Ruth Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3656984 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5897-6012 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1949 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Estimating and projecting the population living with dementia at the local area scale in Australia
As Australia’s population ages, the number of people living with dementia will grow considerably. Understanding local changes in the number of people living with dementia will facilitate suitable planning, costing, and service delivery for health and aged care services. To inform this task, this study presents estimates and projections from 2021 to 2036 of Australians living with dementia at the state and territory level, and at the finer regiona…
Creativity in BMX
This study explores the multifaceted nature of creativity in BMX riding by examining how riders interact with their physical and social environments to produce innovative movements and trail designs. Grounded in Perspective‐Affordance Theory and the principles of embodied cognition, the research highlights that creativity in BMX emerges from the interplay between an individual's shifting perspective and the environmental affordances available in …
Changing Religious Affiliation Among Older Australians
The purpose of this study was to investigate shifting religious affiliation of the older Australian population to mid-century. Projections were produced with a cohort-component model classified by both country/region of birth and religious affiliation and divided by sex and five-year age groups. By mid-century, we project a rapid increase in the percentage of people reporting ‘No religion’ (+ 82%, + 8.65 million), alongside a decrease in Christia…
Comparative analysis of centrally mediated and inflammatory pain experiences amongst patients diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis
BACKGROUND: The identification of pain originating from distinct biological processes may lead to individualised pain treatment. In this study, we aimed to explore the pain experiences of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), differentiating between those predominantly exhibiting features of peripheral inflammatory versus centrally mediated pain. METHODS: Through a multimethods approach we (i) quantitatively analysed the differences in pain de…
Exploring BMX as a tool for wellbeing promotion
Day Stress Detox
There has been a lot of interest in digital mental health interventions but adherence to online programmes has been less than optimal. Chatbots that mimic brief conversations may be a more engaging and acceptable mode of delivery. We developed a chatbot, called 21-Day Stress Detox, to deliver stress management techniques for young adults. The purpose of the study was to explore the feasibility, acceptability, and potential efficacy of this low-in…
Discrimination and avoidance due to disability in Australia
Despite protections in legislation and international accords, significant proportions of Australians with a disability experience discrimination or engage in avoidance behaviours in various settings with potentially important human capital implications. Recently, sectoral responses (eg., in education and the workplace) have been offered by Government reports, providing direction for future research and evaluation
Introduction to Special Edition of Jap on the ‘Who Is My Jung?’ Conference Held at the British Library in October 2017 to Mark the 40 Th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Association of Jungian Ana…
The paper reviews the processes which went into the creation of an exceptionally comprehensive conference on Jungian analysis and psychology. The conference brought together all five of the constituent societies based in London of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP). The personal nature of the conference contributions is highlighted together with observations about the passage from spoken to written modes. The idea of '…
The Ageing Workforce
Population ageing is profoundly challenging the institutions and systems that organise paid work, healthcare, and retirement. A major response to these challenges has been to encourage older workers to remain longer in employment, thereby extending the period of ‘productive life’ in which they are net contributors to government revenue. Yet this strategy depends on a range of micro‐level adjustments, about which relatively little is known. These …
Who Owns the Unexpected? Insights from Antigone for Don Lamberton’s economic question
Dissent and assent contribute to new information and knowledge in that they foster ideas, avert errors and counter misplaced beliefs. Although intended to facilitate progress, innovation and creativity, dissent may be opposed by the closed mind and defensive mindset. Don Lamberton encountered a specific mindset in his own duties to scholarship in economics. Thus, the perspective of dissent is a fitting way to pay homage to his scholarship. Howeve…
Putting higher education in its place
Traditionally, universities have been understood in terms that assume their special status within the social world – somehow divorced from the places within which they find themselves. Yet they are also increasingly expected to make some contribution to regional development. With the help of evidence drawn from an Economic and Social Research Council project, this article sets out to explore some of the implications of recognising the importance …
Walking on a Washing Line by Kim Seung-Hee
74 | World Literature Today reviews verse Kim Seung-Hee. Walking on a Washing Line. Brother Anthony of Taizé & Lee Hyung-Jin, trs. Ithaca, New York. East Asia Program, Cornell University . 2011. isbn 9781933947501 In the preface to Walking on a Washing Line, translator Brother Anthony of Taizé explains that the poems of South Korean poet Kim SeungHee , for all their surrealism, exhibit “a strong thematic unity that often springs from a deep compa…
