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    Green Cities and Micro-climate – Interim Report 2
    Coutts, A ; Tapper, N ; Beringer, J ; Daly, E ; White, E ; Broadbent, A ; Pettigrew, J ; Harris, R ; Gebert, L ; Nice, K ; Hamel, P ; Fletcher, T ; Kalla, M (Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities, 2013-03)
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    How aspects of self-compassion contribute to wellbeing and the effect of age
    Stapleton, P ; Richardson, K ; Kalla, M (International Journal of Healing and Caring, 2018)
    This study investigating the differential contribution of self-compassion subcomponents to wellbeing, and examined the effect of age. A total of 275 participants (219 females) completed demographic measures, the Self-Compassion Scale, the Mental Health Index, and a Social Desirability Scale. Hierarchical Multiple Regression indicated that the self-kindness and mindfulness subcomponents predicted wellbeing, whereas the self-judgement, isolation and over- identification subcomponents predicted psychological distress. Furthermore, the negative self- compassion subcomponents accounted for additional variance in psychological wellbeing. Self- compassion was also significantly higher in older adults. This research consolidates previous findings, increases the scope of self-compassion research, and may have practical implications in treatment.
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    Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) as a Constructivist Psychotherapeutic Approach: Epistemological Reflections from a Qualitative Experiential Study
    Kalla, M (International Journal of Healing and Caring, 2018)
    This article presents the first theoretical and methodological analysis of the practice of a contemporary psychotherapeutic technique called Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), to be discussed in academic literature. This analysis has emerged from an epistemological reflection on a qualitative research study that explored users’ experiences of EFT for deepening physical chronic disease healthcare. This study was underpinned by a biopsychosocial view of health, and a personhood approach to healthcare. In establishing the methodological framework for this study, the researcher analyzed the EFT therapeutic approach against the principles of constructivist psychotherapeutic approaches. The analysis suggested that the EFT practice borrows at least four key facets of constructivist psychotherapeutic approaches, namely: ‘exploration and resolution of early life issues’, ‘construction of new meanings’, ‘client as a change agent’, and ‘outlook towards emotions’. Each of these facets is explored in this article, in light of some participant case examples from the study. The analysis presented in this article may assist the conceptualization and design of future qualitative and mixed-methods research studies involving EFT.