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Letter from Herbert Nicholson to Michi Weglyn, October 30, 1980
No full textA letter from Herbert Nicholson to Michi Weglyn about his experiences working with other religious figures in the Manzanar incarceration camp.These materials are from box 73 and 74 of the Frank Chin Papers. The Frank Chin Papers contain personal and professional correspondence between Frank Chin and Michi Weglyn relating to particular projects on which either author was working as well as files related to the Day of Remembrance Tribute to Michi Weglyn
Winifred Nicholson
No full textThis work shows the reader English painter Winifred Nicholson (1893-1981) as she has never fully been seen before. The author has had access to newly archived material of her letters and articles and has also drawn on the family archive to find previously unpublished material, shedding new light on her career and personal life
Meghan Nicholson - Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the degree of Doctor of Clinical Psychology (DClinPsych)
No full textSystematic Review of the Literature
Background: Firefighters are frequently exposed to potentially traumatic incidents at work and are at risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, research has demonstrated high levels of resilience amongst firefighters and their experiences of coping following trauma is under-explored in the literature. The aim of this paper was to undertake a qualitative synthesis of studies exploring firefighters’ experiences of coping following traumatic events, particularly in terms of peer support. The literature was viewed through the lens of the Social Identity Model of Traumatic Identity Change
(SIMTIC).
Method: Twenty-five relevant qualitative research papers were identified through systematic searching of databases (Medline, PsychINFO, Web of Science, Scopus). The papers were synthesised using a meta-ethnography approach.
Results: Meta-ethnography generated eleven third-order concepts, grouped into three overarching themes. The first theme outlined firefighters’ subjective experiences of traumatic incidents. The second theme outlined firefighters’ experiences of peer support, its facilitators, and barriers. The final theme outlined other ways of coping adopted by firefighters following a traumatic event, including further training and the enlisting of social support and formal support services.
Discussion: Peer support amongst firefighters facilitates resilience and posttraumatic growth following traumatic incidents. Barriers to seeking this support include masculine ingroup norms and vulnerability associated with sharing emotions with peers. SIMTIC is a helpful model for considering how the firefighter identity can be both a facilitator and barrier to positive coping following a traumatic event.
Service Improvement Project
Background: Restrictive practices (RP) are used by healthcare professionals on psychiatric inpatient units to protect the safety of patients, staff, and visitors. The factors relating to its use are poorly understood and no study has yet explored the experiences and views of patients. This project aimed to understand young people’s experiences of RP, explore patterns around its use, and make recommendations towards reducing RP.
Procedure: Interviews were conducted with 10 current or recent inpatients from the Highfield Adolescent Inpatient Unit (HFU). Interviews were analysed with Thematic Analysis. A retrospective audit analysed data collected over a 12-month period to explore the type, frequency, and duration of RP, as well as patterns, such as patient and staff characteristics.
Main findings: Three key themes were identified; i) the nature of restrictive practice, ii) the impact of restrictive practice, and iii) a changing relationship to restrictive practice. Audit data were used to contextualise the findings. Recommendations were made to support RP reduction.
Conclusion: The findings highlight the impact of RP use on patients, and the need for idiosyncratic formulation of patients’ needs within the inpatient environment.
Theoretically Driven Research Project
Background: Dissociation has been associated with a wide range of mental health needs and can occur following traumatic experiences. This study aimed to develop understanding of dissociation in adolescents by exploring the utility of a model proposed by Schauer & Elbert (2015), the 'Defence Cascade Model', which proposes that dissociation is an adaptive, evolutionary reaction in response to certain types of traumatic events (i.e., those including fixation, proximity, penetration, and contamination).
Procedure: 111 young people aged 11-24 under mental health services completed an online questionnaire exploring experiences of trauma, dissociation, post-traumatic stress, depression, and anxiety. The dissociation levels of those whose trauma involved aspects outlined by the Defence Cascade Model were compared to those whose trauma experience did not include these aspects. These scores were compared against a benchmark group of adolescents in services who had not experienced trauma.
Main findings: Results were not in line with the assertion of the Defence Cascade Model that traumas with fixation, proximity, penetration, and contamination lead to dissociation, as there were no significant differences in dissociation between the two trauma groups. PTSD explained a large proportion of variance in dissociation. Exploratory analysis found that age at the onset of the trauma, and time since trauma, were significantly associated with dissociation.
