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Exploring Sibling Identity after Suicide: A Heuristic Inquiry
How does the experience of losing a sibling to suicide transform an individual’s understanding of self, relationship and meaning in life?
I am a doctoral candidate in Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy. For my doctoral dissertation, I am conducting a research project to explore identity and life course development through two meetings after someone has lost a sibling to suicide.
I myself have lost a sibling to suicide, prompting this research from a personal perspective.
Losing anyone in to suicide is a painful and complex experience. When a sibling dies, a special and unique bond is lost and leads to a major readjustment in life.
How and what will happen?
I will ask you to attend an online video call where I will ask some questions about your experience. There is no right and wrong in this, it is simply a space to share how you experience the impact of losing a sibling to suicide.
This will be transcribed (written-up in words) which will be shared with you to verify or amend.
We will then meet again to produce a creative piece. This will be a montage which is very straight forward, and like before, there is no right and wrong. Montage is taking various images and items to create a new picture that tells a story or shares ideas.
Find a video explanation here to help.
These two meetings will be repeated with several other people and then used as 'data' for analysis and main write up.
Other important information
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Your participation in this study is entirely voluntary; you may withdraw at any time within the first 3months from 1st interview. If you wish to withdraw, just inform the researcher.
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Your participation in this study is entirely confidential anonymous and your identity will not be stored with your data.
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All gathered information will be locked away securely and encrypted password protected technology will be used.
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Once the completed article/dissertation is completed all related documents and recordings will be destroyed.
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Ethical approval has been received from the University to conduct this research.
Finally...
All research includes criteria to ensure a good fit between the topic of study and those who are included. Please read below for this essential criteria, all participants must;
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Have lost a sibling to suicide
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More than 5 years ago
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Willing and able to describe their sense of identity
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Be able to speak fluent English
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Be willing to be recorded
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Not be under the care of a mental health professional or have any severe mental health condition.
Thank you for your consideration in taking part.
I am happy to answer any questions just drop me an email on
05585@metanoia.ac.uk
Overview
Send me an email at 05585@metanoia.ac.uk
I will arrange a quick call with you to answer any questions.
We will have our first meeting online (60-90mins).
We will arrange a second meeting to organise the creative piece.
I will arrange to send you your contribution to confirm/amend.
Art Montage
Montage (for the second interview) is the collecting and rearranging of different images to create a new and meaningful image. By doing this, a 'presse' of narrative and experience is created making the sum greater than its singular parts. It is very straight forward process for this research project and does not need to be a perfectly formed, piece of art. In the end the image is the reflection of the research question. The video here explains a little more about the second meeting in the research of identity after sibling suicide.