Personal and professional development activities are a central component of Counselling Psychology training due to regulatory requirements and the high value Counselling Psychology places on the therapist’s "self". Most research on the facilitation of personal and professional development focuses on specific training activities such as personal therapy and personal development groups. However, it is widely acknowledged that personal and professional development are also facilitated by aspects of training and life that are not designed for their facilitation. This research explores the relationship between trainee Counselling Psychologists’ personal and professional development and their client work. Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was used to analyse semi-structured interviews with six final year trainee Counselling Psychologists. Two main findings were identified: firstly, participants were unable to discuss their personal and professional development in relation to client work specifically; personal and professional development were facilitated by the relevance of specific experiences to individuals’ needs and preferences rather than activities having a direct facilitative effect themselves. Secondly, participants did not engage in active personal development work, and this was not explicitly discussed or structured in training. These findings imply that trainees may not develop optimally: as personal and professional development are highly individualised and complex processes, research and training that focuses on specific training activities may fail to interrogate the complexity of why and how personal and professional development are facilitated. Regulatory and ethical implications are discussed alongside existing literature to suggest the beginnings of a personal development curriculum for Counselling Psychology training.

Esta tese constitui um estudo sobre o papel da mobilização feminina em discursos sobre identidade, etnicidade e pertencimento nacional. O objeto de pesquisa são as associações femininas fujinkai constituídas no âmbito da imigração japonesa para o Brasil ao longo do século XX. A partir de uma análise informada por aportes teóricos e epistemológicos dos estudos de gênero, sociologia histórica das migrações e estudos pós-coloniais, a pesquisa sugere que o associativismo feminino nipo-brasileiro esteve articulado a questões e ansiedades em relação à mistura racial e perda cultural e contribuiu para a produção de representações positivas sobre o Japão e os japoneses no arena global. Com a derrota do país na Segunda Guerra Mundial, essas organizações ressurgem com novos propósitos, promovendo trabalhos voluntários de interesse cultural e filantrópico e contribuindo para a formulação de sentidos de identidade japonesa distanciados dos referenciais imperiais-nacionalistas e alinhados à narrativa de ascensão socioeconômica do grupo na sociedade brasileira. Longe de apresentar conclusões definitivas, este trabalho busca estabelecer um campo de possibilidades analíticas a partir da problematização dos sentidos políticos da mobilização feminina no âmbito da domesticidade e as articulações do gênero com outras relações de poder como classe, raça, etnicidade e nacionalidade. / This thesis is a study about the role of women\'s mobilization in matters of identity, ethnicity and national belonging. It focuses on women\'s associations called fujinkai established by Japanese immigrants in Brazil throughout the twentieth century. This analysis is based on theoretical and epistemological contributions from gender studies, historical sociology of migration and postcolonial studies. The research data suggests that Japanese-Brazilian female associations were articulated to address issues and anxieties regarding racial mixture, cultural loss and to aid the production of positive representations about Japan and the Japanese in the global landscape. After Japan was defeated in World War II, these organizations resurfaced with a new purpose, promoting voluntary works of social, cultural and philanthropic interest, contributing to the create new Japanese identities distanced from imperial-nationalist references and aligned with a project of socioeconomic ascension for Japanese-Brazilians in Brazil. Far from presenting definitive conclusions, this work seeks to establish analytical possibilities by problematizing the political meanings of women\'s domestic roles and mobilization and the interplay between gender and other relations of power such as class, race, ethnicity and nationality.

