Construction and evaluation of a diagnostic test of capitalization and punctuation skills.

Thesis (M.Ed.)--Boston Universit

Developing Clinical Leadership: : Trainees’ experiences and the supervisors’ role

This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of the following article: Barbara Mason, Hannah Bowers, and Margo Ononaiye, “Developing Clinical Leadership: trainees’ experiences and the supervisor’s role”,Clinical Psychology Forum, Vol. 281, May 2016. The Version of Record is available online at: https://shop.bps.org.uk/publications/clinical-psychology-forum-no-281-may-2016.htmlThis paper describes the findings of research exploring factors which may help or hinder the development of clinical leadership among trainee clinical psychologists, and the extent to which trainees gain experience consistent with the Leadership Development Framework.Peer reviewedFinal Accepted Versio

‘After god, we give strength to each other’: young people’s experiences of coping in the context of unaccompanied forced migration

© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).Young people arriving alone in the UK due to forced migration face significant hardships including, but not limited to, their history of experiences, current and future uncertainties, and cultural differences. This paper took a critical perspective of current dominant theories of refugee youth through in-depth exploration of lived experiences of coping. Following the authors’ involvement in a community youth project and consultation, five young people took part in individual interviews. The participants were living in semi-independent accommodation in or near London, and were all male, while four identified as Muslim and one as Christian. Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), a culturally relative understanding of coping was developed. These young people were found to be taking active roles in managing their lives in the context of extensive loss, and gaining independence through connection to others. Religious practices were important, with young people making sense of their experiences through worldviews shaped by religious beliefs. While religion was described predominantly in a positive and beneficial light, an area for further investigation is the experience of religious struggle, and how this may impact experiences and coping. Implications for support for young people both from services and in communities are suggested.Peer reviewe

SP-100 reactor with Brayton conversion for lunar surface applications

Examined here is the potential for integrating Brayton-cycle power conversion with the SP-100 reactor for lunar surface power system applications. Two designs were characterized and modeled. The first design integrates a 100-kWe SP-100 Brayton power system with a lunar lander. This system is intended to meet early lunar mission power needs while minimizing on-site installation requirements. Man-rated radiation protection is provided by an integral multilayer, cylindrical lithium hydride/tungsten (LiH/W) shield encircling the reactor vessel. Design emphasis is on ease of deployment, safety, and reliability, while utilizing relatively near-term technology. The second design combines Brayton conversion with the SP-100 reactor in a erectable 550-kWe powerplant concept intended to satisfy later-phase lunar base power requirements. This system capitalizes on experience gained from operating the initial 100-kWe module and incorporates some technology improvements. For this system, the reactor is emplaced in a lunar regolith excavation to provide man-rated shielding, and the Brayton engines and radiators are mounted on the lunar surface and extend radially from the central reactor. Design emphasis is on performance, safety, long life, and operational flexibility

Exploring the leadership competencies of trainee clinical psychologists and qualified clinical psychologists

This is a pre-publication version of the following article: Kerrie Channer, Margo Ononaiye, Deirdre Williams & Barbara Mason, ‘Exploring the leadership competencies of trainee clinical psychologists and qualified clinical psychologists’, Clinical Psychology Forum, No. 31, January 2018, published by the British Psychological Society. Content in the UH Research Archive is made available for personal research, educational, and non-commercial purposes only. Unless otherwise stated, all content is protected by copyright, and in the absence of an open license, permissions for further re-use should be sought from the publisher, the author, or other copyright holder.This article explored the self-reported leadership competences of Trainee and Qualified Clinical Psychologists. The results showed that leadership competences are part of a qualified clinical psychologist’s role and that trainees don’t report a development of these skills across training.Peer reviewedFinal Accepted Versio

Imprisoned freedom: A sociological study of a 21st century prison for women in Ireland.

This thesis is a study of a penal experiment in Ireland which involved an innovative architectural design and a new regime aimed at addressing the specific needs of incarcerated female offenders. The underlying intention was to create an environment where women would have a level of autonomy that encouraged them to take greater responsibility for their own lives. The change highlighted the inherent tension between the concept of self-determination and the needs of security and control within a setting of captivity. The focus of the study was to discover how the prisoners coped with their new conditions and how the officers reconciled the conflicting demands of the new regime with their more traditional role of discipline and control. Through a series of observations and interviews over a period of 30 months, the evolution of the experiment was tracked, from an initial period of turmoil and uncertainty created by the move, through a gradual period of adjustment to a state of equilibrium. The study revealed that despite initial setbacks, many of the ideals underlying the philosophy were realised. The main contributing factors included, enlightened and consistent leadership and the continuity of senior staff; an absence of major crises; a willingness to take risks by experimenting with new initiatives; the relative autonomy of the prison and its freedom from political or overly sensational media interference; physical conditions which facilitated informality and fostered amicable relationships among the prisoners and between the prisoners and the staff and the provision of a variety of programmes tailored to individual needs rather than treating the women as a homogeneous group. These findings contrasted with the outcomes of many other penal experiments and provide an encouraging example of how sustained commitment to an ideal can provide some level of success in an otherwise rather bleak picture of incarceration at the beginning of the 21st century

Developing an Innovative Pandemic Treaty to Advance Global Health Security

Recognizing marked limitations of global health law in the COVID-19 pandemic, a rising number of states are supporting the development of a new pandemic treaty. This prospective treaty has the potential to clarify state obligations for pandemic preparedness and response and strengthen World Health Organization authorities to promote global health security. Examining the essential scope and content of a pandemic treaty, this column analyzes the policymaking processes and substantive authorities necessary to meet this historic moment

Analysis of contagion maps on a class of networks that are spatially embedded in a torus

A spreading process on a network is influenced by the network's underlying spatial structure, and it is insightful to study the extent to which a spreading process follows such structure. We consider a threshold contagion on a network whose nodes are embedded in a manifold and where the network has both `geometric edges', which respect the geometry of the underlying manifold, and `non-geometric edges' that are not constrained by that geometry. Building on ideas from Taylor et al. \cite{Taylor2015}, we examine when a contagion propagates as a wave along a network whose nodes are embedded in a torus and when it jumps via long non-geometric edges to remote areas of the network. We build a `contagion map' for a contagion spreading on such a `noisy geometric network' to produce a point cloud; and we study the dimensionality, geometry, and topology of this point cloud to examine qualitative properties of this spreading process. We identify a region in parameter space in which the contagion propagates predominantly via wavefront propagation. We consider different probability distributions for constructing non-geometric edges --- reflecting different decay rates with respect to the distance between nodes in the underlying manifold --- and examine the effect of such choices on the qualitative properties of the spreading dynamics. Our work generalizes the analysis in Taylor et al. and consolidates contagion maps both as a tool for investigating spreading behavior on spatial networks and as a technique for manifold learning