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The Only Way Out Is Through: Drama Therapy as a Treatment for Substance Use Disorders
No full textDrama therapy (DT) is an arts therapy that uses dramatic techniques in a therapeutic context to pursue recovery from mental health issues. DT greatly resembles psychodrama (PD), an older therapeutic use of drama that focuses on reenactment of life events. Both techniques have been used in a wide variety of contexts since the eighteenth century. This paper aims to explore the application of DT/PD as a treatment method for substance use disorders (SUDs). The literature reviewed includes historical and theoretical background on DT and PD, processes and techniques commonly used in DT/PD, empirical evidence for DT/PD, and specific DT/PD applications for SUDs. By comprehensively reviewing this body of literature, this paper posits that drama therapy is a viable treatment method for SUDs due to its accessibility and applicability to a wide variety of substance use experiences. It suggests intensive future work involving more methodologically rigorous quantitative research, particularly comparative outcome studies, and proposes a DT/PD regimen tailored to SUDs to be used in conjunction with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for maximum support
4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane: A Comps Production by Colleen Scallen
No full textMy comps project is 4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane. This play is considered by some to be Sarah Kane’s suicide note; she took her own life shortly after it was finished and never saw it staged. It details in a beautifully abstract, almost uncomfortably uncontained form what it is to live with mental illnesses, namely depression. There is a script with twenty-four “scenes,” and yet, this play refuses to be boxed in the traditional approach to “theatre.” For these reasons, in addition to the aura around Kane’s work as “unstageable,” many people want to shy away from her work. I disagree with this shying away. I turned to theatre as a saving grace to claw my way out from the depths of my eating disorder. Theatre has been there for me to help shape my identity as an actor, artist, human, and woman, and to show me my purpose. It allowed me to create and give back to the community that gave me a second shot at life; to express the pain I felt in a safe way, to express the joy I felt in a creative way, to show my gratitude, fear, love, hatred. . . . all in a way unique to me and my relationship with the audience. For this reason, I feel that the pinnacle of my theatre career at Carleton needs to reflect the deep relationship between theatre and my mental health. This play, as I mentioned above, is not simply nontraditional theatre, but essentially flies in the face of what “straight plays” are. It is a work that plays with form and content, with a level of abstraction that calls for a mix of devised and straight theatre that will definitely challenge me. The work will also challenge me in that it’s an incredibly personal subject matter. I, too, struggle with depression, have been in an inpatient program, and have struggled with suicidal ideation, and want to highlight my struggle with an eating disorder through my production of the show. I want to use my piece to educate people around the multifaceted nature of mental illness, to provoke consideration about stigma around mental health, and to encourage conversation around how we interact with our own and others’ mental health, particularly at a rigorous and uniquely intense place like Carleton College. Something that I love about this show is that it’s ageless. It’s nineteen years old, and yet it does not feel stuck in a time- or space-specific place. I believe that we should always be talking about mental health, be it the year 2000, 2019, or 2119, and this play is a vehicle to do so. I am an obsessive planner and a compulsive worrier. A sucker for details and an avid organizer. I love hedgehogs and cats beyond belief. I am an intense, passionate person. A bookworm. A chatty Cathy. An (sometimes overly) energetic being. A woman. A Minnesotan. A youngest child. A theatre artist. And I’m also mentally ill. My comps is an opportunity to highlight each of these identities through the framework of being mentally ill. It’s my chance to show how the praxis of mental illness being a weakness, a fault in identity, is not the whole picture--mentally ill people are artists and economists, children and parents, young and old, and so much more than their disorders. I want to lean in to Sarah Kane’s boldness and showcase this incredibly beautiful piece of work to marry two parts of my identity that are incredibly important to me, and to show the Carleton community how incredibly healing and powerful art can be in expressing and living with mental illness
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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