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Self-regulation coaching to alleviate student procrastination: Addressing the likeability of studying behaviours
Authors: Sims Ceri M. 
Published: January 2023

Students who habitually procrastinate may be at risk of underachieving academically as well as putting their health and well-being in jeopardy. The current review of research on procrastination leads to the identification of four broad task likeability factors as encapsulating a range of procrastination patterns. These are: (1) perceived low level of task enjoyment; (2) anticipation of aversive outcomes; (3) estimated inability to do the task; and (4) competing attractiveness of alternative tasks. Each of these low task likeability factors can lead to procrastination when accompanied by particular self-regulation shortcomings, identified respectively as intrinsic/extrinsic motivation, anxieties of performance evaluation, low self-efficacy of performance and weak attentional control of distracters.A self-regulation coaching framework is proposed as a comprehensive way to address academic procrastination. After identifying the low task likeability areas that are involved when faced with an assignment, student coachees can be facilitated to raise self-awareness and develop necessary self-regulation strategies to alleviate their procrastination patterns. The practical implications of this coaching approach are potentially vast. Therefore, further research to evaluate its efficacy is recommended as the next step towards this endeavour.
Authentic Leaders are… Conscious, Competent, Confident, and Congruent: A Grounded Theory of Group Coaching and Authentic Leadership Development
Authors: Fusco Tony , O’Riordan Siobhain , Palmer Stephen 
Published: January 2023

Introduction:This paper explores and merges two important fields of coaching; Group Coaching and Authentic Leadership Development (ALD). It develops a theory of group coaching and builds this into a conceptual and evidence-based method of ALD.Design:Four authentic leadership coaching groups were conducted over an 18-month period. Each group consisted of five or six senior leaders and were run once a month over a three-month period. After a three-month gap, recorded semi-structured interviews were conducted with all participants to capture the learning and behaviour change that these leaders had experienced as a result of the group-coaching programme.Results:A Grounded Theory approach was applied to the analysis of monthly diary and final interview data which resulted in a two-part theory. Firstly, how the process of a group-coaching approach to ALD works, and secondly, what the output of this approach is in terms of individual leadership. A model was developed comprising four core concepts of authentic leadership along with seven sub-categories of key leadership skills.Conclusion:This research brings together the two key areas of group coaching and leadership development and contributes to the field of leadership coaching by offering both amodeland amethodof ALD. It offers an underpinning theory of each and introduces a model of authentic leadership based on the core concepts of conscious, competent, confident and congruent leadership.
Coaching for leadership resilience: An integrated approach
Authors: Smith Carmelina Lawton 
Published: January 2023

Objectives:Existing approaches to coaching leaders for resilience are fragmented and often drawn from the developmental or clinical context but little empirical research has investigated the leadership perspective on resilience. The objective of this study was to establish how leaders conceptualise resilience in their context in order to inform approaches to enhancing and supporting the growth of resilience by coaches working with this target group.Design:This constructivist grounded theory study was set within a pragmatic paradigm and gathered qualitative interview data to examine the concept of resilience from a leadership perspective.Methods:Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight senior leaders who had been coached by seven different coaches to gather their perspective on the meaning of resilience in leadership.Results:Resilience emerged as operating differently in relation to the past, the present and the future. Leaders in this study also described resilience as a ‘resource’ or fuel, which suggests that working with skills alone may not be sufficient to enhance resilience. A wider conceptualisation of resilience is proposed that includes both capabilities and the capacity for resilience. Capabilities encompass skills or strategies, while capacity is a more transient resource. Values emerged as important and may be an area for future investigation.Conclusions:Conceptualising resilience as having a stable capability component and a more transient capacity element has implications for coaching practices aimed at enhancing resilience in the leadership context. It suggests that working with capabilities alone may have a limited impact and that coaches wishing to enhance resilience may want to address the more transient ‘capacity’ element as well as values.
A test of cognitive processing speed for those with a motor impairment
Authors: Madigan Ashleigh , Banks Jessica , Morris Sarah , Silva Sara da , Michael Oddy 
Published: January 2023

Objective:To compare an oral form of a speed of information processing (SolP) test with its motor equivalent.Method:Oral and motor versions of the BMIPB SolP test were administered to a non-clinical sample (N=100).Results:There was a strong positive correlation between the oral and the motor versions of the test.Conclusion:The oral SolP test is a valid measure of mental processing speed and is useful for assessing those with motor impairments. N.B. Please note that registered users of the BIRT Information and Processing Battery (BMIPB) may obtain a digital copy of the oral speed test by contacting the corresponding author onSara.daSilvaRamos@thedtgroup.org.
Remote contact during Covid-19 lockdown: Feedback from people with brain injury
Authors: Tyerman Andy , Buckle Clara , King Nigel , Melville Jayne 
Published: January 2023

