School of Nursing Offers New Graduate Certificate in Life Story Practice and Research
The 12-credit program will welcome its first cohort this summer and is designed for social workers, nurses, clinical psychologists, artists, writers, musicians, and personal and family historians.
Juliette Shellman, associate professor, will lead the School of Nursing s new graduate certificate program in Life Story Practice and Research. (Peter Morenus/UConn File Photo) Copy Link
Humans are storytellers; from our earliest ancestors sharing tales around a fire, to most of us creating and sharing content today on social media.
Just as there is a skill to storytelling, there also is in facilitating and listening to those stories – helping someone reminisce or talk through their experiences. If a health care professional is trained in such skills, it can even be a form of therapy for their patients or a source of data.