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Influence of Crime Reduction Initiatives on Maintenance of Law and Order. A Critical Literature Review
Authors: Weru Phyliss Weru 
Published: January 2023

Purpose: Since the formation of nation state until 1980’s and 1990’s, strong national governments have dominated the world resulting to either absentee or weak regional governments. Apart from Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Yugoslavia, all other European Countries as well as in Africa and Asia, have had central governments throughout the post-world war II. The overall objective of this study was to examine influence of crime reduction initiatives on maintenance of law and order in Kenya. A critical literature review
Methodology: The paper used a desk study review methodology where relevant empirical literature was reviewed to identify main themes and to extract knowledge gaps.
Findings: The study concluded that on crime reduction initiatives, the government does not provide opportunities for the members of the public to report crime, and does not encourage public participation on matters affecting the public. The county government also does not support formation of social groups for purposes of promoting social values and is not involved in reconciliation of conflicting communities.
Unique Contribution to Theory, Policy and Practice: This study recommended that the government should focus on management of public transport and give the youth support in the sporting activities. It should also focus on campaigning against drug abuse, alcoholism and publicizing the sports calendar. The government should put measures in place to reduce the number of reported crimes and resolve social issues quickly to avoid conflicts in the county. The existing laws need amendment to be supportive enough for the county government on maintaining law and order. The national government should also provide more supportive role in ensuring the county governments succeed in their mandate of maintaining law and order.
Reduction of Anti-Social Activities Initiatives on Facilitation of Social Justice in Nigeria. A Critical Literature Review
Authors: Kiama Elizabeth Wangare 
Published: January 2023

Purpose: Antisocial behavior is a matter of major public concern, especially in neighborhoods perceived to have poor quality of life and in which incidents of more serious crime are likely to occur. The overall objective of this study was to examine reduction of anti-social activities initiatives on facilitation of social justice in Nigeria. A critical literature review
Methodology: The paper used a desk study review methodology where relevant empirical literature was reviewed to identify main themes and to extract knowledge gaps.
Findings: The study concluded that most of the respondents disagreed that the government has campaigned against illicit alcohol consumption. Most of the respondents also disagreed that the county government ensures that no alcohol drinking places are located near schools or within residential areas. The study also disagreed that the county government offers guidance to citizens on handling and management of anger.
Unique Contribution to Theory, Policy and Practice: This study recommended that the government of Nigeria should give its members the opportunity to report crime and work with the members to reduce the criminal cases that take place in the country as well as deal with the illegal business that take place within the country regions.
Influence of Economic Factors Impede Integrity and Ethical Practices in the Public Sector. A Critical Literature Review
Authors: Kimari Anes Kimari 
Published: January 2023

Purpose: Antisocial behavior is a matter of major public concern, especially in neighborhoods perceived to have poor quality of life and in which incidents of more serious crime are likely to occur. The overall objective of this study was to examine influence of economic factors impede integrity and ethical practices in the public sector globally. A critical literature review
Methodology: The paper used a desk study review methodology where relevant empirical literature was reviewed to identify main themes and to extract knowledge gaps.
Findings: The study concluded that the absence of an effective economic crimes law was cited as a major impediment in the fight against graft and unethical practices. The study also concluded that an effective economic crimes law not only outlines the economic crimes, it prescribes penalties to be sanctioned on individuals who have engaged in economic crime and lays out the procedure and process for recovering illicit wealth. The study also concluded that the country that did not have economic crime law the cases of corruption and unethical behaviour were reported to be high.
Unique Contribution to Theory, Policy and Practice: This study recommended that the policy makers should introduce of lifestyle audits of public servants as a key strategy in the fight against unethical practices in public service .This was because democracies where lifestyle audit was a mandatory requirement for key public officials unethical practices were less rampant and investigation and prosecution of graft cases was more effective. The study also recommended that it was imperative that key public officials underwent lifestyle audits in order to curb graft in public service and that officers involved in the investigative process should also undergo lifestyle audits.
SALESPERSON BEHAVIUOR AND CUSTOMERS SATISFACTION IN THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY: AN EXPOSITION OF SELECTED RESTAURANTS IN ENUGU METROPOLIS
Authors: Okolo Victor , Mmamel Zita 
Published: January 2023

