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No full textWhat I Wish I Knew: A New Clinician’s Guide to Mandated Reporting
No full textThis is a user-friendly training guide for clinicians, both new and seasoned, who are nervous, conflicted, and/or unsure of their legal obligation to report suspected child abuse and/or neglect. Oftentimes the decision to make a mandated report can be extremely difficult and stressful for therapists. It can result in serious consequences, both within the therapeutic relationship and within the family of the child and/or children that are the subject of a report. Complicating matters further, a review of mandated reporting research shows that the training therapists receive surrounding their legal obligation to report child maltreatment is highly variable, limited, and/or at times non-existent (Baker et al., 2021; Goulet et al., 2022; Kenny, 2015;). Additionally, these trainings mostly focus on teaching therapists the laws defining maltreatment and the mechanics of making a report as opposed to the impacts of reporting on the therapeutic process or strategies to mitigate negative outcomes. Therefore, this paper and accompanying training provides therapists with the fundamental knowledge to better prepare them to respond to instances of child maltreatment within their therapeutic practice. It specifically focuses on key areas that contextualize child maltreatment, including the history of mandated reporting, the ways we define and measure child maltreatment, and the therapeutic techniques shown to be effective when making a mandated report. To accomplish this, a review of the psychological literature and research on mandated reporting has been done. In addition, abolitionist scholarship and perspectives were referenced, which are missing from most state sponsored trainings, to highlight the past and present harms that the child welfare system has enacted on families. This training’s content is by no means exhaustive, but rather, summarizes key information that a student in their first few years of graduate school and clinical practice may find helpful when faced with the difficult decision to report child maltreatment
Extreme value theory view of high emitter diesel vehicles in the US from 1991 to 2021
No full textExtreme value theory (EVT) is a statistical method to characterize the tails of distributions, such as high emitter vehicle emissions. The present work addresses the United States (US) diesel fleet. EVT confirms that high emitters contribute disproportionately to adverse air quality. It further reveals that high emitter emissions have responded differently to progressively tighter emissions standards compared to fleet averages. Carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrocarbons (HC) high emitter emissions fell in concert with the fleet average after widespread implementation of the diesel oxidation catalyst to meet US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Tier 1 emissions standards, but remained unchanged after introduction of Tier 2 and 3 standards, even as fleet averages continued to decline. Whereas fleet average diesel nitric oxide (NO) emissions saw a steep decline following EPA’s 2010 diesel engine NOx standard, the mean 99th percentile emissions showed no impact. These results combined with our previous gasoline vehicle high emitter study demonstrate a growing disparity between fleet average and high emitter emissions. Addressing this disparity may present a more productive route to improved air quality than continued tightening of new vehicle emissions standards
Basic Theory and Implementations of Quantum Error Correction
No full textThe introduction of quantum computing has presented algorithmic solutions to computationally difficult challenges that are far more efficient than those of classical computers. These algorithms leverage the properties of quantum mechanics to manipulate the quantum properties of subatomic particles, requiring immense precision and stability. Current quantum hardware, however, is too noisy and introduces too many errors for these algorithms to be useful in practice, necessitating the use of error correction algorithms. This field survey seeks to introduce various principles of quantum mechanics relevant to quantum computing and quantum error correction (QEC), detail the implementation and motivations of a basic QEC algorithm, and provide insight into the current research direction
Transitional Justice: Understanding the Impact of the Initiatives in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Guatemala
No full textThis thesis examines the impact of transitional justice initiatives on reconciliation and healing in regions that have experienced mass atrocities, with a focus on Guatemala and Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). While transitional justice processes aim to address the legacies of human rights violations and foster sustainable peace, their impact varies significantly depending on the context and the mechanisms employed. By analyzing existing scholarship and using a case study methodology to gather in-depth data about each instance, this research explores how different approaches to transitional justice can serve a diverse group of communities and how different factors contribute to their success. It is often not the fully funded international commissions that serve the needs of victim populations, but rather locally-focused, bottom-up strategies. Ultimately, this thesis seeks to contribute to a nuanced understanding of transitional justice, emphasizing the importance of integrating local perspectives and practices in the pursuit of justice and healing
