Systematic desensitization is a treatment based on counterconditioning anxiety responses by pairing relaxation with anxiety-inducing stimuli in a graded hierarchy. It involves (1) learning relaxation techniques, (2) constructing a hierarchy of anxiety-provoking situations rated on a scale, and (3) pairing relaxation with visualizing the situations while gradually moving up the hierarchy. It is most effective for specific phobias but may encounter problems if items are not properly ordered or induce too much anxiety too quickly. Regular practice is needed for long-term effects.
This document discusses systematic desensitization, an anxiety reduction technique developed by Joseph Wolpe. It involves gradually exposing a client to anxiety-provoking stimuli associated with their phobia while teaching deep muscle relaxation. A hierarchy is constructed of situations ranked from least to most anxiety-provoking. Through imagery and relaxation, the client works up the hierarchy, pairing the relaxed state with items to replace the association of anxiety. Systematic desensitization is effective for phobias when the client has coping skills but avoids due to anxiety, and is not appropriate for inherently dangerous situations.
Systematic desensitisation Behaviourist treatment ASJill Jan
This document describes systematic desensitization therapy, a behavioral therapy technique used to treat phobias. Systematic desensitization involves creating a hierarchy of feared stimuli from least to most anxiety-provoking and teaching clients relaxation techniques to use while gradually exposing them to items on the hierarchy. The goal is to extinguish the fear response through counterconditioning by pairing the feared stimulus with relaxation.
Systematic desensitization is a behavioral therapy technique used to treat phobias. It uses classical conditioning principles to encourage adaptive behaviors by combining relaxation techniques with a hierarchy of anxiety-provoking situations related to the phobia, ranging from least to most feared. The subject learns to relax, then progresses through the hierarchy with the help of a therapist, stopping when relaxed and continuing when relaxed again, to approach the real feared situation successfully.
The document provides an overview of applied behavioral analysis (ABA) as presented in a new hire orientation. It defines ABA as using scientific methods to study and change socially significant behaviors by understanding their relationships to environmental factors. The orientation covers ABA principles and techniques including reinforcement, prompting, measuring behaviors, respondent conditioning, and emphasizing positive interventions over punishment. It also discusses creating environments that promote appropriate behaviors and make problem behaviors irrelevant, inefficient or ineffective.
2024 State of Marketing Report – by HubspotMarius Sescu
https://www.hubspot.com/state-of-marketing
· Scaling relationships and proving ROI
· Social media is the place for search, sales, and service
· Authentic influencer partnerships fuel brand growth
· The strongest connections happen via call, click, chat, and camera.
· Time saved with AI leads to more creative work
· Seeking: A single source of truth
· TLDR; Get on social, try AI, and align your systems.
· More human marketing, powered by robots
ChatGPT is a revolutionary addition to the world since its introduction in 2022. A big shift in the sector of information gathering and processing happened because of this chatbot. What is the story of ChatGPT? How is the bot responding to prompts and generating contents? Swipe through these slides prepared by Expeed Software, a web development company regarding the development and technical intricacies of ChatGPT!
Systematic desensitization is a treatment based on counterconditioning anxiety responses by pairing relaxation with anxiety-inducing stimuli in a graded hierarchy. It involves (1) learning relaxation techniques, (2) constructing a hierarchy of anxiety-provoking situations rated on a scale, and (3) pairing relaxation with visualizing the situations while gradually moving up the hierarchy. It is most effective for specific phobias but may encounter problems if items are not properly ordered or induce too much anxiety too quickly. Regular practice is needed for long-term effects.
This document discusses systematic desensitization, an anxiety reduction technique developed by Joseph Wolpe. It involves gradually exposing a client to anxiety-provoking stimuli associated with their phobia while teaching deep muscle relaxation. A hierarchy is constructed of situations ranked from least to most anxiety-provoking. Through imagery and relaxation, the client works up the hierarchy, pairing the relaxed state with items to replace the association of anxiety. Systematic desensitization is effective for phobias when the client has coping skills but avoids due to anxiety, and is not appropriate for inherently dangerous situations.
Systematic desensitisation Behaviourist treatment ASJill Jan
This document describes systematic desensitization therapy, a behavioral therapy technique used to treat phobias. Systematic desensitization involves creating a hierarchy of feared stimuli from least to most anxiety-provoking and teaching clients relaxation techniques to use while gradually exposing them to items on the hierarchy. The goal is to extinguish the fear response through counterconditioning by pairing the feared stimulus with relaxation.
