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Aims: As the number of people aged 16-25 referred to mental health services rises, the increasing complexity of their presenting needs is apparent. For those with additional communication and interaction differences, psychological assessment may be especially challenging. They often have long-standing histories of interpersonal challenge, do not find making relationships with others easy and can find conventional information-gathering assessments difficult and at times, even unhelpful. Method/rationale: Educational psychologists (EPs) can make a distinctive contribution in this area because of: (i) their knowledge of adolescent and young adult development; (ii) their skills in relational connection in time-limited assessment contexts; and (iii) the value they place on person-centred approaches. This paper outlines one approach to psychological assessment that prioritises collaboration with clients aged 16-25 and emphasises understanding the meaning they make of their subjective experience of the world. Findings/implications: The use of projective techniques, where a free-flowing response to a stimulus was used as the basis of a dialogue with the client, is described in the broader context of collaborative assessment. Illustrative case studies that serve as the basis for reflection on experience are explored, with common themes identified. The benefits of the approach, especially in terms of supporting clients and for practitioner learning, are highlighted. Limitations: This approach, whilst facilitated by qualified and trainee EPs, has been developed in a specialist multidisciplinary clinical context. Challenges in using projective techniques as part of collaborative assessments, as well as capacity concerns as regards ongoing training and supervisory requirements, are examined. Conclusions: There are opportunities for the future development of EP practice in this area, as well as promising lines of practice-based research inquiry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Body image refers to the figuration of the body in the mind, has a strong experiential component, and is permeated by subjective aspects. Objective: To analyze the subjective aspects of body image in women with fibromyalgia. Methods: This was an observational cross-sectional study. Participants were 16 women with a confirmed diagnosis for at least six months. The instrument used was the Human Figure Drawing (HFD), a projective technique for the exclusive use of psychologists, following the procedures established in the specialized literature. The examination of the material was carried out independently by two expert evaluators, who used meaning attribution criteria established in classic publications in psychological evaluation. Results: The following indicators in the participants' drawings were highlighted: medium thickness and continuous line, small size, location in the fourth quadrant, presence of reinforcements and representations of joints, figures with static body posture, and simplified facial features. These indicators were interpreted as signs suggestive of passivity, insecurity, inhibition, feeling of inferiority, conflicts regarding difficulties in contact, propensity to take refuge in fantasy, idealization, regression, and attempts at omnipotent control, psychic rigidity, and devitalization. Therefore, the body image of the participants seemed to be determined by mental representations that include the body, but are not restricted to their biological dimensions or the physical limitations resulting from the symptomatic manifestations of fibromyalgia. Conclusion: The participants' body image had an inherently negative value since it was subjectively shaped by internalized and unconscious unfavorable concepts about themselves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objectives: Safety pictograms are important graphic elements that are useful for rapidly conveying messages in workplaces. The purpose of this study was to investigate the comprehension of safety pictograms affixed to agricultural machinery among a group of Pakistani migrant farmworkers employed in Italy. Methods: Interviews about the meanings attributed to four standardized safety pictograms affixed to agricultural machinery depicting the most frequent causes of farm accidents were administered to 29 Pakistani migrant farmworkers employed on Italian farms. Results: There was high variability in pictogram comprehension. None of the participants interpreted all the pictograms in accordance with the definitions provided by the international standards. Higher comprehension rates were reported for pictograms related to the risks of tractor rollover and foot injury, while pictograms referring to the need to consult a technical manual and the risk of entanglement yielded lower comprehension scores. Previous farming experience in the country of origin and the number of years of education were significantly associated with comprehension scores. Conclusion: A discussion of pictogram features that may be critical for comprehension is provided, and (re)design suggestions are given to improve the cross-cultural comprehension of these safety signs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to present the clinical instrument prad (Relational Profile for Adolescents) from its objectives and general characteristics, its theoretical and clinical foundation, as well as its scope in psychotherapy with adolescents. The prad is a useful and innovative clinical instrument supported by Relational Psychoanalysis. It includes 12 slides, the Analysis Format and a Manual that allows a detailed study of the relational characteristics to be carried out. It is aimed at adolescents from 12 to 22 years old, whose purpose is to identify the needs, emotional experiences and relationship patterns with their parents, contemporaries, friends, schoolmates, partner and with themselves. Its main benefit is at the preventive level, so it is useful in the practice of psychotherapy, research and teaching, especially in the areas of adolescent development, projective techniques and relational psychoanalysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aim. In order to provide psychological counselling, it is necessary to properly diagnose and study the psycho-emotional states, psychological makers of parents raising children with special educational needs (SEN). Methods. In the diagnostic and practical work with parents of children with SEN, we used the text analysis method and the biographical method (including projective techniques lifeline, my autobiography), which combine diagnostic and psychotherapeutic scientific results. Family sociogram technique (Eidemiller, 2002) and its modified version (Tkachova, 2014) are used to study interpersonal family relationships and the nature of communication. The article analyses the scientific data and