Lay People’s Views on the Appropriateness of Psychotherapies

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 353
Author(s):  
Etienne Mullet ◽  
Maria Teresa Munoz Sastre ◽  
Florence Sordes-Ader
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Professional Experience ◽  
Weak Evidence ◽  
Therapeutic Decisions ◽  
Subject Factor ◽  
Factor Design ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

Rationale, aims and objectives When choosing a particular psychotherapy, psychotherapists are expected to take into account their clients’ preferences, needs, and values, their own professional experience, and what is currently known regarding the real impact of these therapies. Psychotherapists widely vary the one from the other in the weight they attribute to each of these factors. We examined the way lay people judge of the appropriateness of therapeutic decisions taken by clinical psychologists.Methods 206 participants were presented with 24 vignettes depicting the way a psychotherapist has selected therapy. They were composed according to a three within-subject factor design: (a) the frequency with which the therapy was used in clinical practice in the area, (b) the patients’ usual level of appreciation of this therapy, and (c) the level of scientific evidence supporting the use of this therapy (strong evidence, weak evidence, unknown evidence and no evidence). The participants rated appropriateness of the decision in each case.Results For half the participants, the most important factor was the patients’ appreciation of the therapy in general. Even scientifically supported therapies were considered as only mildly appropriate if patients in general didn’t like them much. For the remaining half of participants, scientific evidence was the most important factor: Therapies that were well appreciated by patients were not viewed as appropriate if they were not scientifically grounded.Conclusions Creating authoritative multilingual web sites synthesizing the main findings regarding the impact of diverse therapies would be a way through which at least some patients could judge of the appropriateness of the technique they have been offered by their psychotherapists. Their (informed) reactions could ease changes in direction of more weight attributed to existing scientific evidence from the part of therapists. 

scholarly journals Editorial: The impact of technology on certain historiographic issues

Artnodes ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Rodriguez Granell
Keyword(s):  
International Society ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Media Archaeology ◽  
Great Pleasure ◽  
The Past ◽  
Common Thread ◽  
The One ◽  
Impact Of Technology ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

It gives us great pleasure to present the 23rd issue of the magazine as a heterogeneous collection that brings together selected articles submitted in response to three different calls for contributions. On the one hand, we bring the volume focusing on media archaeology to a close with this second series of texts. The section on Digital Humanities also comprises an interesting series of contributions related to the 3rd Congress of the International Society of Hispanic Digital Humanities. The last section of this issue brings together another set of articles submitted in response to the magazine’s regular call for contributions, including different perspectives on issues that fall within the magazine’s scope of interest. All the sections and research contained here are unavoidably disparate from each other, yet, when taken as a whole, the reader will realise that there is a common thread throughout this issue, focusing on the impact of certain technologies have had on the way we view the past. The historical scope of technologies does not only operate in a single direction, but rather throughout time in its entirety.

Be[ing] You

2015 ◽  
pp. 18-32
Author(s):  
Lorna Ann Moore
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
The Body ◽  
Mirror Stage ◽  
Head Mounted Display ◽  
Personal Accounts ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way ◽  
Video Performance

This chapter discusses the one-to-one interactions between participants in the video performance In[bodi]mental. It presents personal accounts of users' body swapping experiences through real-time Head Mounted Display systems. These inter-corporeal encounters are articulated through the lens of psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan and his work on the “Mirror Stage” (1977), phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1968) and his writings on the Chiasm, and anthropologist Rane Willerslev's (2007) research on mimesis. The study of these positions provides new insights into the blurred relationship between the corporeal Self and the digital Other. The way the material body is stretched across these divisions highlights the way digital media is the catalyst in this in[bodied] experience of be[ing] in the world. The purpose of this chapter is to challenge the relationship between the body and video performance to appreciate the impact digital media has on one's perception of a single bounded self and how two selves become an inter-corporeal experience shared through the technology.

scholarly journals Does caffeine matter for arousal? Affective and autonomic responses induced by caffeine in coffee intake: evidence from a double-blind tasting task

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. e00143322
Author(s):  
Fernando Rodrigues ◽  
Julien Diogo ◽  
Carla Rodrigues ◽  
Cláudia Figueira ◽  
Pedro J. Rosa
Keyword(s):  
Autonomic Response ◽  
Caffeine Intake ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Coffee Intake ◽  
Double Blind ◽  
Autonomic Responses ◽  
Subject Factor ◽  
Factor Design ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Pupillary Reactivity

