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Multimodales Monitoring psychotherapeutischer Prozesse in der Behandlung alkoholkranker Patienten
No full textBackground: Research on addiction treatment lacks prospectivelongitudinal studies that analyze with observational instrumentsbehavior of alcohol dependent patients during therapy sessions.With the "Video-Assisted Monitoring of Psychotherapeutic pro-cesses in chronic psychiatric disease (VAMP)" this study investi-gates 64 chronic alcohol dependent patients at three time-points,t1 (week 3), t2 (month 6), and t3 (month 12) during the first year ofthe Outpatient Longterm Intensive Therapy for Alcoholics (OLITA).Aims: Change of therapeutic processes between t1, t2, and t3,prediction of cumulative abstinence probability during a follow-up of up to 4 years, construction of the TOPPS ( Therapy Orientationby Process Prediction Score).Methods: 175 video recordings of therapy sessions were analyzedwith the VAMP. After each video recording, patients and therapistsrated their experience of the therapeutic alliance. Change oftherapeutic processes over time were tested with repeatedmeasures ANOVA, and prediction of cumulative abstinence pro-bability by therapy processes was determined with Cox Regressi-on Analysis.Results: Most of the processes changed only marginally betweent1, t2 and t3. The TOPPS predicts cumulative abstinence probabilityat all of the three time-points (p < 0,001) by integrating eightprocess variables with the highest predictive validity: Experienceof ressources, abstinence self-efficacy, implicit craving, relapsealertness, relapse risk, disease concept, dysfunctional therapeuticengagement, dysfunctional problem solving of current problems.Patients who relapsed after 12 months showed continuously lowTOPPS from t1 to t3. However, patients who maintained long-termabstinence had high TOPPS at t1 which increased slightly betweent2 and t3 (p < 0,015).Conclusions: The eight TOPPS processes are determined from thecurrent behavior of a patient during a specific therapy session andindicate to which extent his common behavior predicts probabi-lity of longterm abstinence or relapse risk. The results suggest toemploy the TOPPS in addiction therapy as a guideline of indivi-dual relapse prevention strategies
Multimodales Monitoring psychotherapeutischer Prozesse in der Behandlung alkoholkranker Patienten
No full textBackground: Research on addiction treatment lacks prospectivelongitudinal studies that analyze with observational instrumentsbehavior of alcohol dependent patients during therapy sessions.With the "Video-Assisted Monitoring of Psychotherapeutic pro-cesses in chronic psychiatric disease (VAMP)" this study investi-gates 64 chronic alcohol dependent patients at three time-points,t1 (week 3), t2 (month 6), and t3 (month 12) during the first year ofthe Outpatient Longterm Intensive Therapy for Alcoholics (OLITA).Aims: Change of therapeutic processes between t1, t2, and t3,prediction of cumulative abstinence probability during a follow-up of up to 4 years, construction of the TOPPS ( Therapy Orientationby Process Prediction Score).Methods: 175 video recordings of therapy sessions were analyzedwith the VAMP. After each video recording, patients and therapistsrated their experience of the therapeutic alliance. Change oftherapeutic processes over time were tested with repeatedmeasures ANOVA, and prediction of cumulative abstinence pro-bability by therapy processes was determined with Cox Regressi-on Analysis.Results: Most of the processes changed only marginally betweent1, t2 and t3. The TOPPS predicts cumulative abstinence probabilityat all of the three time-points (p < 0,001) by integrating eightprocess variables with the highest predictive validity: Experienceof ressources, abstinence self-efficacy, implicit craving, relapsealertness, relapse risk, disease concept, dysfunctional therapeuticengagement, dysfunctional problem solving of current problems.Patients who relapsed after 12 months showed continuously lowTOPPS from t1 to t3. However, patients who maintained long-termabstinence had high TOPPS at t1 which increased slightly betweent2 and t3 (p < 0,015).Conclusions: The eight TOPPS processes are determined from thecurrent behavior of a patient during a specific therapy session andindicate to which extent his common behavior predicts probabi-lity of longterm abstinence or relapse risk. The results suggest toemploy the TOPPS in addiction therapy as a guideline of indivi-dual relapse prevention strategies
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
Development of an outcome prediction measure for alcoholism therapy by multimodal monitoring of treatment processes
No full textOutcome prediction in alcoholism therapy is of major sociopolitical and economic significance. Instruments based on psychotherapeutic processes are lacking. Therefore, treatment processes of 64 chronic alcohol dependent patients have been investigated at three time-points, t1 (week 3), t2 (month 6), and t3 (month 12) during the first year of a comprehensive outpatient treatment program, guaranteeing strictly controlled alcohol abstinence. Main focus of the study was the prediction of cumulative abstinence probability over a follow-up period of up to 4 years based on these treatment processes. One hundred and seventy-five video recordings of therapy sessions were analyzed with the behavior observational system VAMP (Video-Assisted Monitoring of Psychotherapeutic Processes in Chronic Psychiatric Disease). Patients’ self-rating of treatment processes was measured with questionnaires for self-efficacy, abstinence confidence, self-consciousness and stress coping. Prediction of cumulative abstinence probability was determined with Cox regression analysis. By integrating the observer rated process variables with the highest predictive validity, the composite score TOPPS (Therapy Orientation by Process Prediction Score) was constructed. It includes the process variables experience of resources, abstinence self-efficacy, implicit craving, relapse alertness, relapse risk, disease concept, dysfunctional therapeutic engagement, and dysfunctional problem solving of current problems. Whereas patients’ self-rating of treatment processes was insufficiently predictive, the TOPPS strongly predicted four-year abstinence probability at any of the 3 time-points (p < 0.001). The results suggest to validate the item combination described in the TOPPS in addiction therapy as a treatment guideline of individual relapse prevention strategies
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
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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