THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SYSTEMIC, TRAUMA-INFORMED GROUP MODEL TO REDUCE SECONDARY TRAUMATIC STRESS AMONG VIOLENCE INTERVENTION WORKERS

ABSTRACT THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SYSTEMIC, TRAUMA-INFORMED GROUP MODEL TO REDUCE SECONDARY TRAUMATIC STRESS AMONG VIOLENCE INTERVENTION WORKERS Laura Vega, MSW, LCSW Lani Nelson-Zlupko, Ph.D., LCSW Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS) among violence intervention workers is pervasive and increases the risk of negative psychosocial and health outcomes. Compelling evidence demonstrates the virulent impact of STS on individual workers, clients, and organizations (Bride, 2007; Figley, 1995; Pearlman & Saakvitne, 1995). STS is an occupational hazard and organizations have an ethical obligation to implement strategies to address it, ultimately protecting workers and clients. However, research is limited on effective interventions to address this issue, with existing interventions focusing narrowly on self-care strategies. Due to the significant and consistent trauma exposure inherent in violence intervention work, it is essential for STS interventions to be proactive, ongoing, and agency-based. This dissertation identifies key risk and protective factors, reviews existing interventions, and describes gaps in those interventions. The development of a group model, Stress-Less Initiative, is presented, an evidence-informed, theoretically grounded intervention that is proactive, ongoing, and embedded within the organization to prevent secondary trauma. The Stress-Less Initiative is a team-based model that provides a safe context to reflect on the impact of trauma work while increasing collegial support, coping strategies, team cohesion and resilience. Recommendations for agency use of this intervention are provided and implications for practice, research and policy are presented

Scinax granulatus (NCN). Argentina: Buenos Aires

Partido de General Pueyrredon. Sierra de Los Padres (37° 56' 25"S 57 °47' 41" W). 24 July 2010. L. E.Vega & P. J.Bellagamba. Verified by J. Faivovich. Herpetological Collection of Laboratorio Vertebrados, Departamento de Biología, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMdP 1809, UNMdP 1810). Two adult individuals were captured under rocks in the ridge of mountains of Sierra de los Padres of the Tandilia Mountain Range System. Another five individuals were detected inactive in similar microhabitats (under rocks). Barrasso and Cajade (Barraso, D. and R. Cajade. 2007. Geographic distribution: Scinax granulatus. Herpetol. Rev. 38: 1) pointed out that Gallardo mentioned two specimens from Sierra de la Ventana, but such citation is not supported by voucher specimens, therefore this is the first documentation of this frog inhabiting mountain environments at 170 MASL...Fil: Vega, Laura Estela. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Instituto de Biología; ArgentinaFil: Bellagamba, Patricio J.. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Instituto de Biología; ArgentinaFil: Stellatelli, Oscar Aníbal. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Instituto de Biología; ArgentinaFil: Natale, Guillermo Sebastian. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Departamento de Química. Centro de Investigaciones del Medio Ambiente; Argentin

Tensions of Data-Driven Reflection: A Case Study of Real-Time Emotional Biosensing

Biosensing displays, increasingly enrolled in emotional reflection, promise authoritative insight by presenting users’ emotions as discrete categories. Rather than machines interpreting emotions, we sought to explore an alternative with emotional biosensing displays in which users formed their own interpretations and felt comfortable critiquing the display. So, we designed, implemented, and deployed, as a technology probe, an emotional biosensory display: Ripple is a shirt whose pattern changes color responding to the wearer’s skin conductance, which is associated with excitement. 17 participants wore Ripple over 2 days of daily life. While some participants appreciated the ‘physical connection’ Ripple provided between body and emotion, for others Ripple fostered insecurities about ‘how much’ feeling they had. Despite our design intentions, we found participants rarely questioned the display’s relation to their feelings. Using biopolitics to speculate on Ripple’s surprising authority, we highlight ethical stakes of biosensory representations for sense of self and ways of feeling

Port choice determinants: a revealed preference analysis of colombian public ports

