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Counselling Children
No full textThere are a number of therapeutic approaches that do not fall into the category of a distinct theoretical orientation yet have significant identities or areas of applicaton of their own. This chapter adds to the subject of couple, group, family and systems therapies. This chapter highlights the importance of counselling children within the family,and presents an overview of several therapeutic approaches before describing an integrative model for counselling children called Sequentially Planned Integrative Counselling for Children (SPICC
Counselling people labelled with asperger syndrome
No full textIdentifying the implications of Asperger syndrome for counsellors
The main change agent in psychotherapy is the relationship between the therapist and client
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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
Pluralistic counselling and psychotherapy
Full text linkPluralistic counselling and psychotherapy was developed at the beginning of the 21st century, and reflects some of the key cultural developments in this era. Pluralistic therapy reflects a postmodern suspicion of ‘grand narratives’ such as all-encompassing psychological theories, and a preference instead for ‘local’ solutions. It builds on the increasing tendency for people to be informed consumers of healthcare, whose use of the internet and other media enables them to develop their own ideas about what ails them and how they might be helped. Also relevant is a high level of global or multicultural sensitivity, that takes the form of acknowledgement of the potential value of healing practices from other cultures
Helps and hindrances in children's bereavement: The children's perspective.
Full text linkNo such child-centred search into child bereavement has been undertaken with young children in the United Kingdom, a major gap in a key issue for the welfare of up to two million children under 18 at any one time who have lost a close attachment figure. This study is intended to make a contribution to our knowledge by seeking to learn from the experiences of children 6-12 years who have lost a parent (other than through murder, suicide or Major Incident) using semi-structured interviews in a qualitative study.Comparisons are drawn from the children themselves on such issues as anticipatory grief, how the news of death was given and received, participation in rites of passage, and the bereavement care received from home, school, or other outside agency. Comparisons are also made with practices in the United States where child-centred studies have been carried out. (Silverman 2000, Worden 1996) In addition to the special ethical issues involved in research with children, this study also examines difficulties experienced in attempting to set up a child consultation group, and the reasons given by gatekeepers (NHS, parents, teachers, Social Services and counselling organisations) for refusing access to children, with evidence as to how these and exclusions from grief rituals can hinder child development and retard self-esteem.The past few years have seen criticism of the lack of evidence for increasing funding to government or voluntary organisations for helping such children. This is a limited study that I hope will provide a basis for further investigation and also lead towards inclusion of death and bereavement in the Schools' National Curriculum
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
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