The aim of this thesis is to study the role and the influence of the Swedish local government association, SALAR, which is an interest group representing all of the Swedish local authorities and regions. As a result of a change in exercising public power from government to multi-level governance that has reinforced subnational level, including local authorities and regions, SALAR is today a significant actor. It has an intermediating role in the relation between the government and local and regional authorities. SALAR is a hybrid organization that has interest group and governmental characteristics. It is a player competing with other interest groups in a pluralistic system but it is also a corporatist negotiation partner of the government that has a privileged access to central government decision-making. This study uses a comparative case study method analyzing two policy processes to study and describe what kind of role and influence SALAR has in these processes and how the role and the influence of SALAR can be understood from an interest group perspective and a multi-level governance perspective. The described and analyzed policy processes are Kömiljarden, an effectivity effort in Swedish public health care system, and the introduction of the teacher license system in Swedish schools. The empirical material used in this thesis consists of official publications published by public authorities, the parliament and the government as well as interviews with officials representing public authorities, the government and SALAR. The results presented in this thesis show that SALAR in line with previous research on local government associations in other countries, has a role as an intermediator with a privileged access to central government and central decision-making. It is a partner that central government negotiates with and which has the task of informing about the local and regional circumstances. Its influence can also be analyzed in connection to these negotiations. SALAR is in many ways stuck in the structure of decision-making, which is operated by central government while still being in competition with interest groups, such as the teacher unions.

The Gemsbok Sub-basin is situated in the south-western corner of the Kalahari Karoo Basin and extends south from the Kgalagadi District of Botswana into the Northern Cape (South Africa); and west into the Aranos Basin (southeast Namibia). The Sub-basin preserves a heterogeneous succession of Upper Palaeozoic to Lower Mesozoic sedimentary and volcanic rocks of the Karoo Supergroup. Because the succession is largely covered by the Cenozoic Kalahari Group, the stratigraphy of the succession is not as well understood as the Main Karoo Basin in South Africa. Most research in the Gemsbok Sub-basin is based on borehole data. This study focuses on the intrabasinal correlation, depositional environments and provenance of the Karoo Supergroup in the Gemsbok Sub-basin in Botswana and Namibia. Based on detailed sedimentological analyses of 11 borehole cores of the Karoo Supergroup in the Gemsbok Sub-basin of Botswana and Namibia, 8 facies associations (FAs) comprising 14 lithofacies and 2 trace fossil assemblages (Cruziana and Skolithos ichnofacies) were identified. The facies associations (FA1 to FA8) correspond to the lithostratigraphic subdivisions (the Dwyka Group, Ecca Group, Beaufort equivalent Group, Lebung Group [Mosolotsane and Ntane formations] and Neu Loore Formation) of the Karoo Supergroup. Sedimentological characteristics of the identified facies associations indicate the following depositional environments: glaciomarine or glaciolacustrine (FA1, Dwyka Group), deep-water (lake or sea) (FA2, Ecca Group), prodelta (FA3, Ecca Group), delta front (FA4, Ecca Group), delta plain (FA5, Ecca Group), floodplain (probably shallow lakes) (FA6, Beaufort Group equivalent), fluvial (FA7, Mosolotsane and Neu Loore formations) and aeolian (FA8, Ntane Sandstone Formation). The Dwyka Group (FA1) forms the base of the Karoo Supergroup in the Gemsbok Subbasin and overlain by the Ecca Group deposits. Three types of deltas exist within the Ecca Group: fluvial-dominated; fluvial-wave interaction and wave-dominated deltas. The Gemsbok Sub-basin was characterised by rapid uplift and subsidence and high sediment influx during the deposition of the Ecca Group. Petrographic and geochemical analyses of the Ecca Group sandstones revealed immature arkose and subarkose type sandstones dominated by angular to subangular detrital grains, sourced from transitional continental and basement uplifted source areas. The sandstones of Ntane Sandstone Formation are classified as subarkoses and sourced from the craton interior provenances.

