SOCIAL WORK GRADUATE STUDENTS SELF-REPORTED KNOWLEDGE OF TREATMENT OPTIONS FOR POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER

Students who study to obtain the Master of Social Work (MSW) degree will undoubtedly serve clients with histories of family violence, chronic or terminal illness, immigration, racism, mass violence/terrorism, or even natural disasters. With the theme of trauma being ever prevalent in their internships and work, it is important to consider the perceptions that MSW Students have about PTSD treatment modalities and exploring their interests in expanding their knowledge about PTSD. A selection of MSW students were asked questions about their knowledge and interest in treatment options for PTSD. The results showed a diverse variation of knowledge for the seven treatment modalities studied and a high interest among all groups in learning more about all treatment types. Additionally there was a large difference in knowledge of the various treatment modalities between students who are veterans and those who had no military background. Recommendations include increased curricular content on emerging PTSD treatments and continued research on gaps in MSW student knowledge of alternative treatment modalities for PTSD and other mental health issues. Keywords: PTSD, treatment modalities, Agri-therapy, Cannabis treatment, Equine therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR), 3,4 methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) therapy, Medical Nutritional Therapy (MNT), Virtual Reality Exposure Therap

A different kind of family: Retrospective accounts of growing up at Centrepoint and implications for adulthood

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Editorial

In lieu of abstract, here is the first paragraph of the article: When The Who sang about teenage angst in the 60s, their rock anthem ‘Talking about my Generation’ captured the divide between youth and beyond. Today, another divide – the digital divide – speaks to the issues of access, capital, and input that follow digital technologies. Like the earlier ‘me generation’, the new millennium D(igital) generation remains enigmatic, its members variously praised for their technological wizardry, criticised for their self-absorption, and pathologised for their unsociability. The D generation does not comprise youth alone, but the young are more exposed than others to the influence of new media and digital technologies. And like previous youth generations, they are often viewed as degenerate. A cybernetic degeneration symbolising society’s fears and cultural anxieties concerning the dehumanising prospects of technology appears most vividly in arguments about youth (Green & Bigum’s ‘aliens in the classroom’ [1993] is an apt description in this respect). Such negative rhetoric presents a dystopic view that tempers the more utopian, but equally reductionist visions of new technologies

Mood and Affective State Response to an Acute Bout of Non-Combative Boxing Training

The purpose was to examine the influence of non-combative boxing training on mood and affective states. Initially, 54 students, age 18 to 24, volunteered for participation; 43 completed the study. Participants were assigned to either the non-combative boxing training group or the control group, which viewed a health-related video. The Profile of Mood States (POMS) was administered before and after each intervention to measure mood states while the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) was administered before and after each intervention to measure affective states. Pre-intervention differences between the experimental group and the control group were detected on Anger, Depression and Negative Affect. Post-intervention, the experimental group experienced reductions in Depression, Confusion, and Negative Affect and increases in Vigor and Positive Affect. It was concluded that positive changes to mood and affective states are a consequence of participation in non-combative boxing training.School of Teaching and Curriculum Leadershi

Healthy living intervention for female primary caregivers of infants and toddlers

Background: Obesity has emerged as a significant health issue among both adults and youth in the United States. Nationally, 1 in 12 children aged 2-5 years are obese. Common recommendations to counter obesity in children include dietary modifications, increased physical activity, and decreased sedentary time, including screen time. One avenue to influence these behavioral targets in infant and toddler children may be to influence parent behavior.Objective: The principal aim of the present study was to determine the effects of a Healthy Living intervention on female primary caregivers' fruit and vegetable consumption, sugar-sweetened beverage consumption, physical activity level, and television viewing time. The effects of the intervention on self-efficacy and anthropometric outcomes were also examined.Methods: A quantitative, quasi-experimental, pretest/posttest, attention-placebo comparison design was used to evaluate intervention effectiveness. The Healthy Living treatment condition was compared to an early childhood education attention-placebo comparison condition. The Transtheoretical Model (TTM) served as the guiding framework for Healthy Living intervention development and implementation. Community lay advisors recruited participants and also delivered the treatment and attention-placebo comparison conditions. A total of 82 female primary caregivers were recruited for participation; 58 completed both the pretest and posttest assessment (26 were in the treatment condition and 32 were in the attention-placebo comparison condition).Results: There were no statistically significant between-group differences for any of the behavioral outcomes, self-efficacy, or anthropometric outcomes. Regardless of condition, female primary caregivers' mean sugar-sweetened beverage calorie consumption, F(1, 53) = 6.62, p = .01, and mean body mass index, F(1, 43) = 4.06, p = .05, decreased significantly form pretest to posttest.Discussion: Although this investigation suggests the Healthy Living treatment condition was no more effective than the attention-placebo comparison condition, findings do support the utility of the community lay advisor approach in recruiting and retaining hard-to-reach participants. This approach may also enhance participant self-efficacy; however, additional research is needed to examine this relationship

