Queen of Katwe: Searching for a chess board

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(Robinson Crusoe & Friday) #OscarsSoWhite Group Psychology Behavioural Economics	Queen of Katwe

My source:
Gilbey, R. (2016) Leading the race for the Oscars, Culture, The Sunday Times, pp. 6-7.

#OscarsSoWhite

Heterodoxy in Economics and Healthcare

I may as well face it: I am tarred with the same brush that paints psychiatry, hospital and community mental health services these days (and nights). Sometimes the media, with due cause I sadly add, dispenses with the brush: the paint comes by the bucket full and is hurled.

As a product of the Victorian asylum system I am bound to be tainted. This seems to be the case when seeking feedback on Hodges' model from activists for anti-psychiatry, patient activism, engagement, self-care, carers rights and recovery. There are those who feel even the latter is a political foil that stabs at the heart and mind of those in desperate need of mental health care. The situation is exacerbated even further, such is the politicisation of healthcare and mental health in-particular since austerity cast its shadow on funding.

In seeking comment on Hodges' model this is very much about pros and cons. Hodges' model being from the 1980's is an historical artifact, but I beg to differ as to its relevance. To that audience Hodges' model is probably the antithesis of "Love at First Sight". Like the psychiatric system and the legal powers it can exercise, the model says;

"Look I can help you. Let me show you how much I care.

Don't worry. We can make sense of this.

I'll just put you and everything not just in one box but several" 

NOW COME ON GET IN THERE!

If that is the reaction then the possibilities: creative, innovative, reflective, person centred... of then blurring and erasing these lines, divisions and gathering the whole person and their situation is lost.

So, if the new wave thinking in mental health provision eschews the paraphernalia of models and framework then what is the alternative?

The question is important, vital even when we look at the mental health nursing curriculum. Curricula are never fixed in the sense that the new emerges from the old. How radical is this change?

The above reflections are prompted by an excellent piece in the FT Weekend (1-2 October) by David Pilling on the teaching of economics. I recalled a few years ago the rumpus on campus reported across the media.

Individuals and families do seek explanations, both of what ails them, their treatment and the plan of care whether enacted as self-care - a care partnership - or emergency care in the first (and vital) instance. Pilling writes about the how economics is taught, the call for broader curricula (which is underway) and the role for heterodoxy.

So I've a few questions: Where is the heterodoxy in healthcare (beyond alternative medicine/homeopathy)? Is there really no need of a generic conceptual framework in healthcare?

If the new Econocracy needs a framework then students across disciplines may also find some value in Hodges' model...

Given the cross-disciplinary pressures on healthcare systems the world-over there really is a need rethink healthcare as well as economics. Arguing in response about the economic benefits of technology is indicated and well-justified, but it is not e-nough.

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"The students gathered in response to an email ... Philosophy Ethics Individual Psychology (Robinson Crusoe)

(email...) It asked whether the economics they were learning, dominated by mathematical formula and abstract models, was relevant to the real world." "How far can economics be called a real science?" "Earle complains that the repeated use of such formulaic models presents a "closed system", immune to external interrogation. "You are taught a narrow way of thinking  about the economy as this  set of rules and laws  not to be questioned and  not to be engaged  with," he says. ..."

(Robinson Crusoe & Friday) Group Psychology Behavioural Economics

He would like, he says, to "put politics, and philosophy and, well, ethics back into economics by teaching it as a "contested", cross-disciplinary subject..." "Post-Crash Economics  has folded into Rethinking Economics" Post-Crash Economics Society

My source:
Pilling D. (2016). Crash and learn, Life & Arts, FT Weekend, 1-2 October, p.1-2.

The New Script of Nursing : El Nuevo Guión de Enfermería

Dear Colleagues and Members of the Global Alliance for Nursing & Midwifery (GANM),

All of us know that our profession is undergoing an extraordinary transformation and that nursing will never look the same. While we know this, there is a profound need to educate the general public about the broader scope of our work and expanding opportunities.

As the breadth and impact of our work increases, so does the need to recruit and retain nurses—crucial elements during a nursing shortage throughout the world. Together, we are writing the “new script of nursing,” and we have create​d a video that reveals the intensity and magnitude of our profession that is much more than what meets the eye – researcher, clinician, change agent, inventor.

