Itw Mima 4.4 Manual
Nichelle Gruger
This book provides a detailed description of the theory and clinical practice of MFT-AN. The treatment draws on the Maudsley Family Therapy for Anorexia Nervosa model as well as integrating other psychological and group frameworks. Part I details the theoretical concepts, MFT-AN structure, content and implementation, including clinically rich and detailed guidance on group facilitation, therapeutic technique and troubleshooting when the group process encounters difficulties. Part III provides step-by-step instructions for the group activities in the initial four-day intensive workshop and for the subsequent follow-up days that occur over a further six to eight months.
The book will serve as a practical guide for both experienced and new clinicians working with children and adolescents with eating disorders and their families, in utilising multi-family therapy in their clinical practice.
Part I: Theory, structure and techniques; 1 What is multi-family therapy?; 2. Who can benefit from MFT-AN?; 3. MFT-AN theoretical concepts; 4. MFT context and mechanisms of change; 5. MFT-AN structure and content; 6. The MFT treating team; 7. Managing process and group facilitation; 8. Therapeutic techniques; 9. MFT meals; 10. Effectively managing and containing the group process; 11. MFT troubleshooting and managing risk; Part II: MFT activities; 12. How to use activities in MFT-AN; 13. Four-day intensive workshop: the activities; 14. Follow-up days and exercises
Mima Simic is Joint Head at the Maudsley Centre for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders and a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist. She is an internationally recognised expert and trainer in the field of child and adolescent eating disorders.
Julian Baudinet is a Principal Clinical Psychologist with expertise in family therapy and multi-family therapy for adolescents with eating disorders. Alongside his clinical work he is actively involved in treatment and service development, research, teaching and training.
Esther Blessitt is a Principal Systemic Psychotherapist and a team manager in the Maudsley outpatient treatment team. Alongside her clinical work Esther also trains others in the Maudsley eating disorders treatment models.
'The seasoned team from the Maudsley Hospital have put together a comprehensive treatment manual to guide clinicians in multi-family therapy for anorexia nervosa. This manual embodies work that was first pioneered by Professor Eisler and colleagues several decades ago now and represents the deliberate and thoughtful clinical steps that have been honed over decades of their work in this domain. This manual deserves a special spot on the book shelve of every clinician and educator of family therapy for anorexia nervosa.'
Daniel Le Grange, PhD, FAED, Benioff UCSF Professor in Children's Health, Director, Eating Disorders Program, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California San Francisco
The first version of the instrument will not include a specific device for taking Flat-fieldsas shown in the figure above (Flat-Field Controller), but flat-fields will be taken regularly atthe dusk and dawn with no spectial device.
Most of the times, you will operate the instrument remotely, i.e., you are not in front of the MIMA control workstation,but in the user workstation (Linux and MacOS prefered). Because the MIMA control is done through agraphical interface (GUI), you need to connect to the remote (and shared) desktop of the control workstation.
After login on the remote desktop, you canopen a X-Terminal and type mcs or click on the MCS desktop icon. After a fewseconds you should see the main window of MCS which looks like shown in the next figure below:
MCS has two running modes, Manual and Automatic. By default, the MCSapplication starts in Automatic mode, what means that will run the nextcampaign scheduled that meet the observation constraints.In Manual mode, no campaign will be executued, but the user could takesingle expositions setting the main parameters like: filter, expositon time,repetitions, read mode, binning and imagetype (light or dark).
In Automatic mode , when observing constraints are satisfied, the instrumentmanager power-on the devices (filter wheel, camara and temperature control) andprepare the system for starting the observation. If some device fails, theapplication stop and send an email to the observer to notice about the problem.Moreover, in Automatic mode, manual expositions are not allowed.
Althought it is not forseen for the normal MIMA user, MCS allows an additionalrunning mode called Simulation.When MCS run in that mode, no hardware device is detected, and so no real imagesor data are obtained, but simulated. It is thought for engineering purposes, andit can be activated/deactivated from the configuration file.
