Helping young scientists to speak for themselves

Helping Clients to Help Themselves

Kykyri, Virpi-Liisa Helping Clients to Help Themselves. A Discursive Perspective to Process Consulting Practices in Multi-party Settings Jyväskylä, University of Jyväskylä, 2008, 76 p. (Jyväskylä Studies in Education, Psychology and Social Research ISSN 0075-4625; 330) ISBN 978-951-39-3082-0 (PDF), 978-951-39-3071-4 (nid.) Finnish Summary Diss. This study approaches process consulting work as c...

Lesbians over 60 speak for themselves.

With all its faults, this study, begun in 1983, is the first attempt to reach a nationwide representation of lesbian elders in order to gather information about their background, their relationship with their families of origin, and, for those married to men, with their husbands, children, and grandchildren. It explores their sexual behavior, both their physical and psychological health, and ho...

Helping Consumers Know Themselves

In standard models with asymmetric information, the parties involved are assumed to have private information about their own characteristics. In the health insurance market, for example, customers are typically assumed to know more about their health status than insurers do, and if the customers use this information in deciding whether to buy insurance, we have a classic case of adverse selecti...

Helping people help themselves

Great Scientists Speak Again

fantile period, toddler stage, and late childhood and adolescence. For each section there is a description of both the diseases presenting at that age period and a differential diagnosis for the symptoms manifested, such as ataxia, seizures, and dementia. In addition, for each disease there is a concise, readable section detailing the symptomatology in both its classical presentation and its va...