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University of South Australia
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Indigenous Health | Mental Health | Social and Cultural Geography | Public Health and Health Services | Aboriginal Studies | Sociology | Race and Ethnic Relations | Social and Community Psychology
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Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 31-05-2014
Publisher: Universidade Federal do Para
Date: 27-05-2019
DOI: 10.18542/REBAC.V15I2.8763
Abstract: Poetry aims to change people’s talk, thoughts and actions but does not do this through direct commands, mands, or directives. The aim of this paper is to explore poetry in a behavioral or contextual analysis to analyze (1) what poetry does to people and (2) how it does that. In exploring a first question, “What does poetry to do people?”, it was found that poetry is a way of writing which acts to disrupt normal forms and grammar of writing and, while the lack of grammar slows the reading fluency and accuracy, the disturbances have novel effects on readers’ actions, talking and thinking. In answer to a second question, “How does poetry have effects on people?”, the social disruptions which produce the effects of poetry have been developed over long histories and include disruptions to form and grammar, the written presentation on a page, line length, and the inclusion of stress patterns rhymes and rhymes. Some of these also help sustain the attention of the reader since the lack of normal grammar and presentation makes reading poetry more effortful. Finally, a few clinical applications are drawn out, especially since the experiences and ideas evoked through poetic forms, just like experiences of mental health, are ones which cannot usually just be stated as directives. Keywords: poetry, contextual analysis, verbal behavior, discourse analysis, literary effects, poetic form, enjambment, literary styles
Publisher: Japanese Group Dynamics Association
Date: 1995
DOI: 10.2130/JJESP.34.205
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-2001
DOI: 10.1037/1089-2680.5.4.406
Abstract: This article argues to replace in idualistic explanations of behavior with descriptions of social and historical context. Eighteen ways are outlined that playing a guitar alone in a room can be thought of as socially controlled rather than dispositionally controlled. Despite having a skin containing a body, a “person” for the social sciences is a conglomerate of social relationships or interactions that spans space and time. Thinking of people and causes as within a body shapes in idualistic biases in our explanations and interventions. Rather than propose a new philosophy, this article reviews 18 concrete ways to begin thinking about people as social interactions and not agentic in iduals. This changes the interventions we propose, alters how we view cultural practices, prevents some perennial problems of psychology, and leads the way to integrate psychology in the social sciences. Moving from dispositional explanations to study the historical and social context of social relationships also requires that psychology seriously adapt some of the more intensive research methods from other social sciences.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-1995
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 30-01-2010
DOI: 10.1002/9780470479216.CORPSY0890
Abstract: The question at the heart of social facilitation research is how the presence of another person affects performance. If you play a musical instrument alone versus in front of an audience, is your performance typically better or worse? If you type on a computer with no one around, compared with when someone else is merely working in the background or observing you, how do these conditions affect both the speed and the accuracy of your typing?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2003
DOI: 10.1002/CASP.699
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2011
DOI: 10.3109/10398562.2011.583065
Abstract: Objective: Mental health and social and emotional wellbeing (SEWB) have been linked as outcomes of attachment to country, spirituality, and engagement in music and arts, particularly for Indigenous Australians. It is not clear how this occurs, even though the links seem substantial. Method: We explore how mental health and SEWB may be linked to attachment to country, spirituality, and engagement in music and arts by reviewing literature and presenting ex les from our research with Indigenous communities. Rather than abstracting, our goal is to describe specific ex les encompassing the rich contextual details needed to understand the factors contributing to mental health and SEWB. Results: While engagement in music is often seen as benefiting mental health because thoughts and feelings can be expressed in less public ways, it can also lead to employment and access to economic and social resources. Attachment to country also shows a plethora of positive outcomes which can contribute to mental health and SEWB even when not explicitly aimed at doing so, such as reducing conflictual situations. Conclusions: We conclude that more detailed, contextual research is required to fully explore the links between creative enterprises and mental health and SEWB outcomes.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2001
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-1986
Publisher: Associacao Paradigma - Centro de Ciencias e Tecnologia do Comportamento
Date: 02-08-2019
DOI: 10.18761/PAC.TAC.2019.005
