Traveling with Kids

P31: Art Relieves Stress in Kids with Anxiety Disorders

Art is a way to provide distance from the intense affect associated with the disaster, and a way to work around and through the natural defenses that arise when trying to link affect with cognition. The ability to create art about the threatening thoughts and feelings channels the child’s energy into the art, or into a positive task, which then can be explored safely. If these thoughts ca...

Rotten Kids with Bad Intentions

Rotten Kids with Bad Intentions We examine a "Rotten Kid" model (Becker 1974) where a player with social preferences interacts with an egoistic player. We assume that social preferences are intention-based rather than outcome-based. In a very general multi-stage setting we show that any equilibrium must involve mutually unkind behavior of both players, endogenously generating negative emotions ...

Traveling with HIV

HIV patients are fond of traveling. In 1995, an American study revealed that 20 % of HIV patients had traveled in the previous two years, with 60 % of those having visited developing countries (Kemper 1995). In a 1996 study from the Netherlands, 20 % of the HIV patients reported traveling abroad within the past year (Simons 1999). Ever since, increasing expectancy and quality of life have cause...

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The heterogenous nature of breast tumours (Hawkins et al., 1977; Silfversward et al., 1980) complicates the application of oestrogen receptor assay results to the management of breast cancer. Much effort has therefore been expended on the development of histochemical assays to detect receptors in tissue sections, initially with oestrogenprotein conjugates (e.g. Pertschuk et al., 1979; Lee, 1978...

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