ABSTRACT Purpose: to investigate the perception of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology (SLPA) students, submitted a Social Skills Training (SST) program, regarding potentialities, difficulties perceived gains in their social skills (SS) repertoire. Methods: this qualitative study included 22 students (between 19 21 years old), enrolled 2nd year undergraduate SLPA course. The SST structure w...

Reviewing the evidence for peer-delivered services, writing in 2004 in this journal, researcher Phyllis Solomon commented on the “high level of evidence” for peer-provided services, including four randomized studies and three quasi-experimental design studies using a variety of meaningful outcome measures (Solomon, 2004). The past two decades have witnessed a number of important studies of thes...

OBJECTIVES Community psychiatry has mainly relied upon intermediate long term care services while there is a large gap between patient's needs and availability of acute care services. Taking this into consideration, the main aim of this paper is to review the evidence supporting the efficacy and feasibility of implementing the new models of care developed to fulfil the gap in the provision of c...