Every day in the United States, over halfa million social workers provide services to people with health, mental health, and substance abuse problems in a fragmented system that emphasizes disease treatment over prevention. Powerful issues--including health inequities, population aging, globalization, natural disaster, war, and economic downturn--make the need for preventive approaches more cri...

objective: social phobia is considered as one of the most common anxiety disorders. the researchers have been looking for the basic mechanism behind it, since determining these factors can be influential in prevention and treatment. in recent years, some of the most important personality and cognitive correlates of social phobia including neuroticism, fear of negative evaluation, anxiety sensit...

This paper deals with the expression of linguistic politeness in early Hellenistic documentary papyri, through a data-oriented approach exploiting notion “frame” (cf. Terkourafi 2001), which accounts for terms regular correlations between forms and contexts. The study focuses on subset epistolary types, i.e., ordinary business letters, recommendations petitions, considering those situational ex...