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Journal articles on the topic "Custodial environments"
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Rawlings, Barbara, and Rex Haigh. "Therapeutic communities and planned environments for serious offenders in English prisons." BJPsych Advances 23, no. 5 (September 2017): 338–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/apt.bp.115.015636.
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SummarySeveral English prisons contain democratic therapeutic communities (TCs) for personality disordered offenders, and addiction TCs for serious substance misusers. This article describes how these are organised and comments on how they are specifically tailored and accredited for use in custodial settings. It also describes ‘psychologically informed planned environments’ (PIPEs), offender pathways for those with personality disorders and psychopathy which provide additional support for psychological treatment. It ends by explaining how ‘enabling environments’ are assessed, since these are now becoming widely adopted in prisons to reverse toxic environments – which affect staff, the prison and the outside world as well as the individual prisoner – and to counter negative learning found in custodial institutions.Learning Objectives• Understand the key components of treatment in democratic and addiction TCs• Understand how TCs can operate in a custodial environment• Appreciate the differences between a planned environment and a psychological treatment programme in a custodial environment
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Farrell, Ann. "Policies for Incarcerated Mothers and their Families in Australian Corrections." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 31, no. 2 (August 1998): 101–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000486589803100201.
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The incarceration of a mother usually brings considerable dislocation to the offending woman's children and family. This paper examines current policies for the inmate mother, for her children and for the caregiver(s) of her children on the outside and argues for reform with respect to these policies. To this end, it reports on the Australian component of a comparative policy study, Incarcerated Mothers and Children: Impact of Prison Environments (IMCIPE), which investigated the impact of the prison environment on incarcerated mothers and their young children (including both mothers whose children live with them in custody and mothers who are separated from their children), in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and England. The paper draws on data from policy analyses; interviews with policy-makers, with inmate mothers, and with custodial and non-custodial staff; and observations within six women's prisons and their respective correctional authorities in the three Australian states. The study found that while inmate mothers need support from “significant others” within and outside the prison to cope with the dual roles of prisoner and mother, the custodial environment with its philosophy of incarceration, its mode of containment and the prison rules and regulations runs counter to such needs.
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Charles, Jade, Sian Lewis, and Leanne Watson. "The effect of segregation on institutional disorder within custodial environments – A Rapid Evidence Assessment." Forensic Update 1, no. 138 (October 2021): 44–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.53841/bpsfu.2021.1.138.44.
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Howard, Paul. "Providing dental care in prisons." Dental Update 46, no. 5 (May 2, 2019): 428–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/denu.2019.46.5.428.
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This paper will summarize some of the clinical and organizational challenges for dentists and dental care professionals who are interested in working in custodial environments. This briefly covers some of the difficulties and pressures that the dental team face in providing dental care within these very specific environments. There are some features unique to this population group that can negatively affect their dental health experiences, related to socio-economic, lifestyle and other factors. In general, prisoners enjoy poorer dental health and mental health than the general population and present a greater degree of learning difficulties than the population at large. This requires additional skills and training for the dental teams treating this group and presents a number of challenges not always found in the provision of routine primary care dentistry. CPD/Clinical Relevance: Although the article describes the provision of care for the prison environment in England, this is mirrored in other parts of the United Kingdom and the same general considerations will apply and be recognized in prisons in other national systems of dental care. Many of the areas covered are relevant independent of the systems in which care is delivered.
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Aslan, Laura. "Doing time on a TC: how effective are drug-free therapeutic communities in prison? A review of the literature." Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities 39, no. 1 (April 9, 2018): 26–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/tc-10-2017-0028.
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Purpose Therapeutic communities (TC’s) are consciously designed, living-learning environments designed to evoke social, psychological and behavioural change. The success of the residential TC model saw these community-led, self-help environments for addicts move into custodial settings and early evidence suggests this transition was effective. The purpose of this paper is to examine the evidence relevant to the effectiveness of prison based, drug-free TCs. Design/methodology/approach In order to establish their true efficiency, particular focus has been placed on studies conducted over the last ten years (2007-2017). Findings To date, the TC remains superior to other forms of drug treatment in reducing recidivism and drug relapse amongst addicts who offend. Originality/value Outcomes of this review highlighted the importance of aftercare in providing transitional support; a fundamental aspect of treatment necessary for success and for maintaining long-term recovery post release.
