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This paper explores the role of existential vulnerability in the experience of personal identity and how identity is found and created. Existential vulnerabilities mark a boundary between what humans can bring about willfully or manipulate to their advantage and what is resistant to such actions. These vulnerabilities have their origin, on an ontological level, in fundamental conditions of human existence. At the same time, they have implications on a psychological level when it comes to self-experience and identity formation. Narrative and value-based identity depend on how a person relates to finitude and the ambiguous side of lived experience. Relational identity depends on how a person relates to existential aloneness and the fact that the meaning and value of our actions are partly out of our control; they are always also dependent on other people's responses to us. Bodily identity makes us feel continuous and real, but at the same time vulnerable to death and the gaze and actions of others. Being 'thrown' into an arbitrary life context is also a form of existential vulnerability. Authentic psychological identities can develop by giving meaning to these circumstances and balancing acceptance of existential vulnerability with the courage to make choices and act. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Whistleblowing is an action that particularly requires moral courage. Understanding the relationship between nurses' levels of moral courage and their whistleblowing approaches is important for reducing adverse situations in healthcare services. Objectives: This study aims to understand and analyze the relationship between nurses' levels of moral courage and their whistleblowing approaches. Research design: This is a descriptive and correlational study. Methods: The study sample consists of 582 nurses actively working in a province in northwest Türkiye. Research data were collected using an Information Form, the Nurses' Moral Courage Scale, and the Whistleblowing Scale. Ethical considerations: Ethical approval from the ethics committee, institutional permission, and informed consent from the participants were obtained for data collection. Findings: Nurses were found to perceive their moral courage as high, and their whistleblowing levels were at a moderate level. There was a significant and moderate relationship between participants' levels of moral courage and whistleblowing levels (p <.05). Conclusions: The findings emphasize the importance of promoting moral courage and creating an appropriate environment for exposing ethical violations. This study can contribute to the development of strategies to enhance nurses' moral courage and foster a more ethical working environment in healthcare services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: While health advocacy is an established physician role, most of the educational attention to advocacy has been at the individual patient level. Public advocacy—efforts to effect change at the level of communities, populations or society—remains a poorly defined concept whose educational foundation is underdeveloped. To enrich our understanding of public advocacy, we explored how professionals in two disciplines—medicine and law—have approached its tasks and experienced its challenges. Methods: Using constructivist grounded theory, we interviewed 18 professionals (nine physicians, eight lawyers and one qualified in both disciplines) who engage in public advocacy. We used constant comparison throughout an iterative process of data collection and analysis to develop an understanding of what it means to be a professional in the public domain. Results: Public advocacy work occurs at the intersection of personal and professional identities. Lawyers perceived public advocacy as an embedded element of their professional identity, while physicians more often viewed it as outside their core professional scope. Nonetheless, professional identity influenced how both groups conducted their work. Physicians were more likely to draw on professional attitudes (e.g. their orientation towards evidence and their trusted social position), while lawyers were more likely to draw on professional skills (e.g. building an argument and litigating test cases). The work requires courage and often demands that individuals tolerate personal and professional risk. Conclusion: While medicine has enshrined advocacy in its competency frameworks, it is the legal profession whose practitioners more fully embrace advocacy as intrinsic to professional identity, suggesting that roles are difficult to engineer or impose. Collaboration across public‐facing professions like medicine and law creates opportunities to reimagine public advocacy, to identify the skills required to do it well and to refresh educational strategies. Public advocacy is high‐stakes work. This paper explores how doctors and lawyers navigate this often‐risky activity and speculates on what medicine might learn from law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Engaging with the literature on transformative conceptions of rationality, I argue for the following position on the way reason transforms human cognition: when the capacity for knowing that one ought to do something is directed at one's own speech acts, an initially domain‐specific and practical grasp of genus/species relations – manifest in the ability to select among the various permitted ways to do as one judges one ought – becomes a mechanism through which the reflective study of genus/species relations hones the domain‐general classificatory abilities that accompany adult human language use. In this fashion, our instinctive behaviors may be transformed: we might cease to respond to events simply as (e.g.) fearful or enraging, recognize these motivations as cases of cowardice and recklessness, and begin to treat them as opportunities for courage and restraint. