Bibliographic record
Abstract
This book marks a significant event in the history of the Society of Pastoral Counselling Research (SPCR), a research forum for theoretical and clinical approaches in pastoral counselling. This youthful professional society was conceived and born in Ottawa and nurtured by people associated with Saint Paul University, notably by the Society's architect and first president, Augustine Meier. Rather than clinging to its secure home base, SPCR has right from its birth pushed its geographical and professional boundaries. Presenters at its annual conferences soon represented scholars and students from a variety of academic centres in North America. Representing the Waterloo Lutheran Seminary at Wilfrid Laurier University, I attended the second annual conference. I still remember the impact of its spirit of exuberance, generosity, and inclusivity. Past conference themes testify to the Society's integrative scope in pastoral counselling: grief dynamics, family systems, trauma, power relations and gender issues, and crisis intervention. The theme of the 2000 annual conference, forgiveness and reconciliation, elicited a richness of presentations resulting in the publication of the book The Challenge of Forgiveness
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.529 | 0.316 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".