Introduction:In response to concerns about the impact of Covid-19 lockdown, a client feedback exercise was conducted of the experience of remote contact by people seen by a community brain injury rehabilitation service.Process:Telephone interviews for 58 people with brain injury were conducted to provide feedback on their experiences of remote contact (i.e. telephone, email and/or video). This was a well-established group of respondents with 69 per cent in receipt of input for over a year.Feedback:Seventy-five per cent reported the remote contact as easy but 25 per cent reported some difficulty; 86 per cent reported it as helpful but 14 per cent mixed/unhelpful; whilst 8 per cent reported it as more effective than usual practice and 50 per cent ‘as effective’, 42 per cent reported it as ‘less effective’; 62 per cent favoured a flexible balance of face-to-face and remote contact going forward, but 33 per cent see their needs as best met by a return to face-to-face only (26 per cent) or mainly face-to-face (7 per cent) contact.Discussion:Experience of remote contact was highly variable. Whilst most clients favoured a flexible balance of face-to-face and remote contact going forward, a third of clients see their needs as best met by fully or mainly face-to-face contact. There was a consistent suggestion that the relatively small group of people in the first year post-injury were experiencing greater difficulty with remote contact. Client feedback from this one service raises the need for a large multi-service study of remote service contact for people with ABI and the relative merits of different forms of remote contact and video platforms.
Diagnosing Gerstmann’s syndrome in a case of hypoxic brain injury
Authors: Mole Joseph A. , Wilson Barbara A. , Liddiard Heather , Bruno Stefania 
Published: January 2023

Objectives: Gerstmann’s syndrome (GS) is characterised by the cooccurrence of acalculia, finger agnosia, agraphia and left-right disorientation. Although there is a relatively large literature on the syndrome’s theoretical implications, less consideration has been given to the assessment of the syndrome in practice. We aimed to provide an illustrative case study of the differential diagnosis of GS.Methods: We describe a case of a 46-year-old woman who presented with the four classic symptoms of GS following a cardiac arrest. In addition to a standard neuropsychological assessment battery, an additional dedicated brief assessment was conducted to differentiate between GS and alternative possibilities.Results: The assessment revealed specific impairments in performing calculations, finger agnosia, agraphia and left-right disorientation, which could not be accounted for by alternative explanations, including a general cognitive impairment, dysphasia, apraxia, Balint’s syndrome, unilateral spatial neglect or object agnosia.Conclusions: The present article provides an illustrative case study of the differential diagnosis of Gerstmann’s syndrome, highlighting how the syndrome may be assessed in clinical practice.
A family-based intervention supporting communication and adjustment in a family living with multiple sclerosis
Authors: Wheeler Miranda , Blaze Vinnie , Blaze Kath , Daisley Audrey 
Published: January 2023

Written parental consent was obtained for this publication. Oral assent was obtained from the children for this publication. Two of the family members involved in this intervention also contributed to this submission. All family members involved were given an opportunity to review the submitted version.We present a family-based intervention to support communication and adjustment in a family living with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). The intervention was carried out with a mother with a diagnosis of relapsing-remitting MS and her two children (aged 9 and 13 years). Informed by narrative and strengths-based approaches, intervention was aimed at supporting the family to develop shared perspectives of their experiences of life that are not entirely consumed by the MS. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy techniques supported greater psychological flexibility in their relationships to difficult thoughts and feelings about the MS. Positive outcomes included the children reporting increased knowledge of and ease at talking about the MS with others. The family reported better understanding their own and each-others’ needs and feeling more equipped to support one-another with these. Family perspectives on the intervention and their advice for other psychologists working with families are shared.
Coaching psychology research: Building the evidence, developing awareness
Authors: Ellam-Dyson Vicky 
Published: January 2023

What research?In December 2011 Dr Rob Briner was giving an after dinner speech at the Special Group in Coaching Psychology (SGCP) conference dinner, in which he highlighted the lack of empirically sound research for the discipline of coaching psychology. He asked the audience to give examples of coaching psychology research. Radio silence. Followed by an air of disgruntlement. Once I personally got over the feeling of being caught out for not doing my homework, I wanted to offer some suggestions. Not regarding specific published research, but regarding my own experiences of trying to conduct solid coaching psychology research. The moment had gone, but I did havethe opportunity to discuss this with colleagues at the conference the next day, and was subsequently asked to share my thoughts more widely, hence this article. Thefollowing discussion outlines some practical explanations for the proposed dearth of solid empirical research. It also highlights that there is some good research out there already, and looks at how we can make this more accessible, as well as encouraging more evidence published by practitioners.
Psychology People in Profile: Professor Jonathan A. Smith
Authors: Doran Kate 
Published: January 2023

