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Responding well to Spiritual Abuse: practice implications for counselling and psychotherapy
Get PDFThis is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in British Journal of Guidance & Counselling on 22/02/2024, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2023.2283883This paper presents the findings of a survey exploring people’s understandings and experiences of Spiritual Abuse (SA) in a Christian faith context. The online survey was completed by 1591 individuals from the UK, 1002 of whom identified as having experienced SA. Inclusion criteria were: membership of the Christian faith, being or having been, a Church attender or member of a Christian organisation and to have heard of the term SA. Participants detailed the features of an effective response to disclosures of SA and many of these are directly relevant to counselling and psychotherapy practice. Additionally, the research findings echo repeated calls in previous research for the necessity to include discussions of religion and faith in initial training and continuing professional development for counsellors and psychotherapists. Finally, the paper suggests a next step would be the establishment of a network of counsellors with training and knowledge about SA
Coupled information networks drive honeybee (Apis mellifera) collective foraging
Get PDFCollective behaviour by eusocial insect colonies is typically achieved through multiple communication networks that produce complex behaviour at the group level but often appear to provide redundant or even competing information. A classic example occurs in honeybee (Apis mellifera) colonies, where both the dance communication system and robust scent‐based mechanisms contribute to the allocation of a colony's workforce by regulating the flow of experienced foragers among known food sources. Here we analysed social connectivity patterns during the reactivation of experienced foragers to familiar feeding sites to show that these social information pathways are not simply multiple means to achieve the same end but intersect to play complementary roles in guiding forager behaviour. Using artificial feeding stations, we mimicked a natural scenario in which two forager groups were simultaneously collecting from distinct patches containing different flowering species. We then observed the reactivation of these groups at their familiar feeding sites after interrupting their foraging. Social network analysis revealed that temporarily unemployed individuals interacted more often and for longer with foragers that advertised a familiar versus unfamiliar foraging site. Due to such resource‐based assortative mixing, network‐based diffusion analysis estimated that reactivation events primarily resulted from interactions among bees that had been trained to the same feeding station and less so from different‐feeder interactions. Both scent‐ and dance‐based interactions strongly contributed to reactivation decisions. However, each bout of dance‐following had an especially strong effect on a follower's likelihood of reactivation, particularly when dances indicated locations familiar to followers. Our findings illustrate how honeybee foragers can alter their social connectivity in ways that are likely to enhance collective outcomes by enabling foragers to rapidly access up‐to‐date information about familiar foraging sites. In addition, our results highlight how reliance on multiple communication mechanisms enables social insect workers to utilise flexible information‐use strategies that are robust to variation in the availability of social information
Linear Pasts and Presents: Researching Dykes, Frontiers and Borderlands
Get PDFThis editorial essay introduces the fifth volume of the Offa’s Dyke Journal (ODJ) by presenting a review of
the contents, recent related research published elsewhere, and the Offa’s Dyke Collaboratory’s activities during
2022 and early 2023
God's Patience and Our Work: Hans Frei, Generous Orthodoxy and the Ethics of Hope
No full textThis book offers a new interpretation of Hans Frei's theology and ethics, their development, coherence in context and their relevance to contemporary Christian political theology and ethics. On this reading, Frei offered a subtle, flexible account of the essence of Christianity, a Christology which grounds Christ's living presence and enduring solidarity with the poor and marginalised and to history and the church in his particular identity. I show that he sought to recover the conditions for an ethics of responsibility and to articulate the terms of the publicness of Christian theology and ethics. His vision of Christian discipleship, shaped by Christ's identity, emphasises generous, reconciliatory love and practices of penultimate reconciliation amidst the structural divisions engendered by social sin. Above all, he outlined a theology of God's patience and providence to frame a hopefully realistic, contextually pragmatic, progressive engagement of Christian communities with politics and society
