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  • Chapter 4 - Translation

  • from Part I - Origins
  • Edited by Joel Evans, University of Nottingham
  • Book: Globalization and Literary Studies
  • Published online: 01 April 2022
  • Print publication: 21 April 2022, pp 67-79

  • Summary

    Translation is embedded in the globalization of literature from the inception of print circulation. From fifteenth-century Western Europe to a world increasingly networked by imperialism in the early nineteenth century, printed translations are not simply reproductions or transferals of original literary texts, but dynamic assemblies of agents. In addition to the author, translator, editor, and publisher, numerous non-human agents including print and book design, but also the intellectual abstractions of world literature and the history of the idea of translation itself are actors in the process. Paradigmatic examples from diverse spatio-temporal zones including Renaissance multilingual translation, colonial translations in North India, and Arabic translations of European literature in the nineteenth century demonstrate that putting a work into a new language is beset with the Eurocentric aesthetics of world literature and reinforced by colonial regulation. At the same time, it challenges a controlled world system with indeterminacy and decentralization. As literary linguistic contacts grow and evolve across the globe in this period, the praxis of translating is not restricted by prescription. More importantly, the ontology of translation is unbound. Rather than belated second acts of literature translations are co-creations with the source.

  • Structured Psychological Support for people with personality disorder: feasibility randomised controlled trial of a low-intensity intervention

  • Mike J. Crawford, Lavanya Thana, Jennie Parker, Oliver Turner, Aidan Carney, Mary McMurran, Paul Moran, Timothy Weaver, Barbara Barrett, Sarah Roberts, Amy Claringbold, Paul Bassett, Rahil Sanatinia, Amanda Spong
  • Journal: BJPsych Open / Volume 6 / Issue 2 / March 2020
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 March 2020, e25
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  • Background

    National guidance cautions against low-intensity interventions for people with personality disorder, but evidence from trials is lacking.

    Aims

    To test the feasibility of conducting a randomised trial of a low-intensity intervention for people with personality disorder.

    Method

    Single-blind, feasibility trial (trial registration: ISRCTN14994755). We recruited people aged 18 or over with a clinical diagnosis of personality disorder from mental health services, excluding those with a coexisting organic or psychotic mental disorder. We randomly allocated participants via a remote system on a 1:1 ratio to six to ten sessions of Structured Psychological Support (SPS) or to treatment as usual. We assessed social functioning, mental health, health-related quality of life, satisfaction with care and resource use and costs at baseline and 24 weeks after randomisation.

    Results

    A total of 63 participants were randomly assigned to either SPS (n = 33) or treatment as usual (n = 30). Twenty-nine (88%) of those in the active arm of the trial received one or more session (median 7). Among 46 (73%) who were followed up at 24 weeks, social dysfunction was lower (−6.3, 95% CI −12.0 to −0.6, P = 0.03) and satisfaction with care was higher (6.5, 95% CI 2.5 to 10.4; P = 0.002) in those allocated to SPS. Statistically significant differences were not found in other outcomes. The cost of the intervention was low and total costs over 24 weeks were similar in both groups.

    Conclusions

    SPS may provide an effective low-intensity intervention for people with personality disorder and should be tested in fully powered clinical trials.

  • 1.14 - Theories of change

  • from Part I - Psychological underpinnings
  • Edited by Jennifer M. Brown, London School of Economics and Political Science, Elizabeth A. Campbell, University of Glasgow
  • Book: The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology
  • Published online: 06 July 2010
  • Print publication: 29 April 2010, pp 118-125

  • Summary

    This chapter discusses the theories of change that relate to how offenders can be assisted to change their offending through treatment. It considers how to promote motivation to engage in treatment and change behaviour. Andrews and Bonta distilled and refined their principles of effective offender treatment into what is known as the Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) model. Theories of motivation for treatment and behaviour change may be described in three main approaches: matching intervention with stage of change; readiness to change; and goal perspectives. The Transtheoretical Model of Change was described first by Prochaska and DiClemente in relation to smoking cessation and was subsequently widely applied in addiction treatment. Ward and colleagues have proposed the Good Lives model (GLM) of offender rehabilitation, which focuses on helping offenders attain satisfaction in a range of life areas rather than focusing purely on reducing risk.

  • Social problem-solving plus psychoeducation for adults with personality disorder: Pragmatic randomised controlled trial

  • Nick Huband, Mary McMurran, Chris Evans, Conor Duggan
  • Journal: The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 190 / Issue 4 / April 2007
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018, pp. 307-313
  • Print publication: April 2007
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  • Background

    Social problem-solving therapy may be relevant in the treatment of personality disorder, although assessments of its effectiveness are uncommon.

    Aims

    To determine the effectiveness of a problem-solving intervention for adults with personality disorder in the community under conditions resembling routine clinical practice.

    Method

    Participants were randomly allocated to brief psychoeducation plus 16 problem-solving group sessions (n=87) or to waiting-list control (n=89). Primary outcome was comparison of scores on the Social Problem Solving Inventory and the Social Functioning Questionnaire between intervention and control arms at the conclusion of treatment, on average at 24 weeks after randomisation.

    Results

    In intention-to-treat analysis, those allocated to intervention showed significantly better problem-solving skills (P < 0.001), higher overall social functioning (P=0.031) and lower anger expression (P=0.039) compared with controls. No significant differences were found on use of services during the intervention period.

    Conclusions

    Problem-solving plus psychoeducation has potential as a preliminary intervention for adults with personality disorder.

  • CONTROLLING ANGRY AGGRESSION: A PILOT GROUP INTERVENTION WITH PERSONALITY DISORDERED OFFENDERS

  • Mary McMurran, Philip Charlesworth, Conor Duggan, Lucy McCarthy
  • Journal: Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy / Volume 29 / Issue 4 / October 2001
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 October 2001, pp. 473-483
  • Print publication: October 2001

  • In this paper, we describe the progress of four male, legally-detained personality disordered offenders in a group treatment programme for angry aggression. “Controlling angry aggression” is a 15-session, structured, cognitive-behavioural programme that is part of a wider integrated, multidisciplinary treatment programme run within a specialist personality disorder treatment unit. Psychometric tests showed that three of the four patients improved over the course of the treatment programme. Behaviour ratings of staff and patients concurred, allowing confidence in patients' self-report of anger. No change in behaviour was evident over time for any patient, but initial low rates of aggression allowed little room for improvement. Self-monitored anger and aggression scores did vary markedly over time, and since behaviour remains stable despite anger, this indicates that these patients can control their behaviour. One patient did not improve, and reasons for this are examined, concluding with a reminder of the need for rigorous selection of patients for treatment programmes.