Patricia Watson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4883039 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia Watson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia |
| FAMILY NAME | Watson |
| SIGNATURE | WATSON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8660-9682 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 29 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Making the Mold
Lost-wax casting is a metallurgical technology that emerged independently in several regions of the ancient world. This general process is well understood, but less attention has been paid to variability in the particular methods, materials, and techniques utilized across cultures through time. Studies of this variability, and the reasoning behind it, can deepen our understanding of ancient technology, but also lead to a host of cultural insights…
Adapting the Stress First Aid Model for Frontline Healthcare Workers during Covid-19
The coronavirus pandemic has generated and continues to create unprecedented demands on our healthcare systems. Healthcare workers (HCWs) face physical and psychological stresses caring for critically ill patients, including experiencing anxiety, depression, and posttraumatic stress symptoms. Nurses and nursing staff disproportionately experienced COVID-19-related psychological distress due to their vital role in infection mitigation and direct p…
Evaluation of the Implementation of the NFFF Stress First Aid Intervention in Career Fire Departments
Firefighting is inherently dangerous, though recently concerns have shifted from traditional fireground injuries (burns and asphyxiation) to a focus on mental and behavioral health. Although firefighters are remarkably resilient, research suggests many suffer negative psychological consequences from repeated exposures to trauma. While the Stress First Aid (SFA) model has gained increased attention and adoption among fire departments as a model fo…
Misogyny
There was a Greco–Roman literary tradition, going back to Hesiod, of misogyny in its literal meaning. In the broader sense of the term – prejudice against women – misogyny was more widespread. Based on a stereotypic view of women as inferior, misogyny was enshrined in law and social practice, for instance in the disenfranchisement of women and a disinclination to allow women a significant political role. Misogynistic attacks were often directed a…
An Open Label Pilot Study of a Brief Psychosocial Intervention for Disaster and Trauma Survivors
This study provides preliminary evidence that the delivery of the SOLAR program after disaster by trained, frontline workers with little or no mental health experience is feasible, acceptable, safe, and beneficial in reducing psychological symptoms and impairment among disaster survivors. Randomized controlled trials of the SOLAR program are required to advance evidence of its efficacy
The impact of rapid response and telecare services on elderly and vulnerable residents
An ageing population, government funding cuts and pressures on local authorities to provide services that meet the needs of elderly people, particularly those with complex needs, has resulted in challenges for service providers and service users. This study examined the impact on service users and other stakeholders of rapid response services for elderly and vulnerable residents living in social housing in north-east England. The housing provider…
Juvenal
Martial
Marcus Valerius Martialis, or Martial (born between 38 and 41 CE, died probably in 102 and 104 CE) is celebrated for his droll, frequently salacious, portrayal of Roman high and low society during the first century rule of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan. Considered the 'inventor' of the modern epigram, Martial was a native of Hispania, who came to Rome in the hope of securing both patronage and advancement. From the bathhouses, taverns a…
Juvenal
Juvenal's sixth Satire is a masterpiece of comic hyperbole, an outrageous rant against women and marriage which, in its breadth and density, represents the high point of the misogynistic literature of classical antiquity. The Introduction situates Juvenal within the wider tradition of Roman satire, interrogates afresh the poem's architecture and recurrent themes, shows how Juvenal systematically attributes to his monstrous women the inverse of th…
Cosmetics, Greece and Rome
The Greek term from which the English noun “cosmetics” is derived ( kosmetika ) referred to substances which protected and preserved the hair, skin, eyes, and teeth. The use of these was distinguished from to kommotikon : the artificial enhancement of the appearance with face‐whitener, rouge, and eye makeup. Both types of cosmetic were widely employed by Greek and Roman women of all classes, including respectable married women, despite the strict…
Misogyny
Throughout Greek and Roman literature, there is a persistent strain of misogyny, in the form of either generalizing negative statements about women, or attacks on women for inappropriate behavior: prominent themes include adultery or practices which were considered conducive to adultery, such as drinking to excess or displaying too keen an interest in self‐adornment ( see Adultery; Cosmetics, Greece and Rome ).
Slavery, Rome
Slavery occupied an essential place in the fabric of Roman society; at its peak during the Late Republic, slaves accounted for around one third of the total population.
Stepfamily
In Greece and Rome, the frequency of remarriage following death or divorce ensured that stepfamilies were relatively common. Yet although conflicts arose as a result of disputes over inheritance, hostility between stepmothers and stepchildren, or stepfamily “incest,” it is only stepmothers who consistently received a bad press.
