scholarly journals Facing the Music: Further Thoughts on Integrating Music into Psychotherapy

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 206
Author(s):  
G. Paul Blimling
Keyword(s):  
Group Psychotherapy ◽  
Individual Psychotherapy ◽  
Bicultural Identity ◽  
Dynamic Psychotherapy ◽  
Relational Trauma ◽  
Constructive Criticism ◽  
Literary Writing ◽  
The Impact ◽  
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In this article, I respond to the insightful commentaries by Karen Riggs Skean (2019), by Richard Harrison (2019), and by Ben Adams (2019) on my hybrid case study of "James," a survivor of chronic relational trauma (Blimling, 2019). These commentaries have stimulated me to think further about the impact of music on my individual psychotherapy work, both with James and with subsequent clients, and specifically with regard to its impact on my approach to group psychotherapy work. In addition, these commentaries have raised particular issues that I respond to, including, (a) constructive criticism by Skean and Harrison regarding the potential further use of "metaprocessing" and the developments made in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) since I completed the Case of James; (b) Skean’s perceptive point explaining how an individual therapist can take a personal passion—like music or literary writing or bicultural identity—and use it to enhance his or her enlivened presence in therapy with a client; and (c) Adams’ thesis that music and psychotherapy both have their origins in the shamanistic practices of our hunter-gatherer ancestors, suggesting that the combination of psychotherapy and music is a kind of return to our very roots.

A case study of unquiet translators

Target ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther Monzó-Nebot
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Work Processes ◽  
Gray Area ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Made In

Abstract Remarkable efforts have been made in Translation and Interpreting Studies to test the subservient habitus hypothesis formulated by Simeoni (1998) in his seminal work. In the face of increasing evidence that translators tend to reproduce a given society’s or community’s prevalent norms and contribute to the stability of such norms (Toury 1978), subversive translation practices have been reported (Delabastita 2011; Woods 2012) and indeed promoted as a way of fostering social and cultural change (Levine 1991; Venuti 1992). However, insights into how translators’ subservient or subversive habitus develop and depart from each other are still lacking. In order to shed light on this gray area, this article scrutinizes the contrasts between the habitus of professional legal translators who acquiesce to and who reject the norms governing their positions in the field. Special attention is given to those who decide to abandon the translation field. Their behavior is examined by relating habitus to forms of socialization and studying the implications of their strategies. Based on a case study drawn from interview data, this article focuses on the social practices of resistance and rebellion vis-à-vis subservience, and the impact of both on translation workplaces, work processes, and translators’ futures.

scholarly journals The Impact of the Internalization of External Costs in the Competitiveness of Short Sea Shipping

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 959
Author(s):  
Mónica M. Ramalho ◽  
Tiago A. Santos
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
External Costs ◽  
Modal Shift ◽  
Short Sea Shipping ◽  
Marginal Costs ◽  
Mode Of Transportation ◽  
Internal Costs ◽  
The Impact ◽  
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This paper applies a methodology for computing external costs in an intermodal transport network that includes short sea shipping to explore the impact of external costs in its competitiveness. The network, which includes roads, freight railways, maritime and inland waterway connections, considers the specific characteristics of different transport alternatives and vehicle types, providing a fair comparison of the various modes. A case study focused on freight transportation between Northern Portugal and 75 destinations (NUTS2 regions) in north-western Europe is presented. The potential of different intermodal routes that include short sea shipping is assessed, including not only internal costs and times but also external costs per mode and unit of cargo. The impact of the different cost approaches in each country of transit is shown along with the progress that has been made in the integration of external costs, using the most recent EU estimates on marginal costs coverage ratios per country for freight transport modes. The results support the modal shift from road to sea in this corridor, providing means for modal comparison and for the development of short sea shipping’s image as a sustainable mode of transportation.

scholarly journals Twitter como instrumento para fomentar la participación del profesorado en los cursos formativos

2018 ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Elena Berrón Ruiz ◽  
María Victoria Régil López
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Educational Innovation ◽  
Training Center ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Training Courses ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Made In