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Whitley, Deborah, Youjung Lee, and Yanfeng Xu. "The Importance of Social Support Networks on Mental Health Status of Custodial Grandparents." Innovation in Aging 5, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2021): 260. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.1002.
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Abstract This symposium presents a collection of papers that examine the concept of social support and its effect on custodial grandparents’ (CG) mental health state. Each paper explores a different perspective about grandparents’ access to and/or use of social support networks and mental health outcomes; several papers view social support within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nadorff and colleagues explore social support by middle-generation family members and its effects on grandparents’ stress and depressive symptoms. Musil and colleagues report on psychosocial and social support predictors of self-appraised healthcare and financial security by CG during the Covid-19 pandemic. Whitley and Kelley describe current social networks relied upon by a preliminary sample of CG while managing the daily stresses and strains associated with COVID-19 and its restrictive mandates. The final two papers report the use of specialized technology and support services delivered to homebound CG during the COVID-19 pandemic. Lee and colleagues describe a telemental health model using Solution-Focused Brief Therapy to serve socially isolated grandparents experiencing mental health distress as during the pandemic. Mendoza and Park report on program challenges and outcomes of implementing a support service for grandparents living under COVID-19 restrictions. The highlights of the papers will be discussed by Yanfeng Xu and give attention to the ways scholars and practitioners can build upon these works to maximize the mental health outcomes of CG, while managing to live in socially restrictive and challenging environments.
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Gordon, Audrey, and Stephen Wong. "The use of a structured guide to assess proxies of offending behaviours and change in custodial settings." Journal of Forensic Practice 17, no. 2 (May 11, 2015): 83–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jfp-10-2013-0048.
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Purpose – Within controlled environments such as prisons or forensic facilities, strong sanctions and other factors can inhibit the expression of offence-linked behaviours otherwise observable in community settings. For example, institutional restrictions may distort the offender’s habitual expression of aggressive behaviours such that the individual’s aggressive characteristics are less intense or observable. Thus, the influences of controlled settings can make it difficult for staff to capture idiosyncratic evidence of change or lack thereof over time or with treatment. The purpose of this paper is to describe an assessment and measurement framework that can be used to assist treatment and correctional staff collectively focus attention on relevant characteristics and behaviours idiosyncratically linked to offending. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use the terms “offence analogue behaviours (OAB)” to describe proxies of offence behaviours observable in controlled settings and “offence replacement behaviours (ORB)” as the contrasting positive, pro-social skills and strategies that the individual implements to change and manage problem areas linked to aggression and criminality. This paper discusses the application and practical utility of the framework and an associated assessment and measurement tool; the Offence Analogue and Offence Replacement Behaviour Guide (Gordon and Wong, 2009-2013). Findings – The OAB and ORB Guide has shown to be useful by directing the attention of treatment personnel to the here-and-now offence related behaviours displayed by offenders in custodial settings. In the absence of such focused attention, relevant proxy behaviours can often be masked in these highly controlled environments. The Guide is therefore a useful adjunct to identify such behaviours for treatment and for assessing treatment-related changes. Research limitations/implications – The OAB/ORB Guide was developed based on a conceptual framework derived from the empirical literature on correctional treatment, risk assessment, psychological theories and clinical practice. While there has been some positive pilot use of the Guide’s utility and preliminary research, at this point, empirical evidence is still lacking. Practical implications – The OAB/ORB Guide provides quantified and structured guidelines to assess offence proxy and offence replacement behaviours observable day-to-day within controlled environments, such as during custody or supervised release to the community. Originality/value – This guide was developed to assist staff with the identification, documentation and measurement of idiosyncratic negative and positive offence-related proxy behaviours observable across custodial or supervised contexts. Accordingly, the authors suggest that OAB/ORB guide information can be used to evaluate changes in risk over treatment and/or time. Further, the authors describe how this framework may enhance the efficacy of multi-disciplinary treatment and management teams. Two cases are used to illustrate the application of the Guide.
