46 research outputs found
An exploration of the emotional experiences of therapists when working with individuals with borderline personality disorder
No full textAbstract for literature review:
Despite reviews exploring the emotions experienced by emergency and nursing staff when working with individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), to date there is no review summarising the experiences of therapists. Therefore, the aim of this review is to systematically review the available literature about the emotions therapists experience when working therapeutically with clients with BPD. Psycinfo, Scopus, Medline, Web of Knowledge and CINAHL were searched to identify relevant articles. The inclusion criteria for the search were; therapists or counsellors working with adult clients with BPD, utilising any therapy. The comparators were any other clients accessing therapy and the outcomes considered were emotions, reactions, attitudes and health outcomes. 16 papers were identified; 12 quantitative papers and four case studies. Therapists experience a wealth of strong emotions when working with clients with BPD. There were two client characteristics which influenced the emotions experienced by therapists, client burnout at the beginning of therapy and level of patient functioning. Therapist characteristics which may influence emotions were specialist training, primary discipline, experience, age, therapist expectations and the boundaries therapists set. In conclusion the author recommended that therapists are provided with sufficient support, such as supervision, to prevent strong emotions impacting upon the therapeutic relationship. Therapists may also benefit from accessing specialised training in BPD such as mindfulness, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy or Mentalisation Based Therapy. To date this area has not been researched using robust qualitative methodologies and the use of these would allow a greater understanding of the emotional experiences of therapists.
Abstract for empirical paper:
Individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) may present with high risk behaviours such as deliberate self-harm, suicidal thoughts or attempts. Therapists report a variety of emotional experiences when engaging with this client group. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) is a multi-modal psychological intervention designed for use with BPD. It has been hypothesised that the structure of DBT and its key components may provide support to the therapist and prevent negative emotional experiences. The aim of this study was to explore the emotional experiences of therapists whilst implementing a DBT approach. Nine semi-structured interviews were conducted and the transcripts analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. The analysis established five themes within the data; 1) Developing an allegiance to DBT; 2) Learning to share responsibility; 3) Adjusting to the boundaries in DBT; 4) DBT contains therapists’ emotions; and 5) Needing support from others; i) Consult providing a secure base; ii) Needing support from the wider organisation. In conclusion, therapists' emotions appeared to be contained by DBT and therefore it may be an attractive approach to utilise for clinical work with individuals with BPD
Experimental Results for the PRICAI 2023 Paper ``Detecting AI Planning Modelling Mistakes -- Potential Errors and Benchmark Domains''
No full textThis repository contains data related to the following paper:
An overview of which domains have been tested on which software, refer to the following paper:
@InProceedings{Sleath2023PossibleModelingErrors,
author = {Kayleigh Sleath and Pascal Bercher},
title = {Detecting AI Planning Modelling Mistakes -- Potential Errors and Benchmark Domains},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 20th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2023)},
year = {2023},
publisher = {Springer}
}
Specifically, it contains:
- the benchmarks used in the paper.
- screenshots of the output of call commands to the respective software artifacts
(the actual call commands are only contained in some of them)
- excel tables collecting the results
Please note:
(1) These benchmark problems are just copied in here for the sake of completeness and transparency. But if you are actually interested in using them, please use the newest version, which might have corrections and additional test cases. You find it here: https://github.com/ProfDrChaos/flawedPlanningModels
(2) Please also note that the screenshots of our tests might not perfectly fit the folder structure of our benchmarks because we made some minor restructurings after the paper submission. Specifically, some test cases that we classified as syntactical in the submission were then changed into a semantic ones for the camera-ready version. (Hence the paths in the screenshots or tables might be slightly different.)
(3) Also note that by the time you read this, several errors undetected by these systems at the time of the evaluation might be resolved by now. (We included the version numbers of the tested software.
We want to say “you’re welcome”: case studies of early revitalization
No full textIn situations where a language is in the very earliest stages of revitalization, it is important to customize materials for groups that want them, in ways that honor their goals. For example, young people often want materials built around phrases that are socially useful, that build solidarity and cultural identity (e.g. phrases such as thank you, you’re welcome, how are you?, where are you from?, I’m sorry). Preschool teachers want basic vocabulary and ways to address the group (e.g. everyone stand up! everyone sit down!). Tribal elders may want more emphasis on traditional materials. Yet each customized goal brings its own challenges and opportunities. In this paper we present two case studies from Northern Pomo (a dormant language of California), one about designing materials containing socially useful phrases for young people, and one about designing materials for Head Start teachers. As others have observed (e.g. Rotet 2014, Zuckerman & Walsh 2011), smaller languages being revived may not have equivalents for all desired words or phrases. This may call for borrowing or coinages, each of which entail complicated cultural and linguistic decisions. The first case we’ll present (design of materials to introduce socially useful phrases to young people) involves a collaboration between a linguist and Pomo language teacher in designing materials and presenting them to focus groups (held in Fall 2016) with young people from the tribal community. The second case concerns design of materials for Head Start teachers. Here the challenge is trying to make the materials educative for children, but also useful for teachers as a source of easy exposure to the grammar of the language. For example, the pre-school context is well-suited to pointing out the difference between imperatives (sit down!) and declaratives (he is sitting), as well as simple questions. But here too, coinages departing from the traditional may emerge. These cases are relevant to the ICLDC theme of wellbeing: Author 1 has taught both Head Start students and young people in Northern Pomo tribal communities. The youth culture camps she ran were supported by suicide and drug abuse prevention grants to the tribe. She has specific knowledge of how engagement with the language supports the development of a positive cultural identity. Author 6 has spent several decades describing the language and oversees development of a website that houses these materials. Their collaboration provides a context to examine the multi-faceted challenges of bringing language materials to life. Rottet, K. J. (2014). Neology, Competing Authenticities, and the Lexicography of Regional Languages: The Case of Breton. Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America, 35(35), 208-247. Zuckermann, Ghil'ad and Walsh, Michael 2011. 'Stop, Revive, Survive: Lessons from the Hebrew Revival Applicable to the Reclamation, Maintenance and Empowerment of Aboriginal Languages and Cultures', Australian Journal of Linguistics 31.1: 111-127
