This inquiry utilizes a qualitative heuristic design and methodology to explore the experience of psychotherapy in a home office setting, from the perspective of the psychotherapist. In addition to ...data collected through in-depth interviews with seven therapists who currently treat patients in their home offices, the study includes the experience and reflections of the primary researcher, who also practices in a home office. By engaging with therapists who have direct knowledge of the home office, the study is privileged to share intimate perspectives of this rarely investigated phenomenon. The study explores the motivations of these therapists to establish a home practice, and presents their satisfaction and frustrations with this unique setting. The findings offer insight into ways a practitioner deals with self-disclosure, manipulates the therapeutic frame, and manages boundaries. The interviews and analysis explore different ways the setting — both natural and constructed — impacts the work. Participants in the study express confidence that working in a home office serves their patients well, matches their own strengths and personality, and is aligned with their theoretical beliefs about psychotherapy. Deepening the research of home office practice beyond a study of setting and situation, the research reaches towards the symbolic in several ways. The primary researcher works with two dreams a patient shared about the home office. The literature review and data analysis includes reflections on the concrete and symbolic roles home plays in culture, in psychotherapeutic work, and in the personal life of the practitioner. Utilizing the ancient Greek goddess Hestia, the goddess of the hearth, the research employs a depth psychology insight into how the physical setting and psychological focusing combine to create a temenos. The home office setting will continue to be an ideal setting for some practitioners for whom it makes practical sense. The implications of this study for the practice of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis point towards the importance for all practitioners to consider their conscious and unconscious motivations to practice in a particular setting, and how these choices affect their patients, the people they live with, and their own development. Key words: home, home office, psychotherapy, setting, Hestia.
Home and field office staff disagreement often impedes international development NGOs (INGOs) from making their accountability systems more responsive to partner and community concerns. Drawing on a ...staff survey, and qualitative interviews across four country programmes, of a major INGO, three interlocking explanations for this disagreement are suggested: that staff perceive accountability practices differently because they place greater interpretive weight on practices most relevant to their own organisational roles; that divergent views reflect substantively different normative beliefs about accountability; and that differing assessments of accountability practices reflect a strategic misrepresentation of field country experiences as a rational response to power differentials. Les désaccords entre les membres du personnel du siège et ceux des bureaux de terrain empêchent souvent les ONG de développement internationales (ONGI) de faire en sorte que leurs systèmes de redevabilité soient plus à même de répondre aux préoccupations des partenaires et des communautés. Sur la base d'une enquête parmi les membres du personnel et d'entretiens qualitatifs dans quatre programmes de pays d'une ONGI d'envergure, trois explications imbriquées de ce désaccord sont suggérées ; le fait que les membres du personnel perçoivent les pratiques de redevabilité différemment parce qu'ils accordent un poids interprétatif supérieur aux pratiques les plus pertinentes pour leurs propres rôles organisationnels ; le fait que des points de vue divergents reflètent des croyances normatives considérablement différentes sur la redevabilité ; et le fait que des évaluations différentes des pratiques de redevabilité reflètent une déformation des expériences sur le terrain dans les pays comme une réaction radicale face aux différences de pouvoir. As discordâncias entre funcionários que trabalham em casa e no escritório frequentemente impedem as ONGs de desenvolvimento internacionais (ONGIs) de tornar seus sistemas de prestação de contas mais receptivos às preocupações de parceiros e da comunidade. Baseando-se em urna pesquisa com funcionários e entrevistas qualitativas em quatro programas de país de uma grande ONGI, três explicações interligadas para esta discordância são sugeridas: que os funcionários vêem as práticas de prestação de contas diferentemente porque eles dão um peso interpretativo maior a práticas mais relevantes aos seus próprios papéis organizacionais; que visões divergentes refletem opiniões normativas substancialmente diferentes sobre prestação de contas e que avaliações diferentes das práticas de prestação de contas refletem urna estratégica interpretação distorcida das expêriencias de campo em um país como uma resposta racional aos diferenciais de poder. Los desacuerdos entre el personal de la sede y el que se encuentra sobre el terreno a menudo constituyen el motivo por el cual los sistemas de rendición de cuentas de las ONG de desarrollo internacional (ONGI) no responden con más precisión a los problemas de las contrapartes y de las comunidades. A partir de una encuesta entre el personal y de entrevistas cualitativas realizadas en los programas de una importante ONGI en cuatro países, el ensayo sugiere que existen tres explicaciones para estos desacuerdos relacionadas entre sí: el personal percibe la rendición de cuentas de manera diferente porque otorga más importancia interpretativa a las prácticas más relevantes de sus propios roles organizacionales; las diversas perspectivas reflejan la existencia de ideas normativas diferentes sobre la rendición de cuentas; y las diferencias en las evaluaciones de la rendición de cuentas reflejan una mala interpretación estratégica de las experiencias en el país extranjero como una respuesta racional ante las diferencias de poder.
This article examines the role of external inspection in enhancing the quality of a criminal justice system. It seeks to answer six foundational questions: how should we understand the nature and ...purposes of criminal justice inspection? what methodologies ought it to employ? who should do it? what values should it respect? how much does it cost? and does it 'work'? The article reveals that the difference between inspection and other forms of scrutiny activity is largely a matter of emphasis; that the same is true of the difference between inspection and research; that 'lay' involvement in inspection can be beneficial; that independence is a core value for inspection, albeit one that is best understood as independence of judgement; that transparency is a further key value but not always honoured; and that evidence that inspection improves service delivery and hence justifies its costs is weak and further research is needed.
During the pandemic, agency employees with children have struggled to juggle childcare, remote schooling and activities with crushing work schedules managed from sometimes chaotic home offices. ......the survey found that non-parents feel decidedly more positive emotions such as respect, empathy, and appreciation toward parents than the other way around. To help find some solutions to this divide Dadlani and Nicholson received some advice, following the report, from social psychologist Laura Wallace and how parents and non-parents can prioritize their time at work with their personal lives.
The Obama administrations education reform agenda has included an increased emphasis on the role of charter schools generally and a specific emphasis on charter management organizations (CMOs) in ...replicating best practices and helping "turn around" the lowest performing 5% of the nations public schools. Through interviews with more than 50 leaders from 25 CMOs across the nation, this qualitative study delves into questions related to CMO growth and funding. Findings suggest that the ability of CMOs to grow their networks typically depends on the infusion of significant financial support. Although CMOs have accessed capital from a variety of public and private sources, interviews reveal that current funding mechanisms are both enabling and constraining the growth potential of the CMO model. CMOs generally rely on external funding to grow, and their growth is then shaped by the funders' financial capacities, requirements, and expectations. This study concludes with recommendations for policymakers about how CMO growth might be improved—specifically in national efforts to turn around failing schools.
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