Is this a Domain or a Door? Rethink: Behaviour Change

When is a domain really a door to insight, understanding and change?

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Rethink: Behaviour Change - BBC Radio 4	10 children   The  garden is littered with inside doors.  'Line of sight'
Family Intervention Unit.   or Family 'Interference' Unit  Mother, ten children  Several partners Many people in the community  know the family, know the house.	Housing: Eviction notice Housing have to keep calling to the house to replace the doors as they keep being removed. The family is known to the schools, social services, the doctors, the police ...

See also:

'Line of sight'

Objectivity, Sociology and Measurement ... Hodges' model

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"Big data is all the rage.  We have become increasingly obsessed in economics and in medicine and in public policy with what can be measured. Evidence-based is always better it would seem, than going with our gut or worse, a wild guess that springs from our biases. This passion for evidence is not new. Carved in stone, on the outside of the social science building where I got my PhD at the University of Chicago is a quote attributed to Lord Kelvin, the physicist who gave us the Kelvin temperature scale and who died in 1907:" “When you cannot measure, your knowledge is meager and unsatisfactory.” Russ Roberts

"Like Weber and Dilthey, Mannheim opposes the positivist approach which seeks to render all social facts measureable and 'unambiguously ascertainable'. He invites us:- 'to think what becomes of our psychic and social world when it is restricted to purely externally measureable relationships', and argues that 'There can no longer be any doubt that no real penetration into social reality is possible through this approach . . . It is clear that a human situation is characterizable only when one has also taken into account those conceptions which the participants have of it, how they experience their tensions in this situation, and how they react to the tensions so conceived." p.160-161.   THE TASKS OF SOCIOLOGY "The tasks which are presented to sociology are of a two-fold character. On the one hand there is the need to establish a valid model for the analysis of a particular social system which he is studying. And on the other hand, once such a model is established he may be faced with explaining some partial and particularized form of behaviour in terms of the part it plays in the total system. However, in any particular research situation there will be a choice as to what shall be regarded as a total system, that is what the scale of our interest should be, or what segment of the total system we should study." p.185.   Mannaheim's "proposals for a sociology of knowledge". p.165.

Sources:

Adam Smith, Loneliness, and the Limits of Mainstream Economics
Russ Roberts

https://medium.com/@russroberts/adam-smith-loneliness-and-the-limits-of-mainstream-economics-f0be78940e17

Also summarised in MoneyWeek.

Rex, J. (1968) Key Problems of Sociological Theory, 4th Edition. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.

(... continued sorting through old books... )

Psychopathology and the ‘Scaling Up’ Problem

This conference will focus upon the 'scaling up' problem in the context of psychopathology. More precisely, it will focus upon the extent to which phenomenological and enactive accounts of psychopathology are, or must be, 'representation hungry'. Whilst explicitly anti-cognitivist phenomenological and enactive accounts of psychopathology are present in the literature, very little work has been carried out on discerning the extent to which they require the positing of representation. This is somewhat surprising, because 'representation hungry' cognition (thought, imagery, hallucination) plays a prominent role in most psychopathologies.

During the conference, we aim to consider questions like: is it possible to provide non-representational accounts of psychopathology?; if so, is it desirable?; if not, does this damage the prospects of phenomenological and enactive explanations of psychopathology?; does the representational status (or lack thereof) of a given account have important ramifications for clinical theorising and practice?; and, more generally, is the concept “representation” helpful, harmful, or irrelevant to understanding psychopathology?.

In short, whilst anti-cognitivist accounts of psychopathology have been provided by phenomenologists and enactivists, very little has been said about the 'scaling up' problem with regards to them. The aim of the conference is to fill this gap.

The conference will be held via the Zoom platform on Monday the 5th, Tuesday the 6th, and Wednesday the 7th of October, from 15.00 to 17.30 CET.

Organization
Adrian Downey & Tobias Schlicht
Institute of Philosophy II
Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Contact: a dot downey at sussex dot ac dot uk 

My source:

Philos-L "The Liverpool List" is run by the Department of Philosophy, University of Liverpool https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/philosophy/philos-l/ Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Recent posts can also be read in a Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/PhilosL/ Follow the list on Twitter @PhilosL. Follow the Department of Philosophy @LiverpoolPhilos

Book: "The Care Manifesto"

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In these uncertain times, let's try to ensure that this particular Manifesto has the conceptual, salient and values-laden reach to make a real difference ...

My source: Tate Liverpool shop

(more to follow)

National Day of Arts in Care Homes

 

 

Not long to go now until the second National Day of Arts in Care Homes, which takes place on Thursday 24 September.

