Tapol bulletin no, 23, August 1977

Contents: New tasks for 13th year -- Psycho-tests for Category B tapols -- Sawito to be tried -- ILO: Indonesia violates forced labour convention -- Punished for religious convictions -- Tapols face threat of execution -- Congressional hearings continue -- A year's sentence for criticising the government -- World Bank to aid Indonesi

Tapol bulletin no, 26, February 1978

Contents: Report on forced labour -- Crackdown on dissent -- East Timor report -- Release and transmigration 1977: a survey -- Sudomo: The K's and the L's -- Statement of intellectuals and men of the arts in Indonesia -- Pramudya Ananta Toe

Tapol bulletin no, 34, June 1979

Contents: Thousands of 'B' Tapols will remain after 1979 -- Buru and Savana Jaya -- At least 1000 Tapols in Kalimantan camps -- Indictment of Doddy Chusniati Suriadiredja -- The student of trial -- Defence protests to Supreme Court -- The fate of a Tapol after "release" -- Students defy 'normalisation' -- State Department challenged -- Psycho-deception: enquiry ends in cover-up -- Tapol trials research: preliminary findings -- Moslem detainees released -- Iggi Aid: behind the mask of development -- East Timor -- Hostile reception for Suharto in PN

Tapol bulletin no, 28, June 1978

Contents: Bartering human rights -- Yap on the Rule of Law -- More on the 1977 releases -- Psychotests: foreign scientists involved -- A story of ex-tapols from Buru -- 1978 crackdown ... -- Letter from Jogjakarta -- Rendra arrested -- International campaign for Rendra's release -- British MPs reject warplanes deal -- International Red Cross resumes Tapol visits -- IGGI meeting approves more credits -- Warplanes through the looking glass -- Letter from a released tapol -- Trials -- Letter from East Timo

Unfit for Work, Fit for Firearm or driving license - Is that Possible?

BACKGROUND: Psychiatric disorders are not compatible with carrying firearms or with driving a car. Persons with such disorders are often not employed and are persistent in demanding invalidity pensions, but some of them also insist on holding on to the mentioned licenses. In such cases, where persons are already in possession of firearms and driving licences, it never occurs to them, that they should surrender their permits back. AIM Pointing to the importance of OM controlling firearm/car driving licenses. CASE REPORTS: This paper discusses the problem of three cases that should be widely recognised as it is potentially life-threatening to other people. The first is the case of a war veteran in retirement with PTSD that had his application for firearms licence rejected by the authorities. The second is the case of a labourer who suffers from a depressive disorder, temporarily incapable of work. The third is the case of a war veteran, a chronic alcoholic with toxic epilepsy, who is applying for invalidity retirement but wants to keep his driving license. CONCLUSION: Occupational medicine assess every single worker by applying advanced methods and psycho tests that enable a thorough assessment of work capacity and fitness for carriage of firearms, driving as well as the assessment of psychiatric disorders, which are the most delicate to assess

Using Digital Word Puzzles to Develop Executive Functioning Skills in Adolescent Males with Known Skills Deficits

Research shows that game-based interventions can effectively help develop some executive functioning (EF) skills. However, the majority of the interventions previously studied involve specialized and/or expensive games. The author believes that using commonly available word-based digital puzzles to “warm up” students’ brains can lead to improved EF skills, leading to students being more motivated to engage in learning, which in turn promotes greater success in the classroom as well as in life in general. Two adolescent males were studied for five weeks (total of 17 school days) using Merriam-Webster’s Blossom (2025) as an intervention for EF skills at the start of their class period. Various data collection methods were used, all of which pointed to improved EF skills for one of the two students. The second student had mixed results, though he also played other, non-word-based video games outside of class time. The author believes that this study shows gains in EF skills can be made by utilizing quick, freely available word-based puzzles. Educators and parents can therefore be assured that they do not have to spend a lot of time or money on EF skill interventions to see improvements in the classroom and beyond

PREDIKTOR KEBERHASILAN STUDI PADA MAHASISWA DI FAKULTAS PSIKOLOGI UIN SUNAN GUNUNG DJATI BANDUNG

This study will specifically investigate the personal factors of students, whether they are biographic, or suspected psychological effect on the success of studies in the faculty of Psychology. Demographic factors such as intelligence level factors, whether the school background of high school, vocational school, or MA, and majors of time in SMU / SMK / MA. These factors are investigated for allegedly influence the success of the study. If proven, empirically, the results of this study expected to be a consideration in the selection of new students of psychology faculty UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung. During this selection system seems not yet to consider these factors. In fact, psychological test results of students' 2007-2008 force distribution of the IQ level of students was very varied between 78 to 115 points. Not much different school backgrounds and majors. The design of this study applying correlational design, multiple regression. With multiple regression, it is possible to forecast a variable based on the values of some predictors. The assumption by using several predictors will make more accurate predictions. In addition, with multiple regression is statistically possible to measure the influence of several predictor variables to control the other predictor variables (Blaikie, 2003). Research data, including: (1) The primary data is data related to emotional intelligence and social support, and (2) secondary data id data relating to the level of intelligence. Secondary data were obtained from laboratory psycho-tests held by the faculty of Psychology UIN SGD Bandung and the data contained in the faculty of Psychology UIN SGD Bandung. Results of data analysis shows that the correlation coefficient of the three independent variables with dependent variables for 0409 with a value of R2 of 0167. It shows that 16.7 percent of the variation of study success is determined by emotional intelligence, social support, and level of intelligence. Level intelligence backgrounds of students majoring in natural science majors were higher than social science or language. Meanwhile, 83.3 percent more determined by other variables