approaches to the study of problems faced by parents, arising from the condition of their child; emotional states of parents raising a child with SEN; stage of experience of the birth of their child. Results. Intervention is focused on the present and future. If the experience of the past comes up, it is used for the benefit of achieving certain goals. An important result of the study to be worked on is that parents of special children mention only their family and children, but forget about their own wellbeing. Children with SEN are surrounded by care and love, parents seek symbiotic relationships with children trying to satisfy all their needs, protect from difficulties, offer boundless love and sometimes over-protection. Conclusion. Knowledge of psychological stages identified within the theory of grief helps professionals understand when and how it is better to intervene in the situation taking into account the characteristics of a particular family and individual reactions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay reviews a set of contemporary experiences of sex-political organization in the history of the Argentinian antagonistic imagination. It sketches an experimental, theoretical diagram of the power of queer negativity as it has been mobilized by several strategies of public space occupation. Addressing the interference and discontinuity of political time in the wake of new experiences of strike allows one to identify other forms of critical approaches to the streets' heteronormative control systems. It also allows one to trace how new agencies of common organization can be activated for destabilizing the projective direction of emancipatory Left utopias, creating space for new vital protests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The formation and development of social competence of adolescents with intellectual disabilities is a priority of special educational institutions, because it is the key to successful socialization of these students. The main goal is to reveal the psychological and pedagogical conditions for the formation of social competence of adolescents with intellectual disabilities through their engagement into the extracurricular activities. The method involves considering the capabilities of each teenager in extracurricular activities at any age. Extracurricular activities that are based on each individual case of every student are used to form specific competencies that are especially important for him at the next level of learning and socialization. The experiment involved 114 adolescents aged 12-16 years studying in special educational institutions. Based on the components of social competence, the following methods were selected and diagnostics were performed: projective technique "Incomplete Sentences", projective drawing "My Friends", observation, exploratory technique "My Orientations", exploratory technique "Nonverbal characteristics of communication", observation, Saul Rosenzweig test, exploratory technique "An Island", projective technique "Joint Drawing", drama game "The Turnip", exploratory technique "Assess the Behavior", a discussion based on short stories "The Hero's Character and His Actions". The number of adolescents with intellectual disabilities who have cognitive-related competencies has increased significantly (t=5,01; p=0,001); ; competencies of motivational and value sphere (t=4,7; p=0,01). Increased was the number of adolescents who adequately assess themselves and their abilities and capabilities (33, 85%), use socially acceptable behavior and understand moral norms (39, 47%). The level of control over students' own actions has significantly increased, as well as their ability to evaluate their own actions and self-reflect (t = 5.3; p = 0.05). The diagnostic results obtained after the introduction of the method testified to the effectiveness of its use for adolescents with intellectual disabilities in the conditions of special educational institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Despite the rapid growth of the Chinese market since the initial opening up in 1978, a significant number of international consumer goods companies have struggled to find a firm and consistently profitable foothold in the market. This is often attributed to national cultural differences. Using projective technique for data collection, the research analysed female cosmetic consumers in China and in Switzerland, a market that Western manufacturers are familiar with. Due to significant regional differences within both countries, the study analysed consumers from Shanghai and Harbin, and the French and German-speaking areas of Switzerland. The study found out that there are large differences between the behaviour of consumers in Switzerland and China, but also within each country, particularly China. However, there are some similarities between the behaviour of consumers from Switzerland and Harbin. The findings provide a good insight for marketers wanting to enter or change their strategy in China or Switzerland, but particularly for Western manufacturers who are already present and familiar with the Swiss market and want to succeed in the Chinese market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We propose a framework for the interactive simulation of nonlinear deformable objects. The primary feature of our system is the seamless integration of deformable simulation and collision culling, which are often independently handled in existing animation systems. The bridge connecting them is the medial axis transform (MAT), a high-fidelity volumetric approximation of complex 3D shapes. From the physics simulation perspective, MAT leads to an expressive and compact reduced nonlinear model. We employ a semireduced projective dynamics formulation, which well captures high-frequency local deformations of high-resolution models while retaining a low computation cost. Our key observation is that the most compelling (nonlinear) deformable effects are enabled by the local constraints projection, which should not be aggressively reduced, and only apply model reduction at the global stage. From the collision detection (CD)/collision culling (CC) perspective, MAT is geometrically versatile using linear-interpolated spheres (i.e., the so-called medial primitives (MPs)) to approximate the boundary of the input model. The intersection test between two MPs is formulated as a quadratically constrained quadratic program problem. We give an algorithm to solve this problem exactly, which returns the deepest penetration between a pair of intersecting MPs. When coupled with spatial hashing, collision (including self-collision) can be efficiently identified on the GPU within a few milliseconds even for massive simulations. We have tested our system on a variety of geometrically complex and high-resolution deformable objects, and our system produces convincing animations with all of the