The increasing incorporation of new technologies in the education system demands a deep revision in the management processes of the training centers, improving their presence in social networks. The qualitative research presented in this article presents a case study carried out at the Training Center of Teachers and Educational Innovation of Avila (Spain) and pursues two objectives: the first consists in value the usefulness of different strategies to boost and disseminate the training courses through Twitter, while the second seeks to analyze the impact that such dissemination has been on the participation of teachers. The results show that the innovations introduced in the dynamization have aroused the interest of the teachers, increasing the interactions made in the social network and producing a remarkable rise of their participation in the courses.

scholarly journals Beyond a constructivist curriculum: a critique of competing paradigms in music education

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Garnett
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Music Education ◽  
National Curriculum ◽  
Approaches To Learning ◽  
Musical Understanding ◽  
Constructivist Approaches ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Recent Policy ◽  
Made In

The distinction between learning to perform on an instrument or voice and learning music in a wider sense is one that is made in many countries, and is especially pertinent in England in the context of recent policy developments. This article argues that, whilst this distinction has come to represent curricula based on the opposing paradigms of behaviourist and constructivist approaches to learning, this opposition does not necessarily extend to the pedagogy through which the curricula are taught. A case study of the National Curriculum in England highlights the characteristics of a curriculum based on constructivist principles, along with the impact this has when taught in a behaviourist way. It is argued that conceiving the curriculum in terms of musical competencies, and pedagogy in terms of musical understanding, would provide a basis for greater continuity and higher quality in the music education experienced by young people.

Helping Working Children through Consumocratic LawA Global South Perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Martin Dumas
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Global South ◽  
Transnational Governance ◽  
Public Controversy ◽  
Information Transparency ◽  
Working Children ◽  
Available Information ◽  
The Impact ◽  
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AbstractOn the basis of an in-depth case study of a transnational governance scheme driven by consumers and designed to fight child labour in Southern Asia – RugMark (now GoodWeave), co-founded by Peace Nobel Prize recipient Kailash Satyarthi – we identify and describe a number of characteristics peculiar to the consumocratic system of regulation, before examining the impact of information transparency within it. A number of theoretical scenarios emerge from the identification of four critical factors in the regulation of the societal information shared with consumocrats: (1) the degree of subjective veracity and comprehensiveness of available information; (2) the more or less comforting nature of this information; (3) the culminating outcomes to which it refers; and (4) its degree of objective veracity. All societal information is not theoretically bound to convey comforting messages to consumers inclined to consider the well-being of others. This message, while accurately reflecting the results achieved by local consumocratic organisations, may as well reflect the more or less controversial choices made in the pursuit of desirable goals, such as improving the fate of working children. It could also shed light on the flaws (e. g., ethical, technical, managerial) of this system of regulation by exposing its own limits to a better informed public. By opting for the transmission of messages subject to public controversy or worth a mea-culpa, the local regulators of this information would inevitably confront some risks (e. g., judicial, economic, socio-organisational). Under which conditions could these risks be reasonably taken? Quid of their likely impact on altruistic dispositions? From a pragmatic and Global South perspective, a non-paternalist analysis of transparency as a regulatory tool, it is shown, leads to recognising the utility of repositioning consumocratic activity on original, constitutional foundations, before envisaging the development of increasingly transparent and efficient tools in this regard.

scholarly journals TOWARDS A BETTER KNOWLEDGE OF TRADITIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL DEVICES: COMPARISON BETWEEN TWO TRADITIONAL ALGERIAN HOUSES

2020 ◽  
Vol XLIV-M-1-2020 ◽  
pp. 1065-1072
Author(s):  
A. Racha ◽  
S. Kacher
Keyword(s):  
Building Materials ◽  
Environmental Context ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Traditional Architecture ◽  
Climatic Environment ◽  
Principles Of Design ◽  
The Impact ◽  
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Abstract. It has been noticed that research is increasingly focused on exploring opportunities to use environmental devices of traditional origin to create more sustainable contemporary buildings. Unfortunately, this “neo-traditional trend” (Abdelsalam et al., 2013) is hindered by the performance of vernacular solutions, which are unable to meet the new needs of contemporary society. Advocates of this ideology believe that this situation is due to a lack of knowledge of these vernacular devices. From this point of view, this paper aims to establish a better knowledge of them for the purpose of improving their performance within contemporary buildings. Thus, it presents a comparison study between the traditional architecture represented by the Algiers Kasbah house and the M’zab valley house in Algeria. The choice of the case studies was made in light of the fact that notwithstanding the very opposite environmental contexts of each case study, they belong to the same typology of traditional houses called “house with wast ed dar”. In fact, they share several similar environmental features such as the patio and the terrace. Even though initially there appear to be many similarities, some aspects of these devices vary from one environmental context to another. Therefore, this paper investigates the urban layout in which the houses are built as well as the principles of design and building materials in order to explore the impact of the physical and climatic conditions, referred to in this article as the “geo-climatic environment”, on the environmental devices developed by each house. It compares the performance of these devices and how they respond to their geo-climatic environment in order to better understand their functioning mode which is the key of their successful adaptation to each environmental context and which could be the key to any future use of these vernacular devices in contemporary buildings.