Systematic desensitization is a behavioral therapy technique used to treat phobias. It uses classical conditioning principles to encourage adaptive behaviors by combining relaxation techniques with a hierarchy of anxiety-provoking situations related to the phobia, ranging from least to most feared. The subject learns to relax, then progresses through the hierarchy with the help of a therapist, stopping when relaxed and continuing when relaxed again, to approach the real feared situation successfully.
The document provides an overview of applied behavioral analysis (ABA) as presented in a new hire orientation. It defines ABA as using scientific methods to study and change socially significant behaviors by understanding their relationships to environmental factors. The orientation covers ABA principles and techniques including reinforcement, prompting, measuring behaviors, respondent conditioning, and emphasizing positive interventions over punishment. It also discusses creating environments that promote appropriate behaviors and make problem behaviors irrelevant, inefficient or ineffective.
2024 State of Marketing Report – by HubspotMarius Sescu
https://www.hubspot.com/state-of-marketing
· Scaling relationships and proving ROI
· Social media is the place for search, sales, and service
· Authentic influencer partnerships fuel brand growth
· The strongest connections happen via call, click, chat, and camera.
· Time saved with AI leads to more creative work
· Seeking: A single source of truth
· TLDR; Get on social, try AI, and align your systems.
· More human marketing, powered by robots
ChatGPT is a revolutionary addition to the world since its introduction in 2022. A big shift in the sector of information gathering and processing happened because of this chatbot. What is the story of ChatGPT? How is the bot responding to prompts and generating contents? Swipe through these slides prepared by Expeed Software, a web development company regarding the development and technical intricacies of ChatGPT!
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...Alex Pruden
Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
Discover top-tier mobile app development services, offering innovative solutions for iOS and Android. Enhance your business with custom, user-friendly mobile applications.
Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!
Main news related to the CCS TSI 2023 (2023/1695)Jakub Marek
An English 🇬🇧 translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech 🇨🇿 version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...Jason Yip
The typical problem in product engineering is not bad strategy, so much as “no strategy”. This leads to confusion, lack of motivation, and incoherent action. The next time you look for a strategy and find an empty space, instead of waiting for it to be filled, I will show you how to fill it in yourself. If you’re wrong, it forces a correction. If you’re right, it helps create focus. I’ll share how I’ve approached this in the past, both what works and lessons for what didn’t work so well.
Connector Corner: Seamlessly power UiPath Apps, GenAI with prebuilt connectorsDianaGray10
Join us to learn how UiPath Apps can directly and easily interact with prebuilt connectors via Integration Service--including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Open GenAI, and more.
The best part is you can achieve this without building a custom workflow! Say goodbye to the hassle of using separate automations to call APIs. By seamlessly integrating within App Studio, you can now easily streamline your workflow, while gaining direct access to our Connector Catalog of popular applications.
We’ll discuss and demo the benefits of UiPath Apps and connectors including:
Creating a compelling user experience for any software, without the limitations of APIs.
Accelerating the app creation process, saving time and effort
Enjoying high-performance CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations, for
seamless data management.
Speakers:
Russell Alfeche, Technology Leader, RPA at qBotic and UiPath MVP
Charlie Greenberg, host
Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation ParametersSafe Software
Building automations in FME Flow can save time, money, and help businesses scale by eliminating data silos and providing data to stakeholders in real-time. One essential component to orchestrating complex automations is the use of attributes & automation parameters (both formerly known as “keys”). In fact, it’s unlikely you’ll ever build an Automation without using these components, but what exactly are they?
Attributes & automation parameters enable the automation author to pass data values from one automation component to the next. During this webinar, our FME Flow Specialists will cover leveraging the three types of these output attributes & parameters in FME Flow: Event, Custom, and Automation. As a bonus, they’ll also be making use of the Split-Merge Block functionality.
You’ll leave this webinar with a better understanding of how to maximize the potential of automations by making use of attributes & automation parameters, with the ultimate goal of setting your enterprise integration workflows up on autopilot.
"Choosing proper type of scaling", Olena SyrotaFwdays
Imagine an IoT processing system that is already quite mature and production-ready and for which client coverage is growing and scaling and performance aspects are life and death questions. The system has Redis, MongoDB, and stream processing based on ksqldb. In this talk, firstly, we will analyze scaling approaches and then select the proper ones for our system.
Generating privacy-protected synthetic data using Secludy and MilvusZilliz
During this demo, the founders of Secludy will demonstrate how their system utilizes Milvus to store and manipulate embeddings for generating privacy-protected synthetic data. Their approach not only maintains the confidentiality of the original data but also enhances the utility and scalability of LLMs under privacy constraints. Attendees, including machine learning engineers, data scientists, and data managers, will witness first-hand how Secludy's integration with Milvus empowers organizations to harness the power of LLMs securely and efficiently.
