Working with clients to notice change is a key issue in working in mental health services. In 2001, St Luke's Recovery Focused Mental Health Team initiated a project to develop strength-focused tools for measuring change for people using mental health recovery programs. A partnership was formed with La Trobe University Bendigo's Social Work Department. Consumers, carers and staff were involved in exploring what kinds of change it was helpful to notice and what helped people to notice change. Comments reinforced existing literature about what is important to notice and suggested the importance of having tools that allowed expression of consumer differences. Two tools were developed and trialled. From the feedback, these were refined and a third tool developed. The combination of tools allowed consumers to choose a tool that suited their style of noticing change and provided information for the agency about overall outcomes.
Abstract The modern organic chemist increasingly uses biotransformations to solve synthetic problems. In particular, stereoselective reduction of prochiral ketones using enzymes has moved from an academic curiosity to a commercial success. Bioreduction using both whole-cell microbial and recombinant systems has proven to be a robust and reliable alternative to other asymmetric chemical methods, resulting in green, economic, and scalable processes for the chemical industry. This review highlights bioreduction applications available to the modern practical chemist.
In July 2010, the faculties of Law, Business and Economics, and Medicine at Monash University, Australia commenced placing law, finance, and social work students in a multidisciplinary clinic at a community legal service operated by the University. Students from the three disciplines began seeing legal service clients at the same time as a team. Clients who agreed to participate were interviewed by the team of students made up of the three disciplines in order to address client issues holistically. This article canvasses some of the perceived learning benefits of this project for students and their supervisors. It investigates how and why supervision within this clinic is a unique experience for students and supervisors alike. It raises the issues of dealing with the different ethical and professional guidelines of the three disciplines. Ultimately, we conclude that multidisciplinary training may have a wide range of advantages for all parties.
Numerical integration of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation with thermal fluctuations is used to study the dynamic response of single-domain nanomagnets to rapid changes in the applied magnetic field. The simulation can resolve magnetization patterns within nanomagnets and uses the Fast Multipole method to calculate dipole-dipole interactions efficiently. The thermal fluctuations play an essential part in the reversal process whenever the applied field is less than the zero-temperature coercive field. In this situation pillar-shaped nanomagnets are found to reverse through a local curling mode that involves the formation and propagation of a domain wall. Tapering the ends of the pillars to reduce pole-avoidance effects changes the energies involved but not the fundamental process. The statistical distribution of switching times is well described by the independent nucleation and subsequent growth of regions of reversed magnetization at both ends of the pillar.