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The consequences of war and conflict on mental health remain long after the events are over. Several publications and reports highlight the need for effective and cost-effective treatments targeting mental ill-health in war affected low-income countries. This study investigated the effects of a two-session Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) intervention on quality of life, psychological flexibility and Steps taken in valued direction. Participants were women (N=6) seeking help for HIV, Pain and Sexual abuse at a Non Governmental Organization in Sierra Leone. A single case design with repeated measures and pre, mid, and post-measures was used. Results show support for the interventions effect on Quality of Life and Steps taken in valued direction. Due to the small sample size in this pilot study the significance of the findings is limited.

This paper examines the production of the thesis film The Last Act of a Desperate Man. The film's production is explored with respect to writing, directing, production design, cinematography, editing, sound design, technology and workflow. Particular attention is paid to the dynamics of acting and directing simultaneously. The production is examined with regard to major decisions which influenced each area of production, ultimately shaping the final film. The film maker's own analysis is offered in conjunction with feedback from a test screening with a statistical analysis of the test audience's poll responses.

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University / The objective of this paper, An Appraisal of the Slichter Act, is to examine the Slichter Act of Massachusetts in order to determine whether or not it has successfully accomplished its purposes, and whether or not it is adapted to present day conditions. The evidence shows that neither of these criterion can be answered in the affirmative. Although the primary purpose of the Act, that of providing protection from industrial disputes dangerous to the public health and safety, has not been given a bona fide test, the secondary purpose of the Act of aiding the settlement of these disputes has not been realized on the basis of the existing experience. During the period of time which produced the Slichter Act, levels of strike activity were at an all time high, and a need was felt for some control of strikes. As a result, the Slichter Act, as well as similar laws in other states, was passed by the legislature. The Slichter Act provided several alternatives to handle disputes which might threaten the public health and safety by an interruption in the supply of essential goods and services, primarily food, electricity, gas, water, heat, and hospital services. The Governor was empowered to appoint a Moderator, whose function would be to induce the parties to arbitrate or otherwise reach settlement. If the Moderator was unsuccessful, the Governor was given the authority to seize the company involved, to appoint an emergency arbitration board, and finally to appoint a special commission for making recommendations. Although the recommendations of either the emergency arbitration board or the special commission were not necessarily binding, the Governor was given the power to effect such recommendations during seizure. [TRUNCATED].

