Holmes Reports Research Articles

A call for an expanded self psychology: Incorporating socio–cultural perspectives in teaching and clinical practice

ABSTRACT Recognizing that psychoanalysis needs to change to meet the challenges described by the Holmes Report on American Psychoanalysis, the authors describe their journey to include socio-cultural perspectives in their teaching activities. To widen the lens of course content, they include topics of race, racial trauma, and inequality by bringing additional voices into their Self Psychology course materials including Beverly Stoute and Franz Fanon. Further, they discuss these authors’ contributions in relation to Heinz Kohut’s foundational ideas about development and clinical practice. They describe the features of an anti-racist pedagogical approach to teaching which supports encouraging and appreciating the contributions of all participants in the learning process. They provide several vignettes from their teaching experiences and argue that self psychologically-informed clinicians are particularly well-suited to meet the challenge of expanding psychoanalytic thinking to incorporate socio-cultural perspectives.

Dialogic Communication and Thought Leadership: Twitter Use by Public Relations Agencies in the United States

This study examined how the 117 Twitter profiles maintained by U.S. headquartered agencies appearing in the 2017 Global Top 250 PR Agencies list from the Holmes Report are using this platform to communicate with their publics. Guided by the dialogic communication theory, a content analysis of 1,120 tweets (from the 112 agencies identified as having public active accounts) published between January and October 2017 were analyzed to better understand the content strategies implemented by these agencies as well as the relationship between levels of public engagement and the implementation of dialogic principles. Additionally, this study placed a special emphasis on thought leadership and the means being employed by agencies to introduce and promote their ideas. The study’s results suggest that while media vividness increases the public’s levels of engagement, interactivity has an inverse effect. At the same time, the findings indicate that agencies are not fully employing the dialogic capacity of Twitter. From a strategic point of view, this study provides significant implications for social media communication practices by public relations agencies.

Continued growth for European GRP market

An assessment of the European GRP market was delivered by AVK at Composites Europe in Dusseldorf, Germany recently. Mark Holmes reports on solid growth for the European sector in 2014.

Keenan et al. reply

replying to C. D. Holmes Nature507,http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature13113(2014) Forests have become more efficient at using water over the past two decades1. A series of hypotheses exist to explain this trend, but the only credible explanation to date is a response to rising atmospheric CO2. Keenan et al.1 show that the observed trend is physiologically plausible, but is much larger than expected from conventional theory and experimental evidence. This has led to suggestions that processes other than increased atmospheric CO2 may have contributed to the observed trend2. One such process that has yet to be examined is the effect of tropospheric ozone on forest water-use efficiency (WUE). In the accompanying Comment3, Holmes reports that ozone concentrations have declined in the northeastern and midwestern USA by about 50% from 1995 to 2010. Using empirical relationships, he estimates that this decline could explain roughly 15% of the reported increase in WUE over North America, and a significantly lower proportion of the trend in Europe.

A return to weak growth for European GRP market

AVK's annual round-up of the European GRP market was released at Composites Europe in Stuttgart, Germany in September. Mark Holmes reports on the figures and trends outlined and finds that after the decline in volumes manufactured in 2012, a small increase is expected for this year.

Carbon fibre reinforced plastics market continues growth path

The association of composite companies and research institutes Carbon Composites e.V. has produced its latest review of the global carbon fibre market. Mark Holmes reports on the findings and outlook for the future, which demonstrate increases in carbon fibre use and influence in key composite markets.

Biosafe offers cost-effective alternative in antinnicrobial protection

A fundamentally new antimicrobial agent has been developed that can permanently protect plastics and is claimed to be more cost-effective and faster acting than silver-based additives and avoids discoloration. Mark Holmes reports.

Implementing REACH – the challenges ahead

The European Parliament has adopted the proposals for the registration, evaluation and authorisation of chemicals. We look at what is now required to comply with REACH. Mark Holmes reports.

Russian flame retardants offer new halogen-free options

New halogen-free chemistry developed by Russian academics is being commercialized by UK-based Firestop Chemicals for use as a flame retardant. Mark Holmes reports on some of the initial results in polypropylene.

