In this thesis, the nature and extent of practitioners' dissatisfaction with the psychotherapy research literature will first be described. A case will be made that a deeper analysis needs to be conducted to fully understand this dissatisfaction. Next, this dissatisfaction will be framed in the context of a particular ontology that seems to have largely contributed to it. Most importantly, several features of this ontology will be described and connected to practitioners' dissatisfaction. Finally, an alternative framework for understanding practitioners' dissatisfaction will be tentatively proposed, and it will be suggested that this alternative could help researchers and practitioners understand their dissatisfaction with one another and lead to a more fruitful dialogue.

The aim of this research was to explore the lived experience of educational psychologists (EPs) working as expert witnesses in the family court and to capture some of their tacit knowledge. The research was conducted during a 'perfect storm' of reforms in family justice, austerity measures and following the publication of 'The Ireland Report' (Ireland, 2012) which was highly critical of the quality of psychological reports prepared for the family courts and captured the attention of the national media at a time when several high profile cases involving expert witness malpractice were also under scrutiny. Adopting Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) as the methodology, two EP expert witnesses were interviewed using in-depth conversations based around two semi-structured interview prompts. Interview transcripts were then analysed using IPA, firstly within individual interviews and cases and then across interviews and cases. Superordinate themes emerged as five main focus points: 1) The role of being an EP and an expert witness, 2) Maintaining a phenomenological attitude, 3) Personal and professional identity, 4) The context of court and 5) The experience of the interview. Findings indicate that the widely accepted Fallon, Woods and Rooney (2010) definition of who EPs are and what EPs do also holds in the context of the family court, with the scientist-practitioner identity being further illuminated in this milieu, especially with regard to formulation, maintaining a phenomenological attitude and reflexivity.

Objectives: This study aims to gain an understanding of how current trainee counselling psychologists perceive the scientist-practitioner model. Design: This is a qualitative piece of research grounded in a social constructionist perspective. Two focus groups were conducted lasting 60 minutes at two UK universities. An online survey was also conducted to capture additional views. Method: 29 trainees participated in the study. 15 trainees on counselling psychology doctorate programmes took part in face-to-face focus groups whilst 14 trainees from doctorate programmes or the independent route responded to an online survey. The data collected were analysed using Braun and Clarke (2006) thematic analysis. Findings: Five main themes were identified in relation to the scientist-practitioner model: The Nature of Counselling Psychology, The Nature of Being a Counselling Psychologist, The Nature of Science, What Counts as Evidence, and What Happens in the Therapy Room. Conclusions: Much of the ambiguity and tensions in the literature were present in the views of participants. Three views emerged: the model as a spectrum, the model as two complementary roles, and the model as a toolbox. These views are explored and then implications for practice and possible directions for future research are outlined.

Inspiration is something which can be found in nearly everything. The author´s inspiration is coming from the people around him, the world he lives in, all the shapes, smells, and impressions he inhales on a daily basis. But in fact the biggest inspiration for his thesis concept was the love to nature with all its facets. Together with a huge interest in sky observation and our Universe in general, the author knew quite early that those are some major topics which should be found and set-in in his thesis. Shape-wise he was as well inspired by creating a vision, which doesn´t remind people of already existing products. It should be a concept which triggers other people to rethink what we have today and what we could have in future. To achieve this, it is as well necessary to look into new technologies or inventions. The process for this concept, but also for the authors work-flow itself was meant to go into an experimental direction. With a lot try and error and learning about observations. It was a combination of a digital and physical working process, trying to mix VR with physical crafts. Starting with a vague idea, followed by loose doodles on paper which were further developed in 3D and have been evaluated in VR - this was the writers goal. In the one hand this concept will inspire other people in the way they think and perceive their environment. On the other hand side it reflects the author´s goals and wishes for this thesis. A concept which entails a whole process of theory and praxis and teaches a lot about work planning, time management, team working, or deadlines. If the final result brings people to interpret their own thoughts into the concept, it shows how mind opening an idea can be.

While a significant amount of attention has been paid to the efficacy of marriage and family therapy (MFT), research on the effectiveness of MFT is lacking. Furthermore, university training clinics are an underutilized, yet excellent resource for collecting effectiveness research data. This study examined the current practices at the Center for Family Services, an MFT university training clinic, by examining therapists' ratings of therapy effectiveness for clients seen more than once over the past five years (n = 558). Data on therapy modality, treatment length, fee for services, presenting problems, and termination category were examined. A statistically significant relationship was found between treatment outcome and each of the following variables: treatment length, number of presenting problems, and termination category (completed or dropout). Furthermore, termination category best discriminated membership in the three outcome groups. A statistically significant relationship was not found between treatment outcome and the following variables: therapy modality and fee for services. Strengths, limitations, suggestions for future research, and implications of the findings are discussed. / Master of Science

