Course curriculum

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    Course Outline

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    • Description

    • Learning Objectives

    • Course Sections/Outline

    • Overview

    • What is Meaning-making?

    • Meaning-making: Process or Outcome

    • Positive vs. Negative Meaning-making: Empirical Evidence

    • Underlying Mechanisms of Meaning-making

    • Correlates of Positive Meaning-Making

    • Correlates of Negative Meaning-Making

    • Meaning-making and Adaptation to Disease

    • Cognitive Approaches to Meaning-Making

    • Narrative Approaches to Meaning-Making

    • Temporality

    • Biographical Disruption and Identity Reconstruction

    • Morality in Illness Narratives

    • Social Context

    • Structural/Material Characteristics

    • Narrative Genre and Type

    • Cultural Models of Illness

    • Conclusion

    • References

    • Post-Test: An Ethical and Sociocultural Exploration of Meaning-making and its Association to Chronic Illness: Cognitive and Narrative Approaches

    • Program Evaluation