25 Years of Elder Law: An Integrative and Historical Account of the Field of Law and Aging

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Israel Doron
Keyword(s):  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
Elder Law ◽  
Law And Aging

AbstractTwenty-five years have passed since my first exposure to the field of “elder law.” From a “young” master’s student I have become a law professor and a gerontologist who specializes in law and aging. The journey I have personally experienced in the last quarter-century provided me with some perspective regarding the field of elder law (or, as I prefer to call it, law and aging).In this Article, I try to summarize my experience and share some personal insights on the field. This is naturally a very personal and subjective experience. However, it may be constructive to others in shaping the next twenty-five years of the field. Hence, the goal of this Article is to provide both an integrative description of the developments in the field and some propositions for possible future directions.

Cyclical Psychodynamics and Integrative Relational Psychotherapy

2019 ◽  
pp. 184-204
Author(s):  
Paul L. Wachtel ◽  
Gregory J. Gagnon
Keyword(s):  
Outcome Research ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cognitive Behavioral ◽  
Integrative Psychotherapy ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Early Attachment ◽  
Relational Psychotherapy ◽  
Therapy Relationship ◽  
Daily Behavior

This chapter covers an integrative psychotherapy known as cyclical psychodynamics and features its origins, applicability, assessment, treatment, therapy relationship, case example, outcome research, and future directions. Cyclical psychodynamics is an approach to theory and therapy that centers on the repetitive interaction cycles that maintain adaptive and maladaptive patterns of living. Employing concepts and methods from psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive-behavioral, systemic, and humanistic-experiential perspectives, the aim is to interrupt these cycles to enable the person not only to be relieved of distressing symptoms but to live more fully and richly. A key focus is on how the person unwittingly recruits “accomplices” in the maintenance of the pattern through the behaviors his actions evoke in others. Also central is attention to the ways that early attachment experiences lead some of our thoughts, wishes, and feelings to be cast into the background, rendered difficult to access consciously or to draw upon adaptively in one’s life. The therapy proceeds integratively, attending both to the expansion of subjective experience and to more adaptive daily behavior, as well as to how each promotes the other.

scholarly journals The P.R.O.S.E. (Psychological Research on Synthetic Environments) Project: Conducting In-World Psychological Research on 3D Virtual Worlds

1970 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard L Gilbert
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Real World ◽  
Virtual World ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The Real ◽  
3D Virtual Worlds ◽  
Core Questions

The P.R.O.S.E. (Psychological Research on Synthetic Environments) Project was established to investigate the psychology of 3D virtual worlds. Under the auspices of the project, a systematic program of in-world behavioral research is being conducted that addresses three core questions related to the psychology of 3D immersive environments: What are the characteristics of active participants in virtual worlds? Do the principles of psychology that operate in the real world also apply to the virtual world? Do experiences in the virtual world have the capacity to influence behavior and subjective experience in the real world? The current paper describes a series of studies that examine each of these questions and outlines future directions for the project. If projections for a highly populated, ubiquitously accessible (web-based), and seamlessly integrated (interoperable) network of virtual worlds are borne out, a new realm of psychological reality and interaction will have been created that will be increasingly important for behavioral scientists to investigate and understand.

scholarly journals Inner Speech in Aphasia: Current Evidence, Clinical Implications, and Future Directions

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (1S) ◽  
pp. 560-573
Author(s):  
Mackenzie E. Fama ◽  
Peter E. Turkeltaub
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Clinical Decision Making ◽  
Clinical Decision ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Inner Speech ◽  
Current Evidence ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Language Tests ◽  
Aphasia Treatment

Purpose Typical language users can engage in a lively internal monologue for introspection and task performance, but what is the nature of inner speech among individuals with aphasia? Studying the phenomenon of inner speech in this population has the potential to further our understanding of inner speech more generally, help clarify the subjective experience of those with aphasia, and inform clinical practice. In this scoping review, we describe and synthesize the existing literature on inner speech in aphasia. Method Studies examining inner speech in aphasia were located through electronic databases and citation searches. Across the various studies, methods include both subjective approaches (i.e., asking individuals with aphasia about the integrity of their inner speech) and objective approaches (i.e., administering objective language tests as proxy measures for inner speech ability). The findings of relevant studies are summarized. Results Although definitions of inner speech vary across research groups, studies using both subjective and objective methods have established findings showing that inner speech can be preserved relative to spoken language in individuals with aphasia, particularly among those with relatively intact word retrieval and difficulty primarily at the level of speech output processing. Approaches that combine self-report with objective measures have demonstrated that individuals with aphasia are, on the whole, reliably able to report the integrity of their inner speech. Conclusions The examination of inner speech in individuals with aphasia has potential implications for clinical practice, in that differences in the preservation of inner speech across individuals may help guide clinical decision making around aphasia treatment. Although there are many questions that remain open to further investigation, studying inner speech in this specific population has also contributed to a broader understanding of the mechanisms of inner speech more generally.