Freshworks Rethinks NoSQL for Rapid Scaling & Cost-EfficiencyScyllaDB
Freshworks creates AI-boosted business software that helps employees work more efficiently and effectively. Managing data across multiple RDBMS and NoSQL databases was already a challenge at their current scale. To prepare for 10X growth, they knew it was time to rethink their database strategy. Learn how they architected a solution that would simplify scaling while keeping costs under control.
How information systems are built or acquired puts information, which is what they should be about, in a secondary place. Our language adapted accordingly, and we no longer talk about information systems but applications. Applications evolved in a way to break data into diverse fragments, tightly coupled with applications and expensive to integrate. The result is technical debt, which is re-paid by taking even bigger "loans", resulting in an ever-increasing technical debt. Software engineering and procurement practices work in sync with market forces to maintain this trend. This talk demonstrates how natural this situation is. The question is: can something be done to reverse the trend?
What is an RPA CoE? Session 1 – CoE VisionDianaGray10
In the first session, we will review the organization's vision and how this has an impact on the COE Structure.
Topics covered:
• The role of a steering committee
• How do the organization’s priorities determine CoE Structure?
Speaker:
Chris Bolin, Senior Intelligent Automation Architect Anika Systems
Your One-Stop Shop for Python Success: Top 10 US Python Development Providersakankshawande
Simplify your search for a reliable Python development partner! This list presents the top 10 trusted US providers offering comprehensive Python development services, ensuring your project's success from conception to completion.
Digital Banking in the Cloud: How Citizens Bank Unlocked Their MainframePrecisely
Inconsistent user experience and siloed data, high costs, and changing customer expectations – Citizens Bank was experiencing these challenges while it was attempting to deliver a superior digital banking experience for its clients. Its core banking applications run on the mainframe and Citizens was using legacy utilities to get the critical mainframe data to feed customer-facing channels, like call centers, web, and mobile. Ultimately, this led to higher operating costs (MIPS), delayed response times, and longer time to market.
Ever-changing customer expectations demand more modern digital experiences, and the bank needed to find a solution that could provide real-time data to its customer channels with low latency and operating costs. Join this session to learn how Citizens is leveraging Precisely to replicate mainframe data to its customer channels and deliver on their “modern digital bank” experiences.
Product Design Trends in 2024 | Teenage EngineeringsPixeldarts
The realm of product design is a constantly changing environment where technology and style intersect. Every year introduces fresh challenges and exciting trends that mold the future of this captivating art form. In this piece, we delve into the significant trends set to influence the look and functionality of product design in the year 2024.
How Race, Age and Gender Shape Attitudes Towards Mental HealthThinkNow
Mental health has been in the news quite a bit lately. Dozens of U.S. states are currently suing Meta for contributing to the youth mental health crisis by inserting addictive features into their products, while the U.S. Surgeon General is touring the nation to bring awareness to the growing epidemic of loneliness and isolation. The country has endured periods of low national morale, such as in the 1970s when high inflation and the energy crisis worsened public sentiment following the Vietnam War. The current mood, however, feels different. Gallup recently reported that national mental health is at an all-time low, with few bright spots to lift spirits.
To better understand how Americans are feeling and their attitudes towards mental health in general, ThinkNow conducted a nationally representative quantitative survey of 1,500 respondents and found some interesting differences among ethnic, age and gender groups.
Technology
For example, 52% agree that technology and social media have a negative impact on mental health, but when broken out by race, 61% of Whites felt technology had a negative effect, and only 48% of Hispanics thought it did.
While technology has helped us keep in touch with friends and family in faraway places, it appears to have degraded our ability to connect in person. Staying connected online is a double-edged sword since the same news feed that brings us pictures of the grandkids and fluffy kittens also feeds us news about the wars in Israel and Ukraine, the dysfunction in Washington, the latest mass shooting and the climate crisis.
Hispanics may have a built-in defense against the isolation technology breeds, owing to their large, multigenerational households, strong social support systems, and tendency to use social media to stay connected with relatives abroad.
Age and Gender
When asked how individuals rate their mental health, men rate it higher than women by 11 percentage points, and Baby Boomers rank it highest at 83%, saying it’s good or excellent vs. 57% of Gen Z saying the same.
Gen Z spends the most amount of time on social media, so the notion that social media negatively affects mental health appears to be correlated. Unfortunately, Gen Z is also the generation that’s least comfortable discussing mental health concerns with healthcare professionals. Only 40% of them state they’re comfortable discussing their issues with a professional compared to 60% of Millennials and 65% of Boomers.
