The Development and Testing of Consensus Recommendations for Collaborative Practice in the Malaysian Mental Health System

This project used participatory action research to develop and test a model of collaborative practice for the Malaysian mental health system. A hospital committee and a Delphi committee were formed to create a set of collaborative practice guidelines. Some of these recommendations were implemented in a psychiatric hospital, including staff training and systems changes. A realist evaluation, using both qualitative and quantitative methods, showed that some of these changes were effective in improving collaboration

The influence of the nature and positions of atoms in organic compounds on the reactivity of other atoms in the molecule

1. The influence of the nature and positions of atoms in organic compounds on the reactivity of other atoms in the molecule • 2. THE CONDENSATION OF DIPHENYLFORMAMIDINE WITH PHENOLS. An investigation carried out in collaboration with John Haldane. • 3. RECIPROCAL INDUCED POLARITY EFFECTS IN CRESOLS AND THEIR DERIVATIVES. PROPERTIES OF THE ISOMERIC METHOXYBENZYL BROMIDES, BY ARTHUR LAPWORTH AND JOHN BALDWIN SHOESMITH. From the Transactions of the Chemical Society, 1922. Val. 121. • 4 THE PREPARATION OF THE ISOMERIC METHOXYBENZYL BROMIDES. BY JOHN BALDWIN SHOESMITH From the Transactions of the Chemical Society, 1923. Vol. 123. • 5. REDUCTION OF m- METHOXYBENZYL BROMIDE BY HYDROGEN IODIDE. BY JOHN BALDWIN SHOESMITH. From the Transactions of the Chemical Society, 1923. Vol. 123. • 6. POLARITY EFFECTS IN AROMATIC HALOGEN COMPOUNDS. By JOHN BALDWIN SHOESMITH, ARTHUR CLEMENT HETHERINGTON, AND ROBERT 'HENRY SLATER. From the Transactions of the Chemical Society, 1924. Vol. 125. • 7. POLARITY EFFECTS IN THE ISOMERIC ω- BROMOXYLENES AND ISOMERIC IODOTOLUENES. BY JOHN BALDWIN SHOESMITH AND ROBERT HENRY SLATER. Prom the Transactions of the Chemical Society, 1924. Vol. 125. • 8. CONDENSATION OF DIPHENYLFORMAMllDINE WITH PHENOLS. PART I. A NEW SYNTHESIS OF ß-RESORCYLALDEHYDE. BY JOHN BALDWIN SHOESMITH AND JOHN HALDANE.From the Transactions of the Chemical Society, 1923. Vol. 123. • 9. CONDENSATION OF DIPHENYLFORMAMllDINE WITH PHENOLS. PART II. THE GENERAL NATURE OF THE REACTION. BY JOHN BALDWIN SHOESMITH AND JOHN HALDANE.From the Transactions of the Chemical Society, 1923. Vol. 123. • 10. PREPARATION OF 2 ; 4 ; 2' ; 4'-TETRAHYDROXYBENZOPHENONE. BY JOHN BALDWIN SHOESMITH AND JOHN HALDANE. From the Transactions of the Chemical Society, 1924. Vol. 125

Effectiveness of counselling and psychotherapeutic interventions for people with dementia and their families: a systematic review

As there is currently no cure for dementia, providing psycho-social support is imperative. Counselling and psychotherapeutic interventions offer a way to provide individualised support for people with dementia and their families. However, to date, there has not been a systematic review examining the research evidence for these interventions. This review aimed to examine the following research questions: (1) Are counselling/psychotherapeutic interventions effective for people with dementia?, (2) Are counselling/psychotherapeutic interventions effective for care-givers of people with dementia? and (3) Which modes of delivery are most effective for people with dementia and care-givers of people with dementia? A systematic literature search was conducted in MEDLINE (via PubMed), PsycINFO and CINAHL in March 2019. Keyword searches were employed with the terms ‘dement*’, ‘counsel*’, ‘psychotherapy’, ‘therap*’, ‘care’ and ‘outcome’, for the years 2000–2019. Thirty-one papers were included in the review, from seven countries. Twenty studies were randomised controlled trials (RCTs) or adopted a quasi-experimental design. The remaining studies were qualitative or single-group repeated-measures design. The review identified variation in the counselling/psychotherapeutic approaches and mode of delivery. Most interventions adopted either a problem-solving or cognitive behavioural therapy approach. Mixed effectiveness was found on various outcomes. The importance of customised modifications for people with dementia was highlighted consistently. Understanding the dyadic relationships between people with dementia and their care-givers is essential to offering effective interventions and guidance for practitioners is needed. Information about the cognitive impairment experienced by participants with dementia was poorly reported and is essential in the development of this research area. Future studies should consider the impact of cognitive impairment in developing guidance for counselling/psychotherapeutic intervention delivery for people with dementia

Financing Cross-Border Businesses and Access to U.S. Capital Markets

Since the devaluation in Mexico several years ago, businesses have increasingly needed money both to finance ongoing operations and to finance expansion to acquire more businesses. Currently, cross-border businesses are booming, especially in the maquiladora industries. These businesses often confront difficulty in acquiring financing for Mexican operations because equity in these businesses is generally low and interest rates on domestically borrowed funds are exceptionally high. As a result, U.S. businesses and lenders are often confronted with opportunities requiring cross-border financing and must be aware of the security devices that are currently available

Merging fragments of classical logic

We investigate the possibility of extending the non-functionally complete logic of a collection of Boolean connectives by the addition of further Boolean connectives that make the resulting set of connectives functionally complete. More precisely, we will be interested in checking whether an axiomatization for Classical Propositional Logic may be produced by merging Hilbert-style calculi for two disjoint incomplete fragments of it. We will prove that the answer to that problem is a negative one, unless one of the components includes only top-like connectives.Comment: submitted to FroCoS 201

Special educational needs : A study of the experience of failure and the effects of counselling.

Twenty-four children, their peer group, parents and teachers took part in the study. The study examined differences between success-oriented and failure-prone children and the perceptions of their peer group, parents and teachers. Much of the design of the investigation was based on attribution theory.The information was used as a basis for: (a) anobservational study of teachers and children using both systematic and unstructured approaches and (b) counselling and attributional re-training with a group of failure-prone children. The counselled, failure-prone children were compared with a control group after a period of six months and then again four months after counselling had ceased. The results of the study cover the effects of this counselling and the experience of failure as it occurred in classes.The results of counselling showed that reading trends were improved and that self-esteem increased significantly but that neither benefit was evident in the delayed post-test, suggesting that counselling would need to be provided over a longer time period. It was shown that the experience of school transmitted messages of unworthiness and helplessness. Failure-prone children had lower self-esteem, used more external causal attributions, had fewer friends, co-operated less well in class and were perceived as less worthy and less valued by themselves and their teachers. They were valued more unconditionally at home than they were at school.It is argued that the curriculum itself creates failure-prone children and that a more 'needs-based' curriculum would in the long term question the need for counselling in the first place. Such a shift in curriculum planning would represent a fundamental change in how educationalists view their own role and the range of pupil performance in school