Back pain--what can we offer?

IAPT and Long Term Medical Conditions: What Can We Offer?

BACKGROUND The proposal of a 4-year plan to integrate treatment of people with long term medical conditions (LTCs) into the IAPT service (Department of Health, 2011) seeks for research to understand the effectiveness of IAPT interventions for this patient group. AIM The aim of this service development pilot work was to develop an intervention that is effective for people with Type 2 Diabetes ...

Congestive heart failure: what can we offer our patients?

Physical therapy for low back pain: what is it, and when do we offer it to patients?

Primary care physicians are the main first-contact providers for patients with both acute and chronic low back pain in the United States. Although most patients presenting with new-onset back pain do well with a brief evaluation, reassurance, and symptomatic treatment, many studies have demonstrated that the minority of patients who develop chronic back pain are responsible for the large majori...

What can biology really offer computer security?

Biological systems can offer computer security insights into how to engineer more effective artificial systems. While the authors believe this statement to be fundamentally true, it is unhelpfully vague what insights exactly? This paper argues that, in the light of recent paradigm shifts in a number of fields, a key insight biology can give us is a number of concrete engineering principles, in ...

TEACHING DIVERSITY: What Can History Offer?

To highlight how historical scholarship can be used to teach students about a range of topics in psychology, I have chosen three sample articles from the journal History of Psychology that address gender, race/ethnicity, and the intersection of sexuality and disability in historical perspective. I outline how these articles can be incorporated into courses across the curriculum to deepen studen...