Existing knowledge indicates that responsive parenting significantly influences the quality of friendships among adolescents. However, previous research has not fully elucidated the dynamics within the relationship between responsive parenting and friendship quality. This study seeks to investigate the role of interpersonal communication skills as a mediator in relationships between responsive parenting and friendship quality. It involved 150 respondents aged 12-20 years (Mage = 16.87; SD = 2.51), comprising 50 early adolescents, 50 middle adolescents, and 50 late adolescents. Measurement of the three variables utilized scales: the Parental Responsiveness Scale subscale, the Interpersonal Communication Scale, and the McGill Friendship Questionnaires-Friend's Functions. Hypothesis testing using mediation analysis reveals that interpersonal communication skills mediate the relationship between father/mother's responsive parenting and friendship quality. These findings suggest that positive interactions between parents and adolescents through responsive parenting serve as models for adolescents in their peer relationships by enhancing interpersonal communication skills. The limitations and directions for further research are discussed.
Background: Cerebral Palsy (CP) is a neurological disorder that affects motor movement but can impair cognitive skills, muscle coordination, and many other functions. An environment rich in negative air ions (NAIs) is beneficial for improving alertness, anti-depressant effects, memory, productivity, psychological health, and well-being by inducing alkalinity in the body. Despite several findings, there are no evidence-based studies considering the use of NAIs for the rehabilitation of CP-inflicted patients.
Objective: To evaluate the effects of NAIs on the cognitive functions of CP-inflicted patients.
Methodology: This study was conducted from February 2021 to April 2021 at Al-Umeed Rehabilitation Association (AURA), Karachi, Pakistan after obtaining ethical approval. CP-inflicted participants who voluntarily participated in the study were randomly allocated to the control and intervention groups. Both groups continued their regular therapies, but the intervention group also received thirty-one structured sessions of a 40-minute exposure to 10000 NAIs/cm3 for 6 weeks. Five Lumosity games were selected to assess cognitive performance using paired t-tests.
Results: NAIs significantly improved information processing (p<0.001), selective attention (p<0.01), spatial fluency (p<0.01), and spatial reasoning (p<0.01). This improvement in cognitive functions may be due to enhanced activity of the brain regions likely the cerebral cortex, prefrontal cortex, and parietal lobe as well as the neurotransmitter serotonin.
Conclusion: Our findings demonstrated that NAIs can augment the cognitive functions of CP-inflicted patients. NAIs can benefit as a progressive, non-pharmacological, economical, and effective cognitive rehabilitation therapy for CP-inflicted patients after going through second and third-phase clinical trials.
Vocational rehabilitation. Employment of people with disabilities, Therapeutics. Psychotherapy
With one focus area of the draft national standards dedicated to counsellors and psychotherapists undertaking research, an article on the research preparation offered by 90 accredited Australian training courses aptly recommends clearer and more consistent guidelines (Beel & Purvis, 2024). Exposure to research methodology and production would ensure that graduates are equipped with a minimum standard of research literacy which is essential for evidence-informed practice, professional identity, and the credibility of the profession. Volume 12 (2) of the _Psychotherapy and Counselling Journal of Australia_ (PACJA) also includes two reviews on under-researched topics: a systematic literature review on the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on adult mental health (Al Barak, 2024) and a scoping review on the impacts of self-harm scars on psychosocial functioning, quality of life, and recovery in people with histories of self harm (Linington, 2024). Two Practice Reflections showcase evidence- and theory-informed practitioner wisdom; one outlining eight steps to softening corrosive self-criticism (Pearson & Wilson, 2024), the other on developing an autobiographical narrative with older clients to enhance ego integration (Roser, 2024). Two final articles highlight the variation of therapeutic practices available in Australia. Firstly, "Gudu-Guduwa: Healing Disconnection Through Incorporating Bush and Animal-Assisted Therapies Into Therapeutic Practice: A First Nations Reflection" (Stawiarski, 2024) explores Indigenous approaches to bush therapy and equine-assisted therapy as well as connection with ancestral Country and healing when connection to Country is severed. Secondly, an art-based autoethnography study used a mixed methods research design to measure improvements in an international tertiary student's distress (Lai & Andrews, 2024).
Azam Yaghoobian, Hasan Mirzahosseini, Majid Zarghamhajebi
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of emotion-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy (ECBT) on test anxiety components in students with specific learning disorders (SLD). This research was an experimental study with pre- and post-test and a control group. The population of the present study was all fourth to sixth grade elementary students of two learning disabilities centers under the supervision of education office in district 2 of Rasht who had referred to improve their learning disabilities and were studying in the academic year 2018-2019. The sample included 30 students with specific learning disorders (SLD) who were selected through availability sampling and classified into two groups: experimental group (n=20) and control group (n=20). For data collection, we used Brooks (2015) test anxiety questionnaire. The results of multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) showed the emotion-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy was effective in reducing the components of test anxiety in students with specific learning disorders. Based on the obtained results, it can be said that emotion-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy can decrease the test anxiety of these students by making changes in inconsistent cognitive thoughts and distortions using emotion regulation techniques.