Conclusion: This suggests that features of trauma events are not predictive of dissociation. Clinical implications are considered, as well as directions for future research
Joseph Milford Nicholson (b. 1935) : pioneer trombone historian
No full textInterest in the history and development of the trombone and its literature escalated during the last half of the twentieth century. As curricula for doctoral degrees began to develop during the 1950s, trombonists in advanced degree programs began to recognize lapses in the history of the instrument. One of the earliest doctoral documents that focused upon creating a more comprehensive single source of trombone heritage was entitled, "A Historical Background of the Trombone and Its Music" (1967), by Joseph Milford Nicholson (b. 1935). Joseph Nicholson was born in Penoke, Kansas, on August 15, 1935. Raised in a musical family, he learned to play the trombone in the public school bands of his hometown, Fruita, Colorado. Later, Nicholson enrolled at Southwestern Bible Institute (1952-1955) and graduated from Texas Wesleyan College (B.Mus 1957). He earned the MME (1961) from North Texas State University and the D.M.A. (1967) from the Conservatory of Music at the University of Missouri at Kansas City (UMKC). Nicholson taught at Southwestern beginning in 1956, but left in 1960 to teach at Evangel College, Springfield, MO, where he taught until 1991. During his years at Evangel, Nicholson was chair of the Fine Arts Department (1967-1981), the principal trombonist in the Springfield (MO) Symphony (1966-1977), and an active member of the Springfield Brass Quintet (1966-1977). Nicholson pursued his interest in trombone history and literature while studying at UMKC. Because his text summarized into one document the current knowledge of the time about the history and literature of the trombone, Nicholson's work was one of the earliest to appear outside the context of the music dictionaries. Through his writing, teaching, and presentations, Nicholson is thought to have spurred interest among the next generation of trombonists who began to develop a more comprehensive chronicle of the trombone. Nicholson's legacy continues through his influence upon trombonists and the citations in later, more era-specific histories of the instrument."--Abstract from author supplied metadata
Evening with the Reverend and Mrs. Herbert V. Nicholson
No full textProgram for a talk by Reverend Nicholson sponsored by several Los Angeles area Japanese community organizations. Introduction to "Valient Odyssey, Herbert Nicholson in and out of America's concentration camps" by Michi Weglyn and Betty E. Mitson is featured.The Japanese American Relocation Collection is composed of ephemera related to the relocation program during World War II. Items include the official government report of Manzanar Relocation Center, a photo album, post-war activism materials related to preserving and remembering the camps, various clippings, and documents. The strength of this collection is found in its many perspectives on the controversial relocation program and how it has been presented since World War II
Brief sketch of the life and labors of Rev. Alexander Bettis [microform]; also an account of the founding and development of the Bettis Accademy /
No full text"Sketch of Prof. Alfred W. Nicholson ... by Prof. John R. Wilson": p. 85-90.Microfilm.Mode of access: Internet
[Portrait of Peter Nicholson, poet and author] [picture] /
No full textCondition: good.; Title devised by cataloguer based on information from acquisition file number 204/15/00049.; "Photograph of Peter Nicholson by David Moore, Wollstonecraft, NSW, 19th August, 1995"--Written in pen on verso.; Photographer's sticker on verso
The role of educative thought in the life and work of Antonio Gramsci
No full textMany philosophers have propounded a vision of an improved society, what distinguishes Antonio Gramsci is his continuous effort to make it happen by understanding the process in order to put into practice. Gramsci's conviction about the importance of educative development came from both theory and experience. While there has been considerable examination of Gramsci's work in relation to the Prison Notebooks, this study will seek to address a lacuna in Gramsci scholarship. Using Gramsci's philological method, I analyse Gramsci's pre-prison activity; his pre-prison articles and letters, which, together with his letters from prison, formed part of his educative mission. This educative process was necessary, in order to construct a new party which would develop a collective will, collaboratively, with the masses.In this study therefore, I explore the contexts and formative experiences of the first part of his life together with the intellectual sources from which Gramsci developed his later theories, making central hitherto underemphasised connections between them which informed his writing and ideas. I intend to illustrate that Gramsci's underlying purpose in his writing, and political activity, was not only practical, on how to create a new socialist ruling class, but also educative in forming the mindset and values of his comrades. So that in addition to outlining his vision of a new order, he implicitly guided or explicitly explained the processes by which the necessary changes in social relations and moral climate could be made in order to achieve it. Each person had to engage with the values of the new order so that each could contribute to the construction of a new robust state. It was essential to build a hegemony at the most profound level, one which was dependent on collective understandings and a collective will
The Women Aesthetes vol 3: British Writers, 1870–1900
No full textThe Women Aesthetes vol 3: British Writers, 1870–1900
vol 1 in a 3 part series, General Editors Jane Spirit (Author), Sue Asbee (Author), Mary Joannou (Author), Claire Nicholson (Author
The Women Aesthetes vol 3: British Writers, 1870–1900
No full textThe Women Aesthetes vol 3: British Writers, 1870–1900
vol 1 in a 3 part series, General Editors Jane Spirit (Author), Sue Asbee (Author), Mary Joannou (Author), Claire Nicholson (Author
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