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Childhood adversity is a well-established risk factor for adolescent acting-out behaviors such as self-harm, bingeing, substance abuse, and aggressive behavior. From a mentalizing perspective, acting-out behaviors are understood as resulting from a combination of impairments in mentalizing and epistemic vigilance that are a consequence of childhood adversity. Yet, few studies have investigated these assumptions. The current study investigated the potential mediating role of mentalizing impairments and epistemic vigilance in the relationship between childhood adversity and acting-out behaviors in adolescents, oversampled for risk status for psychopathology (N = 451, mean age = 15.40 years). Structural equation modeling showed a strong, direct relationship between childhood adversity and acting-out behaviors, confirming the importance of traumatic childhood experiences for adolescent acting-out behaviors. This relationship was partially mediated by both mentalizing difficulties and epistemic vigilance, explaining about 40% of the total variance. These results support the importance of focusing on strengthening mentalizing abilities and lowering epistemic hypervigilance in psychotherapeutic work with adolescents who have experienced childhood trauma. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study, we examine how leaders' emotional labour strategies (surface acting and deep acting) deplete leaders' self‐control resources to predict abusive supervision, in addition to the moderating role of leader mindfulness. Integrating ego‐depletion theory and emotion regulation theory, we hypothesise that deep acting and surface acting predict higher levels of abusive supervision, which is mediated by reduced self‐control. Furthermore, we predict that leaders' trait mindfulness moderates the relationship between emotional labour and self‐control on abusive supervision. Results from a three‐wave study of leader‐follower dyads supported mediation hypotheses; both deep and surface acting predicted abusive supervision, which is mediated by reduced self‐control. Our moderated mediation hypotheses were supported for deep acting but not surface acting. This research contributes to the literature by demonstrating the depleting nature of emotional labour in leadership and the importance of leader mindfulness as a boundary condition that can make deep acting less harmful for leader behaviour. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

L'objectif principal de notre étude est de contribuer à une meilleure compréhension des passages à l'acte filicide en période post-natale. Le filicide de Fabienne Kabou, sur sa fille de 15 mois, nous renseigne sur les enjeux psychiques et psychopathologiques impliqués dans le passage à l'acte. Nous identifierons également, grâce à ce cas, les facteurs de vulnérabilités et de risque, qui ont concouru au filicide. Notre méthode consiste à privilégier l'étude d'un cas pour sa singularité, mais en ouvrant à des similitudes avec d'autres cas de femmes auteures de ce type de passage à l'acte. L'histoire de Fabienne Kabou sera présentée jusqu'au passage à l'acte meurtrier, puis nous mènerons une discussion autour de la multiplicité et la complexité des enjeux connexes impliqués. Les résultats de notre étude montrent que si la pathologie psychiatrique s'est révélée être un facteur majeur de vulnérabilité dès le début de sa grossesse jusqu'au filicide, dans notre recherche, nous avons souligné qu'aucune grille de facteurs de risque n'a été encore développée pour faciliter la prévention des homicides commis par les femmes sur leur enfant en bas âge. Pourtant, il nous semble possible d'identifier, à partir du cas de Fabienne Kabou, des facteurs de risque propices au passage à l'acte tels que l'isolement social, l'absence de soutien familial, des ruptures sociales répétées, la dépendance financière et matérielle et une impossibilité de partager avec qui que ce soit l'intimité de sa maternité. Nous nous sommes donc posé la question de la prévention de ce type de filicide dans de tels cas d'isolement psychique et social et les outils à créer, dans de futures recherches, pour mieux les prévenir. The main objective of our study is to contribute to a better understanding of filicidal acts by mothers during the postnatal period. Fabienne Kabou's filicide of her 15-month-old daughter, sheds light on the psychic and psychopathological issues involved in the act. We will also use this case to identify the factors of vulnerability and risk which contributed to the filicide. Our method is to focus on the singularity of this case while at the same time looking for similarities with other cases of women who have committed this type of act. The story of Fabienne Kabou will be presented up to the point if her murderous act, followed by a discussion of the multiplicity and complexity of the related issues involved. The results of our study show that while her psychiatric pathology has been shown to be a major factor of vulnerability from the beginning of her pregnancy until the filicide, in our research we have emphasized that no grid of risk factors has yet been developed to facilitate the prevention of homicides committed by women on their infant children. However, we estimate that it is possible to identify, from the case of Fabienne Kabou, those risk factors that are conducive to committing such an act, such as social isolation, lack of