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Between horse and therapist : A critical review of equine assisted therapy at a home for care and residence for sexually abused girls
No full textThis dissertation examines residential care for girls in Sweden. The study is based on interviews with staff members and sexually abused girls in voluntarily or compulsory care at a home for care and residence (HVB), where Equine assisted therapy is used. The dissertation aim is to critically examine how residential care for sexually abused girls is provided when horses play a central role. Three key areas have been explored: how sexually abused girls are constructed, how horses are constructed and finally how equine assisted therapy is used – all three of them related to the study object of the dissertation. In addition, an important aspect of the dissertation was the development of an analytical framework enabling the theoretical understanding of the organization under study. The theoretical framework, concepts and ideas can be derived to social constructionism. More specifically, theories of different forms of structural power have been used for analyzing the empirical data, as well as theories on social institutions and institutional logics. The analysis shows how the nurturing ideals of social work are transformed into residential care practice by using horses and the routines that exist around horses and stables, and how this contributes to the reproduction of unequal power relations between client and system (girls and practitioners). The results of this dissertation show how horses are used as a means to enact various forms of power, demonstrating how the structural inequalities that characterize society at large are found in the residential care context under study. At the same time, the results also show how horses are used to empower girls, which in,contrary to the above, rather relates to feminist perspectives
Between horse and therapist : A critical review of equine assisted therapy at a home for care and residence for sexually abused girls
No full textThis dissertation examines residential care for girls in Sweden. The study is based on interviews with staff members and sexually abused girls in voluntarily or compulsory care at a home for care and residence (HVB), where Equine assisted therapy is used. The dissertation aim is to critically examine how residential care for sexually abused girls is provided when horses play a central role. Three key areas have been explored: how sexually abused girls are constructed, how horses are constructed and finally how equine assisted therapy is used – all three of them related to the study object of the dissertation. In addition, an important aspect of the dissertation was the development of an analytical framework enabling the theoretical understanding of the organization under study. The theoretical framework, concepts and ideas can be derived to social constructionism. More specifically, theories of different forms of structural power have been used for analyzing the empirical data, as well as theories on social institutions and institutional logics. The analysis shows how the nurturing ideals of social work are transformed into residential care practice by using horses and the routines that exist around horses and stables, and how this contributes to the reproduction of unequal power relations between client and system (girls and practitioners). The results of this dissertation show how horses are used as a means to enact various forms of power, demonstrating how the structural inequalities that characterize society at large are found in the residential care context under study. At the same time, the results also show how horses are used to empower girls, which in,contrary to the above, rather relates to feminist perspectives
Hästens makt: olika former av makt vid ett HVB för sexuellt utsatta flickor där man använder behandlingsmetoden hästunderstödd terapi
Get PDFDen sociala barnavården är en del av det sociala arbetet som riktar särskilt fokus mot barn och unga. I min forskning ligger fokus på flickor som har blivit utsatta för sexuella övergrepp och som med frivillighet eller tvång omhändertagits av sociala myndigheter och placerats på ett specifikt HVB där man arbetar med en behandlingsmetod som kallas hästunderstödd terapi. Forskning om behandlingsmetoden hästunderstödd terapi har i hög grad hittills handlat om att öka kunskapen om fördelarna med hästar som medterapeuter i olika sammanhang (se t ex Carlsson, 2017). Samtidigt påtalas också behovet av ytterligare kunskap om hästunderstödd terapi som på ett ännu tydligare sätt definierar behandlingsinslagen (se t ex Andersson, 2021). Därtill finns det ett ökat behov av kunskap om behandlingsmetoder i stort i socialt behandlingsarbete. I en granskning från 2023 framkom till exempel att det i Sverige används över 100 olika sorters insatser inom den sociala barnavården av vilka endast en tredjedel vilade på någon form av vetenskapligt stöd (Bergström m. fl., 2023).
Min forskning bidrar med ett nytt perspektiv på forskningen om hästunderstödd terapi på så sätt att jag anlägger ett kritiskt perspektiv i syfte att synliggöra ojämlikheter som kan gömma sig i behandlingsinslag som ej är helt definierade (se t ex Laanemets & Kristiansen, 2008).
Mitt resultat visar hur omhändertagna flickor genom att ta hand om hästar och ge dem omsorg fostras in i det framtida moderskapet. Detta är något som visats i tidigare forskning (jfr t ex Claezon & Hilte, 2005; Hamreby, 2004; Laanemets & Kristiansen, 2008; Mattsson, 2005). Det som dock skiljer detta sammanhang från övrig forskning är att här är det hästar som är centrala i behandlingsinsatsen - samt det faktum att hästar behöver omsorg och tas om hand - som används för att praktisera moderskapet och de normer och föreställningar som förknippas med moderskapet (Hirdman, 1988). Samtidigt visar jag också hur omhändertagna flickor ska stärkas som individer för att bli autonoma och självständiga genom att träna ledarskap på hästar. Flickor fostras alltså å ena sidan till ett traditionellt moderskap samtidigt som de å andra sidan stärks till autonoma individer. Dessa ytterligheter tolkar jag utifrån både ett upprätthållande av konstruerad kvinnlighet samt utifrån feministiska värden (jfr Forsberg, 2007, 2012; Hirdman, 1988; Nikku, 2005). Slutligen synliggörs hur det sociala arbetets fostrande ideal till stor del omsätts i praktik med hjälp av hästar och de rutiner som finns runt hästar och stall vilket bidrar till att upprätthålla ojämlika maktrelationer mellan klient och system (flickor och behandlare) (jfr Järvinen, 2002), samtidigt som de också blir del i att förstärka den sociala barnavårdens fostrans- och förändringspraktik med särskilt fokus på flickor (jfr Andersson Vogel, 2020).
Det centrala budskapet är att hästar används som medel för att iscensätta olika former av makt vilket visar att de strukturella ojämlikheter som präglar samhället återfinns i den HVB-kontext som studeras (jfr Acker, 2006). Konkret betyder detta att makt till stor del upprätthålls genom att använda hästar på olika sätt vilket skapar vissa specifika förutsättningar för att bedriva HVB-vård av flickor på
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
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