collisions/self-collisions well handled at an interactive rate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The dehesa is the most widespread agroforestry system within the European Union and provides an important set of provisioning, regulating, and cultural ecosystem services. However, these systems have been in decline for a number of years, to a great extent because of their lack of profitability. Among the different options available to add value to agroforestry systems such as the dehesa and make them more profitable, the development of brands that would help consumers identify the products they generate is one of the most promising alternatives. In this way, the value of dehesa products would be enhanced and the revenue obtained from them increased. However, whilst such products are locally appreciated, a challenge exists in so far as neither national nor international consumers are able to identify dehesa products and therefore they are not willing to pay a premium for them. In this context, the creation of an umbrella brand covering the products derived from the dehesa is considered to be useful for boosting revenues in dehesa systems. This piece of research used a qualitative approach combining discussion groups with projective techniques during a series of workshops to identify relevant branding concepts and imagery for dehesa products. The findings showed that the term dehesa is recognised and appreciated by consumers, although it is associated with traditional and expensive products. It was also found that in order to make the brand more attractive to more consumers -especially younger consumers-additional concepts such as "sustainability" and "socially-responsible" production need to be incorporated in the branding. Imagery displaying forests and other environmental motifs were found to be the strongest graphical means of depicting these concepts within the brand design. It is considered that these findings could help enhance the demand and revenues associated with dehesa products and sustain the benefits they provide for the environment and for society. • Development of a brand covering agroforestry products could help enhance revenues in extensive farms. • The brand could help consumers identify the benefits farms provide for environment and society. • The brand needs to include additional concepts such as "sustainability" and "socially-responsible". • Imagery displaying forests and other environmental motifs should be included in the design. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Illustrated health resources are useful for people who have limited English linguistic ability. The aim was to compare the preferences of resettled refugees from Africa and non-African countries, on pictograms describing common symptoms of illness. Data were collected in two cities in Queensland, Australia. Participants indicated their preference for three types of pictograms depicting seven symptoms. Pictogram sources included the International Pharmaceutical Federation, royalty-free stock images, and pictograms designed in South Africa. For all ailments, participants (n = 81) from Africa preferred the African pictograms more than participants not from Africa (n = 61). A significant association was found between pictogram preference and where respondents were from for each ailment except headache (p = 0.375). African refugees showed a significant preference for pictograms which had been culturally adapted for an African population; however, some other refugees also preferred certain African pictograms. Pictograms for resettled refugees should be pre-tested to determine acceptability, as they should be culturally relevant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the most widely used projective test is Rorschach Inblot Test. Apart from the psychoanalytic interpretation and interpretation of the test based on psychometric scoring there are also interpretations based on different theoretical background. One of these is the interpretation of the Rorschach test from an existential perspective. There are examples of Rorschach Inkblot Test which has interpretation on existential perspective especially with cancer patient. While existential concerns may be experienced in people who are at risk of death due to an illness, interpreting the Rorschach test from an existential perspective provides useful information to examine the mental state of individuals towards this disease. Therefore, this research is about a Rorschach Inkblot Test report from an existential perspective which applied to the young adult who was diagnosed with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection (HIV). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to examine the use of a combined written naming + repetition (WN + REP) approach and an REP-only approach to treat naming deficits in a group of individuals with aphasia. Method: Six individuals participated in the study. A multiple-baseline design across behaviors was used. A WN + REP approach, an REP approach, and an untreated condition were presented. Three 10-item treatment lists and one 10-item untreated list were created. Each 10-item treatment list was evenly divided so that 5 items were treated using the WN + REP approach and 5 items were treated using the REP approach. Results: Visual analyses of treatment data revealed improvements in 4 of the 6 participants. Meaningful treatment effect sizes were obtained for 5 of the 6 participants in at least 1 of the approaches across the treatment lists. Slightly more participants obtained meaningful effect sizes in the WN + REP approach than in the REP approach. Use of writing as a strategy to help with naming the pictures verbally increased over the duration of treatment in 5 of the 6 participants. Conclusions: The findings revealed that both approaches improved spoken naming accuracy in aphasia. Although the WN + REP approach resulted in more meaningful effect sizes than the REP approach, there was no overwhelming advantage in using 1 or the other approach. However, the WN + REP approach promoted writing as a functional strategy that could be used when naming the picture verbally was not successful. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Graphic family sculpting is a drawing technique which is a modified form of family sculpting. Initially developed by Chris Venter, the technique was intended as a projective, therapeutic technique to enable family members to understand and make sense of their emotional experiences of family matters. The aim of this article is to describe graphic family sculpting as a visual projective data-collection technique by illustrating its use in research conducted with a group of African female adolescents regarding their experience of parent–adolescent relationships in a South African context. African adolescent females (n = 30) between the ages of 13 and 18 were sampled through the implementation of purposeful sampling. The sculptings were analyzed with the use of guidelines provided by Venter and were thematically analyzed. The findings illustrate the value of graphic family sculpting as a visual projective data-collection method and recommendations are made for the use of graphic family sculpting in research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: In the current research the components of the system of forming the professional competence of intending History teachers using multimedia technologies were investigated and elaborated. The purpose of the research is to present the specified system as an integral, multicomponent education, to determine its content and structure. Research methods include a practical study by the authorof the process of forming components of the proposed system in three stages: diagnostic, content-practical and analytical-summarizing with the use of research methods; analysis of the results of the systematic implementing multimedia tools in the educational process in combination with theoretical analysis of the scientific from different countries of the world. The study concludes that the developed system of forming the professional competence of intending History teachers using multimedia technologies includes five components - motivational-value, informationcognitive, operational-activity, creative-projective and evaluative-reflexive, the effectiveness of which is ensured by the system and procedural integrity due to the interconnectedness and interdependence of these components. Moreover, the effectiveness of functioning this system depends on a number of pedagogical conditions: introducing the author's multimedia educational tools to the educational process; updating traditional and introducing innovative methods of teaching social-humanitarian and methodologicalhistorical disciplines with the use of multimedia educational tools; the combination of reproductive and productive methods; providing intending History teachers with the necessary set of knowledge, skills and abilities to work with multimedia programmes and educational tools; introducing the elements of distance learning to training the intending teachers; using the appropriate material and software providing the educational process, creating the author.s multimedia educational tools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To understand the social representations of mothers about the care of their children with cancer. Method: Qualitative research, based on the Theory of Social Representations. We used the projective drawing-story projective technique and the semi-structured interview, whose data were studied through the Thematic Content Analysis Technique. Results: Two thematic categories emerged: Basic health care practices for children with cancer and Justifying function of care. Conclusion: The study showed that mothers' specific care expressed through protection, affection and love aims to meet the needs of their children with cancer. This experience of caring brings difficulties caused by the adaptation to the new social reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is a response to the recent editorial by Piotrowski (2019). In our article (Benson et al., 2019), we reported results from a national survey of the tests and assessment practices used by contemporary school psychologists in the United States. We appreciate Piotrowski's (2019) acknowledgement of our results as offering a keen perspective on the emerging status and breadth of assessment practices, specific to the field of school psychology? (p. 75). Our article focused on a wide range of assessment practices, and Piotrowski's concerns pertained largely to our presentation and discussion of results regarding projective techniques. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The United Nations (UN) conceptualizes sustainability as development that meets the current needs of the planet's populations, but without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Although the concept of sustainability has been widely discussed in the international political agendas, inconsistent interpretation and ambiguity of the concept by consumers is observed. In this paper, the understanding of the term sustainability amongst Brazilian consumers is reported. Using the word association projective technique, the participants were asked to write down all the words that came to their mind when thinking about "sustainability." Thematic content analysis was performed by grouping words by similarity of meaning in categories, which were further submitted to correspondence analysis (CA) to create a perceptual map. Brazilian consumers made different associations reflecting the complexity and multidimensionality of the concept amongst different groups of consumers. The most frequently cited categories are related to environment, health and nutrition, behaviour, production and economy and sustenance. CA accounted for 76.7% of the data variance and the perceptual map evidenced that younger individuals with higher education made associations with categories related to the current concept of sustainable development, similar to that proposed by UN. Moreover, consumers with basic education were associated with categories related to food and sustenance. The findings of this study can contribute to the formulation of education strategies directed towards different social groups, besides directing further research on consumer behaviour. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Irish folk tradition includes a long-established discourse whereby the formerly nomadic or semi-nomadic group known as Irish Travellers, who comprise a tiny minority within Irish society are depicted not only as quintessential "outsiders" but also as a projective mechanism for the hates and fears of the settled (non-Traveller) community. This essay examines a counter-tradition in Irish oral tradition that rejects these essentialist and reductionist representations and constructs Travellers very differently. This alternative portayal sets Travellers within a very different discourse, one where they serve as a counter- hegemonic undercurrent in Irish society that remains symbolically central despite attempts at its suppression. This more radical and nuanced discourse, one whereby that which is initially deemed lowly or subordinate is inverted and becomes paramount, is circumscribed within the traditions of symbolic inversion and holy wisdom as long-established in other European countries. This counter-hegemonic discourse is linked to a discussion concerning the philosophical possibilities for a movement beyond the politics of diff erence that is constitutive of Traveller Otherness or alterity and the potential for a more nuanced or postmodernist theorisation of Self/Other relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We investigated the effect of context-specific versus general subconscious goals on job performance in a call center. Employees (n = 54) were randomly assigned to a condition where they were primed by (a) a photograph of people making telephone calls in a call center, (b) a woman winning a race, or (c) a control group. Job performance was measured by the (1) number of and (2) monetary value of pledges from donors. None of the participants in the two experimental conditions showed conscious awareness of a prime. Analysis of variance indicated that both a subconscious context-specific and a subconscious general goal aroused the implicit need for achievement as assessed by a projective measure, the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT). Both types of primed goals led to a significant increase in the number of pledges during a four-day workweek. Consistent with goal-setting theory, employees in the context-specific condition raised more money than those in the general achievement (one-tailed t-test) and control (two-tailed t-test) conditions. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of visual supports on the performance of the Test of Gross Motor Development (TGMD-2) for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Participants (N = 22) performed the TGMD-2 under three different protocols (traditional protocol, picture task card protocol, and picture activity schedule protocol). Gross motor quotient scores on the TGMD-2 were measured and statistically analyzed using a within-subjects repeated-measures ANOVA. Results indicated statistically significant differences between protocols, while post hoc tests indicated that the picture task card condition produced significantly higher gross motor quotient scores than the traditional protocol and the picture activity schedule. The results suggest that more accurate gross motor quotient scores on the TGMD-2 by children with ASD can be elicited using the picture task card protocol. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Food image is increasingly recognized as a source of destination brand building; however, food image variations between different tourist groups are not well understood. Using projective techniques, this study captures the variation of food images among visitors and non-visitors to Egypt. Differences exist in four food image domains: food health and quality, food accessibility and dining places, food production and cooking methods, and food culture and heritage. Findings support the dynamic nature of tourist food images. Non-visitors held predominantly generic, cognitive-based, and holistic food image perceptions. In contrast, visitor food images were complex, specific, and more accurate. The study advances the literature by clarifying how non-visitors abstract and identity-centric stereotypes develop into concrete experiential-based food images. The identified image congruences and gaps offer a basis for positioning and developing food tourism products for Egypt and similar destinations. The results help destinations tailor their marketing strategies to different visitor groups. • Variations exist between the food images of visitors and non-visitors of Egypt. • Egypt's strong food images relate to food variety, taste, healthiness, authenticity, and uniqueness. • Tourist food images are dynamic and depend on the tourist level of experience. • Non-visitors' food images are generic, cognitive-based, and holistic. • Visitors' food images are complex, specific, and more accurate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a response to Boddy's (2005) paper, published in the "International Journal of Market Research," 47, 3, which called for more evidence on projective techniques applied to a research problem. Specifically this paper will present research-based analysis and understanding of an investigation of owner-managers' perceptions of government support for e-business developments within knowledge-intensive business services in Ireland and New Zealand. It introduces the reader to the quasi-quantitative mapping technique (content analysis and a modified matrix) as a means of analysing data to help overcome issues of measurement and interpretability of the qualitative information gleaned from projective instruments. It also discusses the value derived from the methodology. The paper concludes that projective techniques are reliable, valid, trustworthy, significant, and appropriate research instruments that have provided insightful reality, not valueless subjectivity relative to the research problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Projective techniques are often used in market research to help uncover findings in areas where those researched are thought to be reluctant or unable to expose their thoughts and feelings via more straightforward questioning techniques. However, how the findings from projective techniques are analysed and how valid and reliable they are is hardly touched on at all in the market research literature. This paper aims to open this subject up for further discussion and recommends further research into the reliability and validity of projective techniques. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The increasing use of internet, especially the proliferation of social networks has offered companies of all sectors the opportunity to keep in contact with their consumers; getting their feedbacks and complains on a daily basis and even to create short online chains enabling consumers to buy their products. This trend is found to be rather limited in the case of food products. The main objective of this article is to deal with consumer’s perceptions towards the potential use of social media to create online short supply chains for food. Projective techniques (Sentence completion tasks) have been used in this study. As, they allow researchers to uncover motivations, emotions and beliefs that drive consumer’s perception and behavior which may not be detected by straightforward questioning. The findings of this study have allowed to obtain insight into those aspects that consumers regard as opportunities or barriers of such potential short food chains. The main aspect is to put food enterprises in the picture about what is going on in consumer’s mind. This might open new possibilities for food businesses to develop a new short food chain.

Children Create Narratives - First Experience with the Revised Sceno-2 Test The Sceno Test, created by Gerthild von Staabs, has been in use and has been useful in its original version for more than 80 years. It has now undergone a major revision.The test will retain its relevance as a projective diagnostic procedure offering children and juveniles opportunities to design scenes and to voice narratives coming along with them. It can serve as an instrument encompassing all therapeutic approaches to explore infantile wishes, perceptions, and interpretations and can provide, as intended by Gerthild von Staabs, indications of family dynamics.The revision of the test will be discussed at great length.