We purposely did not brand this video as our own because the advancement of the profession and the healthcare needs of the patients we serve are more important than any of our individual or organizational needs. By not branding, the message will go farther and have greater impact.

I encourage you to use it as your own and help spread the word of the new script of nursing. Like many of you, we can’t support a national campaign, but together we can perhaps start the process of educating the public and moving nursing toward a realistic, contemporary image.

Share it on social media, send it to your colleagues to push out, and join us in saying “#WeGotThis.”

Patricia Davidson
Dean, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing

http://ganm.nursing.jhu.edu/the-new-script-of-nursing/ 

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Estimados/as Colegas y Miembros de la Alianza Global de Enfermería y Partería (GANM),

Todos nosotros sabemos que nuestra profesión está experimentando una transformación extraordinaria y que la profesión de enfermería nunca mas tendrá el mismo aspecto. Si bien sabemos esto, existe una profunda necesidad de educar al público sobre el amplio alcance de nuestro trabajo y oportunidades de expansión. 

A medida que la amplitud y el impacto de nuestros trabajo aumenta, también lo hace la necesidad de reclutar y retener enfermeros y enfermeras -- elementos cruciales durante una escasez de enfermeras/os en todo el mundo. Juntos, estamos escribiendo el "nuevo guión de la profesión de enfermería," y hemos creado un video que revela la intensidad y la magnitud de nuestra profesión que es mucho más de lo que parece a simple vista - investigador/a, clínico/a, agente de cambio, inventor/a.

Fue a propósito que no etiquetamos este vídeo como nuestra propia producción debido a que el avance de la profesión y las necesidades de salud de los pacientes que atendemos son más importantes que cualquiera de nuestras necesidades organizacionales o individuales. Al no etiquetar este video, el mensaje va a ir más lejos y tendrá un mayor impacto.

Los animo a usarlo como su propio mensaje para asi ayudar a difundir la palabra sobre el nuevo guión de la profesión de enfermería. Como muchos de ustedes, no podemos apoyar una campaña nacional o mundial pero juntos podemos quizás iniciar el proceso de educar al público y avanzar la imagen de enfermería hacia una mas realista y contemporánea. 

Compártanlo en las redes sociales, envíenlo a sus colegas, y se únanse a nosotros en decir "#WeGotThis."

Patricia Davidson
Decana, Escuela de Enfermería Johns Hopkins 

http://ganm.nursing.jhu.edu/the-new-script-of-nursing/

The GANM is part of the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center.

The thoughts, opinions and views that are posted on the GANM do not reflect those of either Johns Hopkins University or WHO.

Please visit the GANM webpage at: http://knowledge-gateway.org/ganm/

ERCIM News No. 107 Special theme: "Machine Learning"

Dear ERCIM News Reader,

ERCIM News No. 107 has just been published at http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en107

This issue features :

- A Special Theme presenting a selection of articles about current trends and new paradigms in Machine Learning, coordinated by the guest editors Sander Bohte (CWI ) and Hung Son Nguyen (University of Warsaw).

- A Research and Society section dedicated to Open Access - Open Science, coordinated by Laurent Romary (Inria).

- A "Research and Innovation" section with news about research activities and innovative developments from European research institutions

This issue is also available for download in pdf and ePUB

Thank you for your interest in ERCIM News. Feel free to forward this message to others who might be interested.

Next issue: No. 108, January 2017 - Special Theme: "Computational Imaging"

Best regards,
Peter Kunz
ERCIM News editor in chief

Ponencia "La revolución de la emoción" | The Revolution of Emotion & Hodges' model

Below I have mapped some of the concepts discussed in the video to Hodges' model plus the 4Ps.