The Flight of Pudicitia
In the prologue to Satire 6, Juvenal depicts the primitive woman of the Golden Age as an ideal matrona , only to undercut humorously the paradigmatic value of this picture. The poet’s intentions in so doing have been variously explained; this article views the parodic tone of the passage in terms of its programmatic function. A detailed discussion is offered of Juvenal’s depiction of the cavewife and it is demonstrated how this foreshadows the sp…
Postdisaster psychological intervention since 9/11
A wealth of research and experience after 9/11 has led to the development of evidence-based and evidence-informed guidelines and strategies to support the design and implementation of public mental health programs after terrorism and disaster. This article reviews advances that have been made in a variety of areas, including development of improved metrics and methodologies for conducting needs assessment, screening, surveillance, and program eva…
Ethnocultural Perspectives on Disaster and Trauma
M. Valerii Martialis epigrammaton liber tertius
Five Essential Elements of Immediate and Mid–Term Mass Trauma Intervention
Given the devastation caused by disasters and mass violence, it is critical that intervention policy be based on the most updated research findings. However, to date, no evidence-based consensus has been reached supporting a clear set of recommendations for intervention during the immediate and the mid-term post mass trauma phases. Because it is unlikely that there will be evidence in the near or mid-term future from clinical trials that cover th…
School” Reading and Multiple Texts
This practitioner‐research study investigated the reading behaviors of preservice teachers from diverse content disciplines as they engaged in reading multiple texts pertaining to a historical topic. Through participant‐observer field notes, reader response journals, reflective essays, and participant debriefing, the authors examined the metacognitive awareness of students enrolled in a content area literacy course for preservice, secondary‐level…
Juvenal's scripta matrona
Scholarly work on Juvenal has focused on the poet's self-fashioning as an 'angry man'. This paper, on Satire 6, shifts the emphasis to the object of the invective, in this case the Roman matrona. In creating a character who allegedly represents the typical Roman married woman of his day, the poet constructs an anti-matrona who resembles to a large extent her polar opposite in Roman thinking—the meretrix. A major way in which this effect is achiev…
Non Tristis Torus et Tamen Pudicus
The longstanding ideal of the virtuous matrona whose mores stood in stark contrast to those of the meretrix, continued to be espoused in the late 1st century and early 2nd century AD by moralists and in Imperial propaganda. But there had long been an ever-increasing gap between theory and practice, and the austere, asexual matrona was probably a rarity in real life. Moralists reacted to the sexualisation of the matrona by presenting the developme…
A Social Studies Wax Museum
Key Words: bringing history to lifecooperative activities between schools and collegespreservice teacher trainingproducing a wax museum
Praecepta Amoris
Ovid's earliest didactic elegiac poem, the Medicamina Faciei Femineae , is interesting both in its own right and in the ways it anticipates the Ars Amatoria and the Remedia Amoris . There is any number of elements in the Ars which could have offended Augustus. In his defense, Ovid focuses on the charge that married women learned adulterous behavior from his teachings. The use of the famous Mars/Venus love affairan unequivocal case of adultery as …
Parody and Subversion in Ovid's Medicamina Faciei Femineae
Archaeological material in Scotland from West Midlands Museums
Non Tristis Torus et Tamen Pudicus
The longstanding ideal of the virtuous matrona whose mores stood in stark contrast to those of the meretrix, continued to be espoused in the late 1st century and early 2nd century AD by moralists and in Imperial propaganda. But there had long been an ever-increasing gap between theory and practice, and the austere, asexual matrona was probably a rarity in real life. Moralists reacted to the sexualisation of the matrona by presenting the developme…
Postdisaster psychological intervention since 9/11
A wealth of research and experience after 9/11 has led to the development of evidence-based and evidence-informed guidelines and strategies to support the design and implementation of public mental health programs after terrorism and disaster. This article reviews advances that have been made in a variety of areas, including development of improved metrics and methodologies for conducting needs assessment, screening, surveillance, and program eva…
M. Valerii Martialis epigrammaton liber tertius
Parody and Subversion in Ovid's Medicamina Faciei Femineae
Two problems in Martial
‘Some of Martial's shortest epigrams are also the obscurest’, observes P. T. Eden, apropos of 1.102. This two-line poem has certainly generated a remarkable diversity of interpretations. All the critics are agreed that the portrait of Venus owned by the courtesan Lycoris (‘Venerem tuam, Lycori’) is in some way botched or unattractive, but, beyond this, their explanations differ widely
