Wang, Bill B.; Wan, Thomas T. H.; Burke, Darrell E.; Bazzoli, Gloria J.; Lin, Blossom Y. J.
Objectives: To study the number of health information systems (HISs), applicable to administrative, clinical, and executive decision support functionalities, adopted by acute care hospitals and to examine how hospital market, organizational, and financial factors influence HIS adoption.
Methods: A cross-sectional analysis was performed with 1441 hospitals selected from metropolitan statistical areas in the United States. Multiple data sources were merged. Six hypotheses were empirically tested by multiple regression analysis.
Results: HIS adoption was influenced by the hospital market, organizational, and financial factors. Larger, system-affiliated, and for-profit hospitals with more preferred provider organization contracts are more likely to adopt managerial information systems than their counterparts. Operating revenue is positively associated with HIS adoption.
Conclusion: The study concludes that hospital organizational and financial factors influence on hospitals' strategic adoption of clinical, administrative, and managerial information systems.
Bill B. Wang, PhD, Department of Medical Research and Public Health, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan. E-mail: billwang@ndmctsgh.edu.tw.
Thomas T. H. Wan, PhD, MHS, is Professor and Director, Public Affairs Doctoral Program, College of Health and Public Affairs, University of Central Florida, Orlando. E-mail: twan@mail.ucf.edu.
Darrell E. Burke, PhD, School of Information Studies, Florida State University, Tallahassee. E-mail: dburke@lis.fsu.edu.
Gloria J. Bazzoli, PhD, Department of Health Administration, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond. E-mail: gbazzoli@vcu.edu.
Blossom Y. J. Lin, PhD, Department of Health Service Administration, Taichung, Taiwan. E-mail: lwh6789@ms32.hinet.net.
Health Care Management Review30(1):44-51, January-March 2005.


"You want to be where everybody knows your name." That is a line in the chorus of the theme song from the long-running TV show "Cheers," a show about a fictional Boston tavern and its regular customers. "Cheers" was patterned after Boston's Bull and Finch Pub, an actual tavern that opened for business in 1969 and a place that Boston Magazine once dubbed, "the best bar in Boston." Whether is was, indeed, the best in Boston is debatable but, over the years, it certainly became a Boston Institution.
Iconic bars, pubs and taverns are a part of the culture of almost every city in every country in the world. There's just something about a place whose history is tied to a city. The Old Ebbitt Grill, the Sip and Dip Lounge, the Buena Vista, the Stage Door, the Stone Pony, Wolski's Tavern and Big Nose Kate's, the list seems endless.
You might, at this point, be pondering your candidate for Atlanta's iconic watering hole. Let me save you the trouble. On almost everyone's list of bars that have become institutions in Atlanta you'll find Manuel's Tavern, and usually at the top of those lists.
Manuel's, at the corner of North Avenue and North Highland, has been in its location since 1956 and it is as iconic an institution in Atlanta as it gets. A hybrid where bars are concerned, the stock-in-trade of Manuel's is conversation. That tone was set by Manuel's co-owner and founder, Manuel Maloof.
As you would imagine and expect, along with being an iconic institution, such establishments carry in their wake a repertoire of stories and Manuel's is no exception. We share one of those in this week's Stories of Atlanta.


