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Supportive supervision for community health workers : a case study of Ethiopia's Health Extension Programme
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2017)
Supervision of community health workers (CHWs) is an essential component of primary health care programmes. Yet supervision systems tend to focus on inspection and fault finding, which have been found to be demotivating ...
Developing emotion focused therapy for CAD in women with breast cancer : an analysis of six case studies
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2016)
Aims: The aim of the current study is to develop a variant of Emotion Focused
Therapy (EFT) for Comorbid Anxiety and Depression (CAD) in women with breast cancer by presenting a series of case studies followed by a cross ...
Environmental philosophy, threat and well-being
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2002)
This thesis represents a comprehensive attempt to address the dearth of research on relationships between environment and mental health. The aim is to present a novel theoretical and empirical investigation of the links ...
Against theoretical eclecticism and in support of a unified conceptual framework for autism intervention research
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2009)
This thesis aims to highlight and address two key issues in autism intervention research: (1) the role of theory in autism intervention research; and (2) the practice of theoretical eclecticism in autism intervention and ...
Sustained attention and associated memory and other cognitive failures in the young and able elderly
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2004)
The main aim of this thesis was to study how people pay attention over time and how this capacity changes with age. The populations under study were therefore the young
and the able elderly and samples from these populations ...
An investigation of error awareness in healthy ageing and a non-invasive approach to its amelioration
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2014)
Population ageing has become a global phenomenon. This demographic change flags the remarkable developments made by humanity in recent history, but it also constitutes one of the most challenging problems for contemporary ...
Time estimation deficits in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2005)
The main aim of this thesis was to examine whether a time deficit exists in children
diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and to try to determine
the nature and basis for such a deficit if it is ...
Phantom sensation as experienced by people with a spinal cord injury
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2012)
All the approaches in this thesis are linked by a common query: What is the meaning, structure and essence of the lived experience for a person with a Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) who perceives phantom sensation and/or pain? ...
Exploring conscious and preconscious processing of affective pictures in smokers with different levels of dependency : behavioural and physiological outcomes
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2005)
The work described in this thesis is directed at investigating preconscious processes which surpasses automatic cognitive control. To test this contention it is necessary to surpass conscious cortical control through the ...
A characterisation of cyclooxygenase activity in synaptic transmission and plasticity in the Hippocampus
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2006)
We used in vivo electrophysiological techniques to investigate the role played by cyclooxygenase (COX) enzymatic activity in synaptic transmission and plasticity. The use of selective pharmacological antagonists for the ...