Rate of speech and emotional-cognitive regulation in the psychotherapeutic process: a pilot study

This study investigates the relationship between a clientâ€™s rate of speech (ROS) and emotional-cognitive regulation during a psychotherapy session. The ROS was measured in words per second on the timed transcript of a single session of psychodynamic psychotherapy. Emotional-cognitive regulation was assessed using the therapeutic cycles model on emotional tone (ET), abstraction (AB), and their combination in emotion-abstraction patterns (EAPs). The results were mostly consistent with our hypotheses and showed that: i) the ROS negatively correlated with the conjoined ET and AB; and ii) the ROS in the connecting EAP (high ET and high AB) was significantly lower than in other EAPs. The results support the hypothesis that a significant reduction in the clientâ€™s ROS may be a reliable marker of in-session change processes. Clinical implications and future developments are discussed.

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The Decision Process of Contracting in Supply Chain Management

The Oxford Handbook of Supply Chain Management ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190066727.013.16 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Jens K. Roehrich ◽

Beverly B. Tyler ◽

Jas Kalra ◽

Brian Squire

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Supply Chain Management ◽

Decision Process ◽

Interorganizational Relationships ◽

Future Research ◽

Theoretical Frameworks ◽

Chain Management ◽

Research And Practice ◽

Future Developments ◽

The Relationship

Contracts are a formal mode of governing interorganizational relationships. They specify the terms and conditions of the agreement between two parties, interpret and adapt the relevant legal and industrial norms, serve as framing devices, and establish the rules and norms underpinning the relationship. The objective of this chapter is to synthesize the extant literature on interorganizational contracting to guide future research and practice. This chapter focuses on the three phases of contracting: (1) designing the contracting portfolio; (2) negotiating initial contracts; and (3) managing the relationship using contracts. The chapter explores the key decisions in each phase and the criteria involved in making these decisions. In doing so, it draws on existing research and theoretical frameworks that have contributed to the development of the contracting literature. The chapter also identifies some important and interesting directions for future contracting research and offers suggestions regarding how selected theoretical lenses might guide these endeavors. The principal conclusion is that while the existing research has primarily focused on the structural issues guiding contracting design, a more processual, social, and behavioral focus is required in future developments of the contracting literature.

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Magic in the Russian Marketplace: Creating Trust

Russian History ◽

10.1163/18763316-04004019 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 40 (3-4) ◽

pp. 568-586

Author(s):

Faith Wigzell

Keyword(s):

Social Trust ◽

Traditional View ◽

Negative Image ◽

Future Developments ◽

The Media ◽

The Creation ◽

The Relationship ◽

The Church

Focussing on a commercial magic specialist (mag) well-known in Petersburg today, the article examines the strategies adopted by her and others to gain the confidence of their clientele. It opens by examining the levels of social trust in Russia, arguing that distrust and feelings of defenselessness encourage a sizeable proportion of Russians with the traditional view that problems are externally generated, to think of turning for help to magic practitioners. With magic services derided in the media and condemned by the Church, the magic specialist NPP must counter this negative image as well as promote her services above those of her competitors. Whereas in 2006 she relied on press advertising and recommendation by satisfied customers, in 2012 her main promotional tool is her website. The article examines the specific ways in which she tackles the creation of a trustworthy image. Since magic services offer a kind of therapy, another aspect examined in detail is the relationship with psychology and psychotherapy. It is suggested that from the early 1990s to around 2005 magic specialists sought to hijack psychotherapy, but that more recently links have been played down as magic practitioners define their potential clientele more clearly. The article offers reasons for this, and speculates on future developments.

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BDNF as a Biomarker of Cognition in Schizophrenia/Psychosis: An Updated Review

Frontiers in Psychiatry ◽

10.3389/fpsyt.2021.662407 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

Author(s):

Rodrigo R. Nieto ◽

Andrea Carrasco ◽

Sebastian Corral ◽

Rolando Castillo ◽

Pablo A. Gaspar ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Function ◽

High Risk ◽

Human Subjects ◽

Chronic Schizophrenia ◽

Review Article ◽

First Episode ◽

Cognitive Symptoms ◽

Research Gaps ◽

Future Developments ◽

The Relationship

Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) has been linked to cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia, which has been documented in previous reviews by several authors. However, a trend has recently emerged in this field moving from studying schizophrenia as a disease to studying psychosis as a group. This review article focuses on recent BDNF studies in relation to cognition in human subjects during different stages of the psychotic process, including subjects at high risk of developing psychosis, patients at their first episode of psychosis, and patients with chronic schizophrenia. We aim to provide an update of BDNF as a biomarker of cognitive function on human subjects with schizophrenia or earlier stages of psychosis, covering new trends, controversies, current research gaps, and suggest potential future developments in the field. We found that most of current research regarding BDNF and cognitive symptoms in psychosis is done around schizophrenia as a disease. Therefore, it is necessary to expand the study of the relationship between BDNF and cognitive symptoms to psychotic illnesses of different stages and origins.

