Using Microanalysis (MFD) to Teach & Train Students

Microanalysis of face-to-face dialogue (MFD), that is, the detailed and replicable examination of any aspect of observable communicative behavior as it occurs, moment by moment, in a face-to-face dialogue (Bavelas, Gerwing, Healing, & Tomori, 2016) to examine professional conversations. MFD is an inductive methodology which uses detailed operational definitions and analysis rules, rather than relying on subjective judgment, to produce high inter-analyst agreement (Bavelas et al., 2016). MFD principles are applicable to teaching, training, and supervising clinicians in our CFT program.https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/btp_expo/1061/thumbnail.jp

Ordinary Words: Towards a New Understanding of the 19th Century Mormon Male Diary

“It is hard to believe that any group of comparable size, with the possible exception of the Puritans and the Quakers, has been as relentless as the Mormons in writing diaries and autobiographies.” So wrote Davis Bitton, in the Introduction of the 1977 publication Guide to Mormon Diaries and Autobiographies, an index of nearly 3,000 published and unpublished works. Bitton, a close friend and colleague of Mormon History Scholar Leonard Arrington worked with Arrington for decades to create “a research program of [God’s] people’s history.” At the heart of that program was and continues to be the diary. Bitton and Arrington used diaries to build their compendious social and religious histories, to craft life histories of prominent and not-so-prominent Latter-day Saints, and to tell their own stories as Arrington noted in his autobiography, Adventures of a Church Historian, “The principal sources for this book are my diaries, letters, and other personal papers….” And so it’s been for diarists and historians through time – creating, keeping, maintaining, preserving and using written records of their own lives and of their contemporaries and antecedents. In this paper, the author looks at a 19th Century Mormon male diary as not only a source of information about a man and his era, but as a text which can reveal a specific kind of literary writing

Further validation of the Child Routines Inventory (CRI): relationship to parenting practices, maternal distress, and child externalizing behavior

The importance of establishing predictable routines during early childhood has been consistently emphasized by parenting experts in the popular press, despite limited empirical study or understanding of their relationship to child behavior. The lack of research may be partially due to a lack of instruments suitable for measuring children’s routines. The Child Routines Inventory (CRI) was developed as an empirically based parent-report measure of commonly occurring routines in school-aged children. Since its development, the CRI has demonstrated moderate correlations with related constructs, including family routines, child behavior problems, parenting stress, and maternal depression. However, child routines have not been evaluated in relation to parenting practices. Furthermore, research on children’s daily stress has demonstrated a moderating impact of family routines on internalizing and externalizing behavior in children. The present study aimed 1) to further evaluate the psychometric properties of the CRI, 2) to determine factors that promote and disrupt routines in children, and 3) to examine the potential moderating role of children’s routines on the relationship between maternal distress and externalizing behavior problems. Participants included 153 mothers of children between the ages of 6 and 12, comprising a heterogeneous sample. Mothers completed measures of child routines, child adjustment, parental adjustment, and parenting practices, including the Child Routines Inventory, Behavior Assessment System for Children – Parent Report Form, Brief Symptom Inventory-18, Parent Behavior Inventory, Alabama Parenting Questionnaire, and a demographics questionnaire. Results provided additional support for the construct validity of the CRI, demonstrating strong evidence of convergent validity and weaker evidence of divergent validity. Hierarchical regression analysis suggested that positive parenting practices promote and negative parenting practices disrupt child routines, with parenting practices accounting for more variance in child routines than demographic factors or maternal distress. A second multivariate regression analysis indicated that while lack of child routines was significantly predictive of externalizing behavior problems, child routines did not moderate the impact of maternal distress on externalizing behavior problems. Future studies should continue to develop and validate the CRI and further explore the function of child routines within parenting models

A Journey to Accountability

The Journal of Solution Focused Practices (JSFP) underwent structural changes in 2019 as a result of a new editorial team. These changes occurred as a result of prioritizing equitable access to knowledge and leadership in the SF community. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the process of relaunching JSFP as an inclusive international journal. Two major initiatives are described. A renewal and alignment of purpose of the Editorial Board and the development of the journal’s Mission and Values statement. Both initiatives took place within the context of developing accountability for inclusivity, diversity and accessibility

Effects of Friction on BPA Leaching in Infant Toothbrushes

Bisphenol A (BPA) is a compound that mimics estrogen. This allows BPA to bind to estrogen receptors in the body in place of estrogen. This mistaken binding results in BPA acting as an agonist and antagonist for certain mechanisms in the body. This can result in early development, reproductive issues, and cancer. This project focused on the effects of brushing on the level of BPA by adding friction and movement to the toothbrush while it was soaking in the solution. The solution was used to draw the BPA out of the toothbrushes into the solution to make the levels testable by spectrofluorimetry. The excitation and emission intensities of the samples were collected and compared to a calibration curve to determine the concentration of BPA present in each sample. Data were compared to samples that were collected without brushing to determine if the friction affected BPA leached from the toothbrushes

Institute Brief: Making Experiential Education Accessible for Students with Disabilities

College students with disabilities enter with less work experience and have a harder time finding jobs than their nondisabled peers. Experiential education-- mentoring, internships, job shadowing, and so on-- can create a bridge to graduation and employment. However, that requires college professionals to consider access issues for all students. A new Institute Brief provides basic disability awareness information, suggests ways to create welcoming career offices, and offers ideas to increase access to experiential education