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CWMALLS® is the world's first online brand: personalized, free, beautiful, valuable…
"Made to Order", "Original Design", "Patent Product"are all in CWMALLS® Leather Jackets, Shoes, Bags series!
CWMALLS, CWMALLS COMMODITY are the pioneers and creators of the whole industry chain standardized value ecosystem.
Warmly celebrate CWMALLS, CWMALLS COMMODITY 2017 Innovation, Public Sharing Series — "CWMALLS Globalization" officially starts both online and offline synchronously; this is a carnival of the united innovation, and also a model of the globalized public sharing achievements; the globalization in the cores of freedom, fairness and standard lights every corner of the world and shares all the wisdom results publicly via the modern tools like the Internet, Internet of Things, big data, cloud computing, intelligentization, etc.! This is the dream and mission of CWMALLS people, CWMALLS team, CWMALLS complex, whether in the aspects of technology, product, promotion, management and brand, or in the aspects of innovation, patent, ecology, science and technology, environmental protection and so on, CWMALLS, CWMALLS COMMODITY will bring distinctive sensory experience and artistic enjoyment to friends and partners around the world, and create more surprises and value! This is the glamour of "CWMALLS Globalization", its excellence is just your brilliance, please pay attention to and participate in it together!
"CWMALLS Globalization" is a real public sharing networked revolution; it is made up of dots, lines and facets, which is just like the nervous system, whenever and wherever you are, you can experience its extraordinary connotation of public sharing instantly (https://www.forbes.com/sites/shelliekarabell/2017/04/06/the-sharing-economy-innovation-vs-regulation/#3d2b94852e59);
This is the globalized public sharing mode built together by CWMALLS global networked lab and CWMALLS patent review committee, meanwhile, it is also the unified witness of advocating global economic integration and world's cultural diversity; its patented products, personalized service and standardized guarantee set up a brand-new industrial value standard for CWMALLS Globalization; therefore, CWMALLS, CWMALLS COMMODITY, MWE FUND perform their own duties and carry out horizontal integration and vertical excavation from inside to outside, from professional to elaborate to promote the implement of the concept of global public sharing; at the same time, we form the polybasic and stereo sharing, shopping modes through direct sale and distribution online as well as agency and cooperation offline to cover the global and meet the actual needs of consumers in different countries and regions; this is the crash of dream and reality, we are brave and strong, this is the journey of mission and feelings, we are consistent! "CWMALLS Globalization" will make an example and offer more services, create more value for today's, tomorrow's and future sustainable development, healthy and green life, and convoy the full operation of the whole industrial chain standardized value ecosystem of CWMALLS, CWMALLS COMMODITY; this is the new journey of CWMALLS people, CWMALLS team, CWMALLS complex, worth your attention and thumbs up! Let the world become more wonderful due to our joint efforts!
Note: With the increase of terrorist incidents around the world, to avoid unnecessary trouble and loss, from now on, we will purchase insurance for every package through insurance company, and you don't need to afford any fee, please rest assured shopping online; as CWMALLS, CWMALLS COMMODITY 2017 Fall/Winter Purchasing Meeting is going on hot all over the world, please order goods according to our standards and requirements to avoid unnecessary trouble, if you have any problems, opinions or suggestions during this time, you can contact us at any time, we will give you a satisfying reply in first time! Thank you! In 2017, love gets us together, in 2017, we keep consistent, in 2017, we skip to stand!
"Cutting-edge School" "Innovative School" "Powerful School" — CWMALLS, CWMALLS COMMODITY, MWE FUND
"CWMALLS Globalization" — the model of networked public sharing mode!
CWMALLS, CWMALLS COMMODITY 2017 Innovation, Sharing Series — "CWMALLS Precision Marketing"
CWMALLS® is the world's first online brand: personalized, free, beautiful, valuable…
"Made to Order", "Original Design", "Patent Product"are all in CWMALLS® Leather Jackets, Shoes, Bags series!
CWMALLS, CWMALLS COMMODITY are the pioneers and creators of the whole industry chain standardized value ecosystem.
Warmly celebrate CWMALLS, CWMALLS COMMODITY 2017 Innovation, Sharing Series — "CWMALLS Precision Marketing" officially starts in North American region, European region and Asia Pacific region; this is an unprecedented publicity and promotion activity, and also a precision marketing revolution that sweeps away everything; the joint debut of "sea, land and air" recommends the products, services, value and concepts of CWMALLS, CWMALLS COMMODITY to all of you, and shares everything with you! This is the model of the globalized, networked "Public Sharing" mode, and also the implementation of the patented, ecological "Innovation" thought; the effortful execution from CWMALLS people, CWMALLS team, CWMALLS complex turns every "target" customer, client into faithful fan and cooperative partner to lay a solid foundation to accomplish the work tasks in 2017! Never giving up and achieving ourselves launch a carpet publicity, searching, cooperation and sharing campaign for CWMALLS Precision Marketing; welcome to pay attention together! There will be surprise at any time!
"CWMALLS Precision Marketing" (Locust Project) is a united innovation and sharing revolution based on big data as well as cloud computing; we 360° search and publicize point to point, face to face, from top to bottom and from inside to outside to show everything of us to the target groups in first time, and excavate the potential opportunities according to the specific products and specific circumstances to realize win-win cooperation value; therefore, our technology team, product team, management team and promotion team realize precise services through the all-round cooperation with the third parties (industry associations, public relations corporations, news media, advertising agencies, third-party platforms, professional buyers, etc.); meanwhile we will hold various appreciation activities and exhibitions regularly to interact and experience with you, and share more stereo and polyphyletic splendid stories with you via social media, the mobile terminal and spokesmen (https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesagencycouncil/2017/03/14/its-no-longer-internet-marketing-without-social-media/#2f16c61a387d);
This is the basic procedure of CWMALLS Precision Marketing, and also the chapter of opening the networked research, screening, contact, exchange and cooperation; we will carry out elaborative spade husbandry in different aspects (such as population density, age bracket, level of education, occupation, culture, gender, language, hobby, belief, weather, business environment, etc.) to put the contents of precision marketing into practice! There is no turning back, this is the choice of CWMALLS people; breaking the caldrons and sinking the boats and fighting to win or die are the selection of CWMALLS team; counterattack and suddenly appearing on the horizon are the option of CWMALLS complex! These are the spirit, courage and attitudes of our precision marketing! World, we are coming, what are you still waiting for?
Note: CWMALLS 2017 Father's Day Gift Series have been warmly chased after by customers around the world since the publicity in New York Times Square on June 8, especially our patent product series (Sheepskin Coat, Fur Coat, Leather Down Jacket, Shearling Jacket, etc.) have yielded unusually brilliant results; thus if you purchase over 1000 dollars (including 1000 dollars), you will get a coupon for 300 dollars, please notice! Thank you! Meanwhile, welcome to experience and share more our original products, handcrafted products, green products and environment-friendly products via corwdfunding activities, there will be surprise at any time! Thank you! In 2017, love gets us together, in 2017, we keep consistent, in 2017, we skip to stand! (2020 worth your expectation.)
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CWMALLS COMMODITY (WWW.CWMALLS.COM) was established in 2010. Its predecessor has had export experience in traditional trading field for more than 17 years. Due to the continuous improvement of product, market, technology, logistics and service, now it turns to an E-Commerce corporation focusing on Business to Customers retail endeavoring to sell high quality innovative featured products (handicrafts, original designed products, patented products, etc. Meanwhile, parts of products offer custom made, personal tailor service.) directly to customers by network platforms. It aims to make it "CWMALLS Manufactures, Global Shares".
CWMALLS COMMODITY (WWW.CWMALLS.COM) has an operating center of 900 sq.m and a warehouse center of 1,800 sq.m in US and China; it also has sub-centers in United States, Germany and Australia, thus gathering over innovative featured products all around the world to provide global customers with 24-hour continual online direct sales sharing service, and building the sales bridge that leads to every corner of the world. Under the common efforts of our transnational online sharing shopping operation team, technology team, product team, etc. that are formed by our staff all round the world, CWMALLS COMMODITY is offering a flow of high quality products and great service to customers around the world! CWMALLS will be more wonderful with you!
