Introduction to interviewing patients

Interviewing in the Social Services: An Introduction

on this topic, the authors show an awareness of the problems of the man on ^' tr job who may have a queue of people to see in limited time. All aspects of interviewing are discussed, how to put people at ease, hotf p explain the intricacies of services to people in distress and to people who will$ 0 comprehend unless the explanation is given in everyday language. The authors' points are so conc...

Motivational Interviewing to Reinforce Coping and Improve Quality of Life in Patients with Spinal Cord Injury

Objectives: Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) can adversely affect ones’ life and coping with it is very important. The present study reported the effects of reinforcing coping strategies using Motivational Interviewing (MI).  Methods: This was a case report of 5 males with SCI, with the Mean±SD age and time passed since the SCI of 34±15.9 years and 20.6±16.6, respectively. The study participants were ...

An Introduction to Sociolinguistics

Introduction to circular data

In many diverse scientific fields, the measurements are directions. For instance, a biologist may be measuring the direction of flight of a bird or the orientation of an animal. A series of such observations is called ”directional data”. Since a direction has no magnitude, these can be conveniently represented as points on the circumference of a unit circle centered at the origin or as unit ...

Introduction to Ethics

  The issues involved in this article are mainly concentrated on the origins of ethics or Moral ethics as an indepent science It has been said that this area of science was founded by Greek Philosophers after a great crisis and debates between such thinkers as Socrates, Plato and Aristotle on one side and  study of other cuitures and moral traditions, especially the Chinese and Hindu tradition...