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Video Game Review: Double Dragon II: The Revenge (Arcade)
October 8, 2019 by Talking Pulp	in Reviews, Video Game Review and tagged action, adventure, arcade, beat'em up, crime, Double Dragon, fighting, martial arts, review, side scroller, video game
The Double Dragon games were a massive part of my childhood. At least the parts that were spent at the video arcade or playing the original Nintendo.
My fondest memories were of the original game and Super Nintendo's Super Double Dragon. However, when this game first came out, I was ecstatic that my favorite beat'em up side scroller of the time was getting a sequel.
Sadly, this one disappointed, even if I spent a lot of time trying to convince myself it was awesome.
My biggest gripe with the game is how they altered the controls. How you attack depends on how you are facing the enemy, which made attacks from multiple sides a pretty infuriating experience. I could play this for hours and my brain still couldn't adapt to the bizarre and terrible change.
Playing this now, I turned it off about two-thirds of the way through because even on MAME, where I can alter the controls to my liking, I still couldn't get the game to work in a fluid and fun way. I was bogged down by the shitty combat system.
Also, the enemies in this game just seem a lot more annoying, which is only compounded by the awful controls.
On top of that, this feels more like a rehash of the first game with shittier and more generic level design. Where the first game inspired imagination, this one just felt like one of the dozens of games that ripped off Double Dragon. This really added nothing good to the game series and in fact, made it worse.
However, the Nintendo version of the game is much better with some pretty good level design and additions. Sadly, it's still got these shitty controls though.
Pairs well with: the other Double Dragon games, as well as other side scrolling beat'em ups from the era.
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Peer Support Fife started in January 2008, promoting peer support and peer led alternatives in mental health. In response to need we progressed to promoting and supporting survivor, user and carer participation and leadership in service design and delivery. Lack of funding support led to the organisation ceasing active participation in November 2012. Our website continues as a news resource and archive.
Chrys Muirhead was invited by the South London and Maudsley (SLaM) NHS Foundation Trust's Peer Led Recovery Project to be keynote speaker - expert from out of town - at their Peer-Led Recovery Project event 'Peer Support: How do we make it part and parcel of all our mental health services?'. It was held on 18 July 2013 in the new Maudsley Ortus Learning Centre, an impressive building and useful resource. The debate and discussion included a peer support learning network proposal.
'It began with Peer Support and now I'm a Writer, Activist and Campaigner' was the presentation title, although I diverted from the script at points and went over time (apologies Penelope). There were over 100 peers at the lunch and discussions. It was good to catch up with various folks, including some who had attended our Peer Support Fife Sharp Edge event. I'd flown down and back on the day, catching the train to Denmark Hill and walking through the Maudsley Hospital grounds, in a heatwave. Managed to grab a tea break in the morning at St Paul's, walking in the shade from Farringdon station via Smithfield Market, getting lost on the way.
Other speakers were Simon Rayner, head of Pathway at SLaM who'd organised the trip of 11 SLaM folk to Fife in 2011, and Gabrielle Richards, head of OT and lead for social inclusion, who spoke about the SLaM Recovery College.
Here is the plan I devised for redesigning the inside of Lomond Ward, Stratheden, so that female patients could be separate from male patients in their sleeping areas, and keep some degree of privacy.
I also proposed more activity rooms for patients and areas for psychological therapies, WRAP, Peer Support and groupwork."
"I have attached a rough plan of proposed changes to Lomond Ward that will improve the female patient experience and make the ward safer for them. And thereby have a positive impact on all patients. I believe that if the female patients are looked after well then everyone will be better off. I say this as a former Lomond patient, feeling very unsafe in the end dormitory overlooked by males in single rooms. I also speak from the experience of a carer who has visited the ward on many occasions over a 17yr period, since 1995, when my oldest son was an inpatient.
I have also proposed changing other rooms, to make more space for patients and staff to interact with each other, building relationships and promoting recovery. As a member of the new Fife patient safety group I wanted to make a positive, initial contribution.
"The government is considering a ban on the use of face-down restraint in English mental health hospitals. The move follows figures which show the controversial technique being used hundreds of times a year in some trusts - a level described by a health minister as "shocking" and apparently "excessive".
Research by the mental health charity Mind finds that some mental health trusts no longer use face-down restraint because it is considered too dangerous and traumatic. But figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that two mental health trusts employ the procedure two or three times a day."
Find out that you can�t get out.
To be imprisoned, confined and incarcerated.
To be pinned to the bed by medication.
That you begin to lose yourself.
If only you knew how that felt.
When your hair is the maddest thing about you.
When you won�t drink their stolen vodka.
Neck and be sent to your room for interfering.
The conference 'Critical Perspectives and Creative Responses to Experiences of Trauma and Distress' was held on 14 & 15 November 2012 in University College Cork.
Keynote speakers at this free event included Jacqui Dillon, national Chair of the Hearing Voices Network, Richard Patterson, Advocate and Activist, Phil Thomas, Academic and former Consultant Psychiatrist; Eleanor Longden, Voice hearer and Writer, Dirk Corstens, Social Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist.
"Second Story Respite House, Santa Cruz, California, is a short-stay, sleeps six, voluntary opportunity to learn to use relationships to move out of old roles and patterns. Staffed by peers (people with lived experience of mood swings, consuming fear, voices, visions,�) who have learned to be with some discomfort, the household provides an opportunity to experience what change feels like, to learn new responses through relationships with each other."
Blog post Breaking Someone Out of the Behavioral Health Unit on Mad in America.
"She came to us like a breath of fresh air; cheerful, passionate, beautiful, and always looking out for others to her own detriment. We had conversations. �Be a little selfish� I said, �It�s OK to look after yourself� � and this was before I knew of the pain in her past. Tragedies, both personal and familial were scattered through her life � more than most could bear, more than many could survive. There is a tangible energy to her, a will to live, a drive to get the most that she can out of every moment. Not surprising from someone who is, so far, a cancer survivor. Very surprising for someone who has been abandoned so frequently."
Video link to Second Story and its work. See the National Empowerment Center, USA, for more information on crisis alternatives.
"Psychiatrist Pat Bracken speaks on the current "crisis of legitimacy in psychiatry" and the growth of the international service user movement at the Forum for Existential Psychology and Therapy in June. The root cause of the crisis is not attributable to psychopharmacology or "a few mistakes in the DSM" that more research would get right, Dr Bracken argues; the root cause lies deep in the dominant paradigm; a "modernist" agenda to frame all human problems in scientific and technological terms. Dr. Bracken supports a post-modernist view; an understanding of the limitations and dangers of such an approach, and accepting that some human problems will not be solved by science and technology, and that mental health is such a problem."
"psychiatry came into the world on the back of an act of social exclusion ... original sin already built in"
See video link from Mad in America website.
"How do we protect authentic peer support from the threat of professionalisation?"
"As peer support models are increasingly adopted by mainstream mental health services, Anne Beales [21/9/12], Director of Service User Involvement at mental health charity Together argues that the formation of �good practice� guidelines is essential to ensure the survival of authentic, user-led peer support and to safeguard it from being used as a form of cheap labour.
I lost my personality on a train once. It got on the train that day and left me behind. I waited for hours on the platform, but it didn�t come back. It was the Transport Police who moved me on and out of the station.
I was telling this story to my hairdresser Vicky last week. Well, it beats talking about my holiday plans. Yet, it has taken me years to get to a point where I have processed that terrifying episode and can talk about it at all, let alone laugh; that terrible time when I fell apart, not knowing what was illusion and reality, sleep or dreaming. As well as being my hairdresser Vicky actually has her own mental health stories to share. She is my peer, and just one of many precious people who helped me back on my feet."
The enduring psychiatric myth is that particular personal, interpersonal and social problems in living are manifestations of 'mental illness' or �mental disease�, which can only be addressed by 'treatment' with psychiatric drugs. Psychiatric drugs are used only to control �patient� behaviour and do not �treat� any specific pathology in the sense understood by physical medicine. Evidence that people, diagnosed with 'serious' forms of 'mental illness' can 'recover', without psychiatric drugs, has been marginalized by drugfocused research, much of this funded by the pharmaceutical industry. The pervasive myth of psychiatric drugs dominates much of contemporary 'mental health' policy and practice and raises discrete ethical issues for nurses who claim to be focused on promoting or enabling the 'mental health' of the people in their care."
Scottish Recovery Network is featuring this paper on their website where a dialogue is beginning.
'Reviewer of fitness-to-work benefit tests to stand down' article from BBC News, 30 July 2012.
"Critics have said the large number of decisions overturned on appeal show the process is flawed and that tests are too impersonal, not medically rigorous enough and the fluctuating nature of some conditions is not sufficiently taken into account."
And BBC programme 'Panorama: Disabled or Faking It?': "Panorama investigates the government's plans to end the so-called 'sick note culture' and their attempts to get millions of people off disability benefits and into work. In Britain's modern welfare state, millions are being paid to private companies to assess sick and disabled claimants but is the system working? Or are new tests wrongly victimising those who deserve support the most?"
Robert Whitaker, USA author of Anatomy of an Epidemic, gave a public lecture in Elmwood College, Cupar, Fife, on 19 November 2011 - see Video of event.
Prof Phil Barker and Poppy Buchanan-Barker, who live in Fife and were born and raised here, opened and closed our event. Their Tidal Model "helps people reclaim the personal story of mental distress, by recovering their voice. By using their own language, metaphors and personal stories people begin to express something of the meaning of their lives. This is the first step towards helping recover control over their lives".
A one-day conference 'Giving Psychosis a Voice 2' was held on Thursday 8 March 2012 at Dunston Hall, Norwich - understanding the experiences that have come to be called psychosis can allow people the opportunity to talk about them in relation to their lives. This event followed on from the 2010 international conference, where they explored how finding meaning in psychosis could be a fundamental way of challenging stigma. Themes for the 2012 event included: managing distress, trauma, recovery, formulation, latest research regarding psychosis and working with people's creativity.
Diagnosed with a psychotic disorder at eight years old, transgendered essayist Aubrey Ellen Shomo (born Justin Michael Shomo) would spend most of the next decade on neuroleptic medication - over her vocal objections - and would be hospitalized repeatedly. Upon reaching adulthood, furious with the treatment she received for so long and her own powerlessness in the face of it, she became a psychiatric survivor activist.
"I see it everywhere: People with mental illness need medication. It sounds reasonable.
No one asks why their child, or sibling or friend refuses to take their meds. Why bother? It's an illness. It's meaningless. The doctors say so. They know these things.
Have you ever questioned the logic of the phrase "She wouldn't be refusing medication if she wasn't ill"?
Look into my eyes and see me. Try to understand where I'm coming from. Even a crazy person has a human will.
I am someone's sibling, someone's child, and someone's friend. I could be yours ...."
This essay was first published in Open Minds Quarterly, Spring 2007 Issue.
"Abstract - There is increasing concern about the level of violence within mental healthcare settings. In this article I review what is known on this subject, discuss the relationship between mental disorder and violence and summarise the different ways to prevent and manage violence. When planning strategies to prevent violence in such settings it is important to consider not only patient risk factors but also risk factors in the environment. Staff need to have all the possible techniques for managing violent behaviour available to them in order to weigh up the risks and benefits for any specific patient in any particular situation."
