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Successful Practice (successful + practice)
Selected AbstractsDiversity of effective treatments of panic attacks: what do they have in common?,DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY, Issue 1 2010Walton T. Roth M.D. Abstract By comparing efficacious psychological therapies of different kinds, inferences about common effective treatment mechanisms can be made. We selected six therapies for review on the basis of the diversity of their theoretical rationales and evidence for superior efficacy: psychoanalytic psychotherapy, hypercapnic breathing training, hypocapnic breathing training, reprocessing with and without eye-movement desensitization, muscle relaxation, and cognitive behavior therapy. The likely common element of all these therapies is that they reduce the immediate expectancy of a panic attack, disrupting the vicious circle of fearing fear. Modifying expectation is usually regarded as a placebo mechanism in psychotherapy, but may be a specific treatment mechanism for panic. The fact that this is seldom the rationale communicated to the patient creates a moral dilemma: Is it ethical for therapists to mislead patients to help them? Pragmatic justification of a successful practice is a way out of this dilemma. Therapies should be evaluated that deal with expectations directly by promoting positive thinking or by fostering non-expectancy. Depression and Anxiety, 2010. Published 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source] Writing like writers in the classroom: free writing and formal constraintENGLISH IN EDUCATION, Issue 3 2007Cliff Yates Abstract This paper considers how ,free writing', derived from the automatic writing of the surrealists, can be used with students in writing poetry in order to emulate the successful practice of established writers. The paper considers how form can be taught, specifically line breaks and stanza breaks, both in relation to free writing and in relation to drafting, and argues that drafting should be considered an extension of the creative act of writing rather than as something which is done afterwards ,to' preexisting work. [source] The five steps toward Awakened LeadershipPERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT, Issue 7 2008Joan F. Marques What is Awakened Leadership (AL)? This article reviews AWAKE, a five step process that can lead to the successful practice of AL as a tool toward human performance improvement. AL is a highly flexible meta-leadership style that integrates all distinctive leadership approaches into one all-encompassing way of living and leading. [source] Organizational Learning and Productivity: State Structure and Foreign Investment in the Rise of the Chinese CorporationMANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION REVIEW, Issue 2 2005Doug Guthrie abstract Over the two and a half decades of economic reform in China, two types of Chinese firms have consistently outperformed their peers. In the 1980s, it was the firms at the lower levels of the industrial hierarchy, the township and village enterprises that were closely monitored by local governments. In the 1990s and beyond, the top performers have been those Chinese firms that have formal relationships with foreign investors. While many studies on the economic reforms in China have focused on the hardening of budget constraints and the transfer of technology from foreign to Chinese firms, I focus here on the stability created by relationships with local government offices and with powerful foreign investors. Where advocates of shock therapy have argued that a rapid transition to market institutions was the best path to building a market economy, I argue that the successful practices of the market are learned gradually over time, and the Chinese firms that are stabilized by attention from local government offices and relationships with foreign investors are well-positioned to successfully navigate China's emerging markets. A quantitative analysis of 81 firms in industrial Shanghai and three case studies help illuminate the mechanisms behind these relationships. [source] | ||||||||||