4,490 research outputs found
Alexandra Harper - Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the degree of Doctor of Clinical Psychology (DClinPsych)
No full textCritical Review of the Literature Abstract
Background: Parents of children and young people with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) often “accommodate” (adapt their behaviour), attempting to help alleviate their child’s distress. However, the varying types and function of accommodation that can be exhibited are poorly understood. Aims: This systematic review aimed to evaluate the types of parental accommodation. It also aimed to evaluate
how these types of accommodation relate to the cognitive behavioural understanding of OCD, and the implications for treatment. Method: The databases searched in this systematic review were Scopus, Web of Science, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Ovid SP, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, ProQuest ASSIA Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts, and Proquest Sociology Collection. Publication dates ranged from January 2008 to May 2021. Studies were included if they were peer reviewed, quantitative articles or review papers, used cognitive-behavioural theory, used a sample of children and young people with OCD, and accommodation was explored descriptively or categorically. Results: The search returned 1124 papers; 68 papers were selected for detailed screening. One additional paper was included from citation and hand searches. A final 11 papers were identified for the review. All papers demonstrated the presence of five theoretically derived categories of accommodation behaviours. However, some
categories identified in papers overlapped as accommodation is mainly measured and operationalised by topography rather than function. Conclusions: The findings suggest accommodation is frequently observed in young people with OCD. Further research should examine how distinct these categories are in terms of function as present measures of accommodation overlook the function of and motivation for such behaviour.
Service Improvement Project Abstract
Background: Across the UK, autistic young people receive very little post-diagnostic support despite the importance highlighted in policies and best practice guidelines. This study reported on a service improvement project exploring the needs of young people post-diagnosis and delivering a service user informed post-diagnostic support package. Method: A sample of twenty-two (n = 22) young people aged 13-18, and their parents, who were diagnosed within the last year were recruited using purposive sampling within a CAMHS service in Oxfordshire, UK. The research was in two phases. Phase one gathered feedback from young people and parents on what support they had and what support they would like post-diagnosis. Phase two was a tailor-made post-diagnostic support package in line with their feedback. Results: The results of phase one indicated a need for young people to meet and hear from others diagnosed with autism , as well as speak to a clinician. The results from phase two found young people enjoyed a live space to meet other autistic young people and found the chance to speak to a clinician and have their views heard valuable. Conclusions: Further improvement and provision of post- diagnostic support for young people is needed. Post-diagnostic support is recommended to be routinely offered to young people in services.
Theoretically Driven (Main) Research Paper Abstract
Background: Current research suggests that foster carers experience higher carer stress than biological parents and face more behaviours that challenge from the children they care for. Reflective functioning (the ability to view one’s own mental state separately to the child’s; viewing them as a separate, independent entity) may facilitate foster carers to persevere when highly stressed and faced with behaviours that challenge. Wellbeing factors may also play such a role. Aims: This study aimed to explore whether foster carers who are highly stressed also report their foster child to have higher levels of behaviours that challenge. It also aimed to explore whether higher stress impacted upon a carer’s ability to use reflective functioning and their wellbeing. Finally, it explored whether wellbeing moderated the impact of behaviours that challenge. Method: Seventy- eight (n = 78) foster carers took part by completing online questionnaires. The highest and lowest scoring forty-six (n = 46) foster carers on a measure of carer stress were compared. The total sample was used to explore whether wellbeing was a moderator in a regression model. Results: The results showed that carers with high parental stress reported higher levels of behaviours that challenge and had lower levels of wellbeing. Reflective functioning abilities did not differ between the high and low stress groups. Wellbeing did not moderate the impact behaviours that challenge had on carer stress. Conclusions: Further research is required to explore variability in reflective functioning abilities in foster carers, and factors that help moderate the impact of factors that increase carer stress
