The main theme of the thesis are surface mines in northern Bohemia, the Most. Grasping the subject is moving mainly in personal as well as social aspects. The basis for practical thesis served theoretical thesis. Exploring the phenomenon of a block of flats in theoretical thesis led to turn to the topic of the panel surface mines. At first glance unrelated topics, however, contains an important connection. The coal industry forms an essential part of the development of the current form of North Bohemia, a form of large prefabricated housing. Interest in the originality of the construction in the settlements led to this issue. The work consists of several authentic records and materials from surface mines in Bílina processed in painting and video.

This exploratory study examined the beliefs of 82 experienced Marriage and Family Therapists regarding the treatment of marital infidelity. Participants were asked to read an on-line vignette and respond to a subsequent web based questionnaire by rating levels of hope, threat, forgiveness, and justification for a couple in regard to various affair scenarios. This study employed an experimental design using six groups to discover possible differences in responses across the dependent variables of hope, threat, forgiveness, and justification. Participants were randomly assigned to one of the six groups, which determined which vignette the participant read. The vignettes varied for each group by the type of affair (sexual, emotional, or combination), and the gender of the affair initiator. This study also looked at therapists' personal experience with affairs. Findings suggest an affair initiated by a woman was rated as more threatening to the marital relationship than an affair initiated by a man. Participants were also more likely to justify a woman's affair than a man's affair. While tentative, findings suggest that the type of affair and therapists' personal experience with affairs may be legitimate areas for further study within the context of infidelity research. / Master of Science

The research in this paper explores how preschool staff handles and deals with conflicts within preschool. My aim is to highlight their methods of conflict management, how it relates to their role within the preschool, and how their personal experiences and personality can be seen as an asset for their work with their colleagues and with the children. This qualitative study is based on a social constructivist and phenomenography perspective. Where I conducted several in person interviews with different staff at a preschool, to get and overview of their individual roles and contributions to the preschool. Through my interviews I got an overview perspective on how their personal experience and personality effects their line of work and how it can help them not only to care for the children but handle situations such as conflict management.

No / In this article, we explore what we perceive to be a gap between agency as articulated in practice theories and agency as personally experienced. The gap is not created by a turn to practice in theorizing, but by the tendency to produce theoretical representations that silence the particularity of experience and the diversity of voices in experience. In exploring the gap, we identify aspects of practice theories that explicitly commit to theoretical representation over personal experience and describe Bakhtin's commitment to action and personal experience as an alternative. In order to exemplify Bakhtin's approach in practice, we then present an analysis of one artist-teacher's experience of her own agency in making art and in teaching. Finally, we comment on what a commitment to representational theorizing does to accounts of an artist's activities and personal experience.

There has been little research to date specifically addressing counselors' experiences with complementary therapy. The objective of this exploratory survey was to assess counselors' professional practice, knowledge and training, and personal experience with complementary therapy. The study design was a web-based, random sample survey of American Counseling Association members. Results indicated the typical respondent was female, Caucasian, holds a Master's degree and works in a private practice/self-employed or community agency setting as an outpatient counselor. Few respondents asked about or had clients volunteer use of complementary therapy. Anxiety and depression were the most common client concerns for which respondents recommended or referred for complementary therapy. Respondents agreed that client referrals should be to licensed or certified practitioners. Respondents reported that complementary therapy provided clients with at least some positive benefits and few negative consequences. The majority of respondents included complementary therapy in counseling during the past year and thought that complementary therapy should be included in addition to counseling. Although respondents considered themselves qualified to discuss a variety of complementary therapies, few possessed licensure or certification. The majority of respondents used informal, self-study to gain knowledge of complementary therapy. Most respondents have personally experienced at least one complementary therapy, primarily "To improve overall wellness". Respondents reported they received some to large benefits from this experience. A number of respondents descriptors had moderately positive associations with client usage, recommendation and referral, inclusion, and knowledge factors. These descriptors were those respondents who worked in a private practice/self-employed setting, as an outpatient counselor, were licensed as an LPC, provided individual, family/couples, or alcohol/substance abuse counseling, and had a psychodynamic orientation. There were moderately negative associations between respondents who worked in a K-12 setting, did not possess mental health licensure and were a Master's student and client usage, recommendation and referral, and inclusion factors. The data provide support for the idea that counselors are beginning to embrace a post-modern approach, which gives consideration to complementary therapy interventions. However, the findings also suggested that the counseling profession still has a good deal of work to do before it can be considered truly holistic. / Ph. D.