Purpose: This paper studied the effect of salesperson behaviuor on customer satisfaction in the services industry. The specific objectives were firstly to determine the relationship between salesperson ethical selling behaviuor in delivering services and customer satisfaction in the services industry. Secondly, to ascertain the relationship between salesperson smart selling behaviour in delivering services and customer satisfaction in the services industry.
Methodology: The study comprises customers of elected restaurant in Enugu metropolis whose population is unknown. Cochran’s sample size determination formula was used to determine the sample size of 384. Survey method was used to distribute structured questionnaires to the 384 respondents who eventually retuned 300 well filled questionnaires. For the reliability of the study, Cronbach’s alpha was used and the value of 0.784 was determined. Analysis of data was done using Pearson Product Moment correlation statistical tool.
Results: Findings revealed that there is a significant positive relationship between salesperson ethical selling behaviour in delivering services and customer satisfaction. Similarly, it was revealed that there is a significant positive relationship between salesperson smart selling behaviour in delivering services and customer satisfaction. The implication of this finding is that if salespersons continue with these pleasant approaches, satisfied customers will make repeat purchase and transform into loyal customers. Therefore, restaurant management should lay more emphasis on improving salesperson behaviour to satisfy customers and improve organizational performance. Also, salespersons should be taught to be innovative in the manner they deliver restaurant services to enhance customer value.
Lurbinectedin (Zepzelca)
Authors: CADTH  
Published: January 2023

CADTH recommends that Zepzelca not be reimbursed by public drug plans for the treatment of stage III or metastatic small cell lung cancer (SCLC).
While evidence from a clinical trial demonstrated that some patients had disease that responded during treatment with Zepzelca, without a control group there is uncertainty in how much the observed responses were due to Zepzelca treatment rather than chance.
There was too much uncertainty in the reviewed evidence to determine how Zepzelca compares to other treatments used in Canada in terms of delaying disease progression, improving survival, and minimizing side effects.
It is unclear whether Zepzelca meets any of the needs identified by patients: improving survival, delaying disease progression, relieving cancer symptoms, minimizing side effects, and maintaining or improving quality of life.
‘A definite quantity of all the differences in the world’: Glissant, Spinoza, and the Abyss as True Cause
Authors: Brown Angela H. 
Published: January 2023

In a conversation with Manthia Diawara aboard the Queen Mary II in 2009, Édouard Glissant elaborated his definition of Relation, a concept that he formally presented in his book Poétique de la relation in 1990, but that emerged out of years of writing about creolization and cultural action in the Caribbean. Sitting at the ship’s window, with the Atlantic Ocean crashing around him, Glissant explains that “the truth that is increasingly coming to light about Black reality in the New World is the truth of multiplicity, the truth of the step towards the Other.”
The use of cash and other means of payment: how is the way we pay changing?
Authors: Ferrando Laura , Posada Diana 
Published: January 2023

Rationale
Digitalisation has made significant headway in recent years, particularly following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Against this background, it is important to analyse how consumers’ payment habits are changing at the physical point of sale, online and person-to-person.
Takeaways
•In 2022, cash is the most commonly used payment method in Spain at the physical point of sale and in person-to-person transactions, but has declined compared with 2019.
•The decrease in the use of cash is primarily driven by two factors. First, the growth in online purchases, which limits the opportunity to pay in cash and, second, a shift in consumers’ payment habits, with an increase in the use of digital payment methods in their purchases.
In pursuit of organisational wisdom
Authors: Hudson Trevor E. 
Published: January 2023

Key digested messageThe concept of ‘wisdom’ is ancient but is something that, as studied by psychologists as opposed to philosophers, has only recently received attention. If wisdom is objectively measurable it has far reaching implications for how we understand leadership, leadership development and potential. This study utilised an adapted version of the Washington University Sentence Completion Test to investigate the concept of ‘Organisational Wisdom’ (OW).This study found evidence, that the newly developed Organisational Wisdom Sentence Completion Test had statistically significant correlations with leadership interviews and positive correlations with internal measures of potential and performance. When combined with related research the implications for identifying and developing talent are far reaching.
Leadership: What competencies does it take to remain engaged as a leader in a VUCA world?
Authors: Bywater James , Lewis James 
Published: January 2023

Key digested messageWhat does it take to cope in a VUCA world? This research extends the work published in 2018 to examine which behavioural competencies enhance the engagement levels of leaders in periods of high change. It uses substantial samples of real leaders occupying senior jobs in large organisations and measures personal engagement levels as the dependent variable. It seeks to answer the question ‘Who thrives as a leader under varying degrees of change and uncertainty?’ This is important because if a leader becomes disengaged there is little prospect of them being able to lead others through organisational change.
Towards a consensus model of IQ: John L. Horn and John B. Carroll
Authors: McCredie Hugh 
Published: January 2023

Key digested messageThis article tracks the emergence of a consensus, three level (or ‘stratum’) hierarchical, model of cognitive ability consisting of narrow abilities (Level 1/Stratum I), broad abilities (Level 2/Stratum II) and a single general ability (Level 3/Stratum III).
Explorers of implicit motivation part 3Measuring the achievement motive (nAch)
Authors: McCredie Hugh 
Published: January 2023