Yeats's Mask
No full textYeats’s Mask, Yeats Annual No. 19 is a special issue in this renowned research-level series. Fashionable in the age of Wilde, the Mask changes shape until it emerges as Mask in the system of A Vision. Chronologically tracing the concept through Yeats’s plays and those poems written as ‘texts for exposition’ of his occult thought which flowers in A Vision itself (1925 and 1937), the volume also spotlights ‘The Mask before The Mask’ numerous plays including Cathleen Ni-Houlihan, The King’s Threshold, Calvary,The Words upon the Window-pane, A Full Moon in March and The Death of Cuchulain. There are excurses into studies of Yeats’s friendship with the Oxford don and cleric, William Force Stead, his radio broadcasts, the Chinese contexts for his writing of ‘Lapis Lazuli’. His self-renewal after The Oxford Book of Modern Verse, and the key occult epistolary exchange ‘Leo Africanus’, edited from MSS by Steve L. Adams and George Mills Harper, is republished from the elusive Yeats Annual No. 1 (1982). The essays are by David Bradshaw, Michael Cade-Stewart, Aisling Carlin, Warwick Gould, Margaret Mills Harper, Pierre Longuenesse, Jerusha McCormack, Neil Mann, Emilie Morin, Elizabeth Müller and Alexandra Poulain, with shorter notes by Philip Bishop and Colin Smythe considering Yeats’s quatrain upon remaking himself and the pirate editions of The Land of Heart’s Desire. Ten reviews focus on various volumes of the Cornell Yeats MSS Series, his correspondence with George Yeats, and numerous critical studies
Author, Philosopher Alexandra Stoddard to Speak March 2 at Williams Library
No full textOXFORD, Miss. – Contemporary philosopher, author, interior designer and speaker Alexandra Stoddard gives an inspirational lecture and reading March 2 at the University of Mississippi
Stages for the More Sustainable Farm
No full textCurrently, agricultural farm units are faced with a double and most times contradictory challenge, in order to be successful: on the one hand the invested capital has to be profitable and the economic performance has to be maximised. On the other hand, given the socio-environmental situation, it is necessary to preserve and to protect the environment and natural resources. Given the potential conflict of the two aims, since the satisfaction of one implies the underperformance of the other (and vice versa), the question then is: which is the solution to choose? We intend, in this work, to formulate a farm plan with the purpose of reconciling the criteria of environmental sustainability with that of economic competitiveness. For this achievement we proceed to the comparative study of sustainability of different groups of farms identified in the study area (first evaluation cycle) through MESMIS (“Marco para la Evaluación de Sistemas de Manejo de Recursos Naturales Mediante Indicadores de Sustentabilidad” - Framework for Evaluation of Natural-Resource Systems Handling through Sustainability Indicators) methodology, that allowed to select the more sustainable group of farms. Based on the found potentialities and weakness on these production systems, we stepped to the planning of a production unit of bovine meat, which obeys simultaneously to economic and environmental objectives, using Multicriteria Decision. We finished the work with the sustainability evaluation between groups of farms identified previously and the planned farms (second evaluation cycle), based, again, in the MESMIS methodology, to confirm (or not) the greatest sustainability of the last ones. Analyses of the results allow us to confirm the greatest relative sustainability of the planned farm, for the diverse traced scenarios.Decision taking, planning, sustainability, Environmental Economics and Policy, Farm Management,
Exhibiting Fashion Symposium: Dr. Alexandra Palmer “Fashion Exhibitions: The Good, the Bad, and the Pointless”
No full textThe Museum at FIT presented Exhibiting Fashion, its twenty-first academic symposium on Friday, March 8, 2019. This symposium explored the history of fashion curating, the different ways fashion is displayed in museum settings, and how national and regional identities influence fashion exhibitions. The symposium was organized in conjunction with Exhibitionism: 50 Years of The Museum at FIT, which commemorated the rich history of the museum, the site of more than 200 exhibitions since the 1970s.Dr. Alexandra Palmer is the Nora E. Vaughan Senior Curator at the Royal Ontario Museum. She has curated numerous exhibitions including Christian Dior, and she is the author of the book Christian Dior: History and Modernity, 1947–1957
Reescrita de si pelo outro: identidade portuguesa e paródia em Deus-dará, de Alexandra Lucas Coelho / Rewriting oneself through the other: Portuguese identity and parody in Deus-dará, by Alexandra Lucas Coelho
