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Quality of Life of Children with Learning Disabilities: A Comparison of Self-reports and Proxy Reports
No full textThis study aimed to explore how children with learning disabilities (LD) perceive their quality of life (QoL) and to compare self-reports and proxy reports regarding their QoL. Children with LD, their typically developing peers, theirparents and teachers responded to the child, parent, and teacher forms of KINDLR Questionnaire for Measuring Health-Related Quality of Life. Findings showed that children with LD reported significantly lower QoL scores than those reported by typically developing peers. Intra-class correlation coefficients (ICCs) and t-test results showed that agreement between child reports and parent-proxy reports was either low or moderate on each QoL dimension. Findings of the study may be used to raise awareness regarding the social and educational needs of children with LD in Turkey
Client and Therapist Attachment Styles and Working Alliance
No full textWorking alliance has been shown to be important in influencing the outcome of therapy. Research evidence suggests that characteristics of both clients and therapists impact on the development of the working alliance. Although attachment theory is well researched, there is relatively limited research on the relationship between both therapist and client attachment style and the working alliance; traditionally, research has placed greater emphasis on client characteristics. The current study examines the extent to which both client and therapist self-reported attachment styles are related to the working alliance. Thirty clients and 42 therapists were recruited from primary care psychology services. Thirty client-therapist dyads were examined. Participants completed self-report measures of anxiety and depression, attachment style and working alliance at a single time point. Client and therapist attachment security were not independently related to working alliance. However, there was a significant association between therapist insecure attachment and alliance in more symptomatic clients. There was also some evidence that therapists and clients with oppositional attachment styles reported more favourable alliances. The study suggests that the relationship between therapist attachment style and alliance is not straightforward. It is likely that the complexity of clients' presenting problems, coupled with interaction between client-therapist attachment styles, influences the therapeutic alliance.KEY PRACTITIONER MESSAGE: Therapist insecure attachment may negatively affect the therapeutic alliance in more symptomatic clients. It is important to consider the interaction between client and therapist attachment and how these interactions influence the therapeutic alliance. Therapists should be aware of their own personal attachment style and reflect on how this might manifest during the therapeutic process
Beer and wine consumption and risk of knee or hip osteoarthritis: a case control study
No full textINTRODUCTION: The aim of this study was to investigate the association between alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages and knee or hip osteoarthritis (OA). METHODS: We conducted a case-control study of Caucasian men and women aged 45 to 86 years of age from Nottingham, UK. Cases had clinically severe symptoms and radiographic knee or hip OA; controls had no symptoms and no radiographic knee or hip OA. Exposure information was sought using interview-based questionnaires and a semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire to assess beverage consumption at ages 21 to 50 years. Odds ratios (ORs), adjusted ORs (aORs), 95% confidence intervals (CI) and P values were estimated using logistic regression models. RESULTS: A total of 1,001 knee OA, 993 hip OA and 933 control participants were included in the study. Increasing beer consumption was associated with an increasing risk of OA (P for trend/=7 glasses of wine per week was 0.55 (95% CI 0.34 to 0.87) and 0.48 (95% CI 0.29 to 0.80), respectively. No association was identified between non-alcoholic beverages and knee or hip OA. CONCLUSIONS: Beer consumption appears to be a risk factor for knee and hip OA whereas consumption of wine has a negative association with knee OA. The mechanism behind these findings is speculative but warrants further study
Alejo Carpentier and the Musical Text
No full textThe Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier (1904–1980), a Cervantes-Prize laureate, is widely known for his novels The Kingdom of this World and The Lost Steps, and for coining the notion of ‘the real marvellous’ (now better known as ‘magic realism’). Carpentier’s lesser known activity in music as a researcher, radio and record producer, concert promoter and writer of song lyrics and libretti profoundly shaped his fiction, in which he incorporated music extensively, more than any other Latin American writer of his time. Chornik’s study focuses on Carpentier’s writings from a music scholarship perspective, bridging intermediality and intertextuality through an examination of music as formative, as form, and as performed. Among her contributions is her English translation and analysis of Carpentier’s text ‘The Origins of Music and Primitive Music’, the repository of ideas for The Lost Steps, published here for the first time. Chornik’s study will appeal to scholars and students in literary studies, cultural studies, musicology and ethnomusicology, and to a specifically interdisciplinary readership
Primary care consultation rates among people with and without severe mental illness: a UK cohort study using the Clinical Practice Research Database
No full textGenetic moderation of the effects of cannabis: Catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) affects the impact of (9)-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) on working memory performance but not on the occurrence of psychotic experiences
No full textKnowing Foucault, Knowing You: raced/classed and gendered subjectivities in the pedagogical state
No full textThis article evaluates the continuing contemporary relevance of Foucauldian analyses for critical educational and social research practice. Framed around examples drawn from everyday cultural and educational practices, I argue that current intensifications of psychologisation under neoliberal capitalism not only produce and constrain increasingly activated and responsibilised educational subjects but do so via engaging particular versions of feminisation and racialization. Like Hacking's 'looping effect', Foucauldian ideas may themselves now figure within prevailing technologies of subjectivity but this means we need more, as well as more than, Foucault
