Jane Beck and Sally Beck
Few of us receive adequate training in motherhood. Ironically, there is a wealth of information: there are the examples of our own mothers to accept or reject; there are courses…
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Few of us receive adequate training in motherhood. Ironically, there is a wealth of information: there are the examples of our own mothers to accept or reject; there are courses in child care which teach the technical skills—for instance, how to bath the baby without dropping or drowning the poor thing; the baby books tell us what to do for nappy rash and just about every other childhood ailment; child psychologists, general practitioners, and uncle Tom Cobley and all tell us ‘not to worry’.
What do you do when the restaurant manager appears at your bedroom door late at night with a bottle of champagne and a matching sparkle in his eye? There are many replies to that…
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What do you do when the restaurant manager appears at your bedroom door late at night with a bottle of champagne and a matching sparkle in his eye? There are many replies to that question, some more polite than others. This situation is difficult to cope with in normal business environments, but more so when you have a ‘living‐in’ job, a junior position, and the person being discouraged may be involved in your annual appraisal.
The collective consciousness of womenregarding the feminine mystique, whichrestricted them to the roles of wife andmother, and the desire to develop themselvesas full human beings…
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The collective consciousness of women regarding the feminine mystique, which restricted them to the roles of wife and mother, and the desire to develop themselves as full human beings was aroused, amongst other stimuli, by the writings of Betty Friedar and Germaine Greer. Since then, there have been developments and initiatives to enable women to have a kind of equality with men in many areas. Some inducements for attracting and retaining women workers, specifically mothers, are discussed and some ways in which government and employers can help to achieve true equality of opportunity are suggested.
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The inside story behind setting up the new National Organisation for Women's Management Education—from conception to the moment today where it is poised to launch an appeal for…
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The inside story behind setting up the new National Organisation for Women's Management Education—from conception to the moment today where it is poised to launch an appeal for funds. Her description of the many backroom problems her group en‐countered and the nitty gritty details that have to be considered at every stage of planning will interest anyone who has ever thought of doing something similar, or just wondered how it could be achieved.
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Peter Robert Diamond and Claire Delaney
There is a growing evidence base for cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) as a treatment for psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) in the general population. Despite the…
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Purpose
There is a growing evidence base for cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) as a treatment for psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) in the general population. Despite the relatively high proportion of individuals with PNES who have an intellectual disability (ID) there is a paucity of literature on the use of CBT for PNES in this population. The purpose of this paper is to describe the use of an adapted CBT approach to treat PNES in a woman with mild ID.
Design/methodology/approach
The intervention used a CBT approach that included both the client and her mother, her primary care giver, throughout the therapy sessions. It involved 13 1-hour sessions over 20 weeks.
Findings
Over the course of the intervention the client experienced a reduction in seizure activity. Both the client and her mother reported increases in her perceived ability to cope with the seizures.
Originality/value
This report describes an adapted CBT-based intervention for individuals with PNES in the context of ID. It is the first report to include the involvement of a care-giver in adapting this approach for individuals with ID.
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Rachel A. Gibson and Jane Clarbour
The purpose of this paper is to explore the factor structure of the Resiliency Scales for Children and Adolescents (RSCA, Prince-Embury, 2006, 2007) and to provide supporting…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore the factor structure of the Resiliency Scales for Children and Adolescents (RSCA, Prince-Embury, 2006, 2007) and to provide supporting evidence that this is a psychometrically sound measure for practitioners and researchers to use to assess resilience in incarcerated male adolescent offenders in the UK.
Design/methodology/approach
Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to determine if the factor structure could be replicated among incarcerated male adolescent offenders. Concurrent validation of the measure was also conducted, utilising the Beck Youth Inventory, second edition (BYI-II-II; Beck et al., 2005).
Findings
CFA of the RSCA was unable to confirm the structure of the measure at an item level, therefore parcelling techniques were utilised similarly to Prince-Embury and Courville (2008), using the subscales for the factors as indicators for the factors. While a three-factor model was found to be an acceptable fit to the data, there was also some support for a two-factor model. Despite this, there was more statistical support for the three-factor model and arguments are made for retaining this structure. Expected associations between the three subscales of sense of mastery, sense of relatedness and emotional reactivity were found with the Beck Youth Inventory demonstrating support for the concurrent validity of the measure in incarcerated male adolescent offenders.
Practical implications
This paper provides support for the internal structure of the RSCA with incarcerated male adolescent offenders within the UK, although some caution should be used when interpreting scores from the subscales. The findings suggest that the RSCA can be utilised by practitioners to identify young people who may benefit from additional support and also in assessment and treatment/intervention planning. This may be particularly useful when practitioners wish to explore the potential protective nature of resilience.
Originality/value
The current study is the first of its kind to formally explore the factor structure of the RSCA with incarcerated male adolescent offenders.
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Birgit Schenk, Mateusz Dolata, Christiane Schwabe and Gerhard Schwabe
By increasing the digitalization of commercial services citizens' expect more from public services. First of all, this study will strive to identify which problems citizens…
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By increasing the digitalization of commercial services citizens' expect more from public services. First of all, this study will strive to identify which problems citizens encounter when they use a complex public service: preparation of an application for a building permit. In the light of the popularity of omnichannel approaches, the study then explores how omni-channel could help to address the problems which have been identified.
Design/methodology/approach
We implement the first phases of an action design science research project. We collect data both from citizens and public agencies and frame them as transparency problems. These abstract problems are then addressed by an omnichannel service provision as an abstract solution. The abstract solution is then instantiated in a design in the form of a user scenario developed in collaboration with current and future public officials.
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The analysis uncovers multiple transparency issues: it distinguishes between process, case, language, cross-channel and cost transparency. One root cause of the transparency issues observed is the lack of service transparency which defines the purpose and scope of a ser-vice. We therefore recommend defining a service-strategy before informational and technical aspects of an omnichannel approach can be implemented. Following this strategy, omnichannel offers public administrations unique opportunities to excel in citizens' service provision.
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The study provides insights into how citizens view complex public services. For researchers, this study offers the conceptualization as transparency issues. Practitioners from the public administrations can also benefit from the concept and vision of omnichannel public services.
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There is no argument among serious researchers that a mongoloid stock first colonized the New World from Asia. Nor is there controversy about the fact that these continental…
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There is no argument among serious researchers that a mongoloid stock first colonized the New World from Asia. Nor is there controversy about the fact that these continental pioneers used the Bering Land Bridge that then connected the Asian Far East with Alaska.– Gerald F. Shields, et al.American Journal of Genetics (1992)
Emma Wolfe, Jane Ogden and Leigh Clare
A repeated measures cohort study was conducted to investigate the impact of attending a day treatment programme on physical and psychological state, and to assess which baseline…
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A repeated measures cohort study was conducted to investigate the impact of attending a day treatment programme on physical and psychological state, and to assess which baseline factors predicted level of recovery. Physical and psychological outcomes of treatment were analysed for 116 patients admitted to the treatment programme between 1996 and 2006 and were found to be in line with previous day care evaluations, with the majority of patients showing improvements on all measures. A multiple regression analysis revealed several factors to be predictive of treatment outcomes including patient demographics, comorbidities and traumatic life events. In particular, those patients who benefited most from the treatment had a lower body mass index at admission, stayed longer at the unit, were older, less likely to have other physical and psychiatric comorbidities, particularly obsessive compulsive disorder or a history of sexual abuse, and whose most predominant eating disorder problem was characterised by low weight.