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Speaking with Distance: Exploring the Effectiveness of Remote Practice

SALEE
The rising prominence of remote speaking practice in education and professional development underscores its critical significance. Enabled by advancing technology, remote platforms offer unprecedented convenience and accessibility for individuals to ...
Ahmad Tauchid, Seftika, Ainu Zumrudiana, Edi Suwandi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

"It's the difference between life and death": The views of professional medical interpreters on their role in the delivery of safe care to patients with limited English proficiency.

PLoS ONE, 2017
BackgroundPatients with limited English proficiency (LEP) experience poorer quality care and more adverse events in hospital. Consequently, there is interest in understanding the role of professional medical interpreters in efforts to improve patient ...
Margaret Siyu Wu, Shail Rawal
doaj   +1 more source

Freedom dreaming of migrant justice: Critical reflections on counterspaces and institutional violence in the university

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract US universities are built on stolen land and sustained through hierarchies of power that produce what migrant justice scholars name as b/order regimes. As institutions that claim to be sites of learning and inclusion, universities are fraught with contradictions as simultaneously sites of dispossession, exclusion, and control.
Sara L. Buckingham, Jesica Siham Fernández   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Facilitators’ champion behaviors for delivering an evidence‐based parenting program

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Effective implementation of parenting programs relies on multiple factors, particularly the role of facilitators who actively deliver and support the intervention. Facilitators’ champion behaviors or the efforts they make to encourage implementation, can positively impact the outcomes of these programs.
Camila Regina Lotto, Elisa Rachel Pisani Altafim, Dana Charles McCoy, Maria Beatriz Martins Linhares   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond measurement: speaking assessment as social judgment in high-stakes English testing

Language Testing in Asia
Speaking proficiency assessment is often treated as a technical enterprise concerned with the reliable measurement of individual ability. In many Asian contexts, however, speaking scores are embedded in high-stakes educational, professional, and mobility
Nizam Ahsani, Ahmad Budairi
doaj   +1 more source

The Made‐in‐Africa Evaluation framework: A decolonial approach to program evaluation

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract The Made in Africa Evaluation (MAE) framework is a decolonial approach to program evaluation developed by African evaluators over the past 14 years. MAE may be appropriate to community psychologists who practice program evaluation or conduct research in Africa, but little is known about its implementation.
Takatso Sibanda, Robin Lin Miller
wiley   +1 more source

Interwoven oppression: A qualitative study of the contribution of racism and sexism to co‐occurring PTSD and substance use disorder

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Racism and sexism are associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance use disorder (SUD), yet few studies examine their role in co‐occurring PTSD/SUD. Through qualitative interviews with 23 people of color with PTSD/SUD, we found that racism and sexism influence the onset of men and women of color's PTSD/SUD in gendered ways.
Mallet R. Reid, NiCole T. Buchanan, Thalia S. Epps, Edgar Jaimes‐Bautista, Jaidyn J. Choi, Enrique Romero, Ximena Murillo   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prohibiting Babel-A call for professional remote interpreting services in pre-operation anaesthesia information.

PLoS ONE
IntroductionLanguage barriers within clinical settings pose a threat to patient safety. As a potential impediment to understanding, they hinder the process of obtaining informed consent and uptake of critical medical information.
Gernot Gerger, Nikolaus Graf, Elisabeth Klager, Klara Doppler, Armin Langauer, Verena Albrecht, Aylin Bilir, Harald Willschke, David M Baron, Maria Kletecka-Pulker   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Immigration detention centers as torturing environments: Ethical reckonings, radical refusals, and implications for a psychology of resistance

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines psychologists' ethical dilemmas in immigration detention centers. Using critical psychology, border, and detention scholarship, it highlights psychologists' historical complicity in state violence, from the U.S. Enhanced Interrogation Program to current border regimes.
Francesca Esposito, Federica de Cordova, Julia Manek, Sara Buckingham, Camilla Ponti, Francesco Tommasi, Bradley Olson   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transitioning to nonpunitive school policies for addressing student substance use: Qualitative interviews with key school administrators

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent policy change in Massachusetts encourages schools to limit their use of exclusionary discipline to “extraordinary circumstances,” but little work has explored the opportunities and challenges of transitioning to nonpunitive practices after student substance use infractions in schools.
Kristina Conroy, M. Grace Albright, Kendall B. Roberts, Meghan A. Costello, Anthony J. Jannetti, Alexis R. Wing, Randi M. Schuster   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source