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L’acte de manger est toujours présent dans notre mode d’être-au-monde, traduisant un mode d’existence et un mode de relation avec le corps propre, avec les autres et avec le monde. L’hyperphagie nous renvoie à une expérience vécue par un sujet qui ne peut pas ne pas manger, qui place souvent l’acte de manger au centre de sa vie et qui exprime un mode psychopathologique à travers la prise alimentaire. Dès lors que l’hyperphagie est devenue un trouble alimentaire reconnu, classifié et de plus en plus étudié, elle s’est présentée comme un « nouvel » élément, souvent associé à la problématique de l’obésité. Cette thèse a pour but de proposer une approche phénoménologique de l’expérience hyperphagique dans l’obésité. Notre parcours de recherche est divisé en quatre parties. Dans la première partie, nous présentons l’historique du corps et du discours psychiatrique autour des troubles alimentaires et de l’obésité, tout en identifiant la manière dont cette histoire et ces discours peuvent marquer l’expérience hyperphagique dans l’obésité. La deuxième partie est consacrée à la phénoménologie de Merleau-Ponty en tant que point de vue fécond pour la compréhension des troubles alimentaires et de l’obésité. Nous faisons un parcours qui démarre avec sa phénoménologie du corps, passe par sa notion de schéma corporel comme voie d’organisation de ce mode d’être corps et finit par son concept de chair. En s’approchant d’unephénoménologie clinique, nous discutons, dans la troisième partie, les contributions de Ludwig Binswanger et d’Arthur Tatossian pour le dévoilement de l’expérience hyperphagique dans l’obésité et nous présentons l’état de l’art actuel des publications phénoménologiques contemporaines sur les troubles alimentaires et sur l’obésité. En utilisant la méthode phénoménologique critique de recherche, nous présentons, dans la quatrième partie, les résultats des entretiens cliniques réalisés dans le contextes français (à Paris) et brésilien (à Fortaleza). Vingt sujets ont été interviewés dans les services de santé publique de chaque pays afin d’avoir un référentiel clinique plus direct, de pouvoir comprendre leur expérience hyperphagique et leur mode d’être obèse puis de comparer les nuances et les sens des spécificités de chaque contexte. Cette approche phénoménologique se constitue dansl’intersection entre la théorie, présentée dans les trois premières parties, et la pratique, mise en évidence à partir du contact clinique avec les patients. Parmi les résultats, nous retenons d’abord l’objectification du corps qui marque les modes de le vivre, produit de la souffrance et traverse la composition des troubles alimentaires et de l’obésité. Nous avons observé une désappropriation du corps souvent vécue dans l’expérience hyperphagique dans l’obésité. D’un côté, l’expérience hyperphagique dénote l’incapacité de ressentir les sentiments corporels et de pouvoir contrôler les actes alimentaires dans un bouleversement du mode d’éprouver le corps, tout en signalant l’« hyper » centralité de l’acte de manger. De l’autre côté, l’obésité signale l’expérience d’un sujet qui est souvent réduit à sa condition corporelle et porte une souffrance liée aux limitations physiques, à la visibilité de ce corps hors norme, aux jugements et à la pression des autres pour ne plus avoir ce corps. Ces deux expériences, recherchées ensemble, n’ont pas de frontières rigides et révèlent un sujet souvent perdu dans son mode d’être et d’avoir un corps. Nous concluons que le travail clinique passe par la réappropriation de ce corps par le sujet et par la récupération de sa condition de sujet qui peut ressentir, choisir, souffrir et aussi (ne pas) manger / The act of eating is present in our ways of being in the world and also translates our relationships with existence, with our own bodies, with other people’s bodies and with the world. The concept of Hyperphagia brings to our notice the experience of an individual that is incapable of not eating, and who very often elevates the act of eating to central position in life, which presents a psychopathology by means food ingestion. Once hyperphagia became officially recognized as an eating disorder along with due classification and increasing interest as an object of investigation, a “fresh” element was presented and turned out to be rather frequently associated with the obesity problem. The objective of this thesis is to propose a phenomenological approach of hyperphagic experience in obesity. Our research procedure is divided into four parts. In the first part, we introduce the history of the body and of the psychiatric discourse upon eating disorders and obesity while identifying the means by which such history and discourses might influence the hyperphagic experience in obesity. The second part is dedicated to Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology as a fruitful point of view for understanding eating disorders and obesity. The route we have followed starts with his phenomenology of the body, and then goes through his concept of body scheme as a means of organization of this bodily way of being, and finally reaches his concept of flesh. In close proximity to clinical phenomenology, we have discussed, in the third part, the contributions of Ludwig Binswanger and Arthur Tatossian towards unveiling the hyperphagic experience in obesity and presented the current state of the art in contemporary phenomenological publications on the theme of eating disorders and obesity. Employing the critical phenomenological method of research, we present, in the fourth part, the results of clinical interviews realized in the French (in Paris) and Brazilian (in Fortaleza) context. Twenty individuals were interviewed at centers of public health care in each country in order to have a more direct clinical reference, and also in order to understand the hyperphagic experience and the obese way of being and then compare nuances and specificity meanings in each context. This phenomenological approach is constituted by the intersection of theory, presented in the first three parts, and practice, highlighted by the clinical contact with patients. Among results, we initially highlight the objectification of the body that defines this body’s ways of living, produces suffering and permeates the composition of eating disorders and obesity. We have observed an expropriation of the body that is frequently experienced in the hyperphagic experience in obesity. On the one hand, the hyperphagic experience denotes an incapacity to feel bodily feelings and to control eating habits in a strong alteration in the ways of experiencing the body, hinting at a hyper centrality in the act of eating. On the other hand, obesity reflects the experience of an individual that is quite often reduced to his bodily condition and bears much suffering connected to physical limitations, to the visibility of such overweight body, and to other people’s judgementalism and pressure into no longer having that obese body. These two experiences, when researched together, do not present clearly defined borderlines and reveal an individual who is very often lost in his own way of being and having a body. We reach a conclusion in which clinical work implies the individual’s repossession of his own body as well as of his ability to feel, choose, suffer and also eat, or not. / O ato de comer está sempre presente no nosso modo de ser-no-mundo, traduzindoum modo de existência e de relação com o corpo próprio, com os outros e com o mundo. Ahiperfagia nos remete a uma experiência vivida por um sujeito que não pode não comer, queposiciona frequentemente o ato de comer no centro de sua vida e que expressa um modopsicopatológico através da ingestão de alimentos. Uma vez que a hiperfagia tornou-se umtranstorno alimentar reconhecido, classificado e cada vez mais estudado, foi apresentado umelemento "novo" muitas vezes associado ao problema da obesidade. Esta tese tem comoobjetivo propor uma abordagem fenomenológica da experiência hiperfágica na obesidade.Nosso percurso de pesquisa é dividido em quatro partes. Na primeira parte, apresentamos ahistória do corpo e do discurso psiquiátrico em torno dos transtornos alimentares e daobesidade, identificando como essa história e esses discursos podem marcar a experiênciahiperfágica na obesidade. A segunda parte é consagrada à fenomenologia de Merleau-Pontycomo um ponto de vista fecundo para a compreensão dos transtornos alimentares e daobesidade. Fazemos um percurso que começa com sua fenomenologia do corpo, passa por seuconceito de esquema corporal como via de organização desse modo de ser corporal e terminacom seu conceito de carne. Aproximando-se de uma fenomenologia clínica, discutimos, naterceira parte, as contribuições de Ludwig Binswanger e de Arthur Tatossian para odesvelamento da experiência hiperfágica na obesidade e apresentamos o estado da arte atualdas publicações fenomenológicas contemporâneas sobre os transtornos alimentares e sobre aobesidade. Utilizando o método fenomenológico crítico de pesquisa, apresentamos, na quartaparte, os resultados das entrevistas clínicas realizadas nos contextos francês (em Paris) ebrasileiro (em Fortaleza). Vinte sujeitos foram entrevistados em serviços de saúde pública decada país, a fim de ter uma referência clínica mais direta, compreender a experiênciahiperfágica e o modo de ser obeso e, então, comparar as nuances e os sentidos dasespecificidades de cada contexto. Esta abordagem fenomenológica é constituída na interseçãoentre a teoria, apresentada nas três primeiras partes, e a prática, destacada pelo contato clínicocom os pacientes. Entre os resultados, destacamos inicialmente a objetificação do corpo quemarca os modos de viver esse corpo, produz sofrimento e atravessa a composição dostranstornos alimentares e da obesidade. Observamos uma desapropriação do corpofreqüentemente vivida na experiência hiperfágica na obesidade. Por um lado, a experiênciahiperfágica denota a incapacidade de sentir os sentimentos corporais e poder controlar os atosalimentares em uma forte alteração do modo de experienciar o corpo, sinalizando para uma“hiper” centralidade do ato de comer. Por outro lado, a obesidade sinaliza a experiência de umsujeito que é muitas vezes reduzido a sua condição corporal e carrega um sofrimento ligado àslimitações físicas, à visibilidade desse corpo fora da norma, aos julgamentos e à pressão dosoutros para não ter mais esse corpo. Essas duas experiências, pesquisadas juntas, não têmfronteiras rígidas e revelam um sujeito muitas vezes perdido em seu modo de ser e ter umcorpo. Concluímos que o trabalho clínico envolve a reapropriação deste corpo pelo sujeito e arecuperação de sua condição como sujeito que pode sentir, escolher, sofrer e também (não)comer.

