Brief Case Conceptualizations

This chapter examines a brief case conceptualization strategy that is summarized in five steps. It reviews how pattern is formulated throughout the five-step process. Pattern links the client’s presenting symptoms to the precipitating event and is driven by the predisposing factors and perpetuants. Pattern also informs the second-order treatment goals and interventions as well as the likely treatment obstacles and challenges. The chapter summarizes the following five-step strategy: Step 1: Specify presenting problem and precipitants; Step 2: Identify maladaptive pattern; Step 3: Identify predisposing factors and perpetuants; Step 4: Specify treatment goals and interventions; and Step 5: Specify obstacles, challenges, and facilitators. The chapter concludes with two case vignettes that demonstrate the five-step brief case conceptualization strategy.

Full-Scale Case Conceptualizations

This chapter examines a full-scale case conceptualization strategy that is summarized in eight steps. It reviews how pattern is formulated throughout the eight-step process. Pattern links the client’s presenting symptoms to the precipitating event and is driven by the predisposing factors and perpetuants. Pattern also informs the second-order treatment goals and interventions, as well as the likely treatment obstacles and challenges. The chapter informs readers to apply the following eight-step strategy with two case vignettes: Step 1: Specify presenting problem and precipitants; Step 2: Identify maladaptive pattern; Step 3: Identify predisposing factors and perpetuants; Step 4: Specify a cultural formulation; Step 5: Specify the client’s relevant protective factors and strengths; Step 6: Specify treatment goals; Step 7: Specify treatment interventions; and Step 8: Specify obstacles, challenges, and facilitators. The chapter concludes with two case vignettes that demonstrate the eight-step full-scale conceptualization strategy.

Making a Mark: Process, Pattern and Change in the British and Irish Neolithic

This paper presents key results of the Making a Mark project (2014–2016), which aimed to provide a contextual framework for the analysis of mark making on portable artefacts in the British and Irish Neolithic by comparing them with other mark-making practices, including rock art and passage tomb art. The project used digital imaging techniques, including Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), and improved radiocarbon chronologies, to develop a new understanding of the character of mark making in the British and Irish Neolithic. Rather than considering this tradition in representational terms, as expression of human ideas, we focus on two kinds of relational material practices, the processes of marking and the production of skeuomorphs, and their emergent properties. We draw on Karen Barad's concept of ‘intra-action’ and Gilles Deleuze's notion of differentiation to understand the evolution and development of mark-making traditions and how they relate to other kinds of social practices over the course of the Neolithic.

The Auditing Process Reform in the Jordanian Bureaucracy

The aim of the research is to systematically conduct a methodical analysis of policy reforms in Jordan and study the perceptions and features of such a reform. The primary purpose of this review study will be to concentrate on the auditing issues within the system for developing policies and guidelines and to identify possible weaknesses and deficiencies. The investigation of this study used the diagnostic-analytical analysis of the auditing system in the political process to recognize the underlying flaws and weaknesses. In this analysis process, pattern matching is a well-known technique in this type of study, where a certain type of outcome may be known in several cases and the study concentrates on how and why these results occur in each case. The study found that the degree of authority assigned to both the government and its regulatory structure is clearly the main variable that can impede and encourage successful standards of transparency and responsiveness. Jordan's latest endeavor to reach agreement on the role, functions and power of the government has opened the door to the quarrels that endanger the regime's stability. This research will also take into account the environmental conditions under which the governance structure functions effectively and how Jordan can channel its efforts towards achieving productivity in the public service, with particular emphasis on the auditing process. Received: 11 November 2020 / Accepted: 07 January 2021 / Published: 5 March 2021

Self Resiliency Process: Breast Cancer Survivor (Post-Treatment)

Background: Cancer is one of the most deadly diseases. Many cancer sufferers cannot cope with stress after going through the treatment period or post-treatment. Self-resiliency power is an important component for the success of individuals to carry out life after treatment. The ability of self-resiliency power possessed by each individual varies and is unique to each other.The purpose of this study was to look at and explore more deeply about the process of arousing self resiliency in post-treatment survivors of breast cancer. Method: This study uses a qualitative method of grounded theory involving 3 (three) survivors of breast cancer as participants of the study. Result: The results of the present study indicate that I found an interesting theme from the open coding, axial coding and selective coding process. Conclusion: The results of this study answered questions and problem formulations because they had found patterns of self-resiliency in post-treatment breast cancer survivors. Each participant is unique so that the process pattern of their self-resiliency is different.

Implementation and Advancement of a Rural Residential Concentration Strategy in the Suburbs of Shanghai

Rural residential concentration was one of the important tasks of the “Three Concentrations” strategy implemented in the suburbs of Shanghai in the mid-1990s. The aims of this paper are to comprehensively evaluate the process, pattern and effects of residential concentration in the suburbs of Shanghai over the past 20 years, clarify the direction and focus of development, and propose suggestions for existing deficiencies. Based on remote sensing images and statistical data, the implementation and effects of the rural residential concentration strategy from 1990 to 2015 were analysed using landscape indexes and geospatial analysis. The results are as follows: (1) according to the changes in the landscape pattern and spatial structure, the trends in population concentration in the suburbs of Shanghai are obvious. (2) Before 1995, the trend of population diffusion was conspicuous. After 1995, the period of population diffusion gradually shifted to a period of population agglomeration. The rate of population concentration increased rapidly from 2000 to 2010 and then became moderate after 2010. (3) In 1990, most of the rural residential areas were distributed within 14–52 km of the city centre, the distribution of residential area in each ring was relatively uniform, and the overall distribution was scattered and uniform. By 2015, the rural population gradually converged in the inner suburbs, and the centralized distribution gradually changed to within 16–32 km of the city centre. (4) In 1990, most of the rural residential areas were located north-northwest, southeast, and southwest of the People’s Square. By 2015, the areas southwest and southeast of the People’s Square became the focus of rural residential distribution. These findings provide a useful reference for future rural planning and construction.