Erotion
Martial's epigrams on the dead slave-child Erotion, especially the first (5.34) and third (10.61), have generally given rise to sentimental comments about the poet's love for young children or the humane concern which he displays for his slaves. Scholars show less unanimity in their interpretation of the second piece (5.37), where the poet's laudatio of his lost puella is made the occasion of a joke against Paetus, who has managed to survive the …
Axelson Revisited
Although it is now fifteen years since G. Williams' thorough-going criticism of B. Axelson's Unpoetische Wörter , his discussion has failed to elicit the adverse response which might have been expected in view of the widespread influence exerted by the earlier work. The reason for this may be that Axelson's theory is so widely accepted that any refutation thereof may be disregarded. Yet surely Williams was right to point to the dangers of total r…
Martial
Marcus Valerius Martialis, or Martial (born between 38 and 41 CE, died probably in 102 and 104 CE) is celebrated for his droll, frequently salacious, portrayal of Roman high and low society during the first century rule of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan. Considered the 'inventor' of the modern epigram, Martial was a native of Hispania, who came to Rome in the hope of securing both patronage and advancement. From the bathhouses, taverns a…
Juvenal's scripta matrona
Scholarly work on Juvenal has focused on the poet's self-fashioning as an 'angry man'. This paper, on Satire 6, shifts the emphasis to the object of the invective, in this case the Roman matrona. In creating a character who allegedly represents the typical Roman married woman of his day, the poet constructs an anti-matrona who resembles to a large extent her polar opposite in Roman thinking—the meretrix. A major way in which this effect is achiev…
A Social Studies Wax Museum
Key Words: bringing history to lifecooperative activities between schools and collegespreservice teacher trainingproducing a wax museum
Ignorant Euctus
Mythological Exempla in Ovid's Ars Amatoria
Axelson Revisited
Although it is now fifteen years since G. Williams' thorough-going criticism of B. Axelson's Unpoetische Wörter , his discussion has failed to elicit the adverse response which might have been expected in view of the widespread influence exerted by the earlier work. The reason for this may be that Axelson's theory is so widely accepted that any refutation thereof may be disregarded. Yet surely Williams was right to point to the dangers of total r…
The Reliability and Classification Stability of the Learning Style Inventory
The Learning Style Inventory (LSI) and the newly revised Learning Style Inventory (LSI II) were examined for internal consistency, test-retest reliability and stability of the four classifications resulting from their scores. Internal consistency was much improved in the LSI II, but problems with low test-retest indices and classification stability continue to plague the instruments. The authors hypothesize that the observed improvement in intern…
Jerash Bowls
Watson P. Jerash Bowls : study of a provincial group of byzantine decorated fine ware. In: Syria. Tome 66 fascicule 1-4, 1989. pp. 223-261
Erotion
Martial's epigrams on the dead slave-child Erotion, especially the first (5.34) and third (10.61), have generally given rise to sentimental comments about the poet's love for young children or the humane concern which he displays for his slaves. Scholars show less unanimity in their interpretation of the second piece (5.37), where the poet's laudatio of his lost puella is made the occasion of a joke against Paetus, who has managed to survive the …
Two problems in Martial
‘Some of Martial's shortest epigrams are also the obscurest’, observes P. T. Eden, apropos of 1.102. This two-line poem has certainly generated a remarkable diversity of interpretations. All the critics are agreed that the portrait of Venus owned by the courtesan Lycoris (‘Venerem tuam, Lycori’) is in some way botched or unattractive, but, beyond this, their explanations differ widely
Archaeological material in Scotland from West Midlands Museums
Ignorant Euctus
Parody and Subversion in Ovid's Medicamina Faciei Femineae
Praecepta Amoris
Ovid's earliest didactic elegiac poem, the Medicamina Faciei Femineae , is interesting both in its own right and in the ways it anticipates the Ars Amatoria and the Remedia Amoris . There is any number of elements in the Ars which could have offended Augustus. In his defense, Ovid focuses on the charge that married women learned adulterous behavior from his teachings. The use of the famous Mars/Venus love affairan unequivocal case of adultery as …
A Social Studies Wax Museum
Key Words: bringing history to lifecooperative activities between schools and collegespreservice teacher trainingproducing a wax museum
Non Tristis Torus et Tamen Pudicus
