http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Sat, 25 May 2013 01:21:32 PDT Sat, 25 May 2013 01:21:32 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=668742 This video presents an Introduction to Feminist Counselling. Emphasizing an anti-oppressive framework, critical thinking,and structural analysis, this video highlights key feminist values, principles, and skills and teaches viewers how to apply them to counselling, personal, and professional situations. Roleplays and vignettes are used to demonstrate key ideas and skills. The link between the personal and political is highlighted. Examples of and suggestions for consciousness-raising, collectivization, and social action are also featured.This video is useful for students, teachers, counsellors, social workers, human service providers, care workers, clinicians, psychologists, and anyone who would like to learn more about how to apply feminist theory to counselling. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=304925 This site offers a collection of self-tests pertaining to career, health, IQ, personality, and relationships. It is hosted by Psychology Today magazine. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=668769 This short animated fiction book describes a woman named Rebecca and her experiences of family violence. This book presents her journey as she moves from victim to survivor to social activist. A structural feminist analysis of the root causes of family violence and interventions and strategies to assist survivors of family violence are highlighted. Geared to assist survivors of violence and service users, students who are learning about abuse, and clinicians/practitioners who are working in this area, specific information discussing the cycle of violence, stages of coping, feminist interventions, safety planning, and treatment for men is featured. In addition, suggestions for the prevention of family violence at cultural, political, and social levels are presented.The authors use 2 different writing styles within this text. Rebecca's actual story about her family is written at a grade 7 literacy level to make this book more accessible to a broad segment of the general public. At the same time, specific sections featuring theory, analysis, assessment, and intervention have been written with clinical practitioners and professional helpers in mind. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=86042 This site provides a number of on-line personality and close relationships tests, experiments, and demonstrations that you can take to learn more about your self and the way you relate to others. Each test is designed to provide you with customized feedback based on your responses. Participation is free, informative, and fun! http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=82653 The site offers a variety of psychological tests, with the following disclaimer, "These online psychological tests are for your entertainment and possibly educational use only and do not replace in any way a formal psychiatric evaluation. Remember for a diagnosis, you need to contact a licensed mental health professional." http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=78189 No description given http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=87910 Alphabetic Index of links to contributors to the development of Intelligence Theory & Testing http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=280373 PATSy is an established on-line learning resource. It is a web-based generic shell designed to accept data from any discipline that has cases. The domains represented on PATSy currently include developmental reading disorders, neuropsychology, neurology/medical rehabilitation and speech and language pathologies. PATSy contains 61 data-rich and extensively described cases of adults and children with disorders that can be accessed under 4 domain headings - speech and language, dyslexia, medical rehabilitation and neuropsychology. When populated with multimedia test items and data from patients or participants (usually research or clinical cases), PATSy becomes an educational resource for use in conjunction with more traditional methods of clinical training, professional education and academic teaching about disorders. This multimedia database (video, audio, pictures) also serves as an electronic archive for case-based research as it contains rich collections of test data on research participants. The development of PATSy was funded by two consecutive Nuffield Foundation awards. The PATSy system allows students to access virtual patients, including real patient data in the form of videos, assessments, and medical histories. PATSy makes virtual patients available to trainees, educators, clinicians and researchers in various clinical professions and cognate academic disciplines (Cox & Lum, 2004, Lum & Cox, 1998; Lum, Cox, Kilgour, Morris & Tobin, 1999; Cox, Lum & Kilgour, 2001). The virtual patients can have psychometric and cognitive assessment tests `administered' to them by users. PATSy provides a learning environment in which students may practise clinical reasoning in diagnosis. It provides students with opportunities for practise on a wider range of cases than they would typically see in clinical placements, including access to rare (and journal-published) cases. However, unlike live patient contact, PATSy provides an opportunity for unlimited rehearsal and consistent access to the same cases for a whole class of students. Different disciplines (speech & language therapy, neuropsychology, medical rehabilitation) can use PATSy cases inter-professionally. In short, PATSy provides `anytime, anywhere' access to training in an important area of clinical education. PATSy supports several types of use - researchers and clinicians can access the cases and see test data summaries, information about the patient from the case contributor, and access a list of research publications relating to the patient. In contrast, student access can be set up so that students are not presented with test data summaries but are, instead, required to work through and interpret patients' test results at an item-by-item level of granularity. Information about the system, student evaluation reports, walkthroughs, etc can be found on the PATSy website at www.patsy.ac.uk References:***1. Cox, R., & Lum, C. (2004) Case-based teaching and clinical reasoning: Seeing how students think with PATSy. In Brumfitt, S. (Ed.) Innovations in professional education for Speech and Language Therapists, London: Whurr. ***2.Cox, R., Lum, C. & Kilgour, J (2001) Investigating domain-knowledge and reasoning as predictors of diagnostic performance with PATSy. In J. Moore and R. Lewis (Eds.) Advanced Models of Learning for the Wired and Wireless Future, Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AI-ED 2001), Amsterdam: IOS Press. ***3. Lum, C., Cox, R., Kilgour, J., Morris, J. & Tobin, R. (1999) PATSy: A multimedia, web-based resource for aphasiologists and neuropsychologists in research and education. Aphasiology, 13, 573--579. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=86123 This is a collection of social and personality psychology measures. The site provides links to pages where (a) the full instrument is shown, and (b) the instrument was put on the web by the person who created the instrument, thus ensuring that the instrument was intended to be put into the public domain. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=304927 A collection of psychological resources designed to help people cope more effectively with life problems, using techniques based on the best available research, clinical skills and experience, and taking into account the person's unique values, goals and circumstances. The collection provides brochures, tips and articles on the psychological issues that affect physical and emotional well-being, as well as information about referrals.