family support, repeated social breakdowns, financial and material dependence, and the impossibility of sharing the intimacy of her motherhood with anyone. We therefore asked ourselves how this type of filicide could be prevented in such cases of psychic and social isolation, and what tools could be created through future research to better prevent such acts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Rohingya, a stateless Muslim minority from Myanmar, are a relatively small, yet extremely vulnerable group of refugees in the United States. Most research on Rohingya focuses on trauma in Myanmar rather than adjustment to the U.S., and almost none looks specifically at adolescents. Therefore, in this paper the data are from qualitative focus groups (n = 10) with 23 service providers to help answer the research question: In what ways did service providers discuss the trauma histories and mental health adjustment of Rohingya unaccompanied refugee minors? Results indicate that both pre-migration trauma and aspects of adjustment post-arrival are factors influencing the rocky start to life in U.S. communities. Specifically, a history of normalized violence was noted to lead to acting out behaviors and seeking of harm; and their vast experiences of loss (family, friends, and culture) were discussed in terms of survivors' guilt and prolonged mental health challenges. Themes in terms of post migration isolation in a new environment, and cultural struggles in understanding U.S. culture and the norms of foster care were also discussed. Implications include the need to destigmatize mental health services and seek alternatives, help youth overcome the survivor's guilt, and ensure both foster parents and case management staff have adequate training and tools to work with youth who have experienced extreme institutional discrimination, personal violence, and ethnic cleansing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study, an in-person simulated role play as a worthwhile approach in preparation for work-integrated learning (WIL) through a theater and reality of the board (TROB) pedagogical model is explored. Students participated in a twelve week, in-semester TROB program, acting out in-person board room positions, such as Chair and Secretary before observing a real boardroom meeting. One hundred and seventy pre- and post-survey responses were elicited from international business and engineering postgraduate students to ascertain perceived employability skill growth when undertaking a TROB program. Based on the findings, two recommendations are highlighted. The first, to consider in-person simulated work-integrated learning role play (SWILRP) as a viable approach in preparation for WIL that includes industry stakeholder engagement and second, to teach and assess self-reflection through a TROB pedagogical model as a key employability skill outcome. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Enactments represent a clinical process and structure common to marital therapy, consisting of episodes of direct couple engagement carefully promoted, monitored, and coached by the therapist. Couple-enactment-centered therapy is supported by a relational systems theory rationale for interaction-focused intervention. We specifically explored couples' experience of relationship enactments and their potential to promote positive relationship interaction and outcomes. In an experimental design, participant couples received three couple-enactment-centered sessions (intervention through couple interaction) followed by three therapist-centered sessions (intervention through therapist interaction), with sequencing randomly alternated (CECx3–TCx3 or TCx3–CECx3). In this study, through qualitative interviews we sought the voices, perceptions, and experiences of couples regarding these modalities and their potentially unique utility. Qualitative data from 12 participants was analyzed using a group hermeneutic approach. Findings included that (a) therapeutic alliance, achieved in a more salient way through TC, was important to positive clinical and couple outcomes, (b) the sequencing of approaches was significant, and (c) modality (CEC or TC) influenced participant experience of relational change. Our discussion hypothesizes a general profile of participants' experiences of these two approaches in therapy, contributing to an emerging framework potentially informing best couple therapy practice utilizing both TC and CEC modalities in sequence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What motivates managers to deliver bad news in a just manner and why do some managers fail to treat recipients of bad news with dignity and respect? Given the importance of delivering bad news in a just manner, answering these questions is critical to promote justice in the workplace. Drawing on appraisal theories of emotions, we propose that people with higher core self-evaluations may be less likely to deliver bad news in an interpersonally just manner. This is because these actors are more likely to appraise the delivery of bad news as a situation in which they have high coping potential and are therefore less likely to experience anxiety. However, we propose that anxiety can be important for propelling the enactment of interpersonal justice. We test our predictions across three studies (with four samples of full-time managers and employees). Theoretical and practical contributions include enhancing our understanding