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Bezerra, Vinícius Cabral Accioly, and Diego Andres Salcedo. "Epistemografia interativa no campo da Ciência da Informação." Páginas a&b Arquivos & Bibliotecas 17 (2022): 3–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.21747/21836671/pag17a1.
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Discusses the enhancement of serendipity in the process of searching for information in digital environments in the post-custodial paradigm of Information Science. It results from an exploratory and bibliographic research. As a result, it isfoundedthe possibility and potential of Interactive Epistemography as an ethical and universal practice to represent and organize information items based on the participation of the information retrieval systemuser, both as classifier and user. It focuses on the perspective of informational items classified from people with different worldviews to the detriment of a small portion of scientific authorities. It concludes that the construction of collective and plural knowledge, with the active participation of information researchers, as well as the enhancement of serendipity in the process of searching for information, fits as research in the field of Information Science.
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Vogel, Dominik. "Matching survey responses with anonymity in environments with privacy concerns." International Journal of Public Sector Management 31, no. 7 (October 8, 2018): 742–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijpsm-12-2017-0330.
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Purpose In many cases, public management researchers’ focus lies in phenomena, embedded in a hierarchical context. Conducting surveys and analyzing subsequent data require a way to identify which responses belong to the same entity. This might be, for example, members of the same team or data from different organizational levels. It can be very difficult to collect such data in environments marked by high concerns for anonymity and data privacy. The purpose of this paper is to suggest a procedure for matching survey data without compromising respondents’ anonymity. Design/methodology/approach The paper explains the need for data collection procedures, which preserve anonymity and lays out a process for conducting survey research that allows for responses to be clustered, while preserving participants’ anonymity. Findings Survey research, preserving participants’ anonymity while allowing for responses to be clustered in teams, is possible if researchers cooperate with a custodian, trusted by the participants. The custodian assigns random identifiers to survey entities but does not get access to the data. This way neither the researchers nor custodians are able to identify respondents. This process is described in detail and illustrated with a factious research project. Originality/value Many public management research questions require responses to be clustered in dyads, teams, departments, or organizations. The described procedure makes such research possible in environments with privacy concerns; this is the case with many public administrations.
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Murphy, David, and Hannah Mullens. "Examining the experiences and quality of life of patients with an autism spectrum disorder detained in high secure psychiatric care." Advances in Autism 3, no. 1 (January 3, 2017): 3–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/aia-02-2016-0006.
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Purpose Although individuals with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) represent a small proportion of forensic psychiatric patients as a group they present with specific difficulties and needs. There is also evidence that if detained individuals with an ASD experience particular difficulties within custodial environments as a result of a mismatch between the difficulties associated with their ASD and the environmental demands. The purpose of this paper is to explore the experience of individuals with an ASD admitted to a high secure psychiatric care (HSPC) hospital. Design/methodology/approach Using both a semi-structured interview and a quality of life self-report measure (the Lancashire Quality of Life Profile) the experiences and views of seven patients with an ASD detained in one HSPC hospital were qualitatively explored. Findings Whilst a diverse range of negative and positive aspects of being within HSPC were identified by patients interviewed, those with prison experience thought HSPC was a less stressful environment with more therapeutic opportunities. As a group, patients with an ASD reported a similar or significantly better quality of life in many domains (global, leisure, financial and living situation) compared to other detained forensic patient groups. Practical implications Although most patients with an ASD interviewed reported positive experiences, there are a number of practical improvements that could be made within the hospital to reduce experienced stress levels and perhaps improve therapeutic outcomes. Originality/value Within the context of the Department of Health's autism strategy (2010) and subsequent update think autism (2014), the survey highlights continued ASD awareness training for staff as important. In responding to the risks and needs of individuals with an ASD in HSPC there is further support for the development of an ASD specialist service.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Custodial environments"
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Forlano, Penelope. "Making Custodians: A design anthropology approach to designing emotionally enduring built environment artefacts." Thesis, Curtin University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/68407.
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My doctoral research through creative production takes a Design Anthropology approach to examine the person-object relationship typical of artefacts with long-term attachment and significance. I then speculate on the implications of these findings with the goal of designing enduring new built environment artefacts, surfaces, and furniture. The exegesis explores the context of this enquiry within design theory and practice and its significance, given the environmental impact of high levels of premature disposal and ‘fast’ consumption.
