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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Social responsiveness"”.
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'Social Responsiveness' in Schizophrenia and Its Relation to Electroshock Therapy
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Agency, Causal Power, and Social Responsiveness in Participatory Performance: a Practice-Based Investigation
… agency as regards causal power, collectives, and social relationships. Asking how audience members may wield causal power over a participatory performance’s outcome, this exegesis outlines four practice-based research projects and the theoretical frameworks underpinning them. The first three …
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Promoting Social Responsiveness for Young Children With Disabilities by Enhancing the Reinforcing Value of Social Interactions
… of an intervention program to increase social responsive of two young children with autism. A multiple baseline design across children was employed. The effects of the intervention were inconsistent across settings and children. Several factors might have contributed to these results, …
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Mechanisms of social dysfunction and treatment-related change in Veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
… Veterans with PTSD struggle with symptoms of social dysfunction, including isolation [1] and physical violence [2]. Current Veterans Affairs (VA) treatments effectively decrease posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) [3, 4, 5, 6], but do not directly target social dysfunction. In the current …
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Legal Education through a Social Justice Lens: A Framework for Teaching Law in the South African Context
… to practice law in a manner that furthers social justice. The first half of this paper investigates why it is legitimate to prioritize social justice in the Legal Education discipline. Three sets of literature support this argument. First, South African higher education policy, which …
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AN EMERGING THEORY OF PERCEIVED DISABILITY COUNSELING COMPETENCE: A QUALITATIVE INVESTIGATION OF LICENSED PROFESSIONAL COUNSELORS
… Given the counseling profession’s emphasis in social responsiveness to multicultural issues and social justice, professional counselors are equipped with training and clinical experience that prepare them to meet these clients’ counseling needs. The counseling literature highlights the …
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Directors’ duties and the race to incorporate corporate social responsibility into company activities in South Africa
… interests can be enforced through Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). For this to happen, the board of directors would have to incorporate CSR into company activities. In South African law, the duties of the board of directors as the drivers of the company do not explicitly include taking …
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Individual factors motivating formation of viable women owned small and medium enterprises versus men owned small and medium entreprises: A case study of Kinondoni municipality
… to have highly motivated more men than women. Social responsiveness and business oriented family background were observed to have motivated the lowest number of both women and men interviewed. It is suggested that problems of start up capital, taxation, provision of business legal compliance …
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Corporate Reputation Management during a Social-Mediated Crisis: The Case of Clicks-TRESEmme Controversy
While social media now plays a central role in amplifying and managing corporate crises, limited empirical research has examined how organisations respond to and manage reputational crises in the South African social media context. This study examines how Clicks managed its corporate reputation …
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Engaged scholarship at the South African College of Music of the University of Cape Town: An exploratory study of the perceptions and practices of full-time music academic staff
… society including higher education, the idea of social-justice-centred engaged scholarship forms the main thrust of the narrative in this thesis. Furthermore, with music inherently geared towards societal engagement, and 'engaged scholarship’ included in UCT’s latest Social Responsiveness Policy …
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The implications of corporate social responsibility on defensive and proactive corporate human rights approaches : a theoretical and empirical contribution
… Hence, a critical question is whether corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives commonly adopted by listed corporations allow them to address this range of HRs demands of society. The primary aim of this thesis is to answer this question using Carroll’s (1979) CSR framework. I first …
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Can Chameleons Lead Change? The Effect of Resistance to Change on High Self-Monitoring Leaders' Strength of Purpose
… effectiveness (Day et al., 2002); however, social responsiveness could be a double-edged sword when it comes to leading organization change. It was hypothesized that high self-monitoring (HSM) leaders would launch change in a participative manner and create positive conditions for change, …
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Practitioner and institutional perspectives on lifelong learning at a South African university
… - identified as economic, humanistic and social discourses - which were used to engage the perspectives of practitioners working on continuing education programmes. Based on an interpretation of the data, this thesis argues that in practice, the distinctions between the discourses tend to …
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Contributions to the resilience of foster care graduates
… 1) participants exhibited high levels of social responsiveness and cooperation, 2) they reported strong feelings of being different from “normal” children raised in their biological families and they experienced stigmatization, 3) referrals came disproportionately from the PARC program (an …
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Premature infant responses to taped maternal voice
… many potential problems including deficits in social interaction and sensory perception skills. One of the major reasons for this is the relative social isolation of these infants housed in incubators and separated from parents. There is a need to identify social stimuli that may be provided …
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The utility of two autism screening instruments in an urban low-income minority population
… assessments. Screening instruments such as the Social Communication Questionnaire (SCQ) and the Social Responsiveness Scale, Second Edition (SRS-2) have been developed to efficiently screen for children who should be referred for full clinical assessment. The validity of the SCQ and the SRS-2 …
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Sex differences in human perinatal development and autism
… autistic traits in childhood (assessed using the Social Responsiveness Scale - SRS), and with likelihood for autism in males. Male-like patterns in placental angiogenic markers, high placental growth factor (PlGF) and low soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase-1 (sFlt-1) levels, respectively correlated …
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The Effects of Social Interactions on Brain Development in Infancy
… infants exhibit distinct neural responses to social stimuli (e.g., faces) compared to non-social stimuli (e.g., toys) shortly after birth. This specialization for processing social input further evolves over months and years, leading to a sophisticated network of brain regions that emerges to …