Recent randomized experiments have found that seemingly “small” socialpsychological interventions in education—that is, brief exercises that target students’ thoughts, feelings, and beliefs in and about school—can lead to large gains in student achievement and sharply reduce achievement gaps even months and years later. These interventions do not teach students academic content but instead targ...

OBJECTIVE Behavioral and psychological symptoms are common in dementia, and they are especially stressful for family caregivers. Nonpharmacological (or psychosocial) interventions have been shown to be effective in managing behavioral and psychological symptoms, but mainly in institutional settings. The authors reviewed the effectiveness of community-based nonpharmacological interventions deliv...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the characteristics, methodology, quality, and efficacy of psychological interventions for distress in adult patients undergoing haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). METHODS A systematic review of relevant studies was conducted using six databases with supplementary hand searching. Included studies employed an experimental or quasi-experimental design, in...

This article highlights recent studies on novel psychological and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) approaches for acute/procedural and chronic/recurrent pediatric pain. Computerized databases were searched from 1996-2006 to identify controlled trials on CAM therapies and psychological interventions that extended beyond traditional cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), defined as clini...