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CALABRIA, CATERINA. "INSEGNAMENTO SOCIALE DELLA CHIESA E RIFLESSIONE PEDAGOGICA. LE NOZIONI DI SVILUPPO UMANO INTEGRALE E CUSTODIA DEL CREATO." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/1671.
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La ricerca concerne l’attualità del dibattito sulle tematiche educativo-ambientali in connessione con la rilevanza delle sollecitazioni euristiche provenienti dall'insegnamento sociale in riferimento alla pastorale e alla teologia della creazione.
L'obiettivo generale è mostrare la pertinenza del concetto di sviluppo umano integrale con la riflessione pedagogica, sondare le condizioni di dialogo tra pedagogia dell’ambiente e dottrina sociale della Chiesa, individua prospettive teoretiche e approfondisce alcuni emblematici studi di caso.
La disamina interpella i valori della progettazione educativa sostenibile in relazione a categorie quali solidarietà, sussidiarietà, sobrietà e fraternità.The research pertains to current debate on the educational-environmental themes in connection with the relevance of the heuristic solicitude, coming from social teaching in reference to pastoral and theology of creation. The general purpose is to show the pertinence to integral human development with pedagogical thinking, to explore the conditions for dialogue between environmental pedagogy and the social doctrine of the church, identifies theoretical perspectives and analysis some case study. The examination interpellates the values of educational planning sustainable in relation to categories such as solidarity, subsidiarity, sobriety and fraternity.
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Musker, Michael. "Co-morbidity of post-traumatic stress and related disorders in forensic mental health." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/83218.
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This study examines the South Australian Forensic Mental Health population in the context of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and other comorbid disorders such as illicit substance use, depression, and childhood trauma. A cohort of 39 forensic patients were interviewed using many internationally recognised tools such as the Clinician Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS), the PTSD Checklist (PCL), the Centre for Epidemiological Studies on Depression (CES-D), and many others. There are 23 research tools in total and each one is described in detail, describing cut-off scores and how they are used in practice. The results showed that patients identified on average 8 major stressful events; 33% (n=13) of patients had PTSD and 21% (n=8) severe PTSD. Most patients had comorbid symptoms with 90% (n=35) having tried drugs, and 72% (n=28) had taken drugs more than 100 times. A high number of patients actively sought help prior to committing their offence 44% (n=17). The thesis provides the reader with some current and historical information about the concept of PTSD; how it developed in the literature; and it’s clinical history. Further to this it relates Forensic Mental Health issues such as homicide, acts of harm, and prison health. The author explores the role of crime types and how these relate to trauma, for example killing strangers, or killing a family member, or perhaps one of the most traumatic of events; killing your own child. Statistically the most common method of harming others is using knives, and the act of stabbing someone as part of a traumatising event from the perpetrator’s perspective is explored. The ethical issues; patient participation; interviews and data collection method are described to enable the reader to consider the same process for future studies. Then a descriptive analysis of the data is provided for each tool, listing the data in two formats; as it was collected by the tool; then in a sorted table to highlight the most frequently selected answers by the cohort. Issues of interest and notable data differences are discussed after each tool is presented. A series of case studies are provided to bring the data to life, providing more detailed information about five selected patients. A brief de-identified description of the offence, the patient’s experiences and their answers to the interview questions are woven into a case study format. The author provides some phenomenological viewpoints from issues raised and looks at some individualised risk issues that are indicated by each case. One particular issue that was of note across many cases was how memory of the offence is affected and this is discussed as a specific topic. Finally, there is a discussion about the author’s perspective of the research. Of particular interest is how we can use these research tools for risk assessment, to reduce future risk and prepare the patient for rehabilitation into the community. Suggestions are made about offence work that should be completed prior to releasing patients into the community, and these recommendations are based on the attitudes, and patient’s experiences discussed in over 250 hours of interviews across 350 research sessions. This is rounded off with a conclusion about some of the interesting points raised by this piece of research. A comprehensive discussion and explanation of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (often shortened to PTSD) can be read in the Literature Review (section 2.2 Clinical History and Definition of PTSD).Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Population Health, 2013
Books on the topic "Custodial environments"
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United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Facilities Management and Services Division. Custodial officer guide. [Washington, D.C.]: The Division, 1999.