Abstract: Em um primeiro momento, esse artigo vai abordar três pontos: 1) as variáveis que modelam o que chamamos de questões de saúde mental estão “escondidas” 2) nas terapias atuais é dominante o uso da linguagem como forma de modificar o comportamento, mas esse modelo já atingiu o seu limite 3) quando somos solicitados a explicar nossos próprios comportamentos e não somos capazes de fazê-lo usamos outras estratégias discursivas comuns na tentativa de conseguir responder essa questão: mentalismo, abstrações, responder com outras questões, personificações, o uso emotivo da linguagem e distrações. Então, esses três pontos são usados para mostrar como a história da terapia tem levado terapeutas a usar essas estratégias discursivas. Desde o tempo de Freud e Jung, as terapias se desenvolveram e a sociedade ocidental mudou de tal maneira que as forças que modelam o comportamento das pessoas deixaram de estar na família e passaram a estar no contato onipresente com estranhos, burocracias e “outros generalizados”. Como as pessoas não poderiam facilmente observar ou falar sobre essas novas contingências sociais amorfas, terapeutas e clientes recorriam às estratégias discursivas do senso comum. Isso é ilustrado por meio da recontextualização de um dos estudos de caso do Jung para mostrar que as questões das clientes estavam nas situações externas (patriarcado) e não “dentro da sua cabeça” ou em um “arquétipo coletivo pertencente ao inconsciente coletivo”, que é uma das metáforas que Jung inventou para encobrir a sua inabilidade de articular com novas formas sociais de modelação pelas quais os seus clientes estavam passando. Adicionando nas novas e excitantes formas de terapias comportamentais mais analises dessas contingencias sociais escondidas, poderá se chegar em um ponto além do uso da linguagem para ajudar os clientes a mudarem os seus mundos. Para analisar e mudar as influências sociais escondidas do patriarcado, da economia, da política e da burocracia, os terapeutas devem aprender a reconhecer e analisar essas novas forças na vida das pessoas e então trabalhar com eles fora do setting terapêutico, ou dentro usando a linguagem, para mudar os seus mundos, como já acontece em algumas novas formas da terapia comportamental e da terapia feminista.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 07-07-2020
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2001
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 09-1991
DOI: 10.1007/BF02686772
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-1999
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 20-05-2016
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-1983
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 07-07-2020
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 16-03-2017
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 11-1992
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 04-2001
DOI: 10.1375/BECH.18.1.1
Abstract: We discuss two common ways that assessment tests or probes have been given in relation to training during applied behavioural interventions when continuous assessment is not possible. With pre-session assessment, target behaviours are tested immediately before training sessions with post-session assessment, target behaviours are tested immediately after training sessions. Although they are not optimal methods for testing performance, such assessments are not rare, and archival data on the incidence of these two methods for JABA publications in the period 1993 to 1996 show that about 25% of research articles use one or both of these methods. The distinction between pre- and post-session assessment is important because the two methods influence the interpretation of data, and the decision to move to the next phase of an intervention. This influence is illustrated with a comparison between two studies of correspondence training. We then discuss the different positive and negative aspects of each assessment type, and two new methodologies are developed that retain the positive aspects of each assessment type. The final recommendation when such designs are necessary is a new method in which a criterion of three correct post-session assessments is reached first, followed by three correct pre-session assessments, before moving into the next phase of intervention.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-1989
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 1986
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2001
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 30-05-2014
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-2001
Abstract: Many explanations in psychology rely on notions of catharsis, drive reduction, or uncertainty reduction. This article criticizes such notions and suggests 3 ways that such theories can be replaced to make the phenomena events of social life rather than “inner” events: They have hidden social events as their conditions for occurrence they are the result of conflicting social demands and they function as good conversational rhetoric. Seven ex les are given in detail, including the reduction in anxiety about life through religion, the cognitive psychology assumption of uncertainty reduction through categorization, and the reduction in anxiety resulting from making rumors. Relying on descriptions of historical and social context rather than on theories of catharsis provides a better basis for applied interventions and integration into the social sciences but requires that psychologists pay much more attention to measuring such details.
