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Holding Two Truths: How Counsellors Understand and Navigate Sexual Abuse Survivors' Ambivalence Towards Their Perpetrators
No full textThe experience of sexual abuse survivors feeling ambivalent or conflicted towards their perpetrators is an under-researched phenomenon. Even less is known about how counsellors understand and navigate this ambivalence in their therapeutic practice. This study explores these dynamics through six semi-structured interviews with sexual abuse counsellors in Aotearoa, New Zealand. The central research questions guiding this thesis are: “How do counsellors understand and interpret client ambivalence towards their perpetrators of sexual abuse?” and “How do counsellors navigate their therapeutic work with clients who have ambivalent feelings towards their abusers in cases of sexual abuse?” Reflexive thematic analysis of the data generated five key themes: The Nuanced Dynamics and Contributing Factors to Ambivalence, Internal Conflicts and the Emotional Toll for Clients, Counsellor Beliefs and Responses, Practice Wisdoms: Understanding and Shifting Ambivalence, and The Broader Contexts of Ambivalence. The findings suggest that counsellors perceive ambivalence towards perpetrators of sexual abuse to be a natural and relatively common experience for survivors, often rooted in prior relationships with perpetrators on whom survivors were, in some way, dependent. Counsellors can support clients by facilitating safe, non-judgmental exploration of these feelings and providing psychoeducation on the possible underlying reasons for ambivalence. This research contributes to a greater understanding of ambivalence in counselling practice, highlighting the importance of sensitivity, counsellor self-reflection, and a non-pathologizing approach
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
Pacific counsellors' use of indigenous values, proverbs, metaphors, symbols, and stories in their counselling practices.
Get PDFThis article reports some of the findings from a qualitative study, undertaken by the first author, to investigate the use of indigenous values, proverbs, metaphors, symbols, and stories in the therapeutic practices of experienced Pacific counsellors and psychotherapists. Incorporating both talanoa and grounded theory methodologies, the study aimed to give Pacific counsellors a voice in order to inform the development of counselling practice by both Pacific and non- Pacific practitioners who work with Pacific clients. Individual interviews were conducted with four female Pacific practitioners, three of whom were Islandborn and one New Zealand-born. All had completed their professional counselling training in New Zealand. Rich information was obtained about the ways in which participants incorporated a range of indigenous values, proverbs, metaphors, symbols, and stories in their counselling practices. This article foregrounds the voices of the participants in describing their sources of these verbal treasures, which included their parents, Pacific elders (matua), and their spirituality. Participants also tell stories of their use of indigenous values, concepts, and metaphors, and the ways that these have helped establish connections with clients and have supported their change processes and wellbeing. A future article will present the counselling model that has been developed from the results of this study and discuss the creative potential for interweaving indigenous Pacific and Western approaches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of New Zealand Journal of Counselling is the property of New Zealand Association of Counsellors and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.
Investigating Pacific counsellors' use of indigenous values, proverbs, metaphors and symbols: A case study of the use of talanoa and grounded theory.
No full textThis case study examines the use of grounded theory with talanoa - a Pacific qualitative research method - in a research project undertaken by the second author, a Samoan researcher and counselor in New Zealand, which explored the ways in which four Pacific counselors worked with traditional values, stories, symbols and metaphors in their therapeutic practices. The methodology incorporated these approaches because of their conceptual values and complementary practical strengths that were compatible with this project. The principles of talanoa guided both individual interviews with the participants, then a group discussion to reflect collectively on the themes that emerged from the analysis of the interviews. The principles of grounded theory underpinned the project and were applied in the analysis of the data, a process that resonated with the researcher's experience of sorting stones for the foundation of the building of a fale, a Samoan house, in which talanoa takes place
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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