Jeannette L. Johnson
- Courses3
- Reviews5
- School: University of Maryland University College
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- Department: Behavioral Sciences
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Adelphi, MD - 20783 - Dates at University of Maryland University College: October 2012 - November 2019
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Biography
University of Maryland University College - Behavioral Sciences
Experience
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Deputy Chief, Scientific Review Branch
Jeannette worked at National Institute on Aging (NIA) as a Deputy Chief, Scientific Review Branch
Education
University of Vermont, UC Berkeley
Ph.D.
Psychology
Publications
An indigenous narrative of resilience: Malama Ko Aloha
(2013) Substance Use and Misuse, 48, pg 1-8
Stories and narration are a means of understanding and expressing the human condition. At its simplest, each story a person tells represents the individual’s reality and through narration and story-telling we can come to understand who we are, where we come from, and where we might be headed (White & Epston, 1990). Stories become our instinctual way of knowing things. Moreover, the stories that occur within cultural groups take on important meanings through the transmission of cultural traditions, knowledge, and experience from generation to generation. This deeper, cultural meaning is not obvious to the outsider who does not have experience living within the culture itself, and it is especially lost without knowledge and experience of the cultural metaphors of the group (Gryczynski, Johnson, & Coyhis, 2007). Stories and images, both conscious and unconscious, maintain and transmit cultures; they become ‘ways of knowing’; they are the lens and filters of life that help us make meaning (Barnhardt & Kawagley, 2005; Becker, 1997; Griffin, 2004).
An indigenous narrative of resilience: Malama Ko Aloha
(2013) Substance Use and Misuse, 48, pg 1-8
Stories and narration are a means of understanding and expressing the human condition. At its simplest, each story a person tells represents the individual’s reality and through narration and story-telling we can come to understand who we are, where we come from, and where we might be headed (White & Epston, 1990). Stories become our instinctual way of knowing things. Moreover, the stories that occur within cultural groups take on important meanings through the transmission of cultural traditions, knowledge, and experience from generation to generation. This deeper, cultural meaning is not obvious to the outsider who does not have experience living within the culture itself, and it is especially lost without knowledge and experience of the cultural metaphors of the group (Gryczynski, Johnson, & Coyhis, 2007). Stories and images, both conscious and unconscious, maintain and transmit cultures; they become ‘ways of knowing’; they are the lens and filters of life that help us make meaning (Barnhardt & Kawagley, 2005; Becker, 1997; Griffin, 2004).