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William, Thomas. Custodial safety and exercises for the work environment. Oakland, Calif: Marsh-Wentworth Pub. Co., 1993.
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Scotland. Scottish Executive. Agriculture and Environment Working Group. Custodians of change: Report of Agriculture and Environment Working Group. Edinburgh: Stationery Office, 2002.
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M, Low Alaine, and Tremayne Soraya, eds. Sacred custodians of the earth?: Women, spirituality and the environment. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001.
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Gregory, Maddox, Giblin James Leonard, and Kimambo Isaria N, eds. Custodians of the land: Ecology & culture in the history of Tanzania. London: James Curry, 1996.
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Bonta, James, and J. S. Wormith. Adult Offender Assessment and Classification in Custodial Settings. Edited by John Wooldredge and Paula Smith. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199948154.013.19.
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This chapter describes the developments that have occurred over the past three decades in the area of offender assessment and classification, including discussion of why offender classification is so vital to correctional agencies. The importance of using actuarial approaches to predicting the risk of reoffending and danger to others is discussed, as well as the inclusion of static and dynamic factors on composite measures of offender risk and need. Particular attention is paid to the application of the principles of Risk, Need, and Responsivity (RNR) to offender assessment, classification, and subsequent work with the offender, often described as “offender case management.” How prison environments (including inmate and officer subcultures) can potentially interfere with the accuracy of risk and needs assessments is also debated.
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Csete, Joanne, Rick Lines, and Ralf Jürgens. Drug Use and Prison. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199374847.003.0012.
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This chapter discusses protections of the health-related rights of prisoners that are encoded in widely ratified human rights instruments and in guidelines for which there is broad international consensus. People who use drugs while detained or incarcerated, however, rarely enjoy the standard of care to which they are entitled, which includes HIV prevention activities and other services that are available in the community. In some countries, people accused of minor drug infractions may be detained for long periods in centers that purport to provide treatment for drug dependence but are effectively labor camps that do not provide health care and where “patients” face physical abuse and denial of due process. There is an urgent need to establish and scale up health services for people who use drugs in custodial environments, with independent monitoring of the existence and quality of care and measures to ensure that health professionals working with people who use drugs in prison and pre-trial detention can work without interference. More important, however, drug dependence and minor drug infractions that often accompany it should be managed through health and social services rather than criminal sanctions. Reducing the use of prison and pretrial detention as a response to drug use and minor possession may be the most important measure for respecting, protecting and fulfilling the health-related rights of people who use drugs. Compulsory “treatment” centers should be closed in favor of humane care provided in the community.
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(Editor), Alaine M. Low, and Soraya Tremayne (Editor), eds. Sacred Custodians of the Earth?: Women, Spirituality and the Environment. Berghahn Books, 2002.
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(Editor), Alaine M. Low, and Soraya Tremayne (Editor), eds. Sacred Custodians of the Earth: Women, Spirituality and the Environment. Berghahn Books, 2002.
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Low, Alaine, and Soraya Tremayne. Women As Sacred Custodians of the Earth?: Women, Spirituality and the Environment. Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2001.
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O'Rourke, Rachel, Annie Taylor, and Kevin Leggett. "Establishing enabling environment principles with young adult males in a custodial setting." In Transforming environments and rehabilitation, 271–88. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2018. | Series: Issues in forensic psychology; 7: Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315660813-16.
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Stockdale, Kelly J., Michelle Addison, and Georgia Ramm. "Navigating Custodial Environments: Novel Psychoactive Substance Users Experiences of Stigma." In Drugs, Identity and Stigma, 147–72. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98286-7_7.
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Rudebeck, Thérèse. "Understanding the Enabling Environment." In Corporations as Custodians of the Public Good?, 21–55. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13225-5_2.
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Freebody, Jane. "From Alienism to Psychiatry." In Mental Health in Historical Perspective, 99–131. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13105-9_3.
