Theatre has the potential to impact students’ mental health, especially when creating and telling stories with traumatic themes. teachers are uniquely positioned unintentionally inflict further harm on their students if they do not incorporate trauma-informed practices (TIP) in work class productions. As theatre educators typically have special certifications or credentials knowing TIP is cruci...

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545 I. Domestic Violence and the Current Law Enforcement Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548 R A. Inadequate Domestic Violence Intervention . . . . . . . . . . . . 549 R B. Weak Constitutional Guarantees for P...

In order to develop artificial agents operating in complex ever-changing environments, advanced technical memory systems are required. At this juncture, two central questions are which information needs to be stored and how it is represented. On the other hand, cognitive psychology provides methods to measure the structure of mental representations in humans. But the nature and the characterist...

The investigation of marital conflict has reached a crossroads. Over 25 years of research on marital conflict behavior yields a relatively clear picture of its topography, but its relevance for changing the marital relationship remains controversial. We can continue to amass observations in a relatively atheoretical manner and hope that patterns capable of guiding clinical activity will emerge,...

Studies have highlighted successful outcomes of psychological therapies for people with intellectual disabilities. However, processes underlying these outcomes are uncertain. Thematic analysis was used to explore the perceptions of three clinical psychologists, six clients and six carers of barriers and facilitators to therapeutic change for people with intellectual disabilities. Six themes wer...

Factors influencing cross-national diffusion of mental health policy are important to understand but complex to research. This commentary discusses Shen’s research study on cross-national diffusion of mental health policy; examines the extent to which the three questions researched by Shen (whether countries are more likely to have a mental health policy (a) the earlier a country becomes a memb...

Social impact theory and group action theory are integrated to provide a framework for explaining how technology-mediated collaboration constrains or enhances team shared mental model development. Social impact theory and group action theory are then used to explain the role of shared mental models in shaping team work quality that ultimately affects both task productivity and team process sati...