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Frances Duberly aimed to address a nation enraptured by the Crimean War (1853–1856) in her 1855 Journal Kept During the Russian War. Travelling with her officer husband and living amongst the army for two years, she wrote as a self-professed authority on the conflict and constructed herself as a ‘Crimean heroine’. Duberly attempted to secure her own sense of belonging, which existed in tension with many contemporary social standards, by presenting the publication of her Journal as a patriotic act and constructing herself in terms of an extension of the soldiers’ heroism. However, that patriotic display proved fragile and problematic in the face of a competing narrative of feminine heroism, constructed around Florence Nightingale, which dominated the public consciousness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aim: To empirically investigate the impact of ethical leadership on nurses' moral courage in China and examine the mediating role of psychological empowerment in this relationship. Background: Moral courage is essential for alleviating nurses' moral distress, safeguarding patients' safety and rights, and providing high‐quality care. Previous studies have emphasized the strong relationship between ethical leadership and moral courage; however, little is known about the actual impact of ethical leadership on nurses' moral courage. This study introduces psychological empowerment, sets out to test empirically its role in the relationship between ethical leadership and moral courage, and provides countermeasures and a theoretical basis for cultivating nurses' moral courage. Methods: Between February and May 2023, a questionnaire survey was conducted among 837 nurses from five hospitals in Sichuan Province, southwest China. The three validated self‐report scales, the ethical leadership scale, psychological empowerment scale, and nurses' moral courage scale, were used to collect data. We used IBM SPSS 27.0 for descriptive statistics, univariate analyses, Cronbach's α, and correlations of each variable, modeling a hypothesized model of ethical leadership on moral courage in nurses and testing the internal mechanisms by AMOS 26.0. Results: Ethical leadership significantly positively correlated with psychological empowerment (r = 0.374, p < 0.01), as well as moral courage (r = 0.341, p < 0.01). In addition, psychological empowerment significantly positively correlated with moral courage (r = 0.518, p < 0.01). The structural equation modeling (SEM) shows a satisfactory model fit: χ2 = 2156.36, df = 849, χ2/df = 2.540, root mean square of approximation = 0.043, standard root mean square residual = 0.047, normed fit index = 0.911, Tucker–Lewis index = 0.941, and comparative fit index = 0.944. Ethical leadership directly influenced moral courage (β = 0.135, p = 0.006) and indirectly affected moral courage via psychological empowerment (β = 0.247, p = 0.001). Conclusion: Promoting ethical leadership and psychological empowerment is essential for nurses to promote moral courage. The results of this study illustrate the pivotal role of psychological empowerment in establishing the impact of ethical leadership on nurses' moral courage and the partially mediating part of psychological empowerment in this relationship. Implications for Nursing Management: Nursing managers should understand the importance of moral courage in protecting patients' rights and interests, as well as in maintaining a stable nursing workforce. They should reinforce the positive influence of ethical leadership and embrace an ethical leadership style. In addition, providing relevant training to enhance nurses' psychological empowerment will help cultivate moral courage among them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bernard Shaw wrote about heroes and heroism (or bravery), as well as one of its antonyms, anti-heroism, and he created characters who exemplified and discussed them. The chief focus of this article is Arms and the Man and Saint Joan. In both plays and in Shaw's screenplays of them, he dramatizes characters' idealistic views of heroism as well as their heroism and anti-heroism in action. He also spoke of these subjects in his own person, notably in regard to World Wars I and II. Furthermore, in an important respect, Joan is the Sergius of the play named for her. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the specific role of courage in the context of the Anthropocene's moment; it first examines Aristotle's conception of virtues, focusing on courage, before comparing it to Confucian thought and analyzing the historical dialogue between Western and Chinese traditions on ethics through the works of François Noël (1651–1729). Aristotle views moral cultivation as a social process wherein habits shape inner dispositions; in his view, courage is linked to other virtues, such as temperance and justice. For Aristotle, courage implies the appropriate balance between extremes and must be directed toward a worthy end, such as promoting positive change within a community. This Aristotelian perspective was later incorporated into a biblical framework by Aquinas and Suarez, emphasizing dichotomies between body and soul, as well as between humans and other living beings. These dichotomies must be challenged in the face of the Anthropocene's emergencies. The second part of this contribution proceeds to a detour examining Confucian ethics, which rests on a different anthropology, emphasizing continuities rather than discontinuities. Like Aristotelian thought, Confucian thought also underscores moral education within a community; it prioritizes humanity, embodied through empathy and loyalty. In the Analects, courage is balanced by a sense of rituals and righteousness. Mencius further distinguishes several types of courage, stressing self-cultivation and the ruler's responsibility to make empathetic, appropriate decisions for the community's sake. From this perspective, courage is understood as the continuous perseverance in self-cultivation, coupled