Professor Jonathan A. Smith is best known for his development of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) as a particular experiential qualitative approach within psychology and its application to a range of areas within health, social and clinical psychology (Smith, 1996; Smith, Flowers & Larkin, 2009). He holds a Chair in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Birkbeck University of London.On behalf of the PsyPAG Quarterly, Kate Doran caught up with Professor Smith in the second half of 2013, to discuss his work. This, the first of two interviews with Professor Smith to be published in this publication, focuses on his current role and how what we now know as IPA first came into being. The second interview will focus on the continued development and achievements of IPA.
Supporting playful drawing in Foundation Stage settings
Authors: Ring Kathy 
Published: January 2023

The work of Kress (1997) and Pahl (1999) shows the young child using drawing as one of a range of interrelated modes across which they make and transform meaning. Kress’s interest in a broader view of literacy, which takes account of young children’s ‘multi-modality’, recognises young children’s use of what is to hand within the environment. For Pahl (2002) young children’s drawings, as part of their free-flowing ‘text’ making in home settings, is lost to adults, subsumed under the heading of ‘play’.Ring’s (2003) small-scale longitudinal study of seven young children drawing across home and pre-school/school settings takes a socio-cultural approach to drawing. It shows how the routines and rituals within settings can both enable and discourage young children’s use of drawing as a tool for making meaning. Supported by Howard’s (2002) study of the cues young children use to distinguish between ‘play’ and ‘work’, this article draws attention to the importance of practitioners in Early years Foundation Stage settings ensuring young children have experiences of drawing that they perceive to be playful.The article uses data extracted from Ring’s (2003) study to analyse one child’s changing perceptions of the usefulness of drawing as a tool for carrying and representing meaning. It contrasts ‘playful’ and ‘workful’ approaches to provisioning and interaction taken by adults as the child moves across home, pre-school and school. The article highlights the importance of Early Years Foundation Stage practitioners’ better understanding of playful drawing as a tool for making meaning and transforming thinking. This requires an examination of their role in creating an environment in which playful drawing can flourish.
Towards a more inclusive Higher Education system: Celebrating success?
Authors: Pumfrey Peter 
Published: January 2023

In 1998 the UK Government stated that its policy would be to make Higher Education (HE) more inclusive. A target of 50 per cent of 18- to 30-year-olds were to be experiencing HE by 2010. Students from groups that had previously been under-represented in HE included young people from semi-skilled or unskilled family backgrounds and from disadvantaged localities, and people with disabilities. This research focussed on changes in the numbers and academic standards of disabled and non-disabled students who successfully completed a first degree at a UK HEI over the 10-year period.In line with Government policy, over the years from 1998/99 to 2007/08, in relation to students successfully completing a first degree, the challenges of making HE in the UK more inclusive are apparently being constructively addressed by HEIs. Between 1998/99 and 2007/08, the absolute numbers of students with disabilities successfully completing UK first degree courses has increased annually. First degreeacademic standards appear to have been maintained. The incidence and percentages of first class honours degrees awarded have risen annually for both non-disabled and disabled students.In considering the above findings and the validity of the argument and evidence adduced in relation to the effects of Government HE policy on practice in HEIs, informed caution is essential. The question mark in the title directs the reader towards the controversial nature of non-explicit assumptions concerning the nature, extent and modifiability of students’ inter- and intra-individual differences in the attributes involved in successfully completing a first degree.
The cyberbullying of schoolteachers by pupils: The perceptions of university students of education at a Brazilian
Authors: Kyriacou Chris , Zuin Antônio 
Published: January 2023

ObjectivesThis study aimed to explore the views of university students of education at a university in Brazil regarding the cyberbullying of schoolteachers by their pupils.DesignA 30-item questionnaire was developed with a five-point response scale labelled from strongly disagree to strongly agree.MethodologyThe questionnaire was completed by 168 university students. Before completing the questionnaire, the university students watched an audio-visual recording in which a schoolteacher snatched a mobile phone from a pupil, who was using the mobile phone to have a conversation during a lesson, and then threw the mobile phone to the ground with such force that it smashed. This recording was a genuine piece of cyberbullying of a teacher by pupils that was widely shared on social media.ResultsThe results indicated that the vast majority of the university students felt that the cyberbullying of schoolteachers by pupils is a big problem that needs to be addressed by schools. The university students felt that schools can reduce such behaviour by having a clear procedure on how to deal with cases against teachers; encouraging discussion of cyberbullying; highlighting its effects on teachers; and encouraging bystander pupils to denounce such behaviour.ConclusionsThese university students think that the cyberbullying of schoolteachers by pupils is a big problem and that schools need to do more to address this problem.
The role of brief therapies in PTSD and associated disorders
Authors: Wake Lisa 
Published: January 2023

