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Contextual assessment of couples therapy: the Clinical Discourse Q-Sets.

This article describes a method for creating highly contextual assessments of couples therapy interaction using concepts from Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). According to SFL, talk in interaction serves three primary functions: to mediate social ...
Steven M Kogan, Lynda H Walters, Tracey Daniels (J Marital Fam Ther, 200210)
contextual-assessment-couples-therapy-clinical-discourse-q-sets.asp

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Is GP-patient communication related to their perceptions of illness severity, coping and social support?

The aim of the study was to explore the relationship between the communicative behaviour of general practitioner and patient on the one hand and the perception of the coping behaviour of the patient, the severity of the complaint and the presence of ...
M Deveugele, A Derese, J De Maeseneer (Soc Sci Med, 200210)
gp-patient-communication-related-perceptions-illness-severity-coping.asp

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Cognitive changes following subthalamic nucleus stimulation in two patients with Parkinson disease.

The limits of a drug therapy in severe forms of Parkinson disease have led to refining neurosurgery on the basal ganglia. Deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus has been recognized as one of the most promising techniques to decrease "off" ...
Rita Moretti, Paola Torre, Rodolfo M Antonello, Livio Capus, Manuela Gioulis, Sandro Zambito Marsala, Giuseppe Cazzato, Antonio Bava (Percept Mot Skills, 200210)
cognitive-changes-following-subthalamic-nucleus-stimulation-two.asp

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Pictorial versus textual information and the ratio-bias effect.

The ratio-bias effect refers to the perception that a low probability event is more likely when presented in the form of a larger, e.g., 10-in-100, than smaller, e.g., 1-in-10, numerical ratio. This phenomenon has been used to help distinguish between ...
Jeffrey M Rudski, Jennifer Volksdorf (Percept Mot Skills, 200210)
pictorial-versus-textual-information-ratio-bias-effect.asp

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Skills training in affective and interpersonal regulation followed by exposure: a phase-based treatment for PTSD related to childhood abuse.

Fifty-eight women with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) related to childhood abuse were randomly assigned to a 2-phase cognitive-behavioral treatment or a minimal attention wait list. Phase 1 of treatment included 8 weekly sessions of skills training ...
Marylene Cloitre, Karestan C Koenen, Lisa R Cohen, Hyemee Han (J Consult Clin Psychol, 200210)
skills-training-affective-interpersonal-regulation-followed-exposure.asp

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Graduates perceptions of self-assessment training in clinical dental hygiene education.

Although research regarding self-assessment as a curriculum component has been undertaken previously, no data have been reported regarding the perceptions of graduates who were taught self-assessment as a formalized component of accredited dental hygiene ...
Jane A Bowers, Jane E Wilson (J Dent Educ, 200210)
graduates-perceptions-self-assessment-training-clinical-dental.asp

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Rumination and social problem-solving in depression.

We tested the hypothesis that impaired social problem solving in depression is a consequence of state-oriented rumination, which can be ameliorated by improving awareness of mental processes. 32 currently depressed, 26 recovered depressed, and 26 never ...
Ed Watkins, Simona Baracaia (Behav Res Ther, 200210)
rumination-social-problem-solving-depression.asp

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Mechanisms of predictive and diagnostic causal induction.

In predictive causal inference, people reason from causes to effects, whereas in diagnostic inference, they reason from effects to causes. Independently of the causal structure of the events, the temporal structure of the information provided to a ...
Pedro L Cobos, Francisco J López, Antonio Caño, Julián Almaraz, David R Shanks (J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process, 200210)
mechanisms-predictive-diagnostic-causal-induction.asp

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U.S. health care in conflict--Part II. The challenges of balancing cost quality and access.

Faced with the technology explosion, the aging population and the growing uninsured, our health care system confronts an uncertain and troubling future. In this second part of a two-part series, look at some proposed solutions to the ...
Mary L Dombovy (Physician Exec, 200209-10)
u-s-health-care-conflict-part-ii-challenges-balancing-cost-quality.asp

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The theory of critical thinking of nursing.

Critical thinking is a thought process used by nurses for clinical decision-making. This descriptive correlational study focused on the relationships among critical thinking, decision-making, and clinical nursing expertise during a clinical simulation. A ...
Cheryl Martin (Nurs Educ Perspect, 200209-10)
theory-critical-thinking-nursing.asp