This thesis is a study of the experiences of nurses who have undertaken training in Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT). While the clinical outcomes of using SFBT, and other psychological therapies, to treat clients have been the subject of much research, the outcomes of training therapists to use SFBT has been relatively unexplored. It is, therefore, my intention to address, in part, this uncharted area of practice. Utilising a mixed methodology, the study is divided into two Stages. In Stage I, an original Solution Focused (SF) methodology is developed and used to conduct individual interviews with twenty participants. Interviews are transcribed and treated as narrative texts, and are then subjected to multi-factored analysis enabling the synthesis of a ‘group narrative’ and the construction of a typology of experience. In Stage II, I conduct further in-depth interviews with three of the original participants and utilise a hermeneutic methodology, drawing on the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer, to engage with the texts generated from these interviews. The texts are explored thematically, and through the nursing metaparadigm of Jacqueline Fawcett, and are compared with a metaparadigm of SF practice. The research suggests that training is SFBT can have a profound effect on the clinical practice, and professional identity, of nurses, and that this is related to the paradigm of nursing which informs their practice. Where the nursing paradigm is of the dominant ‘assessment and delivery of care needs’ modality, SFBT training has little to offer the nurse; however, where the nursing paradigm reflects an ‘interpersonal, dynamic’ modality based on shared relationships, training in SFBT can be a transformative experience for the nurse. This research makes an original contribution to the field of SFBT and to our understanding of the relationship between SFBT and nursing. Building on the work of earlier scholars, it argues that SFBT is congruent with some nursing paradigms, and not all nursing paradigms as previously suggested. It also advances our understanding of how the scope and field of SF practice may be delineated.

Percevoir la douleur d’autrui présente des intérêts considérables, autant pour la personne qui exprime une douleur, que pour la personne qui y fait face. A ce jour, l’évaluation de la douleur d’autrui demeure sous-estimée. Il apparait donc nécessaire d’approfondir la connaissance des déterminants de l’évaluation de la douleur d’autrui. Ce travail doctoral s’intéresse à l’évaluation, par des observateurs, des comportements prototypiques émis par les personnes qui ressentent des douleurs. Dans un premier temps, il examine dans quelle mesure les observateurs s’appuient sur des comportements particuliers (i.e., comportements de communication : expressions faciales et paraverbales, et de comportements de protection : cinématiques lombopelviennes et boiterie d’esquive) lorsqu’ils doivent juger l’intensité de la douleur d’autrui. Les contributions de l’expertise clinique et de la familiarité avec la douleur y sont examinées. Dans un deuxième temps, il interroge la contribution des traits de personnalité du Big Five dans la réponse sociale à la douleur d’autrui. Les résultats montrent que lorsqu’il s’agit d’estimer l’intensité de la douleur lombaire d’autrui, les expressions faciales de la douleur priment sur les cinématiques lombopelviennes (étude 1). Toutefois, lorsqu’il s’agit d’évaluer l’intensité de la douleur podale d’autrui, l’expression paraverbale de douleur ne prime pas sur les comportements de boiterie (étude 2). Les études 1 et 2 ne font pas émerger de consensus relatif aux règles d’intégration utilisées par les observateurs. Par ailleurs, le caractère consciencieux (études 3 et 4), l’agréabilité (étude 3) et le névrosisme (étude 4) contribuent à la réponse sociale à la douleur d’autrui. La contribution de ces trois traits s’exprimerait à un niveau contrôlé, i.e., top-down (étude 5). Les résultats des études menées sont susceptibles d’enrichir le Modèle de la Communication de la Douleur et étendent le champ d’application des traits de personnalité du Big Five. / Recognizing and interpreting other’s pain can be of great importance to the person in pain as well as to the person witnessing the other’s distress. According to recent studies other’s pain remains underestimated. Thus, it appears necessary to better understand the knowledge of variables that contribute to other’s pain assessement. On one hand, this doctoral project aimed at determining if observers rely more on communicative than on protective pain behaviors (facial and paraverbal expressions) when estimating other’s pain. It also questioned how observers integrate information from pain behaviors. On the other hand, the contribution of Big Five personality trait in the social response to other’s pain has been examined. When assessing low back pain, observers particularly relied on facial expression than on lumbopelvic kinematics (study 1). Nevertheless, when estimating heel pain, paraverbal expression did not contribute more than limping behaviors to observers’ pain estimates (study 2). No concensus has emerged regarding the way observers integrated information from the different pain behaviors (studies 1 and 2). In addition, conscientiousness (studies 3 and 4), agreableness (study 3), and neuroticism (study 4) contributed to the social response to other’s pain. The contribution of these traits seems to be driven by top-down processes (study 5). These results are likely to expand the communication model of pain, and the contribution of Big Five personality traits.

