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Predictors of PTSD Treatment Effectivity in Transcultural Mental Health Care
No full textIn mental health care in Western countries, ethnic minorities are confronted with different obstacles. In the current study, the most used treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) - prolonged exposure and eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) - were examined on their applicability in a transcultural mental health care context by investigating predictors of effective treatment. Based on availability in clients’ records and previous research, the following predictors were investigated: cultural background (operationalized as country of origin), level of education, and the prevalence of depressive symptoms. The prevalence of psychotic symptoms had to be excluded of the logistic regression model due to statistical reasons. The analysis of 39 clients’ reports (Mage = 35.13, SDage = 9.86; female: n = 15) showed that none of the predictors can predict the likelihood of effective PTSD treatment in a transcultural population. Although these results should be interpreted with care due to their statistical limitations, the results show that the general knowledge of PTSD treatment might not be transferable to ethnic minority populations. This understanding is supported by additional relevant findings: both the very few cases of effective treatment at all (18% of all cases), as the high drop-out rate (46% of all cases), indicate that the standard EMDR and exposure therapy might not be fitting approaches of PTSD treatment in transcultural mental health care
Executieve Functies als Voorspellers van Depressie, Angststoornissen, Verslaving, ADHD en Autisme
No full textVoor u ligt een masterthese met als onderwerp ‘executieve functies als voorspellers van
depressie, angststoornissen, verslaving, ADHD en autisme. De benodigde data voor deze scriptie
is verzameld op de afdeling psychiatrie van het Radboudumc te Nijmegen. In de periode van 1
februari tot 1 juli heb ik een onderzoeksstage gedaan van anderhalve dag per week, op de
afdeling psychiatrie.
Mijn onderzoek werd vanuit de universiteit begeleid door Amras van Opdorp. Vanuit het
Radboudumc kreeg ik begeleiding van Sophie Brolsma. Beiden hebben me steeds van goede
feedback voorzien, om dit onderzoek te kunnen uitvoeren. Het uitvoeren van het onderzoek was
niet moeilijk, maar het schrijven van de these was complex. Ik moest er regelmatig op
geattendeerd worden om de juiste verwoording te gebruiken, zodat het duidelijk zou worden dat
ik niet alleen samenhang heb onderzocht, maar dat ik met deze sample ook niet in staat was om
uitspraken te doen over de voorspellende waarde van het model.
Ik wil mijn twee begeleiders bedanken voor de goede begeleiding die ik heb gehad, voor het
meedenken over de juiste verwoordingen en voor de nuttige feedback op de onderdelen van mijn
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Het Effect van Positieve Interpretatiebias Modificatie op Interpretatiebias en Depressieve Symptomen
No full textIn het huidige onderzoek is onderzocht wat het effect is van positieve interpretatiebias modificatie (IBM) op de interpretatiebias en depressieve symptomen in een groep van depressieve patiënten. In totaal namen 13 deelnemers in de leeftijd van 18 tot 65 jaar deel aan het onderzoek. De deelnemers zijn allen gediagnosticeerd met een depressieve stoornis en zijn geworven binnen verschillende geestelijke gezondheidszorginstellingen. Door middel van randomisatie werden de deelnemers ingedeeld in een IBM conditie (N = 4), waar gepoogd werd de negatieve interpretatiebias te trainen naar een meer positieve bias, of een controleconditie (N = 9), waar de bias niet werd getraind maar alleen werd gemeten. In totaal ontvingen de deelnemers 8 trainingssessies die zij, met uitzondering van de eerste trainingssessie, via het internet vanuit huis uitvoerden. Bij aanvang van het onderzoek en na afronding van de training zijn de depressieve symptomen en interpretatiebias gemeten. Uit de resultaten blijkt dat zowel de controleconditie als de IBM conditie geen verandering in interpretatiebias of depressieve symptomen laten zien. Geconcludeerd kan worden dat IBM in het huidige onderzoek geen effect heeft gehad op de interpretatiebias en depressieve symptomen in een groep van depressieve patiënten
Validating the Individual Layer of the Yucel Method
No full textIn this study the Yucel method, a new measure of psychological well-being, was
researched in order to test the construct validity. The method claims to distinguish
itself by not relaying on language as much as contemporary measures. The aim of the
method is to improve the healthcare of clients with language barriers in treatment and
diagnostics. This study was done by comparing the scores of 85 university students
on theoretically associated psychological constructs in a multiple regression analysis
with the scores of the individual Yucel layer. It was found that self-esteem, selfefficacy,
resilience, well-being, symptomatic stress and distress in a social role are
related to the score of the individual Yucel layer. Distress from interpersonal
relationships is found to be unrelated to the individual Yucel layer. Considering these
findings, it can be concluded that the construct of self-esteem that the individual
layer of the Yucel method measures is validated by other associated constructs
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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