Recognizing Inevitable Change and Responding Responsibly

Recognizing and responding to medical neglect.

A caregiver may fail to recognize or respond to a child's medical needs for a variety of reasons. An effective response by a health care professional to medical neglect requires a comprehensive assessment of the child's needs, the parents' resources, the parents' efforts to provide for the needs of the child, and options for ensuring optimal health for the child. Such an assessment requires cle...

Recognizing and responding to domestic violence.

Change is inevitable--change is constant.

Recognizing and Responding to Plan-Oriented Misconceptions

This paper discusses the problem of recognizing and responding to plan-oriented misconceptions in advice-seeking dialogs, concentrating on the problems of novice computer users. A cooperative response is one that not only corrects the user's mistaken belief, but also addresses the missing or mistaken user beliefs that led to it. Responding appropriately to a potentially incorrect user belief is...

The More Things Change...: Recognizing and Responding to Trends in Armed Conflict

It is becoming increasingly fashionable to argue that conflict patterns today are fundamentally different from patterns in past historical eras. If correct, this argument could call into question the future value of decades of scientific research on the sources and consequences of interstate conflict. This paper reviews several prominent differences that have been proposed, and examines major c...