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AbstractFreebody demonstrates how the divergent pathways to professionalisation taken by French and English psychiatry generated different views regarding the causation and treatment of mental disorders, and the therapeutic value attributed to work and other occupations. French psychiatry’s close links to neurology led to an adherence to a physiological interpretation of mental disorder, and to the persistence of a custodial model of care, or “alienism”, in the provinces, and to a preference for biological methods of treatment in the capital. After their experiences of treating “shell shock” during World War I, English psychiatrists (and a small group of Parisian psychiatrists) began to see the causes of mental disorder holistically, the result of psychological, social or environmental factors, or a combination of these and physiological factors. For these psychiatrists, occupation and psychotherapy became useful tools in the active treatment of curable patients, not simply the preserve of calm, chronic, incurable and convalescent patients.
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Berrios, German E. "Historical and conceptual aspects." In Oxford Textbook of Inpatient Psychiatry, edited by Alvaro Barrera, Caroline Attard, and Rob Chaplin, 3–10. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198794257.003.0001.
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‘Inpatient treatment’ in psychiatry names a cluster of therapeutic activities whose meaning and justification have changed throughout history. Currently, an emphasis on the success of neurobiological treatment tends to give the impression that the spaces of care themselves are little more than short-term containers. This would be wrong. Best considered as dynamic environments, spaces of care have always had a profound effect on the bodies and minds of their occupants. Whether such affects have been negative or positive has depended upon the sociopolitical, economic, and theoretical factors governing their organization. To understand and improve these spaces of care it is important to realize that they sit at the intersection of various dimensions: container versus dynamic, physical versus social, custodial versus interventionistic, intramural versus extramural, institutional versus rehabilitatory, and communitarian versus societal. Throughout the centuries, a variety of therapeutic interventions have been offered within these spaces. Because their nature, ethics, and rationale have repeatedly changed, it may be more sensible to consider the current state of inpatient psychiatry not as the final stage in the evolution of the ‘science of psychiatry’ but as a mere moment in the evolution of a never-ending interpretative process about the meaning of madness.
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Kamali, Mohammad Hashim. "Environmental Imbalance." In The Middle Path of Moderation in Islam. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190226831.003.0015.
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This chapter begins with a situational analysis of the severity and scale of the environmental crisis humanity is facing, and a review also of the factors accountable for it. A review of the Islamic scriptural guidelines on the subject shows that environmental care is an integral part of the Qur’anic conception of the vicegerency (khilafah) of man in the earth, with the responsibility to act as trustee and custodian of the earth, its inhabitants, and its resources. The Islamic scriptural data on environmental care construct and unfold an eco-theology that can make a distinctive contribution to the contemporary understanding of the crisis.
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Ranger, Terence. "6. Priestesses and Environment in Zimbabwe." In Women as Sacred Custodians of the Earth?, 95–106. Berghahn Books, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781785330599-008.
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Aide, Michael, Indi Braden, and Christine Aide. "Integrating Ecological Site Descriptions with Soil Morphology to Optimize Forest Management: Three Missouri Case Studies." In Environmental Management [Working Title]. IntechOpen, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.97251.
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Academics and University Extension personnel have experience with soil mapping and providing soil suitability interpretations; however, a more efficient information conveyance to land custodians is desired to support informative land management applications. In the USA each state, in concert with the United States Department of Agriculture, has embarked on developing an online format linking soil survey with ecological site descriptions to provide information for forest and rangeland management to encourage soil protection - health and optimizing ecological services on individual land parcels. In this Missouri-based manuscript, we discuss three cases where soils and their associated ecological site descriptions provide land custodians information concerning their logical reference state vegetation community and detail land management decisions that transform the reference vegetation community to a different vegetation community. With each case, landscapes and their associated vegetations communities are potentially partitioned by soil, physiography, hydrology, and other attributes.
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López-Rodríguez, Fausto. "Mangrove in Ecuador: Conservation and Management Strategies." In Coastal Environments. IntechOpen, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.95572.