During lockdown, we have seen a wealth of amazing activities and projects take place in care homes across the UK, including corridor choirs, garden concerts, socially distanced art sessions, online ceramics tutorials, live streamed concerts and dance, pen pal projects and postal art initiatives. Care settings have used the arts to raise morale, keep residents and staff stimulated, keep in touch with friends and loved ones, express worries and fears and also to celebrate birthdays and other occasions. 

Please show your support for the provision of arts activities in care homes on 24 September by organising an event, sharing stories and spreading the word.

 

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Book: "Cornerstones of Attachment Research"

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attachment?	attachment?
	attachment?

 

Make sure you consider all the corners - including the spiritual ... 

My source: OUP twitter 

 

Patients as Persons not Things: [Nursing] Theory - Practice

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"Is there something perverse, if not archly insistent, about complicating things with theory? Do we really need anything like thing theory the way we need narrative theory or cultural theory, queer theory or discourse theory? Why not let things alone? Let them rest somewhere else-in the balmy elsewhere beyond theory. From there, they might offer us dry ground above those swirling accounts of the subject, some place of origin unmediated by the sign, some stable alternative to the instabilities and uncertainties, the ambiguities and anxieties, forever fetishized by theory. Something warm, then, that relieves us from the chill of dogged ideation, something concrete that relieves us from unnecessary abstraction." p.1.

 

My source:

Brown, B. (2001). Thing Theory. Critical Inquiry, 28(1), 1-22. Retrieved September 18, 2020, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/1344258

When what is political turns Yellow ...

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https://twitter.com/MHRAgovuk/status/1306201325903007745?s=20

The Pain of Parity of Esteem

"Chronic pain is defined as pain that lasts more than 12 weeks or persists beyond the usual healing time (Treed et al., 2015)."

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"Functional magnetic resonance imaging studies of the brain have shown that emotional pain stimulates the somatic pain system, and the somatic pain system activates the nuclear accumbens and ventral tegmental areas, which are the seats of emotion and reward pathways (O'Connor et al., 2008). This biological evidence underscores the complex and bidirectional association between physical and emotional pain." (p.14).

12 weeks "the mesocortico-limbic dopaminergic pathway and endogenous opioid system"

 

Majeed MH, Naveed S. Chronic Pain in Youth: Can Mental Health Services Provide Relief?. J Psychosoc Nurs Ment Health Serv. 2018;56(11):13-16. doi:10.3928/02793695-20181012-03

See also:

Morton, J., & O’Reilly, M. (2019). Mental health, big data and research ethics: Parity of esteem in mental health research from a UK perspective. Clinical Ethics, 14(4), 165–172.

https://doi.org/10.1177/1477750919876243
 

RCN: Parity of Esteem – Delivering Physical Health Equality for those with Serious Mental Health Needs

https://www.rcn.org.uk/professional-development/publications/pub-007618

Suicide Prevention Research Fund PhD Scholarship

About the PhD Scholarship 

Suicide Prevention Research Fund PhD Scholarship 

The PhD Scholarship provides funding for successful applicants to attain a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD).

The PhD Scholarship is a funding agreement between Suicide Prevention Australia and the applicant’s Administering Institution (a University in Australia). 

The PhD Scholarship aims to support outstanding graduates who are at the early part of their research career. The Scholarship supports research relevant to all aspects of suicide prevention and to develop a capacity for original independent research within Australia. 

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Hear from Dr Katie McGill with further information on the Suicide Prevention Australia PhD scholarship application process.	Hear from Professor Myf Maple, deputy chair of the Suicide Prevention Australia Research Advisory Committee, on what we look for in PhD Scholarship applications.

My source:

https://twitter.com/Kavanagh_AM/status/1305694590574292992?s=20

Please note my using h2cm here is not intended to represent endorsement by the respective organisations / institutions.

Chaotic Modeling & Simulation Web Conference 22-24 October 2020

Dear Colleague,

Please see the announcement for the October CMSIM2020 International Web-Conference, 22-24 October 2020. You are invited to contribute by a presentation, a special session or workshop and suggest a keynote talk.

We already have done the appropriate provisions for an important meeting following the successful previous Virtual events.

The deadline for Abstract submissions and Special and Invited session and Workshop proposals is set to September 18, 2020, see at http://www.cmsim.org/cmsim2020webconference.html

We already invite papers for the Conference Proceedings where accepted papers will be included along with Book and Journal publications (submit following the conference paper guidelines to Secretariat AT cmsim1.org ).

On behalf of the Conference Committee,

Prof. Christos H Skiadas,

Conference Chair

________________

Over the years several Books from leading publishers emerged from the CMSIM and CHAOS Conferences and events.

