Effectiveness of a Short Voice Training Program for Teachers: A Preliminary Study

The spiritual disciplines of silence and solitude have long been practiced within the contemplative Christian tradition as a means of character transformation and experiencing God. Do these disciplines affect the use of silence in psychotherapy for Christian clinicians in a graduate training program? Nineteen graduate students in clinical psychology were assigned to a wait-list control condition or a training program involving the disciplines of solitude and silence, and the groups were reversed after the first cohort completed the spiritual disciplines training. One group, which was coincidentally comprised of more introverted individuals, demonstrated a striking increase in the number of silent periods and total duration of silence during simulated psychotherapy sessions during the period of training. The other group, more extraverted in nature, did not show significant changes in therapeutic silence during the training. These results cause us to pose research questions regarding the interaction of personality characteristics and spiritual disciplines in training Christian psychotherapists.

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Analysis of the Fundamental Frequency of the Human Voice and Its Frequency Distribution before and after a Voice Training Program

Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica ◽

10.1159/000265643 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 34 (3) ◽

pp. 143-149 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Sven Wedin ◽

Jan-Erik Ögren

Keyword(s):

Training Program ◽

Fundamental Frequency ◽

Frequency Distribution ◽

Voice Training ◽

Human Voice ◽

Before And After

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Joint Mobility Protection during the Developmental Age among Free Climbing Practitioners: A Pilot Study

Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology ◽

10.3390/jfmk5010014 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 14

Author(s):

Ludovica Gasbarro ◽

Elvira Padua ◽

Virginia Tancredi ◽

Giuseppe Annino ◽

Michela Montorsi ◽

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Keyword(s):

Training Program ◽

Joint Mobility ◽

Mobility Test ◽

Sport Climbing ◽

Developmental Age ◽

Before And After ◽

Motor Tests ◽

Preliminary Study ◽

Large Effort ◽

One Year

Sport-climbing popularity increased intensely over the past years. Particularly, children’s and adolescents’ interest therein is constantly growing. Despite a large effort in preventing injuries and muscle overloads, a fine-tuned training for each sensitive phase of child development is still needed. The objective of the study was to evaluate an innovative training program aimed at the preservation of joint mobility during the developmental age. This article relies on the results of a steady training program allowing to retain joints integrity among the practice of sport climbing in children. Joint mobility changes have been monitored before and after a one-year training program in fifteen subjects aged between 8 and 18 years. Subjects were divided into three groups depending on age (Turgor Secundus, Proceritas Secunda and Turgor Tertius). The motor tests administered were the sit-and-reach test, coxo-femoral mobility test and scapula–humeral mobility test. Our results showed that one-year training improved joint mobility at each analyzed phase, suggesting that this training program could improve mobility and flexibility. Given the importance of joint mobility preservation for discipline-related injuries prevention and eventually recovering, it is essential to provide a specific training program as a route to approach sport climbing, and even more importantly, at an early age. This work represents a preliminary study in order to demonstrate both efficacy on the joint mobility and the requirement of our playful work to support the global sport-climbing workout.

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The efficacy of a voice training program: a case–control study in China

European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology ◽

10.1007/s00405-009-1125-2 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 267 (1) ◽

pp. 101-105 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Jingming Duan ◽

Li Zhu ◽

Yan Yan ◽

Tao Pan ◽

Peiquan Lu ◽

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Keyword(s):

Training Program ◽

Case Control Study ◽

Case Control ◽

Voice Training ◽

Control Study

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A Preliminary Study about a Teacher Training Program Development for Death Education for Young Children

The Journal of Korean Teacher Education ◽

10.24211/tjkte.2014.31.3.399 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 31 (3) ◽

pp. 399-428

Author(s):

SeoHyun ◽

박미자 ◽

김영보

Keyword(s):

Teacher Training ◽

Young Children ◽

Training Program ◽

Program Development ◽

Death Education ◽

Teacher Training Program ◽

Preliminary Study

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Effect of School-Based Social Skills Training Program on Peer Relationships: Preliminary Study

Journal of korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ◽

10.5765/jkacap.2018.29.1.14 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 29 (1) ◽

pp. 14-25

Author(s):

Hong-Shik Roh ◽

Jung-Uk Shin ◽

Jae-Woo Lee ◽

Yeon-Woo Lee ◽

Tae-Won Kim ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Social Skills ◽

Training Program ◽

Peer Relationships ◽

Social Skills Training ◽

Skills Training ◽

School Based ◽

Preliminary Study

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Effects of a Voice Training Program on Acoustics, Vocal Use, and Perceptual Voice Parameters in Catalan Teachers

Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica ◽

10.1159/000502766 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 72 (6) ◽

pp. 411-418

Author(s):

Cecília Gassull ◽

Pere Godall ◽

Erica Polini ◽

Miquel Amador ◽

Cori Casanova

Keyword(s):

Training Program ◽

Educational Intervention ◽

Professional Life ◽

The Other ◽

Voice Training ◽

Intervention Model ◽

Physiologic Parameters ◽

The One ◽

The City ◽

Positive Effect

Objectives: To assess the effect of EVES (Education for a Healthy and Efficient Voice), a voice training program aimed at promoting the use of an efficient and healthy voice in teachers. Sample and Method: Twenty-two teachers in the city of Granollers (Catalonia, Spain) were included in this research. The effect of the EVES program was evaluated focusing on the analysis of physiologic parameters on the one side (stroboscopy analysis), and on perceptual parameters on the other (Q-EVES questionnaire, Voice Handicap Index-10 [VHI-10], and GRBAS [Grade, Roughness, Breathiness, Asthenia, Strain Scale]). Results: The teachers incorporated the vocal strategies in their professional life and reported that the perception of difficulty in using their voice decreased. We observed a significant improvement in VHI-10 markers, in voice management abilities in the classroom, in perceptive and subjective voice parameters, and in some functional lesions. Conclusions: The results suggest that the educational intervention model may have a positive effect on teachers’ vocal care.

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