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'Often there is a good deal to be done, but socially rather than medically': the psychiatric social worker as social therapist, 1945-70
No full textSeeking to align psychiatric practice with general medicine following the inauguration of the National Health Service, psychiatric hospitals in post-war Britain deployed new treatments designed to induce somatic change, such as ECT, leucotomy and sedatives. Advocates of these treatments, often grouped together under the term 'physical therapies', expressed relief that the social problems encountered by patients could now be interpreted as symptomatic of underlying biological malfunction rather than as a cause of disorder that required treatment. Drawing on the British Journal of Psychiatric Social Work, this article analyses the critique articulated by psychiatric social workers based within hospitals who sought to facilitate the social reintegration of patients following treatment. It explores the development of 'psychiatric social treatment', an approach devised by psychiatric social workers to meet the needs of people with enduring mental health problems in hospital and community settings that sought to alleviate distress and improve social functioning by changing an individual's social environment and interpersonal relationships. 'Physical' and 'social' models of psychiatric treatment, this article argues, contested not only the aetiology of mental illness but also the nature of care, treatment and cure
Introduction
No full textThis book provides an overview of a diverse array of preventive strategies relating to mental illness, and identifies their achievements and shortcomings. The chapters in this collection illustrate how researchers, clinicians and policy makers drew inspiration from divergent fields of knowledge and practice: from eugenics, genetics and medication to mental hygiene, child guidance, social welfare, public health and education; from risk management to radical and social psychiatry, architectural design and environmental psychology. It highlights the shifting patterns of biological, social and psychodynamic models, while adopting a gender perspective and considering professional developments as well as changing social and legal contexts, including deinstitutionalisation and social movements. Through vigorous research, the contributors demonstrate that preventive approaches to mental health have a long history, and point to the conclusion that it might well be possible to learn from such historical attempts. The book also explores which of these approaches are worth considering in future and which are best confined to the past. Within this context, the book aims at stoking and informing debate and conversation about how to prevent mental illness and improve mental health in the years to come
Introduction : Deinstitutionalisation and the pathways of post-war psychiatry in the western world
No full text[Vicky O'Neal Jansen on Horse]
No full textPhotograph of Vicky O'Neal Jansen on a horse named Dusty. Dusty is a large, brown horse with an orange halter. The horse rears back with Vicky on its bare back. The girl has long blonde hair, a brown jacket and dark pants. They are stood on a yellow grass patch, a white building with an open garage in the background
Industrial Homes, Domestic Factories: The Convergence of Public and Private Space in Interwar Britain
No full textIn Britain, this vision of the “homely” factory—a term deployed to connote a sense of coziness and to evoke the atmosphere of the domestic home—was promoted by women factory inspectors, industrial welfare supervisors, companies, and advertisers seeking to reconcile modernity with tradition, to imbue mass-produced goods with an individualized handcrafted aura, and to resolve industrial labor problems. Its origins can be traced back to the nineteenth century, when reformers from a range of social and political persuasions protested that workers had become alienated by the scale of industrial production and the subdivision of the labor process and were manifesting their discontent in disorderly conduct, apathy, and industrial “warfare.
From a fashion-wise pedestal Vicky Views Veishea
No full textLong before the mad whirl of Veishea, fashion-wise Vicky will select her new spring wardrobe. But she's not thinking only of Veiseha days, she has a sharp eye out for the summer beyond. Vicky knows all the latest trends, but from then she selects for herself only those lines, colors and textures which bring out her best qualities.</p
The menopause made simple program: Maximise your lifestyle by minimising your symptoms
No full textMany women who are approaching or are in the midst of menopause are confused and frustrated with the information available to them on how best to manage this stage of their lives. Research shows that making changes to your lifestyle can definitely have positive benefits on your menopausal symptoms. Dr Debra Anderson and Vicky Graham have developed a simple lifestyle plan that includes six steps women can take not only to minimise menopausal symptoms, but also to maximise the quality of their lives into the future. Table of Contents Step 1: Health information Step 2: Eating for menopause Step 3: Exercising for menopause Step 4: Hormone replacement therapy Step 5: Alternatives to HRT Step 6: Putting it into practice Appendix: Long-term studies into HRT use Endnotes Further reading Bibliography Inde
Frankfurt book fair: cancelled prize ceremony for Palestinian author is part of a long history of political zigzagging
No full textFirst paragraph: The Frankfurt Buchmesse, or book fair, is the world’s largest publishing industry gathering, attracting thousands of exhibitors every October. On one level, it’s a business event focused on creating buzz for forthcoming bestsellers, trading rights and discussing industry developments. On another, it’s a public celebration of books and the values associated with them.https://theconversation.com/frankfurt-book-fair-cancelled-prize-ceremony-for-palestinian-author-is-part-of-a-long-history-of-political-zigzagging-21574
Technological Change and Industrial Transformation
No full textIndustrial transformation is a research and teaching field with a focus on the phenomenon and mechanisms of industrial development and renewal. It concerns changes in economic activities caused by innovation, competition and collaboration, and has a rich heritage of evolutionary economics, institutional economics, industrial dynamics, technology history and innovation studies. It borrows concepts and models from the social sciences (sociology, history, political sciences, business/management, economics, behavioural sciences) and also from technology and engineering studies. In this book, the authors present the key theories, frameworks and concepts of industrial transformation and use empirical cases to describe and explain the causes, processes and outcomes of transformation in the context of digitalization and sustainability. They stress that industrial transformation consists both of Darwinian "survival of the fittest" selection, and of intentional pursuits of innovation, and of industrial capabilities creation. The work argues that managing the global trends of transformation is not only about new technology and innovation: existing institutional settings and dynamic interactions between technological change, organizational adaptation and economic activities also have a profound impact on future trajectories. The areas under investigation are of great relevance for strategic management decisions and industrial and technology policies, and understanding the mechanisms underlying transformation and sustainable growth. © 2022 selection and editorial matter, Vicky Long and Magnus Holmén; individual chapters, the contributors.</p
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
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