Autonomic Dysfunction in Preschool Children with Neurotic Disorders

In the last decades of the 21st century, the problem of a significant increase in the number of children with disorders in mental and somatic development has become particularly acute. Often there are neurotic conditions caused by the influence of various psycho-traumatic factors: the growth of scientific and technological progress and related changes in all areas of human life activity. In this regard, shifts occurred in the structure of the incidence among the population towards an increase in the proportion of diseases associated with nervous and psychic overstrain. One of the most vulnerable age groups is children of preschool and primary school age. Untimely diagnosed neurotic disorders in children, as a rule, turn into protracted forms of neurotic conditions and subsequently become chronic. This, of course, affects the adaptation of the individual in society and the further quality of life.This study, aimed at assessing autonomic regulation in preschool children with different psychological status, allowed to reveal the activity of the sympathetic and parasympathetic link of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) by the method of cardiointervalography according to R.M. Baevskii. We examined 127 children aged 4-5.5 years old. The average statistical indicators characterizing the regulation of heart rate (HR, HF, LF, VLF, LF/HF, TP, SI) in preschool children in various groups (neurosis, pre-neurosis, anxiety, and normal) were determined. The study revealed changes in the regulation of heart rhythm in children with neurotic disorders, which indicates an increase in the influence of the sympathetic circuit of autonomic regulation and a decrease in parasympathetic influences. Overstrain of vegetative centres in children with neurosis and pre-neurotic conditions is determined by high psychoemotional stresses

The Impact of Psychological Testing on the Patients Suffering from Stomatopyrosis

Stomatopyrosis is commonly associated with stressful situations, which implies the importance of psychological conditions of the patients with this symptom. Patients suffering from burning mouth syndrome suffered from some psychical disturbances as well. The fact that depression and anxiety are closely connected with stomatopyrosis has been scientifically confirmed. The data which systematically led to this conclusion suggest the possibility of the existence of a psychogenic disturbance as an aetiological factor which leads to stomatopyrosis. Research which might be conducted in order to relate psychogenic disturbances with stomatopyrosis by means of various drugs and procedures, might provide an insight into the relatedness of these factors, which would enable us to treat the cause and not the consequence.This research has been directed towards establishing this »relatedness« by means of psychopharmatics and psychotherapy, and has been confirmed by means of psychological depression and anxiety tests. The research has been conducted on 120 respondents suffering from stomatopyrosis, who were also, as previously diagnosed, suffering from a psychical disturbance. The respondents were divided into 4 groups. Each group contained 30 respondents suffering from stomatopyrosis as the basic symptom, but with different psychogenic disturbances. These groups were: 1) antidepressants, 2) anxiolytics, 3) autogenic training and 4) control group. A detailed clinical and psychiatric check-up was conducted before the treatment started, and was repeated several times in different intervals: after a month, after two months and after four months. Respondents are still undergoing a therapy. Subjective assessment of the intensity of the burning sensation was obtained according to Visual analogue scale and two psychological questionnaires (depression test and anxiety test). Conclusion is: 1) Antidepressants and anxiolytic drugs have a prominent role in the treatment of stomatopyrosis. Psychological tests conducted after a four-month period have shown improvement – there was a decrease in anxiety – 7.5%–8.8%, while depression has in some of the tested groups completely disappeared. At the same time, subjective evaluation of the intensity of the symptom has, according to VAS, showed a fall from 6.93–7.8 cm to 2.13–3.0 cm. At the beginning of the treatment, symptoms were described as »pretty often« with 36.7%–76.7% respondents, and as »permanent« with 23.3%–63.3% respondents. At the end of the treatment, the most frequent description regarding the frequency of the symptoms was »very rarely«. 2) Autogenic training – psychotherapeutic anxiolytic technique – is the therapy of choice as far as stomatopyrosis is concerned, as it both eliminates the problems and emotionally rehabilitates the patient. 3) As far as the therapeutic progress is concerned, it can be taken as the »progress« of the time when the symptoms appear: during the treatment, the frequency and the duration of the symptoms have been shortened at night, while their occurrence during the day has been reported as relatively more frequent

Kenyon Collegian - September 30, 1949

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