of who is motivated to enact interpersonal justice, why they are motivated to do so, and how to enhance justice in the workplace. Our findings also challenge the assumption that negative emotions are necessarily dysfunctional for the enactment of interpersonal justice and instead highlight the facilitative role of anxiety in this context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Planning intervention for narrative comprehension deficits requires a thorough understanding of a child's skill in all component domains. The purpose of this study was to examine the validity of three methods of measuring pre-readers' event knowledge, an important predictor of story comprehension. Thirty-eight typically developing children (12 males; 26 females) between the ages of 30–59 months (M = 42.05 SD = 7.62) completed three measures – verbal account, enactment, picture-sequencing – that tapped their knowledge of two different events before listening to stories based on each of those events and completing story comprehension tasks. Scores for verbal account and enactment, but not for picture sequencing, (1) were moderately correlated with comprehension scores for the corresponding story; (2) reflected differential knowledge of the two events, though not in the expected direction; (3) were moderately correlated with one another in the case of each story. In general measures for the same event were more highly correlated with one another than with measures of the other event. Overall, results suggest that verbal account and enactment may yield information useful for clinicians planning intervention for children with narrative comprehension deficits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

People are accurate at classifying emotions from facial expressions but much poorer at determining if such expressions are spontaneously felt or deliberately posed. We explored if the method used by senders to produce an expression influences the decoder's ability to discriminate authenticity, drawing inspiration from two well-known acting techniques: the Stanislavski (internal) and Mimic method (external). We compared spontaneous surprise expressions in response to a jack-in-the-box (genuine condition), to posed displays of senders who either focused on their past affective state (internal condition) or the outward expression (external condition). Although decoders performed better than chance at discriminating the authenticity of all expressions, their accuracy was lower in classifying external surprise compared to internal surprise. Decoders also found it harder to discriminate external surprise from spontaneous surprise and were less confident in their decisions, perceiving these to be similarly intense but less genuine-looking. The findings suggest that senders are capable of voluntarily producing genuine-looking expressions of emotions with minimal effort, especially by mimicking a genuine expression. Implications for research on emotion recognition are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The performance of child roles and childhood on stage requires specific skills and resources. It also depends upon certain acting strategies and training. This article explores productions for children by theatre companies in India, analysing the meaning of these performance abilities, strategies and their relation to chronological age, experience and actors' appearances. It shows how the conceptualisation of childhood and its ontological status can benefit from theatre as a locus of inquiry in which only adults can professionally perform childhood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although giving and receiving affection are beneficial, the benefits often depend on who is providing the affection and in what context. Some affectionate expressions may even reduce well-being. This mixed-method study examined perceptions of unwanted affection and its relationship to stress and anxiety. Participants described a memory of unwanted affection and their reactions to it. Additionally, participants reported on their stress, somatic anxiety, and cognitive anxiety. Thematic analyses revealed that expressions of unwanted affection ranged in verbal (e.g., disclosure rate, saying "I love you") or nonverbal (e.g., hugs, handholding) behaviors and participants responded by explicit rejecting the affection, reduced/stopped contact with the person, and ignoring the affection. Feelings reflecting the perceived negativity of the event were related to higher stress, somatic, and cognitive anxiety. Generally, results indicated that retrospective cognitive anxiety and stress were worse when experiencing unwanted affection from well-known partners (e.g., romantic partners) than from strangers. Conversely, the perceived negativity of the recalled unwanted affectionate event tended to worsen with lesser known partners (e.g., strangers, acquaintances). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article the author examines the effectiveness of role playing exercises in research, social work, counseling and other disciplines. The author notes that role playing exercises are defined as a dynamic process that involves participants assuming specified roles and acting out significant events. He discusses some pervious studies on role playing that found that participants expressed greater confidence in their opinions, that attitudes could be changed and that creativity could be bolstered by role playing.