Key digested messageThe preceding article ended with Murray’s Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) eliciting one or more of 44 themas which included three social needs/motives: nAchievement (nAch), nAffiliation (nAff) and nDominance (later termed nPower or nPow). This article will report on how a measure of the first of these needs, nAch, was developed in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Understanding power in order to share hope: A tribute to David Smail
Authors: Bostock Jan 
Published: January 2023

The psychological consequences of poverty, abuse and discrimination are palpable and debilitating, and clinical and community psychologists are in a position to represent this in our research and practice. We can account for how economic, social and organisational inequalities and deprivation influence communities and individuals, and understand how social processes can be undermining and also how they can generate resilience. We can also use our resources to work with others actively and publicly.While recognising that psychological interventions are inherently limited and problematic, I would like to suggest that they may share hopeful ways forward with individuals, organisations and communities. Acknowledging and understanding the overwhelming physical and emotional consequences of the misuse of power can be a validating process that generates collaborative alliances. We can draw on David Smail’s framework for analysing people’s proximal powers in the context of distal forces to consider the scope people have to act individually or collectively, and to be open about the limitations and potential of psychological interventions.
Reflections on organising the power, interest and psychology conference
Authors:   Midlands Psychology Group
Published: January 2023

And then there were six…It was mostly with feelings of relief that members of the Midlands Psychology Group (MPG) reached the end of the two-day Power, Interest and Psychology Conference. As conference co-organisers, it seemed we had achieved the overall aims and that much time had been spent paying tribute, remembering and celebrating David Smail’s ideas. At the same time, individual members of the group, to varying degrees, experienced mixed feelings about the two days. We continue to think and talk together about these and about the continued influence of David’s ideas on the profession of clinical psychology.
Understanding the socio-political dimensions of disability within clinical psychology
Authors: Dawood Runa 
Published: January 2023

‘It is a normalising gaze, a surveillance that makes it possible to qualify, to classify and to punish.’ (Michel Foucault in ‘Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison’)This opinion article addresses issues of disability within clinical psychology. It explores the conceptualisation of disability with reference to the disability rights movement and social model approaches. Considerations for an approach that integrates the individual and socio-political are described.
Operationalising equanimity in clinical practice: A mindful approach
Authors: Weber Joey Yeshe Willson 
Published: January 2023

This short commentary refines the therapeutic aspect of mindfulness-based interventions relevant to clinical psychologists. The paper highlights the potential fusion between equanimity and contemporary mindfulness practice.‘Mindfulness has a universal nature. You can find it in every spiritual tradition. If you study deeply the life of a sage from any tradition, you will find a quality of mindfulness in his or her life. A sage is capable of living every moment of his or her life deeply and of touching the beauty and truth in each moment of life.’ (Ticht Nhat Hanh, 2008, p.46)
Philosopher in Italian coronavirus lockdown on how to think positively about isolation
Authors: Panizza Silvia 
Published: January 2023

This article was originally published on the Conversation website on 18 March 2020. It is an interesting reflection on thinking positively during the current Covid-19 crisis.‘I am facing 14 days of self isolation and I find the prospect terrifying. Chances are it will continue much longer too, as we may soon face lockdown. But I also wonder whether it may be good for us to slow down and reflect on the human condition. Could this pandemic help us change how we think and act for the better?’
Changing conversations in suicide risk management: A new model called RISK
Authors: Guyers Mark 
Published: January 2023

This article presents a new communicative model for managing risk of suicide. The RISK framework can be used in conjunction with traditional problem focused approaches to increase the collaboration between healthcare professionals and patients when creating a safety plan.Using this model allows the healthcare professional to curiously ask how the person has kept safe for this long(Resources),how much they know already about how they have done this and what they would notice if the thoughts of attempting suicide were absent or managed(Increments).Next, the framework considers how might the resources discussed be best shared with others (e.g. professionals, family) and who or what else outside of the room might be able to help the increments(Sharing).Finally, in this framework, the professional aims to understand how all of the above ensures the individual keeps their existing expertise at the forefront of the difficulties they are experiencing(Knowledge).Inspired by the ‘GRIN Model of Hope’ (Unwin & Unwin, 2019), this framework also derives from solution focused brief therapy and positive psychology. Within this paper, we follow ‘Alan’ who has arrived at his health appointment in distress, and shares that he wants to end his life. The implications for clinical practice are discussed.The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how solution focused risk management approaches might be better realised in any healthcare setting where risk presents.
An introduction to T1DE (type 1 diabetes and disordered eating) and the Wessex based ComPASSION project: Bringing together body and mind
Authors: Rouse Lindsey , Allworth Lydia , Pinder Claire , Bennett Michelle , Partridge Helen , Figueiredo Carla , Ryder Jacqueline , Stacey Nicola , Cross Caroline 
Published: January 2023

