The development of Family Rooms by the health service in this study can be understood as a pioneering act of translation of mental health policy and a move towards family-focused mental health practice.
In an attempt to provide a guiding framework for policy translation in mental health, Whiteford and colleagues have described three important stages in translating evidence into policy in mental health system improvement [ 96].
In fact, while this family of rights protects the translation of mental states into action, psychological continuity guarantees protection at an antecedent level: at the level of raw neural functioning.
Our study suggests that the gap between what is known from clinical efficacy research and the systematic community translation of mental healthcare programmes is still dramatically wide, at least in the investigated setting.
Some of the earliest versions of analytic functionalism (Lewis 1966, Armstrong 1968 — but see Lewis 1980, for a modification) were presented as functional specification theories, as topic-neutral "translations" of mental state terms that could pave the way for a psycho-physical identity theory by defusing the Distinct Property Argument (see section 3.3).
Her words had got lost in mental translation.
It's a nostalgic reminder that the act of writing is one of imperfect translation from the mental to the physical realm: as Nietzsche typed of his own defective Writing Ball, "Our writing instruments contribute to our thoughts".
Examination of translation scores, subjective mental load ratings, and free recall performance indicated that simultaneous presentations rendered text comprehension less effective both at a lexical level and at the level of text comprehension compared with written presentation only.
To switch, however, would be to give up the benefits (if any) of a theory that offers meaning-preserving translations of our mental state terms.
Critics of the draw and write technique also argue that the technique has the potential for adult researchers to place their own interpretation on the drawing and words of children, that drawings by children are not the direct translations of their mental states, and that the technique may not create the potential for children to have their ideas heard and understood by researchers[ 16].