Eat, Pray, Love
Psychiatry interacts with contemporary Western views
Economic studies of innovation are relevant to the mental health sector, not just for innovations in more conventional industries, such as telecommunications. We present an economic examination of the impact of an innovation in the mental health sector. The innovation examined here was first adopted in 1980 with the publication of a new edition of the nosology (or classification) for the diagnosis of mental illnesses and disorders, which is known…
Place attachment, sense of belonging and identity in life history narratives of Iranian Baha'i refugees
Refugees commonly experience physical and emotional displacement. Such experiences reflect Tuan's theories relating to the anxiety of separation from home and sense of estrangement or alienation in a new land. Despite this adversity, many refugees ultimately form hybrid or trans-national identities, which allow them to operate and be accepted in two (or more) cultures. This facilitates a sense of belonging and the adaptation process to a new coun…
Deinstitutionalisation and Managerialism in Queensland's Public Psychiatric Institutions
This article places the experience of public psychiatric institutions for the long term mentally ill in the context of New Public Management (NPM). This managerialist school of thought has been in widespread ascendancy since the 1970s. Some key characteristics of deinstitutionalisation and NPM are outlined. We then present some historical data about the temporal process of deinstitutionalisation in Queensland's public psychiatric institutions. Th…
Global Citizenship and the Baha'i Faith
Attitudes towards refugees has been critiqued by Derrida (2002), who considers receptivity of host societies. Comparatively, Hage (2003) claims Australians are adopting a paranoid nationalism, subsequently hindering the adaptation of newcomers. Features of a refugee group may be vital to appreciating their ultimate outcome. In-depth interviews with 7 Iranian Bahá’í refugees reveal the centrality of religion to their relatively consistent cosmopol…
The Role of Knowledge Accumulation in Health and Longevity
Many Western countries have experienced the ‘rectangularisation of the [demographic] survival curve’, leading to a rise in life expectancy. This process is the result of falling death rates, which leads to increasing longevity. In this article, suicide is placed within the general perspective of declining All Causes mortality. It is shown that suicide is atypical when compared with other causes of death. Which ever way it is measured, whether by …
Community Mental Health Services as a Process Innovation
This article considers the relevant framework for evaluating a major process innovation in mental health services, viz. community‐based service provision. Such services involve multiple inputs from various channels (or departments) in government and ‘the community’. Conventional economic theory of production is extended here to incorporate the notion that economic transactions are embedded in social relations, i.e. social capital is relevant to c…
Measuring inequality
The scope and content of the literature from the past decade about health inequalities and inequities suggest that the economic literature from the past 100 years about inequality and inequity may have been overlooked, generally speaking, in the health inequalities and inequity literature. An understanding of economic theory and economic method, partly introduced in this article, is helpful in analysing health inequality and inequity
Manage Your Mind
Psychotherapy with difficult patients
Book reviewed in this article: Cognitive‐Behavioural Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder. By M. M. Linehan. Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder. By M. M. Linehan. Self‐Management Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: A Therapist‐Guided Approach. By M. H. Langley
Increased substance use in survivors of the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster
Cross‐sectional data are reported on 73 survivors of the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster. Many reported an increase in their consumption of alcohol, cigarettes, sleeping tablets, antidepressants and tranquillizers at six and 30 months. The level of increased use was, however, lower at 30 months than at six months, although this was less evident for alcohol and cigarettes than the other substances. In addition, self‐reports of increased substan…
Arius and the Melitian Schism
Journal Article ARIUS AND THE MELITIAN SCHISM Get access R. WILLIAMS R. WILLIAMS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Journal of Theological Studies, Volume 37, Issue 1, April 1986, Pages 35–52, https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/37.1.35 Published: 01 April 1986
Report to the President
Putting higher education in its place
Traditionally, universities have been understood in terms that assume their special status within the social world – somehow divorced from the places within which they find themselves. Yet they are also increasingly expected to make some contribution to regional development. With the help of evidence drawn from an Economic and Social Research Council project, this article sets out to explore some of the implications of recognising the importance …
Eat, Pray, Love
Arius and the Melitian Schism
Journal Article ARIUS AND THE MELITIAN SCHISM Get access R. WILLIAMS R. WILLIAMS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Journal of Theological Studies, Volume 37, Issue 1, April 1986, Pages 35–52, https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/37.1.35 Published: 01 April 1986