Publisher: Associacao Paradigma - Centro de Ciencias e Tecnologia do Comportamento
Date: 31-07-2018
Abstract: This paper seeks to enlarge the range of research methods in behavior analysis to deal with situations in which even small- or single-s le experimental methods are not possible or not appropriate. This is common for most research with humans, and especially with behaviors under the rubric of social, cultural and verbal. After presenting arguments for this, the paper outlines three methods for describing the everyday, complex structuring of functional relations. The most important of these methods adapts engaged, participatory methods from other social sciences but puts the focus on finding functional relations between behaviors and their complex outcomes rather than just labelling the hidden functional relations as static social ‘structures’. Ex les of these three methods are given from research on functional analyses of mental health behaviors.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-1982
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-1995
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-1994
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 2014
DOI: 10.1017/ORP.2015.1
Abstract: In Australia today, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experience significant ongoing disadvantage around employment, education, health, housing, and social inclusion. Local government agencies and others often now have roles for Aboriginal people to work and deal with relevant issues. Ten people working, or formerly working, in Aboriginal-related roles in local government were interviewed about the issues and benefits of such roles. Themes to emerge included the importance of properly resourcing the positions, having wide-ranging Aboriginal employment policies, providing mentoring and support for Aboriginal workers, and continuing to build cultural awareness in councils. Many of those interviewed described cultural awareness training as valuable for councils, but also questioned the efficacy of the way they are commonly run. Implications for local government include the need to ensure that what is already known about the effective implementation of policies in organisations is being applied for ex le, by making Aboriginal employment policies the responsibility of each work area.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 12-2000
Abstract: Sharing is an important social behaviour for promoting reciprocal interaction and interactive play among peers, but previous studies have only trained giving and accepting behaviours. We trained appropriate asking in addition to giving, and tested for functional independence. Three socially isolated children were first trained either to ask appropriately for their turn with a toy, or else to offer the toy to a confederate child, and this was reversed after stability. There was an immediate increase in whichever behaviour was trained, but the other behaviour showed no increase until it was directly trained. This was replicated with two nondisabled children. Follow-up assessments on all five children showed some maintenance up to a month after training. These studies demonstrate that appropriate giving and asking are functionally independent, at least in this experimental setting that this is not restricted to socially isolated children and that asking does not emerge from training giving alone. It was argued that, while these results could be due to instructional control rather than the more natural consequences of sharing, such social rules or norms are typically taught as instructions from teachers and parents.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 13-06-2022
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 21-09-2012
DOI: 10.1093/CDJ/BSS030
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 30-01-2018
DOI: 10.1002/JCOP.21949
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-1997
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 09-1989
DOI: 10.1007/BF02686752
Publisher: Associacao Paradigma - Centro de Ciencias e Tecnologia do Comportamento
Date: 18-05-2019
DOI: 10.18761/PAC.2019.V10.N2.03
Abstract: Ainda que inegavelmente eficazes em ajudar clientes, musicoterapias se baseiam em tautologias e abstrações para explicarem o que acontece e isso limita sua abrangência. O presente artigo se fundamenta em uma forte posição contextual que dá ênfase aos efeitos observáveis de “musicar” nos contextos de vida das pessoas, especialmente os contextos sociais, e também destaca como eventos “internos e privados” emergem do mundo social. Os vários tipos de comportamentos, contextos e efeitos musicais foram revisados. Foi feita uma comparação com uso de linguagem, demonstrando que música não é uma verdadeira língua mas que isso traz vantagens para as musicoterapias. Os efeitos principais do “musicar” são, grosso modo, agrupados em três categorias: efeitos emocionais nos ouvintes efeitos atencionais ou distrações e discursos sobre música ou intepretações. Assim como na linguagem, o “poder” da música para exercer tais efeitos depende de relações sociais e não da música (ou linguagem) em si mesma, e, portanto, pode ajudar a redefinir ou reinterpretar as trocas nas relações sociais das pessoas enquanto tocam ou ouvem música. Música pode distrair eficientemente do uso excessivo da linguagem em nossa sociedade e acalmar por suplantar pensamentos ruins ou conflituosos baseados em linguagem. Foram feitas sugestões ao longo do texto sobre como terapias podem aprender com análise contextual, com comparações com usos da linguagem, e com técnicas das terapias cognitivo-comportamentais, terapias narrativas e hipnose.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 21-05-2009
DOI: 10.1111/J.1440-1584.2009.01059.X
Abstract: To explore the psychological impact of a problematic industrial climate for citrus growers, their help-seeking behaviour and perspectives on ways to encourage better use of rural mental health services. Thematic analysis of in-depth interviews. The Riverland of South Australia. Sixteen citrus growers (12 male, 4 female) from eight Riverland towns. Citrus growers' perceived factors relating to psychological stress, coping behaviours, impact of stress on well-being, help-seeking behaviours, barriers to help-seeking and ways to encourage better use of rural mental health services. Work-related stresses grouped under broad themes, including 'Uncontrollable events', 'Financial hardship' and 'Pressure', had negative effects on participants' well-being. Furthermore, it was found that significant difficulties arise because many of the stresses which growers endure are not controllable, and that the alleviation of strain with the help of mental health professionals is uncommon because of barriers preventing help-seeking. Five broad themes of barriers to help-seeking were extracted from the data: 'Self-reliance', 'Social image', 'Lack of knowledge', 'Negative perceptions of health professionals' efficacy' and 'Restrictive lifestyle factors'. A specialised model of occupational health for citrus growers was proposed. These results highlight the practical need to address the identified issues in delivery and promotion of health services when facilitating help-seeking within this group. The findings also add to our knowledge of occupational health psychology broadly.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-1994
