Residential suicide crisis care: stopping people from dying or supporting people to live

Background and aims: Improving care for people in suicidal crisis remains high on the UK government agenda. Trauma-informed approaches (TIAs) have been advocated to address the concerns raised by service-users with psychiatric hospital services. This study explores service-users’ accounts of staying at a women’s trauma-informed crisis house and in hospital whilst experiencing suicidal distress. Methods: Eight women were interviewed using a semi-structured interview schedule. Interviews were transcribed and analysed using thematic analysis within a critical realist framework. Results and discussion: Seven themes were developed: the power of talking, the limitations of medication, managing emotional safety through trusting relationships, managing physical safety through coercion, a home rather than a hospital, fostering compassion and the benefits of gender sensitivity. Participants described hospital as being dominated by a medical and custodial approach, which they said could undermine therapeutic engagement and exacerbate distress. By reframing suicidal feelings as a reasonable response to events in people’s lives, the TIA was described as enabling participants to safely work through their suicidal feelings, whilst maintaining freedom and control. This research was carried out with a small sample and both recruitment and context likely privileged positive accounts of TIAs. Clinical implications and areas for further research are discussed

Metadata for the WAGES instrumentation deployed on the RRS James Clark Ross between May 2010 and September 2013

The RRS James Clark Ross makes meteorological measurements around Antarctica during the austral summer, in the Arctic during the boreal summer and in the Atlantic during passages between the two poles. In May 2010, as part of the WAGES project the ships existing systems were complemented by the AutoFlux system (Yelland et al., 2009) to measure the transfers of momentum, heat and CO2 between the atmosphere and the ocean. Similarly, a commercial directional wave radar "WAVEX" made by the Norwegian firm MIROS was installed. This report describes the metadata for the WAGES instrumentation deployed on the RRS James Clark Ross between May 2010 and September 2013. Sensor serial numbers, dates of sensor changes and problems with sensors are contained in the associated tables

HiWASE: instrument alignments

Alignment offsets between anemometers and motion-sensing instruments are a source of uncertainty for eddy correlation flux measurements made at sea. A previously described laboratory technique (Brooks, 2008) has been utilised to determine the pitch, roll and yaw offsets between flux instruments installed on the weathership Polarfront as part of the HiWASE project. Pitch and roll offsets were determined with an uncertainty of between 0.02° and 0.08°. Yaw offsets were determined with an uncertainty of between 0.5° and 1.2°

Metadata for the WAGES instrumentation deployed on the James Clark Ross between May 2010 and September 2011

The RRS James Clark Ross makes meteorological measurements around Antarctica during the austral summer, in the Arctic during the boreal summer and in the Atlantic during passages between the two poles. In May 2010, as part of the WAGES project the ships existing systems were complemented by the AutoFlux system (Yelland et al., 2009) to measure the transfers of momentum, heat and CO2 between the atmosphere and the ocean. Similarly, a commercial directional wave radar "WAVEX" made by the Norwegian firm MIROS was installed.This report describes the metadata for the WAGES instrumentation deployed on the RRS James Clark Ross between May 2010 and September 2011. Sensor serial numbers, dates of sensor changes andproblems with sensors are contained in the associated tables

INTERVENTIONS IN GROUP HOMES

Understanding difficult behaviors that contribute to placement loss for foster children could aid in developing interventions to stabilize placement and increase progress moves. Thus, this research project explores the behaviors exhibited by adolescents in a group home through interviews with direct care staff to provide insight into the behaviors that contribute to placement disruption and possible interventions to address traumatic symptoms in foster children. This was a post- positivist study, utilizing qualitative methods to gather information through face-to-face interviews with group home staff. Eight group home staff were asked questions about their experiences with difficult behaviors and the interventions they have used to assist foster children, and these interviews were recorded electronically and transcribed using open coding. Using conventional content analysis, the following themes were identified: relationship building as an intervention, support for staff, and the difficult behaviors of foster youth. Relationship building was commonly mentioned by most participants as a way to help youth cope with group home placement. This aligns with previous research and highlights the need for interventions to be aimed at building and maintaining positive relationships for foster youth. The difficult behaviors commonly mentioned by residential counselors included running away, aggression, drug use, and property damage. Additional support in the form of training, management support, and value for the field was identified by participants as was the need for interventions aimed at reducing these difficult behaviors and increasing support for residential counselors

Metadata for the WAGES instrumentation deployed on the James Clark Ross between May 2010 and September 2011.

The RRS James Clark Ross makes meteorological measurements around Antarctica during the austral summer, in the Arctic during the boreal summer and in the Atlantic during passages between the two poles. In May 2010, as part of the WAGES project the ships existing systems were complemented by the AutoFlux system (Yelland et al., 2009) to measure the transfers of momentum, heat and CO2 between the atmosphere and the ocean. Similarly, a commercial directional wave radar "WAVEX" made by the Norwegian firm MIROS was installed. This report describes the metadata for the WAGES instrumentation deployed on the RRS James Clark Ross between May 2010 and September 2011. Sensor serial numbers, dates of sensor changes andproblems with sensors are contained in the associated tables

Reconstructing Landscape to Reconstruct Regionalism? L'Horta, la Ciutat de les Ciències, and the Ideological Politics of Valencian Modernity

In this paper I explore the ways economic and political “reterritorialization” – such as regionalist politics in Spain – may be negotiated through cultural discourses and landscapes. Few regions exemplify the contradictions of regional politics better than the Comunitat Valenciana, whose capital Valencia has been transformed by the Generalitat Valenciana’s simultaneous pursuit of economic development and political autonomy over two decades and three political administrations. Some of these changes imply the displacement of L’Horta de Valencia, long a regional symbol, by new monumental spaces like the Ciutat de les Arts i de les Ciències. I examine this precipitous substitution of landscapes, in regional space and iconography, to analyze how the Generalitat’s reconstruction of the Valencian landscape may serve to reconstruct Valencian regionalism. In this essay, based on a broader qualitative research project, I suggest that a new regionalist discourse has emerged premised on global competitiveness and obsessed with modernity. Like the Museu de les Ciències itself, however, this new Valencian regionalism may be built for global tourism yet lacking substantial content

Reconstruir el paisatge per a reconstruir el Regionalisme? L'Horta, la Ciutat de les Ciències, i la política ideològica de la modernitat valenciana

En aquest article exploro les formes en què la ‘reterritorialització' econòmica i política –com la de les polítiques regionalistes a Espanya– pot ser negociada a través de discursos i paisatges culturals. Poques regions exemplifiquen les contradiccions de les polítiques regionals millor que la Comunitat Valenciana, la capital de la qual, València, ha estat transformada per la simultània cerca, per part de la Generalitat Valenciana, del desenvolupament econòmic i de l'autonomia política al llarg de dues dècades i tres governs. Alguns d'aquests canvis comporten el desplaçament de l'Horta de València, durant molt de temps un símbol regional, per nous espais monumentals, com és la Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències. Aquí examino aquesta precipitada substitució de paisatges, en l'espai regional i en la iconografia, per tal d'analitzar com la reconstrucció del paisatge valencià per part de la Generalitat pot servir per a reconstruir el regionalisme valencià. En aquest assaig, basat en un projecte de recerca qualitativa més ampli, suggereixo que ha emergit un nou discurs regionalista fonamentat en la competitivitat global i obsessionat amb la modernitat. Tal com el mateix Museu de les Ciències, tanmateix, aquest nou regionalisme valencià pot ser bastit per al turisme global, però en manca en canvi d'un contingut substanciós