Research on humanistic-experiential psychotherapies

In this chapter we focus on research published since our previous reviews (Greenberg, Elliott & Lietaer, 1994; Elliott, Greenberg & Lietaer, 2004), which covered research published between 1978 and 2001, plus additional earlier research on humanistic-experiential psychotherapy (HEP) outcome that we have been able to track down. A key element of the chapter is a meta-analysis of nearly 200 HEP outcome studies (through 2008) and a survey of the use of the approach with different client groups. In addition, we offer a meta-synthesis of qualitative research on these therapies (cf. Timulak, 2007), and provide a narrative review of recent quantitative research on change processes in HEPs. We conclude by reviewing and integrating the literature reviewed and discuss policy implications

Connectionist Inference Models

The performance of symbolic inference tasks has long been a challenge to connectionists. In this paper, we present an extended survey of this area. Existing connectionist inference systems are reviewed, with particular reference to how they perform variable binding and rule-based reasoning, and whether they involve distributed or localist representations. The benefits and disadvantages of different representations and systems are outlined, and conclusions drawn regarding the capabilities of connectionist inference systems when compared with symbolic inference systems or when used for cognitive modeling

ANALYSIS, MANAGEMENT AND TRADE-OFF WITH RISKS OF TECHNICAL FACILITIES

Submitted work “Analysis, management and trade-off with risk of technical facilities“ deals with the all type of risks associated with the technical facilities, particularly with the complex ones, with aim to ensure their safety. It demonstrates the ways of work with risks at phase of identification, analysis, assessment, management and putting under control aimed to the safety of both, the technical facilities and their surround-ings (i.e. their mutual coincidence), and simultaneously respecting the current knowledge that the risks are locally and time-specific. The safety is understood as a property on the level of the whole technical facility, which is determined by the quality of the file of anthropogenic measures and activi-ties aimed at the safe technical facility, and even at its critical conditions. Therefore, at safety make up, the publication proposes to monitor both, the public assets and the technical facility´ assets, and together to consider the diversity of their physical natures, vulnerabilities, and the constituent changes over time; which means contin-uously to solve emerging conflicts. procedures for the control and management of critical sit-uations. The publication “Analysis, management and trade-off with risks of technical facilities“ summarizes problems and shows methods and procedures for their solution based on system concept and present findings and experiences from practice obtained by detail research. It summarizes the results of specific research performed in project “Řízení rizik a bezpečnost složitých technologických objektů (RIRIZIBE)“ CZ.02.2.69/0.0/ 0.0/16_018/000”; detail data and results are in the Czech publication and in the CVUT archives

Enabling Personal Occupation through Sensory Interventions

Individuals with developmental disabilities and/or mental illness are predisposed to having a co-occurring sensory processing disorder. Many adults and children with sensory processing disorder have never been assessed or treated. Consequences of untreated sensory processing disorder include decreased ability to engage in meaningful occupations or healthy relationships, leading to lowered self-esteem and perception regarding quality of life. A literature review defines sensory processing, sensory processing disorders, consequences of sensory processing disorder dysfunction, sensory processing disorder co-morbidity, sensory processing disorders in individuals with mental illness and/or developmental disabilities, interventions for sensory processing disorders, the role of occupational therapy, deficiencies in knowledge, and controversies. This scholarly project presents a guide created for occupational therapists to utilize in assisting them to determine which assessments and interventions may be best for clients who exhibit sensory processing difficulties. The guide is entitled A Practitioners Guide to using Sensory Based Assessments and Interventions for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities and/or Mental Illness. It is a compilation of sensory processing assessments and sensory-based interventions intended to guide occupational therapists and their clients who have sensory processing deficits. Its ultimate purpose is to support these clients to have greater success in completion of valued daily occupations and improved quality of life. The Canadian Model of Occupational Performance (CMOP) was selected to guide the project based on the essential components of Person, Occupation and Environment. The CMOP is a dynamic model of practice in which the person, occupation and environment are interconnected, with spirituality at the core. Principles of Knowles\u27 andragogical model of learning were followed in development of the product, both for the practitioner and client. The constructivist approach of teaching and learning was used in development of the client self-rating tool, log and journal

Testing an EU-Candidate's Place on the Maps of Global Economic, Political and Social Values: The Case of Turkey

Following the attempt by Alesina and Guiliano (2013) to measure global culture and to project these measurements onto real choropleth geographical world maps, we utilize the data from the World Values Survey (WVS) to arrive at robust measurement scales of global economic, political and social values and to assess Turkey's place on them. Our study, which is based on 92,289 representative individuals with complete data in 68 countries, representing 56.89% of the global population, looks at hard-core economic values in the countries. From our new nine dimensions for the determination of the geography of human values, based on a promax factor analysis of the available data, we use six factor analytical scores to calculate a new Global Value Development Index, which combines: avoiding economic permissiveness; avoiding racism; avoiding distrust of the army and the press; avoiding the authoritarian character; tolerance and respect; and avoiding the rejection of the market economy and democracy. Our results show that the five best ranked countries are all western democracies. Our global value development index ranks Morocco twelfth - just behind the USA. Turkey is ranked 25, ahead of several EU member countries. But there are still considerable deficits concerning the liberal values components, which are very important for effective democracy, and there are very large regional differences, confirming the dictum by Huntington (1996) about Turkey as a torn country. The deficits suggest that the Turkish state, Turkish civil society and European decision makers would be well advised to continue to support civil society and secular democracy in Turkey

Mining and quality assessment of mashup model patterns with the crowd: A feasibility study

Pattern mining, that is, the automated discovery of patterns from data, is a mathematically complex and computationally demanding problem that is generally not manageable by humans. In this article, we focus on small datasets and study whether it is possible to mine patterns with the help of the crowd by means of a set of controlled experiments on a common crowdsourcing platform. We specifically concentrate on mining model patterns from a dataset of real mashup models taken from Yahoo! Pipes and cover the entire pattern mining process, including pattern identification and quality assessment. The results of our experiments show that a sensible design of crowdsourcing tasks indeed may enable the crowd to identify patterns from small datasets (40 models). The results, however, also show that the design of tasks for the assessment of the quality of patterns to decide which patterns to retain for further processing and use is much harder (our experiments fail to elicit assessments from the crowd that are similar to those by an expert). The problem is relevant in general to model-driven development (e.g., UML, business processes, scientific workflows), in that reusable model patterns encode valuable modeling and domain knowledge, such as best practices, organizational conventions, or technical choices, that modelers can benefit from when designing their own models