scholarly journals Spiritual Care Charting/Documenting/Recording/Assessment: A Perspective from the United Kingdom

2020 ◽  
pp. 97-116
Author(s):  
Linda Ross ◽  
Wilfred McSherry
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Spiritual Care ◽  
Spiritual Needs ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Specific Focus ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Uk

Abstract This chapter explores how spiritual aspects of care are being documented within the UK with a specific focus on healthcare primarily in the nursing and chaplaincy professions. This has not been an easy undertaking given the lack of a standardised approach, the changing and challenging landscape of healthcare in the UK and the conflicting terminology used when trying to assess, capture and record encounters, interactions and conversations with patients and their carers about their spiritual needs. The authors draw upon their own research and informal enquiries with chaplains from across England, Scotland and Wales, demonstrating that there is a wide range and variation in practice. The authors conclude that there is no standardised means of assessing and documenting spiritual needs and care in the UK and that this is unlikely to change until the many complex challenges outlined are addressed both politically and professionally.

Finding Foreign Law Collections in the UK: the 2007 FLAG Update and Questions it Raises for Future Collection Development Policy in the UK

2008 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-139 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Collection Development ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Foreign Law ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Key Questions

AbstractThe purpose of this article by Peter Clinch and Ruth Bird is to outline the latest findings from the recent review of foreign law holdings in the United Kingdom, and, in Part 4, to raise key questions relating to the future of these potentially endangered resources. The authors invite the legal research community to consider the many issues of concern raised by the results of this latest FLAG survey.

scholarly journals COVID-19, Alcohol Consumption and Stockpiling Practises in Midlife Women: Repeat Surveys During Lockdown in Australia and the United Kingdom

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma R. Miller ◽  
Ian N. Olver ◽  
Carlene J. Wilson ◽  
Belinda Lunnay ◽  
Samantha B. Meyer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Midlife Women ◽  
Multivariate Techniques ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Risky Alcohol ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact

Introduction: This project examined the impact of COVID-19 and associated restrictions on alcohol practises (consumption and stockpiling), and perceptions of health risk among women in midlife (those aged 45–64 years).Methods: We collected online survey data from 2,437 midlife women in the United Kingdom (UK) and Australia in May 2020, recruited using a commercial panel, in the early days of mandated COVID-19 related restrictions in both countries. Participants were surveyed again (N = 1,377) in July 2020, at a time when COVID-19 restrictions were beginning to ease. The surveys included the Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test—Consumption (AUDIT-C) and questions alcohol stockpiling. Analysis involved a range of univariate and multivariate techniques examining the impact of demographic variables and negative affect on consumption and acquisition outcomes.Results: In both surveys (May and July), UK women scored higher than Australian women on the AUDIT-C, and residence in the UK was found to independently predict stockpiling of alcohol (RR: 1.51; 95% CI: 1.20, 1.91). Developing depression between surveys (RR: 1.53; 95% CI: 1.14, 2.04) and reporting pessimism (RR: 1.42; 95% CI: 1.11, 1.81), and fear/anxiety (RR: 1.33; 95% CI: 1.05, 1.70) at the beginning of the study period also predicted stockpiling by the end of the lockdown. Having a tertiary education was protective for alcohol stockpiling at each time point (RR: 0.69; 95% CI: 0.54, 0.87).Conclusions: COVID-19 was associated with increases in risky alcohol practises that were predicted by negative emotional responses to the pandemic. Anxiety, pessimism and depression predicted stockpiling behaviour in UK and Australian women despite the many demographic and contextual differences between the two cohorts. Given our findings and the findings of others that mental health issues developed or were exacerbated during lockdown and may continue long after that time, urgent action is required to address a potential future pandemic of alcohol-related harms.

scholarly journals Carl Nielsen in the United Kingdom

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Muntoni
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
British Research

