scholarly journals Experimenting with Psychotherapy

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andri Steinþór Björnsson
Keyword(s):  
Outcome Research ◽  
Specific Treatment ◽  
Psychotherapy Research ◽  
Psychotherapy Outcome ◽  
Psychotherapy Outcome Research ◽  
The Future ◽  
Specific Factors ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Way

There are two major shortcomings in current psychotherapy outcome research: The standards that are used to evaluate psychotherapy (especially the way control conditions are set up in outcome research) are often not acceptable, and non-specific factors have been largely neglected, in part because of the “psychological placebo” metaphor. I argue that theories of psychotherapy need to specify further the role of non-specific factors in the development and maintenance of different disorders, and how non-specific treatment factors can be made to be more effective in therapy. This may be the major front in the future of psychotherapy research.

Goals and psychotherapy research

2018 ◽  
pp. 87-110
Author(s):  
Georgiana Shick Tryon
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Outcomes ◽  
Goal Setting ◽  
Outcome Research ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Psychotherapy Research ◽  
Psychotherapy Outcome ◽  
Collaborative Relationship ◽  
Therapy Goals ◽  
Outcome Relationship ◽  
Psychotherapy Outcome Research

This chapter, ‘Goals and psychotherapy research’, examines goals in psychotherapy as they relate to clinical outcomes by surveying the extant research. Following a brief discussion of the importance of goals for personal development, the chapter focuses on research concerning the collaborative relationship between client and psychotherapist in goal-setting and effecting psychotherapy tasks to meet therapy goals, with particular emphasis on the client-therapist collaborative-outcome relationship. Next, the chapter reviews goal-psychotherapy outcome research for both adult and child/adolescent clients. The research presented is interpreted using clinical examples. The chapter closes with conclusions gleaned from the research reviewed followed by suggestions for practitioners.

scholarly journals I, Librarian

2005 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilda Kruger
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Technological Changes ◽  
Font Size ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Society ◽  
Information Professionals ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Way

<span>The fast and continuous technological change that is characteristic of the information society we find ourselves in has demonstrable impact on the way librarians go about their business. This paper offers a scenario of technological changes already in the pipeline and yet to come, and how those changes will impact the role of librarians in the future. One of the main concerns of this paper is the continued relevance of information professionals as infomediaries in our future society.</span><div><span style="color: #303030; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div>

Relocating the Light

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin Scheible
Keyword(s):  
Physical Space ◽  
Moral Community ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
The Future ◽  
Significant Patterns ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Rhetorical Structures ◽  
The Buddha ◽  
The Way

Pāli is not typically considered a language that allows for much literary flourish, but literary moves are made nonetheless: patterns and rhetorical structures introduced in the first chapter determine how the rest of the historical narrative is literarily conveyed. This chapter argues that structurally significant patterns manifest in the proem itself are what determine the narrative arc of the text, and further explores the metaphor of light as it is employed in the story, paying attention to the way the proems had set up the reader to perceive the transformative richness and practical potential of such metaphors. By exploring this metaphor of light we will see how a certain pattern is developed whereby the physical space of Laṅkā is transformed to a lamp of the dhamma, a cetiya for the future remembrance and representation of the Buddha through relic veneration, while individual hearers are transformed ethically, resulting in the moral community primed for the responsibility of the dhamma. Just as a lamp is primed with oil to effectively receive the flame, so the reader of the Mahāvaṃsa is primed for the full, transformative force of the text by the proem and by the narrative strategies employed.

The Ubiquitous Internet

2014 ◽  
pp. 81-85
Author(s):  
Robert van Wessel ◽  
Henk J. de Vries
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Net Neutrality ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Set Up

We all take the ubiquity of the Internet for granted: anyone, anywhere, anytime, any device, any connection, any app…but for how long? Is the future of the Internet really at stake? Discussions about control of the Internet, its architecture and of the applications running on it started more than a decade ago (Blumenthal & Clark, 2001). This topic is becoming more and more important for citizens, businesses, and governments across the world. In its original set-up, the architecture of the Internet did not favor one application over another and was based on the net neutrality principle (Wu, 2003). However, architectures should be understood an “alternative way of influencing economic systems” (Van Schewick, 2010), but they should not be a substitute for politics (Agre, 2003). The architecture is laid down in standards and therefore discussions about the future of the Internet should also address the role of standards. This is what this chapter aims to do.

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