Les synesthètes ont la particularité d’associer une expérience supplémentaire (e.g. une couleur) lors de la présence de certains stimuli (e.g. une lettre). L’objectif de cette thèse était de mieux comprendre le développement de la synesthésie à travers trois types : Graphème-Couleur, Graphème-Personnalité et représentation des nombres dans l'espace (« Forme des nombres »). Si la synesthésie Graphème-Couleur a déjà été étudiée chez l’enfant, les deux autres n’ont jamais fait l’objet d’étude développementale auparavant.Les productions graphiques de 797 enfants de dernière année de maternelle et des deux premières années de primaire (CP et CE1) ont été recueillies (2 sessions, 2 à 3 semaines d’écart). Pour tester l’hypothèse d’un continuum entre les synesthètes et la population générale, nous avons aussi étudié les associations d’enfants non synesthètes.Nous avons mis en avant les difficultés méthodologiques de l’étude de la synesthésie chez les enfants entre 5 et 8 ans. Nos résultats ne nous permettent pas d’attester de façon certaine l’existence de la synesthésie dans cette tranche d’âge. Mais nous avons observé une augmentation du nombre de synesthètes potentiels par niveau scolaire, et un niveau de constance bas de leurs associations par rapport à ce qui est observé chez l’adulte. Comme les enfants connaissent bien les lettres et les nombres, du moins en CE1, on peut penser que ces synesthésies ne sont pas seulement liées à l’apprentissage de l’inducteur en tant que tel. Mais elles pourraient se développe en parallèle d’apprentissages complexes (e.g. calcul ou la rédaction), ou en suivant le développement de la mémoire et de l’imagerie mentale. / Synaesthetes have the peculiarity of associating a supplementary experience (e.g. the colour green) when certain stimuli are presented (e.g. the letter F). The aim of this thesis was to better understand the development of synaesthesia through three types: Grapheme–Colour, Grapheme–Personality and the representation of numbers in space.We collected the graphical representations of 797 children from Kindergarten, 1st Grade, and 2nd Grade twice, at 2-3 weeks interval. To test the hypothesis of a continuum between synaesthetes and the general population, we also studied the associations of non-synaesthete children. We reported the methodological problems specific to the study of synaesthesia in 5 to 8 years old children. We could not definitely attest the existence of synaesthesia in this age group. But we observed a growing number of potential synaesthetes in each grade, as well as a low consistency level of their associations in comparison with adults. Since children know well letters and numbers, at least in the 2nd grade, we can consider that these types of synaesthesia are not only linked to the acquisition of their inducers themselves. But they could develop during harder acquisitions (numeracy or literacy) or with the development of mental imagery and associative memory.

Ao longo de aproximados quarenta anos de pesquisas arqueológicas no Centro e Norte de Minas Gerais, nos quais os grafismos rupestres foram contemplados, criou-se um cenário de um quase contínuo de áreas pesquisadas. Nestas as pesquisas dos vestígios gráficos parietais foram organizados em conjuntos, utilizando-se das grandes unidades classificatórias usuais na Arqueologia, dialogando com os conceitos de estilo e tradição. Esta pesquisa comparou os conjuntos gráficos de algumas regiões do centro e norte de Minas Gerais a partir de análises tipológicas e de associação temática a fim de se discutir as atribuições dos conjuntos em categorias classificatórias amplas e o delineamento de possíveis territórios. Para tanto se utilizou de conjuntos de dados primários e secundários, os últimos disponíveis das dissertações, teses, artigos e acervos do Museu de História Natural da UFMG e de diálogos entre o conceito de estilo, e próprios da reflexão metodológica, buscando uma aproximação entre a produção bibliográfica arqueológica e antropológica. / In a forty years period of archeological researches in the Center and in the North of Minas Gerais, in which rock art was contemplated, a scenario of an almost uninterrupted researched areas was created. In these areas, the parietal graphics traces were organized in sets, using the great classificatory unities, usual in archaeology, communicating with the notions of style and tradition. This research compared the graphical sets of some regions of the north and center of Minas Gerais, making use of typological analyses and thematic associations, aiming to discuss the filiations of the sets in wide classificatory categories and the design of some possible territories. In order to achieve it, sets of primary and secondary data were utilized, the ones that are available in the dissertations, thesis, articles and collections of Museu de História Natural da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and in dialogs between concept and style, and others associated to the methodological reflection, sighting an approach between the anthropological and archaeological bibliographic production.

