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The response of mental health professionals to clients seeking help to change or redirect same-sex sexual orientation
No full textBackground: we know very little about mental health practitioners' views on treatments to change sexual orientation. Our aim was to survey a representative sample of professional members of the main United Kingdom psychotherapy and psychiatric organisations about their views and practices concerning such treatments.Methods: We sent postal questions to mental health professionals who were members of British Psychological Society, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy and the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Participants were asked to give their views about treatments to change homosexual desires and describe up to five patients each, whom they has treated in this way.Results: Of 1848 practitioners contacted, 1406 questionnaires were returned and 1328 could be analysed. Although only 55 (4%) of therapists reported that they would attempt to change a client's sexual orientation if one consulted asking for such therapy, 222 (17%) reported having assisted at least one client/patient to reduce or change his or her homosexual or lesbian feelings. 413 patients were described by these 222 therapists: 213 (52%) were seen in private practice and 117 (28%) were not followed up beyond the period of treatment. Counselling was the commonest (66%) treatment offered and there was no sign of a decline in treatments in recent years. 159 (72%) of the 222 therapists who had provided such treatment considered that a service should be available for people who want to change their sexual orientation. Client/patient distress and client/patient autonomy were seen as reasons for intervention; therapists paid attention to religious, cultural and moral values causing internal conflict.Conclusion: A significant minority of mental health professionals are attempting to help lesbian, gay and bisexual clients to become heterosexual. Given lack of evidence for the efficacy of such treatments, this is likely to be unwise or even harmful
Housing circumstances of Indigenous households: tenure and overcrowding
Get PDFIn 2011, Indigenous households were about half as likely as other Australian households to own their home and more than 3 times as likely to be overcrowded, finds this report.
Summary
Indigenous households about half as likely to own their own home
Indigenous households continue to have substantially lower rates of home ownership than other households. According to the 2011 Census, just over 1 in 3 (36%) Indigenous households were home owners-almost half the proportion of other households (68%).
Among Indigenous households, home ownership rates were lowest in more remote areas- in Remote and Very remote areas combined, 18% owned their home in 2011, while 57% of households in these areas lived in social housing.
The home ownership gap has narrowed
There has been a gradual increase in the rate of home ownership among Indigenous households: 32% owned their home in 2001, 34% in 2006, and 36% in 2011. In contrast, the home ownership rate among other households has decreased slightly (from 69% in 2001 to 68% in 2011), resulting in a closing of the home ownership gap by 5 percentage points over the decade.
Between 2001 and 2011, the rate of home ownership among Indigenous households increased at least to some degree across each of the remoteness areas, including an increase of 2 percentage points in both Remote and Very remote areas.
Indigenous households more than 3 times as likely to be overcrowded
About 24,700 Indigenous households were considered to be overcrowded on Census night in 2011. Indigenous households were more than 3 times as likely as other households to be overcrowded, with 12.9% of Indigenous households and 3.4% of other households requiring one or more extra bedrooms to accommodate the people who usually live there.
Among Indigenous households, the rate of overcrowding was highest among those living in social housing (23%) and lowest among home owners (7%).
Indigenous households living in more remote areas were more likely to be living in overcrowded dwellings-20% in Remote areas and 39% in Very remote areas compared with between 10% to 12% in other areas. Nonetheless, taking into account the number of households living in each of the remoteness areas, there were more overcrowded Indigenous households in Major cities and regional areas (17,109 households) than in Remote and Very remote areas combined (7,587).
The gap in overcrowding has also narrowed
The proportion of Indigenous households that were overcrowded fell from 15.7% in 2001 to 12.9% in 2011. For other households, around 3% were considered to be overcrowded in each of the 3 Census years, suggesting a narrowing of the gap in overcrowding levels of 3 percentage points between 2001 and 2011.
Almost 115,600 Indigenous people lived in overcrowded households
In addition to information on the number of households that are considered overcrowded, Census data suggest that almost 115,600 Indigenous people lived in overcrowded households-this represents 1 in 4 Indigenous people who were enumerated at home in private dwellings on Census night
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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