Photo, right to left, Shery Mead, Chris Hansen, Karen Taylor, Ron Coleman, Jacquie Nicholson.
Many thanks to everyone who took part in the dialogue event on peer led crisis alternatives - At the Sharp Edge - on Tuesday 20 September 2011 in the Carnegie Conference Centre, Dunfermline. Peer Support Fife and SAMH (scottish association for mental health) hosted the occasion and over 70 delegates joined us on the day. We welcomed guest speakers Shery Mead and Chris Hansen, USA, Ron Coleman and Karen Taylor, Scotland, of Working to Recovery Ltd, Fiona Venner, manager of the Leeds Survivor Led Crisis Service, Jacquie Nicholson, Manager of the Edinburgh Crisis Centre and Jan Cameron, Manager of Redhall Walled Garden.
Billy Wallace is now at Lands End!
21 June - Day 18 Billy's now at Truro and tomorrow Land's End - Rock on Billy!
17 June - Day 14, arrived OK at Shepton Mallet, 10mls south of Bristol - heading for Exeter next, all the best Billy!
7 June - Day 4 at Ballachulish - good luck Billy!
5 June - Day 2 at Invergordon - feet up!
Our friend Billy Wallace from Tynron in Dumfries & Galloway started his marathon bike ride from John O'Groats to Lands End on 4 June to promote mental health awareness and well being, challenging stigma and raising money for the charity Support in Mind Scotland. Billy has supported many of our events by coming to Fife and taking part in workshops and training around peer support, recovery and service user involvement. He is a passionate believer in the benefits of peer support and demonstrates this by sharing his 'lived experience' with others on a voluntary basis in his home area and through the Kaleidoscope project in Dumfries.
Mary O'Hagan Leads Us Well!
Thanks to Mary O'Hagan for a superb masterclass for managers and workshop for stakeholders in St Andrews, Fife, on 28 March, also thanks to all the folks who joined us from Fife and many areas of Scotland. Thanks to Roseanne Fearon, Head of Adult Services, Social Work Service, Fife Council, for opening our event. Thanks to John Sawkins for his poetry recitation and book reading. There were many opportunities for learning and networking - a day to remember.
See Feedback Report and Mary's Powerpoint Presentation.
Mary O'Hagan's experience includes being an initiator of the service user movement in New Zealand, the first chair of the World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry, an advisor to the United Nations and World Health Organization, and a Mental Health Commissioner for New Zealand. Mary is presently an international speaker, consultant and writer, and a thought leader on service user perspectives.
Goldsmiths College, University of London, was the venue for the UK film premiere of Mere Folle, crazy mother movie, based on the book History Beyond Trauma by Francoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudillierre. The Parisian authors are psychoanalysts who have worked with people in crisis for over 30 years and hold advanced degrees in the classics - French, Latin and Greek literature - and doctorates in sociology.
Robert Whitaker, American investigative reporter and author, was speaking at Athlone Institute, Ireland - a presentation on the findings reported in his new book Anatomy of an Epidemic. Bob laid before us the evidence about psychiatric drugs and their propensity to create chronicity in the long term. There was an opportunity to ask questions and to meet up with Irish colleagues who are establishing a Network of Critical Voices in Mental Health.
More information about these books on the Books, Articles page.
Thanks to Steve Smith, Lecturer at Robert Gordon University, for facilitating the workshop on Solution Focused Approaches at Cupar on 28 February and 1 March. And thanks to folks who participated in this event and found it to be a very useful tool in both their own recovery and in helping others to keep well.
and the follow-on Module Application of Solution Focused Brief Therapy to Practice.
Peer Support Fife thanks all the people who participated at our workshop Having a Voice and Making a Difference at The Gathering, Scottish Council for Voluntary Sector's national event in the Edinburgh International Conference Centre on Wednesday 23 February 2011. It was good to share stories of mental health involvement and the challenges faced in being involved.
"All the stories featured in this issue of the Newsletter address reclamation, in one form or another. Each story reminds us of the personal nature of reclamation: taking back something which has a particular meaning for the person."
There is an article about our Cupar Tidal workshop on pages 5 and 6, also news and stories from Fife - Scotland, Ottawa - Canada, and Sydney - Australia.
Tidal Model Workshop is very much appreciated!
On 20 & 21 January 2011 Phil Barker and Poppy Buchanan-Barker skilfully captained a workshop over 2 days in Cupar, Fife - a journey through the Tidal Model with ports of call on the way. The recruits set sail on a voyage of discovery, having made their way from the north and the south, becoming more than participants as they considered solutions. The realisation dawned on us that, although we were travellers together, it was up to each of us to carry our own load, to be strengthened for the journey and to encourage others to do the same.
Our photo shows some of the crew and the good fun we all had!
"I had a ball listening and speaking with everyone"
"Phil and Poppy were great to listen to ... very inspiring!"
"I had a great time and the group there was excellent"
Thanks to the 13 of us who braved the wintry weather, coming from Dumfries, Dundee, Perth and other parts of Fife to share information and experiences at our 3rd user carer involvment workshop in Cupar which had a focus on acute inpatient care. The guest speaker was Carolyn Little, Project Co-ordinator, User Carer Involvement Dumfries & Galloway.
Thanks to everyone who came along and participated in our user carer involvement workshop on Friday 29 October 2010 in Cupar Old Parish Centre. There were 26 of us taking part, including guest speakers from the Highland Users Group - Graham Morgan and a HUG member who travelled from Skye, and friends from Dumfries, Glasgow, Falkirk, Crieff, Perth and Dundee. Read Graham's Talk and 29 October workshop report.
This event followed on from our Mary O'Hagan workshop in May, see 14 May feedback report, and we explored the resources, training and networks that enable the involvement of users and carers in mental health service planning and provision.
The Triangle of Care - Carers Included: A Best Practice Guide in Acute Mental Health Care was launched at a reception at the House of Commons on July 28th. The publication is the result of collaboration between The Princess Royal Trust for Carers (PRTC) and The National Mental Health Development Unit (NMHDU) and the title refers to the essential 3-way relationship between professionals, service users, their carers and families. The guide emphasises the need for better local strategic involvement of carers and families in the care- planning and treatment of people experiencing mental ill-health and calls for better partnership working between service users, their carers and providers of services in order to achieve the best possible outcomes.
Here is the link on the SQA (Scottish Qualifications Authority) website to the documents relating to the Mental Health Peer Support PDA (professional development award) - www.sqa.org.uk. The Arrangements document gives various information about the rationale for the award's development, aims, delivery, learning materials etc.
The 2 new unit specifications for the Mental Health Peer Support PDA (professsional development award) - Recovery Context and Developing Practice - are Higher National (HN) units and can be undertaken individually. The learning/teaching materials are being written and the award was launched in August.
Thanks to everyone who attended our recent PS Workshop in Buckhaven Community Centre funded by the Kirkcaldy & Levenmouth Local Mental Health Partnership. Chrys Muirhead facilitated and was supported by a volunteer who lives in the Levenmouth area. It was encouraging to welcome friends from Fife, Glasgow, Dumbarton and Dumfries, many of them people who are working in a peer support role and promoting the model in their areas. The sharing of experience and information was positive for everyone present.
Mary O'Hagan Workshop Went Well!
Over 40 delegates took part in our user/carer involvement workshop with Mary O'Hagan, NZ, faciliating, on 14 May 2010 in the Cupar Old Parish Centre - 'having a voice and making a difference!'. Friends joined us from the Dundee, Perth and Falkirk areas, sharing experiences of involvement from a service user and carer perspective. Mary spoke of her own experiences using services and of being a leader with others in the planning and provision of services, challenging tokenism and setting agendas rather than fitting in with decisions already made. It is hoped to have follow-up meetings, an opportunity to encourage and share experience(s).
See Mary's website and 14 May Feedback Report.
The visit arranged to the Caledonia Clubhouse in Falkirk went well, visitors were inspired by the member-led model and asked lots of appropriate questions. Thanks to Alison Ferguson, Manager, and her team for their warm welcome and hosting the visit. There were comments about how they could not differentiate between members and paid workers, the benefits of the open door policy where people can access all areas of the Clubhouse and how everyone takes part in activities, from reception work to preparing meals to learning IT skills and having a work placement or transitional employment. Here is a link to My Clubhouse Journey, an inspiring story of hope and recovery from Annette Callow, a member of the Caledonia Clubhouse, Falkirk.
Funding from Fife Council and NHS Fife enabled PS Fife to host a Promoting Inclusion Workshop on 10 & 11 March 2010 in the Council Chambers, Town House, Kirkcaldy - see Poster. We invited Peter Bates, Head of Mental Health and Community Inclusion at the National Development Team for Inclusion, to facilitate. Peter wrote With Inclusion in Mind, the local authority's role in promoting wellbeing and social development. In November 2008 Fife Council held an event to introduce this guidance, attended by local representatives from mental health groups, also facilitated by Peter Bates. Chrys Muirhead had presented at this event on her experience of recovery and getting back into the community.
We held Peer Support workshops in Contact Point, Kirkcaldy on 17 February and 24 March 2010. Topics included the role of PS, definitions of recovery, benefits to those in the PS relationship and boundaries/risks. Thanks to Billy Moyes, Contact Point, for the use of their meeting room and refreshments.
Thanks to friends and colleagues who supported our AGM and made the evening such an interesting and enjoyable one! We have added to our committee and gained supporters with a wide range of experience, skills and insight. Thanks also go to Wendy McAuslan, VOX Development Co-ordinator, for her interactive presentation on the benefits of Peer Support to mental health and employability. We all learnt more about each other and our own strengths.
Wellness Recovery Action Plan is a self management tool for staying well and for helping you to feel better when not well. Scottish Government's mental health improvement plan, Towards a Mentally Flourishing Scotland, promotes self directed approaches to recovery and mentions WRAP.
WRAP was developed in the USA by Mary Ellen Copeland, in response to her own challenges of living with mental ill health, and in consultation with others. It helps us look at what we are like when well, what we do on a regular basis to keep well, and action plans for coping with triggers, things that happen and are outwith our control. The crisis plan is a document that can be included in the Advance Statement and shared with supporters who may be friends, colleagues or family.
'Read all about it' in our first News Bulletin, including a write-up of the United We Stand event with photographs. There are also articles on peer support, WRAP and recovery, news about funding and quotes courtesy of the Pathways to Recovery workbook from the the University of Kansas.
More than 80 people joined us at Elmwood College, Cupar, on 14 October at our mental health networking event United We Stand, demonstrating that there is strength in unity and the importance of having a voice and making a difference. Graham Morgan MBE, keynote speaker, inspired delegates as he described the work of the Highland Users Group, mentioning the importance of 'fair and just lives' and the 'solidarity of a shared bond'. Wendy McAuslan from the national service user organisation Voices of Experience was the final speaker, helping to gather feedback on potential development areas around networking and user/carer involvement.
Workshops numbered 14, including NHS Fife projects - Playfield Institute, Moodcafe, Gemini Team & Tidal Model developments; Angus Mental Health Association; Barony Contact Points; Fife Council Social Work Service; Going Forth SAMH; LINK Adolescent Befriending East Fife; Mental Health Network Greater Glasgow; Scotia Clubhouse & friends; User Carer Involvement Dumfries & Galloway.
Here is the event summary - read Summary.
We are planning some awareness-raising workshops in Fife, on the Peer Support model in the mental health setting. Topics will include 'what is Peer Support?', the benefits of PS, skills & experience required for effective PS, boundaries and risks. The first Workshop will be on 2 September at Going Forth, SAMH, Dunfermline.
After 24hrs flying Chrys Muirhead has returned from her trip of a lifetime to Australia and New Zealand for the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership conference and exchange. The main highlights - meeting mental health activists, sharing experiences and seeing some sights. There was an opportunity to attend a Peer Support workshop led by Gene Johnson of Recovery Innovations which was also attended by Cupar, Fife, colleague Christina Cooper of the TODAY Group, which provide collective advocacy in Fife for people with mental health difficulties.