Race Affects Attitudes
As seen in previous research conducted by ThinkNow, Asian Americans lag other groups when it comes to awareness of mental health issues. Twenty-four percent of Asian Americans believe that having a mental health issue is a sign of weakness compared to the 16% average for all groups. Asians are also considerably less likely to be aware of mental health services in their communities (42% vs. 55%) and most likely to seek out information on social media (51% vs. 35%).
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...Alex Pruden
Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
Discover top-tier mobile app development services, offering innovative solutions for iOS and Android. Enhance your business with custom, user-friendly mobile applications.
Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!
Main news related to the CCS TSI 2023 (2023/1695)Jakub Marek
An English 🇬🇧 translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech 🇨🇿 version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...Jason Yip
The typical problem in product engineering is not bad strategy, so much as “no strategy”. This leads to confusion, lack of motivation, and incoherent action. The next time you look for a strategy and find an empty space, instead of waiting for it to be filled, I will show you how to fill it in yourself. If you’re wrong, it forces a correction. If you’re right, it helps create focus. I’ll share how I’ve approached this in the past, both what works and lessons for what didn’t work so well.
Connector Corner: Seamlessly power UiPath Apps, GenAI with prebuilt connectorsDianaGray10
Join us to learn how UiPath Apps can directly and easily interact with prebuilt connectors via Integration Service--including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Open GenAI, and more.
The best part is you can achieve this without building a custom workflow! Say goodbye to the hassle of using separate automations to call APIs. By seamlessly integrating within App Studio, you can now easily streamline your workflow, while gaining direct access to our Connector Catalog of popular applications.
We’ll discuss and demo the benefits of UiPath Apps and connectors including:
Creating a compelling user experience for any software, without the limitations of APIs.
Accelerating the app creation process, saving time and effort
Enjoying high-performance CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations, for
seamless data management.
Speakers:
Russell Alfeche, Technology Leader, RPA at qBotic and UiPath MVP
Charlie Greenberg, host
Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation ParametersSafe Software
Building automations in FME Flow can save time, money, and help businesses scale by eliminating data silos and providing data to stakeholders in real-time. One essential component to orchestrating complex automations is the use of attributes & automation parameters (both formerly known as “keys”). In fact, it’s unlikely you’ll ever build an Automation without using these components, but what exactly are they?
Attributes & automation parameters enable the automation author to pass data values from one automation component to the next. During this webinar, our FME Flow Specialists will cover leveraging the three types of these output attributes & parameters in FME Flow: Event, Custom, and Automation. As a bonus, they’ll also be making use of the Split-Merge Block functionality.
You’ll leave this webinar with a better understanding of how to maximize the potential of automations by making use of attributes & automation parameters, with the ultimate goal of setting your enterprise integration workflows up on autopilot.
"Choosing proper type of scaling", Olena SyrotaFwdays
Imagine an IoT processing system that is already quite mature and production-ready and for which client coverage is growing and scaling and performance aspects are life and death questions. The system has Redis, MongoDB, and stream processing based on ksqldb. In this talk, firstly, we will analyze scaling approaches and then select the proper ones for our system.
Generating privacy-protected synthetic data using Secludy and MilvusZilliz
During this demo, the founders of Secludy will demonstrate how their system utilizes Milvus to store and manipulate embeddings for generating privacy-protected synthetic data. Their approach not only maintains the confidentiality of the original data but also enhances the utility and scalability of LLMs under privacy constraints. Attendees, including machine learning engineers, data scientists, and data managers, will witness first-hand how Secludy's integration with Milvus empowers organizations to harness the power of LLMs securely and efficiently.
Freshworks Rethinks NoSQL for Rapid Scaling & Cost-EfficiencyScyllaDB
Freshworks creates AI-boosted business software that helps employees work more efficiently and effectively. Managing data across multiple RDBMS and NoSQL databases was already a challenge at their current scale. To prepare for 10X growth, they knew it was time to rethink their database strategy. Learn how they architected a solution that would simplify scaling while keeping costs under control.
How information systems are built or acquired puts information, which is what they should be about, in a secondary place. Our language adapted accordingly, and we no longer talk about information systems but applications. Applications evolved in a way to break data into diverse fragments, tightly coupled with applications and expensive to integrate. The result is technical debt, which is re-paid by taking even bigger "loans", resulting in an ever-increasing technical debt. Software engineering and procurement practices work in sync with market forces to maintain this trend. This talk demonstrates how natural this situation is. The question is: can something be done to reverse the trend?
What is an RPA CoE? Session 1 – CoE VisionDianaGray10
In the first session, we will review the organization's vision and how this has an impact on the COE Structure.
Topics covered:
• The role of a steering committee
• How do the organization’s priorities determine CoE Structure?
