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Investigating the expression of the susceptibility allele HLA-Cw6 in psoriasis using a specific single chain fragment antibody
No full textWorking alliance factors and their relation to emotion, engagement and dropout in dialectical behavior therapy
No full textBackground: Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is an effective treatment for individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and related problems, however, many individuals who begin DBT have limited engagement in therapy or prematurely dropout. Predictors of non-engagement and dropout are poorly understood. Low therapeutic alliance has been identified as a proximal predictor of dropout in DBT. Aims: This study explores 1) the trajectory of working alliance as perceived by clients and therapists during six months of DBT treatment, 2) the association of emotion indices with the strength of, and fluctuation in, working alliance ratings over time, and 3) the predictive association of working alliance factors with total engagement, average weekly engagement, and dropout. Method: Fifty-five adults with BPD and their therapists rated the working alliance (alliance) at the first four sessions, mid-treatment and post-treatment. At the end of the first four sessions, clients reported positive and negative state affect. Client attendance and homework completion were calculated to yield measures of their total engagement and average weekly engagement while in treatment. Results: Alliance ratings were high overall, and susceptible to within-person fluctuation throughout treatment. Positive affect was associated with client alliance ratings, while negative affect was negatively associated with therapist alliance ratings. Rates of engagement and dropout in this study were comparable to other studies, with 15 of 55 participants dropping out. Associations were found between alliance and 1) overall engagement, and 2) dropout. These associations were stronger when both client and therapist ratings were utilized, and the effects appear to be due to the Agreement factor of the alliance measure. Conclusions: This study suggests that the alliance factor measuring the extent to which clients and therapists agree on the tasks and goals of therapy is related to engagement and dropout in DBT. Attention to agreement on the goals and establishing the tasks of therapy may help identify clients at risk for low engagement or dropout, who may benefit from explicit interventions (e.g., commitment strategies, contingencies) aimed at promoting engagement and therapy completion.Psy.D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Marget C. Thoma
Marget, Louisa (Birth, 1896-12-29)
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Adapting authoritarianism: institutions and co-optation in Egypt and Syria
No full textThis PhD thesis compares Egypt and Syria’s authoritarian political systems. While the tendency in social science political research treats Egypt and Syria as similarly authoritarian, this research emphasizes differences between the two systems with special reference to institutions and co-optation. Rather than reducibly understanding Egypt and Syria as sharing similar histories, institutional arrangements, or ascribing to the oft-repeated convention that “Syria is Egypt but 10 years behind,” this thesis focuses on how events and individual histories shaped each states current institutional strengthens and weaknesses. Specifically, it explains the how varying institutional politicization or de-politicization affects each state’s capabilities for co-opting elite and non-elite individuals.
Beginning with a theoretical framework that considers the limited utility of democratization and transition theoretical approaches, the work underscores the persistence and durability of authoritarianism. Chapter two details the politicized institutional divergence between Egypt and Syria that began in the 1970s. Chapter three and four examines how institutional politicization or de-politicization affects elite and non-elite individual co-optation in Egypt and Syria. Chapter five discusses the study’s general conclusions and theoretical implications.
This thesis’s argument is that Egypt and Syria co-opt elites and non-elites differently because of the varying degrees of institutional politicization in each governance system. Rather than view one country as more politically developed than the other, this work argues that Syria’s political institutions are more politicized than their Egyptian counterparts. Syria’s political arena is, thus, described as politicized-patrimonialism. Syria’s politicized-patrimonial arena produces uneven co-optation of elites and non-elites as they are diffused through competing institutions. Conversely, the Egyptian political arena remains highly personalized as weak institutions and individuals are manipulated and molded according to the president’s ruling clique. This is referred to as personalized-patrimonialism. As a consequence, Egypt’s political establishment demonstrates more flexibility in ad hoc altering and adapting its arena depending on the emergence of crises.
This study’s theoretical implications suggest that, contrary to modernization and democratization theory’s adage that institutions lead to a political development, politicized institutions within a patrimonial order actually hinder regime adaptation because consensus is harder to achieve and maintain. It is within this context that Egypt’s de-politicized institutional framework advantages its top political elite. In this reading of Egyptian and Syrian politics, Egypt’s personalized political arena is more adaptable than Syria’s. These conclusions do not indicate that political reform is a process underway in either state
Researches on certain circurmstances which influence the temperalure of the boiling point of liquirds
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The interest cost-push controversy
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Immunoresponse to Gram-Negative Bacteria in Infants: An Aspect of Pathogenesis of Urinary Tract Infections
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