Christian Heritage College

Abstract This chapter presents the key findings of the study, detailing the data collection time frame, methods, and results from the prison art therapy program. The chapter reports inmate demographics, quantitative and qualitative questionnaire results, visual responses, and insights from a public art exhibition, highlighting the transformative potential of art in rehabilitation. Researcher reflections on journaling provide additional depth, capturing interactions and emergent themes. Overall, the findings underscore the capacity of art to enhance self-awareness, reduce violence, and promote emotional well-being in prison contexts while identifying areas for future research and therapeutic art program development.

Background and aimsGaming disorder [GD] risk has been associated with the way gamers bond with their visual representation (i.e., avatar) in the game-world. More specifically, a gamer's relationship with their avatar has been shown to provide reliable mental health information about the user in their offline life, such as their current and prospective GD risk, if appropriately decoded.MethodsTo contribute to the paucity of knowledge in this area, 565 gamers (Mage = 29.3 years; SD =10.6) were assessed twice, six months apart, using the User-Avatar-Bond Scale (UABS) and the Gaming Disorder Test. A series of tuned and untuned artificial intelligence [AI] classifiers analysed concurrently and prospectively their responses.ResultsFindings showed that AI models learned to accurately and automatically identify GD risk cases, based on gamers' reported UABS score, age, and length of gaming involvement, both concurrently and longitudinally (i.e., six months later). Random forests outperformed all other AIs, while avatar immersion was shown to be the strongest training predictor.ConclusionStudy outcomes demonstrated that the user-avatar bond can be translated into accurate, concurrent and future GD risk predictions using trained AI classifiers. Assessment, prevention, and practice implications are discussed in the light of these findings.

Modernity, that amorphous and perhaps unhappy creation of periodisation, is both a mystery (in the sense of something yet to be revealed or understood) and a problem (in the sense of providing exis...

Climate change is a significant threat to health and well-being, in particular to people’s spiritual well-being, in coastal areas and communities. This paper describes the findings of a 2013 study on impacts of climate change on people’s spiritual well-being in 5 coastal communities in Tongatapu, Tonga: Kanokupolu, ‘Ahau, Tukutonga, Popua and Manuka, using a concurrent convergence parallel triangulation design. Information was collected from a group of 460 participants aged 15–75 via self-administered questionnaire, in-depth interview (IDI), focus group discussions (FGD) and key information interviews (KII). There was a statistically significant difference between people whose spirituality was affected and those unaffected (p < 0.005). People who were worried and whose physical well-being were affected, emerged as the most strongly affected (χ2(4) = 15.780, p < 0.005). The same factor was explored qualitatively using thematic analytical strategy, and concluded that climate change had affected people’s spiritual well-being, negatively. Lessons learnt from this paper will be useful for people invested in policy practice, and pastorate serving the cause of holistic Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) in Tonga: preaching, fasting and praying to God to reverse climate change and its impacts, help State and Church to adapt more effectively and comprehensively.

Subject access to images is a major issue for image collections. How well does current professional indexing represent the different levels of meaning in a photograph? How do indexers go about indexing an image? The first part of this article presents the results of a study investigating how current indexing represents the subject content of historic photographs. The second part reports on how professional indexers' representation of subject content differs from the interpretations of taggers, and suggests a practical way that indexers can work with taggers to deal with the classic problem of resource constraints to enhance subject metadata and make photo collections more accessible.