49 research outputs found
Organizing deliberation: the perspectives of professional participation practitioners in Britain and Germany
No full textPublic authorities at different levels of governance are increasing the opportunities for citizens to deliberate on issues of public policy. With this practice comes a plethora of academic evaluations, influenced particularly by theories of deliberative democracy. However, the perspectives of one significant group of actors have generally been overlooked: the professional participation practitioners who are commissioned to organize and facilitate these events. It is these actors who work with public authorities in designing and implementing engagement strategies and who thus structure the democratic experience of those citizens who participate. Drawing on interviews with experienced practitioners in Britain and Germany, this essay explores the degree of diffusion of public participation designs; the extent to which practitioners express deliberative democratic principles; and the constraints they perceive to more effective institutionalization of public participation. While practitioners are committed to democratic ideals, too often the culture and practices of public authorities, as well as the pressures of the market-place, constrain their realization
The problem of studying certain accounting features of Negro and foreign language weekly newspapers in the United States, 1938, 1939
No full textIn these days of keen competition, it is particularly necessary to give special attention to the business side of newspaper publishing. The first aim of the analysis underlying this thesis is to examine the financial policies of the Negro and foreign language weeklies in the United States, 1938, through a study of their balance sheets and profit and loss statements. The second aim of the study is to make a comparative analysis of their advertising rates. This is done by seeking the correlation of the advertising rate and the size of special population in the city of publication of the special paper and the correlation of the advertising rate and the circulation of the paper. If the study helps serious students and editors and publisher of the Negro and foreign language papers to a better appreciation of the need and merits of sound business principles as tools of management in the two publishing fields, the author will consider her purpose fulfilled
Wellness Program Development for Mothers in Domestic Violence Shelters
No full textDomestic violence can be physical, emotional, sexual, financial and/or verbal abuse which is used to exert power and control over another individual. Per the NIH (2023), an estimated 10 million individuals are affected by family and domestic violence every year in the United States and approximately 1 in 4 women will experience intimate partner violence at some point during their life. Individuals who have experienced domestic violence experience disruptions in routines and deficient ability to effectively engage in important daily occupations. Research in this area is limited, specifically when assessing and improving overall wellness and quality in mothers affected by domestic violence. The purpose of this doctoral capstone project is to provide a six-week wellness curriculum for mothers to improve their perceived wellness and quality of life.Mosaic Family Service
Alfred De Musset, Nouvelles
No full textSi Alfred de Musset est aujourd’hui l’auteur le plus joué du théâtre romantique français, il est moins connu pour ses nouvelles. Saluons donc l’heureuse initiative de Sylvan Ledda et de la maison d’édition La Chasse au Snark qui font paraître ces petits textes en prose permettant ainsi une meilleure connaissance de l’œuvre mussétienne. En présentant les six nouvelles – Emmeline, Les Deux Maîtresses, Frédéric et Bernerette, Le Fils du Titien, Margot et Croisilles – parues dans la Revue des Deu..
Gender, Modernity & Liberty: Middle Eastern and Western Women's Writings: A Critical Sourcebook
No full textReturning to circulation a wealth of important documents by Middle Eastern and Occidental women of the late Ottoman empire, this book traces women's involvement in campaigns of gender and national emancipation. Contrary to the popular notion of the Middle Eastern woman trapped inside the harem without access to outside education, there was in fact a fruitful mutual dialogue between the Western women travellers and the women in the regions they visited.
Dealing with a range of themes including family, polygamy, faith, slavery and race, writers include Halide Edib, Musbah Haidar, Melek Hanum, Emmeline Lott, Elizabeth Cooper and Ruth Frances Woodsmall
Authenticity in feminist research: a researcher's account of reflexivity
No full textThe paper discusses how anxieties and insecurities resulting from an assumed imperative of authenticity affect the process of reflexivity in feminist research. Drawing on the feminist poststructuralist inspired nature of her research; the author centres her analysis on her experience as a woman doing research focusing on women within a geospatial context of emotional and cultural familiarity. The paper is organised in six sections; after a general introduction, the first section discusses how reflexivity is used by feminist researchers as an authenticity tool with the aim of 'being truthful' to the commitment of exploring people's lives, particularly women's realities. The second section provides a brief description of the nature and objectives of her research. In sections three, four and five, the author reflects on the authenticity/genuineness concerns generated by her geographical positionality, her theoretical positionality and her locus of d(enunciation) and how these affected her thought and production process. This is followed by a closing reflection in the last section, where the author assesses the how reflexivity helped her accomplish authenticity in her own research
Notes on Contributors
No full textJad Adams is an historian working as an author and an independent television producer. He specializes on radical characters from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the Decadence of the 1890s. His books include biographies of Tony Benn, Gandhi, Emmeline Pankhurst and of the Nehru dynasty. His literary work includes a biography of Kipling, Madder Music, Stronger Wine: The Life of Ernest Dowson (2000) and Hideous Absinthe: History of the Devil in a Bottle (2004). His television work incl..
Notes on Contributors
No full textJad Adams is an historian working as an author and an independent television producer. He specializes on radical characters from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the Decadence of the 1890s. His books include biographies of Tony Benn, Gandhi, Emmeline Pankhurst and of the Nehru dynasty. His literary work includes a biography of Kipling, Madder Music, Stronger Wine: The Life of Ernest Dowson (2000) and Hideous Absinthe: History of the Devil in a Bottle (2004). His television work incl..