Este trabalho configura-se como um esforço para se discutir a inclusão da participação social na prática do Gerenciamento Costeiro Integrado. Tem como objetivo principal uma análise das associações de bairro existentes nos quatro municípios do Litoral Norte do Estado de São Paulo a fim de avaliar a atuação destas como um ator do gerenciamento costeiro integrado. A análise partiu de um contexto teórico, sobre as diferentes formas de organização da sociedade civil, entre elas os movimentos sócio ambientais e as associações de bairro. Realizou-se uma análise institucional das associações, com a identificação de seu potencial de ação como agentes do movimento sócio ambiental e de sua e efetiva participação em processos de discussão e elaboração de políticas públicas, utilizando o Litoral Norte como área de estudo. Observou-se que o principal objetivo, das 248 associações identificadas, é a busca por melhorias de infra-estrutura urbana, e que questões ambientais são marginais. Grande parcela das associações apresenta problemas estruturais e jurídicos, 96% estão com seus estatutos em desacordo com o atual Código Civil Brasileiro. Observou-se uma visão compartimentalizada e biocêntrica de meio ambiente e um entendimento praticamente inexistente de desenvolvimento sustentável. A participação em políticas públicas é pequena, o que pode ser uma evidência da falta de interesse, mobilização e/ou informações destas instituições sobre os espaços de participação pública. Conclui-se que as associações, possuem potencial para atuar na gestão da zona costeira, entretanto não atuam de fato, sendo necessário um intenso processo de fortalecimento comunitário considerando iniciativas que promovam sua motivação e capacitação. / The present study is configured as an effort to discuss the inclusion of social issues in Integrated Coastal Management practices. Its major purpose was to analyze neighborhood associations existing in the four municipalities the northern coast of São Paulo State, Brazil, in order to identify whether they participate in Integrated Coastal Management processes. The analyses started with a theoretical approach to the different forms of civil organizations, including socio environmental movements and neighborhood associations. An institutional analysis of these associations was performed, identifying their role as stakeholders in socio environmental movements and their effective participation in public policies\' discussion and elaboration processes, setting the northern coast of São Paulo State as the study area. We could observe that the main objective, considering the 248 identified associations, was the search for improvements on the urban infra-structure, with environmental problems appearing as a marginal concern. A considerable number of associations presented organizational, structural and juridical problems, 96% had their statutes in disagreement with the current Brazilian Civil Code. It was possible to note that they share a compartmentalized biocentric concept of environment and were generally unaware of the sustainable development definition. Their participation in public policies development processes was minimal, what may evidence a lack of interest, mobilization and/or information that these institutions have about forums for public and social participation. We could conclude that neighborhood associations can be potential stakeholders in coastal zone management, nevertheless they are not presently playing their role, being necessary an effort towards community empowerment, considering initiatives to promote their motivation and build their capacity for participatory processes.