The article discusses research published in the 2023 issue of the journal "Nurse Education Today" which adopted visual ethnographic methods to explore how compassionate care is taught within the pre-registration nursing curriculum by nursing lecturers. The study identified representations of compassionate care that include reciprocal and relational response, compassionate people, curriculum, constructive feedback and compassionate culture.

Acting out of self-interest is not selfishness. It is quite different. Selfishness is self-interest at the expense of others and clearly unethical. But acting in one's self-interest is good. The injunction to love your neighbor as yourself only makes sense if you love yourself, which means you have a healthy self-interest. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Developmental imbalance models attribute the rise in risk-taking during adolescence to a universal imbalance between rising reward sensitivity and lagging cognitive control. This study tested predictions of an alternate Lifespan Wisdom Model that distinguishes between exploratory/adaptive (e.g., sensation seeking) and maladaptive (e.g., acting-without-thinking, delay discounting) risk-taking propensities and attributes the latter to a sub-set of youth with weak cognitive control. Latent trajectory modeling of six waves of data from 387 adolescents (52% females; spanning average ages of 11-18 years) revealed distinct sub-groups with heterogeneous trajectory patterns for acting-without-thinking and delay-discounting. Only those trajectory groups with weak cognitive control, characterized as “high-increasing” acting-without thinking and “high-stable” delay discounting were predictive of a maladaptive risk-taking outcome, namely substance use disorder. Sensation seeking demonstrated a universal peak, but high levels of sensation seeking were not associated with weakness in cognitive control and were unrelated to substance use disorder, controlling for impulsivity. The findings suggest that maladaptive risk-taking characterized by weak cognitive control over reward-driven impulses is a phenomenon limited to only a sub-set of youth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To measure the extent to which changes within children's families associated with paternal incarceration account for increased externalizing and acting‐out behavior in children with incarcerated fathers. Background: Paternal incarceration has consistently been linked with aggression and acting‐out behaviors in children, yet mechanisms underlying these behavioral problems remain unclear. Identifying these paths is essential for both understanding how incarceration contributes to intergenerational disadvantage and determining how best to mitigate the collateral consequences of incarceration for children. Method: Longitudinal data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study are used with structural equation modeling to test the extent to which the co‐occurring changes to material hardship, family engagement, and caregiver stress mediate the association between paternal incarceration and child behavior at 9 years of age. Results: Two key findings emerged from this analysis. First, changes in family‐level well‐being account for nearly half of the total association between recent paternal incarceration and aggressive or externalizing behavior in children. Second, fathers' weakened family relationships and families' increased material hardship are the strongest and most consistent mechanisms explaining these outcomes. Conclusion: In clarifying pathways, these findings are an important step toward understanding and ultimately targeting the most harmful components of the incarceration experience for children. Implications: A wide array of prevention and intervention efforts exist to mitigate the implications of paternal incarceration for children. These analyses suggest that for child behavioral outcomes, focusing on incarceration‐related changes to material hardship and father engagement occurring within families may be a productive way to disrupt intergenerational disadvantage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Overimitation is defined as the imitation of a series of actions, including causally irrelevant ones. Although previous studies have indicated that children’s overimitation tends to be flexible, there is no research directly comparing overimitation occurrences due to types of irrelevant actions such as the target of irrelevant action or tool use. To identify the boundary of overimitation—that is, the point at which it occurs or not—Study 1 focused on the target of causally irrelevant tool-using actions. Specifically, the study examined the demonstration of irrelevant actions toward a main apparatus, a disconnected apparatus, or an actor’s own body, followed by the demonstration of causally relevant actions, to 2-, 3-, and 5-year-old children ( N = 59). Results indicated that children overimitated actions toward the apparatuses more than they did the actions toward an actor’s body. These results showed that overimitation was affected by the target, the apparatus, or the actor’s own body. Study 2 investigated the effect of tool use toward the disconnected apparatus or an actor’s body based on the findings in Study 1. Concretely, Study 2 added two actions without tool use (e.g., action toward an actor’s own body without tool use and action toward an apparatus without tool use) to Study 1’s actions for comparison. The results of this study showed that children overimitated the action toward the apparatus and the action with the tool more than the action toward an actor’s own body and the action without the tool. Taken together, these findings suggest that two factors are involved