Coffee is consumed worldwide, but there are different types of espresso blends, each with its unique concentration of caffeine, which can have different effects on the human being. The aim of this study was to understand the effect of the impact of caffeine on the autonomic nervous system, evaluating the physiological changes and subjective responses due to different levels of caffeine intake. A double-blind tasting task consisting of one within-subject factor design (caffeine level: high / double caffeine mixture (blend A) vs single-charge caffeine mixture (blend B) vs low-caffeine mixture (blend c) allowed us to assess participants’ autonomic responses using Heart Rate Variability (HRV) and Pupillary Reactivity (PR). Arousal was also assessed through the Self-Assessment Manikin (SAM). Results revealed statistically significant differences in HRV and PR between coffee blends, showing the blend A,a more pronounced autonomic response that blend C. However, no significant differences were found in arousal level among coffee blends. These results are similar to previous research that pointed out to a discordance between subjective and objective measures when caffeine is consumed.

scholarly journals Prediction of COVID 19 and Its Economic Impact in Africa

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Habte Tadesse Likassa
Keyword(s):  
Population Density ◽  
Predictor Variables ◽  
Spatial And Temporal Variation ◽  
Spatial Effects ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Potential Predictor ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Factor Design ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact

This paper presents a two-way factor design incorporating both spatial and temporal variation in the prediction of COVID 19 in Africa. In line with this, the impact of COVID-19on the GDP in Africa is well scrutinized. In contrast to the existing works [1–3], this work also extends the two-factor design into the one-way factor design through incorporating covariates into spatial effects. The data rely on the spatial and temporal obtained from WHO datasets [4, 5]. The one-factor design with more covariates is taken into consideration to identify the major potential predictor variables responsible for the deaths and confirmed cases due to COVID 19 in Africa. The MANCOVA considered population density, temperature, humidity; perception, and wind are all considered as co-variates. Simulations show that the two-way analysis of variance has shown that there is a statistically significant difference between the spatial (Fcal= 8.2704, Pvalue= 3.099∗10−6)and temporal (Fcal= 48.7964, Pvalue= 9.147∗10−16) effects. South Africa and Nigeria are highly influencing due to the pandemic where their GDP also relatively mostly declined. A significant economic change is observed before the pandemic and after the outbreak of the pandemic(tcal= 2.9548, Pvalue= 0.01805). COVID 19 negatively influenced the economy of1 most of the African countries. The population density, temperature, and wind are found to be statistically significantly associated with COVID 19 cases and deaths.

scholarly journals Miradas exploratorias. Fotografías inéditas del viaje a Italia de Asís Cabrero

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
María José Aldea Hernández ◽  
Iñaki Bergera
Keyword(s):  
Primary Source ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Visual Tool ◽  
Historical Architecture ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Way

<p><em>As was the case in not just a few of his contemporaries, Francisco Cabrero's modern advent is centred on his initial trip, in this case the one made to Italy in 1941. The historiography of Spanish architecture in general and the specific studies on the architect have shown the impact and the scope of this two-month trip on his later career. Fleeing the ruling academicism in Spain, Cabrero 'discovers' in Italy the rationalist and abstract expression of monumentality. Nevertheless, the access to a wide photographic reportage —unpublished up to now— accomplished by the architect during the trip, allows us to document his journey but also to put in to question those claims. The photographs introduce us for the first time to Cabrero the photographer —to his particular way of constructing an image— and as a result they pave the way for the recognition of this visual tool as an exploratory instrument of the gaze to the detriment of the pencil and notebook. Above all and paradoxically, they contradict the supposed fascination for modern language in Cabrero since discovering that historical architecture was almost the only objective of his selective photographic look and as a result, the primary source, of his transforming inspiration.</em></p>

scholarly journals  The effect of the use of the strategy of "Mastery learning" of candidate students of "Class teacher" of the skill of designing educational websites through the "Front Page" program

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nasreen Abdel - Ilah Zahra
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Achievement Tests ◽  
Front Page ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Teacher Students ◽  
Technical Learning ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Class Teacher