Make original design blossom and yield; Make dream come true, we share together!(More of our high quality feature products are directly or indirectly from 27 countries and regions such as Australia, Italy, France, Germany, Canada, the United States, China, etc., for you to purchase, experience and share on line!)
CWMALLS Dream: Four Basis(Information Flow, Talent Flow, Goods Flow and Capital Flow), Three Centers(North America Center, Europe Center, Asia Pacific Center), Two Funds(Maintain World Fund, Maintain Earth Fund), and One College(CWMALLS College with two courses History and Philosophy)
CWMALLS COMMODITY Dream: To offer pure natural, ecological "green products", "environment-friendly commodities" continuously to consumers around the world; meanwhile, to transform more ideas, works and patents to products and commodities to form a virtuous cycle of ecological chain and value chain.
CWMALLS Mission: To create the global standardized value ecosystem!
CWMALLS COMMODITY Mission: Integrating the world's high quality featured new products for you to share and benefit everyone!
MWE FUND: Maintain the world's peace and stability, maintain the earth's balance and development.
2017 CWMALLS: Standard, Value, Ecology;
2017 CWMALLS COMMODITY: Technology, Art, Intelligence;
2017 MWE FUND: Charity, Public Welfare, Responsibility;
Eco-friendly intelligent wearing, Low-carbon and environment friendly life, both are in CWMALLS global networking and mobilization.
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West of Hanalei at Haena Beach Park on Kauai, the snorkeling at Tunnels Beach is an excellent place to explore during low tide. But you've got to work for it since the best snorkeling is well offshore. It is surprising how many snorkelers come to the Makua Beach (aka Tunnels) snorkeling dive site and only venture 25 feet offshore into the very murky waters with only s...
West of Hanalei at Haena Beach Park on Kauai, the snorkeling at Tunnels Beach is an excellent place to explore during low tide. But you've got to work for it since the best snorkeling is well offshore. It is surprising how many snorkelers come to the Makua Beach (aka Tunnels) snorkeling dive site and only venture 25 feet offshore into the very murky waters with only smothered coral formations. The best Tunnels snorkeling is the outer reef about 500 feet offshore across the channel known for its massive 25 foot diameter lobe, mushroom and cauliflower coral formations. While snorkeling Tunnels, you may encounter plentiful green sea turtles, monk seals, yellowstripe cloris, humuhumunukunukuapua'a (Hawaiian state fish aka rectangular triggerfish), white tipped reef sharks, goatfish, porcupine pufferfish, moral eels, parrotfish, tangs and rainbow cleaner wrasse.
While beginner snorkelers at Tunnels will greatly enjoy the reefs close to the far eastern shoreline where there are some reef fish in the murky waters, advanced snorkelers who are strong swimmers will enjoy heading out to the horseshoe-shapped outer reef about 0.25 miles offshore that is clearly visible at low tide. If you are going to snorkel out to the reef, continue walking east on the beach to the eastern point before entering the water where the outer reef makes a close approach to shore. Start snorkeling out about an hour before low tide and snorkeling to the northwest, west and then south before crossing the channel east back to shore. There are now a couple marker buoys indicating a protected fish reserve near the outer reef.
From September through May, the surf off Tunnels Beach is affected by seasonal northwest swells that kickup the large waves and generate strong currents so make sure to exercise caution. Note, during the summer months, the surf tends to be lower promoting easier access, however, the higher water temperatures produce growth that reduces visibility further.
To reach the snorkeling in Kauai by air, fly into the Lihue airport (LIH). There are direct flights from Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Seattle and Honolulu. While most visitors to the island rent a car, it is possible to use the public bus but keep in mind that its small and slow. Plus, most of the main snorkeling beaches are well off the bus route requiring some hiking. If you do rent a car, make sure to leave the inside empty when at the beach to avoid attracting break-ins.
To reach the snorkeling at Tunnels Makua Beach, head west on Kuhio Highway (SR56) through Kapa'a towards Hanalei. At Princeville, continue west on SR560 through Hanalei for another 5 miles to Haena Beach Park. There is a large parking area at Haena Beach Park. Note, the best snorkeling access is off the road just prior to Haena Beach Park, but there is very limited roadside parking which is filled by 9am. From the main Haena Beach Park parking area, walk to the right heading east along the beach for about 2,000 feet to where the reefs come up to the beach.
In the Spring of 2018, there were heavy rains that damage the primary access road, Kuhio Highway, from Hanalei west to Ke'e Beach. As of May 2019, the road is still closed to tourists, and locals can only proceed through at scheduled caravan times. The projected reopening is June 2019, or later. The Hanalei Colony Resort has been used as rescue housing and a temporary school, while their laundry/pool building is also rebuilt.
To reduce the heavy road traffic along the north shore, starting in June 2019, the Kaua'i North Shore Shuttle will operate between Princeville Shopping Center and the Ha'ena State Park (Ke'e Beach) with stops along the way including County lifeguarded beaches. There will be a temporary Park-And-Ride located at the Waipa Foundation just west of Hanalei. To use the new bus, you must reserve a timed space on the Kaua'i North Shore Shuttle from their website (https://kauainsshuttle.com/).
Before snorkeling at Tunnels Beach, make sure to check the current surf report. The waters off Kauai are known for potentially strong currents, high surf and rogue waves. Luckily, there are excellent up-to-date surf reports that can provide guidance on these adverse conditions. WIth the usually rolling surf, it is strongly discouraged to use open-tube snorkels which are common at snorkel rental locations -- only use snorkels with a dry-top splash-guard and a sump purge-valve in the mouth piece. In addition to changing surf conditions, a Tunnels Beach snorkeling dive may expose you to sharp coral reefs and you may encounter sharks, such as whitetip reef sharks, galapagos sharks and tiger sharks. Most snorkeling shark attacks in Hawaiian waters tend to occur near spear-fishing snorkelers, so be aware of the activities of others in the water.
When planning a trip to the Hawaiian islands, be aware that the State Of Hawaii has banned all sunscreens that oxybenzone, which has been proven to kill coral reefs.
Overall, Tunnels Beach is the 1st most popular snorkel dive spot of all 23 snorkeling dives in Kauai.
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Timeless – 2010-2011, Final Version: shot by MB Films London
From MB Films site: "This film is intended to capture the spirit and endless energy of London. We decided to shoot it in a mixture of Timelapse and slow motion. We started filming in October 2010 in Richmond upon Thames just on the western edge of the city, and then the ensuing journey took us all the way through the city and back again, ending up just a year later with a final sun rise shot in the Richmond area. This final version features the brilliant new music score is by Rael Jones."
MB Films are a London based production company specialising in corporate video, commercials/promos and short films.
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The challenge of addressing health inequalities is core to improving population health and delivering the 5 Year Forward View. In 2010, Sir Michael Marmot published the report "Fair Society, Healthy Lives" which set out the scale of health inequalities in England and the scale of preventable mortality caused by these health inequalities. The Marmot report clearly set out the social gradient in health and the links between the social determinants of health and an individual's access to good health outcomes.
It is unacceptable that people living in the least deprived areas of England live around 20 years longer in good health than those living in the most deprived areas. Reducing health inequalities means giving everyone the same opportunities to lead a healthy life, no matter where they live or who they are. Public Health England East Midlands has published the attached report, 'Health inequalities in the East Midlands: An evidence report' .
The report shows that on average men and women living in the East Midlands have a life expectancy and a healthy life expectancy that is lower than the average for England. The data that has been used within this report illustrates that across the East Midlands there has been no reduction in health inequalities since the publication of the Marmot Report and in some of the data presented in the report we can see that these gaps are getting wider. This report looks in detail at the variation in health inequalities across the East Midlands and the factors that are driving these inequalities in health outcomes.
This report emphasises the importance of prevention in increasing healthy life expectancy in the East Midlands population by reducing exposure to risk factors that lead to ill health. As well as improving population health, this will reduce pressures on health and social care services.
By understanding the variation in health outcomes we can start to work together to understand and systematically address health inequalities. This report provides us with a baseline to work with across the East Midlands and as such is a useful foundation for us to work together more systematically towards improving health and wellbeing for our population.
