Healing rites of passage : salutogenesis in serious fun camps / Peter James Kearney.

Kearney, Peter James,
Healing rites of passage :
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ISBN
1315212463
9781351815765 (web pdf)
1351815768
9781351815758 ( epub)
135181575X
9781351815741 (mobi/kindle)
1351815741
9781315212463 (electronic bk.)
9780415791243 (hbk)
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Kearney, Peter James
Yayın Bilgisi
Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource.
Dizi
Social pathologies of contemporary civilization
Özet, vb.
This book examines how 'Therapeutic Recreation' transforms the social health of children enduring or recovering from life-threatening illnesses such as cancer and leukaemia. With studies drawn from 'Serious Fun' projects in the USA, the UK, France, Ireland and Israel, the author explores how camp experiences in convivial circumstances help to bring about healing. Employing central concepts from sociology and anthropology, such as 'liminality', 'mimesis' and 'salutogenesis', Healing Rites of Passage explains why a brief secluded holiday can reform the campers' shared situation of life-threatening illnesses towards health and flourishing. The whole process can be understood in terms of a 'rite of passage', as structured camp experiences enable children to shed previous 'sick roles' and pass through a series of challenges in order to achieve social re-integration with a renewed zest for living. An empirically grounded study that reveals the analytic value of master concepts in the social sciences, this book will appeal to scholars in the fields of sociology, anthropology, paediatrics, social theory and the sociology of health, illness and medicine.
Konu
Recreational therapy for children.
Sick children __ Recreation.
Tumors in children __ Treatment.
MEDICAL / Pharmacology __ bisacsh
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General __ bisacsh
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General __ bisacsh
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Taylor & Francis
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