in the occurrence of overimitation: the target of the action (i.e., the apparatus) and the use of a tool. The current findings provide suggestions for considering important aspects of overimitation that are worthy of more attention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study investigated adult children’s retrospective accounts of coping with a parent’s infidelity. To understand these experiences, 38 adult children whose parents had engaged in infidelity were interviewed. Results suggested that children placed communicative sanctions on their parent, acted out, and set ground rules for interaction. Last, a segment of participants discussed how communal coping stalled their ability to cope with these events. Combined, these findings highlight the complex nature of the communication surrounding parental infidelity and offer suggestions as to how these findings extend theorizing on topic avoidance. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Tens of thousands of unaccompanied children have migrated to the United States in recent years, particularly from Central America, but also from a range of other countries. These children are fleeing unprecedented levels of violence in their home countries, and often are seeking reunification with parents and family members (i.e., sponsors). Some children are not able to live with a sponsor, and these children are placed in federally funded foster care. Yet, virtually nothing is known about how these children fare during placement. Literature related to domestic child welfare has demonstrated the importance of placement stability to children's future well-being. Using an exploratory design, the purpose of this study is to examine the placement stability of unaccompanied youth while in long term foster care from 2012 to 2015, and how pre-migration, transit, and post-placement risk factors are each associated with placement changes for these children (n = 256). Results show that experiencing violence in home countries, and significantly acting out while in care, were associated with a higher likelihood of changing placements. Migration-related trauma was not significant, but fear of returning to home countries, and suffering trauma unrelated to migration, each was associated with a lower likelihood of changing placements. Children from Northern Triangle countries (El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras) were more likely to have experienced a failed family reunification prior to entering foster care. These results are discussed in light of the need to adopt a global perspective in child welfare that interprets children's behavior in the larger context of pre-migration experiences and culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tthe author talks about the use of nondeliberative activities for social work, and how the author used her experience as a professional actress in social group work. Topics include her education and career as a social worker and how she incorporated acting and dance into social group work, group work literature, and her experiences with a mental illness chemical abuse (MICA) group. Other topics include activities like listening exercises like the telephone game, and "thinking" activities.

The research investigated the psychometric properties and the discriminant validity of the English version of the Questionnaire for the Assessment of Aggressive Driving Behavior (AVIS). Study 1 assessed the psychometric properties of the instrument. Internal consistency ranged from 0.77 to 0.92. Exploratory factor analysis did not support the original five factor structure, Instrumental Aggression and Acting Out being unified in a single factor. Following the confirmatory factor analysis a version with 26 items and 3 factors was obtained. Inter-scale correlations showed that the dimensions of the AVIS are inter-correlated. Study 2 verified the discriminant validity of the English version of the AVIS by testing the relationships between the AVIS dimensions and the DAX (Driving Anger Expression Inventory) dimensions. The results showed good discriminant validity, the dimensions of the two instruments being uncorrelated. In conclusion, the findings contribute to the development of the driving aggression construct by adding new dimensions to it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Co-occurrence of aggression and anxiety might change during adolescence, or stay stable. We studied change and stability of four types of co-occurrence regarding direct aggression and anxiety in adolescence: an anxious and non-aggressive type, an aggressive and non-anxious type, a comorbid aggressive-anxious type and a no problems type. We applied a person-centered approach to assess increases and decreases of these types, and tested various models of intra-individual change of the types: the stability, acting out and failure models. We used data from a five-wave study of 923 early-to-middle and 390 middle-to-late adolescents (48.5 % male), thereby covering the ages of 12-20. We observed accelerated development in the older cohort: adolescents tended to grow faster out of the aggressive types in middle-to-late adolescence than in early-to-middle adolescence. We observed one other group-dependent pattern of heterogeneity in development, namely 'gender differentiation': gender differences in aggression and generalized anxiety became stronger over time. We found support for two perspectives on intra-individual change of the four types, namely the stability and the acting out perspective. The no problems-and to a lesser extent the anxious-type proved to be stable across time. Acting out was found in early-to-middle adolescents, males, and adolescents with poorer-quality friendships. In all three groups, there