Kate Loewenthal
Biographic Data
| ID | 126876 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kate Loewenthal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kate |
| FAMILY NAME | Loewenthal |
| SIGNATURE | LOEWENTHAL K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bedford College, London University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Improving mental health knowledge of the Charedi Orthodox Jewish Community in North London
INTRODUCTION: This article describes a successful community-based partnership project between statutory and third-sector services targeting the strictly Orthodox Jewish community (OJC). METHODS: The City and Hackney Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Access Service (East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT)) collaborated with Bikur Cholim, a local third-sector organisation based in the heart of a north London Charedi OJC, to develop a brief culturally…
Pastoral care of mental illness and the accommodation of African Christian beliefs and practices by UK clergy
Faith-based organisations, especially those related to specific ethnic or migrant groups, are increasingly viewed by secular Western government agencies as potential collaborators in community health and welfare programmes. Although clergy are often called upon to provide mental health pastoral care, their response to such problems remains relatively unexamined. This paper examines how clergy working in multiethnic settings do not always have the…
Locating the Social Origins of Mental Illness
Clergy have historically provided 'healing' through various spiritual and medical modalities and even in modern, developed welfare economies they may still be an important help-seeking resource. Partnerships between religion and psychiatry are regularly advocated, but there is scant research on clergy explanatory models of illness. This paper aimed to explore their relationship with psychiatry and to examine how clergy in various faith groups con…
Addiction
This article outlines a history of rulings and beliefs about addiction in Judaism, covering alcohol and substance use and addiction, in the context of a brief account of the development of the status of addiction. It examines the prevalence of alcohol and substance use and abuse among Jews, including a discussion of some of the difficulties in estimating prevalence and of factors involved in changing patterns of use and abuse. Community beliefs a…
Religion and Altruism
This article explores the relationship between religion and altruism, a research concern identified and pursued by classical sociologists including Max Weber, and one of interest and concern today, especially in societies where the building of social capital encounters serious obstacles. It points out that while early research was rather muddled about the correlation between religion and altruism, research since the 1980s has been less ambiguous …
Religion and Altruism
Challenges to sanctuary
Psychology of Religion
Imitation of Foreign Sounds
This study showed an improvement with age in children's replications of sounds in a novel foreign language. The finding holds even when confounded age-related factors are controlled for. Some other studies have shown a similar, older-better effect, while others have shown the opposite: a younger-better effect. The conflict is suggested to be due to the social-psychological conditions of the testing situations
Age Changes in the Ability To Replicate Foreign Pronunciation and Intonation
This study looked at the abilities of 5 - 15 year old monolingual English schoolchildren to replicate foreign pronunciation and intonation. Performance was judged after only one exposure and repetition. Ability to replicate pronunciation declined fairly steadily over the whole age-range studied. By contrast, ability to replicate intonation remained steadily good until 8, then dropped rapidly until 11. There was a slight, not wholly reliable impro…
Foreign Accents
This study examined predictors of transfer of accent from the first language (L1) to a second language (L2), in a group of people whose acquisition of English as an L2 had begun at ages ranging from 6 to 15+. The effect of age of L2 acquisition is very marked. If L2 acquisition had begun by 6, there is no transfer of accent. If L2 acquisition began after 12—13, there is invariably accent transfer, usually very marked. When accent transfer occurs …
The Effects of Training in Written Communication on Verbal Skills
S ummary . This was a pilot study to test the effectiveness of a training procedure which it was hoped would increase students' awareness of the reader's requirements when writing descriptions of technological equipment. Pairs of students took turns at commenting on each other's descriptions. Some improvement occurred in performance on verbal items on the AH5 and in quality of written descriptions made by trained experimental subjects (N=26) comp…
A Study of Imperfectly Acquired Vocabulary
Three experiments examined behaviour with words which could be used and defined by the subjects, words which were simply 'familiar', and unknown words. Known and familiar words were recognized equally readily after brief tachistoscopic presentations; known words elicit semantically related responses, while familiar and unknown words usually elicit phonologically related or phonologically mediated responses. In a word-selection task, the subjects …
How are “First Impressions” Formed
The primacy effect in personality impression formation is observed only when Ss write a description of the person before giving opinions (rating and selection of appropriate characteristics). This suggests the importance of certain types of verbal activity in the formation of opinions
Foreign Accents
This study examined predictors of transfer of accent from the first language (L1) to a second language (L2), in a group of people whose acquisition of English as an L2 had begun at ages ranging from 6 to 15+. The effect of age of L2 acquisition is very marked. If L2 acquisition had begun by 6, there is no transfer of accent. If L2 acquisition began after 12—13, there is invariably accent transfer, usually very marked. When accent transfer occurs …
Challenges to sanctuary
Age Changes in the Ability To Replicate Foreign Pronunciation and Intonation
This study looked at the abilities of 5 - 15 year old monolingual English schoolchildren to replicate foreign pronunciation and intonation. Performance was judged after only one exposure and repetition. Ability to replicate pronunciation declined fairly steadily over the whole age-range studied. By contrast, ability to replicate intonation remained steadily good until 8, then dropped rapidly until 11. There was a slight, not wholly reliable impro…
Pastoral care of mental illness and the accommodation of African Christian beliefs and practices by UK clergy
Faith-based organisations, especially those related to specific ethnic or migrant groups, are increasingly viewed by secular Western government agencies as potential collaborators in community health and welfare programmes. Although clergy are often called upon to provide mental health pastoral care, their response to such problems remains relatively unexamined. This paper examines how clergy working in multiethnic settings do not always have the…
