Goals

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Barriers to higher education for individuals with psychiatric disabilities.

To study barriers to higher education, this qualitative study explored the college experiences of 35 people with psychiatric disabilities. Academic performance was related to psychiatric symptoms which subsequently led to college attrition. However, many ...
Deborah Megivern, Sue Pellerito, Carol Mowbray (Psychiatr Rehabil J, 2003WINTER)
barriers-higher-education-individuals-psychiatric-disabilities.asp

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The Psychiatric Rehabilitation Beliefs, Goals, and Practices Scale: sensitivity to change.

This study evaluated the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Beliefs, Goals, and Practices Scales (PRBGP) sensitivity to change. A training curriculum in the current principles and practices of Psychiatric Rehabilitation was given to 301 practitioners in ...
Edward S Casper, Janice D Oursler (Psychiatr Rehabil J, 2003WINTER)
psychiatric-rehabilitation-beliefs-goals-practices-scale-sensitivity.asp

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Blurring boundaries: the promise and challenge of a district-community action plan for systemic high school change in Worcester, Massachusetts.

The Worcester, Massachusetts, district-community plan for reinventing high schools shows how learning can be enhanced and transformed through intentional connections to ...
Thomas Del Prete, Laurie Ross (New Dir Youth Dev, 2003SPRING)
blurring-boundaries-promise-challenge-district-community-action-plan.asp

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Partnership in practice.

Modern health care has increasingly focused on prescriptive, outcomes-oriented, and cost-effective practices concomitantly obscuring the humanness of the health experience. A reconsideration of partnership between nurse and client as the core of the ...
Helga Jonsdottir, Merian Litchfield, Margaret Dexheimer Pharris (Res Theory Nurs Pract, 2003SPRING)
partnership-practice.asp

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Effects of teacher-directed versus student-directed instruction on self-management of young children with disabilities.

In this study, students worked independently by setting goals, selecting assignments, and recording and evaluating their results after receiving one of two different types of self-management training. During teacher-directed training, the teacher set ...
Deirdre K Mithaug, Dennis E Mithaug (J Appl Behav Anal, 2003SPRING)
effects-teacher-directed-versus-student-directed-instruction-self.asp

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Dissociable contributions of the human amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex to incentive motivation and goal selection.

Theories of incentive motivation attempt to capture the way in which objects and events in the world can acquire high motivational value and drive behavior, even in the absence of a clear biological need. In addition, for an individual to select the most ...
F Sergio Arana, John A Parkinson, Elanor Hinton, Anthony J Holland, Adrian M Owen, Angela C Roberts (J Neurosci, 200310)
dissociable-contributions-human-amygdala-orbitofrontal-cortex.asp

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Increasing immunization coverage. American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Community Health Services. American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Practice and Ambulatory Medicine.

Despite many recent advances in vaccine delivery, the goal for universal immunization set in 1977 has not been reached. In 2001, only 77.2% of US toddlers 19 to 35 months of age had received their basic immunization series of 4 doses of diphtheria and ...
David L Wood, , (Pediatrics, 200310)
increasing-immunization-coverage-american-academy-pediatrics.asp

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Why do doctors attend traditional CME events if they dont change what they do in their surgeries? Evaluation of doctors reasons for attending a traditional CME programme.

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to discover what the family doctors who attended an annual refresher course wished to obtain from participating in the event and what their response was to evidence that doctor behaviour is not changed by such programmes. ...
Christine Harrison, William Hogg (Med Educ, 200310)
why-doctors-attend-traditional-cme-events-don-t-change-surgeries.asp

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Developing focused wellness programs: using concept analysis to increase business value.

Concept analysis is a useful tool in providing clarity to an abstract idea as well as an objective basis for developing wellness program products, goals, and outcomes. To plan for and develop successful wellness programs, it is critical for occupational ...
Lance Byczek, Christine M Kalina, Pamela F Levin (AAOHN J, 200309)
developing-focused-wellness-programs-concept-analysis-increase.asp

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Responsiveness of goal attainment scaling in a randomized controlled trial of comprehensive geriatric assessment.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Frail elderly patients have complex problems that require a multidimensional assessment and a range of treatment goals. Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS) measures multiple, individualized goals, but its responsiveness in comparative ...
Kenneth Rockwood, Susan Howlett, Karen Stadnyk, Daniel Carver, Colin Powell, Paul Stolee (J Clin Epidemiol, 200308)
responsiveness-goal-attainment-scaling-randomized-controlled-trial.asp