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Addressing Inequalities in Accessing Mental Health Services for Muslim University Students in the United Kingdom: Implications for Attainment and Wellbeing
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Who is doing the planting?:Understanding human agency while keeping the focus on the work of the Spirit
No full textReconsideration of the exercise of prerogative powers since GCHQ: Balancing legitimate judicial control against government interest
No full textPublic perspectives on COVID-19 public health and social measures in Japan and the United Kingdom: a qualitative study
Get PDF"Creative subtitling as film-transformative practice: from immersion to amazement in Edgar Pêra’s The baron"
No full textIn this article, I examine creative subtitling as a cultural practice whose significance exceeds its use value as merely an enhanced variety of subtitling. The article’s main argument is that creative subtitling transforms the films that contain it by expanding further on their creative ideas, by foregrounding these films’ constructedness, and by embedding new layers of self-awareness in them. I begin the analysis by critiquing some recent studies on creative subtitling for downplaying the part of creativity in favour of a reductive conceptualization of translation as meaning transfer. I then turn to Antoine Berman’s account of translation as reflexive practice whose ethical aim is to undo this conceptualization and turn our attention away from meaning and closer to the experience of language itself. Taking translational creativity to mean literally this transformative “undoing”, in the last section, I examine the case of the creative subtitles of Edgar Pêra’s film, The baron (2010). I argue that these subtitles expand further on the creative ideas of that film while simultaneously they “undo” it: they take us out of a state of immersion in the story and into a state of “amazement” at the experience of the language of cinema itself
How do we know whether treatment has failed? Paradoxical outcomes in counseling with young people
Get PDFBackground: In both routine practice contexts and research studies, evidence from standardized self-report symptom measures, administered pre- and post-treatment, is predominantly used to determine whether psychotherapy has been successful. Understanding the nature of unsuccessful psychotherapy requires an ability to evaluate the credibility of outcome data generated by such techniques. An important body of research has identified discrepancies between outcomes assessed through symptom measures and those obtained from other sources. However, not enough is known about the extent to which such paradoxical outcomes exist. Objective: This study analyzes the relationship between outcomes, as assessed by a standardized self-report measure, and as assessed by ratings of young people’s descriptions of change at post-counseling interviews. Methods: Participants were 50 young people (13–16 years old) who had taken part in a trial of up to 10 weeks of school-based humanistic counseling. Our primary standardized measure was the Young Person’s CORE (YP-CORE). To assess young people’s experiences of counseling change, three independent raters scrutinized transcripts of post-counseling interviews, and scored levels of helpfulness on a 1 (Not at all helpful) to 10 (Extremely helpful) scale. Inter-rater reliabilities were 0.94 (Cronbach’s Alpha) and 0.96 (McDonald’s Omega). Sensitivity analyses were conducted to explore relationships between helpfulness ratings and other outcome measures, i.e., satisfaction with counseling (ESQ) and the Goal-Based-Outcome Tool (GBO), and process measures, i.e., the Working Alliance Inventory (WAI-S) and the Barret Lennard Relationship Inventory (BLRI). Results: Multilevel analysis indicated that helpfulness ratings were not significantly associated with changes in YP-CORE scores. Analyzed categorically, 38% of those showing reliable improvement on the standardized measure were below the median for self-described helpfulness, and 47% of those not showing reliable change were at or above the median for self-described helpfulness. Sensitivity analyses demonstrated closer correlations between helpfulness ratings and other outcome measures (ESQ and GBO), and between helpfulness ratings and process measures (WAI-S and BLRI). Discussion: Our results raise questions about reliance on symptom change outcome measures for defining treatment success and failure, given their disparity with clients’ own descriptions of the helpfulness of therapy. Implications for practice and research are discussed
Progressive Social Change Perspectives and Therapy: Mapping the Interfaces Part 1:From Progressive Social Change Perspectives to Therapy
No full textThe pluralistic approach to therapy is grounded in principles of progressive social change. This paper is the first part of a review that maps the interfaces between progressive social change perspectives and therapy; with this, Part 1, introducing the review and focusing on the contribution of the former on the latter. Building on previous maps by Totton and Sanders, the aim is to help create a comprehensive, integrated framework for understanding these interfaces that can stimulate further writing, research, and practice. A systematic search of two key journals and related literature was conducted, resulting in the construction of seven main domains, some of which were further divided into sub-domains. Domains and sub-domains are: the existence of Therapy-as-a-Whole, Therapeutic Practice (subdomains: Understanding Clients and Formulation, Therapists’ Self-Understandings, The Therapeutic Relationship, Methods and Techniques, Therapeutic Interventions), Supervision, Training (subdomains: Curricula, Process, Access), Research (subdomains: Topics, Methodology), Access to Therapy, and The Therapy Profession. Literature and practices in each of these areas is described and illustrated. This paper also considers key traditions of progressive social change thought and action in the therapy field and discusses the challenges of mapping out these interfaces. By bringing together a wide range of literature and traditions, this paper supports pluralistic therapists, and others with a progressive social change perspective, to reflect on, and develop, the social justice elements of their thought and practice. Part 2 of this review, to be published, will look at the contribution of therapy to progressive social change perspectives, and integrated psych-political approaches