Cyclical Psychodynamic View on Psychedelic Assisted Therapy
No full textCurrent research illustrates how psychedelics have served as a catalyst for various psychotherapy modalities. However, a significant gap exists in the literature regarding the integration of psychedelics within a cyclical psychodynamic framework. This paper focuses on utilizing this integrative approach for treatment-resistant depression due to its prevalence and comorbidity. This paper addresses the gap in the research by proposing a case illustration, utilizing a cyclical psychodynamic view on psychedelic assisted therapy, to demonstrate how the integration of theories promotes a transformative and enduring impact on clients with depression
How to Describe a Massacre? A Collaborative Metadata Justice Project
No full textThroughout the summer of 2020 and into the following fall, a cross-unit working group at the University of Oklahoma Libraries (OU Libraries) collaborated to compile and submit a proposal to change the Library of Congress Subject Heading (LCSH) Tulsa Race Riot, Tulsa, Okla., 1921 to Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, Okla., 1921. The working group members situated this project in the context of the metadata justice movement, which seeks to correct problematic descriptions. They also see this proposal as part of the broader work undertaken over many decades by Tulsa activists and community leaders. This successful proposal required working group members to work across library departments; learn about a broad range of library processes, including the complicated process of submitting an LCSH change proposal within the Subject Authority Cooperative Program; and conduct significant research into the Tulsa Race Massacre and the language currently used to refer to it in varied settings. This ad hoc working group also led to the formation of a “learning and working” group at OU Libraries devoted to analyzing local descriptive practices and other LCSH terms to correct problematic descriptions and create new and accurate descriptions, as well as learning about issues related to metadata justice and critical cataloging
Rules and Rhetoric: Historically Informed Guitar Performance of Baroque Music
No full textReviews of Interpreting Baroque Music: A Guide for the Modern Classical Guitarist, by Afshin Torabi Ardekani (Bergmann, second corrected edition, 2025) and Performing Baroque Music on the Classical Guitar: A Practical Handbook Based on Historical Sources, by Peter Croton (2015
Extreme Value Theory Analysis of High Emitter Trends Across Four US Cities from 1995 to 2021
Full text linkExtreme value theory provides a direct means to characterize the distribution of high emitters within a vehicle fleet and calculate statistical confidence intervals for comparisons. Defining a “high emitter” as the maximum emitter in a random sample of N vehicles implies in the limit of large N that high emitters follow an extreme value distribution, comprised of three distinct domains. The analysis of over twenty years of roadside remote sensing emissions measurements in Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles and Tulsa reveals clear differences between gasoline vehicle high emitter distributions across pollutants (hydrocarbons (HC), carbon monoxide (CO) and nitric oxide (NO)), but very similar behavior across the four cities. As Federal emissions regulations became more stringent, HC and CO high emitters evolved from distributions bounded by the stoichiometric limits of HC and CO formation in an engine to progressively longer tailed distributions. In contrast, NO high emitter distributions have changed little over this time period. These distinct behaviors likely reflect differences in the failure mechanisms leading to high HC, CO, versus NO emissions. Whereas average HC, CO and NO fleet emissions fell dramatically over these two plus decades by factors of about 4, 6 and 7, respectively, mean high emitter emissions declined by less than half of these. The paper examines in detail similarities and differences in high emitter distributions versus pollutant, city and vehicle type, how these changed over a period of roughly twenty years and the policy implications that can be drawn
Examining Barriers to Crisis Service Use Among Black Young Adults
Full text linkBlack communities face an increased burden of mental illness (Gordon, 2020). This can be linked to factors such as experiences of racism, higher rates of unemployment, financial and food insecurity, and disparities in health care (Gordon, 2020). Despite this, Black communities have historically experienced relatively low rates of suicide (Gordon, 2020). This has been anecdotally attributed to protective cultural values and beliefs about suicide. However, there has been a recent shift in this trend, particularly for Black youth and young adults