The Ageing Workforce
Population ageing is profoundly challenging the institutions and systems that organise paid work, healthcare, and retirement. A major response to these challenges has been to encourage older workers to remain longer in employment, thereby extending the period of ‘productive life’ in which they are net contributors to government revenue. Yet this strategy depends on a range of micro‐level adjustments, about which relatively little is known. These …
Deinstitutionalisation and Managerialism in Queensland's Public Psychiatric Institutions
This article places the experience of public psychiatric institutions for the long term mentally ill in the context of New Public Management (NPM). This managerialist school of thought has been in widespread ascendancy since the 1970s. Some key characteristics of deinstitutionalisation and NPM are outlined. We then present some historical data about the temporal process of deinstitutionalisation in Queensland's public psychiatric institutions. Th…
Increased substance use in survivors of the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster
Cross‐sectional data are reported on 73 survivors of the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster. Many reported an increase in their consumption of alcohol, cigarettes, sleeping tablets, antidepressants and tranquillizers at six and 30 months. The level of increased use was, however, lower at 30 months than at six months, although this was less evident for alcohol and cigarettes than the other substances. In addition, self‐reports of increased substan…
Exploring BMX as a tool for wellbeing promotion
The Permissive Technique in Counseling Children
Ruth M. Williams, The Permissive Technique in Counseling Children, Marriage and Family Living, Vol. 11, No. 2, Spring: Groves Conferences on Conservation of Marriage and the Family, 1947-1948 Proceedings (May, 1949), p. 67
Counseling and Psychotherapy with the Mentally Retarded
Report to the President
Arius and the Melitian Schism
Journal Article ARIUS AND THE MELITIAN SCHISM Get access R. WILLIAMS R. WILLIAMS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Journal of Theological Studies, Volume 37, Issue 1, April 1986, Pages 35–52, https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/37.1.35 Published: 01 April 1986
Increased substance use in survivors of the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster
Cross‐sectional data are reported on 73 survivors of the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster. Many reported an increase in their consumption of alcohol, cigarettes, sleeping tablets, antidepressants and tranquillizers at six and 30 months. The level of increased use was, however, lower at 30 months than at six months, although this was less evident for alcohol and cigarettes than the other substances. In addition, self‐reports of increased substan…
Psychotherapy with difficult patients
Book reviewed in this article: Cognitive‐Behavioural Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder. By M. M. Linehan. Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder. By M. M. Linehan. Self‐Management Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: A Therapist‐Guided Approach. By M. H. Langley
Manage Your Mind
Measuring inequality
The scope and content of the literature from the past decade about health inequalities and inequities suggest that the economic literature from the past 100 years about inequality and inequity may have been overlooked, generally speaking, in the health inequalities and inequity literature. An understanding of economic theory and economic method, partly introduced in this article, is helpful in analysing health inequality and inequity
Global Citizenship and the Baha'i Faith
Attitudes towards refugees has been critiqued by Derrida (2002), who considers receptivity of host societies. Comparatively, Hage (2003) claims Australians are adopting a paranoid nationalism, subsequently hindering the adaptation of newcomers. Features of a refugee group may be vital to appreciating their ultimate outcome. In-depth interviews with 7 Iranian Bahá’í refugees reveal the centrality of religion to their relatively consistent cosmopol…
The Role of Knowledge Accumulation in Health and Longevity
Many Western countries have experienced the ‘rectangularisation of the [demographic] survival curve’, leading to a rise in life expectancy. This process is the result of falling death rates, which leads to increasing longevity. In this article, suicide is placed within the general perspective of declining All Causes mortality. It is shown that suicide is atypical when compared with other causes of death. Which ever way it is measured, whether by …
Community Mental Health Services as a Process Innovation
This article considers the relevant framework for evaluating a major process innovation in mental health services, viz. community‐based service provision. Such services involve multiple inputs from various channels (or departments) in government and ‘the community’. Conventional economic theory of production is extended here to incorporate the notion that economic transactions are embedded in social relations, i.e. social capital is relevant to c…
Place attachment, sense of belonging and identity in life history narratives of Iranian Baha'i refugees
Refugees commonly experience physical and emotional displacement. Such experiences reflect Tuan's theories relating to the anxiety of separation from home and sense of estrangement or alienation in a new land. Despite this adversity, many refugees ultimately form hybrid or trans-national identities, which allow them to operate and be accepted in two (or more) cultures. This facilitates a sense of belonging and the adaptation process to a new coun…
Deinstitutionalisation and Managerialism in Queensland's Public Psychiatric Institutions
