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Children of alcohol-dependent parents: A study of alcohol addictions influence on childrens daily lives and social interactions in Danish public schools
No full textComing from a critical psychologically position, this study explores the experiences and socialinteractions of children with alcohol-dependent parents across three essentiel arenas; home,school and friends, while also examining the structural frameworks and capabilities of theDanish public school system in addressing these children’s needs.Two semi-structured interviews were conducted with adults who experienced alcoholabuse in childhood as well as a focus group interview with two professionals from a Danishpublic school.Both adult informants grew up in chaotic and unpredictable environments due to parentalalcoholism, which forced them into a constant state of vigilance along with heightenedsensitivity, in order to navigate their mothers dysfunctional emotional states and behaviors.Moreover, this was transferred to their social interaction processes within the school and peerarena in order to maintain their social status and position and avoid marginalization. Cecilie’scircumstances presents greater complexity than Vera’s, and therefore contributes as a theoreticalnuance in view of her mother’s psychological abuse and manipulative behavior.The analysis found how schools can function as a ‘free zone’ due to the structured andpredictable environment and emotional support if the children are allowed to ‘exist in theirreality’, which is essential for the development and well-being of children withalcohol-dependent parents. This requires in depth expertise and competencies from school staffsuch as the ability to engage in relational work, which encompasses high level of empathy,vulnerability, and the ability to stand with children in their reality. All in addition to their focuson teaching.Concluding this paper raises critical questions about the necessary competencies ofschool professionals’ working with children in discontent and whether we can requireprofessionals to act as caregivers, while having to cooperate with dysfunctional parents, andensure students' learning and well-being. It leaves the question of who should support children ofalcohol-dependent parents if public schools lack resources or professionals the expertise,competences and courage
Vulnerability in friendships: when vulnerability becomes relation in friendships
No full textThis thesis explores how two groups of young people enact vulnerability within their close friendships. The aim is to investigate the concept of vulnerability in a relational context – close friendships – and to examine its significance, as well as the opportunities and barriers associated with enacting vulnerability in such relationships. The study is grounded in a critical psychological framework, positioning participants as co-researchers.The theoretical foundation draws on a multisystemic understanding of resilience, as de-veloped by Linda Theron, Kathleen Murphy, and Michael Ungar, to examine the promotive and protective factors and processes that form the basis of vulnerability work within young people´s close friendships. To elaborate on these factors and processes, the study draws on Carsten R. Jørgensen’s theory of shame and Knud E. Løgstrup’s concept of trust.The methodological design is based on a method triangulation consisting of a workshop with four core components: A focus group interview which explores the participants’ under-standings of vulnerability. Multimodal methods to deepen, challenge, and explore these under-standings in practice. Participant observations to capture situational dynamics, and lastly, eval-uations to serve as a summarising element. This design offers insight into how the participants interpret vulnerability, their backgrounds and narratives of becoming friends, and how they en-gage in and enact relational work around vulnerability.The findings indicate that participants conceptualize vulnerability along two primary di-mensions: personal and relational. Trust, constructive shame, and boundary-setting function as key promotive and protective factors and processes in both individual resilience processes and shared relational vulnerability practices. Through shared efforts, the participants navigate their relational dynamics and each other’s vulnerabilities to maintain their friendships and promote mental well-being.The thesis concludes that the ability and possibility to enact vulnerability within friend-ships is essential for young people’s mental health. Opportunities and barriers are shaped by the individual's psychological and social systems. Friendship thus emerges as a vital resource in enacting vulnerability and promoting mental well-being
How to rethink sex education in primary school?: A qualitative pedagogical study of fortælleværksted as a methodological approach to sex education
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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