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Development and validation of a clinician report measure of mentalization: The Mentalization Imbalances Scale
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Is There a group effect? It depends on how you ask the question: Intraclass correlations for california psychotherapy alliance scale-group items
No full textCalifornia Psychotherapy Alliance Scale-Group (CALPAS-G) data were collected from 1,138 group sessions attended by 248 group members in 16 counseling groups. Hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) was used to derive between-groups, between-member, and between-session variance components and intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs) for the 12 CALPAS-G items. Using Ledermann and Kenny's (2012) descriptions of variable types, we examined differences in between-groups variance for the 6 CALPAS-G items classified as "Individual" items and the 6 CALPAS-G items classified as "Group" items. A Related-Samples Wilcoxon's Signed Ranked Test showed that the ICCs for the Group items were significantly larger than the ICCs for the Individual items. The results show the importance of how items are worded. If researchers want to accurately examine the between-groups component of the group therapy relationship they should develop measures that ask clients to describe their perceptions of the group, not the members own experience of the group
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
La terapia di gruppo. Efficacia clinica e utilità sociale. Un progetto nazionale di ricerca
No full textPsychological Aspects of Recovery After Brain Injury: A Focus on Psychodynamic Factors
No full textBrain injury may cause serious motor, cognitive, and affective sequelae that significantly affect individual’s functioning, interfering with his/her independence in daily activities. Psychopathology, maladaptive coping styles and poor social cognition are frequently observed in these population of patients and are associated with poorer physical, occupational, and social outcomes. Psychological reactive mechanisms and premorbid cognitive–affective coping style are reported to play a significant role in the patient’s recovery process. Among these, mechanisms of psychological defence, such as repression/denial, may be active in patients that, after brain injury, show emotion/affective dysregulation and tend to use less efficient coping strategies. Moreover, repression/denial could influence the patient’s ability to correctly acknowledge the illness and its consequences, thus hampering his/her productive participation to the rehabilitative program, as well as his/her family and social reintegration. In this chapter, we propose and updated discussion on the possible role of psychological factors in the recovery after brain injury with a particular focus on psychodynamic mechanisms, with the aim to provide some clues for the purpose of the clinical intervention
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