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To change or not to change? A study regarding the satisfaction of care workers and adolescents with the Motivational Interviewing based residential youth care training program Up2U
No full textLong-term behavioral change in adolescents staying in residential youth care is often difficult to achieve. To enhance intrinsic motivation for change in adolescents, thereby achieving long-term behavioral change, we developed the Up2U training program. Based on motivational interviewing (MI) and solution-focused therapy (SFT), Up2U is designed for conducting one-on-one conversations with adolescents in residential youth care. The aim of this study is to evaluate the experiences that adolescents and care workers have had with this new program. To evaluate these experiences, we conducted semi-structured interviews with care workers and adolescents. We analyzed the interviews (N=23) with the program ATLAS.ti, using the 'open coding' method to code the interviews. The results show that, in general, the care workers were satisfied with Up2U. They identified the clarity, conciseness and sample questions as particularly positive elements of the Up2U manual. Moreover, the majority indicated the intent to continue using Up2U in the future. In contrast, the care workers regarded the extensiveness of the program as less positive. The adolescents also seemed to be positive about the use of Up2U during one-to-one conversations, particularly concerning the questions asked by the care workers. With regard to the implementation of Up2U, almost half of the care workers expressed dissatisfaction. In conclusion, although both care workers and adolescents were generally satisfied with Up2U, there is still room for improvement, especially with regard to the implementation of the training program. We therefore recommend devoting greater attention to implementation
Why Are Biblical Verses Not Quoted in Parables?:A Cultural-Cognitive Explanation
No full textThis short contribution, celebrating the final stages of the project “Parables and the Parting of the Ways” which was conducted from 2014-2019, directed by Marcel Poorthuis, Eric Ottenheijm, and Annette Merz. The project provided a platform for deep and comprehensive research into the Late Antique parables in their various aspects and from various perspectives.My contribution to the final volume of the project focuses on a phenomenon in the poetics of parables which is banal for any reader of midrash. However, while midrash and parables have been theorized many times by scholars in the field, from a literary, historical, philosophical and cultural-critique approaches, it was never theorized from a cultural-cognitive perspective, a perspective which, I argue, is the one best to explain the it.The phenomenon is the following: there are no verses in parables.One finds verses as the basis of the parable, or at the end of it, also the nimshal and possibly the midrash in which a parable is embedded might be swarming with verses in various function and statuses, but the parable itself does not quote any verse, ever. How do we theorize this?The intuitive reaction to this recognition is that of course this is the case, as the narrative of the parable comes from real life situations, or at least motifs that are considered in the literary sphere as realistic, and the biblical texts are an unchangeable cultural memory that has to be explained. However, as far as I know, no study was ever dedicated to this phenomenon per se, the absence of verses in the parable.My study of this phenomenon will concentrate not on the artefact as such, i.e. the midrashic text, but on the phenomenon as a cognitive process. I will show that the absence of quoted verses in the parable mimic a general human cognitive process in creating culture. This process is described by van Heusden in his Decoupling Theory, which I will detail below
Adult children's gender, number and proximity and older parents' moves to institutions:Evidence from Sweden
No full textOlder people's ability to thrive independently of their adult children is an important feature of a universalistic welfare system. However, population ageing puts this notion under stress. In separate multinomial logistic regression models for older men and women, we examined whether adult children's gender, number and proximity were associated with older parents' relocations into residential care facilities, and whether the effects of these children's characteristics on older parents' institutionalisation vary by parents' severe health problems, operationalised as closeness to death - specifically, dying within the two-year observation period. Analyses were based on the Swedish register data between 2014 and 2016 (N = 696,007 person-years). Older parents with at least one co-resident child were less likely to move or become institutionalised than those without a co-resident child. We did not find a relationship between older adults' institutionalisation and the closest child's gender. The negative effect of having a non-resident child living nearby on the likelihood of becoming institutionalised was more pronounced for mothers than fathers. Having a child nearby decreased the likelihood of moving to an institution more for mothers who had severe health problems than for those in better health. We found no evidence of a relationship between number of children and likelihood of institutionalisation.</p
The Child Protection System in the Netherlands:Characteristics, Trends and Evidence
No full textThis chapter notes the characteristics, trends, and evidence of the child protection system in the Netherlands. It also expounds on the identification and processing of reports on child maltreatment such as physical, emotional, and sexual abuse and neglect. The basic principles of child protection and youth care are prevention, de-medicalization and normalization, parenting skills improvement, the safety of the child-rearing environment, and family group plans. Prevention and early intervention through parenting support, which is offered on a municipal level, have higher priority to deterring more expensive and specialized care. However, the research found that solutions for psychosocial and maltreatment issues for children and families are difficult to achieve
Developing a systematic approach to the archaeological study of mountain landscapes: the Raganello Basin experience
No full textBetween 2011 and 2014 the authors investigated in detail a selection of protohistoric surface scatters and their surroundings in the Maddalena upland basin (600-1000m a.s.l.). Part of the Raganello River basin in the southern Apennines (northern Calabria region, Italy), this area had previously been archaeologically surveyed by the University of Groningen Institute of Archaeology between 2005 and 2008. The new and interdisciplinary investigations consisted of geophysical surveys and geo-archaeological and pedological studies. We here primarily use the work conducted at site RB73 to illustrate how depositional, post-depositional and current land use processes result in the present expression of a surface scatter or ‘site’ as recorded in the archaeological field survey, demonstrating that long-term slope processes in the flysch geology of typical Apennine upland valleys have a fundamental impact on the preservation and appearance of the archaeological record. We argue that confidence in our theoretical and practical understanding of this record remains unjustified in the absence of carefully designed integrated geo-archaeological and geophysical work
A New Condition for Transitivity of Probabilistic Support
No full textAs is well known, implication is transitive but probabilistic support is not. Eells and Sober, followed by Shogenji, showed that screening off is a sufficient constraint for the transitivity of probabilistic support. Moreover, this screening off condition can be weakened without sacrificing transitivity, as was demonstrated by Suppes and later by Roche. In this paper we introduce an even weaker sufficient condition for the transitivity of probabilistic support, in fact one that can be made as weak as one wishes. We explain that this condition has an interesting property: it shows that transitivity is retained even though the Simpson paradox reigns. We further show that by adding a certain restriction the condition can be turned into one that is both sufficient and necessary for transitivity
The (new) Buddhist Semantics of xin 信 in the First Half of the Twentieth-century:Arguments from China and Taiwan
No full textThe ‘Premodern’ World
No full textEngagements with the premodern world in International Relations have so far focused on specific periods and spaces. Rather than examining each locale separately, this chapter unpacks the ways in which specific assumptions about the emergence of modernity and its fundamental features have coloured our narratives of the premodern. Specifically, I reconstruct four existing ways of tackling the premodern world that respectively emphasize its religiosity, localism, complexity, and similarity to the present, and interrogate what types of questions these different premoderns allow us to pose, but also what types of inquiry they preclude. Against these, I consider what insights it could yield to have an alternative conceptualisation of premodern world, one which places plurality, diversity, and global interconnectedness centerstage. Approaching the premodern in this way, however, raises serious questions about concepts and methods and ultimately calls into question the use of the 'premodern' itself