The aim of the present study was to investigate the possible influence of COVID-19 pandemic related variables on social media addiction. The sample comprised 394 university students. Personal Information Form, COVID-19 Information Form, COVID-19 Pandemic Burden Form, Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale-Brief Form, Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale, and Coronavirus Anxiety Scale were utilized to gather online data of voluntary participants. It was observed that social media usage increased among the majority of the participants (74.6%) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, social media addiction scores of the participants were associated with longer social media usage, lower GPA, being young and female in addition to emotion regulation difficulties, pandemic burden, and COVID-19 anxiety. These findings revealed that several factors which were caused by COVID-19 related global health crisis posed risk for social media addiction symptoms. When the possibilities which include this health crisis may not quit in the short term and similar problems may repeat in the future were taken into consideration, it was concluded that deeper examination of the roles of pandemic related factors such as COVID-19 anxiety and burden for social media and other addictions, would be required.
Yasser Rezapour-Mirsaleh, Esmat Talebiyan, safiye Azizpour
et al.
This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of client-centered therapy on the resilience and hope of women who have attempted suicide. It is an applied and semi-experimental study employing a multiple baseline single-case study design. The statistical population comprises all women who attempted suicide and were referred to the social emergency center of Meybod City in 2018. Three women were selected through purposive sampling. Data were collected using the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale and Snyder State Hope Scale in three phases: baseline, intervention, and follow-up. The collected data were analyzed using graphical analysis and improvement percentage. The results indicated an increasing trend in participants' scores in psychological resilience and hope from the beginning of the treatment sessions. This positive trend was maintained throughout the treatment and follow-up periods. The findings suggest that client-centered therapy has been effective in improving and increasing cognitive resilience and hope among women who had attempted suicide.
Meilinda Anjarsari, Rochmiyati Rochmiyati, I Wayan Distrik
This reseach and development aims contextual-based teaching materials that are valid, practical, and effective in improving students' critical thinking skills fifth grade elementary school students. Type of research and development used refers to the theory of R&D Borg and Gall. The population of this research is schools located in the Ahmad Yani Cluster, Sekampung District, East Lampung Regency. The sample of this research is the fifth-grade students of SDN 2 Giriklopomulyo. Data collection techniques in the form of documentation, questionnaires, and tests. Data analysis used qualitative analysis with descriptive percentage for expert and practitioner validation, and quantitative analysis with Rasch program for validity and reliability and SPSS program to test effectiveness. The results of this study indicate that the contextual-based teaching materials that were developed are valid and practical to use based on the results of expert validation and the results of the questionnaire responses of educators and students. The results of the N-Gain test and paired sample t-test obtained a significant value <0.05. These results show that contextual-based teaching materials are effective in improving the critical thinking skills of fifth grade elementary school students.
The article defines the specificities of attitude towards disease in children and adolescents, both male and female, with rheumatoid arthritis that is a chronic disorder. We have analysed the awareness of adolescents as for their disease, their openness towards perception of new information as well as their motivation for fighting the disease. We have studied psychological reactions of the adolescents in terms of the disease and defined types of attitudes towards it. We have found that girls are characterized by the highest level of anxiety due to their disease, although they are active in their fight with it, and the harmonious type of attitude was reliably registered more frequently. Boys expressed the highest level of guilt. They were characterized by a deliberate position as for their trust towards doctors. In their cases, ergopathic and sensitive types of attitude were most expressed.
El presente texto plantea como hipótesis que el significante de la falta en el Otro es el elemento mínimo y estructural que distingue al psicoanálisis de cualquier doctrina religiosa. Para sustentarla, interrogamos si el psicoanálisis es una profesión, y analizamos luego el “trazo de la No-Fe de la verdad” en el grafo del deseo. Esto nos lleva a distinguir los límites frente al complejo de castración en Freud y la propuesta de fin de análisis como identificación con el síntoma en Lacan. Finalmente, se articula el desamparo en el fin de análisis con la ética del psicoanálisis, así como la función de la Escuela y el pase.
La obediencia incondicional interroga fundamentalmente nuestra condición humana, nuestra relación con la culpabilidad y la capacidad de ser responsables de nuestros actos. Este texto explora, a partir de testimonios de asesinos de masas, el tipo de desmentida que obra en el rechazo del saber que los condujo a obedecer órdenes insensatas.
La feminización como noción reconocida en el campo de las ciencias sociales alude a una serie de fenómenos asociados frecuentemente con marginalidad y pobreza, visibilizados gracias al cuestionamiento del ordenamiento patriarcal y/o androcéntrico. A partir de una revisión minuciosa de la noción de feminización en psicoanálisis, se propone una lectura estructural del asunto. La articulación de la feminización entendida como objeto a en la subjetividad y el lazo social da paso a la consideración del discurso en la época contemporánea y a la detección de la ‘versión’ de la feminización agenciada por la ciencia, promotora de segregación y de fundamentalismos y autoritarismos.
