: In an attempt to gain a person‐centred perspective of therapeutic change, exploratory focus groups were conducted with men in Dovegate Prison's Therapeutic Community (TC). Residents identified ...change as a process comprising variability, gradual movement and differential paces. The process was seen to involve self‐referential properties, interpersonal facets and challenges. Residents distinguished two significant change events: identifying aspects of the unknown and openness to receive help. Support is given to focus group methodology as a way of offering novel insights into experience of a TC as a process‐orientated model of change, taking into account individual aspects and underlying facets of change.
This study demonstrated the following 3 new important concepts. 1) Dynamic imaging can yield meaningful clinical diagnostic information objectively, without need for human expertise. The same ...methodology can be applicable to any quantitative pathophysiological assessment. 2) Using classical FFT and elementary statistics (Student's t tests and z-value statistics, or alpha and beta statistics), the authors have shown how to reduce thousands of observations to a single quantitative clinical diagnostic parameter. This approach should be applicable to any multiparametric diagnostic technique. 3) After 3 decades of controversial reports on the use of thermal imaging in the diagnosis of breast cancer, the authors have shown that dynamic infrared imaging (in contrast to static thermal imaging), using a plausible pathophysiological model and up-to-date infrared equipment, can distinguish between noncancerous and cancerous breasts with a highly impressive sensitivity and specificity.
