Diss. (sammanfattning) Linköping : Linköpings universitet, 2005. / Härtill 6 uppsatser.

Diss. (sammanfattning) Stockholm : Karol. inst., 2006. / Härtill 4 uppsatser.

In the United States, Black women are more likely to be sexually victimized than any other ethnic group. Despite the higher rates among Black women, there is little research that provides therapists with approaches and techniques that are culturally specific to Black women. Instead, most literature has focused on women as a whole, rather than examining the different cultural values and forms of support that are needed for recovery in different ethnic groups. Therefore, this report will provide therapists with a sociocultural lens to increase awareness of the Black woman's identity, while suggesting a Womanist theoretical approach to group psychotherapy as an ideal method of treatment. / text

O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar os efeitos da estimulação elétrica com corrente de alta voltagem na cicatrização da úlcera de hipertensão venosa crônica, bem como na dor referida, em 13 pacientes portadores de 20 úlceras. Os pacientes diferiram quanto à variação da área da ferida ao longo do tratamento. As curvas individuais indicaram a eficácia do estudo. Dos 13 pacientes que participaram do estudo, observamos que em quatro as feridas cicatrizaram totalmente, enquanto em seis elas reduziram o seu tamanho e em três, aumentaram. Não foram observados efeitos adversos causados pela eletroestimulação. A dor apresentou melhora significativa ou cessação em todos os pacientes / The objectives of this study was to evaluate high voltage electric stimulation effects over chronic venous hypertension ulcer, as well over the referred pain, in 13 patients bearing 20 ulcers. The patients have differed among themselves in relation to the ulcer area throughout the study. The individuals curves indicated the treatment efficacy. It was observed that the ulcer area have been healed in four patients, reduced in six and increased in three of the thirteen patients who has participated in this study. It was not observed adverse effects due to electrical stimulation. The pain has showed meaningful advance or ceasing in all patients

Diss. (sammanfattning) Stockholm : Karol. inst., 2003. / Härtill 4 uppsatser.

Diss. (sammanfattning) Stockholm : Karol. inst., 2004. / Härtill 4 uppsatser.

This thesis presents new theories and creative techniques for exploring ‘designing for home happiness'. Set in the context of a primarily unsustainable and unhappy world, home is understood as a facilitator of current lifestyle practices that could also support long-term happiness activities, shown to promote more sustainable behaviour. It has yet to be examined extensively from a happiness perspective and many homes lack opportunities for meaningful endeavours. Service Design, an approach that supports positive interactions, shows potential in facilitating ‘designing for home happiness' but its tools are generally employed for visualising new systems/services or issues within existing ones instead of exploring related subjectivity. Art therapy techniques, historically used for expressing felt experiences, present applicable methods for investigating such subjective moments and shaping design opportunities for home happiness but have yet to be trialled in a design research context. This thesis therefore explores how Art Therapy and Service Design can be used successfully for ‘designing for home happiness'. A first study proposes photo elicitation as a creative method to explore, with participants from UK family households, several significant home happiness needs. Subsequently, art therapy techniques are proposed in Study 2 through two bespoke Happy-Home Workshops. This gives way to the Home Happiness Theory and Designing for Home Happiness Theory, which enable designers to design for home happiness. The Designing for Home Happiness Framework emerges from these studies proposing a new design creative method delivered through a workshop with specialised design tools and accompanying process for creating home happiness designs (i.e. services, product-service-systems). Through two Main Studies the framework is tested and validated with design experts in two different contexts, Loughborough (UK) and Limerick (Ireland), confirming its suitability and transferability in ‘designing for home happiness'. Resulting concepts support collective home happiness and social innovations by facilitating appropriate social contexts for their development. Overall, this research is the first to combine art therapy techniques with service design methods, offering original theories and approaches for ‘designing for home happiness' within Service Design and for social innovation. Collectively, this research delivers new creative methods for service designers, social innovators and designers more generally to investigate and support happier experiences within and outside the home for a more sustainable future.

O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar os efeitos da estimulação elétrica com corrente de alta voltagem na cicatrização da úlcera de hipertensão venosa crônica, bem como na dor referida, em 13 pacientes portadores de 20 úlceras. Os pacientes diferiram quanto à variação da área da ferida ao longo do tratamento. As curvas individuais indicaram a eficácia do estudo. Dos 13 pacientes que participaram do estudo, observamos que em quatro as feridas cicatrizaram totalmente, enquanto em seis elas reduziram o seu tamanho e em três, aumentaram. Não foram observados efeitos adversos causados pela eletroestimulação. A dor apresentou melhora significativa ou cessação em todos os pacientes / The objectives of this study was to evaluate high voltage electric stimulation effects over chronic venous hypertension ulcer, as well over the referred pain, in 13 patients bearing 20 ulcers. The patients have differed among themselves in relation to the ulcer area throughout the study. The individuals curves indicated the treatment efficacy. It was observed that the ulcer area have been healed in four patients, reduced in six and increased in three of the thirteen patients who has participated in this study. It was not observed adverse effects due to electrical stimulation. The pain has showed meaningful advance or ceasing in all patients

The goal of my thesis is to introduce professionals concerned with special educational or art with the art techniques with elements of art which are suitable for individuals with mental disabilities. In the theoretical part, I looked at the themes: Children's creative expression, Special art, Art Therapy, Symbols in art therapy, Goals of art therapy, Art Therapy techniques, Mental ratardacion In the practical part I have to invent an individual training - methodology for working with mentally handicapped and implement various activities with elements of visual art.

Diss. (sammanfattning) Stockholm : Karolinska institutet, 2002. / Härtill 5 uppsatser.