On becoming a person:Self-narration of type 1 diabetes patient

碩士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 諮商心理與人力資源發展學系輔導與諮商研究所 === 107 === The aim of this study was to apply the self-narrative approach in analyzing researcher’s experience as a diabetes patient. When researcher was diagnosed Type 1 diabetes in her ten-year-old and started to realize herself as a patient, research...

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Main Authors: Tseng,Wang-Ting, 曾婉婷
Other Authors: Tey,Siang-Hua
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 2019
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/a5m2mu
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Summary:碩士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 諮商心理與人力資源發展學系輔導與諮商研究所 === 107 === The aim of this study was to apply the self-narrative approach in analyzing researcher’s experience as a diabetes patient. When researcher was diagnosed Type 1 diabetes in her ten-year-old and started to realize herself as a patient, researcher doubted the kindness of relationships from family and friends because of her illness. Due to continuously facing medication system, researcher became make herself best to be a “good patient”. Many uncomfortableness and limitation from her Illness not only leads to researcher feel pain and living anxiety, but also lots of confusion in her life; even researcher was diagnosed major depression in her 17-year-old. After researcher study psychology in her undergraduate school, by helping others, recycling over Taiwan, running marathon and free writing, she reconstructed her self-image. The expectation from the process of becoming a person tells the researcher who is a person, a patient, and even a “precious patient”. The researcher became a person from contributions in helping others, knowledge from counseling psychology, clinical experience with clients, confidences of taking care others’ needs. Also, the feature from the illness is worry, which helps her to get closer her clients and to realize accepting herself as a precious patient. It is to find a subjective of the researcher and meaningful to walk on the life/illness road continually with continuously conversations or narrations with others, deconstruction of the life and the illness.