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In Ecuador, 100% of the mangroves are protected through different mechanisms: protected areas, community mangrove concessions, and protective forests. However, there is still deforestation of the mangroves, even in protected areas, which is caused mainly by the construction/expansion of shrimp pools. Shrimp is currently Ecuador’s first non-oil export product. The Sustainable Use and Mangrove Custody Agreements are very important because they cover an area almost similar to that of protected areas. This mechanism is effective because it allows the sustainable extraction of resources from the mangrove, but forces the “custodians” to protect this ecosystem. This chapter includes a case study on the management of the “mangrove concessions” of the province of El Oro, southern Ecuador, in which the management effectiveness of these areas is analyzed. We found that despite the limited resources that these mangrove concessions have, the level of management is “satisfactory”, which means that most of the management objectives are met. However, these areas should receive more support, both from the state and private organizations, as they conserve more than 40% of Ecuador’s mangrove.
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Kingdon, Elena. "3. Sacred Landscapes: Religion and the Natural Environment in the Classical World." In Women as Sacred Custodians of the Earth?, 45–62. Berghahn Books, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781785330599-005.
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Matei, Carmen. "Reflection on Social Entrepreneurship in the Penitentiary Environment." In World Lumen Congress 2021, May 26-30, 2021, Iasi, Romania. LUMEN Publishing House, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.18662/wlc2021/40.
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Entrepreneurship can be a solution to the dilemma: “Labour is a form of education, a way of ensuring existence, gaining autonomy, a physical and mental training, a way of oppression, a form of occupational therapy, all together or …none of the variants listed?” Depending on the reference field and the perspectives offered by different specializations, work is defined as a physical or intellectual action, which develop material and emotional satisfactions. Especially in closed environments, it is practiced as a form of occupational therapy (ergotherapy), because it ensures a sense of usefulness, helping to maintain somato-psycho-emotional health. The schoolmasters highlight the formative values of work for students: evaluate the native skills and abilities, lead to the discovery of new unknown interests and talents, support the student in his perfection by inoculating the ideas of responsibility, order, discipline, etc. Before 1989, in detention environment labour was mandatory, but now, labour is an optional right. The two perspectives are diametrically opposed, and the issue was addressed only from the perspective of reduced job supply, both during detention and after release. There are few publications with strict reference to this topic. In general, the social reintegration of post-execution prisoners is addressed. At this moment, the main problem highlighted is integration/reintegration on the labour market, as the main facilitating step of maintaining the accumulations during the detention period and a primary factor for avoiding the recurrence. However, those who have served a custodial sentence do not have a "ticket" to the labour market. To be known and solved, the situation should be addressed continuously: prevention before detention, education/re-education/training / retraining during detention and placement on the labor market / retraining immediately after release.
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Baird, Robert D., and William F. Newberry. "Financial Risks of Post-Closure Custodial Care for the Barnwell Radioactive Waste Disposal Facility." In ASME 2009 12th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2009-16155.
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This paper reports evaluations of the adequacy of the Barnwell Extended Care Fund in light of identified risks, with the conclusion that the fund is sufficient to cover the costs and uncertainties associated with planned post-closure care of the Barnwell, South Carolina low-level radioactive waste disposal facility. It reviews background information pertinent to the facility’s post-closure monitoring and maintenance and describes financial responsibility for post-closure activities. It identifies and briefly characterizes the activities planned to be conducted following facility closure and presents the mid-range estimate of planned post-closure costs. The paper identifies and quantifies sources of uncertainty in activities and costs planned for post-closure care and presents 50-, 80-, and 95-percent confidence levels of planned costs. The fund is currently sufficient to cover some but not all of the costs that might be incurred as a result of unplanned events. The paper identifies, characterizes, and quantifies unplanned events, possible consequences, and probabilities of occurrence. The paper presents costs that might be incurred in responding to the unplanned initiating events and identifies levels of confidence that the fund is adequate to cover such costs.
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Squassina, Angela. "FROM INTANGIBLE TO TANGIBLE Artisan Skills and Traditional Crafts for Preserving Venice’s Built Heritage." In HERITAGE2022 International Conference on Vernacular Heritage: Culture, People and Sustainability. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica de València, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/heritage2022.2022.15716.