The longstanding ideal of the virtuous matrona whose mores stood in stark contrast to those of the meretrix, continued to be espoused in the late 1st century and early 2nd century AD by moralists and in Imperial propaganda. But there had long been an ever-increasing gap between theory and practice, and the austere, asexual matrona was probably a rarity in real life. Moralists reacted to the sexualisation of the matrona by presenting the developme…
Five Essential Elements of Immediate and Mid–Term Mass Trauma Intervention
Given the devastation caused by disasters and mass violence, it is critical that intervention policy be based on the most updated research findings. However, to date, no evidence-based consensus has been reached supporting a clear set of recommendations for intervention during the immediate and the mid-term post mass trauma phases. Because it is unlikely that there will be evidence in the near or mid-term future from clinical trials that cover th…
School” Reading and Multiple Texts
This practitioner‐research study investigated the reading behaviors of preservice teachers from diverse content disciplines as they engaged in reading multiple texts pertaining to a historical topic. Through participant‐observer field notes, reader response journals, reflective essays, and participant debriefing, the authors examined the metacognitive awareness of students enrolled in a content area literacy course for preservice, secondary‐level…
Juvenal's scripta matrona
Scholarly work on Juvenal has focused on the poet's self-fashioning as an 'angry man'. This paper, on Satire 6, shifts the emphasis to the object of the invective, in this case the Roman matrona. In creating a character who allegedly represents the typical Roman married woman of his day, the poet constructs an anti-matrona who resembles to a large extent her polar opposite in Roman thinking—the meretrix. A major way in which this effect is achiev…
Ethnocultural Perspectives on Disaster and Trauma
M. Valerii Martialis epigrammaton liber tertius
Postdisaster psychological intervention since 9/11
A wealth of research and experience after 9/11 has led to the development of evidence-based and evidence-informed guidelines and strategies to support the design and implementation of public mental health programs after terrorism and disaster. This article reviews advances that have been made in a variety of areas, including development of improved metrics and methodologies for conducting needs assessment, screening, surveillance, and program eva…
Cosmetics, Greece and Rome
The Greek term from which the English noun “cosmetics” is derived ( kosmetika ) referred to substances which protected and preserved the hair, skin, eyes, and teeth. The use of these was distinguished from to kommotikon : the artificial enhancement of the appearance with face‐whitener, rouge, and eye makeup. Both types of cosmetic were widely employed by Greek and Roman women of all classes, including respectable married women, despite the strict…
Misogyny
Throughout Greek and Roman literature, there is a persistent strain of misogyny, in the form of either generalizing negative statements about women, or attacks on women for inappropriate behavior: prominent themes include adultery or practices which were considered conducive to adultery, such as drinking to excess or displaying too keen an interest in self‐adornment ( see Adultery; Cosmetics, Greece and Rome ).
Slavery, Rome
Slavery occupied an essential place in the fabric of Roman society; at its peak during the Late Republic, slaves accounted for around one third of the total population.
Stepfamily
In Greece and Rome, the frequency of remarriage following death or divorce ensured that stepfamilies were relatively common. Yet although conflicts arose as a result of disputes over inheritance, hostility between stepmothers and stepchildren, or stepfamily “incest,” it is only stepmothers who consistently received a bad press.
The Flight of Pudicitia
In the prologue to Satire 6, Juvenal depicts the primitive woman of the Golden Age as an ideal matrona , only to undercut humorously the paradigmatic value of this picture. The poet’s intentions in so doing have been variously explained; this article views the parodic tone of the passage in terms of its programmatic function. A detailed discussion is offered of Juvenal’s depiction of the cavewife and it is demonstrated how this foreshadows the sp…
Juvenal
Juvenal's sixth Satire is a masterpiece of comic hyperbole, an outrageous rant against women and marriage which, in its breadth and density, represents the high point of the misogynistic literature of classical antiquity. The Introduction situates Juvenal within the wider tradition of Roman satire, interrogates afresh the poem's architecture and recurrent themes, shows how Juvenal systematically attributes to his monstrous women the inverse of th…
Martial
Marcus Valerius Martialis, or Martial (born between 38 and 41 CE, died probably in 102 and 104 CE) is celebrated for his droll, frequently salacious, portrayal of Roman high and low society during the first century rule of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan. Considered the 'inventor' of the modern epigram, Martial was a native of Hispania, who came to Rome in the hope of securing both patronage and advancement. From the bathhouses, taverns a…
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