Liam Myles - Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the degree of Doctor of Clinical Psychology (DClinPsych)
No full textSystematic Literature Review Abstract
Background
This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated whether people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) exhibit differences in associative learning.
Methods
CINAHL, Cochrane Library, EMBASE, PsycINFO, PubMed, Scopus and Web of Science were searched for published peer-reviewed studies in English quantitatively examining the relationship between OCD and associative phenomena in humans. 5508 titles, 124 abstracts and 55 full texts were reviewed; citation searching identified 15 records. Sixty-six studies were included. Risk of bias was assessed and random-effects meta-analysis synthesised results.
Results
Obsessive-compulsive disorder was associated with differences in extinction (g = .37, p < .001, k = 15) and mediated associative learning (k = 1), but not associative learning (g = -.12, p = .26, k = 49), avoidance learning (g = 1.5, p = .13, k = 4), blocking (k = 1), generalisation (g = -.2, p = .16, k = 3), latent inhibition (g = .45, p = .39, k = 3), outcome devaluation (g = .26, p = .33, k = 7), Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (g = -.24, p = .22, k = 2) or reversal learning (g = .16, p = .36, k = 10). The quality of evidence was moderate for reversal learning, low for associative learning, extinction, generalisation, latent inhibition and Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer, and very low for avoidance learning and outcome devaluation.
Conclusion
Low quality evidence suggests people with OCD learn that stimuli no longer predict negatively valanced outcomes slower than healthy controls. Future research must elucidate the cause of attenuated extinction and its specificity to OCD.
Service Improvement Project Abstract
Background
Milton Keynes Community Mental Health Team uses DIALOG+ to support individuals on therapy waitlists. This study aimed to evaluate clients’ and clinicians’ experiences of DIALOG+-informed check-in calls and improve clients’ competence and confidence using coping skills, clients’ empowerment to achieve goals and the helpfulness of DIALOG+.
Method
Forty-one clients rated their memory of and confidence using coping skills, their empowerment to achieve goals whilst on therapy waitlists and the helpfulness of DIALOG+; clinicians also rated the helpfulness of DIALOG+. Clients and clinicians were asked for suggestions to improve each dimension. After implementing a service improvement initiative based on these suggestions, 34 clients completed the same measures.
Qualitative Results
Clients wanted to revise and practice using coping skills, feel valued and understood by others, have flexible and predictable check-in calls and feel able to achieve goals whilst on waitlists.
Service Improvement Initiative
Clients were invited to revise coping skills during check-in calls, sent monthly emails outlining coping skills, offered copies of psychoeducation materials, sent emails regarding the referral processes for services where they could seek extra support, encouraged to seek support from friends and/or family, offered face-to-face check-in appointments, invited to collaboratively set agendas for check-in calls and offered the opportunity to opt-out of check-in calls. Clinicians arranged check-in calls two weeks in advance and reframed the ‘waitlist’ as the ‘pre-therapy list.’
Quantitative Results
Following the service improvement initiative, there were no differences in clients’ memory of and confidence using coping skills, clients’ perceived ability to progress towards goals or the perceived helpfulness of check-in calls by both clients and staff.
Discussion
Whilst clients wanted to revise and practice using coping skills, feel valued and understood by others, have flexible and predictable check-in calls and feel able to achieve goals whilst on waitlists, the service improvement initiative failed to produce measurable changes in clients’ memory of and confidence using coping skills, clients’ perceived ability to progress towards goals or the helpfulness of check-in calls. Explanations for these findings, study limitations and clinical and research implications are discussed.
Theory Driven Research Project Abstract
Background and Hypotheses
The salience hypothesis posits that aberrant salience of stimuli contributes to unusual beliefs in people with psychosis. Specifically, this theory argues that people with psychosis afford an exaggerated prominence to redundant, unimportant objects. The salience hypothesis also suggests that hallucinations in people with psychosis stem from aberrant salience of ‘internal representations’ (i.e., thoughts, mental images or memories). The current study investigated whether people with psychosis who hallucinate exhibit aberrant salience of internal representations and whether people with psychosis, irrespective of whether they hallucinate, show aberrant salience of external stimuli.
Study Design
One hundred and eleven adults were recruited, with equal numbers of participants without psychosis (‘controls’), with psychosis who hallucinate (‘hallucinators’) and with psychosis who do not hallucinate (‘non-hallucinators’). To assess symptoms of psychosis, participants completed the Specific Psychotic Experiences Questionnaire, which measures paranoia, hallucinatory experiences, cognitive disorganisation, grandiosity and anhedonia. Participants also completed paradigms examining latent inhibition, to examine whether people with psychosis show aberrant salience of external stimuli, and ‘mediated latent inhibition,’ to determine whether hallucinators exhibit aberrant salience of internal representations.
Results
Participants in all groups exhibited both latent inhibition and mediated latent inhibition, but no differences were observed between controls, hallucinators and non-hallucinators.
Conclusions
Contrary to the predictions of the salience hypothesis, these findings suggest that people with psychosis who currently hallucinate do not exhibit aberrant salience of internal representations and that people with psychosis, irrespective of whether they hallucinate, do not demonstrate aberrant salience of external stimuli