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Venice can be regarded as a test bed for any preservation strategy. From its very origins, the city has always had to withstand hostile environmental conditions, such as unstable soil, overflowing tides, and rising damp. Hence traditional materials and techniques are the result of a thousand-year-old selection aimed at improving their durability. Since the end of the nineteenth century, however, historical surfaces have been progressively replaced by new short-lasting plasters, following the trend of systematic refurbishment meant to maximize economic output with disregard for good practices. As tourism became the driving force of a social, cultural, and architectural transformation, a sharp decrease in local population and craftsmanship has caused the loss of traditional know-how, leading to irreversible decline and low-quality interventions. All this makes it necessary to reconsider the use of traditional materials and building skills, trusting, once again, in the Venetian craftsmen who are the repositories of local material culture and in the intangible know-how that can be crucial in protecting the city’s tangible built heritage. Joint efforts between the Iuav and local craftsmen are now underway in this regard. This synergy is making it possible to readdress an operational approach in which preservation is understood as the broadest possible care-for practice capable of providing continuous maintenance and control over architectural variances. Urgent too is the need to transfer traditional know-how from the elder custodians to the younger generations who will have the cultural and operational task of safeguarding Venice’s future. Finally, fostering traditional good practices may also help develop local, cost-effective, site-specific efforts capable of promoting positive economic-and-social reversion. Reintroducing traditional high-quality materials and artisan skills, together with controlled, compatible innovation, should be regarded as a sort of living idea of tradition, connecting past and future in protecting Venice’s material authenticity – its main tangible resource and a specific requisite for a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Burr, Alexa S., Colin M. Frazier, and S. David Toth. "API Pipeline Safety Management System PSMS Third-Party Assessment Program: A Valuable Tool to Help Industry Implement PSMS." In Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference. SPE, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/207544-ms.
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Abstract The American Petroleum Institute (API) represents all segments of the natural gas and oil industry, aiming to accelerate safety and environmental progress across operations while meeting global demand for affordable, reliable, and cleaner energy. Through API and in partnership with the U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), state pipeline regulators, and other interested stakeholders, pipeline operators developed API Recommended Practice (RP) 1173: Pipeline Safety Management Systems. API RP 1173 users understand how to systematically manage pipeline safety and continuously measure progress to improve overall pipeline safety performance. The core principle of API RP 1173 is the "Plan-Do-Check-Act" cycle. It requires the operator to determine the goals, objectives, and targets needed to be undertaken, complete those initiatives, and periodically review the Pipeline Safety Management System (PSMS) on an operator's determined cycle or at a minimum of a three-year cycle. API RP 1173 and the Pipeline SMS Maturity Model and Tools are primary resources to support API Energy Excellence® implementation. API Energy Excellence (launched in 2021) is another critical API program in which all API members commit to enhance the integrity of operations across the industry by applying standards, implementing workforce training programs, and participating in performance initiatives. Ultimately, these conditions drive the industry towards its zero-incident goal by ensuring that the PSMS's various components are regularly reviewed and continually evolving. To that point and as part of the industry's ongoing commitment to continuous pipeline safety improvements, API, in collaboration with industry partners, developed a not-for-profit Pipeline SMS Assessment Program in 2019 and fully launched the offering in January 2020. Unlike most Pipeline Safety or SMS assessments, the API Third-Party Assessment Program utilizes a diverse set of assessors with multiple affiliations, ranging from traditional SMS firms to retired industry executives who wish to give back to the industry by sharing their experience with others. API has conducted many assessments to date, and the benchmarking from these assessments helps operators gauge how their implementation is relative to their peers. Also, because API is the custodian of RP 1173, learnings from these assessments can naturally be fed back into the standards development process to ensure the next version of RP 1173 is an even better Plan-Do-Check-Act Process. The API Pipeline SMS Assessment (PSMS Assessment) program gives the operator access to the most experienced and knowledgeable assessors. It provides the operator with the opportunity to learn notable practices utilized across the pipeline industry. In 2021 and beyond, API looks forward to taking the assessment program worldwide, increasing industry lessons learned, cataloging good practices, looking for opportunities to increase effectiveness, and giving industry valuable benchmarking, all aimed at our shared goal of zero incidents