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Stories and metaphors: Talking about the past in a psychotherapy group for people with dementia (1996)
Journal Article
Cheston, R. (1996). Stories and metaphors: Talking about the past in a psychotherapy group for people with dementia. Ageing and Society, 16(5), 579-602

Social constructionist approaches to the talk of older adults diagnosed as suffering from a dementing illness have emphasised the importance of analysing such talk in terms of its social function. Drawing on this work together with the increasing cli... Read More about Stories and metaphors: Talking about the past in a psychotherapy group for people with dementia.

Mature maternity: Long term associations in first children born to older mothers in 1970 in the UK (1996)
Journal Article
Pollock, J. I., & Pollock, J. (1996). Mature maternity: Long term associations in first children born to older mothers in 1970 in the UK. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 50(4), 429-435. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.50.4.429

Study objectives - To identify the physical, behavioural, medical, and educational outcomes in first children born to women aged 30 or more compared with those born to younger women. Design - Longitudinal cohort study design employing logistic regres... Read More about Mature maternity: Long term associations in first children born to older mothers in 1970 in the UK.

Standardising the elimination of unnecessary data from interview transcripts for the purposes of knowledge-based systems - A case study (1996)
Journal Article
Jones, S., Miles, J. C., & Read, M. W. (1996). Standardising the elimination of unnecessary data from interview transcripts for the purposes of knowledge-based systems - A case study. Expert Systems, 13(1), 3-13. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0394.1996.tb00279.x

Although knowledge elicitation, the process of extracting knowledge from human experts to be incorporated into a knowledge-based system, has been the subject of some notable studies, less attention has been paid to the methods of analysing the raw da... Read More about Standardising the elimination of unnecessary data from interview transcripts for the purposes of knowledge-based systems - A case study.

Points of view (1996)
Journal Article
Evans, C., Ashworth, S., & Curran, T. (1996). Points of view

An evaluation of the impact of social interaction skills training for facially disfigured people (1996)
Journal Article
Partridge, J., Rumsey, N., Robinson, E., Robinson, E., Rumsey, N., & Partridge, J. (1996). An evaluation of the impact of social interaction skills training for facially disfigured people. British Journal of Plastic Surgery, 49(5), 281-289. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0007-1226%2896%2990156-3

Facially disfigured people can experience significant psychological problems, commonly relating to difficulties in social interaction. The effect of social interaction, skills workshops on the psychological wellbeing of 64 facially disfigured partici... Read More about An evaluation of the impact of social interaction skills training for facially disfigured people.

Information technology support for shared task performance within an office environment (1996)
Journal Article
Jones, S. R., & Thomas, P. J. (1996). Information technology support for shared task performance within an office environment. Interacting with Computers, 8(3), 241-252. https://doi.org/10.1016/0953-5438%2896%2901034-X

Professional efficacy is strongly influenced by the quality and quantity of relevant and accessible information. This in turn is frequently dependent upon interaction with colleagues. The paper describes an investigation into the use of information a... Read More about Information technology support for shared task performance within an office environment.