Patient and family reactions to day hospitalization of the chronically ill

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston UniversityThe innovation of a day hospital for the long term mentally ill patient brings to light new areas of possible exploration. This study sought to look at what perceptions six patients and a member of the patients' families had concerning day hospitalization and its effects. The patients, all long term mentally ill females, had been actively participating in a specific day hospital program of a large Boston area state hospital. The patients between the ages of thirty and forty-six years of age had been in the hospital for approximately five and one-half months. Previously, they had been hospitalized from nine months to twenty-seven years with a mean of eighteen years and one month [TRUNCATED

Effect of axial constraints on beams subjected to lateral loads

Axial constraint effects on beams subjected to lateral load

Policy Issues in Work and Retirement

This is a collection of papers that focuses on the human resource implications of individual and population aging.https://research.upjohn.org/up_press/1216/thumbnail.jp

Unemployment Experience of Individuals Over a Decade: Variations by Sex, Race and Age

Uses NLS data to show that unemployment leads to lost earnings and long-term reductions in earning capacity.https://research.upjohn.org/up_press/1140/thumbnail.jp

"You know, what is overspending" : working with compulsive buying : a critical discursive account

Background There is increasing research into compulsive buying (CB), much of which has focussed on its aetiology, epidemiology and treatments from a positivistic and quantitative viewpoint. Reviewing the extant literature yielded conflicting discourses over its similarities to other substance and behavioural addictions, and its absence from the DSM-5’s ‘behavioural addictions’ section. Rationale Opposing discourses of addiction may be taken up by therapists and can serve to both empower and victimise addicts and are thus thought to effect therapy. Reports suggest increasing prevalence of CB and social and cultural factors play a significant role in its aetiology and how it is perceived yet no research was found to date that investigated therapists’ constructions of CB. This research sought to address this gap. Method Semi-structured interviews were conducted with six therapists who had worked with clients who talked about issues with CB. The transcripts were analysed using critical discursive psychology, a branch of Discourse Analysis. Findings Four main discourses were elicited from the data: ‘it’s self medicating’, ‘how should I work with this?’, ‘we must all shop but not too much’ and ‘is it a problem?’ The interpretative repertoires, subject positions and ideological dilemmas employed within these discourses were considered in relation to the extant literature and found to highlight the many tensions that surround this topic for therapists, particularly around addiction and culture. Implications for clinical practice and future research as well as limitations were outlined

Ranks Based on Algebraically Trivial Fraisse Classes

In this paper, we introduce the notion of K-rank, where K is an algebraically trivial Fraisse class. Roughly speaking, the K-rank of a partial type is the number of "copies" of K that can be "independently coded" inside of the type. We study K-rank for specific examples of K, including linear orders, equivalence relations, and graphs. We discuss the relationship of K-rank to other ranks in model theory, including dp-rank and op-dimension (a notion coined by the first author and C. D. Hill in previous work).Comment: 42 page