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Examining the Effectiveness of a Therapist Training on the Reflective Exploration of Parenting Interactions Tool
The current study seeks to explore the impact of a therapist training on the Reflective Exploration of Parenting Interactions Tool (REPIT, Verona, 2015), a clinical, therapist-guided exercise that aims to improve parent insight, and in turn, facilitate a decrease in parent-child conflict. The REPIT was created as a therapy exercise in which parents are guided through a series of 19 standardized questions that build their insight into their own internal processes regarding conflict with their child. Specifically, the reflection encourages exploration of how the parental internal processes impact the parent-child relationship and interact with the child thought processes to create parent-child conflict. The purpose of this study is to develop a therapist training for the REPIT and determine appropriate training components, maximizing therapist learning while balancing training efficiency. Experimental and control groups are used, with both groups completing a pre- and post-training declarative knowledge measure. The experimental group underwent a 3-hour interactive didactic workshop, and the control group did independent review of written materials only.
The results suggest that both training methods were effective in demonstrating improvements in declarative knowledge of the REPIT, but that there were no significant differences in therapist proficiency between the training conditions. A primary limitation of the study was regarding construction of the outcome measure. Item analysis indicated that the items were low in difficulty, that some items did not discriminate low- and high-scorers adequately, and that not all of the items contributed to the overall test score significantly
Mariner IV Mission to Mars. Part I
This technical report is a series of individual papers documenting the Mariner-Mars project from its beginning in 1962 following the successful Mariner-Venus mission. Part I is pre-encounter data. It includes papers on the design, development, and testing of Mariner IV, as well as papers detailing methods of maintaining communication with and obtaining data from the spacecraft during flight, and expected results during encounter with Mars. Part 11, post-encounter data, to be published later, will consist of documentation of the events taking place during Mariner IV's encounter with Mars and thereafter. The Mariner-Mars mission, the culmination of an era of spacecraft development, has contributed much new technology to be used in future projects
Rethinking Teacher Evaluation in Chicago
Presents findings from the Excellence in Teaching Pilot, which included training and support, classroom observations, and feedback in principal-teacher conferences. Examines implementation issues and the validity and reliability of observation ratings
Global drivers, sustainable manufacturing and systems ergonomics
This paper briefly explores the expected impact of the âGlobal Driversâ (such as population demographics,
food security; energy security; community security and safety), and the role of sustainability engineering
in mitigating the potential effects of these Global Drivers. The message of the paper is that sustainability
requires a significant input from Ergonomics/Human Factors, but the profession needs some expansion in
its thinking in order to make this contribution.
Creating a future sustainable world in which people experience an acceptable way of life will not
happen without a large input from manufacturing industry into all the Global Drivers, both in delivering
products that meet sustainability criteria (such as durability, reliability, minimised material requirement
and low energy consumption), and in developing sustainable processes to deliver products for sustainability
(such as minimum waste, minimum emissions and low energy consumption). Appropriate
changes are already being implemented in manufacturing industry, including new business models, new
jobs and new skills.
Considerable high-level planning around the world is in progress and is bringing about these changes;
for example, there is the US âAdvanced Manufacturing National Programâ (AMNP)â, the German âIndustrie
4.0â plan, the French plan âla nouvelle France industrielleâ and the UK Foresight publications on the
âFuture of Manufacturingâ.
All of these activities recognise the central part that humans will continue to play in the new
manufacturing paradigms; however, they do not discuss many of the issues that systems ergonomics
professionals acknowledge. This paper discusses a number of these issues, highlighting the need for
some new thinking and knowledge capture by systems ergonomics professionals. Among these are
ethical issues, job content and skills issues.
Towards the end, there is a summary of knowledge extensions considered necessary in order that
systems ergonomists can be fully effective in this new environment, together with suggestions for the
means to acquire and disseminate the knowledge extensions
Helicopter tail rotor orthogonal blade vortex interaction
The aerodynamic operating environment of the helicopter is particularly complex and,
to some extent, dominated by the vortices trailed from the main and tail rotors. These
vortices not only determine the form of the induced flow field but also interact with
each other and with elements of the physical structure of the flight vehicle. Such
interactions can have implications in terms of structural vibration, noise generation
and flight performance. In this paper, the interaction of main rotor vortices with the
helicopter tail rotor is considered and, in particular, the limiting case of the orthogonal
interaction. The significance of the topic is introduced by highlighting the operational
issues for helicopters arising from tail rotor interactions. The basic phenomenon is
then described before experimental studies of the interaction are presented. Progress
in numerical modelling is then considered and, finally, the prospects for future
research in the area are discussed
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