Speaker:
Chris Bolin, Senior Intelligent Automation Architect Anika Systems
Your One-Stop Shop for Python Success: Top 10 US Python Development Providersakankshawande
Simplify your search for a reliable Python development partner! This list presents the top 10 trusted US providers offering comprehensive Python development services, ensuring your project's success from conception to completion.
Digital Banking in the Cloud: How Citizens Bank Unlocked Their MainframePrecisely
Inconsistent user experience and siloed data, high costs, and changing customer expectations – Citizens Bank was experiencing these challenges while it was attempting to deliver a superior digital banking experience for its clients. Its core banking applications run on the mainframe and Citizens was using legacy utilities to get the critical mainframe data to feed customer-facing channels, like call centers, web, and mobile. Ultimately, this led to higher operating costs (MIPS), delayed response times, and longer time to market.
Ever-changing customer expectations demand more modern digital experiences, and the bank needed to find a solution that could provide real-time data to its customer channels with low latency and operating costs. Join this session to learn how Citizens is leveraging Precisely to replicate mainframe data to its customer channels and deliver on their “modern digital bank” experiences.
Product Design Trends in 2024 | Teenage EngineeringsPixeldarts
The realm of product design is a constantly changing environment where technology and style intersect. Every year introduces fresh challenges and exciting trends that mold the future of this captivating art form. In this piece, we delve into the significant trends set to influence the look and functionality of product design in the year 2024.
How Race, Age and Gender Shape Attitudes Towards Mental HealthThinkNow
Mental health has been in the news quite a bit lately. Dozens of U.S. states are currently suing Meta for contributing to the youth mental health crisis by inserting addictive features into their products, while the U.S. Surgeon General is touring the nation to bring awareness to the growing epidemic of loneliness and isolation. The country has endured periods of low national morale, such as in the 1970s when high inflation and the energy crisis worsened public sentiment following the Vietnam War. The current mood, however, feels different. Gallup recently reported that national mental health is at an all-time low, with few bright spots to lift spirits.
To better understand how Americans are feeling and their attitudes towards mental health in general, ThinkNow conducted a nationally representative quantitative survey of 1,500 respondents and found some interesting differences among ethnic, age and gender groups.
Technology
For example, 52% agree that technology and social media have a negative impact on mental health, but when broken out by race, 61% of Whites felt technology had a negative effect, and only 48% of Hispanics thought it did.
While technology has helped us keep in touch with friends and family in faraway places, it appears to have degraded our ability to connect in person. Staying connected online is a double-edged sword since the same news feed that brings us pictures of the grandkids and fluffy kittens also feeds us news about the wars in Israel and Ukraine, the dysfunction in Washington, the latest mass shooting and the climate crisis.
Hispanics may have a built-in defense against the isolation technology breeds, owing to their large, multigenerational households, strong social support systems, and tendency to use social media to stay connected with relatives abroad.
Age and Gender
When asked how individuals rate their mental health, men rate it higher than women by 11 percentage points, and Baby Boomers rank it highest at 83%, saying it’s good or excellent vs. 57% of Gen Z saying the same.
Gen Z spends the most amount of time on social media, so the notion that social media negatively affects mental health appears to be correlated. Unfortunately, Gen Z is also the generation that’s least comfortable discussing mental health concerns with healthcare professionals. Only 40% of them state they’re comfortable discussing their issues with a professional compared to 60% of Millennials and 65% of Boomers.
Race Affects Attitudes
As seen in previous research conducted by ThinkNow, Asian Americans lag other groups when it comes to awareness of mental health issues. Twenty-four percent of Asian Americans believe that having a mental health issue is a sign of weakness compared to the 16% average for all groups. Asians are also considerably less likely to be aware of mental health services in their communities (42% vs. 55%) and most likely to seek out information on social media (51% vs. 35%).
AI Trends in Creative Operations 2024 by Artwork Flow.pdfmarketingartwork
Creative operations teams expect increased AI use in 2024. Currently, over half of tasks are not AI-enabled, but this is expected to decrease in the coming year. ChatGPT is the most popular AI tool currently. Business leaders are more actively exploring AI benefits than individual contributors. Most respondents do not believe AI will impact workforce size in 2024. However, some inhibitions still exist around AI accuracy and lack of understanding. Creatives primarily want to use AI to save time on mundane tasks and boost productivity.
Organizational culture includes values, norms, systems, symbols, language, assumptions, beliefs, and habits that influence employee behaviors and how people interpret those behaviors. It is important because culture can help or hinder a company's success. Some key aspects of Netflix's culture that help it achieve results include hiring smartly so every position has stars, focusing on attitude over just aptitude, and having a strict policy against peacocks, whiners, and jerks.
