The fi eld of psychotherapy and counseling is continuously evolving. Approaches to treatment change in the wake of the addition of new information, opportunities to test the impact of treatments over time, and the zeitgeist of the place and time where psychotherapy/ counseling is practiced. The time has long passed when one method, psychoanalytic psychotherapy as described by Freud (Freud, 1966...

1 Running head: Idiom understanding and reading difficulties To get hold of the wrong end of the stick: reasons for poor idiom understanding in children with reading comprehension difficulties.

are numerous references, mainly to American and German authorities and particularly to Dr. Whitridge Williams to whose influence the author makes acknowledgment. The book is wide in its scope. The first section deals with the problems of conception and the treatment of sterility. This is followed by a section on the diagnosis of pregnancy and its complications. Surgical emergencies and systemat...

INTRODUCTION Mathematics is a complex subject including different domains such as arithmetic, arithmetic problem solving, geometry, algebra, probability, statistics, calculus, . . . that implies mobilizing a variety of basic abilities associated with the sense of quantity, symbols decoding, memory, visuospatial capacity, logics, to name a few. Students with difficulties in any of the these abil...

Yolanda, an 88-year-old woman, is transferred from her residential care home to acute care for management of confusion and a reduced level of consciousness. She has a history of dementia, non–insulin-dependent diabetes, osteoporosis with compression fractures, mild chronic renal failure, and hypertension. On admission she is diagnosed with aspiration pneumonia in the right lower lobe and is tre...

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In this article we discuss the role of desirable difficulties in vocabulary learning from two perspectives, one having to do with identifying conditions of learning that impose initial challenges to the learner but then benefit later retention and transfer, and the other having to do with the role of certain difficulties that are intrinsic to language processes, are engaged during word learning...