As understanding increases in neuroscience and the developing brain, links can be made between these theories and the brief therapies. This paper summarises the range of approaches that exist within brief therapy for the management of longer term conditions that may arise as a result of post traumatic stress disorder that developed early in life. The longer term effects of trauma in childhood can result in depressive or anxiety states, as well as attachment disorders, that can cause problems in relationships as an adult. Therapies reviewed are Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), Ericksonian Therapy, Neurolinguistic Psychotherapy (NLPt), Provocative Therapy, Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT), Self Relations Therapy and Solution Focussed Therapy (SFT).Most brief therapies operate from a principle of reframing the subjective reality of the client and providing a focus on the future as an effective way of engendering change. The paper considers the potential for neurological repair, growth and ongoing development of the individual in therapy. The paper summarises Schore’s (2003) 21 principles of therapy to aid repair of affect regulation and how each of these principles are provided by some of the brief therapies.In conclusion, all of the brief therapies offer the potential for psychological repair, growth and affect regulation. Each of them, to a greater or lesser extent, are using theories within neuroscience to assist change. For some therapies such as EMDR and NLPt this is a deliberate and planned approach to therapy, for others it is occurring although the therapies do not claim to be using neuroscience to affect repair.
The context of public service reform in the neo-liberal economies
Authors: Birchmore Terry 
Published: January 2023

‘Compared with 20 – or even 10 years ago – the average professional’s work is nowadays much more likely to be costed, audited, used as an input for performance indicators, subjected to explicit budgetary or workload ceilings… and/or included within the scope of patient satisfaction surveys. In these senses then, the previous conception of individualistic professionalism has been progressively replaced… the contemporary ethos is much more one of the professional as a member of a team, and beyond that, of an employing organisation. The presumption is that the individual professional will be subject to the rules, plans and priorities of that organisation (as well, perhaps, as the increasingly codified guidelines of the profession itself).’(Harrison & Pollitt, 1994)‘To take an evidence-based approach and show preparedness to collaborate with outcome measurement and generally com ply with clinical and social care governance requirements. To present reports and research to a high clinical and academic standard.’From job description of an NHS Trainee Child Psychotherapist post.‘The principal distinction in the law of persons is this, that all hum an beings are either free or slaves’.Gaius, the Roman Jurist, approximately AD 160.
To stand sitting! Bi-cultural dilemmas in a large group in Aotearoa New Zealand
Authors: Howard Teresa von Sommaruga 
Published: January 2023

The large group often reveals what a society has tried to forget. In 2007 the Aotearoa New Zealand Psychotherapy Association took the unusual step of deciding not only to have a large group but also to make it the central experience at their annual conference in Napier. This paper reflects on my experience as conductor and focuses on projective processes that brought buried aspects of the colonial history of Aotearoa New Zealand to the surface.The aim of the conference was to provide an opportunity to ‘Weave our living stories together’ as a way of encountering the bicultural history of Aotearoa New Zealand. The whole experience touched some deep and painful places. As I worked with the material in the months afterwards, it became clear that this large group gave some clues about what Volkan has called ‘the chosen trauma’ (Volkan, 1997, p.48). Strong feelings connected to what Mäori, the indigenous peoples, ‘thought they gave and what the coloniser claimed’ have been unconsciously transmitted through the generations (Walker, 1990, p.96). The original ‘abyss’ of misunderstandings inextricably linked to the Treaty of Waitangi live on as if in a shadow to everyday life2. At the time, remnants of this history could only be enacted. Three years on, thinking, talking and some understanding has been able to replace what was too distressing to contemplate at the time.
Rational and Winnicottian wellbeing ‘at work’
Authors: Edwards Michaela , Crump Norman 
Published: January 2023

The idea that that the wellbeing of employees should be of concern to managers and employers has long been considered within management thought. From the paternal ideals of the 19th century social reformers to the current purveyors of happiness in the workplace, the need to mediate the demands of constantly increasing pressure on productivity has generated many organisational effects. This paper highlights the conflicts triggered when management seeks to assist teachers to become more efficient and productive as strategic human resources, rather than professional teachers and educators involved in the production of the next generation of citizens.Following a year-long study into staff relationships within a school1this paper develops a line of analysis using the concept of the ‘good enough mother’ (Winnicott, 1971) to highlight a site of conflict. It is suggested that a lack of understanding by the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) of the school toward the support sought by the teachers involved in ‘front line’ work with pupils is part of this conflict situation. The focus by the SLT on wellbeing techniques to assist the teachers toward a more rational ‘bottom line’ set of outcomes has the effect of increasing the distance of understanding between teachers and managers.