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Factors affecting adoption and implementation of a community-based children's mental health program: the Tapp-C example
Full text linkWhile the efficacy of a number of interventions for various children's mental health problems has been established in academic and research laboratories, these interventions are not widely used in community children's mental health centers. Indeed, this "research-practice gap" in children's mental health service has been identified as one of the most pressing issues facing children's mental health. The present study examined the adoption, implementation, and adaptation of The Arson Prevention Program for Children (TAPP-C) by professionals in applied community settings. TAPP-C is collaborative, community-based assessment and intervention program for juvenile firesetters that was developed at a teaching hospital and disseminated to community-based settings throughout Ontario, Canada. Questionnaire data were gathered from community professionals, including children's mental health professionals and fire service professionals, who had attended educational events offered by TAPP-C. Questionnaire data were also gathered from administrators of the community agencies affiliated with these professionals. These data were used to evaluate the effects of the following factors on program adoption, level of use, and fidelity: (a) characteristics of the adopter, including innovativeness, concern about juvenile firesetting, self-efficacy for addressing firesetting, and attitudes toward TAPP-C; (b) characteristics of the program, including perceived complexity, perceived compatibility with existing practice and perceived relative advantage over existing practice; (c) dissemination experiences, including exposure to TAPP-C educational strategies and perceived availability of TAPP-C expert consultation; and (d) perceived inter-organization collaboration in the local community. Results indicated that adoption of TAPP-C was primarily related to perceived characteristics of the innovation and dissemination experiences. Level of use of TAPP-C, on the other hand, was primarily related to the respondents' self-efficacy for addressing firesetting, their dissemination experiences, and their perception of inter-organization collaboration in their local community. Interestingly, the majority of community professionals reported high levels of implementation fidelity. The implications of these findings for closing the research-practice gap in children's mental health are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)Ph.D
What of the aftermath? / by C.E. Tapp.
No full textCover title.; Electronic reproduction. Canberra, A.C.T. : National Library of Australia, 2013
Randomized Controlled Trial of the Arson Prevention Program for Children (TAPP-C)
No full textDespite the serious consequences that can derive from youth fire involvement, and the extensive use of fire intervention programs, efficacy data for existing treatments is limited and includes only one randomized controlled trial (RCT). The current RCT examined the relative benefits of a multimodal, collaborative firesetting intervention by comparing a modified protocol of The Arson Prevention Program for Children (TAPP-C), which included fire service and mental health components, to the standard treatment, which is fire safety education only (FSE). The study examined change in fire-specific safety knowledge, attitudes and behaviors, and is the first to examine change across broader indices of behavioural and emotional well-being, and parenting constructs. The study sample comprised 27 fire-involved youth, aged 6-16, referred to the TAPP-C program at a large teaching hospital, and their caregiver. Caregiver-youth dyads were randomly assigned to a modified TAPP-C or FSE intervention with data collected at pre- and post-intervention, and 3-month follow-up. Results showed both interventions were effective in reducing firesetting, fire interest, and behavioural and emotional difficulties. No recidivism was reported for either group post-intervention or at 3-month follow up. Results for the parenting constructs revealed negative perceptions of the caregiver-child relationship. Preliminary results suggest fire-involvement may be associated with externalized parental locus of control (PLOC) orientation, and significant relationships were found among parental cognitions, PLOC, and perceived parental competence. Novel findings showed youth deficit in executive function (EF), and that greater EF deficit was significantly related to greater youth-reported fire-interest and behavioural difficulties. Youth participants performed poorly on an impulsivity task, suggesting great impairment in this area. Only youth who received the modified TAPP-C intervention showed significant improvement on the impulsivity task, highlighting a unique benefit for interventions including a mental health component. Finally, results showed readiness to change significantly improved post-treatment for caregivers and youth in both groups. As only the second RCT of a firesetting intervention, the results represent a significant contribution to the existing literature and establishment of best practice intervention by providing preliminary data on the relative efficacy of FSE and combined, collaborative approaches
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
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