Addiction
This article outlines a history of rulings and beliefs about addiction in Judaism, covering alcohol and substance use and addiction, in the context of a brief account of the development of the status of addiction. It examines the prevalence of alcohol and substance use and abuse among Jews, including a discussion of some of the difficulties in estimating prevalence and of factors involved in changing patterns of use and abuse. Community beliefs a…
A Study of Imperfectly Acquired Vocabulary
Three experiments examined behaviour with words which could be used and defined by the subjects, words which were simply 'familiar', and unknown words. Known and familiar words were recognized equally readily after brief tachistoscopic presentations; known words elicit semantically related responses, while familiar and unknown words usually elicit phonologically related or phonologically mediated responses. In a word-selection task, the subjects …
Imitation of Foreign Sounds
This study showed an improvement with age in children's replications of sounds in a novel foreign language. The finding holds even when confounded age-related factors are controlled for. Some other studies have shown a similar, older-better effect, while others have shown the opposite: a younger-better effect. The conflict is suggested to be due to the social-psychological conditions of the testing situations
How are “First Impressions” Formed
The primacy effect in personality impression formation is observed only when Ss write a description of the person before giving opinions (rating and selection of appropriate characteristics). This suggests the importance of certain types of verbal activity in the formation of opinions
A Study of Imperfectly Acquired Vocabulary
Three experiments examined behaviour with words which could be used and defined by the subjects, words which were simply 'familiar', and unknown words. Known and familiar words were recognized equally readily after brief tachistoscopic presentations; known words elicit semantically related responses, while familiar and unknown words usually elicit phonologically related or phonologically mediated responses. In a word-selection task, the subjects …
The Effects of Training in Written Communication on Verbal Skills
S ummary . This was a pilot study to test the effectiveness of a training procedure which it was hoped would increase students' awareness of the reader's requirements when writing descriptions of technological equipment. Pairs of students took turns at commenting on each other's descriptions. Some improvement occurred in performance on verbal items on the AH5 and in quality of written descriptions made by trained experimental subjects (N=26) comp…
Age Changes in the Ability To Replicate Foreign Pronunciation and Intonation
This study looked at the abilities of 5 - 15 year old monolingual English schoolchildren to replicate foreign pronunciation and intonation. Performance was judged after only one exposure and repetition. Ability to replicate pronunciation declined fairly steadily over the whole age-range studied. By contrast, ability to replicate intonation remained steadily good until 8, then dropped rapidly until 11. There was a slight, not wholly reliable impro…
Foreign Accents
This study examined predictors of transfer of accent from the first language (L1) to a second language (L2), in a group of people whose acquisition of English as an L2 had begun at ages ranging from 6 to 15+. The effect of age of L2 acquisition is very marked. If L2 acquisition had begun by 6, there is no transfer of accent. If L2 acquisition began after 12—13, there is invariably accent transfer, usually very marked. When accent transfer occurs …
Imitation of Foreign Sounds
This study showed an improvement with age in children's replications of sounds in a novel foreign language. The finding holds even when confounded age-related factors are controlled for. Some other studies have shown a similar, older-better effect, while others have shown the opposite: a younger-better effect. The conflict is suggested to be due to the social-psychological conditions of the testing situations
Psychology of Religion
Challenges to sanctuary
Religion and Altruism
Religion and Altruism
This article explores the relationship between religion and altruism, a research concern identified and pursued by classical sociologists including Max Weber, and one of interest and concern today, especially in societies where the building of social capital encounters serious obstacles. It points out that while early research was rather muddled about the correlation between religion and altruism, research since the 1980s has been less ambiguous …
Addiction
This article outlines a history of rulings and beliefs about addiction in Judaism, covering alcohol and substance use and addiction, in the context of a brief account of the development of the status of addiction. It examines the prevalence of alcohol and substance use and abuse among Jews, including a discussion of some of the difficulties in estimating prevalence and of factors involved in changing patterns of use and abuse. Community beliefs a…
Locating the Social Origins of Mental Illness
Clergy have historically provided 'healing' through various spiritual and medical modalities and even in modern, developed welfare economies they may still be an important help-seeking resource. Partnerships between religion and psychiatry are regularly advocated, but there is scant research on clergy explanatory models of illness. This paper aimed to explore their relationship with psychiatry and to examine how clergy in various faith groups con…
Pastoral care of mental illness and the accommodation of African Christian beliefs and practices by UK clergy
Faith-based organisations, especially those related to specific ethnic or migrant groups, are increasingly viewed by secular Western government agencies as potential collaborators in community health and welfare programmes. Although clergy are often called upon to provide mental health pastoral care, their response to such problems remains relatively unexamined. This paper examines how clergy working in multiethnic settings do not always have the…
Improving mental health knowledge of the Charedi Orthodox Jewish Community in North London
INTRODUCTION: This article describes a successful community-based partnership project between statutory and third-sector services targeting the strictly Orthodox Jewish community (OJC). METHODS: The City and Hackney Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Access Service (East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT)) collaborated with Bikur Cholim, a local third-sector organisation based in the heart of a north London Charedi OJC, to develop a brief culturally…
Psychology (12 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Mental health (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Ethnic group (3 works)