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A pre and post evaluation of the communication and interaction training programme for professionals in dementia care

open access: yesPsychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, Volume 98, Issue 2, Page 275-288, June 2025.
AbstractBackgroundNICE guidelines advocate that healthcare professionals should aim to use non‐pharmacological and person‐centred approaches as primary strategies to reduce or prevent distress in people living with dementia who reside within care settings.
Sophie Trees   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A measure to evaluate parenting interventions: Using inclusive research to modify a tool to measure change in parenting self‐efficacy during the antenatal period

open access: yesBritish Journal of Learning Disabilities, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 179-187, June 2024.
Abstract Background With the right support, people with learning disabilities can be ‘good enough’ parents (Coren et al., 2011; Murphy & Feldman, 2002). Parenting programmes exist to support parents and are made accessible for people with learning disabilities who are expecting a baby, but evaluation of the benefit of these interventions is poor due to
Athena Ip   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tolkien\u27s A Secret Vice and \u27the language that is spoken in the Island of Fonway\u27 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Note: I delivered a shortened version of this paper (entitled \u27Early Explorers and Practitioners of a shared \u27Secret Vice\u27) at the May 2016 International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan as part of the Tolkien and Invented Language ...
Higgins, Andrew S, Dr.
core   +1 more source

\u27Those Who Cling in Queer Corners To The Forgotten Tongues and Memories of an Elder Day\u27: J.R.R. Tolkien, Finns and Elves [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Those Who Cling in Queer Corners To The Forgotten Tongues and Memories of an Elder Day\u27 J.R.R. Tolkien, Finns and Elves Dr. Andrew Higgins In this paper I will explore how several historic, literary and mythic associations of the Finnish people with ...
Higgins, Andrew Scott
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The language of A Clockwork Orange:A corpus stylistic approach to Nadsat [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The 1962 dystopian novella A Clockwork Orange achieved global cultural resonance when it was adapted for the cinema by Stanley Kubrick in 1971. However, its author Anthony Burgess insisted that the novel’s innovative element was the introduction of ...
Annaud J-J   +30 more
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Fantasy Incarnate: Of Elves and Men [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This essay proposes the idea of incarnation as a key to unlocking Tolkien’s conception of fantasy as set out in the \u27Origins\u27 section of On Fairy Stories.
Cook, Simon J, Dr.
core   +2 more sources

Multilingualism in fiction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Multilingualism is a fact that has shaped and is shaping the linguistic set-up of our societies. Fictional texts also have a long tradition of drawing on polyglottal means, a fact that has been studied in many different disciplines. This chapter sketches
Locher, Miriam A.
core   +1 more source

The Etymology and Meanings of Eldritch [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
'The Etymology and Meanings of Eldritch' argues against the traditional derivation of eldritch from Old English *ælf-rīce (‘elf’ + ‘dominion, sphere of influence’), arguing that the etymology is rather *æl-rīce~el-rīce, the first element meaning ‘foreign,
Hall, Alaric
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J.R.R. Tolkien: the Forest and the City (2013), edited by Helen Conrad-O’Briain and Gerard Hynes. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
J.R.R. Tolkien: the Forest and the City (2013), edited by Helen Conrad-O’Briain and Gerard Hynes. Book Review by Kelley M.
Wickham-Crowley, Kelley M.
core   +1 more source

"You Tempt me Grievously to a Mythological Essay": J. R. R. Tolkien’s Correspondence with Arthur Ransome [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
' "You Tempt me Grievously to a Mythological Essay": J. R. R. Tolkien’s Correspondence with Arthur Ransome', edits a letter from Tolkien to Ransome held in the Brotherton Library of the University of Leeds.
Hall, ATP
core   +5 more sources

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