Theoretical Approaches to Studying Incivility in Nursing Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana Penconek
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Attribution Theory ◽  
Conceptual Models ◽  
Critical Social Theory ◽  
Knowledge Development ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Group Behaviour ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Educational Environments ◽  
Theoretical Considerations

AbstractIncivility is a concerning occurrence in nursing education. Examining the concept of incivility is critical to the development of strategies used to prevent and mitigate experiences in nursing education. The purpose of this paper is to examine this concept through theoretical lenses of oppressed group behaviour, attribution theory, and conceptual models of empowerment. A critical social theory perspective is outlined as an additional theoretical approach to studying incivility in nursing education. Examination through various theoretical lenses may help to describe, explain, and predict incivility in nursing education. Theoretical considerations of this concept are limited but may hold the key to comprehensive understanding and advancement of knowledge. The ultimate goal of theoretical and knowledge development of incivility in nursing education is the creation and maintenance of civil educational environments.

scholarly journals Exploring theoretical approaches to global social policy research: Learning from international relations and inter-organisational theory

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 87-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Kaasch ◽  
Martin Koch ◽  
Kerstin Martens
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
International Relations ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
International Organisations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Theoretical Considerations ◽  
Distinct Field

Global Social Policy (GSP) has established itself as a distinct field of research over the past 25 years. Without doubt one of the leading figure to this advancement was Bob Deacon. He integrated several explanations and approaches into social policy research that had so far been distinct in other disciplinary fields, including concepts of International Relations (IR). That allowed to explain more about policy autonomy, inter-action between actors at the global level and potential impacts of international organisations on national social policies. Combining IR, organisational studies and GSP, this article wants to go a step further in this vein of GSP theoretical studies. We seek to make a contribution by running through a number of recently popular inter-organisational relations approaches within an IR context, and discuss how, and to what extent, they can be used to make more profound theoretical claims about the nature of GSP. The article first summarises the state of the art in GSP research with a view on international actors, particularly international organisations. Then we describe the specific characteristics of international organisations in existing GSP research and provide a number of theoretical considerations from organisational studies as part of IR scholarship that help construct a more nuanced understanding of how global actors function and interact. We link the theoretical accounts to empirical examples from the GSP literature, and detect what, and how, approaches and frames from this field may usefully tackle challenges GSP scholarship is facing.

Social support, empathy and ecology: a theoretical underpinning for working with young people who have suffered child sexual abuse or exploitation

2019 ◽  
pp. 173-192
Author(s):  
Pat Dolan ◽  
Caroline McGregor
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Ecological Theories ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Outcomes For Children ◽  
Theoretical Considerations ◽  
Preventative Approach

This chapter presents three proposed theoretical frameworks that can be usefully applied in working in the field of child sexual abuse (CSA). It argues that the functions of empathy, social support and socialisation, and ecological theories can offer a theoretical framework to deal with the challenges associated with CSA and offers improved guidance for practice. The chapter then outlines three possible practice examples that could emerge from such an approach. In the discussion, the chapter considers how these three theoretical considerations can come together to offer direction for improving how CSA is understood and responded to with an emphasis on improving outcomes for children who experience sexual abuse. The discussion also looks at how these theoretical approaches can promote a preventative approach that tackles social and cultural as well as individual factors that result in such harmful abuse of children that it often has life-long negative impacts.

Theoretical Considerations on Fibre Reinforced Composites Thermal Conductivity Uncertainties

2015 ◽  
Vol 1128 ◽  
pp. 171-177
Author(s):  
Tudor Mihai Simionescu ◽  
Alina Adriana Minea
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Conductivity ◽  
Composite Material ◽  
Engineering System ◽  
Thermal Expansion Coefficients ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Composites Materials ◽  
Expansion Coefficients ◽  
Theoretical Considerations ◽  
Fibre Reinforced Composites ◽  
Properties Of Composites

Thermal conductivity of composites is anisotropic in nature and data about thermal conductivity of resin facilitates to reduce stresses related to shrinkage of composites during cure and mismatch in thermal expansion coefficients. Before conducting experiments to determine thermal conductivity of various composites, knowledge about effect of different parameters influencing thermal conductivity is essential. The increasing use of composites, for various applications, emphasizes its importance/significance in the thermal property analysis of an engineering system. Published literature is rich with investigations of mechanical properties of composites, but fewer publications are focused on thermal properties. Several publications addressing different theoretical approaches for predicting thermal conductivity of composite materials have been noted. Various theoretical approaches are used to yield the thermal conductivity of a composite material so that the heat flow in anisotropic composite material in any direction can be estimated. In this paper few models will be considered and a theoretical study on thermal conductivity uncertainties will be conducted and discussed. The results identified the need and importance of carrying out further investigations on thermal behavior of composites materials.