The 12 Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence (COSEE) are funded by the National Science Foundation and are designed to promote creative ways of disseminating marine science research and its importance to the public. The focus of this study is the COSEE Central Gulf of Mexico program which encourages active partnerships between research scientists and teachers. In these collaborative partnerships, teachers and scientists work together to create educational products and disseminate best practices in ocean sciences education. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the lesson plans and curricula created through the Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence: Central Gulf of Mexico program (COSEE:CGOM), which are the products of this collaboration, were being used effectively in the classroom. The study addressed issues such as teacher perceptions of collaboration with scientists,effectiveness of COSEE:CGOM curriculum implementation in producing more ocean literate students, and teachers’ varying views concerning how to successfully implement new COSEE:CGOM knowledge and concepts into their classrooms in order to improve student scientific understanding. In addition, the study examined frequency of use of COSEE:CGOM lesson plans and identified predictor variables that can produce a model for understanding factors hindering or enhancing lesson plan use. Further, participant perceptions of using peer-teaching as a method for disseminating COSEE:CGOM information in their districts were addressed.

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Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-06-16T13:52:22Z No. of bitstreams: 1 rondinelibezerramariano.pdf: 865914 bytes, checksum: 30f99163f8526c8c550a235664918e4b (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-07-13T14:15:10Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 rondinelibezerramariano.pdf: 865914 bytes, checksum: 30f99163f8526c8c550a235664918e4b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-13T14:15:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 rondinelibezerramariano.pdf: 865914 bytes, checksum: 30f99163f8526c8c550a235664918e4b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-26 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Dentro do debate sobre a cientificidade da psicoterapia e da psicologia clínica o Clinical Scientist Movement (CSM) ocupa um lugar de destaque e faz dessa questão objeto central de seu projeto, elaborando propostas originais sobre a temática. Devedor de uma tradição em psicologia clínica que desde a segunda guerra mundial tenta estabelecer a psicologia clinica como uma legítima ciência, o CSM também coloca no eixo do seu projeto duas questões que ocupam a área desde o pós-guerra, quais sejam, o problema da eficácia das psicoterapias e o debate sobre os modelos de doutorado em psicologia clínica. Este trabalho investiga as ideias do CSM delimitando o que para ele é exatamente uma psicoterapia fundamentada cientificamente e quais as exigências que determinada prática terapêutica deve atender para que seja considerada enquanto tal. Psicoterapia fundamentada cientificamente seria aquela que demonstra tanto que é eficaz para tratar determinado transtorno psicológico através de ensaios clínicos quanto que está baseada numa teoria científica. Esta teoria teria que explicar o mecanismo de funcionamento do transtorno ou problema em questão e como a terapia em questão ocasiona mudança terapêutica. No que concerne ao modelo de ciência pressuposto no programa do CSM, verifica-se certa dívida com o racionalismo crítico popperiano por aceitar o falsificacionismo como critério válido para a demarcação do conhecimento científico. No entanto, também se defende uma perspectiva probabilística de ciência e a ideia que as teorias alcançam progressivamente o status científico, posições estas associadas ao empirismo lógico. Defende-se por fim que o projeto do CSM acaba encerrando uma concepção médica e um modelo tecnicista de psicoterapia que não faz jus ao que realmente é a prática clínica e a todas as suas possibilidades enquanto terapêutica. / Within the debate on the scientificity of psychotherapy and clinical psychology, the Clinical Scientist Movement (CSM) occupies an important place and does of this issue the central object of your project, elaborating original proposals on it. Heir of a tradition in clinical psychology that since World War II tries to establish the clinical psychology as a legitimate science, the CSM also puts on the center of its project two issues that have been occupying the discipline since the post-war, namely, the problem of effectiveness of psychotherapy and the discussion on the PhD program models in clinical psychology. This work investigates the CSM ideas delimiting what is a scientifically based psychotherapy for it and which conditions certain therapeutic practices must meet to be considered as such. A scientifically based psychotherapy would be the one that would demonstrate both that it was effective to treat a psychological disorder through controlled clinical trials and that it was based on a scientific theory. This theory would have to explain the operating mechanism of the disorder or problem at hand and how the aimed therapy leads to therapeutic change. Regard to the CSM science model assumption, we can say that there is a certain debt to the Popperian critical rationalism, for accepting falsificationism as valid criteria for the demarcation of scientific knowledge. However, it also advocates a probabilistic perspective of science and the idea that theories progressively achieve scientific status, positions usually associated with logical empiricism. Finally, it is argued that the CSM project has just endorsing a medical design and technical model of psychotherapy, which does not justice to what really is the clinical practice and all its possibilities as a therapeutic.

