title: The effectiveness of an ACT based intervention in the management of disordered eating

authors: Babbott, Kathryn M.

subjects: eating disorder

abstract: Disordered eating is a term that refers to patterns of thoughts and behaviour that are maladaptive, and often centred around food, weight, and eating. For individuals who engage in disordered eating, the risk of progression to a clinically significant disorder is high, and once the diagnostic threshold is crossed, time becomes an increasingly important factor. This research endeavours to evaluate the efficacy of an intervention which is widely accessible and low cost, which may be used to address increasingly high rates of diagnosis and demand for services. 
The efficacy of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in treating a broad range of disorders has been well-established in empirical literature. The present study utilised a non-concurrent multiple baseline design to evaluate the efficacy of a self-help ACT workbook intervention in managing non-clinical disordered eating. Follow up data was collected six weeks after completion of the intervention. Participants were also asked to complete pre and post-intervention measures of acceptance, valued living, disordered eating pathology, and a general screen of psychopathology. The book, ‘Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life’, by Steven Hayes,  was used for the purposes of this study in a community sample. The content of the book is based on ACT and contains information and exercises based around the six core principles of ACT. 
	Seventeen participants who were concerned about their eating were recruited for this research via poster advertisements placed around a university campus and the wider city. 11.8% (n=2) of the participants were male and 88.2% (n=15) were female. Following a two-week baseline, participants worked through select chapters in the book over the course of six weeks. All participants were contacted via telephone to collect weekly measures of suffering, struggle, workability, and valued action, which are key components of ACT. Participants were also asked to rate the extent to which the week’s reading had aided them in managing disordered eating behaviour. After completing the intervention, acceptance and quality of life ratings showed improvements at a trend level, and disordered eating pathology significantly decreased. All of these improvements were maintained at follow up. There were no significant changes in general measures of pathology, (i.e. depression and anxiety), although non-significant trends were observed, which indicated improvement. Although the small n nature of this research means that findings should be interpreted with caution, the results of this research support the hypothesis that self-help interventions can be useful for mitigating subclinical disordered eating pathology, and suggest that further research is warranted into the development of ACT-based interventions for subclinical disordered eating which are widely available and accessible to all.

text: The effectiveness of an ACT based intervention in the management of disordered eating Disordered eating is a term that refers to patterns of thoughts and behaviour that are maladaptive, and often centred around food, weight, and eating. For individuals who engage in disordered eating, the risk of progression to a clinically significant disorder is high, and once the diagnostic threshold is crossed, time becomes an increasingly important factor. This research endeavours to evaluate the efficacy of an intervention which is widely accessible and low cost, which may be used to address increasingly high rates of diagnosis and demand for services. 
The efficacy of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in treating a broad range of disorders has been well-established in empirical literature. The present study utilised a non-concurrent multiple baseline design to evaluate the efficacy of a self-help ACT workbook intervention in managing non-clinical disordered eating. Follow up data was collected six weeks after completion of the intervention. Participants were also asked to complete pre and post-intervention measures of acceptance, valued living, disordered eating pathology, and a general screen of psychopathology. The book, ‘Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life’, by Steven Hayes,  was used for the purposes of this study in a community sample. The content of the book is based on ACT and contains information and exercises based around the six core principles of ACT. 
	Seventeen participants who were concerned about their eating were recruited for this research via poster advertisements placed around a university campus and the wider city. 11.8% (n=2) of the participants were male and 88.2% (n=15) were female. Following a two-week baseline, participants worked through select chapters in the book over the course of six weeks. All participants were contacted via telephone to collect weekly measures of suffering, struggle, workability, and valued action, which are key components of ACT. Participants were also asked to rate the extent to which the week’s reading had aided them in managing disordered eating behaviour. After completing the intervention, acceptance and quality of life ratings showed improvements at a trend level, and disordered eating pathology significantly decreased. All of these improvements were maintained at follow up. There were no significant changes in general measures of pathology, (i.e. depression and anxiety), although non-significant trends were observed, which indicated improvement. Although the small n nature of this research means that findings should be interpreted with caution, the results of this research support the hypothesis that self-help interventions can be useful for mitigating subclinical disordered eating pathology, and suggest that further research is warranted into the development of ACT-based interventions for subclinical disordered eating which are widely available and accessible to all.