Un grito que rompe los espejos En la novela Los ejércitos, Evelio Rosero hace existir la voz de un testigo, para aquellos que, en el fuego cruzado de la guerra que nos atraviesa, han quedado silenciados. Ismael Pasos, en labor de testigo, muestra cómo las condiciones y los efectos de la guerra socavan el fundamento mismo de humanidad de los habitantes de San José, nombre que designa a cualquiera de nuestros pueblos devastados. Este relato, que transcurre en el presente de los acontecimientos, hace audible el imposible grito de un muerto y, en el culmen del horror, muestra la insoportable figura de un mirón, en la que no querríamos vernos, siendo entonces “peor que si me mirara al espejo”.
Segregación y discurso
analítico
Lacan anuncia la segregación moderna
como un horizonte ineluctable,
ligado a la emergencia del
sujeto de la ciencia. Esta sombría
perspectiva se profiere, sin embargo,
con el cuidado de situar
una posición del discurso analítico
que, frente a ello, haga objeción.
La escritura de los cuatro discursos
permite desplegar esta lógica y
cruzarla con ciertos trabajos de
Foucault.
Ségrégation et discours
analytique
Lacan annonce la ségrégation
moderne comme un horizon inéluctable
lié à l’émergence du sujet
de la science. Cette perspective
sombre ne se profère pas pourtant
sans prendre soin de situer une
position du discours analytique qui
lui ferait objection. L’écriture des
quatre discours nous offre la possibilité
de déployer cette logique
et de l’entrecroiser avec quelques
travaux de Foucault.
Segregation and
Analytical Discourse
Lacan announces modern segregation
as an ineluctable horizon
linked to the emergence of the
subject of science. This gloomy
perspective is uttered, however,
by carefully placing a position of
analytical discourse against which it
can make objection. The writing of
the four discourses allows displaying
this logic and crossing it with certain
works of Foucault.
Introduction. Patients with multiple sclerosis can have a normal life despite of their real or possible disability and of the progressive nature of it. Scope. Patients who follow physical therapy and occupational therapy will have an increased quality of life and a greater functional independence.Methods. The randomized study was made on 7 patients with multiple sclerosis, from Oradea Day Centre, 3 times/week, ages between 35 – 55 years, functional level between mild and sever. Assessment and rehabilitation methods: inspection, BARTHEL Index. Frenkel method, brething exercises, weights exercises, gait exercises, writind exercises and games were used in the rehabilitation process. Group therapies: sociotherapy, arttherapy, music therapy. Results analysis consisted of the comparison of baseline and final means.Results. By analizing baseline and final means for Barthel Index for each functon separately, it was shown a mild improvement of functional independence for almost assessed functions, with at least 1-1,5 points.Conclusions. Persons with multiple sclerosis who follow physical therapy and occupational therapy presents a better functional independence after the treatment.
En el artículo se hace un examen
de los principales cuestionamientos
que ha afrontado la obra de Freud,
desde la aparición del psicoanálisis
hasta hoy, para mostrar cómo los
unos se suceden a los otros, en general,
sin que por ello se haya nunca
logrado invalidar verdaderamente
ni la teoría ni la práctica analítica
y, más bien, expresan la dificultad
que presenta la época para asumir
los hallazgos freudianos. En esa
perspectiva se muestra cómo la
subversión de las concepciones de
la sexualidad, el descubrimiento del
inconsciente y, hoy, la no reducción
de lo real a lo material por parte del
psicoanálisis constituyen los hechos
básicos acerca de los cuales han
gravitado las resistencias de mayor
difusión contra la obra freudiana.
Palabras clave: ciencia, eficacia, inconsciente,
resistencias, sexualidad.
Abstract
This paper examines the main
objections that Freud’s work has
faced, from the birth of psychoanalysis
to this day, in order to
show how they generally follow
each other, without for that reason
having ever achieved a true rebuttal
of either the theory or the practice
of psychoanalysis, and rather testify
to the time’s difficulty to take
on Freud’s findings. In that light
it is shown how the subversion of
the conceptions of sexuality, the
discovery of the unconscious, and,
today, the non-reduction of the
real to the material on the part of
psychoanalysis, constitute the basic
facts around which the most widespread
resistances to the Freudian
work gravitate.
Keywords: effectiveness, resistances,
science, sexuality, unconscious.
Résumé
Les questionnements les plus importants
que l’oeuvre de Freud a
du affronter, dès l’émergence de
la psychanalyse jusqu’aujourd’hui,
son examinés ici pour montrer
comment les uns viennent après les
autres, en général, sans pour autant
arriver jamais à invalider vraiment ni
la théorie ni la pratique analytique ;
ils expriment plutôt la difficulté de
l’époque à assumer les trouvailles
freudiennes. Dans cette perspective
on peut voir comment la
subversion des conceptualisations
de la sexualité, la découverte de
l’inconscient et la non réduction aujourd’hui
du réel au matériel que la
psychanalyse soutient, constituent
les faits fondamentaux autours
desquels tournent les résistances
les plus propagés contre l’oeuvre
freudienne.
Mots-clés : efficacité, inconscient,
résistances, science, sexualité