The LGA has been working with DH, NHS Employers, Skills for Care and others to identify key workforce challenges and potential solutions in health and care integration. As an outcome, a presentation has been developed to aid local research and discussions. This can be here.
This document sets out PHE East Midlands proposals for service delivery and offer of support across the East Midlands and covers the work of their teams in Health Protection, Health Improvement, Healthcare Public Health, Workforce Development and Public Health Information and Intelligence. Public Health England East Midlands delivery is supported by an integrated business support team.
The prospectus has been developed through engagement with a range of local partners and describes the current work plan and PHE East Midlands achievements from last year. The prospectus covers the range of services PHE East Midlands provides and our commitments for the coming year. An overview of the main roles of PHE Centres and PHE Regions available here.
The East Midlands Health Review is intended to complement the work already undertaken by health and wellbeing boards and local health scrutiny committees through 'adding value' and support in addressing the joint priorities of councils, MPs and key health partners.
This review has been led by members of East Midlands Councils but in the development of the final report, a range of partners have informed its conclusions and recommendations, including from the health sector and academia, and through an All-Party Parliamentary Group meeting at the House of Commons on 30 October 2014. The final report is available below:
A Healthier Future for the East Midlands? (February 2015)
MPs, councillors and health professionals held a summit meeting at Westminster on Thursday 30th October 2014 to discuss the effectiveness of health services across the East Midlands, as part of a 'Health Review' led by East Midlands Councils.
Supporting information on 'funding for healthcare - inequalities in the East Midlands' is available below:
Health Funding Inequality in the East Midlands
The Health and Well-Being Board (HWB) Chairs' Network supports HWB Chairs to develop their their role through exchange of information, practice and ideas. The Network consists of the 10 HWB Chairs in the East Midlands (Derby, Derbyshire, Leicester, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Milton Keynes, Northamptonshire, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, and Rutland).
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Here are some highlights from our first full day at the beach:
Even with six-foot waves, Evelyn still braved going into the ocean. She only went knee-deep, though.Julia didn't want to get too close to the ocean by herself. Even when she was several feet away from the water, she would squeal and run away when a wave approached the shore.
Troy and Evelyn built sand castles, while Julia supervised.
Evelyn then put the finishing touches on the structure.
Evelyn's wish? To play at the beach as much as possible. By logging about five hours at the beach, her wish was granted today.


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We've recently read some reviews of our mats sent by teachers of elementary school children. They are replacing their carpeted story-time areas with foam mats! (Teachers really are the most creative people out there – hats off!) Here's what some of them are doing with the mats in their classrooms.
Carpet traps dirt, boogers, bugs, dander, and everything else that comes along with young school-aged children. Teachers have enough to do without hauling out the vacuum every day. So haul the carpet to the dumpster and follow the lead of a couple of our customers: replace the carpet with colorful EVA foam mats. The mats are just thick enough to provide the padding the carpet used to, but they won't hold anything but kids. Dirt, bugs, and everything else can simply be swept off. They're water-resistant too, so when accidents happen, stains and odors aren't a problem. Just wipe them down and let them air dry.
If you're a believer in the everything-should-have-more-than-one-use theory, EVA mats in the classroom are for you. Your students will have a blast building forts, roadways, and safe spaces from the lava pits with the mats. They come apart so easily and are so resilient that the kids can use them for playtime and then put them back together for story time. Shoot, they're soft enough, they might even be good for nap time!
Other non-traditional types of classrooms can use foam mats for lots of things. Some special needs kids benefit from having the mats on the walls or under indoor swinging chairs. The double textured mats provide tactile interest and with multiple colors of mats, kids can have fun creating their own patterns.
Whatever kind of classroom you have, the addition of EVA foam mats will make clean-up easier, keeping bottoms on the floor during story time easier, and will tell the kids you care about their comfort and their environment.


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Reducing fatigue damage for ships in transit through structured decision making
Marine Structures
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Research in structural monitoring has focused primarily on drawing inference about the health of a structure from the structure's response to ambient or applied excitation. Knowledge of the current state can then be used to predict structural integrity at a future time and, in principle, allows one to take action to improve safety, minimize ownership costs, and/or increase the operating envelope. While much time and effort has been devoted toward data collection and system identification, research to-date has largely avoided the question of how to choose an optimal maintenance plan. This work describes a structured decision making (SDM) process for taking available information (loading data, model output, etc.) and producing a plan of action for maintaining the structure. SDM allows the practitioner to specify his/her objectives and then solves for the decision that is optimal in the sense that it maximizes those objectives. To demonstrate, we consider the problem of a Naval vessel transiting a fixed distance in varying sea-state conditions. The physics of this problem are such that minimizing transit time increases the probability of fatigue failure in the structural supports. It is shown how SDM produces the optimal trip plan in the sense that it minimizes both transit time and probability of failure in the manner of our choosing (i.e., through a user-defined cost function). The example illustrates the benefit of SDM over heuristic approaches to maintaining the vessel.
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Poised as we are between the annual Eurovision songfest and that other talent show – the European elections – it's seems fitting to be able to report that my social enterprise development journey has recently had a massive boost from winning a slightly different kind of competition.
I've entered competitions from an early age – the ones involving an element of skill; I have no time for lotteries. As a nipper, I used to spend hours in the library (remember, this was way before the internet) with my mother, researching what famous people did before they were famous, and other obscurities. I never won any big prizes, but I think the information-gathering was a great education and it was a lot of fun doing it with my mum who also entered competitions. I ended up winning more than she did (much to her annoyance).
Once infected, the 'comping bug' may lay dormant for years, but it never goes away. A year or so ago I won the competition to name the new community cinema where I live (the Royston Picture Palace since you ask). My ever-supportive wife said mine was probably the only entry (in fact, there were over 50) and there was equal scepticism from that quarter when I entered my most recent competition.
These days any competitions I enter have to really 'hook me' first. That was the case with one run by Wenta – the people behind the six business incubation centres in Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire that are members of the 'My Incubator' family (see shameless plug below).
We were asked to tweet our business ideas – simple as that – the winner's prize being a year's free workspace and business support in an incubator of their choice. My background in marketing means I like the challenge of expressing ideas clearly and concisely, and you don't get much more concise than a tweet.
So what's my business idea? 'The Repair Shed is a social enterprise run by/for older men at risk of loneliness – making, mending and learning' [112 characters]
To cut a not-very-long story short, I've already tried out my hot desk in the Stevenage Business and Technology Centre and winning this competition could not have been better timed. As readers of a blog post on my second 100 days with the School for Social Entrepreneurs in Ipswich will know, I've recently decided to get down to the serious business of developing my business after six months of playing at being an entrepreneur.
I live in one corner of Hertfordshire and The Repair Shed will be in the opposite corner – in Hemel Hempstead. Although I've had access to desk space at Community Action Dacorum in Hemel, working from home most of the week has been the logical thing to do to save travel time, petrol costs and, of course, the environment. But being at home has its downside, principally the distractions… from trips to the coffee shop and running across Therfield Heath, to polishing my shoes and repairing our storm-flattened garden fence. And, yes, entering competitions on Twitter…
Stevenage is about half way between home and The Repair Shed, but I suspect it will be much more than a stepping stone in developing the business. The new discipline of joining others working on their enterprises, with onsite business advice, should work wonders for my focus, productivity and learning. It's also a smart place to work; on hearing the Stevenage My Incubator had a cafe and showers my wife suggested I move in and live there permanently.
So I may not have won Eurovision (although I do sing in a choir and had a beard for 25 years) but I do feel my own competition win could be just the 'douze-points' vote of confidence I need. Watch this (work)space and thank you judges for your wise decision.
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Hey there podcast listeners, Jonathan here. Today's episode of the Social Work Podcast is about self-psychology. Self psychology is part of the psychodynamic tradition which includes drive theory, ego psychology, and object-relations theory. I know some of you hearing the word "psychodynamic" and thinking, "old stuff." But I have some good news for you. Self Psychology was developed in the 1960s by Heinz Kohut in Chicago. And in the world of therapy, the 1960s isn't really that long ago. It is about 15 to 20 years after after Carl Rogers started developing person-centered therapy which is still the most commonly used therapy, and about the same time that Tim Beck was developing cognitive therapy, which is probably the therapy with the most research behind it.