year: 2018

title: INTRODUCTION Establishing, placing, engaging and doing feminist geographies

authors: Johnston, Lynda

abstract: This Handbook reflects the immense depth of interest, developments, directions and tensions in gender and feminist geographies. It brings together 48 chapters by new, emerging and established scholars, activists and artists in order to highlight original international work in gender and feminist geographies. For nearly five decades –  from the 1970s onwards –  geographers have employed feminist and other critical social theories to understand gender, power, place and space. There is now a vast and considerable literature in gender and feminist geographies, and also a growing number of scholars who bring feminist theory and praxis to diverse topics and locations. There are unmistakable continuities between earlier compendiums, such as Geographies of New Femininities (Laurie et al. 2014), Feminist Geography in Practice (Moss 2002) and A Companion to Feminist Geography (Nelson and Seager 2005) and this Handbook. The differences between earlier volumes and this one suggest that the field of scholarship continues to mature in theory and practice, in part by diversifying the voices and perspectives that refocus its scholarship towards new questions, new approaches and new critical theories. This Handbook aims to provide a window into established gender and feminist geographies while pointing readers towards new directions. We, as editors, are deeply honoured to be caretakers of the chapters. From the outset, our main goal has been to represent the diversity of research, different theoretical frameworks, the variety of methodological tools and the multiplicity of practices within gender and feminist geographies. The range and merit of different approaches to gender and feminist geographies are based on different interpretations of what is regarded as salient and significant for scholars and activists. Where we have succeeded in achieving our goal, we are indebted to the contributors to this compendium; where we have failed, we look with hope towards the scholars who will generate their own inspired points of departure.

text: INTRODUCTION Establishing, placing, engaging and doing feminist geographies This Handbook reflects the immense depth of interest, developments, directions and tensions in gender and feminist geographies. It brings together 48 chapters by new, emerging and established scholars, activists and artists in order to highlight original international work in gender and feminist geographies. For nearly five decades –  from the 1970s onwards –  geographers have employed feminist and other critical social theories to understand gender, power, place and space. There is now a vast and considerable literature in gender and feminist geographies, and also a growing number of scholars who bring feminist theory and praxis to diverse topics and locations. There are unmistakable continuities between earlier compendiums, such as Geographies of New Femininities (Laurie et al. 2014), Feminist Geography in Practice (Moss 2002) and A Companion to Feminist Geography (Nelson and Seager 2005) and this Handbook. The differences between earlier volumes and this one suggest that the field of scholarship continues to mature in theory and practice, in part by diversifying the voices and perspectives that refocus its scholarship towards new questions, new approaches and new critical theories. This Handbook aims to provide a window into established gender and feminist geographies while pointing readers towards new directions. We, as editors, are deeply honoured to be caretakers of the chapters. From the outset, our main goal has been to represent the diversity of research, different theoretical frameworks, the variety of methodological tools and the multiplicity of practices within gender and feminist geographies. The range and merit of different approaches to gender and feminist geographies are based on different interpretations of what is regarded as salient and significant for scholars and activists. Where we have succeeded in achieving our goal, we are indebted to the contributors to this compendium; where we have failed, we look with hope towards the scholars who will generate their own inspired points of departure.

year: 2020

title: Tūturu whakamaua ko te kupu, haumi e, hui e, ko ngā kupu o te mātauranga ē!

authors: Dale, Hēmi

subjects: Reo Māori

abstract: Ko tā tēnei tuhinga he arotahi ki ētahi o ngā take reo e pā ana ki ngā mahi whakangungu pouako mā te huarahi o te reo Māori i roto i te whare wānanga. Ka mutu, ka kōrerorerotia ngā urupare a te Huarahi Māori (tētahi kaiwhakarato whakangungu pouako mā te huarahi o te reo Māori) ki ētahi o ēnei take reo.

text: Tūturu whakamaua ko te kupu, haumi e, hui e, ko ngā kupu o te mātauranga ē! Ko tā tēnei tuhinga he arotahi ki ētahi o ngā take reo e pā ana ki ngā mahi whakangungu pouako mā te huarahi o te reo Māori i roto i te whare wānanga. Ka mutu, ka kōrerorerotia ngā urupare a te Huarahi Māori (tētahi kaiwhakarato whakangungu pouako mā te huarahi o te reo Māori) ki ētahi o ēnei take reo.

year: 2017