‘Injecting insulin feels like I’m injecting fat…’This article summarises some of the key features of type 1 diabetes that can contribute to the development and maintenance of an eating disorder. We highlight some of the challenges of identification, assessment and treatment, and describe the work of an NHS England funded project in Wessex, providing specialist integrated physical and mental health care.
Theoretical Paper: A trainee counselling psychologist’s considerations in CBT-informed practice with adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse
Authors: Chahal Parneet Kaur 
Published: January 2023

Content and FocusThis paper has emerged from my experience and developing practice of working integratively with survivors of childhood sexual abuse. It aims to raise key considerations to make in practicing from a CBT-informed rather than a CBT-led perspective with survivors.ConclusionsIt argues for the centrality of the therapeutic relationship as a foundation within which all therapeutic work occurs with survivors. It advocates practitioners to strive for a balance between process-led and client-led integrative choices in therapy and emphasises the importance of safe trauma practice through developing the survivors’ functional coping strategies before calling forth traumatic memories. Contributions and limitations of a CBT approach with survivors are discussed, and building integrative practices with different traditions as a goal for counselling psychologists is encouraged.
Research Paper The relationship between children's outcomes in counselling and psychotherapy and attachment styles
Authors: Innerhofer Birgit 
Published: January 2023

BackgroundAinsworth developed the four attachment styles by observing children in situations of distress, fear, and anxiety. These are the secure, avoidant (dismissive), anxious-ambivalent (preoccupied) and disorganised attachment styles. They can also be observed when children are in therapy.MethodThis literature review includes research that looks at the therapeutic outcomes of children with different attachment styles. I searched electronic databases, books and articles for relevant studies. They were then selected, thematically analysed and arranged in different themes and subthemes according to the research question.FindingsResults show how attachment styles influence the therapeutic process and the psychological health; also, the environment affects the attachment style. Children with an insecure attachment style often benefit from long-term therapy and are then able to have healthier and better relationships after the treatment. Research also shows that attachment styles are not rigid but rather fluid, flexible and include change.DiscussionThe relationship between children’s outcomes in counselling and psychotherapy and attachment styles is reviewed in this literature review. It entails new perspectives of children’s attachment styles and what their relationship is to the therapeutic process. This is crucial for therapists as it supports them in their work with children.
Editorial Information asymmetry and counselling psychology: 'Noledge is Power'
Authors: Hanley Terry 
Published: January 2023

Content & FocusThis editorial reflects upon the concept of ‘information asymmetry’ within counselling psychology. As therapists we commonly prize our psychological knowledge and attend workshop after workshop to provide us with more. We then attempt to wield the knowledge that we have attained in a sensitive and ethically minded way in our work with clients. As such, this sophisticated navigation of information asymmetry is present within our daily therapeutic routines. In contrast, it could be argued that within the more equal playing field of research, we are less forthcoming with our experience and expertise. Prior to moving to outline the wide ranging topics in this edition of Counselling Psychology Review,this reticence is briefly reflected upon and the implications of the recent, and future, Research Excellence Framework assessments are considered.
Theoretical Paper From shared roots to fruitful collaboration: How counselling psychology can benefit from (re)connecting with positive psychology
Authors: Steffen Edith , Vossler Andreas , Joseph Stephen 
Published: January 2023

Content & FocusCounselling psychology has its origins in a positive orientation towards lifelong development, growth and prevention rather than pathology and cure. Along with the positive psychology movement, it shares its roots in humanistic psychology, and while US counselling psychology has embraced positive psychology explicitly, UK counselling psychology has been more reluctant to engage with this framework. This paper reviews the relationship between counselling psychology and positive psychology, tracing the roots of counselling psychology and its engagement with positive psychology as well as some of the barriers to fruitful interaction. We offer suggestions for how counselling psychology could beneficially (re)connect with positive psychology ideas and practices.ConclusionsBy reconnecting with its positive roots and engaging with the ideas and the research of the positive psychology movement, counselling psychology could develop more balanced and strength-oriented ways of working, rekindling its original commitment towards human flourishing and actualisation.
Invited Paper Integrating positive psychology and coaching psychology into counselling psychology
Authors: Grant Anthony M. , Palmer Stephen 
Published: January 2023

Content & FocusThis paper focuses on positive, coaching and counselling psychology. It argues that counselling psychologists are in an ideal role to deliver positive psychology and coaching psychology services. The tension between counselling psychology relying upon diagnosis within the medical context in contrast to the positive and coaching psychology approach is briefly addressed.ConclusionThis paper concludes with a way forward for counselling psychology.