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Understanding and optimising gratitude interventions: the right methods for the right people at the right time
(2025) Huston, Garrett E.; Law, Kwok Hong; Teague, Samantha; Pardon, Madelyn; Muller, Jessica L.; Jackson, Ben; Dimmock, James A.
Objective: Gratitude has consistently been associated with various beneficial health-related outcomes, including subjective wellbeing, positive mental health, and positive physical health. In light of such effects, positive psychology researchers and practitioners have often implemented gratitude interventions in an attempt to build individuals’ orientations toward appreciation and thankfulness. Recent meta-analyses and reviews have revealed, however, that these interventions often have mixed effects on gratitude or other health outcomes. With this issue in mind, we aimed to identify (a) contextual considerations that may impact the effectiveness of these approaches, and (b) recommendations for the optimisation of gratitude interventions. Methods and Measures: Seventeen mental health professionals or experienced health psychology researchers engaged in semi-structured interviews to address the research questions. Results: Thematic analysis of the data resulted in three contextual themes—cultural considerations, personal characteristics, and life experience—that were discussed as factors likely to influence intervention effectiveness. With respect to recommendations, participants highlighted the importance of encouraging deep engagement in gratitude tasks, consistent repetition of those tasks, and the value of interpersonal expressions of gratitude. Conclusion: Discussion is centred on suggestions for future research on gratitude and on implications for the implementation of gratitude interventions.
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Audit tools for culturally safe and responsive healthcare practices with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: a scoping review
(2024-01-29) Muller, Jessica; Devine, Susan; Geia, Lynore; Cairns, Alice; Stothers, Kylie; Gibson, Paul; Murray, Donna
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia face disparities in accessing culturally safe and appropriate health services. While current cultural safety and responsiveness frameworks set standards for improving healthcare practices, ensuring accountability and sustainability of changes, necessitates robust mechanisms for auditing and monitoring progress. This study examined existing cultural safety audit tools, and facilitators and barriers to implementation, in the context of providing culturally safe and responsive healthcare services with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. This will assist organisations, interested in developing tools, to assess culturally responsive practice. A scoping review was undertaken using Medline, Scopus, CINAHL, Informit and PsychInfo databases. Articles were included if they described an audit tool used for healthcare practices with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Selected tools were evaluated based on alignment with the six capabilities of the Indigenous Allied Health Australia (IAHA) Cultural Responsiveness in Action Framework. Implementation barriers and facilitators were identified. 15 papers were included. Audit tools varied in length, terminology, domains assessed and whether they had been validated or evaluated. Seven papers reported strong reliability and validity of the tools, and one reported tool evaluation. Implementation facilitators included: tool comprehensiveness and structure; effective communication; clear organisational responsibility for implementation; commitment to prioritising cultural competence; and established accountability mechanisms. Barriers included: the tool being time-consuming and inflexible; responsibility for implementation falling on a small team or single staff member; deprioritising tool use; and lack of accountability for implementation. Two of the six IAHA capabilities (respect for the centrality of cultures and inclusive engagement) were strongly reflected in the tools. The limited tool evaluation highlights the need for further research to determine implementation effectiveness and sustainability. Action-oriented tools, which comprehensively reflect all cultural responsiveness capabilities, are lacking and further research is needed to progress meaningful change within the healthcare system.
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Precarity in Common?: Algorithmic Risk Profiling and the Politicization of 'the Edges' Of owner-Occupation
(2025) Burrows, Roger; Howard, Amber
This article offers a critical response to Smith and Wood's concept of "the edges" of owner-occupation. While the category remains analytically diffuse, we argue that digital infrastructures - particularly algorithmic profiling under platform capitalism - render this fragmented population newly governable. Through shared exposure to classificatory technologies, disparate housing biographies may be unified by risk rather than rights. This opens possibilities for political recognition rooted not in tenure, but in the experience of algorithmic (mis)recognition.
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Where Are the Important Hotspots for Forest Biodiversity?: A Detailed Spatial Analysis for the Australian State of Victoria
(2026-02-11) Taylor, Chris; Lindenmayer, David
Identifying areas of high biodiversity value is critical for effective conservation. Similarly, identifying gaps in existing protected area networks is fundamental to determining where new areas are needed to better conserve biodiversity. We conducted a spatial prioritisation analysis for forest and woodland-dependent species across Victoria using the program Zonation, integrating datasets on IBRA bioregions, EVC groups, forest disturbance and habitat models for rare and threatened taxa. Our study addressed three questions: (Q1) Where are the highest priority areas for rare and threatened forest and woodland species? (Q2) Where are the highest priority areas in relation to the current protected area network across particular regions? (Q3) Are there additional high-priority areas that would need to be included in the protected area network? Our results highlighted key IBRA subregions with the highest conservation priority for forest and woodland dependent species, including Murray Fans, Gippsland Plain, Otway Ranges, Strzelecki Ranges, Goldfields, Highlands - Northern Fall and East Gippsland Lowlands. Unprotected state forests previously zoned for logging were consistently associated with lower conservation value scores, likely due to degraded forest condition. In contrast, state forests zoned as special protection zones (SPZs) achieved the same scores as those assigned protection under IUCN category II, such as national parks. Natural Features Reserves and IUCN protected area categories III and V featured the highest scoring land tenures. Our gap analysis revealed that for several IBRA subregions, most top-priority areas (Zonation bin scores 0.9-1.0) were in unprotected land tenures, particularly state forests. These included the IBRA subregions of the Highlands - Southern Fall and Highlands - Northern Fall. Our findings underscore the need to extend formal protection to high conservation value areas in underrepresented IBRA subregions, primarily through the expansion of national parks and other kinds of legislated conservation reserves across specific subregions.
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Trump isn’t the first US politician to pick a fight with the Smithsonian. But this time could be different
(2025-08-29) Message, Kylie