Communications [2] Educational Technology Services [3] Finance and Administration [4] First Generation Support Services [5] Graduate and Professional Student Association [6] International Students and Scholars Office [7] Learning Resource Services [8] Office of Career and Professional Development [9] Office of Institutional Research [10] Office of the Registrar [11] Registered Campus Organizati...

Communications [2] Educational Technology Services [3] Finance and Administration [4] First Generation Support Services [5] Graduate and Professional Student Association [6] International Students and Scholars Office [7] Learning Resource Services [8] Office of Career and Professional Development [9] Office of Institutional Research [10] Office of the Registrar [11] Registered Campus Organizati...

OBJECTIVE This study examined mental health treatment barriers following intake at a counseling center among racially/ethnically diverse college students. METHODS College students (N = 122) seen for intake at a college counseling center in 2012-2013 completed self-reports of depressive symptoms, suicidal ideation, and mental health treatment barriers 6 months later. RESULTS Racial/ethnic mi...

Loyalka, Prashant, Liu, Chengfang, Song, Yingquan, Yi, Hongmei, Huang, Xiaoting, Wei, Jianguo, Zhang, Linxiu, Shi, Yaojiang, Chu, James, and Rozelle, Scott—Can information and counseling help students from poor rural areas go to high school? Evidence from China Recent studies have shown that only about two-thirds of the students from poor, rural areas in China finish junior high school and ente...

The aim of this study was to determine if dental and medical students have similar feelings of professional responsibility, comfort, and confidence with counseling patients about smoking cessation during their clinical years. All third- and fourth-year osteopathic medical (N=580) and dental students (N=144) at Western University of Health Sciences were invited to participate in a survey in Apri...

The present study illustrates the application of analytical hierarchy process (AHP) to a decision-making problem. AHP is a popular and powerful method for solving multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) problems. An attempt is made here to initialize the use of multicriteria decision-making methods for ranking alternatives that curb student absenteeism. Through the expert opinions, the criteri...

background: perfectionism is a character of personality thatindicates striving  to be perfect  and having  high standards for practice .it is a tendency to evaluate one' s andothers behavior critically. aim of this study was investigating theeffectiveness of quality of life therapy on the perfectionism.methods: this was a semi experimental research with pretest andposttest with control group.  ...

a The Research Center for Internet Psychology, Sammy Ofer School of Communication, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel b School of Psychology, The Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Schneider Children’s Medical Center, Israel d The Advanced Virtuality Lab, Sammy Ofer School of Communication, Interdisciplinary Center Her...

The objective of this study was to compare the impact on knowledge and counseling skills of face-to-face and Internet-based oral health training programs on medical students. Participants consisted of 148 (82 percent) of the 180 invited students attending their fifth academic year at the Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo, Brasil, in 2007. The interventions took place during a three-m...

Breaking bad news is one of the most burdensome tasks physicians face in their everyday practice. It becomes even more challenging in the context of HIV+ patients because of stigma and discrimination. The aim of the current study is to evaluate the quality of giving HIV seroconversion news according to SPIKES protocol. Numbers of 154 consecutive HIV+ patients from Imam Khomeini Hospital testing...