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emotion  uncertainty  identity individual skills (inner tech) emotional intelligence fear-----terror sadness    stress    anxiety loneliness person centered communication     love PURPOSE "HUMAN	disease technology      devices experience - expertise life  death 'an object' - 'meat' anonomised - aggregated waiting rooms working / caring space PROCESS - PROCEDURE(S) TECHNOLOGY"
love relationships    goodbyes 'life' : the way you/we live patient-family people centered stories - narrative PRACTICE	professionals rules permissions 'restricted' spaces accessibility service centered power Hierarchy (obstructive) 'distance' (protective) POLICY

Bedlam exhibition and Nijinsky's Mask, 1919

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It is still surprising how often you are led to wonder: 'Will the real Mr - Ms X, Y please stand up?' So many people are still reliant, dependent upon psychotropic medication to the extent that they too acknowledge that to a lesser or greater degree they do not know themselves. Ordinarily, we take for granted the various roles and personas, yes: the masks that we adopt unconsciously in the course of the day. Reducing this medication, assisting in the removal of the mask can be a great challenge especially in a community setting. When the combined services of primary care, community mental health team work with patients and carers this brings its own rewards. From behind the mask a new voice emerges: independence, understanding, motivation, spontaneity, tangible happiness - contentedness. ... Before that though we still need to maintain and teach the skills to really attend and listen, to see the person behind the mask...

Bedlam: the asylum and beyond

Image source: In the Frame for December 2013 Vaslav Nijinsky's 'The Mask'

My source: Wesseley, S. (2016). Inside Bedlam, England's first mental institution, The Times, Arts. 14 September, 8-9.

8 Digital Skills to Teach our Children* - related to Hodges' model

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digital literacy   digital emotional intelligence	digital identity digital security
digital communication digital use	digital safety   digital rights

* ... and many adults too.

My source: Original tweet by Dorlee Michaeli, @SWcareer

Image source and original article:
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/06/8-digital-skills-we-must-teach-our-children

Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement

Dear Readers,

Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement is delighted to announce the publication of its latest issue at https://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/ijcre. We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our website to review articles and items of interest.

Thanks for the continuing interest in our work,

Margaret Malone
Managing Editor, Gateways
Margaret.Malone AT uts.edu.au

Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement
Vol 9, No 1 (2016)
Table of Contents
https://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/ijcre/issue/view/397

Research articles (Refereed)

The journey and destination need to be intentional: Perceptions of success in community-academic research partnerships (1–21)
Robin Lindquist-Grantz, Lisa M Vaughn

Two steps forward, one step back: Achievements and limitations of university-community partnerships in addressing neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage (22–40)
Deborah Warr, Richard Williams

Caught up in power: Exploring discursive frictions in community research (41–57)
Cindy Hanson, Adeyemi Ogunade

Supporting communities of practice: A reflection on the benefits and challenges facing communities of practice for research and engagement in nursing (58–73)
Maretha De Waal, Oumiki Khumisi

'Culture' as HIV prevention: Indigenous youth speak up! (74–88)
Ciann Wilson, Vanessa Oliver, Sarah Flicker, Native Youth Sexual Health Network, Tracey Prentice, Randy Jackson, June Larkin, Jean-Paul Restoule, Claudia Mitchell

Engaging youth in post-disaster research: Lessons learned from a creative methods approach (89–112)
Lori Peek, Jennifer Tobin-Gurley, Robin S Cox, Leila Scannell, Sarah Fletcher, Cheryl Heykoop

Impact of international humanitarian service-learning on emerging adult social competence: A mixed-methods evaluation (113–131)
Paul Schvaneveldt, Todd Spencer

Practice-based articles (Non-refereed)

Unusual conversations: A reflection on the mechanics of internationally engaged public scholarship (132–144)
Jonathan Damiani

Fundamental researcher attributes: Reflections on ways to facilitate participation in Community Psychology doctoral dissertation research (145–158)
Renato M Liboro, Robb Travers

Innovating for skills enhancement in agricultural sciences in Africa: The centrality of field attachment programs (159–171)
Anthony Egeru, Paul Nampala, Henry Massa-Makuma, Moses Osiru, Adipala Ekwamu

Mobilizing Minds: Integrated knowledge translation and youth engagement in the development of mental health information resources (172–185)
Christine A Garinger, Kristin A Reynolds, John R Walker, Emma Firsten-Kaufman, Alicia S Raimundo, Pauline C Fogarty, Mark W Leonhart, Mobilizing Minds Research Group
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Paul Ashton, Marilyn Krogh, Margaret Malone, Phil Nyden and Pauline O'Loughlin
Editorial Committee Gateways

My source c/o Margaret Malone via LIVINGKNOWLEDGE-L AT LISTS.UCC.IE