Innovative methods to collect dietary data at multiple times across the year are needed to better understand seasonal or temporal changes in household diets and measure the impact of nutrition-sensitive agricultural programmes in low-income countries. The present study aims to validate a picture-based research tool for participants to self-record their household's dietary diversity each month in villages of Manyoni District, Tanzania. Pictorial record charts were developed to reflect local food resources. In 113 randomly selected households, the person responsible for food preparation was trained to mark all items consumed by any household member within the home, or prepared for consumption outside the home, for a single recording day. The next day, an interview-based household 24-h food recall (H24HR) was collected for the same period. Separate analyses tested agreement (a) between picture charts and H24HR and (b) between H24HR following chart completion and on an alternative day. Concordance between methods differed between food groups and items but was high to very high for all cereals, vegetables, pulses, legumes and nuts and almost all fruits. Recording of ten items (including non-cultivated fruits and ingredients of mixed dishes) differed significantly between H24HR assessments, all of which were reported by more households in interviews following chart completion. Results suggest potential for visual prompts and the contemporaneous nature of data collection to improve the accuracy of interview-based recall. With adequate investment in developing and implementing context-adapted tools, pictorial charts may also offer an effective standalone method for use at multiple time-points in agricultural programmes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Accessible summary: Feeling alone and not connected to other people where you live affects many people and especially people with a learning disability. The government and the newspapers are talking a lot about this, they want to understand who is affected and what can be done.Our group did a research project to find out some of the things that stop us getting involved in local places with local people where we can make and keep friends. The people in the research project mainly lived independently and did not use learning disability services, so needed to use local community organisations.Pictorial cards, made by one of the group members, using photographs were used to sort out all the things we talked about into groups. These included transport, fear and anxiety, limits on our choice and control, risks and personal safety.We then talked about what could be done, this included more easy read information, so people know what is available locally, more support to go to places and advocacy to get involved. There also needs to be better community safety including more Safe Places in the community. Background: Social isolation is an issue that affects many people and especially people with a learning disability. There is an association between social exclusion and feeling lonely, an issue currently highlighted as a growing concern which needs to be addressed both in the media and by the government. Methods: The Building Bridges Research Group do inclusive research projects about the issues that are important to them. Over the summer of 2018, the research group undertook an inclusive research project to identify some of the specific barriers that prevent community inclusion and the opportunity to develop friends. The people involved mainly lived independently and did not use learning disability services, with the exception of evening clubs, so needed to use universal services. Results: Pictorial cards, made by one of the group, using photographs were used to organise the data into themes. These included transport, fear and anxiety, limits on choice and control, risks and personal safety. Conclusion: The inclusive research design enabled people with a learning disability to contribute to all stages of the research project, from identifying the issue, gathering data, the analysis and writing up. They also made suggestions of ways to increase social networks, friendships and well‐being and so decrease loneliness. These include more access to easy read information, more support and advocacy and measures to address community safety including a wider roll‐out of the Safe Places scheme. There also needs to be further research undertaken with other people with a learning disability in different areas to widen the understanding of the impact of these barriers on people's lives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Résumé: En nous inspirant des travaux de Haegeman (2004), nous montrons que les conjonctions de subordination du français écrit se partitionnent en deux classes, les conjonctions centrales et périphériques, et que cette partition dépend du sens des conjonctions. Ainsi, quand dans son sens temporel est centrale comme toute conjonction temporelle, et périphérique dans son sens contrastif comme toute conjonction contrastive. Cette partition s' appuie sur différents critères syntaxiques et sémantiques déjà étudiés dans la littérature, faisant intervenir la notion de contenu (sémantique) en jeu ou projectif, ainsi que sur un critère sémantico-discursif original qui met en jeu la distinction entre l' usage intensionnel et évidentiel d' un verbe d' attitude propositionnelle ou d' un verbe de dire Hunter (2016). Ensuite, nous montrons que cette partition s' étend aux autres connecteurs de discours du français écrit, d' où la notion de connecteurs centraux et périphériques. Cette partition respecte la règle suivante: si deux connecteurs, quelle que soit leur catégorie, ont le même sens, alors ils sont tous deux centraux ou tous deux périphériques. Nous pouvons par là-même introduire une nouvelle partition des relations de discours, qui s' accorde relativement bien (mais non entièrement) avec la classification sémantique du PDTB (Prasad et al., 2007) et qui est orthogonale aux autres partitions proposées dans la littérature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study explores data collected in the psychological evaluation of transgender youth and their families who seek healthcare at the Gender Identity Program. Great psychosocial changes mark the transition from infancy to adulthood. Transgender youth may have these aspects of their developmental stage potentialized. A study was conducted with 23 transgender youth (mean age = 14 ± 2.38 years) and their caregivers. Eleven of the youngsters were assigned male at birth, while 12 were assigned female. The research protocol consisted of a survey and systematization of the data collected in the initial global psychological evaluation performed at the healthcare facility, including house-tree-person (HTP) projective