This article describes a case study in the use of the Family Check-Up (FCU), a family-based and ecological preventive intervention for children at risk for problem behavior. The FCU is an assessment-driven intervention that utilizes a health maintenance model; emphasizes motivation for change; and offers an adaptive, tailored approach to intervention. This case study follows one Caucasian family through their initial assessment and subsequent treatment for their toddler daughter's conduct problems over a 2-year period. Clinically meaningful improvements in child and family functioning were found despite the presence of child, parent, and neighborhood risk factors. The case is discussed with respect to the findings from a current multisite randomized control trial of the FCU and its application to other populations.

Antalet patientbesök på landets akutmottagningar har ökat och inflödet av patienter är oförutsägbart vilket kan leda till en ojämn arbetsbelastning, långa väntetider och påverkad patientsäkerhet. De som söker vård upplever många gånger oro för sin hälsa och upplever därmed att de behöver hjälp och en snar medicinsk bedömning av sitt hälsotillstånd. Utifrån detta har flera av landets akutmottagningar infört så kallad spot check, vilket innebär att en sjuksköterska bedömer patienten genom ett kort “face to face”-möte redan i akutmottagningens reception. Spot check görs i syfte att bedöma hur snart ett triageteam på akutmottagningen bör träffa patienten, alternativt om patienten kan hänvisas till annan vårdnivå. Syftet med studien var att beskriva sjuksköterskors upplevelser av faktorer som kan påverka patientsäkerheten vid “spot check” på akutmottagningar. Som metod användes en kvalitativ intervjustudie med induktiv ansats. Intervjuer utfördes på två akutmottagningar i västra Sverige. Tio sjuksköterskor med minst två års erfarenhet av arbete på akutmottagning inkluderades. Dessa intervjuades med semistrukturerade frågor. Intervjumaterialet transkriberades ordagrant och analyserades genom en kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Resultatet av innehållsanalysen utmynnade i två kategorier: “Spot check som arbetsmetod” och “Arbetssätt för ökad patientsäkerhet”. Utifrån dessa formulerades fyra underkategorier. Dessa handlade om hur hänvisningar redan i spot check kunde påverka flödestiderna på akutmottagningen, att sekretess var en viktig faktor för att bevara patienternas integritet samtidigt som bristande sekretess kunde försvåra adekvata bedömningar i spot check. Vidare framkom upplevelse av att patientsäkerheten stärktes genom att en sjuksköterska både ser och bedömer patienten direkt vid dennes ankomst och att sjuksköterskan har uppsikt över väntrummet. Slutligen betonades vikten av att sjuksköterskan, för att främja god patientsäkerhet, behövde vara både kompetent och erfaren för att arbeta i spot check. Studiens slutsats indikerar att spot check som arbetsmetod kan vara ett sätt för akutmottagningar att skapa förutsättningar för ökad patientsäkerhet, genom att patienter redan vid ankomst till akutmottagningen får en tidig medicinsk bedömning av sitt hälsotillstånd av en sjuksköterska i receptionen.

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Yes / Consultation is an important feature of research and, increasingly, researchers are required to work in partnership with stakeholders to increase the impact of their work. Our aim is to demonstrate what can be learned from the scholarship on, and practice of, member checking to facilitate productive knowledge exchange. Using dialogical analysis we explore three member check interactions from three different qualitative psychology projects focusing our analysis on difficult moments between researchers and participants conceptualised here as ‘sore spots’. We identify two major genres in these sequences: participant ambivalence and participant challenge. We then consider passages that allow us to explore a more theoretical understanding of these two genres in terms of the metaphor of portraits and mirrors. Overall, we outline how implicit epistemologies and theories of subjectivity (uncomplicated, blank, and complex) may be linked to the way in which stakeholders approach research. We also provide a map with regard to the theories within which member checks can be undertaken, associated research practices in terms of a range of researcher responses to stakeholder ambivalence and challenge, and implications of these moments for knowledge exchange for qualitative research but also for psychological science as a whole. We conclude that sore spots in knowledge exchange process can be productive opportunities of transformational validity.

The use of check valves in the nuclear industry is of great importance from a safety precaution point ofview (McElhaney, 1995). Choosing check valves for these high-pressurized systems comes with agreat challenge. The valves causes what is called check valve slams when closing, leading to a hugepressure wave traveling through the system. To prevent this from happening calculations have to bedone to see what kind of forces are generated during a check valve slam. When the forces are known itis easier designing systems that will endure these slams. A commonly used software in the nuclearindustry is RELAP5 (Reactor Excursion and Leak Analysis Program), its main purpose is to calculatetransients in piping systems. This program can also be used when calculating a check valve slam. Buthow precise is the code compared to the real event? By doing an experiment measuring pressures created by swing check valves during slams, the codewas compared to real data and analyzed to decide what was of importance when modeling for thesetypes of simulations. The RELAP5 code was not initially designed to calculate transients during a check valve slam. This isclearly shown when the code overestimates the pressure waves in the system when using themanufacturer data for the check valve model. Matching the data from the simulations in RELAP5 withthe data recorded from the experiment is not easy. The parameters used for this have no connection tothe specifications for the check valve, which means that transients are hard to estimate withoutexperimental data.

This study examines personal problems which a selected group of 1970's college freshmen at North Texas State University considered important to them and investigates significant changes in the nature, configuration, and frequency of these problems from those indicated by selected freshmen of the 1960's and 1950's. None of the wide variety of previous approaches over the years in studying problems of students has presented such a broad time span as this study. The students of the 1950's and 1960's were North Texas State University freshmen enrolled in Education 161, "The Psychology of Social and Personal Adjustment." The 1970's population was taken from basic freshman English courses at North Texas State University. All students were administered the Mooney Problem Check List, and the results were prepared for computer analysis. An analysis-of-variance program was used on eight hypotheses, with a .05 level of significance required for the hypotheses to be retained. The Spearman Rank Order Correlation Coefficient was used in answering two hypotheses. There were 2,809 freshmen from the 1950's, 1,440 from the 1960's, and 695 from the 1970's.

