of assertive outreach as part of its modernisation programme. Key components of the assertive outreach model include ‘outreach’, delivering care in the patient’s home, assertive follow-up even when patients disengage, small case-loads of 10-12 per professional, and some form of 7-day, 24-hour availability. Initial reports from the USA and Australia of dramatically reduced hospital admission rat...

Sex-typed reactions are contrasted in male and female normals and chronic schizophrenics. In general, the schizophrenics show sex-role alienation on tests which contain a self-image reference (a Role Playing Test, a Body Parts Acceptance Test, and a Figure Preference Test), Female schizophrenics tend to react in a more assertive manner like normal males, and male schizophrenics in a more sensit...

OBJECTIVE/METHOD Predictors of perceptions of parent-child relationship quality were examined for 175 children with ADHD, 119 comparison children, and parents of these children, drawn from the follow-up phase of the Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with ADHD. RESULTS/CONCLUSION Children with ADHD perceived their mothers and fathers as more power assertive than comparison children. Child...

Do people know when they are seen as pressing too hard, yielding too readily, or having the right touch? And does awareness matter? We examined these questions in four studies. Study 1 used dyadic negotiations to reveal a modest link between targets’ self-views and counterparts’ views of targets’ assertiveness, showing that those seen as underand overassertive were likely to see themselves as a...

Extant literature has suggested that entitlement stemming from masculine gender role socialization may moderate and/or mediate the relationship between gender role conflict and intrapersonal variables. This study tested this assertion with 236 college men, with body esteem serving as the intrapersonal variable. Results revealed that both conceptualizations of entitlement (i.e., self-assertive a...

The topic-comment dichotomy as an information structural aspect of sentences has been studied intensively in the past literature. However, only very recently the question arised whether there may be sentence-topics also in embedded constructions. The few existing studies touching on this subject, primarily Japanese ones, suggest a tight relationship between the general possibility of topic-embe...

This cross-cultural study investigates how maternal task assignment relates to toddlers' requested behavior and helping between 18 and 30 months. One hundred seven mother-child dyads were assessed in three different cultural contexts (rural Brazil, urban Germany, and urban Brazil). Brazilian mothers showed assertive scaffolding (serious and insistent requesting), whereas German mothers employed...

OBJECTIVE This study examined purported change mechanisms in emotion-focused therapy for social anxiety disorder. METHODS The sample included nine clients who had participated in a multiple-baseline case study trial examining the efficacy of emotion-focused therapy for social anxiety disorder (SAD). Multilevel analyses were conducted to examine the trajectories of emotions over the course of ...

Aims were to review results of the five psychiatric studies on Flexible Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) published during 2007-2013, and to compare FACT with Resource-group Assertive Community Treatment (RACT) which specifically focuses on empowerment and rehabilitation of clients in the stable phase. During 2007 articles appeared in scientific journals arguing in favor of the need for the ...