Self psychology is neither widely used, nor does it have much empirical support. So why should you listen to the rest of this episode? Well, my guest, Dr. Tom Young, is really interesting. And he makes a good argument that self-psychology is the psychodynamic approach that has the best fit with social work. Tom is now a retired professor of social work from Widener University and the author of several publications on social work and self psychology. Tom sees self-psychology as the only truly strengths-based psychodynamic therapy. That said, one of the critiques of self psychology is that Kohut, like many theorists of his day, traced nearly every psychological problem back to the mother. In Kohut's case, he blamed mothers for a failure to empathize with their child. Kohut was the first psychodymanic theorist to put empathy at the center, an act which some have suggested ushered in the era of relational dynamic therapy. As Tom discusses, empathy in self psychology is a way of addressing unmet developmental needs, which is slightly different than the way Carl Rogers saw empathy. Speaking of development, Tom and I talked about three experiences that Kohut said were fundamental in the development of the self: mirroring, idealizing, and twinship. Don't worry, Tom will bring those ideas to life.
One term that Tom uses that might need a little more explanation is "selfobject" (and that's without the hyphen – just one word, selfobject). Kohut saw "selfobjects" as "things" that serve psychological functions for the "self" that help us stay cohesive. They perform those functions through reflecting back who we are, providing us someone or something to idealize, or helping us feel connected to others. So selfobjects are literally outside of a person, but are essential components of the internal "self." Selfobjects can be people, objects, or activities. Here are a few examples:
- Have you ever had the experience of going out with new parents only to realize that they have completely lost the ability to talk about anything other than their baby? Even though the baby outside of them and hopefully at home with a babysitter, their baby is an essential part of the parents self-identity.
- If you take a mobile phone from a teenager and they say "it is like you're ripping my arm from my body," the phone is a selfobject. The mobile phone connects teens to peers and that connection peers is one of the ways that the developing teen feels whole.
- When you went away to college, did your parents give away your bedroom to a younger sibling, or remodel it so it looked nothing like your room. Did you feel upset, like they were giving away a part of you? Kohut would say that your bedroom was a selfobject. If you were surprised at how much you felt the loss of your room, Kohut would say that makes sense since we're only made aware of the role that the selfobject plays when it is taken away.
- But once we're aware of its role, we can consciously turn to it during times of stress for reinforcement. I think the easiest way to think about this is to think of a song or piece of music that has gotten you through tough times. I've had several friends for whom Stevie Nicks tunes have gotten them through their worst times. Literally times when they wanted to kill themselves. Music acted as a reinforcement, a way to put their fractured self back together, even if just for a few minutes. And sometimes a few minutes of hope is all people need to stay.
Tom talks about how self-psychology can be used with individuals, couples, families and groups and he shares a case study of self psychology with an adolescent male. We end with resources for folks interested in learning more.
Before we get to the episode I want to give a couple of shout outs. First, thank you to everyone who responded to my request to fill out our Podtrac Audience survey. Thousands of people download the podcast, but I know very little about you. In less than two weeks I had over 100 responses. Thank you! If you haven't filled out the survey, please do. You can find the link on the upper right side of socialworkpodcast.com. So, what did you tell me? You really liked the guests, the introductions, the topics, the audio quality and the host (thank you so much). Two thirds you have listened to 6 or more episodes. Four people responded to the survey without having listened to an episode. Which is, well, I don't know what to make of that. You didn't like it when episodes don't have transcripts and you don't like the infrequency of episodes. And I hear you on both of those. Transcripts: In the last episode I invited you to donate a transcript. I want to thank the folks who have offered to transcribe episodes of the podcast. Big shout out to John West for donating his transcription of episode 104 - Guardian of the Golden Gate: Interview with Kevin Briggs. If you're interested in donating a transcript in exchange for a shout out in the next episode, please send me a message on the Social Work Podcast Facebook page: facebook.com/swpodcast. As for the frequency of the podcast, I get them out as quickly as possible. I'm working on some ways to automate some of the tasks with the goal of making the podcast more regular. Until then, I humbly offer you my irregularly scheduled podcast.
And now, without further ado, on to episode 107 of the Social Work Podcast: Self Psychology and Social Work: Interview with Tom Young, Ph.D.
Jonathan Singer: Tom, thanks so much for being here today and talking with us about self psychology. And my first question for you is, what is self psychology?
Tom Young: Well, it's a theory. Right? And theories are sort of mental metaphors that explain what makes people tick, how they behave, and why. And this particular theory which came out of psychoanalysis, it's a little bit inaccessible to a lot of normal people, not that psychoanalysts aren't normal [laughs] so I try to keep it simple and also show how it's deceptively simple. So, for example, it's a theory that places the self at the very center of development. It's completely different from Freud's view. It's not about sex. It's not about aggression. It's about the self's desire for cohesion, for productivity, for feeling vital, alive, and living a meaningful life. And the way the person invented it, his name was Heinz Kohut—died in 1981—the way he mapped it out makes a certain amount of sense to me even though I think the words that he used were somewhat cumbersome. He said every self needs to feel self-esteem and in order to have self-esteem, in order to feel good about yourself, you have to experience being admired and enjoyed by other people. Right? So he called that experience a mirroring experience which is a little bit of a poor choice of words in my view because it's not a simple reflection. Right? It's like I risk showing you what I am interested in, what kind of person I am, and then I wait to see how you respond to it. Right? If you respond to it with interest, with enjoyment, with appreciation, then I feel like you sort of get me. Right? And if I have repeated experiences of that kind then it sort of consolidates within me a good feeling about myself and self-esteem. All right. The second thing he thought that we all needed in order to be healthy, vital, productive selves, was sort of an ability to regulate our own emotions and our behaviors so that when we interact with other people and with things in the world we have a certain amount of flexibility and, for lack of a better word, self-control in the process. And his view of how that comes about is quite similar to what I just described for self-esteem. His view is that when a person is little, anybody who has had a two year old knows this, and they start to tottle, and they are sort of cruising around the house, and they are like unguided missiles; they can bang into just about any corner of an object that you have and they're immediately hurt. Right? They didn't expect the corner of the table to reach out and, you know, knock them in the head and so they turn in their distress and in their pain, they turn to the parent to make it better. Right? So, the parent can only do what parents do. You pick the child up, you try to comfort them, you kiss the boo-boo, you try to distract them so that they don't sort of stay [laughs] caught up in that period of uncontrollable sobbing that is typically the case. And then typically what a parent will do after comforting a child will be to say, "oh, come on, let's try to play this," so there is sort of a two-part process or two phases to this experience that I am trying to describe; one is sort of the comforting and soothing part and then the other is the sort of the inspiration, "let's get back into the game," part.
Excuse me for being a little bit masculinist here, because it's mostly mothers that do this initially, of course, but again, repeated experiences—he called these idealizing experiences, Kohut did so that's the buzzword, just like mirroring. Idealizing? What does this mean? For a lot of people it just doesn't connect with anything. The way that I make sense of it is that you have the young child needing to reach out to a stronger, more powerful adult who is sort of an "ideal" to the child for lack of a better word, and through that interaction the child gets comforted, soothed, and then also inspired to move ahead or move along. Right? And again, if you have repeated experiences of this kind when you're growing up what happens is that you begin to internalize this process of being able to sort of recognize your own discomfort and soothe yourself. I mean even this phrase self-soothing sort of comes in a fairly direct way right out of self psychology as well as the capacity to reinvigorate yourself, inspire yourself, or find sources of reinvigoration and inspiration for yourself. So it's not something that happens in one interaction. Right? It happens in multiple interactions over time. And the third piece of the puzzle that Kohut crafted is in some ways the hardest to understand. He asserted that every self needs what he called twinship experiences. It's much harder to explain, but I'll do my best here. A twinship experience is the experience of being with someone that you feel is like you and that you are like them. Right? So this is an experience of belongingness, of connectedness, of participating in some kind of community no matter how small it is. And the best way to understand twinship is to not have it and see what happens when you feel like you are the only person like you in a room. So, for example, since we are both social work educators we know of students from minority groups who end up in a classroom where they are the only one from their group and boy, do they feel disconnected, alienated sometimes, inept… They really feel… And I don't know, since I lived on the Southside of Chicago for ten years and used public transportation a lot, there were times when I was the only white person on a bus. Right? And I knew then what it felt like to not have that twinship connection. Right? I mean you really feel like you are a fish out of water. Incidentally, I think a lot of kids with learning difficulties, and attention deficit problems have this experience when they are very young. When they first go to school, nobody knows they have this problem. They know they're different, but nobody else knows that they are different, and so it sets in motion a pretty difficult chain of development until somebody gets it. Right?
