Active client primary-backup protocols

Diurnal reef fishes compose the bulk of clients that seek cleaner fishes' services, but some nocturnal species that shelter at daytime also seek the cleaners. While doing so the nocturnal clients must leave their hiding places and thus they get exposed to potential diurnal predators. We report here on the cleaning interactions between a daytime cleaner wrasse (Thalassoma noronhanum) and a night time active client (Pempheris schomburgki) that usually remains sheltered at daytime. We recorded P. schomburgki leaving their shelter at daytime and heading towards T. noronhanum, whenever the cleaner swam by the shelter. Since T. noronhanum is able to tend temporary cleaning station near the safety of the shelters of its clients, P. schomburgki lessens a possible risk of predation by seeking this versatile cleaner.

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Managing Social Anxiety, Therapist Guide

10.1093/med-psych/9780190247591.001.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Debra A. Hope ◽

Richard G. Heimberg ◽

Cynthia L. Turk

Keyword(s):

Social Anxiety ◽

Behavioral Therapy ◽

Individual Case ◽

Cognitive Behavioral ◽

Socially Anxious ◽

Empirically Supported ◽

Complete Treatment ◽

Working Together ◽

Practice Framework ◽

Active Client

This Therapist Guide presents information on the nature of social anxiety, empirically supported cognitive–behavioral techniques used to treat it, how to best implement these techniques, and how to deal with the problems that arise during treatment. The authors strive to offer a complete treatment that is informed by individual case conceptualization within an evidence-based practice framework. Socially anxious individuals commonly view anxiety as an all-or-nothing experience: Some people have excessive social anxiety, and others—healthy people—do not experience social anxiety. It is helpful for clients to begin to think of social anxiety on a continuum. In this treatment, collaborative empiricism is operationalized as an active therapist and active client working together to overcome social anxiety. The therapist brings expertise about social anxiety and cognitive–behavioral therapy. The client brings expertise about herself and the motivation to make changes in her life. For this treatment to be successful, the therapist must be comfortable with clients who may become extremely anxious.

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The active client: The boundary-spanning roles of internal consultants as gatekeepers, brokers and partners of their external counterparts

Management Learning ◽

10.1177/1350507611401536 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 42 (5) ◽

pp. 485-503 ◽

Cited By ~ 35

Author(s):

Andrew Sturdy ◽

Christopher Wright

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Study ◽

Boundary Spanning ◽

Knowledge Flows ◽

Organizational Boundaries ◽

Management Knowledge ◽

Management Consultancy ◽

Knowledge Barriers ◽

Active Client ◽

Political Character

This article examines the active client of management consultancy as a key agent in managing and mediating knowledge flows across organizational boundaries. From a qualitative study of a particular case of active clients—internal consultants managing their external counterparts—three boundary-spanning roles are identified. Active clients can act as a gatekeeper, broker and partner with respect to both consultants and the knowledge they bring. These roles are shown to vary according to a client’s expertise, formal project responsibilities and personal reputation, as well as the different phases of consulting projects. They not only elucidate an otherwise neglected or static dimension of management consultancy—client activity—but highlight the dynamic and essentially political character of serving as knowledge barriers and/or bridges in the intermediation and co-production of management knowledge across organizational boundaries.

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The Active Client: Therapy as Self-Help

Journal of Humanistic Psychology ◽

10.1177/00221678960363002 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 36 (3) ◽

pp. 7-30 ◽

Cited By ~ 34

Author(s):

Arthur C. Bohart ◽

Karen Tallman

Keyword(s):

Self Help ◽

Active Client

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Development of the Clients’ Perceptions of Providers’ Cultural Competency Instrument

Journal of Transcultural Nursing ◽

10.1177/1043659620962559 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 104365962096255

Author(s):

Dula F. Pacquiao ◽

Janet R. Katz ◽

Victoria Sattler ◽

Peijia Zha ◽

Katharyn F. Daub

Keyword(s):

Cultural Competency ◽

Correlation Coefficients ◽

Native Hawaiians ◽

Engagement In Care ◽

Mixed Design ◽

Client Engagement ◽

Total Correlation ◽

Race Ethnicity ◽

Active Client ◽

Improve Health

Introduction: This study developed and validated the Clients’ Perceptions of Providers’ Cultural Competency instrument. Method: A sequential exploratory mixed design identified three constructs derived from the studies of Leininger and others. Constructs were compared with publications on cultural competency. A panel of experts reviewed for content validity. Results: Three hundred and nine mostly Asians and Native Hawaiians completed the questionnaire. Twenty-two items with item-to-total correlation coefficients >.2 were retained. Overall instrument Cronbach’s alpha was .89. Construct validity demonstrated the three constructs accounted for 49.6% of variance supported by distinct items with Cronbach’s alphas of .82, .83, and .76, respectively. Preliminary criterion validity revealed no statistically significant differences in scores based on the location of services received or race/ethnicity. Discussion: The Clients’ Perceptions of Providers’ Cultural Competency instrument is congruent with nursing principles of equity and justice by measuring provider cultural competency from a client’s perspective. Active client engagement in care contributes to transcultural nursing’s goals to improve health equity.

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Identifying client project manager competency in Indonesian construction project

MATEC Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/matecconf/201927602007 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 276 ◽

pp. 02007

Author(s):

Kartika Puspa Negara ◽

Fiona Lamari ◽

Connie Susilawati ◽

Bambang Trigunarsyah

Keyword(s):

Construction Projects ◽

Construction Project ◽

Project Managers ◽

Project Manager ◽

Importance Index ◽

Client Involvement ◽

Project Construction ◽

Public Construction ◽

Client Side ◽

Active Client

The influence of active client involvement towards project construction success is gaining recognition in the last few decades. The growing concern on the client involvement has drifted the perception towards client away from the passive role into contributor of project success. During client involvement in the construction project, a representative from client or client project manager (CPM) should be complemented with certain competencies in order to succeed in commissioning construction projects. Evidence shows that some public construction projects in Indonesia failed due to the lack of competency of client project managers. Whilst most of the previous studies concern on the competency of general project managers, this paper specifically investigates competency of project manager from client side who works as a civil servant, and commissioning public construction sectors. This paper aims to identify the important competencies required by CPM in construction projects in Indonesia and examine current Indonesian CPM competency standard. Relative Importance Index (RII) was employed to assess the important level of competencies. The findings will enrich understanding on client project manager competency and become a basis to undergird further empirical research in client project manager development areas.

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