New manufacturing technology provides step change in PVC stabilization

New manufacturing technology developed by Akcros Chemicals has resulted in the introduction of a new generation of PVC stabilizers. Investment decisions made a number of years ago by the company are now credited with making these new products possible. Mark Holmes reports on the first of a series of new products to be introduced to the market- one for coated fabrics and another for flexible PVC.

Synergies lead to brighter future at Ciba

Formed in September 1998 by bringing together the traditional textile dyes and pigments divisions of the company, Ciba Colors now believes that it is reaping the benefits of the merger. Chris Newton spoke to Plastics Additives & Compounding about new developments and the bright outlook for colours in plastics. Mark Holmes reports.

Strand pelletizers aim to meet compounders' needs

Some basic research in polymer behaviour during the pelletizing by Rieter Automatik has led to an improvement in the quality of pellet cuts. Along with other innovations, the development has now been incorporated in the company's latest range of strand pelletizers for the compounding industry. Mark Holmes reports.

Addcon World '99

Organized by Rapra Technology, the 5 th Addcon World conference on plastics additives and modifiers was held in Prague in the Czech Republic at the end of October. Mark Holmes reports on some of the papers delivered at the conference.

Innovation brings high shear mixing for single screw extruders

New mixing technology from UK company Kaltor is offeringcompounders the prospect of high shear mixing from single screw extruders. Mark Holmes reports on this new development in mixing technology.

The Holmes reports: perils and possibilities

There has not yet been an attempt to categorize or critique the substantial body of literature that has arisen around the Holmes Group’s three reports regarding the treatment of teaching and teacher education: Tomorrow’s Teachers (1986), Tomorrow’s Schools (1990) and Tomorrow’s Schools of Education (1995). This article represents an initial attempt to do so, as well as to discuss what impact, if any, the Holmes suggestions have had on current practice. This literature revolves around the themes of gender, professionalism, and epistemology—themes which have dominated discussions of American teacher education for at least 150 years. Criticism of the reports accuses the Holmes Group of covering over and even perpetuating dilemmas related to thee issues with politically calculating pseudo-solutions. Favorable responses to the Holmes reports generally claim that they ‘professionally’ empower teachers by showing increased respect for teachers’ ways of knowing and doing in the classroom.

The Induction Year - A Naturalistic Study Of Beginning Secondary Teachers Of Agriculture In Idaho

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An innovative undergraduate child care training program and its relationship to the education reform movement

As the nation's attention turns to child care issues and education reform, questions emerge concerning undergraduate early childhood education. In this paper we address two issues: the structure and function of undergraduate child care training programs and the need to attract highly qualified students to these programs and retain them in the field. A description of an innovative undergraduate child care training program and the results of a telephone survey of 76 graduates of this program are presented. The empirical data are discussed in relation to the theoretical underpinnings of the Carnegie and Holmes reports.

Implications of the Holmes Report for Health Education

Implications of the Holmes Report for Health Education

The Holmes Report: Epistemological Assumptions That Impact Art Teacher Assessment and Preparation

As part of the cascade of educational reform rhetoric, the Holmes Report makes recommendations with far-reaching implications for teacher preparation (in general) and art teacher education specific...

Implicit Assumptions of the Holmes and Carnegie Reports: A View from an African-American Perspective

Since the 1890s, American educators have focused on various reforms and evaluations in the hope of allegedly guaranteeing youth a quality education. One of the manifestations of this concern has been the periodic appearance of national committee reports that seek to reform existing programs. The reports of the Committee of Fifteen, the Committee of Ten, the Cardinal Principles, among others, all have their historical roots in the issue of reform. Teacher training, administrative and curricular concerns, and the call to reform educational programs were born of administrative managerial necessity in an effort to make schools more efficient and effective.' Influenced by city planners, chambers of commerce, and industrialists and northern philanthropists, under the call for efficiency, bureauracy, and school management, progressive educators began to make reforms in the hope of guaranteeing youth a quality education to fit them into the world of work. Through consolidation and centralization, educators gained control over the city urban school