Thesis (M.G.S.)--Miami University, Dept. of Sociology and Gerontology, 2007. / Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 48-50).

Bakgrund: ADHD (Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) är en neuropsykiatrisk funktionsnedsättning som kännetecknas av stora uppmärksamhetssvårigheter, impulsivitet och överaktivitet. Symtom skapar konsekvenser i vardagslivets olika områden som studier, arbetsliv, fritid, familjeliv och relationer som påverkas i olika grad beroende på individens symtombild. Personer som diagnostiserats med ADHD behöver ofta stöd från flera olika sociala institutioner, till exempel sjukvården.  Syfte: Syftet var att beskriva hur personer med ADHD upplevde kontakten med vården. Metod: En beskrivande litteraturstudie. Artiklarna söktes i databasen Pubmed och resulterade i tio stycken kvalitativa artiklar. Alla tio artiklarna redovisas i resultatdelen. Huvudresultat: Hur personer med ADHD upplevde vårdkontakten och under tillhörande subteman beskrevs hur information och kunskap förmedlades av vårdpersonalen och hur upplevelsen av tillgänglighet till vård och hjälpande tjänster samt beskrev det personers upplevelse av tillgång till den vårdkontakt de var i behov av. Slutsats: Personer som sökte vårdkontakt för att få hjälp med diagnos eller behandling av sin ADHD ofta kände sig bortsedda. De upplevde att bemötandet från vårdpersonal visade på okunskap och dåliga attityder samt att det sällan fanns annat än farmakologisk hjälp att tillgå.

The ever-changing demands of working life pose considerable challenges to higher education. The literature indicates that traditional forms of university instruction positioned a deficit model of teaching and learning, which is embedded in a logical positivist paradigm, as authoritative in the production of ‘experts’ who possess legitimate knowledge. However, in professional practice, health practitioners often deal with ill-defined problems. If health practitioners are to be prepared properly for their future careers, the development of reflective thinking should be an integral component of professional education courses. The aim of this study was to explore the public narratives on existing teaching and learning practices in higher education, orthotics/prosthetics and psychology, and to examine the authority of these narratives in the unfolding stories of students and the facilitator in a pilot applied psychology course designed for orthotist/prosthetist professionals. There is a paucity of psychological research in orthotic/prosthetic practice and further research in this domain is needed, particularly from a qualitative approach. A story map was used to integrate the methodology of personal experience methods and narrative analysis into one model that represents the voice of public and private narratives in a specific temporality of past, present and future. The analysis of public and private texts revealed the narrative themes of teaching and learning, co-constructing knowledge, reflection-on-practice, disability, community of concern and agency. A critical psychology and social constructionist approach is proposed to facilitate reflective clinical practice in a psychology module for orthotics and prosthetics. In a collaborative learning community, the lived experiences, knowledge, skills, and desires that invited orthotist/prosthetists into this helping field are honoured. In addition, they are encouraged to reflect on the value of professional interventions by using pragmatic criteria of whether an approach fits or is useful for a client, rather than relying on some abstract notion of ‘truth’. / Thesis (PhD (Psychology))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Psychology / unrestricted