The Experience of Supervision for Integrative Coach-Therapist Practitioners: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

This study aimed to explore the experience of supervision for integrative coach- therapist practitioners. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with five integrative coach-therapists. An interpretative phenomenological analysis was utilised. The analysis created three distinct superordinate themes: 1) Bifurcation and arbitrary lines, 2) Detective work and 3) A conscious sense of belonging. Each of these overarching themes was supported by a number of subordinate themes that encapsulate the particularities and complexities of the integrative coach-therapist experience. One of the key findings of the study was that there appeared to be both similarities and differences for integrative coach-therapists when compared with the general literature on supervision experience. A similarity to previous research findings was the relational difficulties highlighted by the supervision literature. For example: power dynamics, supervisee anxiety and boundary issues were present in the participants’ experience. However, a key divergence, was a finding encapsulated by the superordinate theme “A conscious sense of belonging”. This finding suggests that the integrative coach-therapist practitioners have their own unique needs in supervision and these needs are integral to their professional identity. These findings suggest that integrative coach-therapists face challenges and complex relationships in their supervisory encounters. However, the practitioners also see great potential for supervision to help foster their professional identity. These insights into practitioners’ experience of supervision highlight avenues for future research. Further qualitative enquiry into particular topic areas was illuminated, such as group supervision and supervisor experience. An important implication for counselling psychology practice is that individual integrative coach-therapists may experience supervision differently, precisely because of how they integrate practice. Given counselling psychology’s interest in pluralistic practice, the discipline is thus in a unique position to engage with the development of contemporary integrative practices, such as integrative coach-therapy

The effect of missing data on robust Bayesian spectral analysis

This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the publisher via the DOI in this record.Published in: Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP), 2013 IEEE International Workshop on Date of Conference: 22-25 Sept. 2013We investigate the effects of missing observations on the robust Bayesian model for spectral analysis introduced by Christmas [2013]. The model assumes Student-t distributed noise and uses an automatic relevance determination prior on the precisions of the amplitudes of the component sinusoids and it is not obvious what their effect will be when some of the otherwise temporally uniformly sampled data is missing

The Cricket-Tracking Project: a case study

A case study commissioned from Dr Christmas by Open Exeter documenting the process of preparing and uploading large video files to the Data Archive.This document describes a case study for the archiving of a project to the Exeter Data Archive (EDA). The project described here presents a number of challenges for the archive and for the process of recording its information. The rst challenge is that some of the information is too big to upload into a website (of the order of 20Tb). Other challenges are the number of di erent types of information and the dependencies between them. We start, in section 2, by describing some terms and de nitions that will be used in the document. In particular the words data and dataset have particular meanings in the context of a Computer Science project which may di er from those used within EDA and in other university departments. In section 3 the project is described, including what sorts of content it has generated, and section 3.3 lists the di erent le formats used. The process by which the project's content has been grouped together for entry into EDA is described in section 3.5, which also details how the EDA entries have been constructed

3D Face Tracking and Texture Fusion in the Wild

We present a fully automatic approach to real-time 3D face reconstruction from monocular in-the-wild videos. With the use of a cascaded-regressor based face tracking and a 3D Morphable Face Model shape fitting, we obtain a semi-dense 3D face shape. We further use the texture information from multiple frames to build a holistic 3D face representation from the video frames. Our system is able to capture facial expressions and does not require any person-specific training. We demonstrate the robustness of our approach on the challenging 300 Videos in the Wild (300-VW) dataset. Our real-time fitting framework is available as an open source library at http://4dface.org

Aquatic macroinvertebrate responses to native and non-native predators

Non-native species can profoundly affect native ecosystems through trophic interactions with native species. Native prey may respond differently to non-native versus native predators since they lack prior experience. Here we investigate antipredator responses of two common freshwater macroinvertebrates, Gammarus pulex and Potamopyrgus jenkinsi, to olfactory cues from three predators; sympatric native fish (Gasterosteus aculeatus), sympatric native crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes), and novel invasive crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus). G. pulex responded differently to fish and crayfish; showing enhanced locomotion in response to fish, but a preference for the dark over the light in response to the crayfish. P. jenkinsi showed increased vertical migration in response to all three predator cues relative to controls. These different responses to fish and crayfish are hypothesised to reflect the predators’ differing predation types; benthic for crayfish and pelagic for fish. However, we found no difference in response to native versus invasive crayfish, indicating that prey naiveté is unlikely to drive the impacts of invasive crayfish. The Predator Recognition Continuum Hypothesis proposes that benefits of generalisable predator recognition outweigh costs when predators are diverse. Generalised responses of prey as observed here will be adaptive in the presence of an invader, and may reduce novel predators’ potential impacts

Bayesian Spectral Analysis with Student-t Noise

PublishedArticleWe introduce a Bayesian spectral analysis model for one-dimensional signals where the observation noise is assumed to be Student-t distributed, for robustness to outliers, and we estimate the posterior distributions of the Student-t hyperparameters, as well as the amplitudes and phases of the component sinusoids. The integrals required for exact Bayesian inference are intractable, so we use variational approximation. We show that the approximate phase posteriors are Generalised von Mises distributions of order 2 and that their spread increases as the signal to noise ratio decreases. The model is demonstrated against synthetic data, and real GPS and Wolf’s sunspot data