32 research outputs found
Conversations with authors: Tova Mirvis
No full textA 2011 conversation with the author Tova Mirvis about her life and the inspiration for her work
Impact of Emotions on Test of Variables of Attention(TOVA) Performance in a Pediatric Clinical Population: A Retrospective Study
No full textBackground: Continuous Performance Tests, like the Test of Variables of Attention (TOVA), are commonly used to assess attention processes in clinical settings. Although a few previous studies have explored the effects of emotions on the outcome of such tests, the results are scarce and contradictory at times. Objective: Through this retrospective study, we aimed to explore the correlation between performance on the TOVA and parent-reported emotional symptoms in youth. Methods: We used preexisting datasets of Mood and Feelings Questionnaire, Screen for Child Anxiety Related Disorders, and Vanderbilt Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Diagnostic Rating Scale as well as preexisting results from the TOVA test from 216 patients aged between 8 and 18 years. Pearson’s correlation coefficients, as well as linear regression models, were computed to examine the association between depressive and anxiety symptoms and the four indices of TOVA (response time variability, response time, commission errors, and omission errors). Additionally, we used generalized estimating equations to determine whether the reported emotional symptoms affect the TOVA outcome differently as the test progresses. Results: Our results showed no significant effect of the reported emotional symptoms on the TOVA results even when controlling for sex or reported inattention and hyperactivity. Conclusion: TOVA results do not seem to be affected by emotional symptoms in youth. This being said, future studies should also explore other factors that can affect the performance on the TOVA, like motor disability, sleepiness, or neurodevelopmental disorders affecting cognitive abilities. © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved
Patients’ experiences of living with chronic kidney disease : A literature review
No full textBakgrund: Kronisk njursjukdom förekommer hos ca 10–13% av den globala befolkningen och innebär att njurarnas funktion succesivt avtar. Sjukdomen medför flera symtom och biverkningar av behandling, vilket gör det viktigt för vårdpersonalen att förstå hur det påverkar personernas liv. Syfte: Att beskriva personers upplevelser av att leva med kronisk njursjukdom. Metod: En kvalitativ litteraturstudie som inleddes med en litteratursökning där 14 artiklar inkluderades efter en kvalitetsgranskning. Analysen genomfördes med kvalitativ manifest innehållsanalys med induktiv ansats. Resultat: Analysen resulterade i fem kategorier som beskriver personernas upplevelser av att leva med kronisk njursjukdom; Att få en annan syn på livet och sig själv, Att ha begränsningar i det dagliga livet, Att sociala relationer påverkas, Att leva i ovisshet och Att kunna underlätta och hantera situationen. Slutsats: Sjuksköterskor och annan vårdpersonal behöver förstå hur sjukdomen påverkar personernas liv och vad det leder till för subjektiva upplevelser. Sjuksköterskor bör därför inte begränsa sig till fysiska symtom, utan ha ett övergripande perspektiv som även innefattar det psykologiska välbefinnandet. Personerna som lever med kronisk njursjukdom önskar mer information för att kunna öka sin självständighet och delaktighet. Även närstående behöver mer information för att kunna vara ett bättre stöd. Socialt stöd har positiva effekter och vårdpersonal behöver därför främja social aktivitet. Framtida forskning behöver därmed utgå från personernas upplevelser för att främja ett helhetsperspektiv, vilket gör att vården kan anpassas efter personernas behov.
Everybody’s Holocaust? Tova Reich’s Satirical Approach to Shoah Business and the Cult of Victimhood
No full textThis paper sets out to demonstrate the changes that post-Holocaust fiction has been undergoing since around the turn of the new millennium. It analyzes the highly innovative and often provocative approaches to the Holocaust and its memory found in Tova Reich’s novel My Holocaust—a scathing satire on the personal and institutional exploitation of Holocaust commemoration, manifested in the commodification of the historical trauma in what has been termed “Shoah business”. The novel can be seen as a reaction to the increasing appropriation of the Holocaust by popular culture. This paper focuses on Reich’s critical response to the cult of victimhood and the unhealthy competition for Holocaust primacy, corresponding with the growth of a “victim culture”. It also explores other thematic aspects of the author’s satire—the abuse of the term “Holocaust” for personal, political and ideological purposes; attempts to capitalize on the suffering of millions of victims; the trivialization of this tragedy; conflicts between particularists and universalists in their attitude to the Shoah; and criticism of Holocaust-centered Judaism. The purpose of this paper is to show how Tova Reich has enriched post-Holocaust fiction by presenting a comic treatment of false victimary discourse, embodied by a fraudulent survivor and a whole gallery of inauthentic characters. This paper highlights the novel’s originality, which enables it to step outside the frame of traditional Holocaust fiction
Impact of parents' religious background on parenting style and children's religiosity in the orthodox Jewish community
No full textRecent decades have seen an influx of baalei teshuva in the Orthodox Jewish community; individuals who were Jewish and not raised religious, but chose to become religious on their own. Limited existing research indicates poor levels of family cohesion and parental warmth, increased behavioral problems amongst children, and increased parental anxiety around parenting in baalei teshuva families. Anecdotal reports by mental health professionals raise concern that baalei teshuva display an authoritarian parenting style which appears to result in children reactively discarding their parents’ religious values. Religious identity development theory indicates that an authoritarian parenting style impedes the autonomous process critical to religious identity development, which may present concern for baalei teshuva parents; however, scant research exists to confirm the veracity of this theory in this population. This study is critical in evaluating parenting style as perceived by adult children of baalei teshuva and its subsequent influence on religious value transmission. An online survey was completed by individuals who acknowledged being raised religious within the Orthodox Jewish community (N=143; male = 25, female = 118). Measures included the Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI) and