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ASSOCIATION BETWEEN CAREGIVER AND CHILD SYMPTOM CHANGE IN TRAUMA-FOCUSED COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY
Get PDFTrauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) is one of the most empirically supported interventions for treating children’s posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and other behavior problems. Caregivers are involved in treatment and improve in their own symptoms during TF-CBT. Research suggests that caregivers’ and children’s outcomes may be interrelated in trauma-focused interventions, and that children’s posttraumatic stress is mediated by decreases in caregivers internalizing symptomatology. There are numerous limitations to existing literature, including the limited direction of the mediations and the consideration of only internalizing symptoms in mediations. This study aimed to prospectively examine how changes in caregivers’ negative affectivity mediate changes in their children’s internalizing and externalizing symptoms. It also aimed to examine how changes in children’s internalizing trauma symptoms mediate changes in their caregivers’ negative affectivity. The current study consisted of racially and ethnically diverse caregivers (N = 243) and their children (N = 243) participating in an ongoing effectiveness study of TF-CBT in a community clinic in Queens. They were evaluated right before starting TF-CBT, in the middle of treatment, and at the culmination of treatment. At each evaluation, caregivers reported on their own psychopathology and their children’s externalizing symptoms, and children reported on their own internalizing symptomatology. First, an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was conducted to determine the homogenous items in the caregiver psychopathology measure that encompass a negative affectivity construct. Measurement models were conducted through confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to verify this factor structure at each time point. Finally, mediation analyses using a structural equation modeling framework were conducted to understand if a reciprocal relationship exists for caregiver and child symptom improvements during TF-CBT for caregiver negative affectivity and child internalizing symptoms (Model 1), and caregiver negative affectivity and child externalizing symptoms (Model 2). The EFA produced a negative affectivity construct with 12 items. The CFAs at each time point did not have adequate fit indices, so caregivers’ negative affectivity scores were presented as observed variables and calculated using a sum score. Unfortunately, neither Model 1 nor Model 2 yielded adequate fit. Clinical implications and future research directions will be discussed
PATTERNS OF CHANGE IN CAREGIVER ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION DURING TRAUMA-FOCUSED COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY
Get PDFCaregivers play an integral role in their child’s trauma-focused cognitive-behavior therapy (TF-CBT; Cohen & Mannarino, 2006), an intervention that has established efficacy in treating children’s trauma-related symptoms (Cohen et al., 2017). Unfortunately, extant literature on TF-CBT lacks a comprehensive understanding and representation of demographic characteristics and baseline symptomatology for caregivers who participate in TF-CBT at community clinics. Furthermore, although researchers suggest that TF-CBT may improve caregivers’ own distress, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and depression from pre- to post-treatment (e.g., Cohen et al., 2004a; Cohen et al., 2004b; Deblinger et al., 2011; Tutus et al., 2017), there is no assessment of caregiver’s anxiety symptoms throughout treatment to date. Much of the existing literature regarding caregiver symptom improvement is methodologically flawed. Lastly, it is unclear which phase of TF-CBT results in the greatest symptom change for caregivers. The current study seeks to assess whether, and at which phase of treatment, caregivers who participate in TF-CBT at a community clinic report decreases in their depression and anxiety symptoms. The current study examined 235 caregivers of children receiving TF-CBT. Caregivers’ self-reported depression and anxiety symptoms were analyzed at pre-, mid-, and post-treatment time points. A one-sample Wilcoxon signed rank test was utilized to compare published norms of female adult nonpatient and female adult outpatient samples (Derogatis, 1991). A multivariate multilevel model utilizing between-cluster variability was implemented to assess for statistically significant improvement in depression and anxiety scores in both completer and intent-to-treat (ITT) samples. Finally, multilevel models (MLM; Raudenbush, 1989) with restricted maximum likelihood estimation (REML; Lindstrom & Bates, 1988; Snijders & Bosker, 2012) were conducted on both completer and ITT samples to assess degree of change during both Phase I (i.e., PRAC) and Phase II (i.e., TICE) of treatment. Caregivers in this sample more closely resembled nonpatient female adults in both depression and anxiety scores at baseline. Depression and anxiety scores decreased significantly for caregivers over the course of treatment, with greater changes seen in Phase I of treatment for both depression and anxiety. Clinical implications for caregiver engagement and assessment in the context of TF-CBT will be discussed
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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