Chrys Muirhead facilitated another PS workshop at Turning Point Scotland, Glasgow which included discussions around user involvement in service design and delivery.
Chrys Muirhead delivered Peer Support one day and two day follow up workshops to service users and staff at Turning Point Scotland in Glasgow, using the 'Pathways to Recovery' workbook from the University of Kansas for activities.
On Monday 11 August 2008 the first 'Introduction to WRAP - Wellness Recovery Action Planning' workshop was held in the Rothes Halls, Glenrothes, Fife, facilitated by Chrys Muirhead and Eric Nicol, Recovery Impact Worker with Turning Point Scotland.
Chrys Muirhead completed the WRAP facilitator training in Edinburgh, delivered by Stephen Pocklington, Copeland Center, and Rona McBrierty. It was an opportunity to share with others, develop relationships and hear about this user led self management tool. Further information about WRAP is on the Recovery page.
Celebrating Recovery! conference does what it says!
Celebrating Recovery at Elmwood College on 10 April 2008 was attended by over 120 people, from Scotland and England. Taking part were Chrys Muirhead, conference organiser and Convener PS Fife, opening speakers Prof Phil Barker and Poppy Buchanan-Barker on their Tidal Model of recovery and reclamation; workshops from Ron Coleman, Moira Gillespie and Tommy Black, Greater Glasgow Mental Health Network, Edinburgh Crisis Centre, Horsecross Community drama group, Falkirk District Association for Mental Health with final address by Susan Archibald, disability rights activist and vote of thanks from Simon Bradstreet, Scottish Recovery Network Director.
"a system of giving and receiving help founded on key principles of respect, shared responsibility and mutual agreement on what is useful ..... This connection, or affiliation, is a deep, holistic understanding based on mutual experience where people are able to 'be' with each other without the constraints of traditional (expert/patient) relationships.""
On 16 August 2010 a Peer Support Workshop was held in the Levenmouth area of Fife, in Buckhaven Community Centre. Again there were participants from outwith Fife as well as local folk interested in hearing about the benefits of PS, both formally and informally.
Contact Point, Kirkcaldy was the setting for two Peer Support Workshops organised by Peer Support Fife, on 17 February and 24 March 2010. Participants came from a variety of settings and areas, including Edinburgh, Dumfries and Fife.
Scottish Recovery Network held a conference in Glasgow, December 2005, to promote the formalised Peer Support model, with speakers from Recovery Innovations and the Georgia Certified Peer Specialist Project. Following this, in November 2006, a group of Scottish service users in Edinburgh were trained in the PS Worker model by a Recovery Innovations trainer and again in January 2008. Pilot PS Worker projects were set up in 5 health board areas of Scotland (not Fife) in 2008.
The 2 new unit specifications for the Mental Health Peer Support PDA (professsional development award) - Recovery Context and Developing Practice - are Higher National (HN) units and can be undertaken individually.
Shery Mead is a consultant working in the area of peer support, including 'social action and social change', peer run crisis alternatives and training professionals in recovery based practices. Articles by Shery Mead include "Defining Peer Support" and "Peer Support: What makes it unique?" This explores the peer support role and what makes it different to other relationships in the mental health setting. Topics like mutuality and shared experience(s), personal responsibility and being in control.
Recovery Innovations of Arizona provide individual and hospital-based peer support: "Peer Support Specialists and Recovery Coaches are powerful recovery role models that engage each individual served in a personal recovery program. Based on the person's goals the peer staff offer a wide range of support activities, skill building, and case management".
The Georgia Certified Peer Specialist Project has trained over 437 specialists to fill 'key roles in the public mental health system'. As a consumer (user) movement the Georgia CPS project believes that the understanding of 'what creates recovery' is key to their delivery of services and integration of peer workers. Their mission statement includes the desire "to promote self-determination, personal responsibility and empowerment inherent in self-directed recovery".
"crisis is an opportunity to grow in relationship and change old patterns"
"In times of crisis, people feel alone with their anxiety, panic, anger, frustrations and depression. One of the goals of peer-run crisis respite is to provide connections and relationships that can lessen the intensity of these feelings. These non-medical alternative programs offer a comfortable, non-judgmental environment in which one might be able to process stresses as well as explore new options. The hope is that these interactions will result in fresh, short-term solutions and a wider array of options for handling future crises."
The Second Story Respite House in Santa Cruz, California, is short-stay and sleeps six with a voluntary opportunity to learn to use relationships to move out of old roles and patterns. Staffed by peers (people with lived experience of mood swings, consuming fear, voices, visions...) who have learned to be with some discomfort, the household provides an opportunity to experience what change feels like, to learn new responses through relationships with each other.
"Leeds Survivor Led Crisis Service was set up in 1999 by a group of service users, who had campaigned for five years to develop the service. Initially, the service was run in partnership with Social Services, becoming a registered charity in 2001.The service was set up to be a place of sanctuary, which was an alternative to hospital admission and statutory services for people in acute mental health crisis. The service was established, and continues to be governed and managed, by people with direct experience of mental health problems. We have our own unique perspectives on what it feels like to be in crisis and what helps and does not help. We have developed our service based on this knowledge and experience, while responding to the needs articulated by our visitors and callers."
Dial House is a place of sanctuary open 6pm�2am Friday-Monday. Visitors can access when they are in crisis. They can telephone to request a visit, or turn up at the door 6pm�10.30pm. They currently have 80�130 visits each month.
"Unlike participation, leadership assumes people with mental health problems have the power to set the agenda, make major decisions and control resources. Having said that, leadership of any sort must have boundaries; it should never be absolute and it needs to be shared."
Mary O'Hagan led a workshop on Service User Participation and Leadership in St Andrews, Fife, on 28 March 2011. Jointly funded by Fife Council, NHS Fife and PS Fife, this event gave opportunities for workers, volunteers, users, survivors and carers to consider the sharing of power in decision making.
"the involvement of service users in the management, design and delivery of services"
"A distinction must be drawn between service user involvement that is management centred, and that which is user centred. In the former the agenda is set by service purchasers and practitioners and control held within the organisation. The latter leans towards the objective being set and driven forward by users of the services. The two types of service user involvement highlight the main difficulty in defining service user involvement as a concept as they are not mutually exclusive."
"Politicising oneself by joining with other survivors in political actions is an excellent antidote to the powerlessness that psychiatry induces in its subjects. Becoming active in the struggle against psychiatry (and other forms of injustice)... is a good alternative to the helplessness psychiatry encourages."
"Peer advocates are people who have personal experience of mental health difficulties and who have achieved a sufficient level of recovery to complete an accredited training course in peer advocacy. Once they are qualified they can complete a period working with an existing peer advocate before engaging with clients on their own. This puts them in a unique position in understanding the problems faced by people with mental health difficulties."
"Peer Advocacy is about individuals who share significant life experiences. The peer advocate and their advocacy partner may share age, gender, ethnicity, diagnosis or issues. Peer advocates use their own experiences to understand and empathise with their advocacy partner."
Advocacy is a process of helping people to have their say and to increase their confidence. It is about standing alongside people who might otherwise be ignored. It can be about speaking on behalf of people who are unable to do so for themselves. It's empowering, enabling and a safeguard to people who are vulnerable and could be discriminated against.
Peer Advocacy lessens the imbalance of power between the advocate and their advocacy partner, increasing self-awareness, confidence and assertiveness so that the person can speak for themselves. It enables people to gain access to information, explore and understand the options, and to then express their views and wishes.
"Peer advocacy is support from someone with experience of using mental health services. Peer advocates can draw on their own experiences to understand and empathise with the person they are working with. Working with a peer advocate makes it easier for advocate and user to have an equal relationship. Some peer advocates and advocacy schemes work on an entirely voluntary basis, but the majority are now funded user and survivor-run schemes with paid workers."
"Carer involvement and participation means carers being fully involved in service design, delivery and review - not simply relying on consultation. It places carers in a much more active role and should be based on power sharing.
Involving carers in planning and improving services makes good sense: they understand their needs and role. Carers undertake tasks and duties that most people don't have the first idea about.
Talking to carers can also provide feedback about services that you could not get in any other way. Apart from their obvious knowledge about their own needs, carers are very often best placed, next to the cared for themselves, to talk about the needs of services users.
They should be key partners in planning and commissioning not only carers' services but also services for the cared for."
Help other people receiving services to have a better experience than you may have had.
Share ideas and experiences with fellow service users and carers.
Ensure that the "quiet voices" amongst us have a voice and the ability to actively contribute"
Article in British Journal of Psychiatry, 3 December 2012, by Pat Bracken, Philip Thomas, Sami Timimi, Eia Asen, Graham Behr, Carl Beuster, Seth Bhunnoo, Ivor Browne, Navjyoat Chhina, Duncan Double, Simon Downer, Chris Evans, Suman Fernando, Malcolm R. Garland, William Hopkins, Rhodri Huws, Bob Johnson, Brian Martindale, Hugh Middleton, Daniel Moldavsky, Joanna Moncrieff, Simon Mullins, Julia Nelki, Matteo Pizzo, James Rodger, Marcellino Smyth, Derek Summerfield, Jeremy Wallace and David Yeomans.
A series of editorials in this Journal have argued that psychiatry is in the midst of a crisis. The various solutions proposed would all involve a strengthening of psychiatry's identity as essentially 'applied neuroscience'. Although not discounting the importance of the brain sciences and psychopharmacology, we argue that psychiatry needs to move beyond the dominance of the current, technological paradigm. This would be more in keeping with the evidence about how positive outcomes are achieved and could also serve to foster more meaningful collaboration with the growing service user movement."
"One of the most important questions facing psychiatry today concerns its relationship to the emerging international service user movement. I believe that this movement presents not only the greatest challenge to psychiatry, but also the greatest opportunity. As it becomes more organised and influential this movement is starting to play a major role in shaping the sort of questions that are being asked about mental health services and their priorities.
Yet there is limited reflection in our profession about how we, as doctors, might engage positively with it. It seems that while we are comfortable working with individuals and organisations who accept the medical framing of mental problems, we are less willing to contemplate working with critical service users. These are people who reject the medical model because they feel harmed by a system that describes their problems using the language of psychopathology. If we are serious about having an inclusive debate on mental health we will have to overcome this impasse."
Dr Pat Bracken, Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Director, Centre for Mental Health Care and Recovery, Bantry General Hospital, Bantry, Co Cork, Ireland.
"Soteria-Alaska was founded by Jim Gottstein, an Alaskan psychiatric survivor and Harvard lawyer who recognized Anchorage�s need for a similar hospital diversion program. Prior to the creation of Soteria-Alaska, there were no alternatives to hospitalization in Anchorage (or, for that matter, almost anywhere in the United States) that promoted the idea of full recovery without medication. Jim, along with others, created Soteria-Alaska with a clear vision of helping people recover fully."
