Hope Surfacing: An Investigation Into Documentary Modes for Telling the Stories of Families who Support a Family Member who has Experienced Mental Distress
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Lavranos, Eileen
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Begg, Andy
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Auckland University of Technology
Abstract
This work is a creative production PhD project that consists of a documentary artefact
and an exegesis. The documentary project entailed investigating ways to create a
process of working ethically with sensitive material and in doing so has integrated
two significant inquiries. The first relates to the designing of protocols for working
ethically with sensitive material and vulnerable people.
The second is the design of a documentary called Hope, that captures the stories of six
families who are supporting a family member with a mental illness. This situation can
leave such families isolated, under stress and often experiencing stigma and
discrimination. Because very little training is available to families in these
circumstances, the documentary captures personal narratives so that certain issues in
common can be identified. This is achieved while simultaneously acknowledging the
unique and authentic nature of individual family experience.
The result is that these stories contain information about caregiving that is seldom
discussed and in so doing the documentary provides observations that can be of
assistance to others.
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Documentary, Narrative, Ethics, Family caregivers, Mental illness, Practice