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“It Has Informed My Entire Life”: Event Centrality, Vicarious Traumatization, and Vicarious Post-Traumatic Growth in Loved Ones Indirectly Exposed to Interpersonal Trauma
No full textIt is well-known that interpersonal traumatic events can impact the physical and mental health of those indirectly exposed to the events. Less studied are populations of loved ones who have been indirectly exposed to interpersonal trauma. My dissertation first aimed to synthesize the literature related to vicarious traumatization (VT), vicarious posttraumatic growth (VPTG), and event centrality in loved ones indirectly exposed to interpersonal trauma through a scoping review. The Joanna Briggs Institute methodology was used for Study 1. Inclusion criteria included (a) participants were indirectly exposed to the interpersonal trauma of a loved one in adulthood, (b) discussion of VT, VPTG, event centrality, or related terms, (c) published peer-reviewed empirical journal articles, and (d) available in English. We used a three-step search strategy to find relevant articles. Keywords found from the first two steps were entered into PsychINFO, PsycArticles, PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science databases. Reference lists of the included articles were also examined. The identified articles were then screened using the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Twenty-eight articles met inclusion and exclusion criteria. Twenty-six articles referenced VT or related terms, one referenced VPTG, and one referenced vicarious trauma keywords. No articles referenced event centrality. The results of this study led to the second aim for this dissertation: to understand parents' process of vicarious event centrality for their child's interpersonal traumatic event post-disclosure, as this was a knowledge gap in the literature. Participants in Study 2 were 17 primary caregivers (14 maternal caregivers, 3 paternal caregivers) of 27 victims of child interpersonal trauma (14 males, 13 females) located in Canada. The age of participants ranged from 35 to 75 years (average = 54.5 years) and majority self-identified as Caucasian (70.6%). Grounded theory (GT) was used to analyze the data collected from participant interviews. The resulting model was labelled Vicarious Event Centralization and Decentralization, indicating that parents center their child’s interpersonal trauma across many areas of their lives, which orients them to focus on protecting and healing the child. After the child’s functioning improves, parents are then able to reorient to life beyond the trauma, representing decentralization. The GT consists of three phases, Centralization, Decentralization Gateway, and Decentralization. These results illustrate that parents’ centralization of the trauma may be an adaptive mechanism that promotes child recovery, which in turn allows parents to begin to decentralize the trauma and move towards recovery. This series of studies supports that loved ones are affected by indirect interpersonal trauma exposure in a myriad of ways and require unique services to address their needs. These studies can help practitioners understand the post-trauma experience for loved ones and target areas likely to increase recovery
“It Has Informed My Entire Life”: Event Centrality, Vicarious Traumatization, and Vicarious Post-Traumatic Growth in Loved Ones Indirectly Exposed to Interpersonal Trauma
No full textIt is well-known that interpersonal traumatic events can impact the physical and mental health of those indirectly exposed to the events. Less studied are populations of loved ones who have been indirectly exposed to interpersonal trauma. My dissertation first aimed to synthesize the literature related to vicarious traumatization (VT), vicarious posttraumatic growth (VPTG), and event centrality in loved ones indirectly exposed to interpersonal trauma through a scoping review. The Joanna Briggs Institute methodology was used for Study 1. Inclusion criteria included (a) participants were indirectly exposed to the interpersonal trauma of a loved one in adulthood, (b) discussion of VT, VPTG, event centrality, or related terms, (c) published peer-reviewed empirical journal articles, and (d) available in English. We used a three-step search strategy to find relevant articles. Keywords found from the first two steps were entered into PsychINFO, PsycArticles, PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science databases. Reference lists of the included articles were also examined. The identified articles were then screened using the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Twenty-eight articles met inclusion and exclusion criteria. Twenty-six articles referenced VT or related terms, one referenced VPTG, and one referenced vicarious trauma keywords. No articles referenced event centrality. The results of this study led to the second aim for this dissertation: to understand parents' process of vicarious event centrality for their child's interpersonal traumatic event post-disclosure, as this was a knowledge gap in the literature. Participants in Study 2 were 17 primary caregivers (14 maternal caregivers, 3 paternal caregivers) of 27 victims of child interpersonal trauma (14 males, 13 females) located in Canada. The age of participants ranged from 35 to 75 years (average = 54.5 years) and majority self-identified as Caucasian (70.6%). Grounded theory (GT) was used to analyze the data collected from participant interviews. The resulting model was labelled Vicarious Event Centralization and Decentralization, indicating that parents center their child’s interpersonal trauma across many areas of their lives, which orients them to focus on protecting and healing the child. After the child’s functioning improves, parents are then able to reorient to life beyond the trauma, representing decentralization. The GT consists of three phases, Centralization, Decentralization Gateway, and Decentralization. These results illustrate that parents’ centralization of the trauma may be an adaptive mechanism that promotes child recovery, which in turn allows parents to begin to decentralize the trauma and move towards recovery. This series of studies supports that loved ones are affected by indirect interpersonal trauma exposure in a myriad of ways and require unique services to address their needs. These studies can help practitioners understand the post-trauma experience for loved ones and target areas likely to increase recovery
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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