"I write this piece from Anchorage, Alaska, where I am presently filling in as the executive director of Soteria-Alaska while their founding executive director, Susan Musante, is on sabbatical. Soteria-Alaska, a program designed to follow Loren Mosher�s California Soteria model from the 1970s and early 1980s, has been up and running for the past three years. Soteria-Alaska is a house, staffed around-the-clock with gentle, open-minded nonprofessionals, with five beds for people experiencing psychosis. The basic idea is that people can live in the house for about six months or so, give or take, in order to work through or pass through their psychosis with little or preferably no psychiatric medication. Soteria-Alaska is a largely state- and grant-funded program open primarily to Alaska residents, for whom, if they are low-income, it is free."
Are our mental health services driving people to suicide?
"When trying to establish whether more mentally ill people are committing suicide now than in the past, we immediately hit upon a stumbling block: the definition of mental illness has vastly expanded to cover a range of maladies and miseries that were not defined as such a century ago. How then, can we evaluate the claim that more mentally ill people die by suicide? There seem two possible ways to go about this. One is to consider only those cases of mental illness that would have been regarded as mental illness in the past - the type of 'lunacy' or 'melancholia' that mostly led to hospitalization. The second possibility is to reclassify cases that today would be regarded as having a mental disorder present. The problem with the latter is it does not allow us to discern whether suicide is more common in the mentally ill today than in the past, or whether it just looks like that. We return to the arguments surrounding the social construction and social reality of mental illness....."
Recovery and Liberation: One and the Same?
Blog post on Mad in America by Jack Carney, recently retired from social work in New York, and back to being an 'Alinsky-trained organizer, advocate and, politely, provocateur'.
"Recovery and Liberation: One and the Same?
You can�t have one without the other. I�ll explain as we go along .... In short, recovery appears to be co-terminus with that first breath of liberation, with the realization that you can live the remainder of your life free of the mental health system, free of dangerous medications, of the fear of losing your freedom whenever you have a weird or potentially subversive thought or feeling. So when we talk about recovery, we�re talking about recovering the identity that was taken from psychiatric survivors or that they never had the opportunity to develop, and not about recuperation from putative mental illnesses that, as Bentall and others have pointed out, have no factual basis ..."
"Scotland pioneered the user movement in the United Kingdom, according to recent research by the Survivor History Group. At least twice in as many decades it was Scottish patients who put their full force on the lever of history. Academic historians have given the credit, for both occasions, to London. But new evidence suggests Scotland led the way."
Survivors History archive of "Scotland the Brave" by Andrew Roberts - Secretary of the Survivors History Group. Originally published in Mental Health Today July/August 2009 (Pavilion Journals (Brighton) Ltd).
"We are pretending to treat or cure people with mental illness because that makes us feel alright about controlling them. Sometimes we need to control them but we should at least be honest about what we are doing. Pharmaceutical companies are cashing in on our dishonesty."
The latest paper by Prof Phil Barker and Poppy Buchanan-Barker 'Myth of mental health nursing and the challenge of recovery' is published in the International Journal of Mental Health Nursing.
"Abstract: Although the concept of 'mental health nursing' has grown in popularity over the past 35 years, it remains a myth. People believe that they know what it is and value it highly, but cannot describe or define it other than in vague terms. This paper briefly charts the rise of 'mental health nursing', emphasizing its political implications, and in particular, the drive towards an embrace of a person-centred, recovery-focused approach to care. If nurses are to realize such ambitions, they must resolve their historical association with psychiatric nursing. The concept of the 'mental health nurse' might signal the emergence of a new vision for human services, but might also signal the need for 'mental health nurses' to negotiate a formal separation from the traditional 'psychiatric' family."
Bob Whitaker, author of Anatomy of an Epidemic, speaks in Victoria, Canada on May 17, 2011. He overviews the past 30 years of scientific research into psychiatric medications, showing how the drugs seem to be creating the very chemical imbalances they�re supposed to cure, and why they develop chronicity in the long term: "a societal delusion driving us - we're fixing this 'known biological problem'"
This book tells how family and friends of people with complex mental health needs frequently have to battle for, and often with, mental health services, whilst they themselves can be stigmatised. Jen Kilyon and Theresa Smith help carers tell their stories. Although some of these stories end with a positive outcome and others tell of continuing battles, all demonstrate that it is frequently the carers alone who keep hope for recovery alive.
The book includes things they found most helpful in their struggles. Rather than accept that solutions to mental health problems are owned by the medical professions, these books look at alternatives and provide information so that the users of psychiatric services, their families and carers can make more decisions about their own lives.
"Bentall's thesis is that, for all the apparent advances in understanding psychiatric disorders, psychiatric treatment has done little to improve human welfare, because the scientific research which has led to the favouring of mind-altering drugs is, as he puts it, "fatally flawed". He cites some startling evidence from the World Health Organisation that suggests patients suffering psychotic episodes in developing countries recover "better" than those from the industrialised world and the aim of the book is broadly to suggest why this might be so."
"This book takes a bold quantum leap beyond restrictive bio medical terms of discrete illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder to view these conditions from a holistic perspective that reveals a method of madness of psychosis. Some episodes may function as a desperate coping strategy while others reflect a profound developmental crisis or spontaneous self-helping process. As they originate in deepseated spiritual imperatives some tumultuous episodes are appropriately viewed as spiritual emergencies or potentially transformative psychospiritual crises."
"LSCS is, at heart, a crisis sanctuary operating from 6pm-2am Fridays to Sundays, the hours when most mental health services are closed and isolation can, in particular, hurt. Support workers are on hand at Dial House which prides itself on offering non-judgemental empathy, safety and refuge space. The service offers itself as an alternative to hospital admission. Strong feelings of suicide are common. Visitors usually have a history of trauma. Those with 'challenging' behaviour are welcomed."
Read full article about the Leeds service in psychminded.co.uk.
By Francoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudilliere, professors at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, who both hold advanced degrees in classics - French, Latin and Greek literature - and doctorates in sociology.
History Beyond Trauma "In the course of nearly thirty years of work with patients in psychiatric hospitals and private practice, Francoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudilliere have uncovered the ways in which transference and countertransference are affected by the experience of social catastrophe. Handed down from one generation to the next, the unspoken horrors of war, betrayal, dissociation, and disaster in the families of patient and analyst alike are not only revived in the therapeutic relationship but, when understood, actually provide the keys to the healing process.
The authors present vivid examples of clinical work with severely traumatised patients, reaching inward to their own intimate family histories as shaped by the Second World War and outward toward an exceptionally broad range of cultural references to literature, philosophy, political theory, and anthropology. Using examples from medieval carnivals and Japanese No theater, to Wittgenstein and Hannah Arendt, to Sioux rituals in North Dakota, they reveal the ways in which psychological damage is done - and undone."
A British Medical Journal article by Patrick Bracken and Philip Thomas, consultant psychiatrists - Postpsychiatry - a new direction for mental health 2001 - talks about the diminishing belief in the ability of science and technology to resolve human and social problems.
Introducing a new book, hot off the press, from the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare, Office of Mental Health Research & Training - The Trail is the Thing - a year of daily reflections based on their successful Pathways to Recovery strengths self help workbook.
This book "is the result of almost 2 years of work from 4 authors and more than 20 individuals who provided their ideas, edits and support to bring readers of Pathways to Recovery a new tool ... it is about finding the things in life that give passion, purpose and meaning." The authors of this book do not receive profit from sales of this workbook. All profits are designated for reprinting of the book and to provide scholarships for Kansas residents with the lived experience of mental illness or trauma to return to post-secondary education.
Anatomy of an Epidemic, a book by Robert Whitaker, author of 'Mad in America' and investigative journalist.
"Anatomy of an Epidemic investigates a profoundly troubling question: do psychiatric medications increase the likelihood that people taking them, far from being helped, are more likely to become chronically ill? In making a compelling case that our current psychotropic drugs are causing as much - if not more - harm than good, Robert Whitaker reviews the scientific literature thoroughly, demonstrating how much of the evidence is on his side. There is nothing unorthodox here - this case is solid and evidence-backed. If psychiatry wants to retain its credibility with the public, it will now have to engage with the scientific argument at the core of this cogently and elegantly written book."
"Psychiatric interventions for crisis care lie at the center of the conflict between forced treatment and recovery/wellness systems in mental health services. Though crisis can mean completely different things to people who have the experience, the general public has been taught a unilateral fear response based on media representation. More and more this has led to social control but is erroneously still called treatment This does nothing to help the person and in fact further confuses people already trying to make meaning of their experience.
This paper offers a fundamental change in understanding and working with psychiatric crises. Rather than objectifying and naming the crisis experience in relation to the construct of illness, people can begin to explore the subjective experience of the person in crisis while offering their own subjective reality to the relationship."
"I just want to get back to an ordinary life that I can function in .."
Realising Potential is a document that brings together the work of the allied health professions (AHPs) in mental health, in partnership with service users and carers, professional organisations and NHS boards.
"...it brings benefits to service users through the promotion of realistic hope of meaningful recovery and positive engagement with social, educational and work opportunities." from the Foreword by Shona Robison MSP, Minister for Public Health and Sport.
An easy-to-read introduction on Narrative Therapy by author Alice Morgan. It includes simple and concise explanations of the thinking behind narrative practices as well as many practical examples of therapeutic conversations.
recovery and human rights perspectives.
The Scottish Human Rights Commission aims to promote and protect the human rights of everyone in Scotland and is independent of the UK and Scottish Parliaments and Governments. The Commission has a vision of a modern, outward-looking and fairer Scotland, where human dignity, equality and participation are guaranteed for all.
The Edinburgh Crisis Centre is open 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year, and provides community based, emotional and practical support at times of crisis. Carers can also access the service and there is a free phone telephone help line as well as face-to-face support and access to a wide range of information.
PeerZone is a series of three hour face-to-face workshops led by and for people with experience of mental distress, developed by Mary O'Hagan and Sara McCook Weir in collaboration with others in New Zealand. It enhances the wellbeing for people with mental distress and provides professional development and support for the peer workforce.
The Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival is one of Scotland's most diverse cultural events, covering everything from music, film and visual art to theatre, dance, and literature. The annual festival takes place in venues across Scotland throughout October, aiming to support the arts and challenge preconceived ideas about mental health.
TED - Ideas worth spreading - "Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world".
"The Tidal Model is a philosophical approach to the discovery of mental health. It emphasises helping people reclaim the personal story of mental distress, by recovering their voice. By using their own language, metaphors and personal stories people begin to express something of the meaning of their lives. This is the first step towards helping recover control over their lives"
Photo, left to right - Poppy Buchanan-Barker, Chrys Muirhead, Prof Phil Barker - Tidal Model workshop, January 2011, Cupar, Fife.