This article places the experience of public psychiatric institutions for the long term mentally ill in the context of New Public Management (NPM). This managerialist school of thought has been in widespread ascendancy since the 1970s. Some key characteristics of deinstitutionalisation and NPM are outlined. We then present some historical data about the temporal process of deinstitutionalisation in Queensland's public psychiatric institutions. Th…
Psychiatry interacts with contemporary Western views
Economic studies of innovation are relevant to the mental health sector, not just for innovations in more conventional industries, such as telecommunications. We present an economic examination of the impact of an innovation in the mental health sector. The innovation examined here was first adopted in 1980 with the publication of a new edition of the nosology (or classification) for the diagnosis of mental illnesses and disorders, which is known…
Eat, Pray, Love
Walking on a Washing Line by Kim Seung-Hee
74 | World Literature Today reviews verse Kim Seung-Hee. Walking on a Washing Line. Brother Anthony of Taizé & Lee Hyung-Jin, trs. Ithaca, New York. East Asia Program, Cornell University . 2011. isbn 9781933947501 In the preface to Walking on a Washing Line, translator Brother Anthony of Taizé explains that the poems of South Korean poet Kim SeungHee , for all their surrealism, exhibit “a strong thematic unity that often springs from a deep compa…
Putting higher education in its place
Traditionally, universities have been understood in terms that assume their special status within the social world – somehow divorced from the places within which they find themselves. Yet they are also increasingly expected to make some contribution to regional development. With the help of evidence drawn from an Economic and Social Research Council project, this article sets out to explore some of the implications of recognising the importance …
Who Owns the Unexpected? Insights from Antigone for Don Lamberton’s economic question
Dissent and assent contribute to new information and knowledge in that they foster ideas, avert errors and counter misplaced beliefs. Although intended to facilitate progress, innovation and creativity, dissent may be opposed by the closed mind and defensive mindset. Don Lamberton encountered a specific mindset in his own duties to scholarship in economics. Thus, the perspective of dissent is a fitting way to pay homage to his scholarship. Howeve…
The Ageing Workforce
Population ageing is profoundly challenging the institutions and systems that organise paid work, healthcare, and retirement. A major response to these challenges has been to encourage older workers to remain longer in employment, thereby extending the period of ‘productive life’ in which they are net contributors to government revenue. Yet this strategy depends on a range of micro‐level adjustments, about which relatively little is known. These …
Discrimination and avoidance due to disability in Australia
Despite protections in legislation and international accords, significant proportions of Australians with a disability experience discrimination or engage in avoidance behaviours in various settings with potentially important human capital implications. Recently, sectoral responses (eg., in education and the workplace) have been offered by Government reports, providing direction for future research and evaluation
Introduction to Special Edition of Jap on the ‘Who Is My Jung?’ Conference Held at the British Library in October 2017 to Mark the 40 Th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Association of Jungian Ana…
The paper reviews the processes which went into the creation of an exceptionally comprehensive conference on Jungian analysis and psychology. The conference brought together all five of the constituent societies based in London of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP). The personal nature of the conference contributions is highlighted together with observations about the passage from spoken to written modes. The idea of '…
Day Stress Detox
There has been a lot of interest in digital mental health interventions but adherence to online programmes has been less than optimal. Chatbots that mimic brief conversations may be a more engaging and acceptable mode of delivery. We developed a chatbot, called 21-Day Stress Detox, to deliver stress management techniques for young adults. The purpose of the study was to explore the feasibility, acceptability, and potential efficacy of this low-in…
Comparative analysis of centrally mediated and inflammatory pain experiences amongst patients diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis
BACKGROUND: The identification of pain originating from distinct biological processes may lead to individualised pain treatment. In this study, we aimed to explore the pain experiences of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), differentiating between those predominantly exhibiting features of peripheral inflammatory versus centrally mediated pain. METHODS: Through a multimethods approach we (i) quantitatively analysed the differences in pain de…
Exploring BMX as a tool for wellbeing promotion
Estimating and projecting the population living with dementia at the local area scale in Australia
As Australia’s population ages, the number of people living with dementia will grow considerably. Understanding local changes in the number of people living with dementia will facilitate suitable planning, costing, and service delivery for health and aged care services. To inform this task, this study presents estimates and projections from 2021 to 2036 of Australians living with dementia at the state and territory level, and at the finer regiona…
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