Theoretical Considerations on the Way to Becoming a Psychotherapist

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (0) ◽  
pp. 119-0
Author(s):  
Andrea Rosa
Keyword(s):  
Psychology Students ◽  
Ethical Challenge ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Shared Experience ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Theoretical Considerations ◽  
Psychotherapeutic Training ◽  
The Way

This paper aims to recount a shared experience of some psychology students – an intellectual adventure of exploring one’s own approach towards human relations and nature on the way to becoming a psychotherapist. To become practitioners, the students need to choose a certain psychotherapeutic training based on one of the main psychotherapeutic theoretical approaches. The following are mentioned in this paper: psychoanalysis, cognitivebehavioral therapy, humanistic/existential and the postmodern narrative approach. Exploring the assumptions underlying different modalities and practices is also considered here to be an ethical challenge. It is reckoned that the choice of a specific psychotherapeutical practice bound to a theory shapes the identity of the therapist and the patients, forms the language and behaviour through which the future therapist will express his own Self and influence the Other. Referring to postmodern inspirations, the author speaks in favour of making an endless effort of recognizing the assumptions underlying different practices – as the only way for not taking a potentially violent and impervious attitude in the relationship between the therapist and the patient.

scholarly journals Social Cues-Customer Behavior Relationship: The Mediating Role of Emotions and Cognition

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nawras M. Nusairat ◽  
Abdel Hakim O. Akhorshaideh ◽  
Tahir Rashid ◽  
Sunil Sahadev ◽  
Grazyna Rembielak
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Response ◽  
Conceptual Models ◽  
Customer Behavior ◽  
Social Cues ◽  
Shopping Mall ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Marketing Tool ◽  
Positive Effect

This paper investigates the effect of social cues in a mall’s shopping environment on customer behavior. Two competing mediation scenarios are assessed: emotion-cognition and cognition-emotion in a stimulus-organism-response (SOR)-based framework. Although the role of social cues in driving customer behavior in shopping contexts is largely addressed in the extant literature, the mechanism of the effect is still under-researched area and this study is an attempt to fill this gap.The conceptual model is validated through a questionnaire survey of 1028 shopping mall customers from three cities in Jordan. Two different conceptual models are tested. The analysis reveals that the cognition-emotion mediated model is more robust in predicting the effect of social cues than emotion-cognition mediated model. The findings indicate that a) social cues have a significant positive effect on customers’ emotion of pleasure; cognition; and behavioral response; and b) only pleasure and cognition mediate the effect of social cues on customers’ behavioral response.Theoretically, this study provides a comprehensive understanding of the mechanism by which customers’ emotions and cognition mediate the effect of social cues on customer behavior; and practically, it asserts the significance of social cues as a marketing tool. 

A performative and poetical narrative of critical social theory in nursing education: an ending and threshold of social justice

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Lapum ◽  
Neda Hamzavi ◽  
Katarina Veljkovic ◽  
Zubaida Mohamed ◽  
Adriana Pettinato ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Nursing Education ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Critical Social Theory ◽  
Critical Social

scholarly journals Fluvial processes and landforms

2022 ◽  
pp. M58-2021-18
Author(s):  
R. I. Ferguson ◽  
J. Lewin ◽  
R. J. Hardy
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Models ◽  
Volcanic Eruptions ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Anthropogenic Change ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Bedrock Rivers ◽  
Fluvial Processes ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Major Floods ◽  
Sustained Increase

AbstractThe period 1965-2000 saw a sustained increase in research and publication on fluvial processes and landforms. The trend toward generalisation and/or mechanistic understanding, rather than site-specific history, continued. Research was multi-disciplinary, with important contributions from hydraulic engineers, geologists and physical geographers and from experimental and theoretical approaches as well as geomorphological and sedimentological fieldwork. Rapidly increasing computer power underpinned new measurement methods and greatly increased the scope of data analysis and numerical modelling. There were major advances in understanding the interaction of river process and form at reach scale, with growing recognition of differences between sand-bed and coarse-bed rivers. Field studies outside Europe and North America led to greater awareness of the diversity of river planforms and deposition landforms. Conceptual models of how rivers respond to natural or anthropogenic change in boundary conditions at different timescales were refined, taking advantage of studies of response to land use change, major floods, and volcanic eruptions. Dating of sediments allowed greater appreciation of fluctuations in the incidence of extreme driving events over centuries and thousands of years. Towards the end of the period research on bedrock rivers began to take off.

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