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Psychology
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Visual Behavior as an Aspect of Power Role Relationships
There is an intriguing paradox inherent in the shared glance. On the one hand, there is the suggestion that willingness to engage in mutual glances is a means of establishing union with another (Simmel, 1969) ...
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Methodological Issues in Research in Developmental Neuropsychology
The purpose of this chapter is to present an overview of issues and problems associated with neuropsychological studies of brain-injured children. We are primarily concerned with factors that influence the rel...
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The Current Status of Computer-Assisted Cognitive Rehabilitation
Millions of children and young adults suffer from brain impairment due to inborn or acquired disorders. For example, in the U.S. alone there are approximately 10 million head injuries each year. Whether due to...
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Four Computational Models for Investigating Neuropsychological Decision-making
Neuropsychological decision-making in the clinical setting can be investigated from the perspective of different computational models derived from cognitive science. In this chapter, we focus on four of these ...
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The Six Group Therapies Compared
To this point, each of the six group therapies described in this book has been thoroughly elaborated as regards its history, goals, theoretical tenets, therapeutic processes and mechanisms, practice, and appli...
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Neuropsychological Assessment and Treatment of Head Trauma Patients
Head trauma has undoubtedly been a significant problem since the beginning of man, but it’s incidence, in our fast-based technological society, has reached staggering proportions. Caveness (1977) estimated tha...
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Third-Party Payment
Insurance company personnel, like most other people, assume that medical care is of high quality and strongly favor the concept that the quality remain high. Everyone wants to reduce the cost, not by impairing...
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Renal care
The technological advances in the treatment of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) has both increased the life expectations of patients and highlighted the psychological aspects of their adaption to a changed exist...
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Parental Child Abduction
Although many of the issues associated with parental divorce that can impact upon children have been well documented, there has been one notable exception: parental child abduction or child stealing. According...
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Ethical and Legal Issues
The development of ethics as a form of professional self-regulation has a history as long as that of medicine itself. The best known example of an early ethical code is the Hippocratic oath, which dates back t...
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Clinical Laboratory Aspects of Eating Disorders
Clinical laboratory studies have only recently been applied to the diagnosis and treatment of eating disorders. The most remarkable laboratory investigations in this area have been in etiology and sequelae of ...
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Development of Neuropsychology as a Professional Psychological Specialty
Although neuropsychology as a scientific field of inquiry has origins dating at least as far back as the late 19th century, it is only during the past quarter century that neuropsychology has enjoyed widesprea...
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Quality Management Practice Issues in Behavioral Health Groups
Significant changes in the health care industry and in behavioral health care in particular are forcing managers and professionals in the field to reconsider the approaches to “quality.” As concepts such as to...
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Characteristics of Trichotillomania
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Neighborhood Sense of Community and Social Capital
In many ways, social capital (SC) is to political science, sociology, applied economics, and community development what sense of community (SOC) and empowerment have been to community psychology. SC is the nor...
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Theory in Adult Development
Over the past 20 years, Stevens-Long (1979, 1990; Stevens-Long & Commons, 1992) has been reviewing the state of theory building in the field of adult development. These efforts have produced “a fascinating accoun...
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Top-Down and Bottom-Up Processes in the Perception of Reversible Figures: Toward a Hybrid Model
Reversible figures such as the Necker cube are ambiguous visual patterns that support at least two markedly different perceptual organizations. During a period of continuous viewing, observers’ conscious exper...
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A Multicultural Perspective on Work-related Stress: Development of a Collective Co** Scale
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Development of Neuropsychology as a Professional Psychological Specialty: History, Training, and Credentialing
Neuropsychology can be depicted as having a long history and a short past. As early as 400 BC, Hippocrates conjectured a correlation of behavioral observations with possible anatomic localizations, and later G...
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Parent-training Interventions
Prior to the 1960s, therapy for children typically involved traditional one-on-one sessions with a therapist addressing intrapsychic issues rather than specific behaviors (Kotchick, Shaffer, Dorsey, & Forehand...
