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Participants on sex offender treatment programmes (SOTPs) seem to value victim empathy (VE) training exercises, despite there being little evidence to suggest that these reduce risk of reoffending. Participants also appear to value their therapeutic relationships. There has been very little research into SOTP facilitators’ views on treatment. This study explores whether facilitators also feel VE training is a useful part of treatment and if seeing empathy develop in offenders strengthens therapeutic alliance. 12 prison SOTP facilitators were interviewed. The transcripts were analysed using content and thematic analysis, there were six main findings. Facilitators were concerned that the perceived impact of VE was superficial compliance and the particular emotional aspect of VE training may help facilitators to empathise with difficult group members. This study contributes a facilitator perspective to the debate on including VE training in SOTPs, and suggests further research be completed into empathy constructs and how these apply to facilitators work.

The research literature has repeatedly emphasized the importance of parent involvement and parent training in the early intervention of young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In fact, parent mediated Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention (EIBI) programs have become a popular method of treatment in recent years. Studies examining these programs have demonstrated that a number of variables may significantly impact the outcomes of EIBI. Moreover, an examination of the psychotherapy literature underscores the importance of a strong parent-therapist alliance as a correlate of positive processes and outcomes in child therapy; while there is very little research examining the working alliance as a factor in parent consultation.The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between the working alliance and the consultation process in parent-mediated EIBI for young children with ASD. Forty-four parents of children with an ASD, who were also conducting home-based EIBI programs, completed the Working Alliance Inventory (WAI) (Horvath & Greenberg, 1989) plus other measures that assessed treatment process and outcome. In addition, eight independent consultants completed similar measures to assess perceptions of alliance, process, and outcomes of their consultees.The results showed parent ratings of the working alliance were significantly correlated with parent ratings of treatment acceptability for child treatment as well as for parent consultation. Parent ratings of alliance also correlated significantly with parent ratings of parent progress in consultation and child progress in treatment. Consultant ratings of alliance were significantly correlated with both parent progress and parent improvement in consultation. This suggests that the working alliance may be a contributing factor to the process and outcome of consultation with parents of children with ASD.The results of the present study were compared to the current literature on the therapeutic alliance and relationship factors in consultation. The limitations of the present study and suggestions for future research are also discussed.

Learning to Stand on Shifting Sands: Sonoran Desert Capitalism, Alliance Politics, and Social Change offers a comparative analysis of activisms, labor organizing, and production practices in southern Arizona between 1999 and 2003. Using a combination of political economy, queer/feminist theory, transdisciplinary critical cultural studies, and discourse analysis, the research analyzes the broad social and ideological contexts, the tactics, the contradictions and the attempts and lost opportunities for building broader alliances for radical social change in contemporary Arizona. The case studies reckon with this experience, arguing that: Arizona's migrant workers have been strategically produced via media practices, border militarization, "development" discourse, and global production practices as flexible post-NAFTA commodities that enable formidable nationalist and heteronormative representation and political economic practices within the Sonoran desert border region. That local activism and labor organizing draws upon neoliberal "development" discourse strategies, and also breaks from these strategies in ways that suggests that the terms of production and exchange might be usefully applied towards outcomes that are outside of profit accumulation. That alliance practices that take structures and discourses of domination into account in estimations of value, even in production, can promote broader collaborations between activist organizations, cultural identities and single-issue politics. A politics of alliance that accounts for the interdependence of seemingly disparate practices of production, social oppression and culture might help invigorate contemporary grass roots struggles and promote social transformation.

Flygbranschen är en bransch som är mycket känslig för omvärldsfaktorer. De senaste årens konjunkturnedgång, terrorattentat, epidemier, höga oljepriser samt rådande konkurrenstryck har resulterat i stora lönsamhetsproblem för många flygbolag. Ett sätt att bli mer konkurrenskraftig och förbättra sin position på marknaden är att samarbeta i form av en strategisk allians. Idag finns det tre allianser i flygbranschen: Star Alliance, Oneworld och Skyteam. Den första globala alliansen var Star Alliance som bildades 1997. Företag har under många år samarbetat i olika former. Vissa forskare anser att ett företag inte längre kan välja mellan konkurrens eller samarbete, utan att det handlar om att kombinera de båda strategierna. Denna undersökning avser att ta reda på hur en strategisk flygallians påverkar ett flygbolag. För att avgränsa studien valdes SAS och dess samarbete inom Star Alliance som undersökningsobjekt. Studiens syfte är således att genom en fallstudie undersöka hur ett nätverksbolag har påverkats av att ingå i en strategisk flygallians. Två intervjuer har genomförts, en med en person anställd på SAS med tidigare förflutet i Star Alliance och en med en konsult med mångårig erfarenhet av resebranschen. Resultatet visar att alliansamarbetet inneburit en rad fördelar för SAS. Konkurrensen har mildrats, kostnader reducerats, intäkter och utvecklingsmöjligheter ökat. En av nackdelarna med att ingå i en strategisk allians är att beslutsprocesserna förlängs. Något som SAS dock inte upplever som ett problem då medlemskapet i alliansen varit av stor betydelse för dem. De slutsatser vi har dragit av denna undersökning är att de nämnda fördelarna med allianssamarbete kan ha ett högt pris då det kostar att vara medlem. Vi tror dock att det kan vara värt att betala en summa då samarbetet kan vara av betydelse för flygbolagets överlevnad. Då flygbolagen även samarbetar med flygbolag utanför alliansen ifrågasätter vi strategisk allians som den enda samarbetsformen för att uppnå minskad konkurrens, kostnadsreduceringar, ökade intäkter och utvecklingsmöjligheter.