The United Kingdom has always been receptive to the Danish composer Carl Nielsen. For a long time Great Britain was the only country outside Scandinavia to show interest in his works, which met both the favour of the public and the appreciation of critics. No other country has produced such a comprehensive list of articles, studies and reviews about Nielsen’s music. An overview of the commentaries on Nielsen’s most performed works, namely the Fourth and Fifth Symphony, published on two major British newspapers – The Times and The Guardian – documents how the opinion on his music constantly changed. Critiques range from an initial enthusiastic acclaim to a half-hearted appreciation, and later to revaluation and revival. An analysis of a selected work, the Sixth Symphony, sheds light on the breadth and variety of what can be now considered a well-established research tradition. Robert Simpson pioneered such research in the 1950’s, but it was during the last decade of the 20 th century that the most interesting developments unfolded. Despite the wide range of interpretations, it is possible to track within British research on Carl Nielsen some underlying features that, in interplay with other factors, can help to explain the composer’s popularity in the UK.

scholarly journals PREVENT, safeguarding and the common-sensing of social work in the United Kingdom

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-28
Author(s):  
David McKendrick ◽  
Jo Finch
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Counter Terrorism ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Uk

INTRODUCTION: The Counter-Terrorism and Security Act (2015) passed in the United Kingdom (UK) made it mandatory for social workers, as well as a wide range of caring professionals, to work within the PREVENT policy, originally introduced in 2002, as one strand of the UK’s overall counter-terrorism policy.METHOD: The paper offers a theoretical account of how complex issues, like terrorism, that understandably impact on the safety and security of countries, are reduced to a series of assertions, claims and panics that centre on the notion of common sense.IMPLICATIONS: We theorise the concept of common sense and argue that such rhetorical devices have become part of the narrative that surrounds the PREVENT agenda in the UK, which co-opts social workers (and other public servants) into an increasingly securitised environment within the state. In other words, the appeal to common sense stifles critical debate, makes it hard to raise concerns and positions debates in a binary manner. We use the example of how there has been a decisive linking of traditional safeguarding social work practice with counter-terrorism activity.CONCLUSIONS: We posit that linkages such as this serve to advance a more closed society, resulting in a “chilling” of free speech, an increase in surveillance and the unchecked advancement of a neoliberal political agenda which promotes economic considerations over issues of social justice. This we argue, has implications for not only the UK, but for other countries where social workers are increasingly being tasked with counter-terrorism activities.

scholarly journals Implications for Northern Europe of the emergence of West Nile virus in the USA

2003 ◽  
Vol 131 (1) ◽  
pp. 583-589 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. A. GOULD
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
West Nile Virus ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
West Nile ◽  
Potential Health ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Uk

The unexpected appearance of fatal encephalitis in six elderly people living in New York in 1999, heralded the re-birth of arbovirology in the United States of America. The subsequent rapid spread through North America and impact of the disease on humans, birds, horses and a wide range of other species including alligators and frogs, has brought West Nile virus (WNV) to the attention of governments and the media, worldwide. The response of the public in the United Kingdom has not been hysterical, despite being fuelled by press reports that scientists have demonstrated the presence of WNV antibodies in birds in the UK. Nevertheless, concern has been expressed by government bodies either directly or indirectly connected with the potential health problems that could arise if WNV was introduced and caused the same degree of morbidity and mortality as that seen in the USA. Is the concern justified and are we likely to see significant health problems associated with WNV if this virus is confirmed to be present and circulating amongst birds in the UK? In this review I shall try to put the virus in its true context and assess the risks that WNV might pose both to animals and humans in the United Kingdom.

scholarly journals Coronavirus legislative responses in the UK: regression to panic and disdain of constitutionalism

2021 ◽  
Vol 72 (S1) ◽  
pp. 1-36
Author(s):  
Rebecca Moosavian ◽  
Clive Walker ◽  
Andrew Blick
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
Individual Rights ◽  
Health Control ◽  
Public Health Risks ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Selection Of