Please see the last years Books published by Springer

11th Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference, 2019,

https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030152963  and

12th Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference, 2020,

https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030395148

13^th Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference, Springer (in preparation)

Clinical Entrepreneur training programme

Applications for the latest round of the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur training programme are now open!

To apply for a place on the programme you need to register for an account on the Programme Management Office Research Management System.

The deadline for applications is 1pm on 13 October 2020.

This year, the recruitment process will be conducted virtually, to allow for social distancing. You may be invited to have a follow-up call, as part of the application process, and these will take place between 30 November 2020 and the 9 December 2020.

You will be notified of the outcome of your application in January 2021.

To find out more about applying, please join one of our webinars:

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My source:

From midnight tonight applications for the @NHSEngland Clinical Entrepreneur Programme open. If you want to gain commercial skills, knowledge and experience to help transform the #NHS, why not take a look? #healthcare #innovation #entrepreneurship https://t.co/daW4Q22M78

— Tony Young (@DrTonyYoung) September 14, 2020

https://twitter.com/DrTonyYoung/status/1305565521027518464?s=20

"Can you hear me?" Nalini Malani

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A still from stop-motion animation work 'Can you hear me?' (2017-20)

 

Commission
Nalini Malani: Can You Hear Me?

23 September 2020 – May 2021

Whitechapel Gallery unveils a major new work, Can You Hear Me? by Nalini Malani (b. 1946, Karachi, Undivided India), as part of its prestigious annual programme of artist commissions.

My source:

Spence R. (2020) Written on the body, FT Weekend, Life&Arts, 5-6 September, p.13.

https://www.ft.com/content/2793f080-6690-4047-bc8d-8afab2b60026

Bourdieu*: habitus, field, horizons and careers

"For Bourdieu, structure is not only objective in a Levi-Straussian sense. 

Structures can also be highly subjective." p.13.

 

"In one sense, habitus is social inheritance ... but it also implies habit, or unthinking-ness in actions, and 'disposition'. Some dispositions are transferable; fort example, a practical taxonomy can be utilized to find relevance in a new situation." p.14

 

"If habitus brings into focus the subjective end of the equation, field focuses on the objective:" p.15.

"Field is therefore a structured system of social relations at a micro and macro level." p.16.

 

"Education is a field, made up of identifiable interconnecting relations." p.20.

 

"Young people make career decisions within what we refer to as horizons for action. The horizons are the perspectives on and possibilities for action given in any field or intersection of fields." p.97.

 

 

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subjective	objective
culture, linguistic market, upbringing cultural and social capital	class, institutions, education career guidance economic capital

 

Grenfell, M., James, D. (1998) Bourdieu and Education: Acts of Practical Theory. London: Falmer Press.

Career progression: Moving beyond Bourdieu pp.100-103.

and Chapter 9, Theory as Method pp.152-178. diagrams. 

The 4P's in Hodges' model

PURPOSE	PROCESS
PRACTICE*	POLICY

 

Always conscious of how Hodges' model, like many other 'models' is an idealisation. As such we routinely refer to 'social action', 'political process' and 'social process'. 

I have, I suppose, allocated the four P's to the respective domains on a primary context - primary domain basis.^ So 'process' as per time, events, sequence, algorithm, logic, cause-effect.

^first come, first served?

World Suicide Prevention Day #WorldSuicidePreventionDay #WSPD2020

This #WorldSuicidePreventionDay, find out how you can help people who might be struggling, and learn the skills to be able to start conversations about suicide. The training from @Zer0Suicide only takes 20 minutes, and could help save a life. https://t.co/CiaGq5nWKk pic.twitter.com/UC9K4vpgKy

— NHS England and NHS Improvement (@NHSEngland) September 10, 2020

'Suicide' https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/search/label/suicide 

'Activism' https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/search/label/activism

Lifelong learning in Hodges' model

I've lost count of the visits to Hay-on-Wye, most recently last week. Sadly none have coincided with the literature festival (thus far). Three full days arriving at 0815, a coffee at Angie's cafe to start. 

In searching for 'evidence' to support Hodges' model I am clearly biased in terms of what I will find. Brent Hayward's paper and exchanges on twitter prompt the realisation there is much to define. The axes, the respective care - knowledge domains, career, health career, the center of the model, education and more. I have 6,000 words on what could be thought of as a 'manual'. Nobody, can say "Read the ****** manual!" if none exists, beyond Brian Hodges' course notes. 

