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Making it Meaningful: Caregiver Goal Selection in Positive Behavioral Support
Full text linkObjectives
Positive Behavioral Support (PBS) is considered the treatment framework of choice for children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) at risk of behavior that challenges. PBS demands stakeholder engagement, yet little research has explored goal formation in this context for caregivers of children with IDD.
Methods
We used Talking Mats and semi-structured interviews to support 12 caregivers of children with IDD who displayed behaviours that challenge, to develop goals for PBS. Interviews covered quality of life for caregivers and their child, adaptive and challenging aspects of child behavior, and aspects of caregiver’s own behavior.
Results
Caregivers were able to form individualised and meaningful goals in relation to all domains, demonstrating rich insight into personal needs and needs of their child. The process of forming goals was psychologically and emotionally complex given prior experiences and needs of participants but effectively supported by the interview method.
Conclusions
We conclude that goal formation in PBS requires careful consideration and structuring but has the potential to support effective working relationships and ensure assessment and intervention is aligned with the needs and aspirations of families
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Understanding resilience in family carers
Full text linkBackground: Many family carers report suffering high levels of stress as a central part of the caregiver experience. Recently research has begun to examine the role of resilience in enhancing the capacity of individuals to 'bounce back', enabling them to continue to care. Resilience has been defined as 'the process of, capacity for, or outcome of successful adaptation despite challenging or threatening circumstances.'
This study aimed to understand the nature and complexity of the caring task, identify the emotions and the quality of life outcomes family carers experience, explore their perception of resilience and how it applies to their caregiving roles by developing a carer definition and model of support for enhancing carer resilience. The study then undertook a scoping review to evaluate the effectiveness of two carers' centres to see if there is merit in further evaluative research.
Methods: A grounded theory study was undertaken, and situational analysis was used to provide a systematic way of interrogating the data and identifying themes. Focus groups were conducted with a range of family carers who were caring for a variety of adults and children with differing needs. The focus groups were recorded, transcribed and then analysed using grounded theory. The software package Nvivo was used to support the analysis. Two carers' centres participated in evaluative research to investigate both the cost and the worth of the services they provided. A logic model was used to create the evaluative research framework, quantitative data was collected using standardised measures and economic costings, qualitative data was collected using observations, surveys and interviews.
Results: Carers across care groups and across different relationships with the cared for define resilience in the same way. They define carer resilience as the ability to either continue caring or to move on, to continue navigating the changing relationship and to do this by adapting roles and behaviours throughout the carer journey. This includes adapting to the changing relationship with the care recipient; adapting one's identity; adapting one's behaviour to manage the symptoms and behaviour of the care recipient. Carers want commissioned services aimed at building their resilience to focus on supporting the changing relationship between the carer and the cared for and to better support the interplay between carers and the communities they live in.
Conclusions: Resilience (as defined by carers) would be a useful construct in helping professionals to understand that the key issue is the huge journey of change carers must move through. A common understanding of a social justice model of carer resilience might focus carer strategies on the different types of support carers require at different points in the carer journey to enable them to adapt to these massive changes. Translating policy into practice for carers will require a common understanding of carer resilience, an ability to measure it, a commitment to supporting carers across the carer journey and a more insightful understanding by policy makers of the challenges carers face. There needs to be an increase in studies that involve carers across care groups, across relationships and across the carer journey rather than studying carers in silos. There would be value in future research building on cost-analysis evaluation methods in attempting to gauge both the 'merit' and 'worth' of carer support services
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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