Healing Through Attunement: Adolescent Eating Disorders and Family Dance/Movement Therapy

This thesis addresses the patterns of communication and boundaries within the families of adolescents diagnosed with eating disorders. Using aspects of Attunement, the Kestenberg Movement Profile, and Laban Movement Analysis, dance/movement therapy (DMT) can support the family using a body-based and primarily non-verbal method of treatment. Clinical application of the material is discussed

The Benefits of Existential Art Therapy in the Wake of COVID-19: A Literature Review

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to light many complex and existentially rooted questions that are often difficult for individuals to process. In utilizing art along with a supportive and authentic therapeutic relationship, it can be possible to process these questions to help people both thrive and survive during these unprecedented times. The contents of this critical literature review will be examining the potential benefits of the utilization of existentially oriented art therapy with adults in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Explored within are the concepts of existential art therapy as well as the themes that can culminate in its application with clients. Some of the themes examined include freedom, boredom, alienation, isolation, death/non-being, meaninglessness, and identity as it is correlated to independence. This review will also serve to analyze how COVID-19 has impacted others from a Western perspective and looks at how ultimately it has brought forward these existential issues. It also serves to add to the body of knowledge relational to our global experience of living through the pandemic through the lens of existential philosophies. By doing this, it aims to affirm the place creativity and art making has in processing larger anxieties and themes that have appeared to be more prevalent since the start of COVID 19

Book Review: Balzac’s Cane

Review of Balzac’s Cane by Delphine de Girardin. Peter Lang, 201

Portable School Gardens: Port-A-Plant

The researcher implemented a portable garden guidebook that can be used by school sites in all areas and specifically urban school settings. This allows for all students and teachers to be involved in a garden regardless of the space available at the school site. Provided with resources readily available, the guidebook presents teachers and administration with a useful tool to administer a school garden. The guidebook has been created to provide teachers with information to determine which garden works best for their specific school site. With the portable garden, the cart can be pushed into and out of the classroom so that all students in any settings can gain access to the materials. Included in the guidebook there is curriculum, resources, and assessments, for teachers that are arranged to include interactions between those involved with the garden. In meeting the needs for students the portable garden guidebook allows for multiple opportunities for students to gain access to the curriculum as well as hands on learning options

Da origem da Pneumónica nos Açores, ao contágio arquipelágico

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How Overly Cautious Risk Assessment Methods Overstate Risk from PCBs in Indoor Air

The past use of building materials that contained polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) is prompting public concern and expensive PCB removal projects. Building materials that may contain PCBs include paint, caulk, floor finishes and many other interior and exterior construction components manufactured before 1972. While initial concern about PCBs in buildings has focused on schools, it is likely that PCB-containing materials will also be found in many residential, commercial, and industrial structures. In buildings, the primary route of human exposure is the inhalation of PCBs that volatilize out of building materials. The USEPA has indicated that inhalation of airborne PCBs may pose a significant human exposure pathway in schools. EPA’s approach to PCBs in schools is evolving quickly. Initial estimates of health risk from indoor PCBs were calculated using risk assessment methods and EPA published toxicity factors. Recently, EPA established guidance titled “Public Health Levels for PCBs in Indoor School Air” to assist school systems in remediation efforts. These criteria are intended to be “prudent public health levels that maintain PCB exposures below the \u27reference dose\u27 – the amount of PCB exposure that EPA does not believe will cause harm. This article considers two factors central to the accurate assessment of PCB indoor air risk: 1) the difference in the chemical make up of PCBs in air compared to the chemical make up of the PCBs in the building materials they originated from; and 2) how the variability in certain commercial lots of PCBs (Aroclors) can result in different degrees of toxicity. Each of these factors may act to significantly modify the level of risk associated with the inhalation of PCBs in buildings. At the present time, EPA has not incorporated these factors into its calculation of its Public Health Levels

Os Açores, a 1ª Guerra Mundial e a República Portuguesa no Contexto Internacional

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Stressed and Happy? Investigating the Research between Happiness and Perceived Stress

Developing interventions to increase happiness is a major focus of the emerging field of positive psychology. Common beliefs about the need to reduce stress to obtain happiness suggest that stress management activities should be included in these interventions. However, the research on the relationship between positive and negative affect is equivocal. Theoretically, they are conceptualized as independent dimensions, but research has often found an inverse relationship between happiness and stress. In addition,the research generally attempts to assess stress objectively rather than in terms of the cognitive appraisal process. The current study examines the relationship between perceived stress and happiness among 100 college students to determine if the same inverse relationship exists. Linear correlations between happiness and perceived stress were significant indicating that there was an inverse relationship between these variables. The discussion focuses on several factors that might help to explain the observed relationship

O uso do arduíno em uma mini estação meteorológica: comparação com a estação automática de Caraúbas-RN

As características referentes ao clima e ao solo estão diretamente ligadas a diversas áreas, sendo a principal delas a agricultura, com isto surge a necessidade de medir e prever estas características. Atualmente em algumas regiões ainda há a dificuldade de se implantar instrumentos como estações meteorológicas, muitas vezes pelo seu difícil acesso e custo elevado. Este trabalho traz a proposta de desenvolvimento de uma estação meteorológica projetada utilizando Arduino Uno, possibilitando a colheita de dados de temperatura, umidade. Com auxílio de técnicas de programação em linguagem C, os dados são armazenados e disponibilizados para serem analisados em um computador em tempo real. Foi realizada uma comparação de dados obtidos e custo de estações meteorológicas automáticas e projetadas, onde foi observado uma semelhança entre dados e um ótimo custo benefício, o que indica um bom funcionamento da estação.39 f