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Bringing books back: enhancing the understanding of psychotherapy in psychology students through book club participation
Get PDFBackground: The experiential and reflective nature of psychotherapeutic training is not always captured in undergraduate psychology teaching, therefore, there is a need for educational strategies that provide opportunities for deeper understanding of the therapeutic process. Objective: This article evaluates one such strategy—A Book Club, to support the understanding of psychotherapeutic practice and mental health in Psychology undergraduate students at a private university in Dubai, UAE. Method: Psychotherapy-related books were assigned as prior reading each month, which were then discussed in the group meetings facilitated by clinically experienced Psychology lecturers. Fifteen semi-structured interviews were carried out with students and analyzed using thematic analysis. Results: Four primary themes were generated—(1) Diversity in perspectives, (2) Autonomous learning environment, (3) Reality orientation, and (4) Sparking self-insight. The results highlight that Book Clubs are useful in fostering deeper conceptualizations of the therapeutic relationship, visualizing future careers in psychotherapy, and promoting self-awareness among students. Conclusion: Discussions centred around books can provide students with discourse opportunities that enhance students’ interpersonal skills and improve student engagement. Teaching Implication: Book clubs can be a useful platform for teachers to help students connect the knowledge that they have previously acquired in the classroom with real-life experiences of psychotherapists described in books
Vocational education and training (VET) development and social dialogue in Egypt: A historical institutional perspective
Get PDFThe policy problem of Vocational Education and Training (VET) development is an ongoing challenge for many developing countries. International organisations and donor agencies conceptualize the problem as one of skill supply and demand mismatch. Such market-based perspective offers important insights into the problem; however, it does not sufficiently emphasise the influence of the historically institutionalised systems in which key VET actors; the state, employers and workers, are embedded. In this article, we use evidence from the Egyptian context to explore some of the key institutional features that have historically influenced VET and its trajectory to development. We use a process tracing approach to analyse documents on VET development in Egypt from 1955 until 2011. The analysis shows the persistence of weak VET and weakly-articulated state-employer-worker relations across three temporal phases identified by critical junctures during this period. The study calls for a broader conceptualization of the VET development problem to account for the historically rooted institutional relationships between the state, capital and labour in Egypt
Minority ethnic politicians are pushing harsh immigration policies – why representation doesn’t always mean racial justice
Get PDFThere’s no question that British politics is becoming more diverse. From only four minority ethnic MPs elected in 1987, now 67 MPs are from a minority ethnic background.
The Scottish first minister, Humza Yousaf, recently became the first minority ethnic leader of a devolved government and the first Muslim to lead a major UK party. Yousaf follows a number of historic firsts: a Muslim mayor of London (Sadiq Khan), the first British Asian UK prime minister (Rishi Sunak), and the first female minority ethnic home secretary (Priti Patel) succeeded by another minority ethnic woman, (Suella Braverman).
People often assume that if a person in power is an ethnic minority, they will advocate more strongly for minority ethnic communities. But, as our research shows, ethnic diversity in government is not a guarantee of racial justice
The Barnet Council Citizens’ Assembly on Climate Change and Biodiversity
No full textThis report, commissioned by Barnet Council and written by Middlesex University London, contains an evaluation of the Barnet Citizens’ Assembly on Climate Change and Biodiversity, held between February and May 2023. The report deals with the quality of the deliberative processes that took place, the communication the Council arranged regarding it, and the embedding of the Assembly in the Council’s ongoing decision-making processes regarding climate change mitigation
How can we create accessible and inclusive learning environments for neurodivergent students?
Get PDFHow can we actively engage neurodivergent students in the classroom? This resource offers practical guidance for fostering accessible and inclusive learning environments that honour diverse thinking and learning style
The implementation of digital tools for climate adaptation planning
Get PDFThis paper investigates the needs and expectations of both planners and clients, identifying the main barriers to the implementation of climate adaptation software tools. It also seeks to identify the main issues on software compatibility and performance efficiency. This is achieved via the analysis of process maps produced in objective experiments with different climate adaptation tools implemented in a case study project—a sustainable neighbourhood in the city of Ulm, Germany. The ISO 25010 framework is implemented to investigate the advantages and disadvantages of these tools, including: functional suitability, information quality, reliability, performance efficiency, usability, and compatibility. The results show that current climate adaptation software tools are faced with some limitations, including a long simulation process, low interoperability with other planning software tools, and an inefficient implementation process
Digital Desire
No full text'Digital Desire' is a sci-fi poem by A J Dalton that appeared in the Fall 2023 issue of Star*Line magazine, the leading title of the Science Fiction Poetry Association (SFPA). The poem is comedic, taking the form of a killer robot's lonely hearts' ad
Neurodiversity in the workplace
No full textStigma associated with neurodivergence and negative connotations in diagnostic and medical literature with use of terms like disorder and disability, focussing on deficits rather than strengths, causes many neurodivergent adults to hide their neurodivergence or develop coping mechanisms, such as masking their differences, creating another barrier to accessing support to enable equitable employment.
Neurominorities have long paid the price of a lack of understanding and consideration of their experiences and needs, leading to a huge impact on their physical and mental wellbeing. Changes need to be made to remove disabling barriers in the workplace and this module addresses practical ways to support neurodivergent staff and students
Effect of routine suction on lung aeration in critically ill neonates and young infants measured with electrical impedance tomography
Get PDFEndotracheal suctioning is a widely used procedure to remove secretions from the airways of ventilated patients. Despite its prevalence, regional effects of this maneuver have seldom been studied. In this study, we explore its effects on regional lung aeration in neonates and young infants using electrical impedance tomography (EIT) as part of the large EU-funded multicenter observational study CRADL. 200 neonates and young infants in intensive care units were monitored with EIT for up to 72 h. EIT parameters were calculated to detect changes in ventilation distribution, ventilation inhomogeneity and ventilation quantity on a breath-by-breath level 5–10 min before and after suctioning. The intratidal change in aeration over time was investigated by means of regional expiratory time constants calculated from all respiratory cycles using an innovative procedure and visualized by 2D maps of the thoracic cross-section. 344 tracheal suctioning events from 51 patients could be analyzed. They showed no or very small changes of EIT parameters, with a dorsal shift of the center of ventilation by 0.5% of the chest diameter and a 7% decrease of tidal impedance variation after suctioning. Regional time constants did not change significantly. Routine suctioning led to EIT- detectable but merely small changes of the ventilation distribution in this study population. While still a measure requiring further study, the time constant maps may help clinicians interpret ventilationmechanics in specific cases