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Using a Core Scientific Metadata Model in Large-Scale Facilities

International Journal of Digital Curation ◽

10.2218/ijdc.v5i1.146 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 106-118 ◽

Cited By ~ 25

Author(s):

Brian Matthews ◽

Shoaib Sufi ◽

Damian Flannery ◽

Laurent Lerusse ◽

Tom Griffin ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Large Scale ◽

Materials Science ◽

Production Quality ◽

Scientific Study ◽

Quality Data ◽

Structural Elements ◽

Metadata Model ◽

The Core ◽

Future Developments ◽

The Relationship

In this paper, we present the Core Scientific Metadata Model (CSMD), a model for the representation of scientific study metadata developed within the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) to represent the data generated from scientific facilities. The model has been developed to allow management of and access to the data resources of the facilities in a uniform way, although we believe that the model has wider application, especially in areas of “structural science” such as chemistry, materials science and earth sciences. We give some motivations behind the development of the model, and an overview of its major structural elements, centred on the notion of a scientific study formed by a collection of specific investigations. We give some details of the model, with the description of each investigation associated with a particular experiment on a sample generating data, and the associated data holdings are then mapped to the investigation with the appropriate parameters. We then go on to discuss the instantiation of the metadata model within a production quality data management infrastructure, the Information CATalogue (ICAT), which has been developed within STFC for use in large-scale photon and neutron sources. Finally, we give an overview of the relationship between CSMD, and other initiatives, and give some directions for future developments.

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Performance Changing Regularity of No.70 Road Asphalt with Different Aging Time

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.723.136 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 723 ◽

pp. 136-140

Author(s):

Yi Hua Nie ◽

Ping Liu ◽

Li Xin Xu ◽

Jie Ding

Keyword(s):

Thin Film ◽

Aging Time ◽

Resin Content ◽

Change Processes ◽

Road Asphalt ◽

Performance Indexes ◽

Before And After ◽

Asphalt Performance ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship

In this paper, rolling thin film oven is used to heat No.70 road asphalt to simulate asphalt aging. Six aging time tests of 0min, 40min, 85min, 180min, 240min and 300min were carried and the relationship of asphalt performance indexes before and after aging was got as well as four components. The analysis results indicate that: as the aging time increases, change processes of all performance indexes followed curve of index and the correlation coefficient reached significant level. Changing regularity of asphalt four components are also got: the contents of saturate and aromatic both decrease with the aging time increasing, while asphaltene content and resin content increased and the increasing speed of resin is faster. Key words: No.70 road asphalt; four components; performance index; aging.

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The Relationship Between Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Maintenance Processes, Emotional Distress, and Positive Psychotic Symptoms: Evidence That CBT Is “Not a Quasi-Neuroleptic”

Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy ◽

10.1891/0889-8391.28.2.101 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 28 (2) ◽

pp. 101-116 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Robert Brockman ◽

Michael Kiernan ◽

Vlasios Brakoulias ◽

Elizabeth Murrell

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ◽

Empirical Evidence ◽

Outcome Measures ◽

Emotional Distress ◽

Behavioral Therapy ◽

Control Strategies ◽

Cognitive Behavioral ◽

Psychotic Symptoms ◽

Change Processes ◽

The Relationship

Cognitive behavioral therapy for psychosis (CBTp) has enjoyed a steep rise in popularity over the past 15 years; however, recent systematic reviews and meta-analyses have concluded that CBTp has only modest effects on psychotic syndrome outcomes and that empirical evidence of its superiority over other psychosocial treatments is poor. And although it has been argued by some prominent authors that CBTp is not designed to alleviate the “psychotic syndrome,” there is little empirical evidence linking CBTp change mechanisms with syndrome versus single-symptom outcome measures. This study investigated the relationship between CBTp change processes, beliefs about voices, and thought control strategies, with a range of outcome measures including global positive psychotic symptoms in a sample of 40 voice hearers with established diagnosis of psychotic disorder. Consistent with the assertions of Birchwood and Trower (2006), global positive symptoms were found to be generally poorly related to CBTp change processes. Conversely, these CBTp change processes were found to be generally strongly related to measures of emotional distress and some measures of single psychotic symptoms. The implications for past and future CBTp treatment outcome studies are discussed.

