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Academia Mental Health and Well-Being, 2024
This short communication paper provides a critical analysis of a study conducted by El Ashry et al. (2021) on the impact of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) on auditory hallucinations in patients with Schizophrenia. ACT, a form of contextual cognitive behavioral therapy, aims to improve individuals' relationship with their thoughts and feelings without altering their form or frequency. The study focuses on the six core processes of ACT, which collectively enhance psychological flexibility, crucial for mitigating psychological inflexibility—a root cause of human suffering. The paper emphasizes the role of values in ACT, highlighting how they guide patients with Schizophrenia toward meaningful life directions. It addresses the challenges these patients face, such as experiential avoidance and fusion with hallucinatory voices, which often lead to actions incongruent with their values. The study by El Ashry et al. revealed that patients with Schizophrenia often suffer from psychological inflexibility due to experiential avoidance and fusion, leading to a misalignment with their values. Furthermore, the paper discusses the methodology used in the ACT sessions, including the "choice point model" to enhance self-awareness and metaphorical videos to illustrate the concept of value-driven behavior. The research indicates that recognizing and committing to personal values can significantly impact the treatment and management of Schizophrenia, especially given the social and symptomatic challenges these patients face. The paper concludes by stressing the importance of starting ACT sessions focusing on values to empower patients. It underlines how value clarification and commitment to value-congruent tasks can positively influence patients' responses to their hallucinations and overall quality of life. This approach offers a new perspective on treating Schizophrenia, emphasizing the importance of personal values in managing the condition.
Academia Letters, 2021
Ebook 2022 abrapso ne PSICOLOGIA SOCIAL E LUTA ANTIRRACISTA
Peacebuilding, 2024
It is a common belief, both in theory and in practice, that historical justice, which includes restitution and democratic memory politics, is important for democratic consolidation and peace building after collective traumatic events, such as genocide. In this review essay, I explore recent research that engages with this thesis. This research highlights the importance of the state as well as local substate actors in the interpretation of international norms that are related to historical justice and ‘proper’ remembrance. Both books suggest that standardized approaches to historical justice after genocide are not effective, especially in societies with complicated histories.
1. ¿Cuál es el principal problema que plantea el autor? El principal problema que Tim Brown plantea en el caso es el hecho de que la innovación es una tarea ardua que a la hora de resolverlos se encuentra en un punto de equilibrio entre la lógica y la creatividad, ambas necesarias pero con funciones diferentes. Su punto de partida es que el proceso de pensamiento lógico desempeña un papel esencial cuando hay un producto sobre el que construir, pero que se requiere un pensamiento creativo cuando es necesario generar nuevos conocimientos o abordar los problemas de un modo diferente sobre el producto. El desing thinking se situaría, por tanto, en una posición intermedia que permite conciliar el pensamiento lógico y el pensamiento creativo en el proceso del diseño. Así mismo, el hecho de que la innovación sea una tarea pesada para la empresas se debe a que no aplican el design thinking en todo el proceso de la creación del producto, es decir, algunas empresas dejan el diseño como un paso final, solo para, como se menciona en la lectura, "colocar un lindo envoltorio a la idea", ya que la presentación de un producto vende y hace crecer a una empresa en el mercado, lo cual hace que el producto pase de ser básico con apariencia bonita a uno que sea capaz de ofrecer experiencias, es decir uno funcional y estético. 2. ¿Qué solución plantea el autor? Que el design thinking debe de ser implementado en todo el proceso de la creación o pensamiento de un producto nuevo, ya que esta hace que se vean estéticamente atractivas y, por tanto, más deseables para los consumidores.
VESCOVO DI ALTAMURA-GRAVINA-ACQUAVIVA DELLE FONTI | TAVOLA ROTONDA - GRAVINA IN PUGLIA, 20 MARZO 2004.
The appearance attributes of designed products noted in the literature often reflect what designers themselves perceive in a product design. This present research, however, provides knowledge on how consumers perceive product appearance by identifying appearance attributes that consumers use to distinguish the appearances of durable products. Descriptions of appearance were generated by consumers in a free categorization task. The descriptions were classified as the attributes Modernity, Simplicity and Playfulness. These attributes were confirmed in a separate rating-task performed by a second group of consumers. The attributes proved stable across different groups of consumers indicating that they are universal. Additionally, the attributes were validated across different product categories and are thus generalizable and not product category specific. The appearance attributes identified in this research provide knowledge of what consumers see in durable product appearance. Knowledge of what appearance attributes are perceived by consumers in a product design can help a designer to communicate certain pre-specified meanings in a product.
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