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Exploring the barriers to implementing adaptive interaction in practice
No full textThis chapter examines the barriers and enablers to implementing intensive interaction (II) and adaptive interaction (AI) in care settings for individuals with profound learning disabilities, autism, and advanced dementia. Despite evidence of their positive impact on communication and connection, widespread adoption is limited by systemic constraints, lack of training, and societal misconceptions. Focusing on three key domains – evidence, system, and perception – the chapter highlights challenges such as limited research funding, time pressures, and resistance to change. It also explores how reframing II and AI as integral to everyday care, rather than optional interventions, can support their integration. Ultimately, the chapter calls for a shift in perspective to recognise inclusive communication as a fundamental human right
Development of a psychological model and recommendations for measuring intensive/adaptive interaction when used as a psychological intervention
No full textThis chapter describes a new model, which has been developed by the authors of this book and describes the psychological processes that they believe occur when intensive/adaptive interaction is used, across four domains. The domains are developing and maintaining positive attachments; promoting positive emotions; managing individual distress and improving the psychological wellbeing of supporters. The chapter describes the development of the model, linked to chapters across the book. It also highlights measures that can be utilised to capture these psychological processes, to strengthen the research pertaining to intensive/adaptive interaction as a psychological intervention. The chapter concludes with a ‘call to arms’ for psychological practitioners to adopt intensive and adaptive interaction if they are not already using it, and for those who are, to continue to share practice, including through research and embedding within services and in professional guidance
Helping families to use the principles of intensive interaction with people living with advanced dementia
No full textThis chapter explores the application of adaptive interaction, a communication approach derived from intensive interaction, for individuals living with advanced dementia. As verbal communication diminishes in dementia, traditional methods of interaction become less effective, leading to frustration and disconnection for both individuals with dementia and their caregivers. Adaptive interaction offers an alternative by focusing on non-verbal communication cues – such as facial expressions, gestures, and repetitive actions – recognising them as meaningful forms of interaction. The chapter presents findings from a training programme designed to teach family caregivers how to use adaptive interaction with their loved ones. Through qualitative analysis of pre- and post-training interviews, the study illustrates how participants shifted their perspectives on communication. Caregivers learned to identify and respond to non-verbal cues, fostering meaningful connections despite the loss of speech. Case studies highlight the profound emotional impact of adaptive interaction, as caregivers reframe their interactions to emphasise presence, responsiveness, and shared experiences over verbal exchange. By demonstrating the potential of adaptive interaction to sustain relationships and improve the quality of interactions, this chapter advocates for wider adoption of adaptive interaction training in dementia care. The findings underscore the importance of recognising retained communicative abilities, emphasising connection over content in caregiving relationships
Training in intensive and adaptive interaction for trainee and qualified psychological practitioners
No full textThis chapter describes the state of training in intensive interaction and adaptive interaction in the UK and presents a small-scale research project exploring the place of teaching about these approaches on Doctorate in Clinical Psychology programmes. The research design included disseminating a resource document to all the programmes, then carrying out an exploratory online survey and some follow-up semi-structured interviews. Quantitative data analysis described frequency counts and percentages. Qualitative data was explored using Thematic Analysis. Data was much more limited about Adaptive Interaction compared to Intensive Interaction. The findings indicate that whilst the approaches are perceived as valuable, barriers exist to teaching on such programmes. This is especially so for adaptive interaction. This chapter concludes with several recommendations around access to experienced practitioners/teachers and also suitable teaching materials in line with professional guidelines
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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