A Framework for Theoretical Inquiry into Law and Aging

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 187-205
Author(s):  
Nina A. Kohn
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Preferential Treatment ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
The Core ◽  
Unified Field ◽  
Theoretical Inquiry ◽  
Elder Law ◽  
Theory Of Law ◽  
Law And Aging ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractWith populations aging worldwide, the need for appropriate and just public policy related to old age is critical. Elder law scholars can support the creation of such policy by advancing the theoretical understanding of the relationship between law and aging — understanding that can help policymakers identify and prioritize goals, and evaluate potential interventions. This Article aims to provide a framework for this work by distilling the core theoretical questions at the intersection of law and aging. It also challenges common assumptions that could pose a barrier to developing a more robust theory of law and aging. Specifically, it argues that scholarship in this area will be most fruitful if it recognizes that the study and practice of “elder law” are intertwined but not a single unified field, that “preferential” treatment of older adults can be a form of discrimination, and that old age is not a universal human experience.

scholarly journals Inspecting Surfaces With a Sharp Stick: Scanning Probe Microscopy - Past, Present, and Future

2003 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-9
Author(s):  
Paul West
Keyword(s):  
Surface Science ◽  
Scanning Probe Microscopy ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
Scanning Probe ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
Probe Microscopy ◽  
Science Laboratories ◽  
History Of ◽  
Laboratory Tool

With the growing emphasis on nanotechnology, scanning probe microscopy (SPM) is emerging from the surface science laboratories and becoming a mainstream inspection and metrology tool along side optical and SEM microscopes. Scanning probe instrumentation and applications evolved dramatically during the past quarter-century (Table I). By 1998 SPM-related papers were being published at the rateof nearly 5000 per year Here we review the history of scanning probe microscopy, describe its current role as a critical enabler in nanotechnology, discuss why it has become a routine laboratory tool, and present a view of future directions for this advanced technology.

Are sentiments subject to selection pressures? The case of oxytocin

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chelsea D. Christie ◽  
Frances S. Chen
Keyword(s):  
Health Psychology ◽  
Natural Selection ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Psychology Research ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Selection Pressures ◽  
Cognitive Capacities

AbstractWe argue that natural selection operates on emotional and cognitive capacities supporting the subjective experience of sentiments, rather than on discrete sentiments themselves. We support this argument by examining the case of oxytocin in relation to the sentiment of love. We also explore future directions for health psychology research that includes “cold” aspects of contempt in conjunction with “hot” aspects.

Stakeholder Theory: Seeing the Field Through the Forest

2017 ◽  
Vol 58 (7) ◽  
pp. 1358-1375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shawn L. Berman ◽  
Michael E. Johnson-Cramer
Keyword(s):  
Stakeholder Theory ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Stakeholder Relationships ◽  
Seminal Contribution ◽  
Social Scientific

Does stakeholder theory constitute an established academic field? Our answer is both “yes” and “no.” In the more than quarter-century since Freeman’s seminal contribution in 1984, this domain has acquired some of the administrative, social, and disciplinary trappings of an established field. Stakeholder research has coalesced around a unique intellectual position: that corporations must be understood within the context of their stakeholder relationships and that this understanding must grow out of the interplay between normative and social scientific insights. Yet, much of this domain remains an unexplored territory. In this article, the authors assess the progress to date toward field status and outline future directions for stakeholder research.

Positive Emotions

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele M. Tugade ◽  
Hillary C. Devlin ◽  
Barbara L. Fredrickson
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Intervention Studies ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Building Effects ◽  
Broaden And Build Theory

Positive emotions have long been studied as markers of people’s overall well-being or happiness, but looking at positive emotions as outcomes is just the beginning. This chapter focuses on the various facets of positive emotions, including how they are measured (behaviorally, psychologically, physiologically), their outcomes, and their subjective experience. The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions is described, with empirical research described that supports both the broadening effects and the building effects that arise from experiences of positive emotions. Empirical research that investigates physiological and neurological connections and intervention studies that examine the effects of positive emotions on stress, health, and resilience are discussed. Finally, future directions that examine different models of positive emotion as well as the differentiation of positive emotions are discussed.

Where Are We? The Third Take: Review of Compendium for Research in Mathematics Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 501-512
Author(s):  
Jeremy Kilpatrick
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Mathematics Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
National Council ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
The Third ◽  
Mathematics Teaching And Learning ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Research In Mathematics Education

A quarter century ago, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) published the first Handbook of Research on Mathematics Teaching and Learning (Grouws, 1992); 15 years later, they published a Second Handbook of Research on Mathematics Teaching and Learning (Lester, 2007). Now, in anticipation of its centenary in 2020, NCTM has published the Compendium for Research in Mathematics Education. The replacement of Handbook of by Compendium for in the title, though originating as an issue associated with copyright permission, also represents a kind of progress. The word handbook was originally used to mean something like “small, easily consulted pocket reference,” which certainly did not apply to the first two publications. In his preface, Cai quotes the dictionary definition of compendium as “‘a collection of concise but detailed information about a particular subject’ that has been ‘systematically gathered’” (p. vii), and he emphasizes that the three components of “concise,” “detailed,” and “systematically gathered” characterize the compendium at hand. Perhaps even more significant is the change from of to for. That change was made, according to Cai, to signal a shift from a static, backward-looking collection of observations about research in our field to a resource that could be used to move that research forward. To service that shift, the authors of all the compendium chapters were asked to speculate on future directions for research in light of the research they were reviewing.

scholarly journals A quarter century of EUS-FNA: Progress, milestones, and future directions

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 141 ◽  
Author(s):  
ManoopS Bhutani ◽  
IrinaMihaela Cazacu ◽  
AdrianaAlexandra Luzuriaga Chavez ◽  
Adrian Saftoiu ◽  
Peter Vilmann
Keyword(s):  
Future Directions ◽  
Quarter Century
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