with a firm intention oriented toward the good of the community. Zhu Xi's comments on Zilu's courage in the Analects extend this Confucian tradition. Finally, this article highlights how a dialogue between Aristotelian and Confucian ethics began four centuries ago, particularly through Noël's Philosophia Sinica, which combined these traditions. This inter-religious approach to ethics, enriched by figures such as Aquinas, Suarez, Zhu Xi, and neo-Confucian thinkers, requires re-evaluation because the understanding of personal ethics and nature has evolved. The modern naturalistic approach, with its emphasis on dichotomies, has contributed to a mechanistic view of nature, fostering its exploitation, and a devaluation of the body. This contrast highlights the urgent need for renewed dialogue between Western and Chinese ethical traditions to address contemporary challenges, with François Noël serving as a historical witness of these exchanges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The PT-109 story is a mainstay of popular and academic narratives. Scholars tell the sinking of John F. Kennedy's patrol torpedo (PT) boat as a U.S. story, focusing on Kennedy's heroism, his incompetence, and how it launched his public career. This article, however, reveals the PT-109 story as co-constructed in Japan and the United States. Kennedy went to Japan in 1951 to craft a narrative of forgiveness and friendship that would help his political career. His visit led to a remarkable letter exchange with the captain of the destroyer that sunk his boat, Hanami Kōhei. These letters, and Hanami's exaggerations to his story in the following decade, courted a controversy about the remembrance of the past that influences how the incident is viewed today. The war story—constructed on both sides of the Pacific—in turn affirmed and strengthened the narratives of "forgiveness" and "friendship" that defined the postwar U.S.-Japan partnership. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the authorial projection of Venezuelan writer Karina Sainz Borgo through her novel "La hija de la española" and her public statements about it. It is highlighted that the protagonist, Adelaida, presents herself as morally superior to those who oppose her politically. Additionally, it is mentioned that the representation of immigrant characters focuses on highlighting their honesty and bravery. The novel is presented as a political critique of the Venezuelan system and presents two opposing ideologies. The author has been criticized for her ideological stance in the novel, although she herself has stated that she is not seeking to make propaganda. The relationship between the author and the work is also analyzed, as she shares the condition of being an exile with the protagonist and has expressed her personal connection to the context of Venezuela. [Extracted from the article]

Being the one who provides an assisted death is complex and profound, and yet the lived experience of this novel act is little understood in Canada. In this article, we highlight the methodological issue of how one might peer behind emergent threads that addressed us in the data. A narrative-hermeneutic approach revealed that for the eight providers we interviewed, this is an embodied existential experience. The act of providing MAiD fostered embodied feelings of conviction, courage, compassion, and intimacy. We ultimately find that the experience of providing MAiD is human connection. The experience holds a dimension of the existential and provides a way to get closer to the unsayable profoundness that occurs in the space of providing death for a suffering other. This is important if not crucial in medicine and health care, as shared experiences connect us to what it is to be human, especially at end of life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the pedagogical politics at play in the quantification of faculty labor in contemporary U.S. academia. It focuses on the author's experiences at a large, land-grant, R1 university, going through the Promotion and Tenure (P&T) review process and reflecting on the various kinds of responsibilities that emerged from structural and personal transformations during the COVID-19 pandemic. By developing a pedagogy of accountability against quantitative compartmentalization, the essay outlines how to posit care, empowerment, and reflexivity as central to all learning, especially for teachers and particularly in times of crisis. In this context, 'learning how to count' means going against faceless metrics of one-to-one correspondence with other faculty or peer institutions and instead embracing what Paulo Freire called the 'civic courage' to teach as a commitment to others and the self. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aim: To examine the correlation between moral courage and caregiving behaviour among nurses who are employed in the COVID‐19 ward in Iran. Design: This study is a descriptive‐correlational and cross‐sectional research conducted in 2021 in the city of Tehran, Iran. Methods: A total of 270 nurses employed in COVID‐19 wards, who had been working in these wards for at least 1 month, were recruited from XXX hospitals and XXX Hospital. Data collection was conducted from September to November 2021. The data collection tools included a demographic information form, the Caring Dimension Inventory (CDI‐25), and the Professional Moral Courage Scale (PMC). The designed questionnaire links were provided to the participants virtually through the Persian platform 'Pars Line' and via WhatsApp. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were used to examine the relationship between moral courage and care behaviour. Results: There was a significant difference in the mean of caring behaviour between the age groups (<30 and >40 years old), and the work experience groups (<5 years and >15 years) (p < 0.05). Ethical values also varied significantly between certain age and experience groups (p < 0.05), but no significant differences were found in ethical behaviour across most ages (30–40 years) and work experience categories (>10 years) (p > 0.05). The level of moral courage among the nurses was higher than the median score of the instrument (87.31 ± 10.37). Among the dimensions of moral courage, the highest score was related to the dimension of ethical factors (17.64 ± 2.64), and the lowest score was related to the dimension of multiple values (17.26 ± 2.78). The level of caring behaviours among the nurses was lower than the median score of the instrument (46.11 ± 10.84). Among the dimensions of caring behaviours, the highest score was related to physical‐technical behaviours (19.22 ± 5.27), and the lowest score was related to professional behaviours (1.35 ± 0.67). Based on the analysis, moral courage had a weak and inverse correlation with caring behaviours among nurses. The higher moral courage does not necessarily result in improved caregiving behaviours, emphasizing the need for further research to explore and address this relationship. Patient: No Patient or Public Contribution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

John Studley's Agamemnon (1566) explores women's rule and how it can combine feminine and masculine elements to achieve and maintain political power. To do so, Studley employs the character of Clytemnestra, who simultaneously retains elements of her previous dramatic versions and is shaped to resonate with early modern English audiences. This process is twofold, taking into consideration linguistic and character traits. Clytemnestra's language is expanded from the Latin through masculine-coded tropes characteristic of vernacular lyric. Moreover, she possesses traits traditionally considered masculine (martial courage, determination, bold speech and skill in weaponry). In Studley's Clytemnestra, then, endurance and action combined create a gender hybridity in speech and behaviour. In turn, her portrayal resonates with discourses surrounding early modern women rulers, from Elizabeth Tudor to Mary Stuart. Ultimately, Agamemnon reshapes the treacherous queen of Mycenae to function as a commentary on how a woman in power could appear, speak and behave. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: Currently, there is a gap in knowledge on what the key goalkeeper attributes are during talent identification and selection in soccer. Hence, the objective was to investigate South African coaches' perceptions regarding key attributes of talented youth soccer goalkeepers. Design: Cross-sectional survey. Methods: A total of 173 soccer coaches (130 men and 43 women; Mage = 36.6 ± 10.4 years; Mcoaching experience = 8.4 ± 7.3 years) were purposively recruited to participate in the study. All of the participants completed the Talent Identification Questionnaire in Soccer – Goalkeepers (TIDQS-GK). Results: The six-component solution identified by the principal component analysis accounted for 68.96% of the total variance. Coaches deemed psychological (e.g. concentration, bravery, self-discipline), physical (e.g. speed, flexibility), social (e.g. coachability, communication), technical (e.g. catching the ball, first touch), tactical (e.g. defensive organisation against set plays) and perceptual-cognitive skills (e.g. decision-making) as important factors in identifying talented goalkeepers. Conclusions: The study offers new insights into the key attributes that soccer coaches look for in talented goalkeepers such as concentration, bravery, speed, coachability and decision-making and could direct coaches towards more objective evaluation strategies for informing their decisions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Organizational agility is the cornerstone of the complex dynamics for the success of healthcare organizations and the sustenance of nurses' career planning and professional development. Aim: Assess the organizational agility and the extent of nurses' career planning. It also sought to investigate the association between the two and the intermediating function that nurses' grit plays in this association. Design: A cross-sectional descriptive design following STROBE guidelines was carried out. Methods and tools: Data were collected from 300 nurses who made up the entire population sample that we used (a judgmental non-probability sampling technique) working across all in-patient care units at Itay El-Baroud General Hospital, in El Behaira governorate, using structured questionnaires as follows: the organizational agility questionnaire, the career planning scale, and the grit scale. The sociodemographic characteristics of the studied nurses were also collected. Statistical analyses were used to analyze the data, including ANOVA, Pearson correlation, and SEM, to determine whether career development may act as a mediator between organizational agility and the nurses' career planning. Results: Rendering the findings of this study, more than half of nurses have a high perception regarding organizational agility and career planning. In contrast, the majority of them have a moderate perception regarding grit. In addition, there is a statistically high significant relationship between organizational agility and career planning. Also, there is a statistically high significant relationship between organizational agility and grit. There is a statistically high significant relationship between career planning and grit. Conclusion: The statistically substantial correlations among grit, career planning, and organizational agility demonstrate how interrelated they are. This implies that encouraging organizational flexibility and effective career planning techniques may have a good impact on nurses' resilience, which would ultimately result in a workforce of nurses who are more resilient and engaged. Additional investigation into the precise mechanisms behind these associations may yield important information for improving nurse wellbeing and retention. Nursing implications: According to this study, putting organizational agility and career planning first can have a good impact on nurses' grit, which will make them more resilient and engaged workers. To encourage flexibility and growth among nurses, healthcare institutions should make training investments, provide clear career tracks, and support work-life balance. More investigation into the precise mechanisms underlying these connections may yield insightful information that improves nurse well-being and retention. The importance of organizational agility in creating a supportive work environment for nurses' career growth should be acknowledged by healthcare companies. This can lead to increased job satisfaction and lower turnover. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper attempts to shed light on the contemporary issue of exile and diaspora and their manifestations in the poetry of Abdullah al-Baradouni, a modern Yemeni poet. Within the postcolonial hermeneutics and postmodernist theory, exile in the poetry of al-Baradouni becomes a signifier indicating not only being expelled outside one’s homeland but experiencing the feelings of isolation, exile, and diaspora caused by hard conditions, power struggle, ideological heterodoxy, and identity loss. Al-Baradouni’s dialectics of exile revolves on the concept that exile is a human condition beyond physical boundaries. Thus, exile is no longer treated as a singular event, it rather becomes a heterogeneous and multifaceted phenomenon. He succeeds in depicting the impactful consequences of exile and diaspora through the employment of bizarre, macabre, and surrealistic images and techniques. Hence, this piece of research adopts surrealism as a theoretical framework in illuminating and investigating al-Baradouni’s poetic texts under study. In his poetry, al-Baradouni becomes the voice of the voiceless and embodies a collective national consciousness as he engages himself in poetic enterprises that demand intrepidity, determination, articulateness, genius, vision, and prophecy. His contribution to the literature of exile and diaspora is significant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recommendation of new varieties is supported by value for cultivation and use (Valor de Cultivo e Uso [VCU]) trials. For a more reliable recommendation, it is necessary to identify methodologies that make better use of the genotype‐by‐environment interaction (GEI). The methodology proposed by Dias et al. is an alternative to take advantage of the GEI; it considers concepts of Bayesian models and probability methods of adaptation and stability analysis in a single model, classifying the genotypes regarding possible success based on a defined selection intensity. Thus, the aim of the present study was to explore the use of Bayesian probabilistic method for the purpose of recommend common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) varieties. To that end, we used grain yield data from 15 genotypes of common bean evaluated in 42 environments distributed over different crop seasons, years, and locations in regard to VCU trials conducted from 2016 to 2018. Under a predefined selection intensity of 30%, the genotypes with greater marginal probability of superior performance were G01, G14, G07, G11, and G02. The genotypes with greater marginal probability of superior stability were G06, G07, G04, G03, and G12. Considering the joint probability of superior performance and yield stability, the genotypes G07, G14, G01, G11, and G04 stand out. Therefore, the use of the Bayesian probabilistic method showed promise in recommendation of common bean varieties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the connections between John Milton's Paradise Lost and the genre of disaster films, particularly how both depict disaster and its aftermath. Topics include Milton's portrayal of calamity following Adam and Eve's disobedience, the ways the first couple cope with their crisis, and the examination of disaster films as "non-adaptations" that reflect Milton's themes of persistence, renewal, and heroism.

The photograph of the so-called Tank Man, who in 1989 stood in the street and stopped a line of Chinese army tanks after the forcible dissolution of pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, is one of the twentieth century's most famous images of unarmed protest. This article explores how the iconic Tank Man image performs in Lucy Kirkwood's Chimerica (2013) and Lauren Yee's The Great Leap (2018). By expanding performance studies scholarship that frames his actions as theatrical, this article adds Meredith Conti's notion of the "crisis actor" to the discourse around Tank Man: an activist who responds to moments of political urgency by performing resistance for contemporary audiences seeking authenticity in the noisy digital landscape. To track Kirkwood and Yee's dramatization of the Tank Man icon, I analyse how their stage directions locate Tank Man in theatrical worlds that merge history and fiction, past and present, live and mediated. Arguing that Kirkwood and Yee make Tank Man legible on a human scale through domestic drama, this article traces how each characterizes their fictional Tank Man as a husband, father, and reluctant political actor compelled to radical action by the domestic tragedy of a dead wife and a lost or absent child. This allows the playwrights to humanize and reanimate the historical protest performance of Tank Man as they use the figure's iconicity to bolster their characters' subjectivity as crisis actors. In Chimerica and The Great Leap, Tank Man as icon and crisis actor offers a hopeful model of utopian politics for contemporary audiences, newly legible as a mediatized twenty-first-century hero. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Positive changes in terms of personal growth have been observed in individuals dealing with traumatic or difficult situations, as well as with positive situations. In the present research, we asked whether positive and negative autobiographical memories would be linked to specific character strengths. One hundred and ninety-four participants generated memories regarding their most valuable and enriching experience. Autobiographical memories and character strengths were identified and classified by two independent coders. Results revealed that the majority of the events related to academic transitions, followed by illnesses, and death of beloved ones. Results also suggested that both positive and stressful experiences were linked to character strengths, with the character strengths of perspective, bravery, gratitude, and spirituality connected to 45% of the events. Thus, the present research adds to the literature on autobiographical memories and personality variables by exploring the link between personally significant events and character strengths in young adulthood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reflects on what we learnt about teaching geography during the COVID-19 pandemic. We interrogate how we, as geography educators working in different contexts, navigated the novel teaching spaces created during the pandemic using two key registers; courageous and compassionate pedagogies. Our premise is that understanding in more nuanced form the approaches we took to creating courageous and compassionate education during the pandemic may help geography educators to thrive when delivering future-facing education. Our approach was to write and share vignettes of our pandemic teaching upon which we (asynchronously) collectively reflected; creating emergent themes described in this paper. This approach to structured peer learning derives from our commitment to education as a collective endeavour. We argue that the disruption caused by the early pandemic required geography educators to focus attention explicitly on areas previously taken as given. Geography educators slowed down by: (1) recognising educator and student embodiment in a novel context; (2) prioritising listening, acknowledging and sharing with students; and (3) paying attention to and respecting difference amongst learners and colleagues. We propose that consciously adopting these approaches will support geography educators and their students in rapidly changing circumstances across educational, employment and climate contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although clinical social work seeks to center the transformative potential of human relationships, practitioners are experiencing heightened systemic and organizational impingements from the dehumanizing pressures of neoliberalism. Neoliberalism and racism diminish the vitality and transformative potential of human relationships, disproportionately affecting Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) communities. Practitioners are also experiencing increased stress and burnout related to increased caseloads and decreased professional autonomy and organizational practitioner support. Holistic, culturally responsive, and anti-oppressive processes seek to counter these oppressive forces but need further development to synthesize antioppressive structural understandings with embodied relational interactions. Practitioners can potentially contribute to efforts that apply critical theories and antioppressive understandings within their practice and workplace. Through an iterative flow of three sets of practices, the RE/UN/DIScover heuristic supports practitioners' efforts to respond in those challenging everyday moments where oppressive forms of power are imposed and embedded within systemic processes. With themselves and other colleagues, practitioners engage in compassionate REcover practices; use curious, critical reflection to UNcover full understandings of power dynamics, impacts, and meanings; and draw on creative courage to DIScover and enact socially just and humanizing responses. This paper describes how practitioners can use the RE/UN/DIScover heuristic in two common challenging moments of clinical practice: systemic practice impingements and implementing a new training or practice model. The heuristic seeks to support practitioners' efforts to preserve and expand socially just, relational spaces for themselves and those with whom they work within the context of systemic dehumanizing neoliberal forces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian information campaign left much to be desired. The subsequent discussion underlines the importance of information in conflict situations. The British and Netherlands Army both focus on information manoeuvre. This article therefore first discusses what information manoeuvre is and how it originated. Furthermore, this article also discusses, when information manoeuvre is used, what should specifically be engaged? This involves two leverage points, trust and perceptions. Finally, this article discusses that the application of information maoeuvre requires courage on the one hand but, on the other, that careful and ethical considerations are needed before information manoeuvre is used. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a behaviour many counselling psychologists encounter in practice, and the way clinician's respond can have an important impact on the individual's experience of recovery. The person-centred NSSI recovery framework incorporates the voices of lived experience in understanding the multi-faceted nature of recovery. Objectives: This paper outlines important considerations for how the recovery framework can guide clinicians with respect to both therapeutic stance and intervention targets in order to support clients in navigating their experience of NSSI and recovery. Implications: Clinicians should adopt a strengths-based approach and foster self-efficacy and self-compassion with persons with lived experience. This paper provides specific recommendations for counselling psychologists and their clients, including encouraging clinicians to avoid making assumptions about the causes, meanings, and outcomes of self-injury, and to be cognizant