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Q: Displaying Calendar in Hourly format inside a Table tag I have a database holding events in the form of a start_time and an end_time which are timestamps. I am trying to make a calendar that has 24 rows, and 7 columns.
A normal calendar would be easier for me to create because my SQL results would be in order of lowest to highest.
I am not quite sure how I would run through my SQL table, and display hourly for each day to make the html work
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12:00am | m | t | w | t | f | s | s
Any information at all on the best way to do this would be appreciated.

A: You should convert your timestamps into epoch seconds. Then obtain length of event in seconds by end_time-start_time
Depending on the height of your 24-row table, each second (or 60 seconds) would correspond to some count of pixels.
You can create floating divs of the appropriate height using this math. Only problem may arise if an event goes overnight onto the next day.

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What is Next Level Listening?
Next Level Listening is a toolkit synthesized from communication theory, non-verbal communications training, and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). When used in a traditional ICF certified coaching context these tools add depth and insight to coaching conversations, allowing the coach to reflect back observations that create new awareness and finer distinctions about non-verbal behavior.
NLP is described as the study and modeling of excellence – observing individuals who have experienced success and identifying how they use their winning life strategies. If an aspect of life isn't working, it is because something about the strategy being used to handle that part of life needs to be surfaced, understood, and redefined to be useful. Improving the strategy for dealing with a specific aspect of life alters the outcome of everything that follows.
All our life strategies are operating below the threshold of consciousness and can be brought forward by a trained coach so they can be seen, heard, felt, and then fine-tuned for success.
By building an awareness of the signals, metaphors, symbols, and signs of subconscious communication, we can move to a new way of thinking about ourselves and begin to change the way we interact in the world.
For people who are stuck there is usually a blind spot in their own behavior. Procrastination is a classic example of a behavior that exists in the habit-holding part of the brain and is outside of conscious awareness. If clients are berating themselves over procrastination and know it is working against their stated goals, then they are engaged in the struggle between conscious and unconscious behavior choices. They may even have had full conversations with themselves about what they are doing and what they want to be doing, but aren't.
Being in a listening profession such as counseling, therapy, or coaching requires being present with clients. Coaches pay attention to client's stories and metaphors while working with them toward a common goal for each session.
What are we "Next Level Listening" to?
Lots of clues in non-verbal behavior are familiar to professional coaches. In this blog I address the Ten Tune-Ins of Next Level Listening, explain the model and provide some instruction on putting it into practice.
Identifying vocal tonalities and onomatopoeia – Sighs, noises, animal impersonations with an emotional sound that seems to give the sound a meaning – like "happy," "disappointed" or "exhausted" sighs or tonalities.
Noticing negation – expressing ideas using negative words like un-, not, and but.
Spotting "Impoverished Representations" – when a mental concept is missing entire representational aspects and the missing piece is needed to make a change or create a transformation of meaning.
Here are short explanatory summary of these ten tune-ins. In future blogs each of these will be explored in more depth.
Representations are words that describe experiences for use in storytelling. We all tell stories and the way we remember what happened is represented in our mind by what we recall – some parts are visual, some parts are sounds and dialogue (internal and external), and some parts are physical sensations and emotions. Other parts are analytical or technical.
These are categorized as Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic, and Digital language, and they are the building blocks of our personal experiences. Every story in your life is a composite of these representations and we richly recall them when vividly reliving something that happened in the past.
In Next Level Listening, the goal is to recognize representations and to be in the same representational system clients use when they relate a story from their lives.
There is a lot of representational information available. The word "listens" is an auditory representation. In order to match their representation, an auditory response is needed.
The client feels heard and understood.
If the coach mismatches the representation either intentionally or unintentionally there will be less connection to the client. Let's take a look at a coach mismatching the client by using visual representations.
This is likely to upset the client subconsciously and they may feel totally misunderstood.
A kinesthetic representation in a response can seem empathetic or compassionate, yet because of the mismatch, can also create distance rather than connection.
Saying "I get it," or "How do you feel about that?" misses the auditory representation in the initial statement (being listened to) and instead advances the statement in terms of feelings.
Understanding intentional matched representations is a powerful way to build trust at a deep level with a client.
Additionally, researching and understanding the concept of Clean Language will help to avoid mistakenly projecting the coach's biases or conclusions into the dialogue. The basis of Clean Language is simple – stay out of your client's metaphors as much as possible – restate what they say verbatim, if possible. You'd be amazed the impact this has on the client's experience of you as a coach.
Recognizing the deeper structure of sentences that require clarity about missing pieces of specific information.
Sentences operate on multiple levels. On the surface they can seem simple, yet each word can evoke a variety of meanings and mental pictures, sounds, and emotions. It is important to seek the deep structure of meaning by being curious about details, avoiding assumption, and seeking clarity of understanding.
Let's learn more about that omni-present boss.
If a client says "My boss never listens to me," there is a lot of information that has to be filled in and explored.
Without seeking the deeper structure there is a very broad set of possible meanings at play, including the ones that we could fill in as a coach.
Reading and interpreting the way a client's eyes move in relation to the regions of the brain they are using.
Eye-accessing cues have been documented and were first codified by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in the book "Frogs Into Princes." At the time, there was very little known about the observed connection between eye movement and the nature of creating or recalling a thought or a memory.
Decades of field practice by practitioners demonstrates that eye movements correspond with activity in specific areas of the brain and can be a means of intuiting mental activity. Noting eye movements gives the coach an opportunity to ask questions that can move an idea, concept of thought from inside the client's mind to the outside where it can be discussed.
This article about eye-accessing cues is a great summary of the phenomenon – I have quoted it here.
1) Some people have these directions of eye movements completely reversed, meaning that visual remembering becomes upper left instead of upper right and so on. This is usually the case with left-handed people (but not all of them). So it is a good idea to ask a test question first which you know the answer of to check whether or not the eye movements are reversed.
3) Use clean questions while looking for eye accessing cues. Clean questions are those questions that do not trigger any extra, unnecessary thought patterns that can interfere with your observations.
An example of a clean question would be, "What color is your car?" The answer to this question is a simple visual response. But if you ask, "Can you tell me what color is your car?" then it is not a clean question because the person will first engage in an inner dialogue with himself to answer the question, "Can I?" This will make his eyes move to lower right and you will be confused because you were expecting a visual response.
Here is a quick illustration of what is observable in the way eyes move and their connection to thought processes.
Eye accessing cues are a controversial subject for some reason. In my experience they are very accurate at revealing a process and not the content of a client's thoughts. Some have asserted that double blind experiments do not support the hypothesis of eye accessing. By all means do not use it if it does not work for you.
Eye accessing cues are connected to one another. The pattern that occurs when observing them in action reveals an underlying mental process or strategy. Being able to see the strategy in action is very helpful to the client. I will calibrate with the client and share what I observed to verify with their actual experience. As a coach, there is a context of trust that allows us to have a conversation about it.
The eyes traverse the mental landscape to indicate which representations will be part of a recollection.
Most people who have experienced social success in life have learned that there are times where they have thoughts or feelings that disagree with others in their environment. It is also possible that a person knows something about themselves and their situation that is at odds with their own sense of self, or of their own beliefs about right and wrong. This is most visible in political shows and when journalists ask questions of a political operative where the truth is different than the "appropriate" answer.
Becoming attuned to micro-expressions in clients is a key skill to develop. I want to stress that these are not mind reading or lie detection skills. They are a way to identify and ask questions to deepen the relationship to the client and her view of the world.
If, for example, in a coaching conversation with a person contemplating going back to college for a degree, the coach might ask "Do you have enough in savings to afford to take this on?" If the client seems to be nodding both yes and no, or moving her head in a circular fashion, that is a clue a coach may use to ask a level three question.
Notice there is no judgment, accusation, mind reading or lie detection. The coach states what is observed. After a calibration, the coach can ask the same question and the client will respond. Observe the response to see if the non-verbal signals are more clearly defined.
Example Video: This video demonstrates several Next Level Listening principles. It gives a background to the story, then we examine the behavior of the person (who was found guilty of the crime). This covers an example of Representational Systems, Eye Accessing Cues, and Incongruence and lasts 2:25.
A client's tonality when using onomatopoeia – Sighs, noises, animal impersonations with an emotional sound that seems to give the sound a meaning – like "happy," "disappointed" or "exhausted" sighs.
There are many pseudo-verbal ways that people communicate. Noises and sounds that carry an emotional subtext are another opportunity to ask questions. Many times the tonality and subtext of onomatopoeia can be below the threshold of consciousness.
This is an opportunity to ask a question in an unusual way, by reflecting back the onomatopoeia to the client. This is best handled with a "clean language" approach that keeps the meaning with the client and is not interpreted by the coach.
This will move the conversation to a different level for the client, as they will gain awareness of the sound and will explore its meaning with the coach. This keeps meaning with the client while bringing unconscious behavior forward to be discussed.
Most communication is non-verbal. We can debate over exact percentages or dig into all the different research that explores this phenomenon if we like, however a quick Google search will tell you that non-verbals are most of the communication – as much as 90%.
As we tell stories as human beings we have more than just words available to us. We have images, sounds, feelings and these exist in our minds as tableaus, landscapes, or even movies. These spaces are described with non-verbal gestures that share what we see in our mind's eye.
Really tuning in to the gestures that go with a description of an incident will provide a lot of communication. Those locations in space are real to the storyteller and as a coach it is essential to pay attention to where the action is taking place.
In treating those locations with respect it is possible move them around in space, with permission of the client and in doing so, realize that a in redirecting the attention to a different location in the mental landscape can provide a literal change of perspective and point of view.
This blog post about being credulous when working with metaphors includes an example of interacting with a client's non-verbal gestures and mental locations.
Concepts or processes that have been "fixed" into a single word (that is called a nominalization). Words like Communication, Liberty, Freedom, Relationship are examples.
A Nominalization in NLP is a word which pretends to be a noun but is not tangible; in other words you could not place your hand on communication, or a relationship, but these words are used as if they are nouns and hard real 'things'. It can be a verb or another process word that has been formed into an abstract noun.
Nominalizations can be a source of confusion in communication – both internal and external dialogues run the risk of becoming confusing when a process is described as a thing.
Now the coach and client are exploring the specific ways the client interacts with her coworker. This is much more effective than exploring the concept of a relationship where the two parties might not have a shared understanding of what constitutes the act of relating with another person.
Did you notice that there is another nominalization in there that needs to be addressed? The word rude is a being treated as an object as well. You can't pick up rude and toss it around like a baseball! Be on the lookout for nominalizations and consider how to be curious about the process it is describing.
This is one imaginary interaction – this client could have gone in any possible direction, however we can see that the term relationship in this case is about something that has very little to do with work at all. We couldn't have known that if we hadn't explored and challenged that nominalization to reveal its process components.
Our brains entrain through language. A consistent focus on what is not wanted without selecting what is wanted can create a vicious cycle that creates negative emotional responses in other people.
To be coachable, the client has to be ready to take on specific actions. If situations are mostly described by what they are not, it can create a situation where confusion can make commitment difficult.
These two sentences seem the same at the surface level until you understand that in the inner mind of all humans there is no such thing as "not." To think of the thing you will not do, you must first generate a consideration of the thing.
Do not think of your big toe on your left foot. You had to do it, even though the instruction was clear: Do NOT think of your big toe on your left foot. It happened again.
Now the way you went about thinking about not thinking about the thing you had to think about is unique to you as an individual. The end result is that before something can be "not considered" it must first be considered. It is how our brains work.
To change, it is crucial to be become aware of this fact of thinking. From there a person can identify and reframe the concept of THINKING at the origin point, and to recognize and accept if a negating thought comes up – simply be aware that to not do something is to consider doing it and deciding not to. It is far more efficient to create a thought of what we intend to do and avoid mental cycles on invoking and negating things.
Please see my blog post about The Insidious Power of Negative Sentences for a more in depth exploration of how thought and reality are created in this sort of language, and what to do about breaking the habit and creating something more useful with positive wording.
Ultimatums are important to note. When an ultimatum is part of a story it is designed through language to eliminate or suppress possibility for change. As long as something "always" happens, there is no path for having it not happen.
In life, there are very few situations where an ultimatum is actually enforceable or even true. Even in matters of law, there are occasional exceptions. When we look back over the totality of our experiences we can find situations either in our own lives or of the people we know where something happened, even though we may be sure it "never" happens.
To address language that limits choice we have to first identify those times where something did happen that never happens, or the case where something that always happens did not happen. Merely identifying that there are no true absolutes creates a new awareness that something different can occur.
"Impoverished Representations" – when a mental concept is missing entire representational aspects and the missing piece is needed to make a change or create a transformation of meaning.
The first Tune-In was noticing how memories and concepts are represented by a client and turned into an interlocking visual, kinesthetic, auditory, and digital experience in their mind. As a coach it is very valuable when listening to ask questions to help a client to have a full recollection (re- collection: collecting it all again) of an experience.
Getting curious about the representation that is absent in the story can help awaken missing resources in the client, or make for a richer experience where a key understanding has been hidden.
* is a kinesthetic representation and ** is a visual representation.
This reintroduces the auditory representation into the narrative and creates an entirely new area to be curious about that the client did not bring forward in the first recollection. By exploring in areas the client habitually doesn't will open up new paths to understanding themselves and the totality of the experience for them.
Experiment with these ten tune-ins and with practice and awareness you'll create a magical connection with clients. Give each one a try and notice how it affects your coaching conversations. Enjoy!


