The power of psychologically based interventions has garnered much interest in the general public and in the social sciences, especially in social psychology. Among the lessons that such social-psychological interventions provide are two of special importance for educational practice and social policy. The first is that different students can perceive the same classroom differently and that the...

Neither psychiatry nor rehabilitation has been able to develop acceptable criteria for diagnostic-related groups. The difficulty.in both instances may be related to an inability to clearly state intake criteria as well as the functional outcomes produced by different levels of care. The need for care is largely determined by the functional difficulties a person has in managing their own affairs...

Søren Ventegodt, Tyge Dahl Hermansen, Isack Kandel and Joav Merrick Quality of Life Research Center, Classensgade 11C, 1 sal, DK-2100 Copenhagen O, Denmark; Research Clinic for Holistic Medicine and Nordic School of Holistic Medicine, Copenhagen, Denmark; Scandinavian Foundation for Holistic Medicine, Sandvika, Norway; Interuniversity College, Graz, Austria; 6 Faculty of Social Sciences, Depart...

Received: February 22, 2017 Revised: March 29, 2017 Accepted: August 04, 2017 Abstract: Background: The Ministry of Social Affairs found several relevant facts about the condition of child care in orphanages across five cities in Indonesia, among others is the lack of attention to the fulfillment of emotional needs and psychosocial development. This problem persists despite the knowledge that m...

1 Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, MI, USA 2 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Jerusalem, Israel 3 Health Services, Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem, Israel 4 Division of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew...

Public sector organisations seem to be embracing social media for information dissemination and engagement, but less is know about their value as information sources. This paper draws from the notion of the imagined audience to examine how policy teams in the UK Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) conceptualise the value of social media input. Findings from a series of int...

dada gorgood stories can be considered as parts of cultural history of the great tribes, turks (oghooz). these stories generally reflects the social situation of society in which as the result of tradition dominance on social affairs, it is located among the primitive societies with mechanical solidarity and in other words, among the communities with the natural will government. dada gorgood st...