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Reflections and learning from using action learning sets in a healthcare education setting
No full textThis paper describes the delivery of action learning sets to students on the peer educator course provided by the Dementia Studies Department at University of Bradford. Our understanding of action learning sets is laid out together with our rationale for their use on this course. Feedback is presented that described a conflicted, even confused experience for many of those involved. This paper is the outcome of the organising teams' effort to make sense of, and learn from, this feedback in order to inform our future practice. We conclude that, amongst the many issues, most key was that the students had been subscripted into an action learning process for which voluntary commitment is more usually the norm
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
What is CBT really and how can we enhance the impact of effective psychotherapies such as CBT?
Full text linkIn preparation for this new edition, I read the revised manuscripts for the chapters in this book. I can’t easily express my degree of disappointment that none of these new chapters had replied to my chapter in the first edition. This was the case even though I made it easy by breaking down every chapter into its problematic claim about CBT and an alternative, evidenced repost to each. So, how far are we ‘towards a constructive dialogue’ after 10 years? Not very far at all. On the positive side, it has made my job of revising my chapter easier, but in lieu of making any counter-replies, I will expand at the end of this chapter on what a therapy ‘beyond’ CBT should look like, building on my work elsewhere (eg. Alsawy et al, 2014; Mansell, 2008a). This therapy is Method of Levels (MOL). Owing to the highly innovative nature of MoL, we would not consider it to be merely an example of a CBT. It has no greater affiliation with CBT than with any other school of psychotherapy. Indeed, it was first practised by a medical physicist, Bill Powers, who was trying to bring insights from engineering to develop a novel psychological theory. As such, it is not only beyond CBT, but beyond the alternative psychotherapies that are traditionally available. We wait to see whether its merits, in terms of its client-led nature, efficiency and scientific rigour, can make a lasting impact on the mental health sphere in this century, beyond that of CBT in the last century. <br/
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
What is CBT really and how can we enhance the impact of effective psychotherapies such as CBT?
Full text linkIn preparation for this new edition, I read the revised manuscripts for the chapters in this book. I can’t easily express my degree of disappointment that none of these new chapters had replied to my chapter in the first edition. This was the case even though I made it easy by breaking down every chapter into its problematic claim about CBT and an alternative, evidenced repost to each. So, how far are we ‘towards a constructive dialogue’ after 10 years? Not very far at all. On the positive side, it has made my job of revising my chapter easier, but in lieu of making any counter-replies, I will expand at the end of this chapter on what a therapy ‘beyond’ CBT should look like, building on my work elsewhere (eg. Alsawy et al, 2014; Mansell, 2008a). This therapy is Method of Levels (MOL). Owing to the highly innovative nature of MoL, we would not consider it to be merely an example of a CBT. It has no greater affiliation with CBT than with any other school of psychotherapy. Indeed, it was first practised by a medical physicist, Bill Powers, who was trying to bring insights from engineering to develop a novel psychological theory. As such, it is not only beyond CBT, but beyond the alternative psychotherapies that are traditionally available. We wait to see whether its merits, in terms of its client-led nature, efficiency and scientific rigour, can make a lasting impact on the mental health sphere in this century, beyond that of CBT in the last century. <br/
What is CBT really and how can we enhance the impact of effective psychotherapies such as CBT?
Full text linkIn preparation for this new edition, I read the revised manuscripts for the chapters in this book. I can’t easily express my degree of disappointment that none of these new chapters had replied to my chapter in the first edition. This was the case even though I made it easy by breaking down every chapter into its problematic claim about CBT and an alternative, evidenced repost to each. So, how far are we ‘towards a constructive dialogue’ after 10 years? Not very far at all. On the positive side, it has made my job of revising my chapter easier, but in lieu of making any counter-replies, I will expand at the end of this chapter on what a therapy ‘beyond’ CBT should look like, building on my work elsewhere (eg. Alsawy et al, 2014; Mansell, 2008a). This therapy is Method of Levels (MOL). Owing to the highly innovative nature of MoL, we would not consider it to be merely an example of a CBT. It has no greater affiliation with CBT than with any other school of psychotherapy. Indeed, it was first practised by a medical physicist, Bill Powers, who was trying to bring insights from engineering to develop a novel psychological theory. As such, it is not only beyond CBT, but beyond the alternative psychotherapies that are traditionally available. We wait to see whether its merits, in terms of its client-led nature, efficiency and scientific rigour, can make a lasting impact on the mental health sphere in this century, beyond that of CBT in the last century. <br/
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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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