So I've been picking up a few textbooks. Despite being a little dated (and so familiar) I'm sure these sources can help place Hodges' model on a more concrete footing. At least reveal what schools of thoughts and ideas Hodges' model can claim as a foundation and support. The shelves of several shops were well served with lifelong learning and so here are some points of note, beginning with interpretations of 'learning'.

• Behaviourist approach
• Gestalt
• Cognitive - constructivist 
• Humanist
  

The plastic space that it is, Hodges' model can be used with any of these, as with proposals for pedagogy and andragogy (chap. 2) and the identities associated with the social nature of 'learner identity' in education.

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Situational awareness: 1. the safety perspective 2. the personal perspective of knowing what learning opportunities are available. p.56. Continuous professional development intrinsic-extrinsic motivation, p.84. 'Sociological imagination' pp.19-21. Use of Hodges' model allied with multiple literacies to further lifelong and personalised learning (tertiary+)?

Definition of lifelong learning is, arguably, impossible. p.9. Learning activity through life. p.10 Relation of: concept of 'career' Health career as Life chances Age as chronology and pathology Primary Courseware - created to present subject matter. Subject matter experts (content) design and programmed by courseware specialists. Secondary Courseware - describes the environment and set of tools by which the learner performs learning tasks, and the tasks (and task materials) themselves. p.138.

History of lifelong learning 18th century (Yeaxlee, 1929). 2nd chance learning Lifelong learning for social change. Age as a social construct Bourdieu 'capital' power (chap. 3) Social and Cultural (capital) Teriary Courseware - material prodcued by learners, p.138.

"Lifelong learning has experienced a political transformation from one that held a humanistic radical approach to education to one with a focus upon economy, skills and and vocationalism, and this transformation can be seen in the policy discourse associated with lifelong learning." p.9. Lifelong learning "a means of achieving instrumental (economic) values..." p.9. Continuous professional development (governance of..) Economic or Human (capital) identity narratives and identity politics - caring relations, p.19

 

O'Grady, A. (2013) Lifelong Learning in the UK, London: Routledge

Morgan-Klein, B., & Osborne, M. (2007). The Concepts and Practices of Lifelong Learning. London: Routledge. (chapter 2, Learning through the life course ...)

"EEEE..." and not a cloth-cap in sight

"The acronym EEEE abbreviates

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"everything	enfolds
everything	else"

 

 - where the word 'enfolds' means 'contains within itself'. A theory in which some interpretation of the EEEE principle holds, is said to possess (the property of) wholeness; that is, each part contains, within itself, the whole (more precisely, the near-whole: every other part). We first discuss classical set theory and wholeness. We then interpret EEEE set theoretically and investigate whole set theory. A method is described by which classical set theory can be made to manifest a degree of wholeness, and further lines of investigation are suggested. A brief discussion of various examples of the EEEE principle is given in the Appendix" 

Blizardo, W. (1989). EEEE: SET THEORY AND WHOLENESS. Logique Et Analyse, 32(127/128), NOUVELLE SÉRIE, 215-239. Retrieved September 4, 2020, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/44084274

Please note in posting this, I am not trying to suggest that I understand the paper: as a whole - or even several parts!. 

n.b. Posted in Wigan - just a cloth-cap insight.

Poetic license ack: “Eee lad, we’re off to that there North England”

https://twitter.com/BarristerSecret/status/1223260008256765953?s=20

Q. What is Hodges' model? A. It is NOT a 2x2 matrix.

Regular visitors / readers of W2tQ will be familiar with this rendering of Hodges' model:

 

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The separation of axes and domains above is contrived to overcome some of the limitations of HTML.

An image can re-solve and integrate to show the model as intended:

Hodges' model: The axes and domains

 

 Moving on to read and review Lowy and Hood's book on The Power of the 2x2 Matrix two chapters in there are already (yet again) rich rewards and two questions I ask myself...

1. On their own what exactly are the axes? 

 

 

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2. The same question can be asked of the care (knowledge) domains as labelled: what are they? 

 

INTRA- INTERPERSONAL	SCIENCES
SOCIOLOGY	POLITICAL

 

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Alex Lowy, Phil Hood (2004) The Power of the 2 x 2 Matrix: Using 2 x 2 Thinking to Solve Business Problems and Make Better Decisions, San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass ISBN: 978-1-118-00879-9

 

What is 12.5% of Nursing's effort?

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skills, responsibility, accountability, 6Cs, morale, motivation, trust, self-esteem	12.5% ?
	"What happens here?"

And .. all embedded within, surrounded by ... the Spiritual domain...

  Fair Pay For Nursing

Find out more about the Fair Pay for Nursing campaign and how you can get involved

#FairPayForNursing

What it means to me / us.