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An investigation into compassion, moral injury, burnout and psychological distress in first responders
No full textThe first chapter details a systematic review of studies that investigate the relationship between self-compassion (SC) and depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in first responders (FR). Searches were conducted using five databases: PsychINFO, MEDLINE, Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar. Seven studies met the inclusion criteria and were included in this review; four correlation-based studies and three intervention-based studies. A narrative synthesis indicated a potential relationship with higher SC being associated with lower symptoms of depression, anxiety and PTSD. Secondly, interventions incorporating SC can have positive effects in increasing SC and reducing symptoms of depression, anxiety and PTSD in FR. Future research should employ higher methodological quality and robust randomised control trials in order to provide a better understanding of the relationship between SC and depression, anxiety and PTSD in FR, alongside understanding what interventions can and/or will be effective.The second chapter is an empirical paper exploring the relationship between psychological difficulties (PD), PTSD, alcohol use, the inhibitors of compassion and the facilitators of compassion on moral injury (MI) and burnout in police officers and firefighters in the United Kingdom (UK). A total of 125 participants completed online measures of MI, burnout, PD, PTSD, alcohol use, shame, fears of compassion, self-criticisms and self-reassurance and the three flows of compassion. Bivariate correlations and a hierarchal multiple regression revealed the relationships between the aforesaid variables, alongside whether these predicted MI amongst police officers and firefighters. Years in service, PD, burnout, shame, self-criticisms, fears of compassion and the three flows of compassion were all significantly associated with MI. PTSD, self-criticisms, SC and compassion from others (CfO) were all significantly associated with burnout. Compassion to others (CtO) and CfO significantly predicted MI after accounting for the aforementioned variables, with PD being revealed as the biggest predictor of MI, followed by years in service. The findings indicate strong relationships between MI, PD and the facets of compassion in UK police officers and firefighters. Results highlight the clinical importance of screening for MI, PD and the facets of compassion, alongside the consideration of using compassion-based treatments
An investigation into compassion, moral injury, burnout and psychological distress in first responders
No full textThe dataset is for the empirical paper of my doctoral thesis titled "An Investigation into Moral Injury, the Facets of Compassion, and Burnout in UK Police Officers and Firefighters". It is anonymous data collected from UK police officers and firefighters comprising of 9 questionnaires. </span
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
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