Inspection of Social Work in Mental Health Services

Inspection of Social Work in Mental Health Services - Overview Report and Summary (June 2004)

Registration & Inspection Units 2003 (pdf 620 kb)

Summary of Statistical Results

Secure Care: An Inspection of Secure Accommodation at Shamrock House and Linden House (PDF 300 KB)

Secure Care: An Inspection of Secure Accommodation at Shamrock House and Linden House

Registration & Inspection Units 2002 (pdf 308 kb)

Summary of Statistical Results

Registration & Inspection Units 2001 (pdf 332 kb)

Summary of Statistical Results

Registration & Inspection Units 2000 (pdf 428 kb)

Summary of Statistical Results

Evaluation of an Inspection Model: Homes are for Living in (1991)

Evaluation of an Inspection Model: Homes are for Living in (1991)

The cognitive errors and coping patterns of child molesters as assessed by external observers: a pilot study

Cognitive errors (CE) and coping strategies (CS) are the focus of most cognitive-behavioral treatments for incarcerated child molesters. Several studies have reported differences in CEs and CSs between child molesters and controls. However, the vast majority of these studies assessed cognitive errors and coping using questionnaires, which are known to present a number of important limitations. This pilot study aimed to compare the CEs and CSs of N = 17 incarcerated child abusers and N = 12 controls using observer-rated methods, namely the Cognitive Error Rating Scale (CERS; Drapeau et al., 2005) and the Coping Action Pattern Rating Scale (CAPRS; Perry, Drapeau, & Dunkley, 2005). Results showed that child molesters presented more cognitive errors, in particular positive selective abstraction, and lower coping functioning, such as escape strategies. Treatment and research implications, including the use of observer-rated methods, are discussed.

Change in cognitive errors and coping over the course of brief psychodynamic intervention.

OBJECTIVE: Cognitive change over the course of psychodynamic psychotherapy has been postulated by several models, but has rarely been studied. Based on the adaptive skills model (Badgio, Halperin, & Barber, 1999), it is reasonable to expect that very brief dynamic psychotherapy may be associated with change in coping patterns and cognitive errors (also known as cognitive distortions) y. METHOD: N = 50 outpatients presenting with various psychiatric disorders and undergoing 4 sessions of Brief Psychodynamic Intervention (BPI; Despland, Drapeau, & de Roten, 2005; Despland, Michel, & de Roten, 2010) were included in this naturalistic study (mean age: 31 years; 56% female; all Caucasian). Cognitive errors and coping strategies were assessed using the Cognitive Errors Rating Scale (Drapeau et al., 2008) and Coping Patterns Rating Scale (Perry et al., 2005). These observer rated methods were applied to the verbatim transcriptions of all 4 therapy sessions completed by each patient. RESULTS: Results indicate change in both cognitive errors and coping patterns over the course of BPI, including an increase in the Overall Coping Functioning and a decrease in unhelpful coping processes, such as isolation, which reflects a shift in participant appraisal towards stress appraised as a challenge at the end of treatment. These changes predicted symptom change at the end of treatment. While cognitive errors also changed over the course of BPI, no predictive effect was found with regard to symptom change. CONCLUSIONS: These results are interpreted within the framework of common change principles in psychotherapy. Implications and future research are discussed.

Dix erreurs a ne pas commettre lors de la prise en charge d'une prothèse articulaire infectée en orthopédie [Ten errors to avoid while dealing with infected total joint arthroplasties].

Infections after total joint arthroplasty are rare but come with severe consequences. Timely, adequate and standardized treatment beginning at the onset of symptoms will have a major impact on the handling of this dreaded complication. In absences of clear guidelines, errors are often committed, with occasionally severe consequences for the patient. In this article, the 10 most frequent errors starting with diagnostics till antibiotic and surgical treatment will be discussed.

Mission control system for dam inspection with an AUV

This paper presents a complete control architecture that has been designed to fulfill predefined missions with an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). The control architecture has three levels of control: mission level, task level and vehicle level. The novelty of the work resides in the mission level, which is built with a Petri network that defines the sequence of tasks that are executed depending on the unpredictable situations that may occur. The task control system is composed of a set of active behaviours and a coordinator that selects the most appropriate vehicle action at each moment. The paper focuses on the design of the mission controller and its interaction with the task controller. Simulations, inspired on an industrial underwater inspection of a dam grate, show the effectiveness of the control architecture

Estratègies i errors en la resolució de problemes d'extrems per mètodes elementals

Aquesta investigació s’engloba dins del camp de la resolució de problemes en educació matemàtica i se centra en estudiar de quina manera els alumnes de primer curs de Batxillerat de dos instituts públics de Catalunya resolen alguns problemes d’extrems per mètodes elementals, és a dir, sense utilitzar les tècniques del càlcul diferencial. Tanmateix, s’estudia el punt de partida d’aquests alumnes davant dels problemes de màxims i mínims i es detecten algunes estratègies i diversos errors que cometen a l’hora de resoldre’ls. L’instrument de recollida de dades és un qüestionari individual que combina problemes d’extrems de resposta tancada amb altres problemes de resposta oberta. Es realitza una anàlisi inductiva – deductiva de les dades, la qual permet determinar que una part important dels participants en la recerca confonen les relacions entre l’àrea i el volum d’algunes figures geomètriques. A més, la majoria dels alumnes d’aquesta investigació resolen els problemes d’extrems plantejats fent ús de l’estratègia de conjecturar. Finalment, es detecta que diverses respostes dels participants presenten errors causats per l’ús de teoremes i/o de definicions matemàtiques equivocades. Aquest és el cas d’una aplicació errònia del teorema de Pitàgores, la confusió del perímetre d’un quadrat amb la longitud del seu costat i la determinació incorrecta de l’altura de diversos paral·lelograms.