This paper has described some of the interventions developed at the Ackerman Brief Therapy Project in treating the families of symptomatic children. The interventions are based upon a differential diagnosis of the family system and upon an evaluation of that system's resistance to change. They are classified as compliance-based or defiance-based, depending upon the family's degree of anxiety, m...

Adversary-resistant communication bootstrapping is a fundamental problem faced by many circumvention (anti-censorship) systems such as Tor. Censoring regimes actively harvest and block published Tor entry points and bridge nodes. More recently, some countries have resorted to reactive (follow-up) probing of the destination hosts of outbound encrypted traffic to identify unpublished Tor nodes. W...

commitment to social issues of human being is a dominant theme in contemporary poetry which introduces poets to the history who make an attempt to depict social concepts and solve the problems of society. abd al-wahhab al-bayyati and mehdi akhavan sales are two prominent poets who move along this atmosphere. they live in two communities with similar social conditions. due to common beliefs and ...

What reason does one have to resist oppression? The reasons that most easily come mind are those having do with justice—reasons arise from commitments human equality and the common good. In this paper, I argue there also of love—reasons personal attachments specific people, projects, or activities. defend a distinctive form resistance is characteristically undertaken for love, which call Quiet ...

The paper overviews previous works on acidity and acid communication, their nature and causes. Then it presents a qualitative study on a real case of acid communication in an Italian politician. An annotation scheme is proposed to single out ingredients of multimodal acid communication, and the mental ingredients of annoyance, distance, defiance are found as characterizing acidity.

Abstract Police rely on citizens to report crime and victimization. Yet for many people low levels of trust in police concerns about unjust treatment impact their willingness engage proactively with police. For some, defying authority is common. This can be particularly so ethnic, racial, religious minority groups. The personal vicarious experiences these groups have play an important role the ...

Patrice and Coco are the creators performers of spoken word piece "Willful Defiance," produced in association with book Willful Defiance: The Movement to Dismantle School-to-Prison Pipeline, authored by Mark Warren. In this interview, discuss role arts empowering young people, dismantling school-to-prison pipeline, partnering community-engaged scholarship engage participants building a movement...