drawings and the parental styles inventory. The present study aimed to explore the data collected during the psychological evaluation of youngsters diagnosed with gender incongruence, relating the HTP projective drawing technique to parental styles and gender trajectories. The results indicate two key points. One evidenced that parental styles could be either preventive or risk components in maintaining adequate socialization in these young people but not in affecting the level of gender dysphoria. The other was that coherence is introduced in the person's perception of his or her projected self-image and his or her expressed gender as he/she becomes more comfortable in expressing his/her gender identity. Treating youngsters inherently brings ethical issues to clinical practice. Thus, global psychological evaluation tailored to this population is a fundamental resource that the psychology professional can use in consultations with youngsters because this tool brings a global understanding about the natural development cycle, facilitating the formulation of therapeutic conducts and exchanges within interdisciplinary transgender health care teams. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Moderate invariantism is the orthodox semantics for knowledge attributions (i.e., sentences of the form ⌜S knows/doesn't know that Φ⌝). In recent years it has fallen out of favour, in large part because it fails to explain why ordinary speakers have the intuition that some utterances of knowledge attributions are felicitous and others infelicitous (felicity intuitions) in several types of cases. To address this issue moderate invariantists have developed a variety of what I call non-semantic theories (aka error theories) which they claim account for the relevant felicity intuitions independently of moderate invariantist semantics. Some critics have responded by arguing that these non-semantic theories are implausible for one or more of the following reasons: (i) they do not have a basis in empirical data or established theory; (ii) they do not account for all of the relevant felicity intuitions; (iii) they are ad hoc; or (iv) they in fact explain too many felicity intuitions and thus undermine the case for moderate invariantism. I develop a new non-semantic theory––projective adaptivism––that I argue escapes issues (i) to (iv) above. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: Consumers with Down syndrome are present in all countries, but there has been little marketing research examining their consumption experiences. The purpose of this exploratory investigation is the analysis of the consumption meanings and practices of Down syndrome adults from their own point of view and from their families' perspectives. Design/methodology/approach: Data was drawn from 44 narratives interviews that included families'stories, description of album photos and projective techniques. Findings: The research shows from the families' perspectives how barriers to consumption prevent Down syndrome adults from becoming agentic consumers. The findings reveal the "labels" associated with the vulnerability of people with Down syndrome and their families in their market experiences. Research limitations/implications: Research is limited to a single country and location and is focused on a specific group of overlooked consumers. We encourage the expansion of the research to a wider group and different locations. Practical implications: The research identifies barriers to social inclusion that can support public policy and marketing manangement that contribute to a more humanistic marketing. Originality/value: The research presents narratives of adults with Down syndrome, their mothers and siblings. The findings contribute to a comprehension about the welfare of this traditionally neglected, vulnerable group of consumers, which is useful for consumers, Down syndrome people and their families, marketing managers and public policymakers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In an earlier work, the first author and Petsche used potential theoretic techniques to establish a lower bound for the height of algebraic numbers that satisfy splitting conditions such as being totally real or p-adic, improving on earlier work of Bombieri and Zannier in the totally p-adic case. These bounds applied as the degree of the algebraic number over the rationals tended towards infinity. In this paper, we use discrete energy approximation techniques on the Berkovich projective line to make the dependence on the degree in these bounds explicit, and we establish lower bounds for algebraic numbers which depend only on local properties of the numbers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to understand what a sustainable future would look like and the nature of the changes needed to achieve it. Continued reliance on economic growth to meet the demands of a growing population is unsustainable and comes at an unacceptable social and environmental cost. Given these increasing demands, radical changes to present practices of production and consumption are needed to enable a sustainable future. Design/methodology/approach: To address this the projective technique of backcasting was used in a pilot study to explore student visions of a sustainable future. An integrative framework comprising housing, clothing, travel, leisure and food provided the structure for six focus group discussions. Findings: Thematic analysis identified three key characteristics of a sustainable consumption future, namely, efficiency, sharing and community and three critical elements, namely, the role of government, education and technology, necessary for its achievement. Research limitations/implications: Demonstrating the usefulness of backcasting will encourage its application in a wider range of consumption contexts with a broader range of participants. The vision of a sustainable future provides a blueprint that identifies its nature, and the basis upon which decisions to achieve it can be made. Originality/value: The research introduces the technique of backcasting and demonstrates its usefulness when dealing with complex problems, where there is a need for radical change and when the status quo is not sustainable. Unexpectedly, results suggest a commitment to prosocial values, collaborative experience, collective action and the importance of community. Research and social implications demonstrating the usefulness of backcasting will encourage its application in a wider range of consumption contexts with a broader range of participants. The vision of a sustainable future provides a blueprint that identifies its nature, and the basis upon which decisions to achieve it can be made. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study investigated possible relationships between the consumer's concern about their own health and their perception of frankfurter sausages incorporated with functional ingredients. A 5-step online questionnaire was applied as follows: identification and recruitment; application of the completion test; the shopping list technique (to determine the consumers' impressions about food incorporated with dietary fibre and omega-3 fatty acids); attitudinal issues; socioeconomic matters. The addition of dietary fibre and omega-3 to the frankfurters provided predominantly positive associations. Consumers perceived the neutral shopping list as having been written by individuals who are unconcerned with healthy eating habits and/or have allegedly normal eating habits while the healthy shopping list was perceived as having been written by an individual with healthy eating habits/lifestyle, who is concerned about his/her weight. The predominantly positive attitude towards added dietary fibre and omega-3 to frankfurters and the consumers' perception of these functional ingredients show that formulating meat products with both ingredients may be successful for the consumer's market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This qualitative research explored the reproductive health care experiences of people with physical disabilities in Vietnam. Data from 20 participants (10 males and 10 females) was collected from in-depth interviews with the use of drawing and photo elicitation methods. The findings revealed that people with physical disabilities in Vietnam experienced difficulties with their reproductive health care that included: physically inaccessible hospitals; negative attitudes from health care providers; discouraging experiences with reproductive healthcare including assistance with fertility control; and limitations with public health insurance. Almost all the participants only saw a doctor if they became ill, but often bought over-the-counter medication from pharmacies. Some participants chose private rather than public hospitals where environments were inaccessibility, and health care providers were perceived as insensitive. In terms of contraception, study participants mostly used condoms, although some did not use any contraceptive methods resulting in unplanned pregnancies or abortion. People with disabilities in Vietnam have access to public health insurance but its limitations can affect the experiences of people with physical disabilities attempting to access reproductive health care. In Vietnam, people with physical disabilities work hard to overcome discrimination to achieve full and satisfying lives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reports results of a research whose objective was to understand how the consumption is established in the dynamics of the construction of the amorous relationships of a couple. The justification for the work lies in the fact that more studies are needed that connect the emotions present in certain contexts, such as love relationships, to the consumption theme. The interpretative perspective of research provided by the Consumer Culture Theory (CCT), guided by the epistemologicalmethodological framework of Grounded Theory, was adopted. In the field work, 15 in-depth interviews were conducted. In addition, the research also relied on the use of projective techniques. The analysis of the data allowed the elaboration of a theoretical scheme in which several expensive elements were explained to the field of consumption in a cultural and symbolic perspective. As a conclusion, the way in which consumption is intertwined with love relations is perceived, since it functions as an expression of the individual, it is a fundamental element in moments of conquest, while at the same time providing the means by which the relationship can consolidate and maintained through the integration of identities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This critical appraisal and synthesis review explores the literature on the evidence of Rorschach Inkblot Method variables as measures of the attachment theory. We searched for publications making use of EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) which included 41 databases of which Academic Search Premier, ScienceDirect, PsycARTICLES, and PsycINFO yielded the most results. Inclusion criteria were published studies concerning Rorschach and attachment theory where participants were older than 18 years. Non-academic literature and studies not published in English were excluded. We synthesised the evidence following the narrative approach of Petticrew and Roberts (2006). Findings suggest texture, oral responses, and Rorschach oral dependency strongly associated with attachment security, with other variables indicating weaker associations with attachment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background & Aims: Impaired message-structure mapping results in deficits in both sentence production and comprehension in aphasia. Structural priming has been shown to facilitate syntactic production for persons with aphasia (PWA). However, it remains unknown if structural priming is also effective in sentence comprehension. We examined if PWA show preserved and lasting structural priming effects during interpretation of syntactically ambiguous sentences and if the priming effects occur independently of or in conjunction with lexical (verb) information. Methods & Procedures: Eighteen PWA and 20 healthy older adults (HOA) completed a written sentence-picture matching task involving the interpretation of prepositional phrases (PP; the chef is poking the solider with an umbrella) that were ambiguous between high (verb modifier) and low attachment (object noun modifier). Only one interpretation was possible for prime sentences, while both interpretations were possible for target sentences. In Experiment 1, the target was presented immediately after the prime (0-lag). In Experiment 2, two filler items intervened between the prime and the target (2-lag). Within each experiment, the verb was repeated for half of the prime-target pairs, while different verbs were used for the other half. Participants' off-line picture matching choices and response times were measured. Results: After reading a prime sentence with a particular interpretation, HOA and PWA tended to interpret an ambiguous PP in a target sentence in the same way and with faster response times. Importantly, both groups continued to show this priming effect over a lag (Experiment 2), although the effect was not as reliable in response times. However, neither group showed lexical (verb-specific) boost on priming, deviating from robust lexical boost seen in the young adults of prior studies. Conclusions: PWA demonstrate abstract (lexically-independent) structural priming in the absence of a lexically-specific boost. Abstract priming is preserved in aphasia, effectively facilitating not only immediate but also longer-lasting structure-message mapping during sentence comprehension. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]