PEPSICO Presentation to CAGNY Conference Feb 2024Neil Kimberley
PepsiCo provided a safe harbor statement noting that any forward-looking statements are based on currently available information and are subject to risks and uncertainties. It also provided information on non-GAAP measures and directing readers to its website for disclosure and reconciliation. The document then discussed PepsiCo's business overview, including that it is a global beverage and convenient food company with iconic brands, $91 billion in net revenue in 2023, and nearly $14 billion in core operating profit. It operates through a divisional structure with a focus on local consumers.
Content Methodology: A Best Practices Report (Webinar)contently
This document provides an overview of content methodology best practices. It defines content methodology as establishing objectives, KPIs, and a culture of continuous learning and iteration. An effective methodology focuses on connecting with audiences, creating optimal content, and optimizing processes. It also discusses why a methodology is needed due to the competitive landscape, proliferation of channels, and opportunities for improvement. Components of an effective methodology include defining objectives and KPIs, audience analysis, identifying opportunities, and evaluating resources. The document concludes with recommendations around creating a content plan, testing and optimizing content over 90 days.
How to Prepare For a Successful Job Search for 2024Albert Qian
The document provides guidance on preparing a job search for 2024. It discusses the state of the job market, focusing on growth in AI and healthcare but also continued layoffs. It recommends figuring out what you want to do by researching interests and skills, then conducting informational interviews. The job search should involve building a personal brand on LinkedIn, actively applying to jobs, tailoring resumes and interviews, maintaining job hunting as a habit, and continuing self-improvement. Once hired, the document advises setting new goals and keeping skills and networking active in case of future opportunities.
A report by thenetworkone and Kurio.
The contributing experts and agencies are (in an alphabetical order): Sylwia Rytel, Social Media Supervisor, 180heartbeats + JUNG v MATT (PL), Sharlene Jenner, Vice President - Director of Engagement Strategy, Abelson Taylor (USA), Alex Casanovas, Digital Director, Atrevia (ES), Dora Beilin, Senior Social Strategist, Barrett Hoffher (USA), Min Seo, Campaign Director, Brand New Agency (KR), Deshé M. Gully, Associate Strategist, Day One Agency (USA), Francesca Trevisan, Strategist, Different (IT), Trevor Crossman, CX and Digital Transformation Director; Olivia Hussey, Strategic Planner; Simi Srinarula, Social Media Manager, The Hallway (AUS), James Hebbert, Managing Director, Hylink (CN / UK), Mundy Álvarez, Planning Director; Pedro Rojas, Social Media Manager; Pancho González, CCO, Inbrax (CH), Oana Oprea, Head of Digital Planning, Jam Session Agency (RO), Amy Bottrill, Social Account Director, Launch (UK), Gaby Arriaga, Founder, Leonardo1452 (MX), Shantesh S Row, Creative Director, Liwa (UAE), Rajesh Mehta, Chief Strategy Officer; Dhruv Gaur, Digital Planning Lead; Leonie Mergulhao, Account Supervisor - Social Media & PR, Medulla (IN), Aurelija Plioplytė, Head of Digital & Social, Not Perfect (LI), Daiana Khaidargaliyeva, Account Manager, Osaka Labs (UK / USA), Stefanie Söhnchen, Vice President Digital, PIABO Communications (DE), Elisabeth Winiartati, Managing Consultant, Head of Global Integrated Communications; Lydia Aprina, Account Manager, Integrated Marketing and Communications; Nita Prabowo, Account Manager, Integrated Marketing and Communications; Okhi, Web Developer, PNTR Group (ID), Kei Obusan, Insights Director; Daffi Ranandi, Insights Manager, Radarr (SG), Gautam Reghunath, Co-founder & CEO, Talented (IN), Donagh Humphreys, Head of Social and Digital Innovation, THINKHOUSE (IRE), Sarah Yim, Strategy Director, Zulu Alpha Kilo (CA).
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The search marketing landscape is evolving rapidly with new technologies, and professionals, like you, rely on innovative paid search strategies to meet changing demands.
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2. Is a Behavior Intervention Needed?
There are many behavioral interventions that we use in the field
of education, and for many different reasons. If a child is
demonstrating a behavior that is deemed aggressive or
undesirable, it may be time to discuss an intervention. Parents,
teachers, or other professionals who work with a child can help
to determine if there is a need for a behavior intervention.
Examples of behaviors that can be encompassed in the realm of
“aggressive or undesirable” include, but are not limited to:
• Sarcasm
• Put-downs
• Verbal aggression
• Interrupting
• Shouting
• Pinching
• Scratching
3. Behaviors – What are they and why do they occur?
Behaviors include our actions and the general way in which we
behave. Behaviors can be desirable (greeting a friend with a hug) or
undesirable (looking around the room when a friend is talking to you)
as defined by the parameters of ones culture. All people exhibit
behaviors.