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Perceptions of the Significant Other of the Effects of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

The British Journal of Psychiatry ◽

10.1192/bjp.168.1.87 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 168 (1) ◽

pp. 87-93 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Jane Roberts

Keyword(s):

Family Relationships ◽

Exploratory Study ◽

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy ◽

Extended Family ◽

Structured Interview ◽

Emotional Impact ◽

Individual Psychotherapy ◽

Significant Other ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship

BackgroundClinical practice suggests that partners of psychotherapy patients often have powerful feelings about the therapy and therapist. The repercussions of psychotherapy on those close to the patient are rarely considered. A small exploratory study was therefore conducted.MethodAll patients who had completed at least two months of weekly psychodynamic psychotherapy in 1990 at an out-patient unit of a psychiatric hospital (n = 35) and had a partner with whom they were living at the time of starting therapy (n = 23) were contacted. Eight gave permission for their partner to be contacted directly. All eight partners agreed to participate in a semi-structured interview exploring their perceptions of the effects of the therapy on a number of family relationships. The impact of the process of the study was also investigated by means of a questionnaire sent to all partners some weeks after the interview.ResultsConsiderable changes were perceived to have taken place in association with therapy affecting not only the relationship between the couple but also their parenting relationship, the children, and at times members of the extended family. Partners' views about the direction of such changes seemed to influence other perceptions about the therapy.ConclusionsThe repercussions of individual psychotherapy may well spread extensively within a family. This further blurs the boundary between individual and family therapy, both theoretically and clinically. Research procedures are themselves a major intervention and may have a considerable emotional impact on participants.

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Weight Loss in Parkinson’s Disease: The Relationship with Motor Symptoms and Disease Progression

BioMed Research International ◽

10.1155/2018/9642524 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2018 ◽

pp. 1-6 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Maria G. Cersosimo ◽

Gabriela B. Raina ◽

Luis A. Pellene ◽

Federico E. Micheli ◽

Cristian R. Calandra ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Weight Loss ◽

Logistic Regression ◽

Regression Analysis ◽

Disease Progression ◽

Logistic Regression Analysis ◽

Disease Duration ◽

Multivariable Logistic Regression Analysis ◽

Single Session ◽

Multivariable Logistic Regression ◽

The Relationship

Objectives.To determine the prevalence of weight loss (WL) in PD patients, its relationship to the severity of motor manifestations and appetite changes.Methods.144 PD patients and 120 controls were evaluated in a single session. All subjects were asked about changes in body weight and appetite. PD patients were examined with the UPDRS-III and the Hoehn and Yahr (HY) scales. Subscores of tremor, bradykinesia /rigidity, and non-dopaminergic symptoms (NDS) were analyzed individually. Multivariable logistic regression analysis was used to determine an association between WL and PD motor manifestations.Results.48.6 % of PD patients presented WL compared to 20.8 % of controls (p < 0.001). Weight losers were significantly older and had longer disease duration, higher scores in HY stages, UPDRS-III, and NDS-subscore. Multivariable logistic regression analysis demonstrated that WL was associated with NDS-subscore (p= 0.002; OR: 1.33) and older age (p= 0.037; OR: 1.05). Appetite in PD cases losing weight was unchanged (35.7 %), decreased (31.4 %), or even increased (32.9).Conclusions.Our results showed that WL occurs in almost half of PD patients and it is largely the consequence of disease progression rather than involuntary movements or a decrease in food intake.

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Toward a model of grammaticality judgments

Journal of Linguistics ◽

10.1017/s0022226709990260 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 46 (2) ◽

pp. 273-330 ◽

Cited By ~ 52

Author(s):

MARKUS BADER ◽

JANA HÄUSSLER

Keyword(s):

Signal Detection ◽

Magnitude Estimation ◽

Signal Detection Theory ◽

Time Pressure ◽

The Other ◽

Single Session ◽

The Third ◽

Grammaticality Judgments ◽

Corpus Data ◽

The Relationship

This paper presents three experiments that investigate the relationship between gradient and binary judgments of grammaticality. In the first two experiments, two different groups of participants judged sentences by the method of magnitude estimation and by the method of speeded grammaticality judgments in a single session. The two experiments involved identical sentence materials but they differed in the order in which the two procedures were applied. The results show a high correlation between the magnitude estimation data and the speeded grammaticality judgments data, both within a session and across the two sessions. The third experiment was a questionnaire study in which participants judged the same sentences as either grammatical or ungrammatical without time pressure. This experiment yielded results quite similar to those of the other two experiments. Thus gradient and binary judgments both provide valuable and reliable sources for linguistic theory when assessed in an experimentally controlled way. We present a model based on Signal Detection Theory which specifies how gradient grammaticality scores are mapped to binary grammaticality judgments. Finally, we compare our experimental results to existing corpus data in order to inquire into the relationship between grammaticality and frequency of usage.

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