were substantial transitions from the anxious type to the aggressive type during 4 years (between 20 and 41 %). Remarkably, acting out was most prevalent in subgroups that, generally speaking, are more vulnerable for aggressive behavior, namely early-to-middle adolescents and males. We interpret acting out as the attempt of adolescents to switch from anxiety to instrumental aggression, in order to become more visible and obtain an autonomous position in the adolescent world. Acting out contributed to the explanation of accelerated development and gender differentiation. We also observed an increase of adolescents with no problems. These findings highlight that the co-occurrence of aggression and anxiety changes considerably during adolescence, but also that the anxious and no problems types are quite stable in this period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recently, the fears and violent fantasies of some of the wealthy elite in the United States have become public. In this article, I claim that these fantasies, which emerge from and are linked to neoliberal capitalistic narratives, are signifiers of a systemic and often hidden social reality of class relations. Moreover, they are social-cultural symptoms of unconscious material, dynamics, and communications taking place between classes. I use the concepts of projective identification and enactment to tease out the psychosocial dynamics and communications of these class-based fantasies and consider briefly the implications of this perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Prior research has repeatedly documented how people who are implicitly motivated by power motives may hurt other people's interests. However, people may also enact the implicit power motive ( nPower) in a prosocial manner. Using an Operant Motive Test, the authors differentiated five enactment strategies within nPower and investigated personality antecedents and personal benefits of a prosocial enactment strategy. Two studies found that demand-related action orientation (i.e., ability to self-regulate positive affect) was associated with prosocial enactment of nPower. Furthermore, prosocial enactment of nPower was associated with a higher explicit power motive among future teachers (Study 1) and future psychologists (Study 2). Finally, there was an indirect effect of action orientation through the prosocial enactment of nPower on the explicit power motive (Studies 1 and 2) and, in turn, on well-being (Study 2). Our integration of motivation and self-regulation research (the 'what' and 'how' of goal striving) helps to better understand the dual nature of power motives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we explore the connections between voluntary simplicity (VS), people who are dedicated to consuming less material goods, and Western spirituality. We investigate how voluntary simplifiers connect their practices of simplicity with their concepts and enactments of Western spirituality. First, we propose two categories of voluntary simplifiers identities based on interviews with individuals practicing VS: (1) spiritual voluntary simplifiers (N = 9) and (2) secular voluntary simplifiers (N = 6). Second, we suggest that voluntary simplifiers believe that they are happier and more content than consumers. We conclude by suggesting future research about spirituality and identities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current study investigated the previously unexamined relationship between politics perceptions and employee enactment behavior. Consistent with previous job stress and sense-making research, we hypothesized that individuals reporting low levels of enactment behaviors would be more adversely affected by politics perceptions than those who engaged in high levels of enactment behavior. Results across two samples provided strong support for the hypothesized relationships. Specifically, employees who reported low levels of enactment behavior experienced less satisfaction, less person–environment fit, and reported lower levels of effort when faced with highly political environments. Conversely, levels of satisfaction and person–environment fit perceptions of individuals reporting high levels of enactment behaviors were largely unaffected by highly political contexts. Implications of these findings, strengths and limitations, and avenues for future research are provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Relational theory offers a structure from which to understand and treat the interpersonal and intrapsychic legacy of severe childhood trauma. During the course of treatment, particularly with such traumatized patients, therapists are challenged to tolerate and make meaning of intense feelings in the transference-countertransference matrix. Relational theory's ideas regarding adaptation to and perpetuation of the relational patterns of early life, dissociation of disavowed and intolerable self-states, and the inevitability of mutual enactments provide an organizing framework in which to weather and make bearable the unbearable. In addition, relational theory invites and supports the clinician in the vital task of meeting the patient's vulnerability with his or her own authentic and vulnerable self. The following case material demonstrates the use of relational theory to find and to work at the intimate edge (Ehrenberg in Relational psychoanalysis: innovation and expansion, Analytic Press, Hillsdale, pp 3-28, ) where the impossible becomes possible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The enactment effect is the phenomenon whereby carrying out a simple action phrase results in superior memory compared with listening to the phrase or observing someone else carry out the