- By Dartington SRU
- Posted on Thursday 09th October, 2014
Translating research into practice
As child abuse and neglect costs developed nations billions every year, scientists claim they are developing interventions that can help to limit and repair the damage to families and children. The need is great. The potential is great. But the value of university research is limited unless interventions can be exported from the lab to the community.In a study of one evidence-based intervention, t…
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- Posted on Tuesday 30th September, 2014
Striking the balance between authority and autonomy for programme fidelity
One tension in the new thinking about programme fidelity is between the stipulation that a developer’s specifications are followed in order to guarantee effectiveness, and the need for practitioners and local communities to feel they have ownership over what they are being asked to deliver.A balance between authority and autonomy has to be struck – and autonomy and ownership usually involve a…
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- Posted on Tuesday 16th September, 2014
Nipping trauma in the bud
An estimated 60 per cent of children experience some form of potentially traumatic event or circumstance at some point in their development, according to US studies, and six to 20 per cent of them go on to suffer some form of impairment or post-traumatic stress disorder.What may provoke this includes maltreatment, exposure to violence, or serious intentional or unintentional injury. Historically,…
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