The United Kingdom has considerable prowess in handling emergencies, not just in counterterrorism but also in a wide range of other real or imagined disasters, including public health risks. Core legislation has been installed, including the all-encompassing Civil Contingencies Act (CCA) 2004 and the more specialist Public Health (Control of Disease) Act (PHA) 1984. Despite these finely honed models, the UK state regressed to panic mode when faced with the COVID-19 pandemic. Rather than turning to the laws already in place, Parliament fast-tracked the Coronavirus Act 2020, with scant debate of its shabbily drafted contents. In addition, the UK Government has relied heavily, with minimal scrutiny, on regulations under the PHA 1984. The article analyses the competing legal codes and how they have been deployed to deal with COVID-19. It then draws out the strengths and weaknesses of the choices in terms of the key themes of: the choice of sectoral versus general emergency legislation; levels of oversight and accountability; effectiveness; and the protection of individual rights. Following this survey, it will be suggested that the selection of legal instruments and the design of their contents has been ill-judged. In short, the emergency code which is the most suitably engineered for the purpose, the CCA 2004, has been the least used for reasons which should not be tolerated.

scholarly journals Pandemic buying: Testing a psychological model of over-purchasing and panic buying using data from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. e0246339
Author(s):  
Richard P. Bentall ◽  
Alex Lloyd ◽  
Kate Bennett ◽  
Ryan McKay ◽  
Liam Mason ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Inhibitory Effect ◽  
Psychological Model ◽  
Republic Of Ireland ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Uk

The over-purchasing and hoarding of necessities is a common response to crises, especially in developed economies where there is normally an expectation of plentiful supply. This behaviour was observed internationally during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic. In the absence of actual scarcity, this behaviour can be described as ‘panic buying’ and can lead to temporary shortages. However, there have been few psychological studies of this phenomenon. Here we propose a psychological model of over-purchasing informed by animal foraging theory and make predictions about variables that predict over-purchasing by either exacerbating or mitigating the anticipation of future scarcity. These variables include additional scarcity cues (e.g. loss of income), distress (e.g. depression), psychological factors that draw attention to these cues (e.g. neuroticism) or to reassuring messages (eg. analytical reasoning) or which facilitate over-purchasing (e.g. income). We tested our model in parallel nationally representative internet surveys of the adult general population conducted in the United Kingdom (UK: N = 2025) and the Republic of Ireland (RoI: N = 1041) 52 and 31 days after the first confirmed cases of COVID-19 were detected in the UK and RoI, respectively. About three quarters of participants reported minimal over-purchasing. There was more over-purchasing in RoI vs UK and in urban vs rural areas. When over-purchasing occurred, in both countries it was observed across a wide range of product categories and was accounted for by a single latent factor. It was positively predicted by household income, the presence of children at home, psychological distress (depression, death anxiety), threat sensitivity (right wing authoritarianism) and mistrust of others (paranoia). Analytic reasoning ability had an inhibitory effect. Predictor variables accounted for 36% and 34% of the variance in over-purchasing in the UK and RoI respectively. With some caveats, the data supported our model and points to strategies to mitigate over-purchasing in future crises.

scholarly journals PENDIDIKAN KEAGAMAAN DAN KOMUNITAS MUSLIM INDONESIA DI INGGRIS

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arifuddin Ismail
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Spiritual Needs ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Education Needs ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Descriptive Method