action. Several early studies suggested that action memory processing is less effortful and strategic compared with traditional verbal processing, a perspective that is still argued today. In the current study, we reexamine a particularly compelling finding in support of this view (Cohen, 1985). Contrary to Cohen's original findings, we demonstrate that additional time to encode an action phrase leads to comparable gains in recall as seen with controls. These data fit well with a different perspective of action memory, namely that the processing of actions is guided by the same strategic, effortful processing as verbal memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a further contribution to dramatology, introduced in this journal in 2009. It focuses on the two basic modes of communication in any dramatic situation: (1) the nonverbal transfer of feelings and emotions, originating in the preverbal period of the love relationship between mother and child, and (2) the interchange of words and thoughts that develops with the acquisition of language. The early nonverbal mode of communication is the basis for proposing to rename Freud's concept of psychic reality “emotional reality.” On this view, emotional reality is seen as the primary fact of psychological life versus thoughts expressed in words as the derivative fact. Developmentally, emotions and ideas become united in complexes combining the emotional coloration of ideas and the ideational content of emotions. From the perspective of methodology, Freud, his followers, and his critics all conflated theories of disorder and theories of treatment. At the beginning of his journey, Freud was dyadic and interpersonal in formulating a unified theory of disorder and a method of treatment. In later years, he formulated monadic and intrapersonal theories of disorder while remaining interpersonal in his method of treatment, contributing to conflicts among the various psychoanalytic schools. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Implicit motive research has shown that implicit motives are important predictors of behavior and well-being. However, little is known about the interrelationship between the different implicit motives measures frequently applied. We aimed to shed light on the convergent validity of three implicit motive measures and wanted to test their assumed statistical independence from three explicit motive measures. Therefore, we administered the picture story exercise (PSE), the operant motive test (OMT), and the multi-motive grid in one and the same study. As explicit measures, we used the personality research form, the motive enactment test, and a goal questionnaire. We investigated the statistical overlaps between all these measures (sample: 202 undergraduate students) and found that the implicit motive measures showed either no or only little correlation with each other. Furthermore, they also partly correlated with explicit motive measures. Supplementary analyses showed that the lack of statistical overlap between PSE and OMT can partly be ascribed to their different scoring systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ecological modernist approaches to climate change are premised upon knowing carbon emissions. I ask how corporate environmental managers know and do carbon, i.e., shape the reality of emissions. I argue that for managers’ practical purposes carbon exists as malleable data. Based on ethnographic fieldwork over a period of 20 months in a Fortune 50 multinational corporation, I show that managers materially-discursively arrange heterogeneous entities – databases, files, paper, words, numbers – in and between office spaces, enabling them to stage emission facts as stable and singular. Employing Annemarie Mol’s work on multiplicity, I show that multiple enactments of carbon hang together not by an antecedent body (CO 2 ) but through ongoing configurations of data practices. Disillusioning promissory economic discourses of ‘internalisation’, I demonstrate: Management is materially premised upon preventing purportedly internalised carbon realities from entering capitalist core processes. This undermines carbon economics’ realist promises. Staging some carbon realities as in control is premised upon managers’ ongoing, reflexive, partial and always situated configuration of, e.g., standards, formal meetings or digital data practices in which humans do carbon-as-data. Carbon practices are materially-discursively aligned, forming a configuration. This configuration effects carbon as a malleable and locally configurable space rather than as a closed fact. Reconstructing managers’ practices as configuring carbon-as-dataspace, I argue, allows grasping adequately the contingency and constraints of managing carbon as a particular material-discursive form of environment. In conclusion I generalise the environmental management office as a space that can be configured to stage, beyond carbon, other global environments as well. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examined the impact of trauma focused grief education on actingout behavior among a sample of 33 bereaved youth. Such an intervention has not previously been evaluated. The Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory was used in a pre- post design to evaluate the effect of trauma focused grief education curriculum among bereaved children and adolescents. Acting-out behavior of bereaved youth declined significantly following the intervention. No predictors of acting-out behavior were found. The results imply that the use of trauma focused grief education is beneficial, both in its outcome for bereaved youth and the possibilities for further research collaborations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]