A delay discounting survey was provided to 30 participants to assess hypothetical choices. Each question provided choices between using a complementary plastic bag and harming an ocean animal or purchasing a reusable bag and not harming an ocean animal. Participants were randomly assigned to complete a control or values-based activity. The values-based activity utilized Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to assist in identifying participants’ values and committed actions, whereas the control activity included a word association game. Discounting scores were calculated across delay discounting surveys conducted pre- and post-activity completion. The purpose of the study was to assess relationships between completion of activities (values-based or control) and discounting scores on items pertaining to environmental sustainability. Implications, limitations, and future directions are provided and discussed

Thesis (M.A.) (Public Administration) --University of Limpopo, 2009. / The Public Finance Management Act (PFMA), 1999 (Act No. 1 of 1999) (as amended by Act No. 29 of 1999) is one of the most important pieces of legislation passed by the first democratic government in South Africa. The Act promotes the objective of good financial management in order to maximise service delivery through the effective and efficient use of the limited resources. The key objectives of the Act are to modernise the system of financial management in the public sector; enable public sector managers to manage, but at the same time be held more accountable; ensure the timely provision of quality information; and eliminate the waste and corruption in the use of public assets. The Act, which came into effect from 1 April 2000, gives effect to Sections 213 and 215 to 219 of The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 for implementation at the national and provincial spheres of government. These sections require national legislation to establish a national treasury; to introduce uniform treasury norms and standards; to prescribe measures to ensure transparency and expenditure control in all spheres of government; and to set the operational procedures for borrowing, guarantees, procurement and oversight over the various national and provincial revenue funds. The Public Finance Management Act adopts an approach to financial management that focuses on outputs and responsibilities rather than the rule-driven approach of the previous Exchequer Acts. The Act is part of a broader strategy on improving financial management in the public sector. The Public Finance Management Act replaced or superceded the various national and provincial Exchequer Acts and the Reporting of Public Entities Act. The study concerns itself with the evaluation of compliance with the Public Finance Management Act by the Department of Labour in Limpopo. The objective of the study is to analyze and assess the implementation and execution of the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA), and to evaluate the compliance of Public Finance Management Act by the Department of Labour in Limpopo Province. Quantitative research methodology was chosen for this study. Data collection strategy used was questionnaires. The researcher employs a strategy of inquiry, such as survey, to investigate a research question. The findings of this research were that communication barrier and lack of training in financial related matters is a challenge for the Department of Labour in Limpopo. The researcher also found that the Accounting Officer at DoL Limpopo did not introduce a system of internal audit under the control and direction of an Audit Committee as it is a prerequisite of the Public Finance Management Act.

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Det är av stor vikt att hitta faktorer som leder till bättre livskvalitet för personer med allvarlig psykisk ohälsa. Ofta har dessa personer ett behov av flertal insatser/stöd och behandling samtidigt. En vanlig situation för dessa personer har dock varit att de ”faller mellan stolarna” då ingen instans tar ett helhetsansvar om brukarnas situation, trots den komplexa problematiken. En insats som tar ett samlat grepp om personer med allvarlig psykisk ohälsa är Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) och Case Management. Men det finns idag få studier i Sverige om brukares egna erfarenheter och uppfattningar om insatsen. Med hjälp av den här studien skulle en ökad förståelse kunna uppnås för hur olika typer av insatser och stöd uppfattas av brukarna själva.