Problem Solving

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Developing a systemwide approach to patient safety: the first year.

BACKGROUND: Health care organizations face an imperative to ensure that care is provided to patients in the safest manner possible. In 2000 INTEGRIS Health, an Oklahoma City-based health system including ten acute care organizations, developed a patient ...
Susan Penn Ketring, James P White (Jt Comm J Qual Improv, 200206)
developing-systemwide-approach-patient-safety-first-year.asp

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A model of how students link problem-based learning with clinical experience through "elaboration".

PURPOSE: In 1994, the medical school at the University of Manchester introduced a new integrated course that uses problem-based learning (PBL) throughout the clinical clerkships as the major approach for delivery of the core curriculum. This study ...
Paul A ONeill, Sarah C Willis, Alison Jones (Acad Med, 200206)
model-students-link-problem-based-learning-clinical-experience.asp

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Predictors of resourcefulness in school-aged children.

Children need to develop appropriate cognitive-behavioral repertoires to maintain mental health and prevent depression. Resourcefulness is learned throughout life in the context of ones environment. However, environmental or situational factors and ...
Jaclene A Zauszniewski, ChaeWeon Chung, Hsiu-Ju Chang, Karen Krafcik (Issues Ment Health Nurs, 200206)
predictors-resourcefulness-school-aged-children.asp

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Right-left discrimination in younger and older children measured with two tests containing stimuli on different abstraction levels.

Two paper-and-pen tests, consisting of line drawings of human figures, viewed from the back, the front, or randomly alternating between back and front drawings, were used to study right-left discrimination in younger and older children. One test, called ...
Sonja H Ofte, Kenneth Hugdahl (Percept Mot Skills, 200206)
right-left-discrimination-younger-older-children-measured-two-tests.asp

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Understanding bias in proportion production.

The Stevens exponent (beta) can be obtained from proportion estimation judgments using the power model. In this article, the authors extend that model to proportion production, in which the relative magnitudes of 2 stimuli are adjusted to correspond to a ...
J G Hollands, Takeshi Tanaka, Brian P Dyre (J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 200206)
understanding-bias-proportion-production.asp

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Effects of conflict resolution training integrated into a high school social studies curriculum.

The authors examined the effectiveness of conflict resolution and peer mediation training among California high school students. The authors randomly assigned 2 of 4 classes to receive 5 weeks of conflict resolution and peer mediation training integrated ...
Laurie Stevahn, David W Johnson, Roger T Johnson, Ray Schultz (J Soc Psychol, 200206)
effects-conflict-resolution-training-integrated-high-school-social.asp

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Combining dynamic systems and multivariate analyses to compare the mother-child interactions of externalizing subtypes.

A dynamic systems analysis was conducted to distinguish the parent-child interactions of "pure" externalizing children from children comorbid for externalizing and internalizing problems. Thirty-three parents and clinically referred children (8-12 years ...
Isabela Granic, Alex V Lamey (J Abnorm Child Psychol, 200206)
combining-dynamic-systems-multivariate-analyses-compare-mother-child.asp

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Thinking styles and cognitive development.

Using R. J. Sternbergs (1988, 1997) theory of thinking styles and W. G. Perrys (1970) theory of cognitive development, the author investigated the nature of thinking styles as they relate to cognitive development. Eighty-two Hong Kong university students ...
Li-Fang Zhang (J Genet Psychol, 200206)
thinking-styles-cognitive-development.asp

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Facilitating childrens understanding of misinterpretation: explanatory efforts and improvements in perspective taking.

The authors investigated childrens understanding of how mistaken beliefs can arise through misinterpretation of ambiguous information. Children (N = 91), aged 4 to 5 years, were given pre- and posttests on their ability to infer a puppets interpretation ...
Bradford H Pillow, Clay Mash, Samuel Aloian, Valerie Hill (J Genet Psychol, 200206)
facilitating-children-s-understanding-misinterpretation-explanatory.asp

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The relation of appraisal, coping efforts, and acuteness of trauma to PTS symptoms among former political prisoners.

We examined how trauma-specific appraisals and coping efforts mediate between traumatic experiences, acuteness of trauma, and length of imprisonment and posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTS) among 103 Palestinian former political prisoners. The findings ...
Katri Kanninen, Raija-Leena Punamäki, Samir Qouta (J Trauma Stress, 200206)
relation-appraisal-coping-efforts-acuteness-trauma-pts-symptoms.asp