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Treatment Foster Care Oregon for ungdommer med alvorlige atferdsproblemer: Beskrivelse av behandlingstiltaket og undersøkelse av hvor godt det treffer målgruppen i Norge.
No full textBakgrunn. Ungdommer med alvorlige atferdsproblemer kjennetegnes av store og komplekse vansker, og er en krevende gruppe å behandle. Treatment Foster Care Oregon (TFCO) er et tiltak som har vist seg virksomt for denne gruppen. Behandlingen er et alternativ til institusjon, og ungdommene blir plassert i spesialiserte fosterhjem. I Norge ble modellen innført i 2008, men det er foreløpig ikke gjort studier på TFCO i norsk kontekst. Oppgaven har derfor to mål: for det første gis en inngående beskrivelse av TFCO-modellen, og hva internasjonal forskning sier om dens effekt. For det andre gjøres en undersøkelse av kjennetegn ved ungdommene som mottar behandlingen i Norge. Problemstillingene er: 1) Hvilket omfang og hvilken type problematikk har ungdommene ved oppstart av behandlingen? 2) Samsvarer dette med modellens målgruppe i andre land? Samt 3) hvilken gruppe mottar tiltaket sammenlignet med andre behandlingstilbud i Norge? Metode. Undersøkelsen er et selvstendig forskningsprosjekt med data innsamlet av Atferdssenteret. TFCO-utvalgets psykososiale problembelastning ble sammenlignet med et normutvalg, samt oppgitte gjennomsnitt fra tre svenske studier (Welchs T-test). I tillegg ble atferds- og risikomål i utvalg fra TFCO, Multisystemisk terapi (MST) og Funksjonell familieterapi (FFT) sammenlignet (enveis variansanalyse med kontraster). Alle ungdommene var i perioden 2009-2015 tatt inn i behandling på Østlandet i Norge. Resultater. Ungdommene i TFCO hadde på flere psykososiale mål betydelig større vansker enn normutvalget. Sammenlignet med svenske utvalg hadde de liknende eller høyere gjennomsnittskårer. De hadde også høyere gjennomsnittsskårer enn FFT på alle oppgitte mål, og høyere enn MST på flere mål på atferd og risiko. Konklusjon. På grunnlag av undersøkelsens funn, konkluderer vi med at TFCO i Norge har lyktes med å treffe modellens tiltenkte målgruppe. Sammen med FFT og MST ser modellen ut til å kunne inngå i en tiltakskjede av evidensbasert behandling for ungdommer med alvorlige atferdsproblemer i Norge. I denne retter TFCO seg mot ungdommer med høyest, MST nest høyest, og FFT lavest, problembelastning. Funnene fra undersøkelsen har implikasjoner for praksis og videre forskning
The Context of Addressing Power Dynamics in Service Design
Full text linkTo support transformative aims, scholars highlight a crucial need for increased attention to power dynamics in service design (SD). Current literature emphasizes the need for individual service designers to build reflexivity around power without much consideration for their surrounding context. This narrow focus may inadvertently reinforce existing power dynamics while using service designers as scapegoats for the persistent problem. Drawing from ecological theories in psychology, this article provides a framework for understanding the contextual factors that contribute to the lack of reflexivity around power dynamics among service designers. Based on our own experiences and a review of SD literature, we used this framework to identify domains of contextual factors that inhibit service designers to address power dynamics in practice. By proposing a systemic framework and identifying related contextual factors, this study helps to provide grounding for future research and action within the service design community regarding the structural changes needed to address power dynamics
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
Why do Service Designers Struggle to Address Power Dynamics?
Full text linkTo support transformation in service systems, scholars argue for greater attention to power dynamics in service design (SD). While current literature stresses the need for individual service designers to be reflexive about power, it neglects the context within which these designers predominantly work. We argue that such an individual focus overlooks key contextual factors that hinder service designers from addressing power dynamics. This narrowed view of the challenge unintentionally positions service designers as scapegoats, while their inability to address power dynamics effectively persists. In response, we draw on ecological theories in psychology, which offer insights into how individuals’ behaviors are interconnected with factors in their context. We introduce a framework for understanding these interconnections, detailing how we used it to identify and analyze domains of contextual factors that inhibit service designers to address power dynamics in practice. By proposing a systemic framework, identifying related contextual factors, and evaluating applicability with service designers, this study lays the groundwork for structural shifts to address power dynamics in service design more effectively
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
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