Personal health is an aspect of everyday life that typifies both the commonplace and the stressful in the course of a lifetime. Many socialcognitive variables have been associated with indicators of behavioral health and with the adjustment and recovery of individuals facing health-related problems, and these characteristics are important factors in providing interventions (Auerbach, 1989). The...

Introduction: Nowadays, the main focus of modern researches in the field of ADHD has been on the area of comorbid disorders and reducing their symptoms. In this regard, cognitive-behavioral therapies have tried to reduce the symptoms by using methods such as self-control, problem-solving, and social skills. Given the important role of the family, the present study investigated the pre-assumptio...

OBJECTIVE To construct an index that represents the general level of social problems among Canadian provinces and territories. METHOD Factor weights were used to combine provincial and territorial rates for homicide, attempted murder, assault, sexual assault, robbery, divorce, suicide, and alcoholism into a single Social Problem Index. RESULTS The resulting index demonstrated strong positiv...

The title of this book emphasises what many members of the N.A.M.H. have been pressing for years?that mental deficiency is a social problem. Unfortunately society is in general unwilling to accept its responsibility for a solution; or even to see that the problem exists. We can therefore be grateful to the two authors not only for their book, but also for their own original research, much of wh...