Goals

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Entering the well-guarded fortress: alternative practitioners in hospital settings.

There is a growing evidence that alternative health care practitioners and physicians are working together in collaborative patterns. The paper examines these collaborative patterns in hospital settings in Israel. On the theoretical level, the specific ...
Judith T Shuval, Nissim Mizrachi, Emma Smetannikov (Soc Sci Med, 200211)
entering-well-guarded-fortress-alternative-practitioners-hospital.asp

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Goal setting and attainment in Alzheimers disease patients treated with donepezil.

OBJECTIVES: To understand the treatment goals of Alzheimers disease (AD) patients, carers, and physicians; to estimate whether clinically important goals are met during treatment with donepezil; and to compare a measure of goal attainment with standard ...
K Rockwood, J E Graham, S Fay, (J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry, 200211)
goal-setting-attainment-alzheimer-s-disease-patients-treated-donepezil.asp

123.

Impact of decision goal on escalation.

This research investigates the sunk-cost effect or escalation defined as the irrational tendency to choose to continue to invest money, time, or effort following unsuccessful investments. Building on previous research demonstrating a loss-sensitivity ...
Niklas Karlsson, Asgeir Juliusson, Gunne Grankvist, Tommy Gärling (Acta Psychol (Amst), 200211)
impact-decision-goal-escalation.asp

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Inhibitory effects of drinker and nondrinker prototypes on adolescent alcohol consumption.

This prospective study examined the relation between 308 adolescents images of typical dinkers and nondrinkers and their subsequent alcohol consumption. The results indicate that both images are associated with changes in consumption between ages 16 and ...
Meg Gerrard, Frederick X Gibbons, Monica Reis-Bergan, Linda Trudeau, Linda S Vande Lune, Bram Buunk (Health Psychol, 200211)
inhibitory-effects-drinker-nondrinker-prototypes-adolescent-alcohol.asp

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Acupuncture outcomes, expectations, patient-provider relationship, and the placebo effect: implications for health promotion.

OBJECTIVES: To explore whether treatment outcomes are associated with a patients degree of general hopefulness, expectations regarding treatment, attributions of health status, beliefs about mind-body dualism, and patient-provider relationship factors, I ...
Dominicus W So (Am J Public Health, 200210)
acupuncture-outcomes-expectations-patient-provider-relationship.asp

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Diversity, the individual, and proof of efficacy: complementary and alternative medicine in medical education.

Patients will always have access to a variety of possibly effective, but unproved, therapies directed at maintaining health or treating illness. And there will always be complex, potentially therapeutic regimens that cannot be adequately tested for ...
Constance M Park (Am J Public Health, 200210)
diversity-individual-proof-efficacy-complementary-alternative.asp

127.

The professional development portfolio process: setting goals for credentialing.

Professional Development Portfolio (PDP), the new credentialing system for dietetics professionals, places the responsibility for learning, professional development, and career direction on the individual practitioner. This study used questionnaires and ...
Dian O Weddle, Susan P Himburg, Nancy Collins, Ralph Lewis (J Am Diet Assoc, 200210)
professional-development-portfolio-process-setting-goals-credentialing.asp

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Psychoanalytic goals, therapeutic action, and the analysts tension.

The author draws a distinction between the goals of psychoanalysis and its therapeutic action. Goals are consciously (or at least preconsciously) held by the analyst, and can be clearly articulated. Ideas about the mechanism of therapeutic action, in ...
Jay Greenberg (Psychoanal Q, 200210)
psychoanalytic-goals-therapeutic-action-analyst-s-tension.asp

129.

Cherokee self-reliance.

This qualitative study was conducted using ethnography to identify how (a) self-reliance is conceptualized by the Cherokee; (b) the adult male Cherokee perceives, achieves, and demonstrates self-reliance; and (c) nurses can incorporate the Cherokee ...
John Lowe (J Transcult Nurs, 200210)
cherokee-self-reliance.asp

130.

Implicit self-theories of shyness.

Three studies examined implicit self-theories in relation to shy peoples goals, responses, and consequences within social situations. Shy incremental theorists were more likely than shy entity theorists to view social situations as a learning opportunity ...
Jennifer S Beer (J Pers Soc Psychol, 200210)
implicit-self-theories-shyness.asp