Brian Keogh, Padraig McBennett, Jan deVries, Agnes Higgins, Marie O’Shea and Louise Doyle
The purpose of this paper is to report on the evaluation of a one-day mental health wellness workshop which was delivered to male prisoners in an urban prison in the Republic of…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to report on the evaluation of a one-day mental health wellness workshop which was delivered to male prisoners in an urban prison in the Republic of Ireland.
Design/methodology/approach
A mixed methods approach was used to evaluate the workshop. This paper presents the findings of the qualitative arm of the evaluation. Qualitative data were collected using semi-structured telephone interviews with ten participants who had completed the programme.
Findings
The participants were overwhelmingly positive about the wellness workshop and the qualitative interviews articulated the ways that the workshop impacted on their ability to manage their own and other peoples mental health.
Originality/value
As prisons attempt to limit the negative impact of prison life, implementing recovery orientated approaches such as the wellness workshop can have a positive impact on prisoners’ mental health as well as raising their awareness and improving their attitudes towards mental distress and suicide. The concepts of self-help and peer support, espoused by the workshop offer a real opportunity to equip interested prisoners with skills to support themselves and other prisoners who are in distress.
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Assistant and Brian Keogh
The paper seeks to determine the relative importance of motivational forces in the decision to go skiing, their influence on the “needs” of skiers and subsequently their role in…
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The paper seeks to determine the relative importance of motivational forces in the decision to go skiing, their influence on the “needs” of skiers and subsequently their role in the choice of resorts. The skiing population studied is that of Grenoble in the French Alps. The analysis indicated that motivations are reflected in certain skier “needs” and have a spatial expression in the choice of resorts. The results illustrate the potential usefulness of studying recreationists' motives as an antecedent to a better understanding of what sorts of experience recreationists look for and where.
Leeroy Chaffin and Brian H. Kleiner
Briefly charts the history of the development and subsequent regulation of the pension. Discusses the implications for pensions of the US Enactment of the Internal Revenue Code…
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Briefly charts the history of the development and subsequent regulation of the pension. Discusses the implications for pensions of the US Enactment of the Internal Revenue Code provisions. Looks at what is covered by this legislation and the subsequent exemptions. Covers the areas of reporting and disclosure, participation, vesting, funding, fiduciary standards, enforcement and administration, Iras and Keogh plans and contribution and benefit limits. Concludes with a summary of tax legislation from 1975‐1978 and other recent legislation.
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Tony Smith, Sally Fowler-Davis, Susan Nancarrow, Steven Mark Brian Ariss and Pam Enderby
The purpose of this study is to review evidence on the nature of effective leadership in interprofessional health and social care teams.
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Purpose
The purpose of this study is to review evidence on the nature of effective leadership in interprofessional health and social care teams.
Design/methodology/approach
A critical review and thematic synthesis of research literature conducted using systematic methods to identify and construct a framework to explain the available evidence about leadership in interprofessional health and social care teams.
Findings
Twenty-eight papers were reviewed and contributed to the framework for interprofessional leadership. Twelve themes emerged from the literature, the themes were: facilitate shared leadership; transformation and change; personal qualities; goal alignment; creativity and innovation; communication; team-building; leadership clarity; direction setting; external liaison; skill mix and diversity; clinical and contextual expertise. The discussion includes some comparative analysis with theories and themes in team management and team leadership.
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This research identifies some of the characteristics of effective leadership of interprofessional health and social care teams. By capturing and synthesising the literature, it is clear that effective interprofessional health and social care team leadership requires a unique blend of knowledge and skills that support innovation and improvement. Further research is required to deepen the understanding of the degree to which team leadership results in better outcomes for both patients and teams.
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This chapter seeks to reassess the film GoldenEye (Campbell, 1995), and its highly successful (Impellizeri, 2010) videogame adaptation GoldenEye 007 (Rare, 1997), in light of the…
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This chapter seeks to reassess the film GoldenEye (Campbell, 1995), and its highly successful (Impellizeri, 2010) videogame adaptation GoldenEye 007 (Rare, 1997), in light of the concept of the Hegemony of Play (Fron, Fullerton, Morie, & Pearce, 2007), which seeks to critique the dominance of the hypermasculine ‘gamer’ identity in videogame culture (a persona GoldenEye anticipates in its problematic character Boris Grishenko).