of the non-linear nature of the recovery process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay examines Foucault's legacy in terms of its contribution to the field of somaesthetics. It demonstrates how Foucault's work on embodiment, care of the self, pleasure, sexuality, and aesthetics of existence were inspirational to the founding of somaesthetics and can serve as exemplars of somaesthetic philosophy. However, the essay also explores the ways that current somaesthetic research departs from Foucault's theories by critiquing their limitations with respect to several important issues. These issues include the varieties of pleasure, the multicultural scope and diversity of ars erotica, the range of aesthetics and art, and the demand for truth and heroism in the art of living a beautiful life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to improve students' ability to express opinions in Pancasila learning by applying the percentage method and group discussion. The research uses a descriptive qualitative approach with 49 students from the Guidance and Counseling Study Program as subjects. Data were collected through observation and documentation during the learning process. The results show that the percentage method and group discussion effectively enhance students' fluency, courage, and appropriateness in presenting opinions according to the discussed context. Other indicators, such as clarity and the sequence of ideas, also showed improvement. Supporting factors in implementing these methods include the role of lecturers, student motivation, and adequate facilities and infrastructure. In conclusion, the percentage and group discussion methods have improved students' ability to express opinions in Pancasila learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The topic I am addressing discusses the tireless efforts of our Victorious Supreme Commander and the heroism of our army in liberating Shusha. The jewel of Karabakh, Shusha, is now free. We take pride in our President, who walks through Shusha step by step, and we highly appreciate his efforts. For all Azerbaijanis who love their homeland, Shusha is a cherished land, a fortress, and a sanctuary of music. The topic also includes writings about Shusha's traditional singers, musicians, and instrumentalists, with notes on their memories. Congratulations, Shusha! May the "Bulbuls of Karabakh," whose voices resonate in the Cıdır Plain, and our musicians, including Uzeyir Hajibeyov and other artists, rest in peace! [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

(1) Context: Cancer triggers significant changes in family dynamics. It is noteworthy that coping and problem-solving skills, particularly in situations involving cancer in children and adolescents, have not been adequately explored in the context of family adaptation. This study aims to analyze the effectiveness of family interventions in coping to improve problem-solving skills in parents and/or caregivers of children and adolescents during and after oncological treatment. (2) Methods: This is a scoping review following the recommendations of the Joanna Briggs Institute and the Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Extension for Scoping Review (PRISMA-ScR), from 2014 to 2024, in the databases LILACS, CINAHL, SCOPUS, Web of Science, and PUBMED. (3) Results: Forty-five studies were eligible. Coping strategies were categorized as follows: (1) positive attitudes (including a sense of courage and hope, family support to enhance resilience, and future planning), (2) caregiver empowerment (involving acceptance of diagnosis, emotional distancing, and coping through religiosity), and (3) communication skills (encompassing professional communication, horizontal dialogue with healthcare teams, and sincere communication with friends and family). (4) Conclusions: Over time, families develop coping and problem-solving strategies that influence changes in family functioning patterns, aiding them in accepting, reinterpreting, and reframing ideas and feelings associated with neoplasia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses' (AACN) "Courage to Soar" theme in September 2024. Topics covered include the consideration of three questions on courage by critical care nurses, and the manifestation of courage in critical care clinical research when investigators are willing to admit lack of knowledge and confront current practices. Also noted is the issue of disregard or acceptance of a long-standing clinical problem by critical care nurses.

Background: In the background of reported high distress among medical students and health professionals, character building at the level of health institutions may be helpful for augmenting academic performance and nurturing well-being during the training period of budding health professionals. Aim: This study aims to assess non-cognitive positive traits, particularly Values in Action-character strengths related to the virtue of courage among trainees and doctors. It may reveal the association of challenging situations being faced in health profession with inculcation of the virtue of courage. Materials and Methods: Data regarding character strengths profile with reference to the psychological virtue of courage among students and residents of dental institution (n = 54) were collected and analyzed. Results: Participants of all the three groups were found to display at least a minimum of each of the character strengths included in the virtue of courage. Perseverance was significantly higher in postgraduate students than undergraduate students and senior residents. Recurrent physician burnout has been reported to be associated with distress symptoms during their medical education at least once. Conclusion: Positive institutions may play an important role to reduce the intensity and incidence of distress sequelae among medical students by taking initiatives for character building, with reference to augmenting character strengths of virtue of courage.