High-order schemes based on extrapolation for semilinear fractional differential equation
Get PDFThe version of record of this article, first published in Calcolo, is available online at Publisher’s website: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10092-023-00553-1By rewriting the Riemann–Liouville fractional derivative as Hadamard finite-part integral and with the help of piecewise quadratic interpolation polynomial approximations, a numerical scheme is developed for approximating the Riemann–Liouville fractional derivative of order α∈(1, 2). The error has the asymptotic expansion (d3τ3-α+d4τ4-α+d5τ5-α+⋯)+(d2∗τ4+d3∗τ6+d4∗τ8+⋯) at any fixed time tN=T, N∈Z+, where di, i=3, 4, … and di∗, i=2, 3, … denote some suitable constants and τ=T/N denotes the step size. Based on this discretization, a new scheme for approximating the linear fractional differential equation of order α∈(1, 2) is derived and its error is shown to have a similar asymptotic expansion. As a consequence, a high-order scheme for approximating the linear fractional differential equation is obtained by extrapolation. Further, a high-order scheme for approximating a semilinear fractional differential equation is introduced and analyzed. Several numerical experiments are conducted to show that the numerical results are consistent with our theoretical findings
BDF2 ADI orthogonal spline collocation method for the fractional integro-differential equations of parabolic type in three dimensions
Get PDFIn this paper, we are concerned with constructing a fast and an efficient alternating direction implicit (ADI) scheme for the fractional parabolic integro-differential equations (FPIDE) with a weakly singular kernel in three dimensions (3D). Our constructed scheme is based on a second-order backward differentiation formula (BDF2) for temporal discretization, orthogonal spline collocation (OSC) method for spatial discretization and a second-order fractional quadrature rule proposed by Lubich for the Riemann-Liouville fractional integral. The stability and convergence of the constructed numerical scheme are derived. Finally, some numerical examples are given to illustrate the accuracy and validity of the BDF2 ADI OSC method. Based on the obtained results, the numerical results are in line with the theoretical ones
How Useful Are Existing Protocols in the Quick Assessment of the Welfare of Semi-Feral Horses? Pilot Study on Konik Polski Horses Living in the Forest Sanctuary
Get PDFScientifically validated and standardised methods for the evaluation of the welfare of free-living horses are urgently needed by both the owners and managers of these populations and those responsible for implementing national welfare legislation. The aim of the study was to test the feasibility and usefulness of two welfare protocols that could be applied to semi-feral populations: a prototype of welfare assessment template (WAT) for Carneddau semi-feral ponies and the IFCE/INRAE Horse Welfare Protocol. Additionally, the body condition scale designed by Henneke (BCS-H) was employed. The study took place in July/August 2022 and April 2023 to evaluate the welfare of a pilot population of nineteen semi-feral Konik polski horses. The horses scored high or satisfactory under indicators across both protocols; only body condition scores were significantly lower in early spring (BCS-WAT: 1.11 ± 0.57; BCS-H: 3.84 ± 1.17) than in the summer (BCS-WAT: 1.58 ± 0.61; BCS-H: 5.63 ± 1.01). Our study confirmed the feasibility of utilising most of the WAT and IFCE/INRAE welfare indicators in semi-feral horses. Some adaptations, such as considering validation of scales, positive welfare indicators and animals’ free-choice of conditions, have been suggested for future in-field application
An exploration of the emotional support needs of grandparents whose grandchild has had a childhood cancer diagnosis
Get PDFLittle research has been conducted relating to the psychological impact on grandparents of grandchildren with cancer despite evidence to suggest that this can be challenging (Wakefield et al., 2014). This research explores the lived experiences of grandparents whose grandchild has had a childhood cancer diagnosis, taking specific interest in narrative relating to symptoms of distress, coping mechanisms, perceived emotional support needs, potential barriers to support and signs of post-traumatic growth. The impact of COVID-19 is also examined.
