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Sexually Transmitted Infections and Intimate Relationships: Exploring Intimate Relationships After Diagnosis Using a Strengths-Based Approach
No full textVery little academic literature has been published regarding the intimate relationship experiences of people living with chronic STIs/HIV. This study aimed to explore the experiences of people living with a STI in an intimate relationship using a strengths-based orientation. 28 Canadians between the ages of 21 to 56 living with a chronic STI/HIV participated in the anonymous, online survey to share their experiences of navigating a committed relationship. Using Braun and Clarke’s (2006) thematic analysis, I identified three themes from the participants’ responses: Contextualized Experiences, Individual Competencies, and Competencies in Intimate Relationship. Bivariate correlations and two multiple regressions were also performed to determine if disclosure status, relationship duration, and/or communication strategies predict Sexual Satisfaction or Relationship Satisfaction. The three communication subscales, Positive Interactions, Criticize/Defend, and Demand/Withdraw were found to significantly predict Sexual Satisfaction together. Relationship Satisfaction was significantly predicted by the Positive Interactions and Criticize/Defend model, and the Criticize/Defend subscale significantly predicted Relationship Satisfaction on its own. Directions for future research and practice are discussed.Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canad
How racialized students define emotional dating violence
Get PDFEmotional dating violence is a prevalent phenomenon among youth; however, there is a gap in the literature regarding the ways that youth define emotional dating violence, and racialized youth are particularly underrepresented in current research. The purpose of this study was to examine how racialized students from a Canadian university define emotional dating violence, using a qualitative approach. The data was gathered through an online survey. Thematic analysis was conducted and yielded four themes and six subthemes: verbal displays, evoked victims’ emotions (worthlessness, unhappiness, fear, and guilt), power imbalance (domination and isolation) and manipulation. The comparison of these themes with previous studies shows more similarities than differences, which suggests that definitions of dating violence may be universal. The implications for therapists and the future directions are discussed
Therapeutic Alliance in Couple and Family Therapy: Therapist Experiences and Perspectives on Multidirected Partiality
Get PDFThe therapeutic alliance in couple and family therapy (CFT) is not only different from that in individual psychotherapy, but is highly complex, interactional and multidimensional. Given the unique challenges when working relationally, research on building and maintaining multiple simultaneous alliances is important to undertake. The current study adopts a qualitative research design to capture therapists’ perceptions and understandings of how they develop balanced and multi-partial therapeutic alliances with couples and families and the strategies they use to do so. Eighteen therapists from a variety of disciplines participated in an online, open-ended questionnaire. Thematic analysis was used in the analysis of their responses. Findings highlight how therapists understand the therapeutic alliance when working relationally, the ways the alliance is intentionally created and maintained, as well as the importance of ensuring balance and multidirected partiality. Limitations of the study and implications for both experienced and novice therapists working with families are discussed
Home Sweet Home? Therapists' Perspectives on Working from Home
Get PDFThe current exploratory study examined therapists perceptions of working and conducting therapy from a home office setting. Therapists who currently work or have worked from home completed either an in-depth semi structured interview or a brief online open-ended questionnaire. The current study was analyzed from a social constructivist perspective and the researcher engaged in the process of reflexivity throughout in order to note and challenge assumptions and biases. Therapists' narratives were examined in-depth utilizing thematic narrative analysis and placed in chronological order for easy reference to the overall context of each narrative. The seven themes of: evaluations and expectations of the home office setting; intersection of work and family life; control; safety; therapy is the same; professionalism, and cybercounselling are presented for discussion. Limitations and benefits of the current study, suggestions for future research, and practical implications for therapy training and supervisory programs are discussed
Intersectional Definitions of Outness
Get PDFThis thesis explored how trans participants define, give meaning to, and experience outness, as well as how such may be impacted by race and ethnicity. This thesis was born out of the Trans Healthcare Study run by the Sexuality and Gender Diversity Lab at the University of Guelph. As such, secondary data analysis was conducted on a singular, open-ended question from the original study. A total of 213 responses were coded and analyzed using qualitative thematic analysis. While the analysis remained predominantly general, there was an added focus on respondents of colour. Three master themes were found, along with various layered sub-themes. Results suggest that outness remains a highly personalized component of trans participants’ lives, one influenced by relational and sociocultural contexts. Results also demonstrate collective experiences of risk and resilience. The strengths and limitations of the analysis are discussed, along with the implications of the study for clinical practice
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
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