Therapeutic alliance in psychotherapy across online and face-to-face settings: A quantitative analysis.

Lockdown enacted by government in response to the Covid-19 pandemic in Austria forced psychotherapy practice into an online-only setting for several months in 2020. Although there is evidence supporting the effectiveness of psychotherapy in remote settings, research investigating therapeutic alliance in online psychotherapy is still limited, with a specific need for research in assessing possible effects of changes in therapeutic setting from face-to-face to online and vice versa. We measured therapeutic alliance in client-therapist dyads using the Helping Alliance Questionnaire (HAQ) at the Adult Outpatient Clinic of Sigmund Freud University, Vienna.

Heat Treatment Influencing Porosity and Tensile Properties of Field Assisted Sintered AlSi7Mg0.6.

In this study, an attempt was made to improve the mechanical properties and in particular the strength of a precipitation-hardenable aluminum alloy while still maintaining high ductility. For this purpose, AlSi7Mg0.6 (A357) powder with an average particle diameter of d = 40 µm was consolidated using field assisted sintering technique (FAST), and two material conditions were compared: an as-sintered and an underaging heat treated condition (T61).

"The Adjunct Faculty Are Our Lifeblood" An Institution's Response to Deliver Value to Volunteer Community Faculty.

Background And Objectives: Because of the importance of and increasing competition for unpaid community faculty's time, we qualitatively evaluated the adjunct community faculty experience in order to identify mechanisms to improve the recruitment, training, and retention of these faculty members.

Methods: The authors captured community faculty and key stakeholder opinion through interviews, focus groups, and a survey to elucidate their perspective of roles, responsibilities, facilitators, and barriers for providing quality teaching and learning experiences. After evaluating the data, we created an impact/effort matrix to guide suggested changes.

Application Options of the Sustainable Child Development Index (SCDI)-Assessing the Status of Sustainable Development and Establishing Social Impact Pathways.

The needs of children and their vulnerability to diseases, violence and poverty are different from those of adults. The Sustainable Child Development Index (SCDI) was thus developed in previous work to evaluate the status of sustainable development for countries with a focus on children and triple-bottom-line thinking. This study proposes application options to put the SCDI into practice.

Biodiversity impact assessment (BIA+) - methodological framework for screening biodiversity.

For the past 20 years, the life cycle assessment (LCA) community has sought to integrate impacts on biodiversity into the LCA framework. However, existing impact assessment methods still fail to do so comprehensively because they quantify only a few impacts related to specific species and regions. This paper proposes a methodological framework that will allow LCA practitioners to assess currently missing impacts on biodiversity on a global scale.

Macular xanthophylls and ω-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in age-related macular degeneration: a randomized trial.

Importance: It has been shown that the functionality of the macula lutea depends on the nutritional uptake of lutein and zeaxanthin and that it is inversely associated with the risk of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Additionally, ω-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFAs) may also be protective.

Objective: To investigate the effect of a 12-month intervention with macular xanthophylls and ω-3 LC-PUFAs on xanthophylls and fatty acids in plasma, antioxidant capacity, and optical density of the macular pigment of patients with nonexudative AMD.