Jonathan Singer: Ok, so you have those three experiences in childhood and—
Tom Young: Repeatedly.
Jonathan Singer: Repeatedly. These three repeated experiences. It's a developmental process. Right?
Tom Young: Right.
Jonathan Singer: Not just once. And so what do you get from having those three experiences repeatedly?
Tom Young: Right. That's a good question. Well, what you get or you should get is the capacity to be able to monitor your own self-esteem and regulate it because in this universe compost happens and there are all sorts of slings and arrows that come our way. We suffer disappointments, our feelings get hurt, we feel betrayed, we feel ignored, or we feel injured, or disrespected. Right? These are all sort of situations that I think of as fairly common occurrences. And if you get these three things that we've been talking about then you should have the capacity: first, to monitor and manage your own emotional reactions. Second, to monitor and manage your own behaviors in the wake of those emotional reactions if you can think that way. Third, you should be able to identify other people who can help you when you can't do it yourself because you've had repeated experiences where you know the kind of response that you need and the kind of person who is most likely to deliver it if you seek it out. Right? So there's a way in which this process, the developmental process that we have been talking about, never ends and this is really something that we have to continue until our last breath. Right? We really need to be connected to the right kinds of others in order to function at our maximum productivity, efficiency, or whatsoever. In fact, we were talking earlier about evidence and support of this theory, I tell my students, "Don't take my word for it. Do this experience with yourself. If you're in the presence of somebody who really gets you, who understands what you're going through, and who is comforting and inspiring in the way I have been describing, in addition to their understanding and appreciating you and you feel that you are with someone that is like you and you are having this experience in the present moment, not developmentally, but in the present moment today, if you are with someone who delivers those three things to you, do you function better than you would if you didn't have this person?" They all say right away, "Yeah, we understand what you are getting at." They understand you. I think that was what Kohut was getting at, too. This theory really is a theory for life and so that raises the next question.
Jonathan Singer: And the next question is—so if you don't get these three things and you don't get the twinship experience, the mirroring, and the—
Tom Young: Idealizing.
Jonathan Singer: And the idealizing. Then what happens? How does the person experience life?
Tom Young: This is where I think the theory becomes most useful for social workers because, remember, Kohut put the self in the center of this psychological universe which is really a psychosocial universe. Right? It's all relational. It's all interactive. The self needs to feel good about itself. The self needs to feel that it is an agent under its own control. The self needs to feel connected as a member of some sort of community, right? So if you don't get it in the ways that we've just been talking about then you find ways to make up for it in a kind of a substitute way. Right? So all of the sudden things like substance abuse, violence and aggression, sexual addictions become problematic substitutes for getting self-esteem, the feeling of control and regulation, and the feeling of belonging and connectedness. I say they're problematic because we know what drugs, sex, and violence do. Rock and roll, of course, is exempted. That is really, I think, what is most helpful for social workers because the rest of the world tends to view drugs, sex, and violence in a very sort of moralistic way. I mean, right, it's dangerous, and it's destructive. That's all true, but if you are going to help somebody get out from under these, I can't think of them all but addictions of a certain kind, you have to understand what the function of the dysfunction is.
Jonathan Singer: Right. And you can't say, "Well, you're addicted to drugs because you are a morally deficit person."
Tom Young: Right. [laughs] Actually somebody has probably already told them that, and for somebody who is, let's just say, dependent on—pick cocaine because it's one of those substances that makes you feel big, makes you feel good, makes you feel smart, and makes you feel happy. You know? It's all the things you would hope happens without needing the cocaine. Right? If somebody is going to kick cocaine then we have to provide them with an alternative experience that doesn't involve the white powder.
Jonathan Singer: So would you say that cocaine provides an idealizing experience?
Tom Young: I think that's a great question. I think that recreational drugs can provide multiple selfobject experiences. I hadn't used that word selfobject before so I have to backtrack a little bit right now, right? The cocaine becomes the self's object because the self is using the cocaine to generate this enhanced feeling of strength. This is the idealizing part. It generates happiness, maybe a certain feeling of sort of togetherness, and cohesion. "I am on my game. I'm high but I'm on my game" kind of thing. And then, I don't know whether it also has an impact on self-esteem. [laughs] I haven't had that much experience personally with cocaine but I think that there is this sort of illusion of just good feeling that comes from it so that's what I mean when I think a particular substance can actually generate more than one selfobject experience. Sort of thinking out loud here about violence and rage, I think rage is not so much a twinship experience; an aggressive rage is really a substitute for feeling very vulnerable and very powerless, and there is nothing quite like rage to reverse that feeling.
Jonathan Singer: So let's say you have a client who comes in who's got addictions, who is aggressive—maybe this is a kid in a juvenile justice setting.
Tom Young: Sure.
Jonathan Singer: And you start to understand his situation using these concepts. These are things that are a reflective of not getting certain things developmentally. How does that turn into treatment? How does that turn into what you do? What do you do with that now?
Tom Young: [laughs] That's a great question, because I think this is the hardest part of the theory for most people because, first of all, our culture wants the violence to stop and wants them to stop using drugs, right, so immediately we're sort of predisposed to want to change this kid and his behavior. Secondly, we might actually be, I don't know, maybe frightened a little bit or disgusted in some sort of moral way with his behavior, depending on what form the violence has taken. So what this theory asks us to do is to put all that desire to change him on a shelf or on a backburner and first, understand what is it like for him. Right? I mean how does he actually feel when he hits somebody? What does it do for him? It's almost like a slow motion replay process that I think is fundamental. I think it's at the heart of empathy. Right? It's like we look at this behavior from the outside, and we think we know what it means but that's not really what is important here. What is important is to understand it from the inside. What is it like for him? What are the kinds of situations, and the feelings, and the thought processes that he's having leading up to scoring some drugs and using them. What kind of situations, what kinds of provocations precede a violent episode on his part? How is he actually feeling when someone calls him a racial slur or any sort of derogatory name? Because, just to carry on with this a little bit, what I think frequently happens is that there is this almost feeling of panic that the self is going to be obliterated, taken over, controlled, or demolished in some ways.
Jonathan Singer: So you understand the violence as protective in a sense like, "I am going to attack first before I am attacked. I am going to defend myself before somebody destroys me."
Tom Young: Yes, that is another way in which the self psychology completely turns Freudian psychology on its head. Aggression is not primary in self psychology as it is in Freudian psychology. Aggression is a byproduct. It's almost like a break down product, right? If the self is not feeling safe, is not feeling cohesive, or appreciated then violence is admittedly a poor substitute but it works. Right? So people hear about self psychology and usually when people like me hold forth on it, we make a big deal about empathy and most people start to yawn after two or three minutes, right, because they say, "Oh, empathy, yeah, we know about empathy." Well… [laughs] We don't know about empathy. None of us really knows what it's like for another person until we try to understand that other person and that other person helps us understand them so, for example, I tell my students, "You know about your assessments and your treatment plans? Until your client feels, really feels that you get them, you don't really have anything you can count on because only when a person feels—like if I feel that you get me and that you appreciate me, I will tell you things about me that I wouldn't tell you until I felt that you got me." So for this hypothetical kid that you are talking about in the juvenile justice system with a record of violent behavior and substance abuse, it won't be until he really feels in some sort of emotionally safe way that we get him, it won't be until then that he tells us how it is that he becomes violent and how it is that he resorts to using drugs and when, and where, and then we can formulate a treatment plan. Right? We can start to talk to him in words that are not unique to self psychology. We can start talking about triggers. We can talk to him about starting to monitor his own emotional reactions to things, even get him to predict when he'll cross the line, when he goes into the red zone. Then we can start to talk to him about it and say, "OK, so we know that going into the red zone happens. We know what happens to you when you go into the red zone. You get busted. You end up talking to people like me. Right? What would work for you other than violence as you are approaching the red zone?" And what's interesting about this is how people create their own treatment plans. I mean they think of things that are much more effective and much more creative typically than we do. We say, "Oh, well, get a punching bag." Well, you know the kid's not going to carry around a punching bag around the neighborhood, right?
