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Establishing a positive working alliance during formal parenting assessments in a family residential treatment (FRT) program:Parents' perspectives on what is helpful
No full textThe working alliance between families and professionals within the context of child protection faces substantial challenges from a variety of factors. At the same time it plays an important role in accomplishing positive outcomes. To gain insight into what might contribute when establishing positive alliances between parents – undergoing formal parenting assessments – and family coaches, we interviewed 22 parents about their experiences with a Dutch family residential treatment (FRT) program. The majority of parents considered the approaches used in the program effective. A central theme identified concerns the importance of a connection between parents and coaches. Characteristics of professionals that promote this sense of connection include humanity, respectfulness, availability and responsiveness, and good communication skills. A sense of connection can help parents develop a relationship of trust in which they eventually feel safe enough to share their stories, insecurities, questions, emotions, and thoughts, all of which play an important role in achieving positive change within the family. Especially, parents valued individual conversations with coaches with whom they felt connected. They identified several strategies applied by the FRT-professionals as having helped them to make changes in parenting. We organized the key themes into a conceptual model for establishing positive working alliances promoting change
Safety first! Residential group climate and antisocial behavior:A multilevel meta-analysis
No full textA multilevel meta-analysis was performed (28 studies and 313 effect sizes) on the relation between residential group climate (i.e., safety, atmosphere, repression, support, growth, structure) and antisocial behavior, including aggression and criminal recidivism. Results showed a significant small-to-medium association (r = .20) between residential group climate and antisocial behavior, equivalent to a 23% reduction of antisocial behavior in all clients receiving care in a residential facility with a therapeutic group climate. Moderator analyses showed that experienced safety was more strongly related to antisocial behavior (r = .30) than the other dimensions of group climate (.17 < r < .20), while the effect size was somewhat larger for adults (r = .24) than for youth (r = .15). We conclude that residential facilities should consider safety as a priority and should involve clients in a positive process of change through the development of a therapeutic environment and delivery of evidence-based treatment, addressing their needs from the perspective of rehabilitation
A Holy Dullness:Tarkovsky, Suture, and the Numinous
No full textIn this chapter, I argue that the films of Andrei Tarkovsky are particularly suitable for inducing feelings of the numinous. This suitability is a formal rather than semantic feature of his films, and is tied indelibly to what film scholars call ‘suture’. I with a summary of what film theorists mean by ‘suture’, before providing a principled defence of the Merleau-Pontian suture theory outlined by George Butte. Second, I will demonstrate that, in spite of the strength of Butte’s formulation, the numinousness of Tarkovsky’s films pose an analytical challenge to his suture theory. Finally, I will then provide my own extension of Butte’s suture theory, arguing that, by virtue of the formal properties they possess, we encounter Tarkovsky’s films more like religious objects than ordinary films. The tenor of these encounters is why Tarkovsky’s films are appropriate loci for feelings of the numinous.<br/
Schenker, Heilige, Mönche und Urkunden. Die Beziehungen des Klosters St. Gallen zu seinem Umfeld
No full textThe development and psychometric evaluation of an interprofessional identity measure:Extended Professional Identity Scale (EPIS)
No full textThe purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate an interprofessional identity measurement instrument based on Extended Professional Identity Theory (EPIT). The latter states that interprofessional identity is a social identity superordinate to a professional identity consisting of three interrelated interprofessional identity characteristics: belonging, commitment and beliefs. Scale development was based on five stages: 1) construct clarification, 2) item pool generation, 3) review of initial item pool, 4) shortening scale length (EFA to determine top four highest factor loadings per subscale; 97 dental and dental hygiene students), and 5) cross-validation and construct validity confirmation (CFA; 152 students and 48 teachers from six curricula). Explained variance of the EPIS was 65%. Internal consistency of the subscales was 0.79, 0.81 and 0.80 respectively and 0.89 of the overall scale. CFA confirmed three-dimensionality as theorized by EPIT. Several goodness-of-fit indexes showed positive results: CFI = 0.968 > 0.90, RMSEA = 0.039 < 0.05, and SRMR = 0.056 ≤ 0.08. The factor loadings of the CFA ranged from 0.58 to 0.80 and factors were interrelated. The Extended Professional Identity Scale (EPIS) is a 12-item measurement instrument with high explained variance, high internal consistency and high construct validity with strong evidence for three-dimensionality.</p
Agglomeration economies and capitalization rates:Evidence from the Dutch real estate office market
No full textAgglomerations of economic activity result in higher rents for users. However, these benefits do not necessarily carry over to real estate investors as higher rents might also come with higher investment amounts and risks. We address this by testing whether the effects of agglomeration economies, as observed in office rents, carry over to capitalization rates as a theoretically more refined measurement of productivity externalities. Using transaction-based data for the period 1996-2011 in the Netherlands, we show that agglomeration economies result in capitalization rates that are 5 percent, or 40 basis points lower
Commoning Against the Corona Crisis
No full textThe Covid-19 crisis has highlighted the ‘precarity’ of human life in general, and particularly that of certain groups in society. It has debunked the myth of the autonomous, self-sufficient individual, and shows the extent to which we always already live ‘in common’, thereby also emphasizing the necessity of commons (of care, nurture, and economic resources). This research explores what role commons, as an antidote to precarity and a form of resistance against governmental precarization, can play in the current situation.We start by analyzing the relationship between precarity and commons in light of the Covid-19 crisis. On the basis of participant observation in Naples (Italy) we will describe the commoning activities during the pandemic, their governmental invisibilization, and the way in which they could be institutionally recognized as a vital action of care and solidarity, also beyond the emergency. Finally, in the last part, we draw on the work of Roberto Esposito, and his use of the terms community and immunity, arguing that precisely because of the impossibility of fully immunizing ourselves from the virus (and from each other) we have to consider ourselves as part of a community, bound not by shared properties but by a shared obligation
Conspiratorial medievalism:History and hyperagency in the far-right Knights Templar security imaginary
No full textImagery associated with the Knights Templar appears in the public discourse and symbolism of many white supremacist and white nationalist groups. The 2011 Norwegian mass murderer cited the Templars in his manifesto, as did the 2019 New Zealand shooter. Templar crosses were on display at the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, North Carolina. To understand the security imaginary behind these racialised medievalisms and their contemporary animation within right-wing extremism, this article develops the concept of “conspiratorial medievalism”. The Knights Templar imaginary blends a specific, racialised and romanticised vision of history with the grammar of conspiracy theory. This is characterised by a) a belief in the racialised decline and victimisation of a “righteous” White Christendom; b) a sense of threat posed by racialised Others and betrayal by insiders; and c) an anachronistic view of near-omnipotent individual agency. Significantly, conspiratorial medievalism demonstrates an aspiration to not merely combat ‘undue’ agency of racialised Others, but to reclaim and perform extreme agency themselves. Agency is cast in the idiom of medieval chivalry, and framed as the moral obligation of righteous White men. Though Knights Templar imagery may appear superficial, this article finds it is an important justificatory and enabling discourse for racist violence
Painted Pulpits:The Depiction of Pulpits in South Italian Exultet Rolls
No full textThe scenes in which a deacon stands at the centre of a brightly painted pulpit singing the Exultet from an unfurled scroll are amongst the most widely reproduced medieval illuminations depicting the interior of a church and its furnishings. This brief chapter attempts a first survey these images from Southern and Central Italy, and asks what variations of form are in evidence, how the pulpit is placed and used within the scenes, and explores the relationship between the illumination and the accompanying text, and between the images and extant contemporary pulpits from Southern Italy, and concludes with a consideration of the function of the pulpit images in the manuscripts