Sachiko Shojima

Faculty of Health and Medical Science,Department of PsychologyAssociate Professor
Last Updated :2026/04/04

■Researcher basic information

Field Of Study

  • Humanities & social sciences, Clinical psychology

■Career

Career

  • Apr. 2023 - Present
  • Apr. 2022 - Present
    Teikyo Heisei University
  • Apr. 2013 - Mar. 2022
    Teikyo Heisei University
  • Apr. 2013 - Mar. 2016
  • Apr. 2012 - Mar. 2014
  • Apr. 2011 - Mar. 2013
  • Apr. 2010 - Mar. 2013
  • Apr. 2006 - Mar. 2009
  • Jan. 2005 - Mar. 2005
    Clark University, Visiting, Research Fellow

Educational Background

  • Apr. 2006 - Mar. 2008, Kyoto University
  • Apr. 2004 - Mar. 2006
  • Apr. 2002 - Mar. 2004
  • Apr. 1998 - Mar. 2002

Member History

  • Apr. 2025 - Present
    Editorial Board Member
  • Apr. 2024 - Present
  • May 2022 - Present
  • Apr. 2022 - Mar. 2025
  • Apr. 2021 - Mar. 2023
  • Jan. 2019 - Oct. 2021
  • Apr. 2015 - Mar. 2018
  • Apr. 2014 - Mar. 2015

■Research activity information

Award

  • Sep. 2007
  • Jul. 2005
    The 1st International Conference of Asian Queer Studies, Scholarship Prize