Jonathan Singer: That's right or, you know, come up with your anger thermometer.
Tom Young: Exactly. So I think that is the hard thing for clinicians, clinical social workers, clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses, I mean for all of us really, is to get behind that behavior and to really go that extra step in understanding what's going on inside the person. If we succeed with that then we're actually working with the person and finding ways for them to achieve good feelings about themselves, the capacity to regulate their emotions and their behaviors, and the ability to interact with other people in a way that works for them, meaning works for them so that it keeps them out of that red zone.
Jonathan Singer: So it sounds like empathy is a central concept and empathy is almost a tool to allow your client to trust you—that you get them. I know in social work, we often talk about empathy in terms of Carl Rogers—genuineness, empathy, unconditional positive regard. Is there a way in which self psychology understands or conceptualizes empathy differently?
Tom Young: Well, I don't think it would be radically different. What's radical is probably the emphasis placed on it, the centrality of it, in terms of interventions that are derived from the theory. I don't want to talk trash about the Rogerian thing. It's more than repeating back to the person what they've said; it's generating with words your understanding of a person in his or her context, which is both contemporary, "where they live now," but also historical. So, for example, when I meet with clients and I ask them, going back to this hypothetical situation with the kid we were talking about before, if we get to talking about approaching the red zone, one question I want to ask is, "Now, I think this has happened to you lots of times in your life. When was the first time you remember coming up to this red zone like this?" So your empathy does deepen. The more you understand what a person is actually going through, the more you are entering his universe and leaving yours in the waiting room someplace. This is also a hard thing for people and for clinicians to do, I think. It's hard to sustain what Kohut referred to as an empathic immersion in someone else's psychological life: psychologically understood both in contemporary and historical context. It's not easy to do. We all have our own brains. You can't unhook them and disengage them while you are doing this so it's key to be able to keep yourself focused on this person's experience, and understanding this person's experience. So then, to get back to your question, you're right, empathy is not only an assessment tool, but when the person starts to feel it, it actually has therapeutic effects even though we are not even talking therapy or intervention, yet. We're talking understanding, but the more a person feels understood, as we were saying before, the better they function even in the moment.
Jonathan Singer: So that raises the question—assessment and then intervention—are there things that are specific to self psychology in terms of intervention?
Tom Young: I don't think there's anything specific. I think that's one of the reasons why to my knowledge self psychology has not generated a manualized treatment that can be evaluated in a standard research fashion, but I do think that as your understanding of the person deepens in this empathetic way we were talking about before, that you begin to see both historically in the person's life and in the way the person interacts with you what that person's self is seeking for most now. I don't know how long it has been since you have worked with adolescent kids but I remember working with adolescent kids in a psychiatric inpatient unit and you could tell which kids were starved for mirroring experiences. I mean they will tell you how wonderful they are for hours on end and it's really because they have been treated like little snots.
Jonathan Singer: Like they are not wonderful.
Tom Young: Like they are not wonderful. That's right, and other kids will sort of present themselves as being pretty much totally unregulated. I mean we say that they have impulse control problems, right? Well, that's a person that needs a strong figure to stay with them when they are feeling unregulated and figure out ways to deliver some of that comforting and calming… I mean, that tone of voice, just the way you position yourself physically with a kid. You don't get in his face. You sit down alongside of him. You try to initiate conversations like, "You're looking a little out of sorts. What's going on?" You get a kind of conversation going where you actually accept the role of the idealized other, where you accept the role of the self-esteem bringing mirror. Right? Or you accept the role of just "being with," particularly for those kids who feel so different from the rest of the universe.
Jonathan Singer: So the treatment process is actually being those three types of self-objects.
Tom Young: That's right. It's more a therapy of being than it is of doing.
Jonathan Singer: I can see how that would be tough to manualize because you wouldn't say, "Sessions 3 through 7: You are the mirroring object." [laughs]
Tom Young: [laughs] Right.
Jonathan Singer: Because it wouldn't make any sense and you know, we have been talking about kids but this treatment can work for anybody because you said this is process that goes on throughout your life.
Tom Young: That's right.
Jonathan Singer: Is this something you could use with couples and families? Not just individuals?
Tom Young: Yes, I think so. In my own work, I do see many couples. And if you stop and think about the kinds of experiences that we were talking about earlier, in a marriage or it doesn't even have to be marriage but a committed long term relationship, it doesn't have to be heterosexual, it can be homosexual, what are some of the things we are looking for from our partner? Aren't we looking for some sort of that acceptance that builds self-esteem? Aren't we looking for comfort when we're disappointed and down? Aren't we looking for somebody that we feel we can sort of navigate this world with together, that we belong with, and that belongs with us? So what I think happens with a lot of couples in distress is that something has happened in their life together that has made them fearful that they're not going to get this from the other person and as soon as they get fearful that they are not going to get this from the other person then the other person becomes like the enemy. And so the very foundations of intimacy get eroded by this fear that the other person is going to hurt us rather than provide those kinds of experiences. So when I work with couples I spend a lot of time trying to say, "What's your worst fear here and isn't that fear that you're not going to get some of these good things?" This is true with families, too, I think. The funny thing about families is that some children can remind their parents of the person they were afraid they might become or the child will remind the parent of a sibling who has gone astray. What happens is that the parents in a family situation start interacting with the child out of fear that the child is going to become something they don't want the child to become. Then that fear also erodes the process or compromises or corrodes the process of the kid getting the sort of self-esteem enhancing, the self-control building, and the interpersonal kinds of skills. So I think the theory can underpin a lot of systemic work. For those of your listeners who are interested, I did try to articulate that in an article that was published in the Social Service Review back in the early 90s called, "Environmental Modification and the Self Psychological Perspective." I think a lot of social workers end up in positions where they could help systems recalibrate so that the people in those systems would get more of the sort of self-enhancing experiences with each other rather than this fearful, fear based distancing kind of interactions with each other. I think I find it a pretty versatile theory in terms of working with children, with adolescents, with adults individually, or in couples, or as parts of family systems. Other people have applied it to working with groups. I have not done that. It's sort of interesting to think about how in a group experience as sort of as envisioned by Yalom, to think who underneath that group process would be getting these kinds of experiences, and what a group facilitator could do to make it possible for the group members to provide them to each other? So I think that there is an application there, too, although it's not something that I am particularly knowledgeable about.
Jonathan Singer: Are there resources that you can recommend for folks who want to know more? We can put links to those on the Social Work Podcast website.
Tom Young: Ok. Well, this could get a little autobiographical here. I only met Heinz Kohut once, but I knew his wife for about three years. During a particular stressful time in my life, I was seeing her for counseling or therapy. Betty Kohut was her name. She was a social worker, and she had a very close friend named Miriam Elson who was also a social worker. Miriam Elson actually worked professionally with Heinz Kohut as well as being friends with him socially, and she's written a book called Self Psychology in Clinical Social Work. I mean it could maybe even be about 15 years old now but it's still available. It's in paperback and I think it's published by Norton. And then there's a book that Helene Jackson edited, the exact title of which escapes me at the moment, but people like that because each chapter applies the theory to work with a different population so that you can get more target problem focused in that book than you can in the one by Miriam Elson. There is a series that a lot of people don't know about that I think is very valuable called Progress in Self Psychology. I think that's put out by The Analytic Press. It was edited by a man named Arnold Goldberg for years. He doesn't do it anymore, but Goldberg was collaborator and contemporary of Kohut's. Every year there were annual conferences in self psychology. People came and gave papers applying the theory to different situations and those papers then got compiled in this series called Progress in Self Psychology. I think it is one of the richest sources for people who really want to know, "How do I use this stuff?"