Impersonality and the extinction of self: A comparative analysis of the poetry of Alun Lewis and Keith Douglas

This thesis, comparative in method, examines a wide range of the poetry of Keith Douglas and Alun Lewis, and some of their prose writings. As Second World War poets, both sought a poetic register that voiced their testimony to changed realities, both internal and external. Degrees of commonality are traced between Douglas’s dominant impulse for ‘impersonality’ and Lewis’s increasing stylistic objectivity, alongside investigation of their shared underlying sense of loss, and of complicity as agents of war, even when their poetic voice is at its most impersonal. Diverse critical viewpoints are addressed, along with several psychoanalytical theories and relevant biographical commentary. Following an Introduction and Review of the Critical Field, each chapter is structured as a bipartite comparison, focusing first on Douglas, then on Lewis. Chapter 1 investigates Douglas’s impersonality as a controlled, ambivalently detached poetic register which, in its undertow and perceptual shifts, reveals the speaker’s submersed engagement and ethical complicity. Lewis’s poetry is seen to reveal a related impulse for increasingly subordinating the subjective voice in evocations of the painfully harsh realities he encountered. Chapter 2 explores the writers’ dialectical struggles to resolve or extinguish self-division, focusing particularly upon Douglas’s ‘bête noire’ and Lewis’s ‘enmity within’, configurations analysed as paradoxically creative/destructive ingredients of the poetic impulse. Chapter 3 then examines the poets’ epistemological and ontological preoccupations with death, ‘darkness’ and ‘being’, and their relevance to what is here termed ‘the extinction of Self’. Chapter 4 extends this enquiry to examine the poets’ representations of wartime separation and geographical dislocation as manifestations of ‘the exilic self’ and a mutual desire to extinguish internal crises. The conclusion drawn is that their shared, dual axis of poetic engagement and detachment reveals a deeply embedded, common impulse to voice and escape their burdens, both inherently personal, and as complicit agents of war

The Elicitation Method for Past Tense Verb production in Children with Specific Language Impairment and Typical Language

Past tense verb production in children with specific language impairment and language-matched children with typical language was compared using language samples and a standardized probe (Rice/Wexler Test of Early Grammatical Impairment). Analyses revealed accuracy and error type differences between elicitation types and groups. Results have important clinical practice implications

Improving the communication between care providers of individuals who may require joint replacement surgery (JRS) a framework for referral

Aims &amp; rationale/Objectives : The objective of the project was to specify the information required in referrals to public hospital orthopaedic outpatient departments in order to streamline the care and prioritisation of individuals who may require JRS. It was envisaged that an evidence-based GP-Orthopaedic derived referral system would assist in ensuring that the right person accessed the right care at the right time.Methods : In collaboration with the RACGP and the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing, a national stakeholder working group was convened. A scoping document was prepared with input from key stakeholders. A review of primary research was undertaken as well as a review of relevant guidelines. Information on the implementation and evaluation of similar programs in Australia and overseas also informed the referral specification.Principal findings : The initial scoping processes with key stakeholders provided clear information on core components of the referral. These were the use of standardised and respected assessment tools to determine the severity of arthritis, fitness for surgery and willingness of affected individuals to undergo surgery.Discussion : About 20,000 JRS occur each year in public hospitals which emanate from 5 to 10 fold number of referrals. Arthritis and musculoskeletal diseases are a national health priority area reflecting the high burden of disease associated with these conditions. Various initiatives are being undertaken to address the quality of life of affected individuals. This project has revealed areas of potential improvement in the communication between care providers of individuals who may need JRS.Implications : The project will result in the development of a standard referral form and guidelines to assist referring practitioners to communicate more effectively with the multidisciplinary care team, in particular orthopaedic care providers. The guidelines will be piloted in a large rural setting.<br /