questions on areas of religious conflict with parents. Chi square analysis indicated significantly higher levels of perceived authoritarian parenting by children of baalei teshuva. Fathers’ baal teshuva status, unlike mothers’, is correlated with increased areas of conflict between parent and child. However, mothers’ authoritarian parenting style, unlike fathers’, significantly predicted religious change. Study findings substantiate previous anecdotal evidence and raise concern for the emotional health and religious value transmission in the baal teshuva family. Study findings were limited by low male response rates, and further research must overcome cultural impediments to male access of internet-based research. Given the significance of these findings, implications for the baal teshuva parent, mental health professionals, and the greater Jewish community are vast. Utilization of the results should guide implementation of future interventions at the organizational, community, and individual levels.Psy.D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Tova Lan
Ready for a Learner’s Permit? : Clinical Neuropsychological Off-road Tests and Driving Behaviors in a Simulator among Adolescents with ADHD and ASD
No full textA simulator driving test (SDT) and two neuropsychological tests, the Useful Field of View (UFOV) test and the Test of Variables of Attention (TOVA) were evaluated with regard to validity for fitness to drive on 51 young clients diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), 33 of whom also had autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and 38 adolescents without a neurodevelopmental diagnosis. The results show generally much greater variability and significantly poorer performance in the SDT and the TOVA for clients with ADHD/ASD compared with the control group. The SDT results were strongly intratest correlated, but had no interest correlation with either the UFOV test or the TOVA. The greater variability among clients with ADHD/ASD suggests greater effort and susceptibility to motivational issues and decline in sustained attention over several tests. In conclusion, the SDT is sensitive and has good face validity, and the TOVA is sensitive to neuropsychological aspects of safe driving. The SDT and the TOVA thus complement each other, and discrepancy between test scores calls for special consideration. © 2021 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
Stagnation and Depression in the Elderly Group Client
No full text Stagnation and depression in the elderly may be a defensive posture in response to the individual's failure to synthesize the meaning of his or her existence, thus impeding attainment of the last stage in the epigenetic scale. The author describes a group treatment that counteracts defensive behavior. </jats:p
Emergency ward and intensive care unit – design, work tasks and what you should have in place
No full textAnimals can be ill and need veterinary care for many reasons. The conditions can be more or less emergent, some can even be life-threatening. When an animal is in a life-threatening condition you can save the animals life just by having the right equipment near-by and ready to be used. This literature-study help you, as an active working veterinary nurse, with which these conditions are that can show up in your emergency ward and what you should have near-by to give animals with acute life-threatening conditions the care they need. The author also looked at work tasks at the emergency ward and found out that in Sweden it is not defined who can and/or should execute them.
Interviews were also done with nine of the largest small-animal hospitals in Sweden to compare the studies found with the Swedish emergency wards. The comparison was about which diagnostic equipment, monitoring apparatus and medicine they have near-by at their emergency ward compared to what the studies about the emergent conditions say you should have near-by to save the animals life. The small-animal hospitals interviewed in this study all had most of the things the literature said you should have nearby, with some exceptions
A Diachronic Study of the Suffix -ard : A Study of the Meaning of Selected Medieval Words
No full textThis study examines the supposedly pejorative nature of the Germanic derived suffix -ard in French medieval words and their contemporary counterparts. The author looks at the words used in medieval writings available in the online database Frantext Moyen Français, which features texts dating from the year 1330 to 1502. The study reveals that while a large portion of the words ending in -ard in this database can be considered pejorative, a group of words does not carry this connotation, such as words referring to colours or objects. Some words were pejorative in Old French but have lost this connotation over time, while others have disappeared only to reappear centuries later with new meanings. The study also shows that -ard was used to form many types of words – nouns, verbs and adjectives – which take their derivation from several different languages (e.g. Latin, Dutch, Spanish etc.). Sometimes it also seems to appear without any obvious reason, for example when it replaces an already existing suffix. Because of the changeable nature of language, words carrying the ending -ard must be examined in the context in which they occur in order to be properly understood
Love and Race in a Thirteenth-Century Romance in Hebrew, with a Translation of The Story of Maskil and Peninah by Jacob Ben El'azar
No full textThis romance, composed by a thirteenth-century Jewish author living in Christian Toledo, is written in biblical Hebrew and cast in the form of the Arabic maqamāh. The plot (an army invades an Arab territory; its commander, the "King of Beauty," falls in love with a female captive; the couple encounter a giant black warrior, kill him, and live happily ever after) invites a three-tiered reading: (a) a literal reading of the work as a conventional romance, in which the lovers are young and noble, the geography is mythical, and the hero wins his beloved after slaying a giant; (b) an allegorical reading of the union of Maskil (representing Intellect) and Peninah (signifying Beauty) as illustrative of the Platonic nexus of Eros, Beauty, Intellect, and the Good, while the monstrous Cushan represents unbridled sexuality, ugliness, bestiality, and evil; and (c) a historicized reading, anchoring the work in the religio-ethnic politics of the Reconquista (according to which Maskil is Christian, Peninah is an Andalusian Arab, and the giant Cushan is in an Almohad warrior, either a dark-skinned Berber or a sub-Saharan African). Read thus, the story problematizes historical issues of territory, border, conflict, contact, relocation, cultural transition, and hybridity