As Associações de Interesse Privado têm como objetivo gerar externalidades positivas ao seu grupo de interesse. Entretanto, nem todos os beneficiários estão dispostos a arcar com os custos de geração. O crescimento da organização vai depender da aplicação de estratégias adequadas à atração de novos membros. Este trabalho baseou-se no princípio de que se uma associação cresceu, foi porque utilizou uma estratégia adequada à atração de novos sócios. Para examinar essa premissa, foi desenvolvido um estudo de uma entidade do agronegócio da carne bovina do Brasil, a Associação Brasileira de Criadores de Zebu, / The Associations of Private Interest have as objective to generate positive externalidades to its interest group . However, nor all the beneficiaries are made use to pay the generation costs. The growth of the organization depends on the application of adequate strategies to the attraction of new members. This work was based on the base that if an association grew, was because it used an adequate strategy to the attraction of new partners. To examine this premise, a study of an entity of the agronegócio of the bovine meat of Brazil, the Brazilian Association of Creators of Zebu was developed ,

Submitted by Adriana Alves Rodrigues (aalves@espm.br) on 2018-05-30T18:43:13Z No. of bitstreams: 1 ANA CAROLINNE_DEFESA.pdf: 1504150 bytes, checksum: f7fc69b9304fd74bdd31dce22d07b8b0 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Alves Rodrigues (aalves@espm.br) on 2018-05-30T18:43:50Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 ANA CAROLINNE_DEFESA.pdf: 1504150 bytes, checksum: f7fc69b9304fd74bdd31dce22d07b8b0 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Debora Cristina Bonfim Aquarone (deborabonfim@espm.br) on 2018-06-05T11:28:44Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 ANA CAROLINNE_DEFESA.pdf: 1504150 bytes, checksum: f7fc69b9304fd74bdd31dce22d07b8b0 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-06-05T11:29:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ANA CAROLINNE_DEFESA.pdf: 1504150 bytes, checksum: f7fc69b9304fd74bdd31dce22d07b8b0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-12-12 / Faced with global challenges such as hunger and global warming, new demands have come to influence agricultural activities, among which is sustainability, which is a relevant dimension for Brazilian livestock activities and organizations in this industry to achieve market stability, they must adopt sustainable practices that meet institutional and stakeholder requirements. So, some AIPs have developed specific works focused on sustainability, which are passed on to their members who choose to adopt them in their products and processes, given the desire and need to rethink their impacts on society and the environment. This research seeks to analyze the role of AIPs in the adoption of sustainable practices in Brazilian livestock, from the single case with GTPS, a Vertical Association that acts specifically for this purpose, showing that its function goes beyond what the literature proposes. For this, this research follows the Single Case Study method, developed through the collection of data with semistructured interviews with specialists and secondary data with sustainability reports, which were analyze from the content analysis, with the support of the Atlas IT software. The main result of the study is that the role of AIPs such as GTPS is to coordinate the chain in favor of collective goods that go beyond the strategic ones, given that these assets surround sustainability and not only the interests of its members. In addition, it was possible to arrive at an analytical model based on the advance of theories of sustainability, institutional environment, strategy, private interest associations and willingness to adopt. This dissertation contributes to the deepening of the literature, as well as to show the possibility of replicating the practices that are use in livestock for other areas as important as global sustainable development. / Diante dos desafios globais como fome e aquecimento global, novas demandas passaram a influenciar as atividades agrícolas, dentre elas está a sustentabilidade, que é uma dimensão relevante para as atividades da pecuária brasileira. E, para que as organizações atuantes neste setor consigam estabilidade nos mercados, elas precisam adotar práticas sustentáveis que atendam às exigências institucionais e dos stakeholders. Para isto, algumas AIPs têm desenvolvido trabalhos específicos voltados para a sustentabilidade, os quais são repassados aos seus membros que optam por adotá-los em seus produtos e processos, dado o desejo e a necessidade de repensar seus impactos à sociedade e ao meio ambiente. Neste cenário, esta pesquisa busca analisar o papel das AIPs na adoção de práticas sustentáveis na pecuária brasileira, a partir do caso único com o GTPS, uma Associação Vertical que age especificamente para este fim, mostrando que a sua função vai além do que a literatura propõe. Para isto, esta pesquisa segue o método de Estudo de Caso Único, desenvolvido por meio da coleta de dados com entrevistas semiestruturadas com especialistas e dados secundários com relatórios de sustentabilidade, os quais foram analisados a partir da análise de conteúdo, com suporte do software Atlas TI. O principal resultado do estudo é que o papel de AIPs como o GTPS é coordenar a cadeia em prol de bens coletivos que vão além dos estratégicos, haja vista que estes bens cercam a sustentabilidade e não apenas os interesses de seus membros. Além disso, foi possível chegar a um modelo analítico baseado no avanço das teorias de sustentabilidade, ambiente institucional, estratégia, associações de interesse privado e Willingness to Adopt (Disposição para Adotar). Esta dissertação consegue contribuir para o aprofundamento da literatura, bem como mostrar a possibilidade de se replicar as práticas que são utilizadas na pecuária para outras áreas tanto quanto importantes para o desenvolvimento sustentável global.

