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Video-conferencing clinical supervision of rural, remote and northern counsellors to mitigate compassion fatigue
No full textThis is a mixed methods quantitative-qualitative explanatory sequential research project informed by transformative and feminist epistemology. It investigates the patterns of engagement in clinical supervision among Canadian professional counsellors across the career span, with a particular sub-focus on the experiences of those in rural, remote, and northern contexts. It also seeks to understand how video-conferencing-based clinical supervision can support rural, remote, and northern counsellors to enhance wellness and mitigate compassion fatigue. Of the 125 survey respondents, 55% indicate that they do not have a clinical supervisor. Of those who do have a supervisor, 66% of sample had under 10 years of experience. The Gamma test revealed results approaching significance (p=.085) when considering years of experience; there may be a relationship between the number of years in practice and the likelihood that the practitioner has a supervisor. There may also be a relationship between age and the likelihood that the practitioner has a supervisor: Chi-square showed a statistically significant result of p=.03 and on average, the likelihood that the respondents have a clinical supervisor dropped by approximately 10% per decade. The Chi-square (p=.003) also revealed statistical significance indicating that respondents experience financial barriers to accessing clinical supervision. Semi-structured interviews with nine respondents were treated with thematic content analysis supported by NVivo 10 and revealed 8 higher order themes. Of particular note are the sub-themes which describe the unique opportunities inherent in the medium of video-conferencing including: live remote supervision, the use of the parallax and potential self-supervision by viewing one’s image. The following sub-themes were identified and describe the ways in which video-conferencing clinical supervision can be helpful in mitigating compassion fatigue: providing resources and ideas, decreasing isolation, normalizing experiences, creating boundaries, generating clarity, re-energizing interest in work, providing opportunity to recognise strengths and competency and by providing emotional support.2020-1
Art therapy in Venezuela : a developing field in the developing world
Get PDFThis qualitative research project is a preliminary investigation into some of the key mental health issues and the services currently available to children in Caracas, Venezuela. It attempts to identify potential links between mental health practice and issues in Venezuela and the field of creative arts therapies. This line of inquiry was addressed through semi-structured interviews with mental health professionals in Caracas from March through to July of 2005. The subsequent data analysis was informed by phenomenological theory as developed by J.A. Smith and Giorgi & Giorgi (2003). Given the highly preliminary nature of this inquiry, the phenomenological orientation has been chosen for its inclination towards discovery rather than explanation (Giorgi & Giorgi, 2003). This manuscript summarizes some of the principal themes that emerged from interviews across the public, private and non-profit mental health service sectors. This includes summary of the main issues that present for treatment and some of the services currently available in Caracas. Treatment programs featuring creative arts treatment modalities and several socio-political factors affecting mental health are also highlighted
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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