abstractThis study aims to describe the religious life of Indonesian Muslims who live in the United Kingdom,  particularly  in  relation  to  religious education. This study uses descriptive method with qualitative approach. Depth interview was used as the data collection means. It was found that, irst, the formation of the Indonesian citizens association in the United Kingdom (UK) is the answer to the fulillment  of  spiritual  needs,  especially  religious spiritual  need.  Secondly,  the  condition  of  schools in the UK creates anxiety for Indonesian parents, because  there  are  other  needs,  especially religious education needs that are not met. One alternative to deal with this is by joining groups of Muslim community, as an alternative to religious education. This indicates that someone will always strive to meet his psychological needs, particularly when it is in a condition that is different from usual. The implementation of spiritual fulillment is still limited, but with spirit and a strong desire, the fulillment can be done.Keywords: Religious education, Indonesian muslim Community, United KingdomabstrakPenelitian ini bertujuan menggambarkan kehidupan keagamaan muslim Indonesia yang berdomisili di United Kingdom, terutama dalam kaitannya dengan pendidikan keagamaan. Penelusuran ini menggunakan metode deskriptif, dengan pendekatan kualitatif. teknik wawancara mendalam digunakan sebagai alat pengumpulan data. ternyata ditemukan, pertama, terbentuknya kelompok Paguyuban warga negara Indonesia di Inggris (United Kingdom) merupakan jawaban atas pemenuhan kebutuhan rohani, khususnya siraman rohani keagamaan. Kedua, Kondisi persekolahan di Inggris membuat kegelisahan bagi para orang tua murid dari Indonesia, karena ada kebutuhan lain, terutama kebutuhan pendidikan keagamaan yang tidak terpenuhi. salah satu alternatifnya adalah dengan bergabung di kelompok paguyuban muslim Indoensia, sebagai alternatif mendapatkan pendidikan keagamaan. Ini mengindikasikan bahwa kebutuhan psikologis sesorang akan selalu diupayakan pemenuhannya, terutama ketika berada di suatu kondisi yang berbeda dari biasanya. Implementasi dari pemenuhan kebutuhan rohaniah memang masih terbatas, tetapi dengan modal semangat dan keinginan yang kuat, pelayanan bisa dilakukan.Kata kunci: pendidikan Keagamaan, Komunitas muslim Indonesia, Inggris 

scholarly journals Pandemic buying: Testing a psychological model of over-purchasing and panic buying using data from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Bentall ◽  
Alex Lloyd ◽  
Kate Mary Bennett ◽  
Ryan McKay ◽  
Liam Mason ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Inhibitory Effect ◽  
Psychological Model ◽  
Republic Of Ireland ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Historical Factors ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Uk

Over-purchasing and hoarding of necessities is a common response to crises, especially in developed economies where there is normally an expectation of plentiful supply. This behaviour was observed internationally early on in the COVID-19 pandemic. In the absence of actual scarcity, this behaviour can be described as ‘panic buying’ and can lead to temporary shortages. However, there have been few psychological studies of this phenomenon. We propose a psychological model of over-purchasing informed by animal foraging theory and make predictions about variables that predict over-purchasing by either exacerbating or mitigating the anticipation of future scarcity. These variables include additional scarcity cues (e.g. loss of income), distress (e.g. depression), psychological factors that draw attention to these cues (e.g. neuroticism) or to reassuring messages (eg. analytical reasoning) or which facilitate over-purchasing (e.g. income).We tested our model in parallel nationally representative internet surveys of the adult general population conducted in the United Kingdom (UK: N = 2025) and the Republic of Ireland (RoI: N = 1041) 52 and 31 days after the first confirmed cases of COVID-19 were detected in the UK and RoI, respectively.About three quarters of participants reported no or very little over-purchasing. More over-purchasing in RoI may have reflected different government messaging or historical factors. When over-purchasing occurred, it was observed across a wide range of product categories and was accounted for by a single latent factor. It was positively predicted by household income, the presence of children at home, psychological distress (depression, death anxiety), threat sensitivity (right wing authoritarianism) and mistrust of others (paranoia). Analytic reasoning ability had an inhibitory effect. Predictor variables accounted for 36% and 34% of the variance in over-purchasing in the UK and RoI respectively. With some caveats, the data supported our model and point to strategies to mitigate over-purchasing in future crises.

TBE in United Kingdom

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Clinical Disease ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Probable Case ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
South West ◽  
Louping Ill ◽  
The Uk ◽  
North And South ◽  
South West England

Until 2019, TBE was considered only to be an imported disease to the United Kingdom. In that year, evidence became available that the TBEV is likely circulating in the country1,2 and a first “probable case” of TBE originating in the UK was reported.3 In addition to TBEV, louping ill virus (LIV), a member of the TBEV-serocomplex, is also endemic in parts of the UK. Reports of clinical disease caused by LIV in livestock are mainly from Scotland, parts of North and South West England and Wales.4

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