A presente tese ambiciona apresentar o fenômeno das torcidas organizadas de futebol do Brasil (TOBR) sob a ótica do Estado brasileiro. O objetivo deste estudo é apresentar não somente o protagonismo do Estado no processo que levou à fundação das primeiras TOBR nos anos 1940, mas também a influência de suas instituições para o crescimento e difusão das TOBR, que atingiram seu auge nos estádios de futebol nos anos 1990. Além de analisar a importância do Estado, esta tese também se dedica à compreensão das funções exercidas pela mídia esportiva, pelos clubes de futebol e pelos governing bodies do esporte brasileiro no que diz respeito à mediação da relação entre Estado e torcedores de futebol. Para a produção desse texto foram usadas fontes primárias como jornais de época, revistas de época, entrevistas, relatos e arquivos pessoais e também fontes secundárias como livros, dissertações, teses e artigos produzidos sobre as temáticas pertinentes a este estudo. Concluiu-se que as associações de torcedores no Brasil têm uma existência fortemente vinculada ao que se chamou de regime de Futebol de Estado, um arranjo político-institucional no qual o esporte de um país passa a ser usado como ferramenta política pelo Estado. O regime de Futebol de Estado é uma criação nazifascista que foi importada por Getúlio Vargas para o Brasil no início dos anos 1940. É durante este regime que se formam as primeiras associações de torcedores no Brasil. O expediente do Futebol de Estado foi também utilizado em toda a década de 1970 pelo Regime Militar, durante o qual as TOBR se desenvolveram de forma mais intensa. Foi também durante esse período que a violência entre torcedores se tornou mais frequente, o que contribuiu para que a relação entre Estado brasileiro e as TOBR entrasse em crise, uma consequência do fim do interesse estatal no esporte e da consolidação de um novo regime esportivo no Brasil nos anos 1990, o de Futebol para Mercado. / This study aims to present the phenomenon of football-supporters\' associations in Brazil (or TOBR, acronym in Portuguese language for torcidas organizadas de futebol brasileiras) on the historical perspective of the Brazilian State. It focuses not only on the State\'s role in the process that led to the foundation of the first TOBRs during the 1940\'s, but also on the influence of its institutions for the growth and diffusion of TOBRs, who experienced their golden age in football stadiums in the late 1980\'s and early 1990\'s. In addition to the analysis of the State\'s role within this process, this study is also dedicated to understand the role played by the sports media, the football clubs and the governing bodies of the Brazilian sport in mediating the relationship between the State and football supporters. This text was written upon primary sources such as coeval newspapers, magazines, periodicals, personal files, reports and non-coeval interviews, as well as secondary sources such as books, dissertations, theses and papers produced on the issues which are pertinent to this study. It was concluded that the TOBRs\' existence in Brazil is strongly linked to what was called a setting of Football of State, which is a political-institutional arrangement in which the sport of a nation is used as a political tool by its State. The Football of State\'s setting is a Nazi-fascist creation that was brought to Brazil by Getúlio Vargas in the early 1940\'s. It was precisely during this regime that the first TOBRs were founded. The device of the Football of State was also used during the military regime throughout the 1970\'s, and it was under this rule that the TOBRs developed more intensely. It was also during this period that violence among supporters started to happen more frequently. The violence among football-supporters increased substantially during the 1980\'s and led to a crisis between the TOBRs and Brazilian State in the early 1990\'s, which was also triggered by the end of State\'s interest in sports and the consolidation of a new sports setting in Brazil during the 1990s, the Football for the Market.