The objective of the current research is to ascertain the impact of the use of the technical learning strategy in mastering the skills of designing educational web sites، using the descriptive analytical method، and using the one-group experimental approach because it fits the nature of the current research. The training program was used as a research tool، which was applied to a sample of (34) students who volunteered to apply the basic experience. The results showed that there were statistically significant differences between the total average score of students / teachers in the cognitive / tribal achievement tests (21.38)، the average score in the cognitive achievement tests (38.65)، as well as in each skill of designing educational websites Using the front page program and at the stages of the technical learning strategy. There were also statistically significant differences between the average score of students / teachers in the performance / tribal tests، (7.26)، and the average score in the performance tests / dimension (14.71)، in each skill of the design of educational websites using the front page And in accordance with the stages of the technical learning strategy. Most students / teachers reach the level of mastering 85%. In the light of the results، a set of recommendations and suggestions were presented to activate the technical learning strategy in training the teacher students on the skills of designing educational websites in Al-Baath University and the various Syrian and Arab universities.  

Judgments of Web Sites: The Impact of Time and Context

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Davin Pavlas ◽  
Heather Lum ◽  
Eduardo Salas
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
The Impact

Narrative, Intertext and Allusion in the Qur'anic Presentation of Job

1999 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. H. Johns
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Complex Network ◽  
Key Words And Phrases ◽  
Divine Revelation ◽  
Western Tradition ◽  
Islamic Tradition ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

Job (Ayyūb) is a byword for patience in the Islamic tradition, notwithstanding only six Qur'anic verses are devoted to him, four in Ṣād (vv.41-4), and two in al-Anbiyā' (vv.83-4), and he is mentioned on only two other occasions, in al-Ancām (v.84) and al-Nisā' (v.163). In relation to the space devoted to him, he could be accounted a ‘lesser’ prophet, nevertheless his significance in the Qur'an is unambiguous. The impact he makes is achieved in a number of ways. One is through the elaborate intertext transmitted from the Companions and Followers, and recorded in the exegetic tradition. Another is the way in which his role and charisma are highlighted by the prophets in whose company he is presented, and the shifting emphases of each of the sūras in which he appears. Yet another is the wider context created by these sūras in which key words and phrases actualize a complex network of echoes and resonances that elicit internal and transsūra associations focusing attention on him from various perspectives. The effectiveness of this presentation of him derives from the linguistic genius of the Qur'an which by this means triggers a vivid encounter with aspects of the rhythm of divine revelation no less direct than that of visual iconography in the Western Tradition.

Invention of Judaism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John J. Collins
Keyword(s):  
Way Of Life ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

Judaism is often understood as the way of life defined by the Torah of Moses, but it was not always so. This book identifies key moments in the rise of the Torah, beginning with the formation of Deuteronomy, advancing through the reform of Ezra, the impact of the suppression of the Torah by Antiochus Epiphanes and the consequent Maccabean revolt, and the rise of Jewish sectarianism. It also discusses variant forms of Judaism, some of which are not Torah-centered and others which construe the Torah through the lenses of Hellenistic culture or through higher, apocalyptic, revelation. It concludes with the critique of the Torah in the writings of Paul.

Static and Dynamic Studies of Gasoline in View of its Octane Number and its Toxic Effect

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 451-459
Author(s):  
Ashraf Yehia El-Naggar ◽  
Mohamed A. Ebiad
Keyword(s):  
Toxic Effect ◽  
Aromatic Hydrocarbons ◽  
Octane Number ◽  
Liquid Fuel ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Hydrocarbon Composition ◽  
Different Temperatures ◽  
Different Seasons ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact

Gasoline come primarily from petroleum cuts, it is the preferred liquid fuel in our lives. Two gasoline samples of octane numbers 91 and 95 from Saudi Arabia petrol stations were studied. This study was achieved at three different temperatures 20oC, 30oC and 50oC representing the change in temperatures of the different seasons of the year. Both the evaporated gases of light aromatic hydrocarbons (BTEX) of gasoline samples inside the tank were subjected to analyze qualitatively and quantitatively via capillary gas chromatography. The detailed hydrocarbon composition and the octane number of the studied gasoline samples were determined using detailed hydrocarbon analyzer. The idea of research is indicating the impact of light aromatic compounds in gasoline on the toxic effect of human and environment on the one hand, and on octane number of gasoline on the other hand. Although the value of octane number will be reduced but this will have a positive impact on the environment as a way to produce clean fuel.

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