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"Casa per un giorno". Un’analisi qualitativa delle pratiche lavorative degli operatori nei contesti di accoglienza per giovani migranti
No full textLiving in Italian residential care under COVID-19 restrictions. A survey on adolescents’ perspectives over their psychosocial wellbeing
Full text linkCOVID-19 lockdown has been worldwide considered one of the major collective traumatic experiences for everyone, vulnerable adolescents included. Surprisingly, however, research on the experiences of adolescent living in residential care (RC) – considered it to be particularly exposed to traumas and developmental challenges – has been underdeveloped in the pandemic scenario. Bridging this gap and drawing on a national survey with Italian adolescents living in RC, the current study examines their psychosocial wellbeing, i.e., their perceived subjective and relational wellbeing, during lockdown. In terms of subjective wellbeing, results show increased irritability, but, differently from general population, no sleep quality deterioration. In terms of relational wellbeing, we document a general sense of safeness and protection in RC, a significant sense of being listened to by caregivers, and continuity of care with professionals and keypersons. We confirm and display two distinctive effects as well: a) the “gender effect” – i.e., compared to boys, girls reported higher irritability, and b) the “length of placement in RC” effect – i.e., adolescents living in RC for more than 3 years reported increased irritability and a lower relational wellbeing, counterbalanced by a higher competence in keeping their contact with their schoolmates outside RC. Proposals for targeted psychosocial interventions, limitations and implications for future research in the developmental areas are discussed in the conclusions
From Distancing to Connecting: Residential Care Engagement with External Stakeholders Amidst COVID-19. An Italian Investigation
No full textDrawing from an Italian study conducted during the COVID-19 lockdown, in this article we focus on the perspectives of Residential Care for Children (RCC) managers. Our aims are: to examine how they perceive RCC interactions with external stakeholders during lockdown – specifically within Bronfenbrenner’s ecological framework, encompassing meso- and exo-systems –, and to identify managers’ traits affecting communication with the abovementioned systems. The study involved 152 RCC managers on duty during the lockdown, utilizing the EWF Questionnaire – an anonymous, self-administered survey developed ad hoc for this investigation. The analysis employed descriptive statistics and Chi-square analysis. Results indicate that during the lockdown managers had good communication with RCC meso-system. In terms of professional relationships, RCC managers reported a closer affinity with social workers. Managers’ age, tenure in the role and field experience had an impact on the perception of communication within meso- and exo-systems. The number of units managed and their education degree did not show statistically significant impact. In the final sections, we discuss implications for RCC, interprofessional collaboration, and strategies for enhancing intersystem communication
Navigating challenges and fostering resilience: Changes in work practices of Italian Residential Child Care professionals during the COVID-19 lockdown
No full textThe COVID-19 syndemic presented significant challenges to welfare communities. Drawing upon an online survey from 366 Italian professionals working in residential child care (RCC), this study investigates changes in their work practices during the COVID-19 lockdown, focusing on critical issues and useful emerging practices and competences. Analysis show convergences in the experiences of educators and managers and changes in educational and organizational issues in different phases of lockdown. Among the critical issues are children’s wellbeing, space reorganization, and the emotional costs of containing externalizing symptoms. Resources include communication with children and an increase in internal cohesion. The lockdown also brought expansion of professional competencies such as emotional support skills, adaptability, and creativity. Ultimately, our results highlight an organizational resiliency capacity of RCC units in the face of such a disruptive event. We discuss the implications for welfare community practices and propose areas for future research and improvement
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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