Twelve grandparents were interviewed using semi-structured questions. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, an approach that is understood via examination of meanings people impress upon their experience. Five Group Experiential Themes are presented: role; impact; coping strategies and support needs; barriers to emotional support and lastly, hope, followed by their respective Personal Experiential Themes. Grandparents, without question, resume their parental role as their adult children retreat towards their childhood ‘nest’ to be protected and cared for. They also change their ‘hat’ to that of ‘parent’ to siblings of their poorly grandchild. This becomes a dominant role, often without warning, impacting greatly on their normal routine. Their own suffering is intentionally suppressed to give full attention to their child and family. Grandparents struggle to articulate their own needs as they automatically place themselves second. However, when pushed, there is a sense of wishing to be acknowledged as taking an active, primary care-giving role within their family, together with permission to process their own emotions in a way that suits their needs.
A grandchild’s childhood cancer diagnosis can lead to signs of traumatic stress for grandparents. Yet they suppress their emotional support needs as their ‘parental nest’ is temporarily filled again. It is suggested that cancer support services work with parents to ensure that grandparents are also included in support-offers as a matter of course
Dancefloor-Driven Literature: The Rave Scene in Fiction
No full textThis book is not available on ChesterRepThis book uses the ‘rave’ subculture as a route into an analysis of literary representations of a music scene. Almost as soon as this sonic subterranean culture took hold – during the Second Summer of Love in 1988 – and the sociopolitical impact of the nascent rave scene became clear, it quickly appeared on the radar of journalists, filmmakers and authors, all keen to use society’s cultural preoccupations as source material for their output.
By first defining, and then expanding, the neologism re/presentation, this book questions why such cultural artefacts appear – secondary representations that orbit the culture itself – and what function they may serve. Further focusing on the medium of literature, the book then defines the genre of Dancefloor-Driven Literature – stories born of the dancefloor – using new primary input from three key case study authors to analyse three separate ways writers might draw on the pulse of electronic music in their fiction, interrogating that very particular intermedial intersection between the sonic and the linguistic. The book progresses to explore how such authors write about something so subterranean as the nightclub scene, considers how they write lucidly and fluidly about the rigid, metronomic beat of electronic music, and analyses what specifically literary techniques they deploy to accurately recount in fixed symbols the drifting, hallucinatory effects of a drug experience.
The book describes two key functions such a literature might serve: first, in terms of its enculturative potential within the contemporary society into which it is published and then, almost thirty years since the Second Summer of Love, the importance this collection of texts might have, archivally. Finally, the book concludes by proposing a theory by which all sonic subterranean cultures might be decoded; not through the music, but through these secondary literary artefacts. It is there that stories of that scene are locked, told to a silent beat
COVID-19 Presenting As Intussusception In Infants: a case report with literature review
Get PDFThe novel Corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) first presented in Wuhan, China. The virus was able to spread throughout the world, causing a global health crisis. The virus spread widely in Jordan after a wedding party held in northern Jordan. In most
cases of COVID-19 infection, respiratory symptoms are predominant. However, in rare cases the disease may present with non-respiratory symptoms. The presentation of COVID-19 as a case of intussusception in children is a strange and rare phenomenon.
We present here a case of a two-and-a-half month old male baby who was brought to hospital due to fever, frequent vomiting, dehydration and blood in stool. He was diagnosed as intussusception. The child was tested for corona due to the large societal
spread of the virus and because he was near his mother, who was suffering from symptoms similar to corona or seasonal flu (she did not conduct a corona test). Patient was treated without surgery and recovered quickly. The COVID-19 infection was
without respiratory symptoms, and there was no need for the child to remain in hospital after treatment of intussusception. The relationship between viruses, mesenteric lymphoid hyperplasia, and intussusception is a confirmed relation. ACE2 is the key
receptor required for SARA-COV-2 to enter the host cells. ACE2 has been also found in the brush border of the intestinal mucosa, as well as it is a key inflammatory regulator in the intestine. This may suggest that SARSA-COV-2 could invade the respiratory tract as well as gastrointestinal tract or both. Few case reports documented the presentation of COVID-19 as intussusception in children. In the light of the widespread of corona virus, performing COVID-19 tests for children with intussusception
can help linking the two entities. Development of gastrointestinal symptoms in COVID19 positive children should raise concern about the development of intussusception
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