potential approaches to integrating memory elicitation and digital storytelling methods in social work education and practice, with attention to ethical considerations, trauma-informed approaches, and grief-sensitive perspectives.
To explore how social media and personal blogging can serve as platforms for grief processing, advocacy, and community-building among mothers of children with cancer, while addressing ethical considerations and methodological innovations in collecting and analyzing digital grief narratives within social work research and clinical interventions.
