153 research outputs found
Working with a Different Drummer: Transgender or Gender Creative Children and Their Families
COURSE OVERVIEW
This experiential workshop will demonstrate how the expressive art therapies will accelerate the expression of our true selves in the LGBTQ+ community and assist their families in overcoming shame and resistance and aids in healing when it comes to grieving, understanding identity and fostering lasting relationships. We will explore current challenges as well as past and current successes.
Learning Objectives Demonstrate how the expressive art therapies can accelerate the expression of the true self, assists families in overcoming shame and resistance, and aids in the healing process when it comes to grieving, understanding identity and fostering lasting relationships. Participants will explore what the current challenges are that we are facing and reflect on what we have learned from the past. Participants will learn what best practices are when it comes to helping the LGBTQ+ population
Conjunctural analysis and the crisis of ideas
Our new series, Soundings Critical Terms aims to explore and build on a range of theoretical resources that members of the editorial group have found helpful to their own understandings of politics. This article offers a framing statement for the series as whole, and makes a strong case for the place of conjunctural writing at the heart of the project. It looks at four key ways in which thinking conjuncturally can be of assistance to the left: as a means of analysis of periods of conjunctural crisis and contradiction; as an a priori necessity for effective political intervention; as a space open to bringing together longer trajectories of thought; and as an enabler of reflection on the shifting forces of socio-political histories. The aim is to begin to develop a rich toolkit of concepts, histories and understandings that enable us to think through what is possible, to determine the direction of future interventions, and to provide a space in which crucial differences and agreements within left activism can be explored
Faithful knowledges: the mediation of plural collectives in an interfaith charity
Interfaith initiatives have grown rapidly in the UK since the 1980s, but have been little researched. This thesis presents an organisational ethnography of London-based interfaith charity 3FF (Three Faiths Forum), with whom the author conducted two and half years of fieldwork as part of an ESRC collaborative studentship. Founded in 1997 to bring together Muslim, Christian and Jewish faith leaders, 3FF has since opened up its remit to those of âall faiths and nonreligious beliefsâ, and primarily delivers education works to young people. The organisation is unusual within the interfaith sector, but expressive of broader shifts in religious and other forms of collective identities (Woodhead, 2012).
Theoretically, this thesis attempts to adopt a non-modern (Latour, 1993) and non-secular approach to knowledge production, arguing that this is necessary to conceptualise processes of collective building that are inclusive of those of different faiths and beliefs, and which do not re-enact racialised hierarchies and coloniality. Chapters trace the mediation of different forms of knowledge, including the mediations of media technologies, from a number of angles. The empirical material covers the complexities of everyday coexistence between faiths; how the organisation navigated high profile âfaith-inflected media eventsâ taking place during the fieldwork period; data practices within the internal workings of the organisation; and a theorisation of the organisationâs practice with participants as involving tacit and embodied knowledges, alongside a critique asking where accountability lies when central aspects of the work remain unspoken.
The thesis conclusion outlines some of the lessons that can be drawn from this ethnographic case for constructing a âplural collectiveâ on a decolonial basis, which can challenge inequality despite fundamental disagreements about the nature of knowledge and the agencies at play in the world, and which is âopen to contingency but still able to actâ (Hall, 1987, p. 117)
Trajectories of autonomy development across the adolescent transition in children with spina bifida.
Retrograde gastroesophageal intussusception: Initial presenting feature of achalasia in a teenager
A 16-year-old Caucasian male presented with acute vomiting and dysphagia. Imaging studies revealed retrograde gastroesophageal intussusception (RGEI), which reduced prior to diagnostic laparoscopy. No clear etiology for RGEI was identified at that time, so further surgical intervention was deferred. He returned several months later with persistent dysphagia. Imaging, endoscopy, and endoluminal function imaging probe then diagnosed achalasia. He underwent a second laparoscopy for Heller myotomy and Dor fundoplication. This is the first report of RGEI preceding a diagnosis of achalasia
Feminism and âthe S-Wordâ
A roundtable discussion on socialism and feminism, chaired by Jo Littler, with Mandy Merck, Hilary Wainwright, Nira Yuval-Davis and Deborah Grayson
Gender and Patient Satisfaction with Primary Care: Tuning in to Women in Quality Measurement
This study analyzes the relationship between patient gender and satisfaction with primary care visits, using 1999 survey data on 1691 women and 760 men making primary care visits at multiple sites affiliated with a large academic health system designated as a National Center of Excellence in Women's Health (COE). The main findings are that in multivariate analyses controlling for patient and visit characteristics, different aspects of the content of primary care visits are important to women and men. Women's overall satisfaction with visits is more dependent than men's on informational content, continuity of care, and multidisciplinarity. Men's overall satisfaction is more dependent on the personal interest shown in them by providers. No differences in satisfaction are found between those seen in sites affiliated with the COE and other primary care sites within the health system that are not core sites of the COE. We conclude that quality improvement and research in women's primary care could benefit from gender analysis of patient satisfaction data and from more gender-sensitive patient satisfaction measures.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/63266/1/15246090050118189.pd
A life in progress: motion and emotion in the autobiography of Robert M. La Follette
This article is a study of a La Folletteâs Autobiography, the autobiography of the leading Wisconsin progressive Robert M. La Follette, which was published serially in 1911 and, in book form, in 1913. Rather than focusing, as have other historians, on which parts of La Folletteâs account are accurate and can therefore be trusted, it explains instead why and how this major autobiography was conceived and written. The article shows that the autobiography was the product of a sustained, complex, and often fraught series of collaborations among La Folletteâs family, friends, and political allies, and in the process illuminates the importance of affective ties as well as political ambition and commitment in bringing the project to fruition. In the world of progressive reform, it argues, personal and political experiences were inseparable
A clinical and cost-effectiveness trial of a parent group intervention to manage challenging restricted and repetitive behaviours in young children with autism spectrum disorder: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
Background Restricted and repetitive behaviours vary greatly across the autism spectrum, and although not all are problematic some can cause distress and interfere with learning and social opportunities. We have, alongside parents, developed a parent group based intervention for families of young children with autism, which aims to offer support to parents and carers; helping them to recognise, understand and learn how to respond to their childâs challenging restricted repetitive behaviours. Methods The study is a clinical and cost-effectiveness, multi-site randomised controlled trial of the Managing Repetitive Behaviours (MRB) parent group intervention versus a psychoeducation parent group Learning About Autism (LAA) (nâ=â250; 125 intervention/125 psychoeducation; ~â83/site) for parents of young children aged 3â9âyears 11âmonths with a diagnosis of autism. All analyses will be done under intention-to-treat principle. The primary outcome at 24âweeks will use generalised estimating equation (GEE) to compare proportion of children with improved RRB between the MRB group and the LAA group. The GEE model will account for the clustering of children by parent groups using exchangeable working correlation. All secondary outcomes will be analysed in a similar way using appropriate distribution and link function. The economic evaluation will be conducted from the perspective of both NHS costs and family access to local community services. A âwithin trialâ cost-effectiveness analysis with results reported as the incremental cost per additional child achieving at least the target improvement in CGI-I scale at 24âweeks. Discussion This is an efficacy trial to investigate the clinical and cost-effectiveness of a parent group based intervention designed to help parents understand and manage their childâs challenging RRB. If found to be effective, this intervention has the potential to improve the well-being of children and their families, reduce parental stress, greatly enhance community participation and potential for learning, and improve longer-term outcomes
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