Filter temperature: value for working temperature of filter; it is adjusted by thetemperature controller. Only when that temperature is achieved (within a smalltolerance specificed in the config file), the observations will be taken whenworking in Automatic mode.
CCD temperature: minimum value for working temperature of CCD; it is adjustedinternally by the camera using a peltier cooler.Must be taken into account that the maximun cooling temperature is 55CBelow Ambient, so a tipical value should be -40C, ie, observations will onlybe taken when the temperature is bellow -40C.
Observation Mode: the observation mode defines the type of observation to bedone during the entire Campaign. It is compound of a Filter Sequence and aset of readout parameters as binning and read speed, and the calibrationsetup for darks and flats.
DARK: darks can be adquired automatically using the same exposition time thatscience filter images, or manually using the exp. times defined by the user, plus a BIAS image (texp=0s); manual mode is foreseen to take a dark series to be interpolated. Additionally, both modes have the next parameters:
Filter(s), TExp and Reps for Flat-Field images; they are taken at dusk and dawn time,and the user can select which filters are required or no filter if any flat-field isrequired. Additionally, for each Flat-Field image the system takes automaticallythe corresponding Dark images.
As we have seen above, each Campaign has its own Observing Constraints that especifies whenthe Campaign can be executed.When the instrument is in Automatic mode, the start up of the instrument,the calibrations and campaign execution is conditioned upon three main times thatare defined in the Observing Contrainsts, and that are based on a set of parameters:
The Instrument Manager is in charge of the control of the instrument devices, and oncethe instrument is in Automatic mode, decides when the instrument must be power-on (off). Thenit looks for the next Campaign to be executed according the Scheduler and the Observingconstraints of the next Campaign.
When the night observation is finished due to Sun elevation and the calibrations are taken, theInstrument Manager will inspect the nightly data directory (/home/mima/DATA/MCS_DATA/YYYYMMDD/) andwill send by email a report to the observer with a summary of the data files taken during last night.To configure the recipients of that report, you need to modify the REPORT_RECIPIENTS keyword in theConfiguration file.
The campaign runner is a process that in charge of the execution of a Campaign. Itstarts checking the instrument temperatures are in range and the rest of constraints aresatisfied. Then initiates calibrations (dusk Flat-Fields) if they were configured, andthen initiate the proper observation, taking the sciece images, i.e., thefilter sequences defined in the observation mode.
In principle, MCS does not allow to define more than one campaign in the same interval of time, i.e.,two campaign cannot coincide in the time. However, in case of conflict, the older campaign would beselected to be executed..If no campaing is found, MCS will execute the Default campaign that is pre-defined in the system.
The MCS application uses a configuration file that pre-sets the instrument configuracion parameters.It is read only at start-up of the application, and MCS never writes on it. Some values are usedto initialize the database for the first time we launch the application, and others are usedon every MCS execution.In principle, the user should not modify any value, but for the initial applicationsetup could be necessary to adjust some values.
The configuration parser (ConfigParser) processes (parses) each parameter sequentialy during theapplication start-up, but if some parameter is missing, it is only detected when is used during theapplication execution, so plase, modify the file carefully.
MCS creates automatically a directory for every observing night/session. These directories arelocated in $MCSHOME/DATA/MSC_DATA/YYYYMMDD, and will contain all the FITS data files of whole the night.That is valid for any Campaign that starting before the 12h of the next day.
There is no automated removal of data files by the software. Users need to look into the$MCSHOME/DATA directory, the $TMP and in particular in $MCSHOME/DATA/MSC_DATA/log for obsolete and largelog files left behind.The amount of space required by various log-files depends in particular on the value assigned toLOG LEVEL in configuration file.
MCS includes, in addition to the screen log and Debug Tab, the facility of logging to a file ($MCSHOME/DATA/MSC_DATA/log). The user can change the level of verbosity modifying the LOG_LEVEL keyword in the configuration file.The main level are (as definned in Python)
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