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Burning Questions: Participant Contributed Questions Discussion

Institutional Repositories: Disseminating, Promoting, and Preserving Scholarship

This open discussion will involve all conference participants and will be generated from questions submitted at registration.

Moderated by Marilyn Billings, Scholarly Communication & Special Initiatives Librarian, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Institutional Repository Platforms, Jean-Gabriel Bankier, Kenning Arlitsch, Jessica Branco Colati, Sue Kunda

Institutional Repositories: Disseminating, Promoting, and Preserving Scholarship

J.G. Bankier will be speaking on Digital Commons, a hosted platform by The Berkeley Electronic Press. Kenning Arlitsch will be speaking on CONTENTdm, a platform by OCLC. Jessica Colati will be speaking about Fedora. Sue Kunda will be speaking about dSpace.

Cultural Adaptation Of Treatments: A Resource For Considering Culture In Evidence-Based Practice, Guillermo Bernal, María I. Jiménez-Chafey, Melanie M. Domenech-Rodriguez

Psychology Faculty Publications

There is a growing interest in whether and how to adapt psychotherapies to take into account the cultural, linguistic, and socioeconomic context of diverse ethnocultural groups. At the root of the debate is theissue of whether evidence-based treatments (EBTs) developed within a particular linguistic and cultural context are appropriate for ethnocultural groups that do not share the same language, cultural values, or both. There is considerable evidence that culture and context influence almost every aspect of the diagnostic and treatment process. Yet, there are concerns about fidelity of interventions, and some have questioned whether tinkering with well-established EBTs is warranted. …