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Fattori chiave nella formazione in psicoterapia: un’analisi del punto di vista dei docenti, degli specializzandi e degli psicoterapeuti
No full textIn letteratura sono assenti lavori che abbiano identificato quali siano i fattori maggiormente rilevanti nella formazione in psicoterapia. Con questo lavoro abbiamo voluto colmare questo vuoto valutando quali siano, dal punto di vista dei didatti, degli specializzandi e degli psicoterapeuti, i fattori considerati maggiormente rilevanti nei programmi di formazione in psicoterapia, e se questi fattori differiscano tra le tre categorie considerate. È stato creato un nuovo questionario comprendente 63 item su una scala likert a 5 punti che è stato somministrato a 24 scuole di psicoterapia, con un campione che includeva 641 specializzandi, 172 didatti e 218 psicoterapeuti di vari orientamenti teorici. È stata condotta un’analisi fattoriale esplorativa per identificare la struttura latente, verificando inoltre l’affidabilità delle dimensioni ottenute. I risultati dello studio hanno evidenziato l’emergere di quattro fattori, caratteristiche relazionali dei didatti, supervisione, trasmissione del know-how clinico, e background teorico e supporto tecnico, che mostrano una buona affidabilità e consistenza interna. Inoltre i loro punteggi variano a seconda del ruolo dei partecipanti e del loro background teorico. I risultati di questo studio indicano che il nuovo strumento possiede qualità psicometriche accettabili che lo rendono utilizzabile per sviluppare un nuovo approccio alla formazione in psicoterapia, dal momento che i risultati dello studio evidenziano delle differenze tra la percezione degli specializzandi confrontata con quella dei docenti e degli psicoterapeut
Report conclusivo: Agricoltura sociale, One Welfare e economia civile. Nuovi modelli gestionali improntati sulla sostenibilità economica, sociale e ambientale per fattorie sociali che erogano interventi assistiti con gli animali
No full textReport riassuntivo dei risultati emersi dallo Scenario Workshop realizzato presso l'Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie in data 11 Gennaio 2023 a cui hanno partecipato stakeholder della Regione Veneto. L'attività è stata svolta nell'ambito del progetto di dottorato elaborato dal Centro di Referenza Nazionale per gli Interventi assistiti con gli animali in collaborazione con il Dipartimento di Scienze Veterinarie dell'Università di Pisa
How to Measure Human-Dog Interaction in Dog Assisted Interventions? A Scoping Review
Full text linkHuman-dog interaction is the working tool through which the therapeutic, educational and recreational goals of dog-assisted interventions (DAIs) are achieved. A better understanding of the characteristics of this interaction could improve the effectiveness of DAIs. This scoping review addresses the question: how has the human-dog connection been measured in the context of DAIs? After searching the Web of Science and Scopus platforms, only peer-reviewed, primary research studies reporting measures of therapy dog-human interaction, relationship and bond were included. A total of 70 included articles provided information on what was measured (interaction, relationship or bond) and how, as well as the general context (DAIs or experimental situations with therapy dogs). While the majority of the articles identified use behavioural analysis methods to analyse the interaction between the participant/recipient and the therapy dog during DAIs, it was possible to identify some more structured tools that assess the participant/recipient’s interaction, relationship or bond with the therapy dog, as well as tools that consider the animal’s perspective or focus on the dog-handler dyad, indicating growing areas of research. The tools and methods identified can be used by both practitioners and researchers to further explore aspects of human-dog interaction in the field of DAIs
Evaluating the personality of dogs involved in Animal-Assisted Interventions and their relationship with the handler: the Italian landscape
No full textTherapy dogs involved in animal-assisted interventions (AAIs) can be a valuable support for individuals with physical or psychological difficulties. The effectiveness of the intervention is influenced by the functioning of the dog-handler dyad. In Italy, handlers who have completed the requisite training are registered on the ’Digital Pet’
platform. This study aimed to construct a general profile of the Italian population of therapy dogs and handlers and to investigate the mechanisms underlying the dog-handler relationship. We administered a survey to the handlers registered on Digital Pet. The survey included information on the dyad, an Italian translation of the C/
DORS to assess the relationship between the dog and the owner (in this case, the handler), and of the C-BARQ to assess the dog’s personality. The data from both questionnaires were subjected to Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA). Subsequently, factor scores were calculated for each dog-handler dyad and then tested across a series of background variables, including the dog’s age, sex, weight, origin, and breed. In conclusion, the correlations between the C-BARQ and C/DORS factors were calculated. A total of 240 respondents were obtained from the
809 handlers who were contacted. EFA identified 14 factors for the C-BARQ and six factors for the C/DORS, which differs from other studies. As expected, the examined cohort of therapy dogs exhibited minimal scores and limited variability for the C-BARQ factors pertaining to behavioral issues, including ’Owner-directed aggression’,
’Stranger-directed aggression’, and ’Territoriality’. Conversely, the highest median value was observed for the ’Attachment/attention seeking’ factor. With regard to the C/DORS, the factor designated ’Perceived costs’ exhibited the lowest median scores, while the highest median value was observed for the factor designated ’Perceived emotional closeness – emotional support’. Weak correlations were identified between the factors of the two questionnaires. Moreover, the age and weight of the dog was found to affect some factor scores of both questionnaires. Additionally, specific factors of the C-BARQ were found to be affected by the breed, origin and sex/neuter status of the dog. These preliminary results are part of a multimodal analysis of the dog personality and dog-handler relationship. Further investigation will be conducted through behavioral and hormonal observations, with the aim of elucidating the factors that contribute to the efficacy of AAI teams
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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