Psychosocial interventions for self-harm in adults

Background: Self-harm (SH; intentional self-poisoning or self-injury) is common, often repeated, and associated with suicide. This is an update of a broader Cochrane review first published in 1998, previously updated in 1999, and now split into three separate reviews. This review focuses on psychosocial interventions in adults who engage in self-harm. Objectives: To assess the effects of specific psychosocial treatments versus treatment as usual, enhanced usual care or other forms of psychological therapy, in adults following SH. Search methods: The Cochrane Depression, Anxiety and Neurosis Group (CCDAN) trials coordinator searched the CCDAN Clinical Trials Register (to 29 April 2015). This register includes relevant randomised controlled trials (RCTs) from: the Cochrane Library (all years), MEDLINE (1950 to date), EMBASE (1974 to date), and PsycINFO (1967 to date). Selection criteria: We included RCTs comparing psychosocial treatments with treatment as usual (TAU), enhanced usual care (EUC) or alternative treatments in adults with a recent (within six months) episode of SH resulting in presentation to clinical services. Data collection and analysis: We used Cochrane's standard methodological procedures

Leo and Evelyn Hennen Interview, 1995

In this interview, Leo and Evelyn Hennen reminisce about the early days of television. Mr. Hennen was born in Racine, MN on September 29, 1912 and Mrs. Hennen was born in Rothsay, MN on August 19, 1925. They lived on a farm in Stevens County. They purchased their first television in the early 1960\u27s.https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/tvoralhistories/1002/thumbnail.jp

Kommunikation ueber Risiken der 'neuen Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien' Themen und Strukturen einer gesellschaftlichen Kontroverse

UuStB Koeln(38)-890106818 / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekSIGLEDEGerman

Die Reaktionen der Bevölkerung auf die Ereignisse in Tschernobyl - Ergebnisse einer Befragung

A representative survey of about 2,000 citizens of the Federal Republic of Germany was conductedin November/December 1986, seven months after the Chernobyl accident, to analyze the impactsof that event on the behavior, opinions and attitudes of the German public.lt was found that one major response to the event is uncertainty about the health consequencesof the reactor accident. About 50 % of the interviewed people report changes in the nutritialhabits of both themselves and their children. The changes in the diet, made according torecommendations made by several governmental authorities and other organizations and groups,varies strongly with the degree of education. The reasons for this are due, first, to a greater oppositionto nuclear energy in general and, second, to a quicker and more consequenttransformation of opinions and attitudes into behavioral dispositions within the more educatedgroups.About 40 % of the respondents voted in favour of an accelerated abandonment of nuclear energyby shutdown of existing nuclear power plants and not just by the prohibition of new ones. lt isinteresting to notice that not the youngest respondents are most frequently against nuclear energybut rather the 25-30 year-old age group.Two major surprises were found when analyzing which information sources the respondentstrusted: First, trust in established institutions like Government, Nuclear Research Centres andNuclear Industry is hardly higher than that in institutions opposing the "establishment" like theÖko-Institute (a so-called "alternative" research establishment), citizens' interest groups and journalists.(The latter belonging to the duster of anti-established institutions to a somewhat lowerdegree.) Second, trust of the establishment is only very slightly negatively correlated with trustof the anti-establishment. About a quarter of the population trusts both sides, the establishmentas well as the anti-establishment; 15 % do not trust any side. On the average the highest trust isgiven the German government; the lowest the nuclear industry.The present report just gives the results of the first step of a broad project on the social receptionof the Chernobyl accident. The following steps will focus on the institutional responses to theaccident by government agencies, political institutions and research establishments. Finally it isplanned to analyze the function of mass media in the transfer of information about the Chernobylaccident and its consequences for the Federal Republic of Germany

Tschernobyl in der öffentlichen Meinung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland : Risikowahrnehmung, politische Einstellungen und Informationsbewertung

This report presents the results of three representative opinion polls carried out in theFederal Republic ofGermany on the subject of"Chernobyl" on behalf of the ProgrammeGroup Technology and Society at the KFA Jülich by Infratest Sozialforschung, Munich,in November 1986, May 1987 and May 1988 with in each case about 2000 respondents.The questions posed referred, amongst other aspects, to the assessment of risk on thebasis of the reactor disaster, to modifications of eating habits after Chernobyl, toattitudes and opinions on the use of nuclear energy in the Federal Republic, as well asto the evaluation of credibility of inf ormation sources.The results of the three opinion polls in the two years following the Chernobyl disasterpoint to far-reaching misgivings amongst the population with respect to theconsequences of the reactor disaster for the Federal Republic, which were not dispelledfrom the first to the third opinion pell. The population's attitude to nuclear energy,which had become much more critical due to the Chernobyl reactor disaster, graduallybecame more favourable to nuclear energy with an increasing period of time after theevents at Chernobyl; however, this trend was reversed again by the so-called "atomicwaste scandal".The familiar relationships of attitude to nuclear energy with sociodemographic variablescan be found once again in the present pell results: on average, women have a morenegative attitude to nuclear energy than men, younger respondents (with the exceptionof the youngest age group of 14 - 25-year-olds) are more negative than olderrespondents, and respondents with a higher level of formal education are more negativethan the less educated.lt is interesting to note that the attitude to nuclear energy is associated curvilinearly withthe level of information about it. Both those persons with a clearly more negative as wellas those with a clearly more positive attitude had a higher level of information aboutnuclear energy than respondents with a less extreme attitude. It thus becomes clear thatacceptance problems for nuclear energy cannot be regarded as the problem of a lack ofknowledge on the part of the public. The attitude of most respondents to nuclear energyis characterized by a deep-seated ambivalence: on the one hand it is associated with ahigh safety risk, but on the other hand great economic benefits are also recognized. Ina variance analysis, the two aspects explain a roughly equal level of variance in theattitude to nuclear energy.The information behaviour of the population after Chernobyl was characterized by asceptical attitude to reporting in the media, which was frequently considered to beinaccurate. A critical attitude was, however, also revealed towards primary informationsources such as the government, opposition, nuclear research centres, industry, actiongroups and ecological research institutes. The majority of the population are evidentlyoriented both towards statements from established institutions such as the governmentand nuclear research centres as well as to information from institutions and personscritical of nuclear energy; they therefore did not shut their eyes to contradictions in thepublished information. lt became clear that a majority of the respondents had a preference for a decentralized information policy where the public has unimpeded accessto as many information sources as possible