Paper

  • Effect of a suicide prevention program in potentially high-risk adolescents defined by behavioral inhibition and behavioral activation systems
    原田知佳; 畑中美穂; 川野健治; 勝又陽太郎; 川島大輔; 荘島幸子; 白神敬介; 川本静香
    心理学研究, 2019
  • "Aida" as a Field of Qualitative Research:For Description and Grasping of Life
    Okura Tokushhi; Shojima Sachiko; Takata Yoshinori
    Qualitative Psychology Forum, 2016
  • The measurement for evaluation of suicide prevention education programs in junior high school
    白神敬介; 川野健治; 勝又陽太郎; 川島大輔; 荘島幸子
    自殺予防と危機介入, 2015
  • "Secret" in Qualitative Study
    Shojima Sachiko
    Qualitative Psychology Forum, 2011
  • Teachers' difficulties in dealing with students' self-harm and suicide
    Suicide prevention and crisis intervention, 2011
  • The image scheme of death and suicide
    Journal of mental health, Mar. 2010
  • A Mother's Retelling of Experiences about Her Child's Desire to Live with Another Gender
    Shojima Sachiko
    The Japanese Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2010
    This paper presents a case study of a mother ("M") whose child ("A") told her that she had a gender identity disorder and wished to live as a male after undergoing sex reassignment surgery. Longitudinal interviews were conducted 3 times over an 18-month period, beginning two years after A's coming-out. The perspectives adopted for analysis were (1) the process by which M retold her experiences with A, (2) M's self-narrative in retelling her experiences with A, (3) M's reconstxuction of the narrative during the interviews. The A-M relationship improved across the 18-month period of interviews. Overall, the process of M retelling her experiences was related to a reorganization of her life experiences, and addressed the fundamental issue of her existence as A's mother. In generating M's narrative, the existence of others (peer and interviewer) was important. It appeared that M's retelling of remorse reflected her lifespan development as a mother, rather than sequential stages of parental adjustment. In addition, the role of the interviewer was understood as helping to elicit M's narrative.
  • 心理学とその近接領域における家族研究に関する一考察-(1)家族に関して見出される現象および(2)家族の状況の2軸による分類から               
    Mar. 2009
  • The psychological and relational structural models for a person with "gender identity disorder": generation of the three upper models of "discrepancy", "connecting", and "stepping away from oneself"
    Kyoto University research studies in education, 2009
    I have longitudinally interviewed for four years a person with "gender identity disorder" (GID) who wished to cross gender because of his gender dysphoria, and his family, The interview data were analyzed using a narrative approach. The aim of my study is in totally recognizing him and his family's experience of living with his GID. In this paper, my five Qualitative studies were reconsidered in the perspective of generating models. Each psychological and relational model generated from five qualitative studies was integrated into upper models. Three upper models were presented here: "discrepancy, " "connecting, " and "stepping away from oneself." In discussion, We considered how these three models functioned in light of a life story of someone with GID and his or her family. This paper enabled a deeper experience of living as a person with GID and living with person having it by connecting all their narratives that were separated from each other's study and reconsidering the psychological and relational models in line with time axis of their life story.
  • Multilayered contexts in which narrative is generated and interpreted: toward the next narrative based inquiry
    Kyoto University research studies in education, 31 Mar. 2008
    While narrative based inquiry became one of the main qualitative study and method across a wide variety of disciplines, narrative based inquiry had crowded the field of qualitative study. Also, a definition of "narrative" was not integrated yet. In this paper, drawing Mishler's (1995) model of narrative analysis, three categories of the narrative analysis model (1.Reference and temporal order, 2.Textual coherence and structure, 3. Narrative functions) were described. After examination, the three categories of narrative analysis model, multilayered contexts in which narratives were generated were refocused as an important perspective. Four contexts were extracted and explained, i.e., 1. an aspect of interaction of narratives, 2. an aspect of social action of narratives, and linkage between narrative and social historical contexts, 3. outside narratives and undertone narratives, 4. multi voices and life around the narrator's life. Finally, a connection between narrative and the self was discussed, introducing a concept of "transitional space" (Sclater, 2003) to narrative based inquiry.
  • 1事例研究再考 : 個を理解するということをめぐって               
    Mar. 2008
  • A Qualitative Study of the Re-organization Process of Self Narrative of a Person with Gender Identity Disorder
    Shojima Sachiko
    The Japanese Journal of Personality, 2008
    Increasingly more people in Japan know gender identity disorder (GID), and many with GID are publicly disclosing their condition and have begun talking about their situation openly through various media channels. We examined the narratives that we obtained through longitudinal interviews with a person with GID over a period of three years. Several transformations in them were identified, and three aspects were analyzed: changes in the person's medical needs and body recognition and acceptance, social relationships, and subjective evaluation of the condition. We found that the person experienced increasingly less body dysphoria and medical needs, experienced an expansion in social relationships and had more experiences of getting along both well and badly with others, and steadily increased the importance attached to living in close relationships with others. In discussion, we conceptualized the process of terminating medical treatment and quitting to describe himself as a person with GID, as that of “narrative about I” becoming at variance with “success narrative” in medical treatment, in which dissolution of a demonic narrative and re-organization of self narrative occurred.
  • An attempt to bring "undertone narratives" under the traditional narrative approach
    SHOJIMA(WAKUI) Sachiko
    JAPANESE PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW, 2007
  • An analysis of self construction of one person with gender identity disorder: generating Rashomon-like knowledge based on same transcripts
    Kyoto University research studies in education, 2007
    This article explores a Rashomon-like approach for generating two new kinds of knowledge using same transcript, which was obtained from several interviews with a person with gender identity disorder (GID). In the analysis of a transcript, two qualitative methods were employed: self-narrative perspective and discursive psychological perspective. There are two phases of narrative concept: "narrative world" and "story region". In this article, these two phases of narrative were analyzed. Wakui (2006b) focusd only on "narrative world" in narrative using self-narrative perspective, and interpret a meaning of experiences of a person with GID in the "then and there". This article focusing not only "narrative world" but also "story region" using discursive psychological perspective, showing the processes of person's self construction in the "now and here", which is a dialogical and reciprocal context.
  • 病いの研究をめぐる理論的考察と提言 : 新たな研究アプローチの模索               
    Mar. 2006
  • The Narrative of Self in Opposition to One's Sex:the Case of a Person with "Gender Identity Disorder"
    Wakui Sachiko
    Japanese Journal of Qualitative Psychology, 2006
    The subject of this paper, "Haru" desired to change gender from female to male. Using data obtained mainly throughinterviews with Haru, this paper examined how Haru, a person with GID, learned to live with GID and also relates hispersonal account of GID. This data was then analyzed from the self-narrative perspective. Haru chose to divide hisnarrative into two parts: pre coming-out and post coming-out. In addition, a "transition" story was identified in thedialogue process, linking the two parts of the story. Haru's self-narrative, pre coming-out, shifted back & forth interms of his understanding of his sexuality. The transition story contained a self-narrative by which Haru explainedthat he had a disorder. He expressed his disorder as it related to several contexts: personal, social and medical. Postcoming-out, Haru's self-narrative was divided into seven phases.

MISC

Books and other publications

Lectures, oral presentations, etc.

  • 発達の場としてのPTAを語る-PTA心理学の展開               
    03 Mar. 2026
  • ビジュアル・ナラティブとは?-質的研究の新地平               
    18 Oct. 2025
  • 性的マイノリティの『当事者』とは誰か? -アイデンティティ、境界、支援の視点から考える-               
    07 Sep. 2025
  • PTA心理学(1)学校・教師から見たPTA               
    05 Sep. 2025
  • 「知る」から「ともに学ぶ」へ-LGBTQ+と教育をつなぐ視点               
    24 Aug. 2025, [Invited]
  • PTA心理学の概観と展望-コロナ禍を経て日本のPTAはどのように変わっていくのか               
    06 Sep. 2024
  • 中年期セクシュアルマイノリティにおける心理的発達と家族               
    06 Sep. 2024
  • ナラティヴと質的研究会〈「私をつつむ母なるもの(やまだようこ著作集 第6巻)」を巡って〉               
    23 Sep. 2023
  • 性的マイノリティのパーソナリティ発達               
    26 Mar. 2022, [Invited]