Jonathan Singer: That's great. Well, we will put links to those on the Social Work Podcast and, of course, any of the stuff that you have published, we'll put links to those on there as well.
Tom Young: Great.
Jonathan Singer: So what are some of the limitations of self psychology?
Tom Young: Well, I think a big limitation in our current era is that everybody wants a fix for any one of the disorders in the DSM. Right? I mean if you have anxiety, if you have depression, if you have OCD, obsessive compulsive disorder, or panic with or without agoraphobia, and on and on and on, it makes perfect sense that everyone would want to know, look, isn't there a treatment for this? Isn't there an intervention that fixes this?
Jonathan Singer: Right, like dialectical behavior therapy for women with borderline personality disorder who self-harm?
Tom Young: Exactly. In all fairness to self psychology, it was not developed with that goal in mind. So a potential limitation is that if you are looking to sort of cure schizophrenia or reconstruct a borderline personality disorder [laughs] or eliminate panic attacks with self psychology, that's a waste of time because self psychology really is an empowering psychology. So the person is always bigger than, more than the symptom or the disorder, and what self psychology is trying to do is to empower the self that's contending with the disorder or the diagnosis. So even a person struggling with schizophrenia can be related to or interacted with in a way that is guided by self psychology and if it's done in the way that we've been talking about before then the person struggling with schizophrenia feels empowered to deal with his or her schizophrenia and similarly for the other disorders that were mentioned. Lots of time I think and I don't understand exactly why this is, maybe just because it came out of psychoanalysis, but people sometimes criticize self psychology for being a deficit model and I guess it is because, you know, the absence of mirroring developmentally or the absence of idealizing leads to a sort of psychoanalytic world view with structural deficits in the personality. Yeah, you can go there but I don't think Kohut was coming from that place at all. He was coming from what is every self striving for. Every self seeks to be healthy. Every self wants these kinds of experiences because it makes you a more vibrant, a more cohesive, a more productive, a more creative person. That's the way all selves want to be so I see the theory not as a deficit model but more as a strength based model really with a focus on empowering the self no matter with what the self is contending with in terms of these other kinds of disorders.
Jonathan Singer: And that really fits with social work.
Tom Young: I think so.
Jonathan Singer: Yeah, because social work, the way that it is being taught these days, the ways that it has been taught for 15 to 20 years is "focus on strengths," the strengths perspective, focus on what your client brings to the table, resilience, and all those sorts of things. And it sounds like self psychology from your understanding and how we have talked about it really fits well with that.
Tom Young: I couldn't agree more and I am so glad you mentioned resilience because I think the resilience research converges on this theoretical formulation of self psychology. If you get these kinds of experiences that we have been talking about, you are a more resilient person no matter what your circumstances are.
Jonathan Singer: So that could be one of the reasons why somebody who is at risk could be resilient because they had these experiences of somebody mirroring their goodness and who was able to over years provide them with that.
Tom Young: Exactly, and we call them protective factors. [laughs] Right?
Jonathan Singer: [laughs] That's right, the protective factors.
Tom Young: Protective factors in the risk and resilience framework. Right.
Jonathan Singer: Well, Tom, this has been great. Thank you so much for taking time out in talking with us about self psychology. I really appreciate the insight into the model and I hope that folks out there listening get as excited about it as I am.
Tom Young: That's great, Jonathan. Appreciate the opportunity. Thank you very much.
Transcript generously donated by Amy Smith, early childhood special education paraprofessional.
References and Resources
- Young, T. M. (1994). Environmental modification in clinical social work: A Self-psychological perspective Social Service Review, 68, 202-218
- Progress in self-psychology (1985 through 2004): https://www.pep-web.org/toc.php?journal=psp International Journal in Psychoanalytic Self-Psychology (2006 - present) https://www.pep-web.org/toc.php?journal=ijpsp
APA (6th ed) citation for this podcast:
Singer, J. B. (Producer). (2016, November 1). #107 - Self Psychology for Social Workers: Interview with Tom Young, Ph.D. [Audio Podcast]. Social Work Podcast. Retrieved from http://www.socialworkpodcast.com/2016/11/self-psychology.html


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I want to thank Missy and Robien for the chance to audition for this contest. Their enthusiasm heightened my excitement of entering the mansion, participating in the fun challenges, and meeting Jeeves our butler.
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New Headquarter: avant-garde architecture and ecology
Pro-Lam Alluminio srl is proud to announce the opening of the new headquarter in Cisano Bergamasco.
"The new office is built following main themes that are the "heart" of our company's philosophy: ecology, innovation and design – as says Mr. Paolo Cavenati, CEO – it is a structure characterized by a modern architecture, in which we gave a lot of importance to eco-sustainability. Therefore, last generation of photovoltaic panels have been installed on rooftop using our extruded aluminum profiles from Eur & Sun, company's brand, product range.
Obviously this makes ProLam a completely green company. Even vertical and zen gardens were designed for a better environmental impact.
The transparency of the continuous glass facade has been specifically chosen in order to communicate to companies that cooperate with us a concept of ProLam's business philosophy: transparency in sharing information useful for creating and consolidating business relationships with customers and suppliers ".


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1. Welcome home. The average open rate for welcome emails is 50 percent, making them 86 percent more effective than email newsletters. (MarketingSherpa)
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Takeaway: Automate a welcome message to, well, make your subscribers feel welcome.
2. What desktop? Fifty-one percent of email is opened on a mobile device. (Litmus)
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Takeaway: Design for mobile first, then the other screens.
3. Rise and shine! Four out of five smartphone users check their phones within 15 minutes of waking up. Eighty percent of those say it's the first thing they do in the morning. (IDC Research Report)
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Takeaway: Run a test. Send your emails earlier in the day and see if the change increases open rates.
4. Get in the pocket. People check their smartphones up to 150 times per day. (KPCB)
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Takeaway: Email's a solid bet, but don't forget to augment the message with social updates. Be where your people are.
5. Give the people what they want. Adding videos to your email campaigns can increase click rates by 300 percent. (Wistia)
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Takeaway: People like interactive elements, so add them to your emails when it's appropriate.
6. Party on social; get to business with email. Email marketing ROI is 43 cents to every dollar spent. (Direct Marketing Association)
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Takeaway: Respect your customers and their channels. Sell to them when and where they want to be sold to.
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Is Imported Chocolate Really Worth it?
My ever-expanding attempts to become an aficionado of all things edible have led me to eat a variety, and in some cases curious, amount of items over the past few years. Some of these items — like kids cereals — have tested the finer points of the various forms of simple and refined sugars, while others — like Bison balls — have led me to contemplate whether the free range diet of a 2000-pound mammal really plays a role in the flavor notes of a reproductive organ.
Meat, cheese, and all forms of prepackaged, high-fructose corn syrup laden "garbage" have always been my finer points, but dark chocolate? Now there is something I readily admit to knowing little about. Don't get me wrong — I do love me a richly frosted chocolate donut — but I've never been one to munch on health-blogger chic pieces of dark chocolate as is. So excuse me when I walked into a local
grossly overpriced gourmet market a few days ago and wasn't exactly feeling the vibes the counter guy was giving me when it came to the Spanish imported Blanxart Negro Chocolate Bar. At a whopping $2.95 I could have gotten at least two packs of Corn Nuts, but the counter guy's incessant claims that, "dude, it's literally the best chocolate ever" won over the intrigued foodie within me. Once more, it spurred a question in my mind; Is imported chocolate really worth the price?
I decided to put my question to the test by not only buying a 62% Blanxart Dark (Negro) chocolate bar, but also buying a Hershey's Special Dark King sized bar.
Blanxart bills itself as a "master chocolatier" and started in Barcelona in the 1950s, today giving exclusive license to Washington-based Matiz España to distribute its products in the United States. Using "stringent" quality controls to select "the finest" cocoa beans from Ecuador, Brazil, Cameroon, The Ivory Coast and Guinea, the company touts that its "all natural ingredients are blended in to create one of the best quality chocolates in the world." Obviously, this had better be some good stuff.
