Programmable droplets: Leveraging digitally-responsive flow fields to actively tune liquid morphologies.

Stimulus-responsive materials enable programmable and adaptive behaviors. Typical solid-phase systems can only achieve small deformations for applications where shape transformations are beneficial or required. Liquids, in contrast, can self-assemble and achieve very high strains in a multifluid environment.

The use of paraverbal therapy in treating an inaccessible, traumatized child.

Severely traumatized children are often incapable of responding to traditional psychotherapy. Paraverbal therapy has been shown to render a number of such children responsive to the communicative aspects of the method, with the result that their maladaptive behavior is concomitantly ameliorated. Others, such as the child presented herein, have needed additional traditional therapy.

Patient as assistant therapist in paraverbal therapy with children.

The concept of using a patient as "assistant therapist" in the treatment of acting-out children was presented. A description of the pilot case with another type of unresponsive child showed how paraverbal techniques were used in the development of this alternative treatment approach. The adaptation of the concept of using a patient as "assistant therapist" was given in excerpts from sessions in cases of acting-out children.