DOI: 10.1080/00224545.1994.9712192
Abstract: Participants of both sexes were asked to write responses to sentences about members of both sexes exhibiting socially desirable or undesirable behaviors. Using Semin and Fiedler's (1988) coding scheme, I analyzed the sentences for the abstractness of the verbs and adjectives. As predicted, when the participants wrote about socially desirable behaviors performed by someone of their own gender, they used more abstract words than when they wrote about undesirable behaviors. The opposite effect was not found when the participants wrote about the other gender possibly there was no true out-group in this study. The bias occurred even though gender was not a salient issue at the time therefore, a more subtle bias than has been shown previously may exist.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-1989
Publisher: Associacao Paradigma - Centro de Ciencias e Tecnologia do Comportamento
Date: 2016
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-2003
DOI: 10.1037/1089-2680.7.3.251
Abstract: Language use as a social strategy is reviewed and a new interdisciplinary taxonomy developed. Four categories are suggested for using language: to get people to do things, to get people to say things, to keep people's attention, and to maintain social relationships. Within these categories, all of the discourse and conversational analysis literatures are reviewed, allowing a common framework within which to make more systematic analyses. Reinterpretations of psychological theories are suggested, and fresh avenues for interdisciplinary research are created. A major imperative from the review is that some form of ethnographic data collection is needed for all analyses of conversations and texts to incorporate more of the social, economic, historical, and cultural contexts into both our observations and theorizing.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2011
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-1981
Publisher: Japanese Group Dynamics Association
Date: 1995
DOI: 10.2130/JJESP.34.218
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 30-05-2019
DOI: 10.1108/IJMHSC-03-2018-0020
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to review all the research on Somali refugee communities’ “explanatory models” of “mental health” or psychological suffering, and also report original research in order to allow for more contexts on their “mental health” terms to emerge. The authors talked in a conversational manner with a small number (11) of Somali people (10 females and 1 male), but this was done intensively over time and on multiple occasions. They discussed their community terms for “mental health” issues but in their own contexts and with their own ex les. The results showed that Somali as a community had three main groupings of symptoms: Jinn or spirit possession waali or “craziness” and a group of terms for serious anxieties, rumination, worrying and thinking too much. What was new from their broader descriptions of context was that the community discourses were based on particular contexts of the person and their behavior within their life history, rather than aiming to universal categories like the DSM. Both research and practice on mental health should focus less on universal diagnoses and more on describing the contexts in which the symptoms emerge and how to change those contexts, especially with refugee and other less well-understood groups. The review and original results support symptom-based or contextual approaches to mental health we should treat the “mental health” symptoms in their life contexts rather than as a disease or disorder. We can learn from how Somali describe their “mental health” symptoms rather than treat their descriptions as crude forms of the “correct” western diagnostics.
Publisher: Academic Journals
Date: 31-03-2013
DOI: 10.5897/IJSA12.062
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 05-2005
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 19-07-2020
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-2023
DOI: 10.1007/S40732-023-00549-X
Abstract: A contextual model of delusions drawing on discourse analysis is explored, which changes current attributional models to more concrete and observable forms of language-in-context. Most current models view delusions as internal beliefs that are the result of faulty reasoning or cognitive errors, whereas the present model treats delusions as natural discourses that have gone wrong or become exaggerated as strategies shaped by the person’s bad life situations and negative social relationships. Brief reviews are made of the properties attributed to delusional beliefs (Table 1) and of the current explanations for delusions (Table 2). An outline of a discursive contextual analysis is then given along with a review of the life contexts for those with “mental health” issues. Discourse analysis is used to account for the delusional properties as discursive properties (Table 3). Delusions are then analyzed in two ways as normal discourse strategies gone wrong when trying to live in bad life contexts: (1) by analyzing “beliefs” as a way of doing social behavior with language and (2) by analyzing delusions as normal storytelling gone wrong from being shaped by bad social relationships. Table 5 gives some practical questions for therapists and researchers to explore people’s delusions as discursive strategies.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 15-12-2010
DOI: 10.1002/9780470672532.WBEPP084
Abstract: Diffusion of responsibility appeared as a term in social psychology papers written in the early 1960s, perhaps first by Wallach, Kogan, and Bem (1964). It refers to the idea that, in some contexts, in iduals within a group are less (or report feeling less) responsible for actions that occur than if they had done the same action outside the group by themselves. In broad terms, there are fewer consequences to any one person in a group from what that group does than if an in idual person had done the action alone.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-09-2003
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2003
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-1984
DOI: 10.1007/BF02686548
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-1997
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-1990
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-1992
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End Date: 2014
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Amount: $149,000.00
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