Meanwhile, the familiar Hershey's Special Dark is more marketed to the average American consumer. There's nothing on either the bar or the Special Dark webpage about small batches or sourcing of cocoa, and instead much more about antioxidants and how the bar is "mildly sweet" and "perfectly balanced."
I'm careful to open each package and find the individual Hershey's squares smaller than each the Blanxart squares. At about four grams a square, they're more brittle and easier to break off than the eight gram Blanxart squares, which feel like an impenetrable fortress of solid chocolate. Smell-wise, the Hershey bar is a bit more assertive. It's definitely sweeter, but there's a slightly metallic smell that meshes with a light smoke aroma. The Blanxart bar smells about the same, minus that metal, but it just doesn't register at the distance the Hershey bar does.
Who am I kidding? They both smell like dark chocolate, and for the most part, they taste like it too. Both are somewhat bitter and bland on the tongue, although the Blanxart "Negro" square is certainly a little less sweet, and because of its size resists dissolving on my tongue. I find it to have more of that woodsy/smoke flavor that dark chocolate fans are always raving about, but not to a noticeable degree which makes me go really savour it. Likewise, it's also smoother than the Special Dark square, and a cross-section reveals a much sturdier construct, with none of the grittiness or chipping that make up the Hershey bar.
I like the Blanxart bar, but I'm not fall over heels in love with it. Granted, the Hershey's Special Dark bar doesn't seem so "special," but at roughly a third of the cost, I can mind the subtle differences in emulsion and sweetness. My suggestion? If you're not a serious lover of dark chocolate, than Blanxart's "Negro" Chocolate bar probably doesn't have the 'wow' factor to convert you.
Anyone have any good suggestions out there for chocolate?


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At times, many of us wish there were a crystal ball to easily show us what lies ahead in the fast-paced, ever-evolving world of health IT. Just two years ago, January 2016, I offered my own insights through a blog post projecting what would lie ahead for that year.
I looked back with curiosity on those projections and pleasantly confirmed that generally "I was on-track". My 2016 forecast covered these topics:
- Ongoing industry consolidation
- Shifting of EMR focus from implementation to optimization
- CIO leadership challenges
After two years, I think it's difficult to see each trend continue exactly as originally predicted. I think it is fair to say that the predictions from 2016 will continue to be trends for the future and that there will be additional trends developing.
With history on my side, here are the additional upcoming trends (for the next 24 months) that I foresee.
- Cyber Everywhere – It seems that not a day goes by without another organization reporting the loss of data. This situation continues where not only are the bad-actors getting smarter, faster, but individuals in which they prey seem to be getting less adept; which is frightening. Despite the best efforts of organizations to introduce education and technology to protect the data, many individuals continue to struggle in their own diligence surrounding cyber; often giving up their credentials to unscrupulous individuals and sharing private / confidential data on public networks. Look for much more draconian measures to be introduced along with more personal accountability associated with protecting data.
- Analytics, Analytics and Analytics – Interestingly the trend will be less about getting data out of the source systems or data mart, but more focused upon the operations personnel using the data in order to make substantive decisions and improvements within their organization. This will require strong collaboration between representatives of information services and their operational counterparts in order to gain consensus on an enterprise data model and data definitions.
- Service Orientation – With many organizations at the tail end of their electronic medical records implementations and industry statistics indicating that most organizations use about fifty percent (50%) of the application's functionality, there is a significant opportunity for a redefined IS service approach that is much more proactive and personalized than simply reactive.
- Shift to Outpatient Care Settings – Reimbursement and risk bearing care arrangements will continue to drive patient care to the home and outpatient settings. Support of the medical home and particularly telemedicine and acquiring patient-reported outcomes will serve as strategic differentiators for healthcare organizations.
- Partner Innovation – For those with a stable EMR platform, the opportunity to drive significant value from their EMR through a variety of innovative technologies and partnerships has never been greater. Recent announcements between Apple and Stanford Medicine in which irregular heart rhythms are identified as part of a research study via the iWatch and a health system clinical command center is just the tip of the iceberg as organizations like Apple, Google, Amazon and others look to improve global health.
I'm interested to see what the next two years bring in terms of how this year's projections work out. The healthcare environment continues to change rapidly.
Surprising partnerships— CVS and Aetna for instance — will generate new requirements and adjustments that change the landscape even further. As the past several years have displayed, the healthcare environment is one of consistent change and an exciting field to be a part of in innovating and shaping the future.


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Vital Winery Launches Non-Profit Wine Label to Help Fund Healthcare for Vineyard, Winery Workers
WALLA WALLA, Washington (March 17, 2016) – Most wine regions in the United States depend heavily on seasonal workers in the vineyards and the wineries. Yet many of those workers don't have access to affordable healthcare.
Winemaker Ashley Trout has set out to do something about that in Washington State's Walla Walla Valley.
Trout recently launched Vital Wines, a community-driven, non-profit winery dedicated to providing better healthcare for vineyard and winery workers in the Walla Walla Valley. All proceeds from the sale of Vital Wines will go to SOS Health Services of Walla Walla, an urgent care facility that provides quality walk-in healthcare services to individuals without health insurance (or underinsured) in the Walla Walla Valley.
This is the first effort of its kind designed to support seasonal vineyard and winery workers in Washington's booming wine industry.
Vital Wines' first release in April will be a Rosé of Sangiovese from Seven Hills Vineyard, one of Walla Walla's most prestigious vineyards, followed by a red wine to be released in the fall. Vital Wines' inaugural 2015 vintage will total about 400 cases, Trout said.
The Vital Wines' project officially kicks off April 6 with a fund-raising celebration and dinner at Whitehouse-Crawford restaurant in downtown Walla Walla, Trout said. Information and tickets for the event are available online at www.vitalwinery.com and via the winery's Facebook page.
"The clinic serves many of our winery and vineyard employees throughout Walla Walla Valley,"
Trout said. "Most winery workers do not have health insurance due to the seasonal nature of their jobs and injuries or illness can cause great financial strain on them.
"It's critically important that we help them," she said. "Their work is vital to our industry. Our support is vital to their lives."
The state's wine industry has rallied around the project. Everything involved in the project, from grapes, barrels and corks to winemaking, production and marketing services, has been donated.
"The Vital project has been a force of community in the valley and around the state," Trout said. "From fruit to lab work, corks to capsules, graphic design work to bottling – practically every ounce of these wines has been donated. The response has been stunning, absolute stunning."
The SOS Clinic is a non-profit, bilingual, no questions asked, free health care clinic that relies on doctors who are about to retire and want to volunteer their time without a full-time commitment.
Funding from the Vital project will enable the clinic to continue to pay for doctors' medical licenses, increase its hours of operation and perhaps add more specialty clinics such as chronic care, women's clinics and diabetes education.
Wine is an estimated $5 billion industry in Washington State. Since 2009, the WA wine industry has increased the total state economic impact of $1.3 billion annually. By 2020, wine and wine industry related jobs in the Walla Walla Valley are projected to grow by nearly 48 percent to more than 8,900 jobs from the current 6,000.
The wine industry has grown through the help of thousands of seasonal employees, but many of whom do not have health care. In the valley, the average annual salary of each of these jobs is roughly $17,000 per year, which makes monthly healthcare costs virtually out of reach even under the Affordable Care Act, Trout said.
About Vital Winery
Vital Winery is a community-driven, non-profit winery dedicated to providing better healthcare for vineyard and winery workers in the Walla Walla Valley. All proceeds from the sale of Vital Wines goes to SOS Health Services of Walla Walla.
Vital Winery has received donations from some of the best vineyards, bottling companies, distributors and service providers in the Pacific Northwest. The winery will launch in 2016 with one rose and one red wine. For information on Vital Winery and how to get involved in the project, and to see a list of donors, please visit www.vitalwinery.com and like the winery's page of Facebook.
About SOS Health Services
SOS Health Services of Walla Walla is an urgent care facility that provides quality walk-in healthcare services to individuals without health insurance (or underinsured) in the Walla Walla Valley. SOS Health Services does not deny people access to services regardless or citizenship status or geographic location. For information, please see www.soshealthservices.com.