No full textResumo: O artigo aponta o modo como o romance Deus-dará de Alexandra Lucas Coelho, escritora portuguesa contemporânea, pode ser compreendido como um exercício de renegociação da identidade portuguesa em relação a questões referentes à colonização no Brasil. Mais do que isso, problematiza-se como, por meio da estratégia da paródia no texto ficcional, a autora consegue expressar uma necessidade e possibilidade de se redefinir pelo outro em um movimento contrário ao do discurso colonial – o que também ocorre em suas entrevistas e em suas narrativas de viagens, tais como em Vai, Brasil e Cinco Voltas na Bahia e um beijo para Caetano Veloso. Palavras-chave: identidade portuguesa; paródia; pós-modernismo; escrita portuguesa contemporânea; Alexandra Lucas Coelho. Abstract: The article observes how the novel Deus-dará, by Alexandra Lucas Coelho, a Portuguese contemporary writer consists in an exercise of renegotiation for the Portuguese identity in relation to issues that refer to the colonization process in Brazil. Moreover, this text seeks to show how parody as a fictional literary strategy helps the author in expressing a necessity and a possibility of redefining oneself through the other, in a direction that goes in the opposite way of the colonial speech. This necessity and this possibility also appear in the author’s interviews and travel books, such as Vai, Brasil and Cinco Voltas na Bahia e um beijo para Caetano Veloso, which will also be mentioned in this article.Keywords: Portuguese identity; parody; post-modernism; Portuguese contemporary writing; Alexandra Lucas Coelho
Author Rights Workshop
No full textLearning material associated with Alexandra Kohn's presentation as a part of the ABC Copyright 2020 Fall Speaker Series, hosted by the University of Alberta Copyright Office
Dropping F-Bombs: Canadian Feminist Foreign Policy from Harper to Trudeau and Beyond
No full textThis paper elucidates important similarities and differences in the Harper (2006-2015) and Trudeau (2015-present) Governments’ use of feminist foreign policy. Since the Trudeau Government took power in 2015, it has often presented itself as a feminist government. But what does it mean to practice a feminist foreign policy? Does the Trudeau Government’s shiny new rhetoric on feminist foreign policy signal true change, or is it simply a more progressive spin on the Harper Government’s approach? This paper undertakes a feminist critical discourse analysis
of the Harper and Trudeau Governments’ approaches. Methodologically, this paper draws upon a wide evidence base from both Canada and abroad, including official policy documents, speeches, budget and fiscal documents, parliamentary reports, social media, and news coverage to arrive at a fuller understanding of the nature and magnitude of any shifts in Canadian feminist foreign policy between Harper and Trudeau. Overall, the paper aims to provide a reckoning of the Trudeau Government’s self-identified feminist foreign policy credentials to date, particularly in its rhetoric, policy, and actions. Broadly speaking, the paper moves through four main stages.
First, it outlines the theoretical underpinnings of feminist international relations (IR) and feminist foreign policy, casting light on what feminist foreign policy is. Second, it explores the motivations and intentions of states (including Canada) when they practice a feminist foreign policy. Thirdly, it examines the credentials of the Trudeau Government’s feminist foreign policy, particularly in comparison to the Harper Government’s. Fourthly, it concludes with policy recommendations for Canadian feminist foreign policy as it moves forward in a precarious world order. Ultimately, this paper will find that the Trudeau Government’s use of feminist foreign policy is significantly different than the Harper Government’s use of feminist foreign policy,
especially in its use of rhetoric and in its attempts to be intersectional, but the actual results of these different intentions remain to be seen
Athaliah and Alexandra: Gender and Queenship in Josephus [Author Accepted Manuscript]
No full textAthaliah and Alexandra were the only two women to rule as queens of Judah/Judaea in their own right and both women’s reigns are reported in Josephus’ writings. Despite their uniqueness, however, Athaliah and Alexandra are rarely compared in scholarship; the former is usually dismissed, and focus centred on the latter. This article contends that there are historical similarities between the two, but literary differences. Josephus could have referred to Athaliah or used elements of her portrayal in his presentation of Alexandra but does not, creating the impression that Alexandra was completely different to her predecessor. It may be instructive, therefore, to consider why Josephus literarily isolates the queens and what this means for his interpretation of Alexandra
Ferromagnetism and magnetic anisotropy in exfoliated flakes of CrTe2
No full textAuthor Alexandra Wagner, BScMasterarbeit Johannes Kepler Universität Linz 202
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