Behaviors occur because of consequences. These consequences
reinforce the likelihood of that behavior occurring again. Behaviors
and consequences are not always bad; for example, a child might
engage in the behavior of waving at an adult because the
consequence is the adult waving back. The child is reinforced by the
waving and will likely engage in that behavior again.
A less desirable example would be a child hitting his little brother
because the consequence is attention from mom. Although this may
not seem like desirable attention, it IS desirable for that particular
child. As a result, they will probably hit their little brother again
because they know that mom will give the child attention (even if it is
a verbal reprimand or even time-out).
4. Extinction as an Intervention
The best course of action for undesirable behaviors may be extinction
(also known as planned ignoring).
Extinction is “the procedure of choice with milder forms of aggression”
and other undesirable behaviors.(McGinnis, p.195).
Extinction is “the withdrawal or removal of positive
reinforcement”(McGinnis, p.195) for the behavior targeted for change.
The reinforcers of a behavior are “withheld or ended, and students
receive praise or positive reinforcement for demonstrating appropriate
behaviors”(Salend, p.269). Extinction serves a two-fold purpose –
eliminating an undesired behavior and increasing pro-social behaviors.
After determining the behavior in need of change, we then need to
discover the purpose of the behavior. What is the child getting out of this
behavior? Attention? Escape from an activity they do not want to do?
Avoidance?
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5. How does extinction work?
The most important part of the extinction intervention is determining
WHY the behavior is occurring(what is REINFORCING the child).
Only then will we know what reinforcer to remove!
“Very often, the answer will be attention. Looking, staring, yelling at,
talking to, or turning toward are common teacher and peer reactions
to a youngster’s inappropriate behaviors”(McGinnis, p.195). It can
be difficult to accept that children might be actively seeking negative
attention, because to many of us that would be unpleasant.
However, all of the listed reinforcers could very well be encouraging
the child to continue engaging in the behavior. These are the very
reinforcers that we, as parents and teachers, need to consistently
REMOVE every time the child engages in the behavior targeted for
change.
6. Case Study – Extinction in Action
Kevin is a 7 year old boy who attends school in a self-contained classroom. Kevin
has moderate developmental delays but understands what is being said to him. Kevin
has many methods of communication (some verbal words, sign language, and a dyna
vox). However, Kevin displays aggressive behaviors to the staff members in his
room. Simple eye contact with Kevin often sends him into aggressive behaviors and
he will scratch or bite any staff member near him – even if they weren’t the one giving
Kevin the initial attention. While he is aggressing, Kevin is making very definite eye
contact with other staff members to see how they will react to his violent actions.
Often, they tell him to stop, engage him in conversation (“I don’t like that. We have
nice hands in school”), stare at him, or reprimand him. Kevin appears to crave that
attention.
The behavior specialist creates a behavior plan for Kevin which largely includes
extinction. Every staff member in the classroom is given a tutorial on how to infuse
this plan throughout the day. Any time Kevin engages in aggression, no one is to
make eye contact with him, run over to try and stop him, reprimand him, or remove
him from the room. He is to receive no attention for this. The person who he is
aggressing at will calmly, slowly leave the situation and go elsewhere, carrying about
with their day as normal. Staff can re-engage Kevin with the task at hand after a 2
minute wait period.
7. Case Study – Con’t
It isn’t enough that just the staff members in Kevin’s room stick to this
plan. The behavior specialist sent a memo to every classroom in the
school, including the Art and Physical Education teachers, explaining that
throughout the day Kevin’s aggressive behaviors should be ignored. This
eliminates the possibility that if Kevin aggresses in the hallway, an
unfamiliar staff member won’t react and thus give Kevin the attention he
wants. This extinction plan must carry over in every part of the school
and with every staff member, and even at home.
Along with ignoring the problem behavior, staff should be regularly
praising his desirable behavior (“Wow Kevin, I love the way you are
sitting in your seat!” “Kevin, great job keeping your hands to yourself
during snack time!”). This way, Kevin will start to see that he is getting far
more attention for his more “appropriate” behaviors.
Initially, Kevin went through an “extinction burst”. It is not uncommon for
“the rate and intensity of the aggressive behavior to increase sharply
before it begins its more gradual decline toward zero”(McGinnis, p.197)
(This can be frustrating and discouraging for the adults implementing the
behavior intervention, but in reality, the extinction burst really shows that
the extinction is starting to work.)
8. Case Study – Con’t
After the extinction burst phase (where Kevin’s behaviors became
more frequent and more aggressive), the staff in his room and his
family at home began noticing a gradual decline in Kevin’s aggression.