Multicultural scholars suggest that effective Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) training must raise awareness of prejudice and racism while also including strategies for changing behavior by developing certain approach goals (e.g. the goal of becoming a more courageous and patient person). This study examines how virtue interventions that cultivate courage and patience may be a useful approach for increasing motivation to respond without prejudice during interracial interactions. Virtue interventions were tested in 292 White college students (69.2% female; MAge = 20.9) across four conditions (control, virtue only/no race salience, virtue and race salient, and race salient/no virtue). Results suggest that White college students receiving the virtue/race salient intervention increased internal motivation to respond without prejudice, but those who received the race salient/no virtue condition reported decreased levels of courage and decreased motivation to respond without prejudice. Findings are discussed in light of positive psychology, DEI, anti-racism training and interventions, and virtue development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Background: Compassion fatigue in nursing interns contributes to career indecision and worsens the nursing shortage. While work environment and psychological factors are well-studied, the ethical dimension remains unexplored. Understanding these mechanisms, particularly the role of moral courage, is essential for designing interventions to combat compassion fatigue and address the workforce crisis. This study investigates the influence of moral courage on compassion fatigue among Chinese nursing interns, focusing on the mediating roles of moral sensitivity and professional identity. Methods: A quantitative, cross-sectional study was conducted in accordance with the STROBE guidelines. We used the convenience sampling method to recruit 467 nursing interns from four public junior colleges in Hunan Province, China in February, 2024. Data were collected using Compassion Fatigue Short Scale, Moral Courage Scale, Revised Moral Sensitivity Questionnaire, and Professional Identity Scale. Data analyses were conducted using SPSS 22.0 and Amos 21.0. Results: The modified model exhibited a good fit (χ2/df = 3.437, AGFI = 0.928, IFI = 0.984, TLI = 0.976, CFI = 0.984, NFI = 0.977, RMSEA = 0.072). Moral sensitivity positively influenced both moral courage and professional identity, while professional identity negatively impacted compassion fatigue. Importantly, the effect of moral courage on compassion fatigue was entirely mediated by moral sensitivity and professional identity (β = -0.114, P = 0.001). Conclusion: This study suggests that moral courage in nursing interns mitigates compassion fatigue through the combined mediating effects of moral sensitivity and professional identity. Ethics education programs fostering moral courage, moral sensitivity, and professional values in nursing students could be crucial in alleviating compassion fatigue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Before assessment, before full awareness, people respond to abrupt changes in their immediate environment. This trait, shared by a wide variety of animal phyla, is "animal personality" that covers three behavioral syndromes: boldness to shyness, exploration to avoidance, and level of activity. These phenotypic syndromes shape the animal's immediate response to the environment, even as the environment shapes the phenotypic expression of these behaviors. The larger ecological environment shapes the behaviors of humans, mammals, and birds, converging several types of behaviors toward common behaviors. Animal personality and ecological convergence illustrate the influence of the environment on behavior, the constriction of the environment on behaviors, and the influence of fitness of these responses to the environment. HRO may not be as much the initial response to a crisis as the flux of continuing iterations of responses. There is no wrong first action toward enactment. There may be wrong in creating an expectation of what happens in that first moment or a consequence of not responding to the environment responding to the person's response. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Public health nursing is grounded in public health ideologies and fundamental nursing values. Researchers have argued that ethical responsibility from the perspective of the nurse is an understudied phenomenon. This meta-ethnography provides in-depth knowledge of how public health nurses (PHNs) experience ethical responsibility when working to prevent injury and disease, and promote health and well-being in children, young people and their families. There are reciprocal findings across the 10 included studies. The findings reveal that these nurses often feel alone, have worries and uncertainties and are afraid of doing wrong. They describe unclear boundaries in their work, creating a heightened sense of responsibility. PHNs fight lonely battles. Yet they show courage and commitment and are ready to stand up and fight for children and families who do not receive adequate care. A line of argument is developed and the metaphorical phrase Chivalrous knights in moral armour is used to express the authors' overall interpretations of the findings. Reflection on the findings shows how the different dimensions of ethical responsibility are interconnected. The nurses' ethical sensitivity enables them to feel compassion for others and they show indignation when vulnerable others are not treated with dignity and respect. Indignation and compassion are interrelated, and when human life and dignity are threatened, the ethical demand to respond emerges. Indignation is a precursor to moral courage, and the nurses' moral sensitivity and respect for their clients emboldens them to stand up for vulnerable others. The findings also illustrate the paradoxical nature of freedom. Freedom of choice due to unclear boundaries heightens the nurses' sense of responsibility. This research is an important step in theory development and has implications for further research, education and practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent decades, scholars and practitioners alike have devoted increased attention to the psychological well-being of student-athletes. However, to date, far less research has examined the role of virtues, religion, and spirituality in contributing to well-being in student-athlete populations. In this study, we attempt to address these gaps by (a) assessing the association between trait courage, an understudied virtue in the sporting realm, and mental well-being, and then (b) considering how student-athletes' attachment to God might moderate the association between trait courage and depressive symptoms. Drawing on a sample of 415 student-athletes from the USA, regression results illustrate that courage was not significantly associated with lower depressive symptoms among student-athletes. However, a secure attachment to God appeared to function as a compensatory resource for student-athletes lacking in courage. On the contrary, athletes with low trait courage but who reported greater avoidant attachment to God reported greater depressive symptoms. Taken together, a more positive relationship with God could help provide athletes with lower trait courage a way to find meaning and strength that helps them with emotion-regulation strategies to deal with the pressures within and beyond their sport. This study clearly shows that greater attention should be paid to the religious and spiritual development of student-athletes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]