title: An experimental investigation of the self-management therapies: coverant control and covert sensitization

authors: Saunders, Steven Arthur

abstract: The relative efficacies of the SM techniques of Coverant Control (CC) and Covert Sensitization (CS), when applied singly and in combination, are investigated. Rate of cigarette smoking is the dependent variable. 

From an initial sample of 61 volunteers, smokers wishing to quit, 55 subjects (S’s) maintained contact and comprised the study group. Eleven S’s formed a non-treated control condition while the remaining 44 were distributed equally across 4 experimental conditions. These groups included a Placebo condition, CC, CS and CS + CC combined. 

It was hypothesised that CS and CC would prove more effective than a Placebo condition which involved contact only. It was further hypothesised that CS+ CC, administered as a combined package, would prove more effective in maintaining in-treatment gains at follow-up than when either of these treatments was administered singly.

The statistical analyses indicated no significant differences between the experimental groups receiving regular contact. All groups, except the non-treated controls, did reduce cigarette consumption while the programme lasted. However, on follow-up there was an almost uniform return toward baseline rates, with the SM treatment S’s not differing from those in the Placebo group.

These data are discussed in terms of possible implications for the development of SM techniques that are clinically useful with cigarette smokers.

text: An experimental investigation of the self-management therapies: coverant control and covert sensitization The relative efficacies of the SM techniques of Coverant Control (CC) and Covert Sensitization (CS), when applied singly and in combination, are investigated. Rate of cigarette smoking is the dependent variable. 

From an initial sample of 61 volunteers, smokers wishing to quit, 55 subjects (S’s) maintained contact and comprised the study group. Eleven S’s formed a non-treated control condition while the remaining 44 were distributed equally across 4 experimental conditions. These groups included a Placebo condition, CC, CS and CS + CC combined. 

It was hypothesised that CS and CC would prove more effective than a Placebo condition which involved contact only. It was further hypothesised that CS+ CC, administered as a combined package, would prove more effective in maintaining in-treatment gains at follow-up than when either of these treatments was administered singly.

The statistical analyses indicated no significant differences between the experimental groups receiving regular contact. All groups, except the non-treated controls, did reduce cigarette consumption while the programme lasted. However, on follow-up there was an almost uniform return toward baseline rates, with the SM treatment S’s not differing from those in the Placebo group.

These data are discussed in terms of possible implications for the development of SM techniques that are clinically useful with cigarette smokers.

year: 1973

title: Language rights: Moving the debate forward

authors: May, Stephen

subjects: Language rights

abstract: This article provides an overview of the current issues and challenges facing the nascent paradigm of minority language rights (MLR). It focuses on the theoretical points of dispute and tension with respect to MLR, as well as the challenges attendant upon their implementation in complex, multiethnic and multilingual contexts. The article acknowledges, but also responds to, key critiques of MLR to date. These include debates about linguistic modernisation, linguistic identities and essentialism, language and social mobility, and macro and micro language practices. In light of these debates, the article speculates about possible ways forward for theMLR paradigm.

text: Language rights: Moving the debate forward This article provides an overview of the current issues and challenges facing the nascent paradigm of minority language rights (MLR). It focuses on the theoretical points of dispute and tension with respect to MLR, as well as the challenges attendant upon their implementation in complex, multiethnic and multilingual contexts. The article acknowledges, but also responds to, key critiques of MLR to date. These include debates about linguistic modernisation, linguistic identities and essentialism, language and social mobility, and macro and micro language practices. In light of these debates, the article speculates about possible ways forward for theMLR paradigm.

year: 2005-01-01

title: Review of Mareikura-Messengers of Io

authors: Crawford, Terri Ripeka

subjects: Mareikura-Messengers of Io

abstract: Review of Tru Paraha's "Mareikura - Messages of Io", Soundings Theatre, Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, 6 June 2008.

text: Review of Mareikura-Messengers of Io Review of Tru Paraha's "Mareikura - Messages of Io", Soundings Theatre, Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, 6 June 2008.

year: 2009