Since the gamer is bound up in the very technological materiality of videogames as a medium and an industry (Dyer-Witheford & de Peuter, 2009), central to this discussion is the significant yet highly ambivalent role technology continues to play in the Bond films, both extending and threatening (Leach, 2015; Nitins, 2010) Bond’s natural male skill and intuition (McGowan, 2010). Indeed, GoldenEye is a particularly salient study since many suggest Brosnan to be the most technologically adept (or dependent) of the Bonds (Rositzka, 2015; Willis, 2003), and I will argue that the film and game together explore just what happens when Bond’s implacable force meets the immutable technological object, providing a fascinating lens through which to read the larger technocultural shifts embodied in the transition to the immaterial economies of cognitive capitalism (Hardt & Negri, 2001) and their potential to disrupt traditional, patriarchal gender configurations (Haraway, 1991; Hayles, 2005; Plant, 1998; Wajcman, 2004).
Core to this is a critical reading of the game’s popular multiplayer mode, where exploration of whether technology can be understood to potentially level the gender playing field (Jones, 2015) or whether the fact that such technology is always already encoded as masculine (Chess, 2017) ultimately undercuts this ambition.
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Beverley Peltier‐Labadie and Brian H. Kleiner
Provides a brief history of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). Briefly covers the four main issues of employee benefits protection, IRS rules, jurisdiction and…
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Provides a brief history of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). Briefly covers the four main issues of employee benefits protection, IRS rules, jurisdiction and termination insurance. Outlines the position of pension and then goes on to consider recent updates to the law. Discusses the main problems of the act and attempts to predict the likely future over the next 25 years. Concludes that there are several potential developments still pending but the best course for any business is to concentrate on looking after its most valuable asset, the employee.
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Sharon R. Stines and Brian H. Kleiner
Maintains that although current trends are for individuals to take more personal responsibility, rather than rely on the company, there will still be a need for bosses and…
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Maintains that although current trends are for individuals to take more personal responsibility, rather than rely on the company, there will still be a need for bosses and employees. Comments on the hire of new employees, giving a list of ten points to be addressed by the employer. Sums up that the small business owner needs to use every tool to enable the right decision to be made, regarding hiring the first employee(s) for his business.
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Pierre‐Yves Guay et Sylvain Lefebvre
International tourism is steadily growing. Some people welcome this growth which supports economic and social development. Others are suspicious and afraid of the threat which…
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International tourism is steadily growing. Some people welcome this growth which supports economic and social development. Others are suspicious and afraid of the threat which tourism could create for the tourist destinations, the loss of cultural identity and of social alienation to its society. Reality is more complex than these two contrary positions suggest. After analyzing the existent attempts to explain the social effects of tourism, this paper intends to illustrate the variability of these effects. In this regard, the globalisation of human activities and its consequences on cultural identity are taken into account.
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– The purpose of this paper is to consider the criminal offence of wilful neglect in the context of hospital health care in England.
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to consider the criminal offence of wilful neglect in the context of hospital health care in England.
Design/methodology/approach
Summarise the evidence of neglectful care in hospitals and analyse the ingredients and application of the offence of wilful neglect.
Findings
Neglect is ongoing and systemic in the hospitals and the offence of wilful neglect seems to be ineffective as either a punitive or deterrent measure.
Practical implications
There is a mismatch between the extent of systemic, reckless neglect in the hospitals and the application of the criminal offence of wilful neglect. The answer, if any, might be: widening of the offence to anybody who is wilfully neglected (not just those mentally disordered or mentally incapacitated people), a new offence of corporate neglect, the holding of reckless leaders to account, and a reinvigorated Care Quality Commission and Health and Safety Executive.
Originality/value
The author is unaware that such a review of this area of law, applied to health care, has been undertaken.