O objetivo deste trabalho e apresentar o resultado de uma pesquisa terminologica/ terminograca bilngue Ingl^es/Portugu^es das unidades terminologicas dos Procedimentos Operacionais de Cabine, da area de Aviac~ao Comercial, e da subarea do Check-list. A partir da organizac~ao das unidades terminologicas em forma alfab etica construmos um dicionario terminologico dessa area. Para a concretizac~ao desse objetivo, selecionamos e escolhemos os contextos que descreveram o conteudo sem^antico-conceptual dos termos. Para a realizac~ao deste trabalho utilizamos os corpora documental e de par^ametro para a extrac~ao, selec~ao e denic~ao dos termos. A composic~ao do perl tematico da subarea do Check-list foi feita atraves da utilizac~ao de textos de carater denitorios e explicativos, porque apresentam esses uma densidade terminologica alta. A maioria das unidades terminologicas tratadas s~ao termos compostos que subsumem o princpio da transpar^encia, o princpio da adequac~ao e o princpio da produtividade. Todos os termos includos nesta pesquisa, para a constru c~ao do dicionario terminologico bilngue, apresentam a estrutura hierarquica do vocabularo do Check-list. / The objective of this study is to present the result of a bilingual English-Portuguese terminological/terminographical research, which describes the terminological units of the Cockpit Training Procedure related to the Business Aviation area, and to the Check-list subarea. A dictionary was done due to the organization of the terminological units in alphabetical sequence. To achieve this goal, we selected and chose the contexts that describe the semantic and conceptual content of all terms. To carry out this task, the documental and the parameter corpora were used to extract, select and to dene the terms. The setting of the thematic prole of the Checklist was done through the use of dening and explanatory texts as they present a great terminological density. The majority of terminological units used in this study were compound terms which subsume the principle of transpar^encia, the principle of appropriateness and, the principle of derivability. All the terms included in this research to build up the bilingual terminological dicitionary present a hierarchical structure of the Check-list vocabulary.

O objetivo deste trabalho e apresentar o resultado de uma pesquisa terminologica/ terminograca bilngue Ingl^es/Portugu^es das unidades terminologicas dos Procedimentos Operacionais de Cabine, da area de Aviac~ao Comercial, e da subarea do Check-list. A partir da organizac~ao das unidades terminologicas em forma alfab etica construmos um dicionario terminologico dessa area. Para a concretizac~ao desse objetivo, selecionamos e escolhemos os contextos que descreveram o conteudo sem^antico-conceptual dos termos. Para a realizac~ao deste trabalho utilizamos os corpora documental e de par^ametro para a extrac~ao, selec~ao e denic~ao dos termos. A composic~ao do perl tematico da subarea do Check-list foi feita atraves da utilizac~ao de textos de carater denitorios e explicativos, porque apresentam esses uma densidade terminologica alta. A maioria das unidades terminologicas tratadas s~ao termos compostos que subsumem o princpio da transpar^encia, o princpio da adequac~ao e o princpio da produtividade. Todos os termos includos nesta pesquisa, para a constru c~ao do dicionario terminologico bilngue, apresentam a estrutura hierarquica do vocabularo do Check-list. / The objective of this study is to present the result of a bilingual English-Portuguese terminological/terminographical research, which describes the terminological units of the Cockpit Training Procedure related to the Business Aviation area, and to the Check-list subarea. A dictionary was done due to the organization of the terminological units in alphabetical sequence. To achieve this goal, we selected and chose the contexts that describe the semantic and conceptual content of all terms. To carry out this task, the documental and the parameter corpora were used to extract, select and to dene the terms. The setting of the thematic prole of the Checklist was done through the use of dening and explanatory texts as they present a great terminological density. The majority of terminological units used in this study were compound terms which subsume the principle of transpar^encia, the principle of appropriateness and, the principle of derivability. All the terms included in this research to build up the bilingual terminological dicitionary present a hierarchical structure of the Check-list vocabulary.

Check: IRK (Initial Riskbedömning för Kriminalitet) är en nyutvecklad evidensbaserad checklista tänkt att användas av professionella i initiala bedömningar för att identifiera riskfaktorer för kriminalitet hos ungdomar och vuxna med risk för långvarigt kriminellt beteende. Syftet med vår studie var att i en första pilottestning ta reda på hur professionella inom polis och socialtjänst uppfattar användbarheten av Check: IRK. Via en webbenkätundersökning besvarade 21 respondenter, varav 6 män och 15 kvinnor mellan 26-47 år (M=36 år, SD=6,70) på frågor gällande innehåll, tillämpning och utbildning i Check: IRK. Studiens data analyserades med Z-test och resultaten indikerar att utifrån innehåll, tillämpning och utbildning i checklistan så uppfattar professionella inom polis och socialtjänst Check: IRK som användbar i sitt arbete. / Check: IRK is a newly developed evidence-based checklist designed to be used by professionals in the initial assessment to identify risk factors for criminality in adolescents and adults at risk of long-term criminal behavior. The current pilot study investigated how professionals within the police and social services perceived the usefulness of Check: IRK. Through a web survey 21 respondents including 6 men and 15 women between the age of 26-47 years (M=36 years, SD=6,70) answered questions regarding the content, implementation and training of the Check: IRK. Data were analyzed using Z-test and the results indicated that professionals within the police and social services find the Check: IRK to be useful in their daily work.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität, Marburg, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-156).