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Adele has no love for Chris Brown
February 11, 2013 JEREMY FEIST
Just in case you were wondering if Adele could get any more impossibly perfect than she already is, the answer is a resounding yes. Yes she can. Last night, after Chris Brown refused to stand up when Frank Ocean beat out Chris for a Grammy, a few people noticed Adele side-eye Chris hard. According to The Sun, Adele went over to Chris afterwards and let that bitch have every last word of it …
When Ocean pipped him to the Best Urban Contempary Album award, the whole audience rose to their feet to applaud him – except bad loser Brown, who stayed planted to his seat in a sulk. As TV cameras focused in on his protest, Adele could be seen across the aisle, glaring in his direction. And when the applause died down, the 24-year-old cornered him for a tense one-on-one. Cameras didn't pick up Adele's choice of words – but judging by Brown's body language, it wasn't pretty. The 23-year-old held his arms out as open-mouthed Adele let loose.
Let's see here… Adele is one of the most critically and commercially acclaimed singers of our times, and is widely considered to be one of the nicer celebs out there. Chris, meanwhile, released one of the most critically panned albums ever, got nominated for it anyway, showed up with the woman he beat, and then acted like a spoiled brat? I think Adele won this round.
JEREMY FEIST
Jeremy Feist is an (ahem) entertainer from Toronto, Canada. He writes, acts, and performs on stage, and has been a writer for Popbytes for almost three years now. He lives in Toronto with his boyfriend, his incredibly dumb but cute puppy, and his immortal cat.
Categories:Musicians
Tags:Adele, Chris Brown, Grammys
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Chris Brown got dumped
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Q: Node JS add children properties to JSON I have 2 Json ARRAY listA and listB want to add listB items into listA based on id's issue_id and descendents_parent_issue_id
const listA = [
  {
    "issue_id": 2,
    "name": 'A',
  },
  {
    "issue_id": 1,
    "name": 'B',
  },
  {
    "issue_id": 3,
    "name": 'C'
  },
  {
    "issue_id": 4,
    "name": 'D',
  }
];