Eating Disorders, the Killer Within
No full textSocial pressures that drive this physical and mental sickness have aided in claiming the lives of 11 million Americans. Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of all mental disorders.Spring 2012Accompanied by video fil
The Challenges of Finding Area (pp. 61--69)
No full textThe author explores a rich task that engaged her high school geometry students in proceduraland conceptual understandings of area while discussing various student misconceptions that the taskuncovered. The author discusses revision ideas generated by research and interactions with colleaguesduring an advanced methods course for practicing teachers
An Echo of Timelessness: moments of introspective play at De Hoge Veluwe national park
No full textOver the past decades the act of play has taken on an ever-decreasing form ofimportance in society. This not only leads to the absence of its accompanyingarchitecture, but also to more boring, uniform and hollow spaces. With the ambition of designing for the homo ludens of today, research was first carried out into the characteristics of places where play arises, after which these findings could be translated in architectural objects provoking introspective play through a deep experience of place, to be found at De Hoge Veluwe National Park.Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Explorela
A Generic Translation from Case Trees to Eliminators
No full textDependently-typed languages allow one to guarantee correctness of a program by providing formal proofs. The type checkers of such languages elaborate the user-friendly high-level surface language to a small and fully explicit core language. A lot of trust is put into this elaboration process, even though it is rarely verified. One such elaboration is elaborating dependent pattern matching to the low-level construction of eliminators. This elaboration is done in two steps. First, the function defined by dependent pattern matching is translated into a case tree, which can then be further translated to eliminators. We present a generic, well-typed implementation of this second step in Agda, without the use of metaprogramming and unsafe transformations, by providing a type-safe, correct-by construction, generic definition of case trees and an evaluation function that, given an interpretation of such a case tree and an interpretation of the telescope of function arguments, evaluates the output term of the function using only eliminators. We only allow case splits on variables from a fixed universe of data type descriptions, for which we use techniques like basic analysis and specialization by unification.https://github.com/klieverse/case-trees-to-eliminators Formalization of this thesis in Agda.Computer Scienc
The effects of religiosity on stress, self-efficacy and autonomy among college students
No full textIt is thought that an individual’s level of religiosity can have an effect on other aspects
of a person’s life such as their self-efficacy, stress levels and autonomy levels. This idea was
used for this research with examined the effects of religiosity on stress, self-efficacy and
autonomy among college students. This study used four questionnaires, General self-efficacy
scale, Perceived stress scale, Santa Clara strength of religious faith questionnaire and the
Autonomy-Connectedness scale to assess the four variables within a sample of 100 college
students. It was hypoFinal Year Projected that there would be a relationship between the four variables. It
was found that there was no relationship between the variables. However there was a
significant relationship between stress and autonomy. Author keywords: stress, autonomy, religiosity, self-efficacy, college, student
Revolutionary Destruction in Charlotte Dacre’s Oeuvre Women Finding Power through Fragmentation, Performance, and Orgasm
No full textThis thesis attends to the examination of the history-obscured oeuvre of Charlotte Dacre (1771/2-1825), a British woman of Portuguese-Jewish descent and an author of Gothic works in the early nineteenth century. Although her second novel, Zofloya (1806), made a splash in criticism, both during her lifetime and continuing into current scholarship, most of her other works––three novels and two volumes of poetry––are almost completely unstudied. Therefore, the main goal of this thesis is to explore and shed light on the deeply rich implications concerning subjects such as gender, class, race, and sexuality existent in Dacre’s lesser-known works. Although most of Dacre’s oeuvre has not been studied in depth, another goal of this thesis is to argue the importance of the implementation of further research on this body of works, especially for scholarly fields such as gender studies, women’s studies, and queer studies
Exploring the perspectives of current and future sibling caregivers to a person with a neurodevelopmental disorder – implications for occupational therapy. A scoping review.
No full textIntroduction: Numerous studies have examined caregiver burden and stress, yet few represent the perspective from the sibling caregiver of a person with a neurodevelopmental disorder within the context of occupational therapy practice. Therefore, this scoping review provides a review of current evidence. Aim: The aim of the study is to review current literature to find sibling caregiver perspectives on their roles as caregivers to an individual with a neurodevelopmental disorder and whether their perspectives can influence improvements to the occupational therapy practice. Method: A scoping review methodology was chosen to map out the available literature and summarise the findings. The author conducted this review using guidance from the Joanna Briggs Institute. Results: The review resulted in 11 articles and reviewed the perspectives of 1181 sibling participants. The findings resulted in five main themes: (1) Need for education and training opportunities in relation to caregiving; (2) Policy and guideline changes in relation to sibling caregiver involvement; (3) Sibling caregiver inclusion into the care pathway; (4) Need for improvements in service coordination; and (5) Sibling caregivers' lack of knowledge in guardianship matters. Conclusions: Both positive experiences and negative challenges were reported from sibling experiences when accessing healthcare services. Ideas and strategies were discussed by sibling caregivers in how to improve services. Significance: This review identified practical strategies which can be used in occupational therapy practice to support and improve services in relation to working with sibling caregivers.