Identifying the most influential attributes considered by exporters and importers when choosing a port is crucial for logistics policy formulation. In this paper, the port choice process is modelled using revealed preference data obtained from the official records of imports and exports in Colombia. Results show that the cost of port access, frequency of maritime lines, maritime freight rates, maritime travel time, origin or destination of the cargo and the type of cargo, play an important role in the port selection process. The calculated elasticities indicate that exporters and importers are highly sensitive to the access cost of the port. Policies and strategies aimed to improve the efficiency of a port’s operation and their level of service, such as increasing the frequencies of lines or decreasing maritime freights and transit times, could have an important impact on demand.MaestríaMagister en Ingeniería Civi

Escuela infantil en Arteixo

Proxecto fin de carreira (UDC.ETSA). Curso 2012/201

Bases para la construcción tecnológica sostenible: aplicación en un edificio plurifamiliar

En la actualidad, y cada vez más a menudo, se están aplicando criterios de sostenibilidad y bioclimatismo tanto en edificios residenciales como en edificios públicos. La sociedad está en proceso de aceptación de los nuevos métodos tecnológicos aplicados a la construcción moderna, los cuales buscan un ahorro económico, energético y de tiempos de ejecución. Todo esto, consiguiendo que la comodidad de las personas que deban habitar dichas construcciones no se vea afectada, es decir, conservando o incluso mejorando su calidad de vida y sensación de bienestar térmico, ya sea en el interior de sus viviendas o de centros públicos destinados cualquier tipo de actividad. El sector de la construcción es uno de los que genera mayor impacto ambiental, puesto que consume elevados índices de recursos naturales, tales como madera, minerales, agua y combustibles fósiles. Además, aportan grandes cantidades de emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero y contaminantes, tanto en fase de ejecución como durante la vida útil de las construcciones. La condición sine qua non para una correcta implementación de la construcción sostenible es el compromiso con la conservación del medioambiente y la adaptación de las edificaciones al mismo para tratar de alterar su estado natural en la menor medida posible. Para terminar de convencer de estas ideas a aquellos que aun se muestren escépticos, se plantean como objetivos demostrar con datos numéricos el ahorro económico, la reducción de las emisiones de CO2 y la disminución del tiempo de ejecución que supondría construir un edificio de viviendas plurifamiliar con un sistema modular de paneles portantes semiprefabricados de hormigón armado para fachadas, forjados de losa alveolar prefabricada y aparcamiento sobre rasante con ventilación natural en lugar del sistema de construcción húmeda tradicional de estructuras de hormigón in situ, cerramientos de fábrica de ladrillo, forjados reticulares y aparcamiento bajo rasante con ventilación mecánica. Para ello, se emplean la base de datos BEDEC disponible en la web del ITEC así como los ejemplares más recientes de las revistas EME2 y el Boletín Económico de la Construcción. Confirmando la teoría, se obtienen unos resultados muy positivos en las tres comparativas y, por eso, complementamos el proyecto presentando un modelo de diseño urbano sostenible para el distrito del 22@ de Barcelona, basado en la reproducción consecutiva del proyecto y habilitando zonas verdes y vías de transito que ayuden a ordenar de forma clara y lógica tanto a vehículos como a peatones

Functional analysis of responses to stress in distant prokaryotes: comparison between Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Escherichia coli

This project combines life -i.e., biological- sciences methodologies with physical and computational analyses of protein expression for two differentiated microorganisms with a completely different lifestyles: E.coli, a well-known bacteria, and M.tuberculosis, a deathly human pathogen. In other to do that, we build two folding change multilayer networks of protein expression and analyze them. The multilayer networks have six layers which are equivalent to six stress conditions: acid, cell damage wall, hypoxia, ion deprivation, oxydative stress and starvation. To do the analysis and comparison between the networks corresponding to the two bacteria, we employed several tools. Regarding bioinformatics: GEO, metasoft; softwares as R-studio, ClueGO; statistical measures like strength, overlap and partition coefficient and statistical tests such as the Mann-Whitney and Peacock tests. Our results show that the differences in lifestyles are captured by the network approach and the proposed metrics. This work could open the path to obtain further insights about protein-protein interactions and relevant challenges such as protein function determination