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\nPublic Significance StatementTo address the high levels of work-related stress experienced by public defender trial attorneys, a brief, single-session FACT intervention was implemented. A multiple-baseline, single-case design was employed to evaluate changes in general distress and psychological flexibility. A variety of visual, regression, parametric and non-parametric analyses were used. Results demonstrated significant reductions in distress for some participants, and increases in psychological flexibility for most. These findings suggest that brief ACT-based interventions may help psychotherapy clients increase their psychological flexibility when experiencing work-related distress.This study tested the efficacy of a single session, online intervention based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for decreasing work-related distress and increasing psychological flexibility in a sample of 11 public defender attorneys. While general distress was reduced in some, but not all, participants, most of them reported meaningful increases in psychological flexibility, the central concept in ACT. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Resampling is an important signature of manipulated images. In this paper, wepropose two methods to detect and localize image manipulations based on acombination of resampling features and deep learning. In the first method, theRadon transform of resampling features are computed on overlapping imagepatches. Deep learning classifiers and a Gaussian conditional random fieldmodel are then used to create a heatmap. Tampered regions are located using aRandom Walker segmentation method. In the second method, resampling featurescomputed on overlapping image patches are passed through a Long short-termmemory (LSTM) based network for classification and localization. We compare theperformance of detection/localization of both these methods. Our experimentalresults show that both techniques are effective in detecting and localizingdigital image forgeries.

We define a conformally invariant action on gauge connections on a closed pseudo-Riemannian manifold M of dimension 6. At leading order this is quadratic in the gauge connection. The Euler–Lagrange equations of , with respect to variation of the gauge connection, provide a higher-order conformally invariant analogue of the (source-free) Yang–Mills equations. For any gauge connection A on M , we define (A) by first defining a Lagrangian density associated to A. This is not conformally invariant but has a conformal transformation analogous to a Q -curvature. Integrating this density provides the conformally invariant action. In the special case that we apply to the conformal Cartan-tractor connection, the functional gradient recovers the natural conformal curvature invariant called the Fefferman–Graham obstruction tensor. So in this case, the Euler–Lagrange equations are exactly the "obstruction-flat" condition for 6-manifolds. This extends known results for 4-dimensional pseudo-Riemannian manifolds where the Bach tensor is recovered in the Yang–Mills equations of the Cartan-tractor connection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Supervisees' experiences in supervision vary remarkably. To capture such variability, Ellis and colleagues offered a framework for understanding and assessing inadequate, harmful, and exceptional supervision. Although their framework was supported, it did not offer a nuanced understanding of these supervision experiences. Using consensual qualitative research–modified, this study sought to obtain a rich description of inadequate, harmful, and exceptional supervision. Participants (N = 135) were presented with definitions and provided responses (n = 156) to open-ended questions describing their inadequate (n = 63), harmful (n = 30), and/or exceptional (n = 63) supervision experiences. Supervisees reporting harmful experiences described supervisors as neglectful and callous, whereas inadequate supervision reflected inappropriate feedback, unavailability, and unresponsiveness. Conversely, exceptional supervision involved safety, clinical paradigm shifts, and modeling specific techniques or theories. Implications for supervision research, theory, and practice are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Given that at least half of supervisees (therapist trainees) never have their clinical work monitored or observed, supervisees who withhold salient information in clinical supervision compromise supervisors' ability to monitor client welfare and promote supervisees' professional development. Attempting to further understand the factors explaining supervisee nondisclosure, we tested the supervisory working alliance as a mediator of the hypothesized inverse relations of cultural humility and collaborative supervision with supervisee nondisclosure (supervision-related and clinically-related nondisclosure) among a diverse sample of 214 supervisees in applied psychology and allied mental health programs. Results supported the hypotheses that (a) descriptively, supervision-related nondisclosure was more prominent than clinically-related nondisclosure; (b) cultural humility substantially inversely predicted supervisee nondisclosure; and (c) the supervisory working alliance fully mediated the inverse relations of cultural humility and collaborative supervision with supervisee nondisclosure. Understanding the mechanisms underlying supervisee nondisclosure has broad implications for clinicians and researchers alike. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reports on a parent group model available to parents, whether or not their children live at home or in a treatment complex for disturbed adolescents. The group, led by professional leaders, focuses on the needs of the parents rather than those of the child; it is not a replacement for family therapy. Parents provide mutual support for each other. (Author/BB)

The article presents a study for comparing the amount of frictional resistance that is inherent in the edgewise bracket system for nickel titanium alloy (Nitinol) and stainless steel wires. The apparatus used in this experiment was designed for simulating a bicuspid extraction in which the cuspid tooth was translated along a continuous arch wire. The study used brackets from the company Unitek. It was concluded that the frictional forces needed for starting the translation of a bracket over a stainless steel arch wire increases as the angulation between the bracket and arch wire increases and it decreases in the case of Nitinol arch wire.

The author offers his views on the significance of collection lawyers in the U.S. He defines these lawyers as those who deal with parties who cannot and will not pay their debts. He sees the paying customers of businesses which fail to determine between debtors who will not pay and those who cannot pay as his real constituency. He observes that most collection lawyers prefer strict and consistent implementation of the Federal Fair Debt Collections Practices Act provisions. He expresses his gratitude as a collection lawyer who offer a service to his client.