Research Themes

Social Contribution Activities

  • 自分と相手を大切にするために -性と人間関係を考えよう-               
    lecturer
    06 Feb. 2026
  • LGBTQ+と医療-誰もが安心して医療にアクセスできるために               
    lecturer
    22 Nov. 2025
  • 自分と相手を大切にするために -性と人間関係を考えよう-               
    lecturer
    12 Sep. 2025
  • SOGIと多様性               
    lecturer
    24 Jul. 2025
  • “性の多様性”について理解を深める               
    lecturer
    06 Jun. 2025
  • 学校の中で多様性を活かす~共に生きる空間をどうつくるか~               
    lecturer
    08 May 2025
  • 多様な性を生きる子供たちが安心して過ごせる学校とは?~ダイバーシティからインクルージョンへ~               
    lecturer
    23 Aug. 2024
  • 多様な性を生きる子供たちが 安心して過ごせる学校とは? ~ダイバーシティからインクルージョンへ               
    lecturer
    29 Jun. 2024
  • 性の多様性と人権 ~誰もが安心して過ごせる学校環境を目指して~               
    lecturer
    21 Jun. 2024
  • “性の多様性”について理解を深める               
    lecturer
    31 May 2024
  • 多様な人権課題に取り組む学校:誰も取り残さず、成長していく学校となるために               
    lecturer
    14 Feb. 2024 - 14 Feb. 2024
  • 性の多様性とはなにか-保育の現場でLGBTQの子どもたちに寄り添う               
    lecturer
    02 Dec. 2023
  • “性の多様性”を理解する~教育の現場で LGBTQ+ の子供に寄り添う               
    lecturer
    23 Aug. 2023 - 23 Aug. 2023
  • “性の多様性”について理解を深める               
    lecturer
    29 May 2023
  • “性の多様性”を理解する~教育の現場でLGBTQ+の子供に寄り添う~               
    lecturer
    25 May 2023
  • “性の多様性”について理解を深める-LGBTQの学生が直面する課題と教員として取り組むべきこと               
    lecturer
    20 Feb. 2023 - 20 Feb. 2023
  • 第4回人権尊重教育研修会(校内研修会)兼 検証授業               
    08 Feb. 2023 - 08 Feb. 2023
  • Children's Mental Health and Suicide Prevention               
    lecturer
    10 Dec. 2022 - 10 Dec. 2022
  • “性の多様性”を理解する~教育の現場でLGBTQ+の子供に寄り添う~               
    lecturer
    06 Oct. 2022 - 06 Oct. 2022
  • 性の多様性とはなにか-保育の現場でLGBTQの子どもたちに寄り添う               
    lecturer
    06 Aug. 2022 - 06 Aug. 2022
  • “多様な性”ってなに?-LGBTQ+の人々の物語を聴く               
    lecturer
    09 Jul. 2022 - 09 Jul. 2022
  • 性の多様性と人権~誰もが安心して過ごせる学校環境を目指して~               
    lecturer
    19 May 2022 - 19 May 2022
  • “性の多様性”について理解を深める               
    lecturer
    11 Mar. 2022
  • 今、求められる自殺予防教育~支えあえるクラスづくりを目指して               
    lecturer
    01 Feb. 2022
  • 性の多様性と人権~誰もが安心して過ごせる学校環境を目指して~               
    lecturer
    14 Jan. 2022
  • 多様な性を生きる子供と いかに向き合うか ~誰もが安心して過ごせる学校環境を目指して~               
    lecturer
    15 Nov. 2021 - 15 Nov. 2021
  • 学校における 自殺予防教育プログラムGRIP               
    lecturer
    14 Sep. 2021 - 11 Oct. 2021
  • 子供の自殺の概況と自殺予防教育               
    lecturer
    29 Jun. 2021
  • 多様な性を生きる子供たちを支える -誰もが安全に過ごせる学校を目指して-               
    lecturer
    14 Jun. 2021
  • 学校における自殺予防教育プログラムGRIP               
    lecturer
    25 Nov. 2019
  • 多様な性を理解する-大学がすべての学生にとって安全に過ごせる場所であるために               
    lecturer
    14 Nov. 2019
  • LGBTの自殺予防
    lecturer
    06 Feb. 2019
  • LGBTと職場環境               
    lecturer
    19 Nov. 2018
  • 性の多様性を考える-性的指向と性同一性-               
    lecturer
    06 Nov. 2018
  • 性(性的指向・性自認)の多様性-性的マイノリティの自殺予防に向けて-               
    lecturer
    25 Aug. 2017
  • 性(性的指向・性自認)の多様性-性的マイノリティの自殺予防に向けて-               
    lecturer
    27 Jun. 2017
  • 性的マイノリティの子どもたちへの理解と対応               
    lecturer
    02 Nov. 2016
  • 性(性的指向・性自認)の多様性-性的マイノリティの自殺予防に向けて-               
    lecturer
    27 Oct. 2016
  • 性的マイノリティの子どもたちへの理解と対応               
    lecturer
    30 Oct. 2015
  • 性や身体に違和をもつ子どもたちに寄り添う               
    panelist
    28 Oct. 2012
  • ゲートキーパー養成について               
    lecturer
    Sep. 2012

Others

  • 公認心理師(登録番号第11966号)
    Feb. 2019 - Present
  • 臨床心理士(登録番号 第12936号)
    Apr. 2005 - Present