const listB = [{
    "descendents_issue_id": 7,
    "descendents_parent_issue_id": 2,
    "issue": "Breakdown",
  },{
    "descendents_issue_id": 881,
    "descendents_parent_issue_id": 7,
    "issue": "Hydraulic arm failure"
  },{
    "descendents_issue_id": 8,
    "descendents_parent_issue_id": 2,
    "descendents_issue": "Setup/ Changeover"
  },{
    "descendents_issue_id": 942,
    "descendents_parent_issue_id": 7,
    "descendents_issue": "Pump Overload"
  }];

Expected output:
 [
    {
        "issue_id": 2,
        "name": "A",
        "children": [
            {
                "descendents_issue_id": 7,
                "descendents_parent_issue_id": 2,
                "issue": "Breakdown",
                "children": [
                  {
                      "descendents_issue_id": 881,
                      "descendents_parent_issue_id": 7,
                      "issue": "Hydraulic arm failure"
                  },
                  {
                      "descendents_issue_id": 942,
                      "descendents_parent_issue_id": 7,
                      "descendents_issue": "Pump Overload"
                  }
                ]
            },
            {
              "descendents_issue_id": 8,
              "descendents_parent_issue_id": 2,
              "descendents_issue": "Setup/ Changeover"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "issue_id": 1,
        "name": "B"
    },
    {
        "issue_id": 3,
        "name": "C"
    },
    {
        "issue_id": 4,
        "name": "D"
    }
]

tried this following code not getting the expected output
  function processIssues(arr, arrayB) {
  return arr.reduce((result, item) => {
    const itemInB = arrayB.find(itemB => itemB.descendents_parent_issue_id == item.issue_id);
    if (itemInB) {
      let child = [];
      child.push(itemInB);
      item.children = child
    }

    return [...result, item];
  }, []);
}

Getting Output
[
    {
        "issue_id": 2,
        "name": "A",
        "children": [
            {
                "descendents_issue_id": 7,
                "descendents_parent_issue_id": 2,
                "issue": "Breakdown"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "issue_id": 1,
        "name": "B"
    },
    {
        "issue_id": 3,
        "name": "C"
    },
    {
        "issue_id": 4,
        "name": "D"
    }
]

when I tried recursion  getting maximum call stack exceeded. please help

A: I think you should parse the items for the first array and try to scan the second array matching items with issue_id:
const processIssues = (arr, arrB) => {
    let found;
    return arr.map(({ issue_id, children = [], ...rest }) => {
        found = arrB.find(
            ({ descendents_parent_issue_id }) =>
                descendents_parent_issue_id === issue_id
        );
        return found
            ? { issue_id, children: [...children, { ...found }], ...rest }
            : { issue_id, ...rest };
    });
};


Registration for the Arthritis Foundation's 2015 Annual Meeting is now open. We're excited to invite you to join us in New Orleans, November 19-20, at the InterContinental for a dynamic program that you don't want to miss.
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My name is Deborah Fiyinfoluwa Segun. I am a Nigerian multi disciplinary artist currently based in Lagos, Nigeria. I recently graduated with a degree in fashion design from Polimoda institute in Florence, Italy. Even though I had studied art and design in the past I didn't start practising till 2016, when I was inspired by my first collection of hand painted garments and sculptures inspired by research I did on the female emotion and anatomy.
I mostly specialise in paintings and graphic illustrations. I employ the use of shapes and lines to create unusual compositions. I work a lot with portraits but I also like to observe objects around me and focus on the shapes they create, combining them together to change their function and form something new. I take a fauvist approach with colours in my work, as I don't like to paint things as they are, by being experimental with the colours I am creating a new story behind the subject. A lot of my work is inspired by the cubist movement, with a focus on altering the silhouettes of objects or people around me, playing with proportions through the abstraction and use of exaggerated shapes to bring to life this non realistic and animated world, that I have created in my mind, Inspired by experiences from my physical reality.


Uptown Stock Ranking with Althea, Donna and Ed.
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ArcBest posted a first quarter net income loss of $6.103 million, more than double what market watchers expected. The company said headwinds in the quarter included a "weak" U.S. manufacturing sector, high business inventory levels and increased workers' comp costs.
The first quarter loss of $6.103 million, a 24 cents per share loss, compares to a $1.28 million gain in the 2015 first quarter. Total revenue in the quarter was $621.455 million, better than the $613.276 million during the same quarter of 2015.
Not helping the situation was an increase of $2.9 million in workers' compensation and casualty claims expense in the quarter compared to the first quarter of 2015.
The consensus estimate among the analysts who follow the Fort Smith-based shipping and logistics holding company was an 11 cents per share loss on projected revenue of $625.98 million. The company's largest subsidiary is ABF Freight, one of the largest less-than-truckload carriers in the U.S.
"Ongoing economic weakness continued to impact our business, consistent with trends that began in the fall of 2015," Judy McReynolds, ArcBest chairman, president and CEO, said in the earnings report released early Friday (April 29).
The company also said revenue was lower because of fuel surcharge comparisons to the first quarter of 2015 when diesel fuel prices were higher.
"In addition to the fuel impact, ABF Freight's first quarter revenue decline was due to reduced freight tonnage levels associated with weak U.S. manufacturing; high customer inventory levels and excess industry capacity available to move larger-sized shipments," the company noted in the statement.
Commentary in the ArcBest earnings report mirrors that of the March tonnage index report from the American Trucking Associations. The March index was down 4.5%, the largest monthly decline since September 2012.
"The freight economy continues to be mixed, with housing and consumer spending generally giving support to tonnage, while new fracking activity and factory output being drags. In addition, freight volumes are softer than the overall economy because of the current inventory overhang throughout the supply chain," ATA Chief Economist Bob Costello noted in his April 19 tonnage report.
A bright spot in the report is the growth of the company's "asset-light" businesses relative to its core LTL operation. Total revenue from the asset-light companies – Panther Logistics, ABF Logistics, FleetNet, and ABF Moving – totaled $194.733 million, up 6% compared to the first quarter of 2015.
Also, the asset-light revenue was 31% of total revenue, up from 29% in the first quarter of 2015. McReynolds has said her goal is to grow the non-trucking businesses in order to diversify the revenue stream and protect the company from trouble in any one sector.
The difficult first quarter follows a 2015 that saw declines in the second half of the year. For the full year 2015, net income was $44.854 million, just under the $46.177 million in 2014. Per share earnings for the year were $1.67, below the consensus estimate of $1.96. Full year revenue totaled $2.666 billion, ahead of the $2.612 billion in 2014.
Company shares (NASDAQ: ARCB) closed Thursday at $20.83, down 6.5%. During the past 52 weeks the share price has ranged from a $38.09 high to a $16.43 low.


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The 71st annual Marshall County Fair will be held from July 21-27, 2019. The event will take place on the fairgrounds located on Eastern Twelfth Street in Moundsville, WV. The fair features something for everyone—truck pulls, fair pageants, livestock shows, carnival rides, stage entertainment, and much more! Our one price admission allows for family entertainment at an affordable price. When you are planning your summer fun, remember you don't have to go far from home for a good time—Join Us at the Marshall County Fair!
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The secret to making a successful home purchase in Austin is to have strategic information before you start looking. This helps you make a good buying decision and avoid paying too much or buying the wrong home. This page is a good starting point if you are buying your Austin home. Also, please feel welcome to email me any questions you might have, or I'll be happy to set up a no-obligation meeting to discuss your unique situation. I'm happy to see if I can help, you won't be obligated to work with me.