scholarly journals NEARSHORE WAVE DAMPING DUE TO THE EFFECT ON WINDS IN RESPONSE TO OFFSHORE WIND FARMS

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (33) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Ruben Rodriguez Gandara ◽  
John Harris
Keyword(s):  
Wind Farm ◽  
Wind Waves ◽  
Wind Farms ◽  
Offshore Wind ◽  
Offshore Wind Farm ◽  
Offshore Wind Farms ◽  
Wake Interaction ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Made In

Despite the progress that has been made in modeling wind wake interaction between turbines in offshore wind farms, only a handful of studies have quantified the impact of wind turbines or wave farms upon surface waves, and there are even less articles about the wave blockage induced by the whole array of turbines upon wind waves. This hypothetical case study proposes a methodology that takes into account the combined effect of wind wake and wave blockage on wind waves when transforming offshore waves to nearshore in an offshore wind farm scenario.

The Impact of Decisions Made in Various Architectural Design Stages on Life Cycle Assessment Results

2016 ◽  
Vol 861 ◽  
pp. 593-600 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benedek Kiss ◽  
Zsuzsa Szalay
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Environmental Indicators ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Single Family ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Made In

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is an advantageous tool for the analysis of the overall environmental effects of a building. Most of the decisions that influence the final result of an LCA are made during the design process of the building. Therefore, LCA in early design stages is crucial, because the changes in this period of design are cheaper and more effective. However, there are many other aspects that influence the design of a building. During the design process a high number of variables have to be defined, and in each design stage a specific number of variables have to be fixed depending on various engineering considerations. In this paper we investigate the effect of decisions made in each design stage on LCA results. Within this paper the available possibilities are compared with the variant that was actually selected in each stage, and it is evaluated how environmental indicators evolve during the whole design process. The approach is demonstrated on a case study of a realized single family house.

scholarly journals Forecast Impact of Targeted Observations: Sensitivity to Observation Error and Proximity to Steep Orography

2011 ◽  
Vol 139 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. A. Irvine ◽  
S. L. Gray ◽  
J. Methven ◽  
I. A. Renfrew
Keyword(s):  
Data Assimilation ◽  
Partial Solution ◽  
Limited Area ◽  
Observation Error ◽  
Grid Spacing ◽  
Terrain Following ◽  
Targeted Observations ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Made In

Abstract For a targeted observations case, the dependence of the size of the forecast impact on the targeted dropsonde observation error in the data assimilation is assessed. The targeted observations were made in the lee of Greenland; the dependence of the impact on the proximity of the observations to the Greenland coast is also investigated. Experiments were conducted using the Met Office Unified Model (MetUM), over a limited-area domain at 24-km grid spacing, with a four-dimensional variational data assimilation (4D-Var) scheme. Reducing the operational dropsonde observation errors by one-half increases the maximum forecast improvement from 5% to 7%–10%, measured in terms of total energy. However, the largest impact is seen by replacing two dropsondes on the Greenland coast with two farther from the steep orography; this increases the maximum forecast improvement from 5% to 18% for an 18-h forecast (using operational observation errors). Forecast degradation caused by two dropsonde observations on the Greenland coast is shown to arise from spreading of data by the background errors up the steep slope of Greenland. Removing boundary layer data from these dropsondes reduces the forecast degradation, but it is only a partial solution to this problem. Although only from one case study, these results suggest that observations positioned within a correlation length scale of steep orography may degrade the forecast through the anomalous upslope spreading of analysis increments along terrain-following model levels.

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