Exploring the Views of Voluntary Community Sector Professionals on Partnership Working and Community Engagement with Clinical Psychologists in an NHS Child and Family Service

Background: There is increasing recognition that effective partnership working is fundamental to improving access to Children and Young People’s Mental Health Services and helps to better meet the needs of ethnic minority children and families. With growing expectations that Voluntary Community Sector professionals should work in partnership with Clinical Psychologists to bridge culturally accessible support, it is essential that their voices and perspectives are heard. Aims: This study explored Voluntary Community Sector professionals’ views and experiences of partnership working with Clinical Psychologists within Children and Young People’s Mental Health Services. A critical realist epistemological position explored Voluntary Community Sector professionals’ perspectives regarding facilitators to partnership work and whether co-production and community engagement approaches improved culturally accessible support within Children and Young People’s Mental Health Services. Method: Semi-structured interviews were facilitated with ten Voluntary Community Sector professionals working in partnership with Clinical Psychologists in a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service. Interviews were analysed using Thematic Analysis, producing three key themes: ‘Establishing Trusted Relationships’, ‘Reciprocity’ and ‘Breaking Down Systemic Barriers’. Analysis: Findings showed that building trusted relationships, with long-term connections enabled Clinical Psychologists to earn communities’ trust and develop a shared language. Voluntary Community Sector professionals emphasised the need for reciprocal, bi-directional partnerships, based upon shared need, cultural respect and flexibility to meet families’ needs. Partnerships were perceived to break down systemic barriers to accessing Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. Understanding how fear and stigma impacted help-seeking and acknowledging the partnerships’ frustrations regarding funding uncertainties were key systemic challenges. Providing reassurance, increasing knowledge and promoting awareness of services were considered key to improving community engagement. Conclusions: This is the first known qualitative study to identify facilitators to partnership work and community psychology approaches between the Voluntary Community Sector and Clinical Psychologists within Children and Young People’s Mental Health Services. Findings suggest Voluntary Community Sector professionals perceived that partnership work improved engagement and enabled more culturally appropriate Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services support. Implications are multi-level including recommendations for: commissioning, policy, psychology training, community psychology and Children and Young People’s Mental Health Services

Artemisinins

Artemisinins were discovered to be highly effective antimalarial drugs shortly after the isolation of the parent artemisinin in 1971 in China. These compounds combine potent, rapid antimalarial activity with a wide therapeutic index and an absence of clinically important resistance. Artemisinin containing regimens meet the urgent need to find effective treatments for multidrug resistant malaria and have recently been advocated for widespread deployment. Comparative trials of artesunate and quinine for severe malaria are in progress to see if the persistently high mortality of this condition can be reduced

Sonic impedance technique detects flaws in polyurethane foam spray-on insulation

Sonic impedance testing detects voids and unbonded regions as small as 1 inch in diameter by 0.03 inch thick. Measurements are made manually or by automatic scanning and the readout is made by meter or recorder

A new view of quiet-Sun topology from Hinode/SOT

Context. With the recent launch of the Hinode satellite our view of the nature and evolution of quiet-Sun regions has been improved. In light of the new high resolution observations, we revisit the study of the quiet Sun's topological nature. Aims. Topology is a tool to explain the complexity of the magnetic field, the occurrence of reconnection processes, and the heating of the corona. This Letter aims to give new insights to these different topics. Methods. Using a high-resolution Hinode/SOT observation of the line-of-sight magnetic field on the photosphere, we calculate the three dimensional magnetic field in the region above assuming a potential field. From the 3D field, we determine the existence of null points in the magnetic configuration. Results. From this model of a continuous field, we find that the distribution of null points with height is significantly different from that reported in previous studies. In particular, the null points are mainly located above the bottom boundary layer in the photosphere (54%) and in the chromosphere (44%) with only a few null points in the corona (2%). The density of null points (expressed as the ratio of the number of null points to the number of photospheric magnetic fragments) in the solar atmosphere is estimated to be between 3% and 8% depending on the method used to identify the number of magnetic fragments in the observed photosphere. Conclusions. This study reveals that the heating of the corona by magnetic reconnection at coronal null points is unlikely. Our findings do not rule out the heating of the corona at other topological features. We also report the topological complexity of the chromosphere as strongly suggested by recent observations from Hinode/SOT

Contact transformations and the theory of optimal control

Contact transformation of independent and dependent variables of Hamilton-Jacobi equatio

Ultrasonic scanning system for in-place inspection of brazed-tube joints

System detects defects of .051 cm in diameter and larger. System incorporates scanning head assembly including boot enclosed transducer, slip ring assembly, drive mechanism, and servotransmitter. Ultrasonic flaw detector, prototype recorder, and special recorder complete system

Ultrasonic scanning system for in-place inspection of brazed tube joints

A miniaturized ultrasonic scanning system for nondestructive in-place, non-immersion testing of brazed joints in stainless-steel tubing is described. The system is capable of scanning brazed tube joints, with limited clearance access, in 1/4 through 5/8 inch union, tee, elbow and cross configurations. The system has the capability to detect defective conditions now associated with material density changes in addition to those which are depended upon density variations. The system includes a miniaturized scanning head assembly that fits around a tube joint and rotates the transducer around and down the joint in a continuous spiral motion. The C-scan recorder is similar in principle to conventional models except that it was specially designed to track the continuous spiral scan of the tube joint. The scanner and recorder can be operated with most commercially available ultrasonic flaw detectors

Massacre, memoir, and myth: The 1866 Fetterman Fight, a reconstruction

Myths permeate histories of the 1866 Fetterman Fight, or Massacre. Thesis foci include myths of the 1866 Fort Laramie Treaty, the July 1866 Skirmish at Crazy Woman\u27s Fork, Jim Bridger\u27s role from May 1866 to spring 1867, and the December 1866 Fetterman Fight. Beginning in 1867, Colonel Carrington, Captain Fetterman\u27s commanding officer, shifted blame from himself to Fetterman. Based upon Carrington\u27s allegations, historical consensus indicts Captain Fetterman for arrogantly disobeying orders, foolishly leading eighty men into a fatal ambush by 1,800 Lakota, Cheyenne, and Araphoe warriors, and committing mutual suicide with Captain Brown when hope was gone. In his 1991 article Price of Arrogance, John D. McDermott reaffirmed Carrington\u27s accusations. This thesis debunks the myths, challenges the consensus version, reconstructs the fight with soldier and Indian memoirs, and Army documents, and offers a new interpretation of the Fetterman Fight