Clinician Scientists werden im Kontext einer Translationalen Forschung als Schlüsselfiguren thematisiert, insbesondere seit ihnen das Potenzial zugesprochen worden ist, biomedizinische Grundlagenforschung und medizinische Praxis auf praktische Weise miteinander verbinden zu können. Damit adressiert das Berufsbild des Clinician Scientists auf individueller Ebene das sogenannte ‚valley of death‘, welches metaphorisch zentrale Übersetzungslücken im biomedizinischen Erkenntnis- und Entwicklungsprozess markiert. Ungeachtet ihrer besonderen Position befinden sich Clinician Scientists noch immer in einer beruflichen Nische, der es offensichtlich nicht gelingt, die Translationsanforderungen auf der praktischen Ebene tatsächlich erfolgreich zu vermitteln. Vor diesem Hintergrund fragt die vorliegende Arbeit nach dem Professionszustand des Clinician Scientists und bedient sich dabei eines neo-pragmatischen Zugangs, der es ermöglicht Kritik und Empörung, welche die im Feld befindlichen Akteure gegenüber ihrer translationsorientierten Umwelt formulieren, für eine Soziologie der Kritik zu nutzen. Der analytische Bezugsrahmen ermöglicht sodann eine Beleuchtung des Professionszustands über individuelle Krisenzustände, die eine öffentliche Kritik an den eigenen professionellen Zuständen freisetzt. Die Arbeit leistet damit eine Beschreibung kritischer Potenziale, die im Kontext von Professionsentwicklungen gedeutet werden und offenbart im Ergebnis ein ambivalentes Verhältnis zwischen den Konzeptionen Translation und Profession: Ungeachtet ihres theoretisch augenscheinlich professionsfördernden Charakters avanciert die Translationale Forschung zum individuell-situativen Krisenherd und be- bzw. verhindert somit zugleich eine professionelle Entwicklung des Clinician Scientists. / Clinician scientists are described as a key solution towards the problem of translational research in the field of (bio)medicine, especially since they are perceived to have the potential to combine biomedical research and clinical practice. Translational research overall addresses the ‘translation gap’ between biomedical research findings on the one hand and clinical practice and applications on the other, which constitutes a major challenge towards the current biomedical research system. Despite their importance for translational problems clinician scientists still constitute a ‘rare breed’, struggling in fulfilling expectations of translational research on the individual level. In the light of this problematization, the cumulative thesis aims to explore the professional nature of the clinician scientist with the help of a neo-pragmatic approach by making use of critique and indignation individuals utter against their translational ecology. The analytical framework therefore allows to analyze professional development via individual situations of crisis. The thesis thus contributes to a description of critical potentials from individuals involved and reveals an ambivalent relationship between the concepts of translation and profession: despite its obviously supporting character translational research turns into a moment of crisis actually hindering and, respectively preventing clinician scientists from becoming a profession.

Submitted by Geyciane Santos (geyciane_thamires@hotmail.com) on 2015-05-18T12:55:49Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação - Klyo Monteiro.pdf: 1204357 bytes, checksum: e3ae5d886eab1fc7945d2f44d697377e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-18T12:55:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação - Klyo Monteiro.pdf: 1204357 bytes, checksum: e3ae5d886eab1fc7945d2f44d697377e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-03-19 / FAPEAM - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Amazonas / The present work proposes to analyze and problematize the area of opinion and market research in the construction business as a new working field for social scientists. The investigation searchs to connect the social scientist formation as a adequate type for the market research, showing the inherent social scientists competecies. The actual reality of the social scientists professionals are compared and analysed based on the work of Sérgio Miceli in respect of history of the social science in Brasil, as well as the problematic in the sociology of the professions,specifically the social scientists's labour market which is discussed on the thesis of Maria da Glória Bonelli. Compared with the obtained knowledge on the pioneer States of the course with regard to the capital of Amazonas, Manaus, in the main companies involved. Realize the conflict with other professions which performing research functions on the market in view of the social scientists professional also be qualified to realize the job. Bourdieu's texts about the sociological works, the professional singularity and their legitimacy to relate diploma and position, as well as the vocational characteristics they possess, according to Weber, are worked in the issues of this analysis. / O presente trabalho se propõe a analisar e problematizar a área de pesquisa de opinião e mercado no ramo da construção civil como um novo campo de atuação para os cientistas sociais. A investigação busca relacionar a formação do cientista social como um tipo de formação adequada para a realização de pesquisa de mercado, buscando demonstrar, assim, as competências inerentes ao cientista social. Com base nas obras de Sérgio Miceli a respeito da história das ciências sociais no Brasil, assim como a problemática da sociologia das profissões, especificamente o mercado de trabalho dos cientistas sociais presentes nas teses de Maria da Glória Bonelli, compara e analisa a atual realidade dos profissionais das ciências sociais. Compara com o reconhecimento obtido nos Estados pioneiros do curso com relação à capital do Amazonas, Manaus, nas principais empresas do ramo. Percebe os conflitos com outras profissões que exercem funções de pesquisar o mercado imobiliário em face do profissional das ciências sociais ser também qualificado à realizar a mesma. Textos de Bourdieu sobre o fazer sociológico, a singularidade deste profissional e sua legitimidade para relacionar o diploma e o cargo, assim como a característica vocacional que possui, segundo Weber, são trabalhadas nas questões desta análise.