Another event to watch for, that Kevin has yet to display, is known as
spontaneous recovery. This occurs when the behaviors that have
been successfully extinguished reappear occasionally for reasons that
are difficult to determine (McGinnis, p.197).
Kevin almost never aggresses at school anymore. The fact that the
adults around him were extremely consistent with the planned
ignoring(extinction) program lead to the dramatic decrease in
aggressive behavior.
9. Where is the research?
The following are 3 empirical articles that support
extinction as a successful behavior intervention.
The articles include real interventions done on
children of varying ages and disabilities. All articles
presented have been peer-reviewed.
10. Article 1-http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
This study was conducted with 3 children, all of whom have
developmental disabilities and engaged in the same self-injurious
behavior – head banging. However, the head banging served a different
purpose for each child. Student A (age 7) desired attention, Student B
(age 12) desired escape, and Student C (age 8) head-banged for the
sensory input. After several treatment techniques, reductions in the self-
injurious behavior were observed only when extinction was implemented.
(Iwata, Pace, Cowdery & Milternberger, 1994).
Article 2 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1226158/
This intervention took place in a preschool setting and dealt with children’s
noncompliance during transitions. The children involved were aged 14
months, 22 months, and 15 months. All children displayed zero or near-zero
compliance and low to moderate levels of problem behavior during the
baseline, warning, and toy conditions. During the extinction phase,
compliance immediately increased in all conditions. Although extinction was
shown to be a functional component of the intervention, it is unknown
whether target behaviors were maintained by positive reinforcement (access
to the play activity) or negative reinforcement (escape from the toileting
routine) because, as implemented, the extinction procedure eliminated both
potential sources of reinforcement. (Cote, Thompson & McKerchar, 2005)
11. Article 3- doi: 10.1080/07317107.2012.684654
Article 3 was an extinction intervention on several families who
wanted to decrease the amount of nights that their children spent
sleeping in bed with their parents. The children in question
ranged from ages 2 through 6. Three sessions were conducted
with each parent. At the first session, parents described bed-
sharing history and began collecting baseline data. At the second
session, parents were instructed to employ the intervention. At
the third session, parents were interviewed and offered
continued support, if needed. Participants included three children
who slept with their parents 4 or more nights per week. The
intervention resulted in a substantial decrease in bed-sharing
behavior for all participants, and parents reported being satisfied
with the intervention(Roberds-Roach, Short & Lerman, 2012).
12. Implementation Guide
**In order for extinction to be effective, it needs to be
implemented across ALL SETTINGS in the SAME MANNER.**
Identify the behavior(s) in need of change. Is a behavior change warranted? Is
this something the child might grow out of, or is it entirely undesirable?
Explore the reasons for the behavior. Why does the child continue engaging in
that behavior? In other words, what purpose does it fulfill? Attention?
Escape? Avoidance? The consequence of the behavior is the REINFORCER.
Identify the main reinforcer. Often, the reinforcer is attention.
Withhold the reinforcer ACROSS THE BOARD. Every adult and older child
needs to consistently ignore the behavior in its entirety. This will be difficult.
The behavior may get much worse before it gets better. The key to implement
extinction is consistency – everyone in the child’s life needs to practice planned
ignoring.
In home, at school, in a center setting – extinction procedures are the same.
The physical settings are different; the reaction to the behaviors will not be.
The child should not be able to receive the reinforcers in ANY setting.
Prepare for an extinction burst. This will be challenging, but remember, it
means that the extinction plan is starting to work!
Remember spontaneous recovery. For reasons unknown, the behavior might
occasionally resurface. Stick to the initial extinction plan.
Above all – remember to keep with it! This is not an easy thing to do. This is
not a “quick fix”. This can take months to become effective, but remain
consistent.
13. References
Cote, C., Thompson, R., & McKerchar, P. (2005). The effects of antecedent interventions
and extinction on toddlers' compliance during transitions. Journal of Applied
Behavior Analysis, 38(2), 235-238. Retrieved from
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1226158/
Iwata, B., Pace, G., Cowdery, G., & Miltenberger, R. (1994). What makes extinction work:
An analysis of procedural form and function. Journal of Applied Behavior
Analysis, 27(1), 131-144. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
McGinnis, E. (1997). Skillstreaming the elementary school child. Champain, IL: Research
Press.
Roberds-Roach, D., Short, M., & Lerman, D. (2012). An intervention using extinction to
decrease bed-sharing in 2- to 6-year-old children. Child and Family Behavior
Therapy, 34(2), 156-162. doi: 10.1080/07317107.2012.684654
Salend, S. (2011). Creating inclusive classrooms. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson
Education, Inc.