introduction: marital burnout can be considered both an underlying factor for serious martial problems and a consequence of these problems. the present study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of the emotionally-focused couple therapy (efct) and the problem-centered systems therapy of the family (pcstf) on marital burnout in spouses of recovering addicts. methods: the present quasi-ex...

conclusions regarding the results, it could be suggested that the reason for not being able to control diabetes was the existence of differences among viewpoints while by getting to know the obstacles for controlling diabetes from the viewpoints of the three studied groups, more effective planning for controlling diabetes could be possible. results the results of this research showed that there...

the instrumental use of social networks has become a central tenet of international health policy and advocacy since the millennium project. in asking, ‘how to facilitate social contagion?’, karl blanchet of the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine therefore reflects not only on the recent success, but also hints to growing challenges; the tactics of partnerships, alliances and platfo...

Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is a rare, aggressive cutaneous malignancy of the elderly and immunocompromised patients. It is occasionally found coexisting with other diseases, such as squamous cell carcinoma, basal cell carcinoma, actinic keratosis, miscellaneous adnexal tumors, and rarely Bowen disease. A 75-year-old woman presented with a 6-month history of an irregularly shaped erythematous p...

Psychiatry has been called the art of practising a science which does not exist. This is true at least in part because, although many excellent psychiatric studies are published, the literature is generally not reviewed and synthesized. Psychiatry has no review journal. This book fulfills a specific need, in that it critically reviews the literature on the etiology of schizophrenia. Book discus...

skopos theory ,as a functionalist approach, has made a notable switch from a lingusitic oriented to a more sociocultural concept of translation. initially proposed by vermeer, skopos theory framework has been applied by several researchers in their attempts to defend translators’ dignity and social status. yet; as far as the authors are concerned, no researcher has ever employed sociological th...

In the early years, theories of family therapy were built on earlier schools of thought such as Kurt Lewin's field theory, which was used extensively in group settings; and Alfred Adler's Child Guidance Movement, which suggested that psychopathology begins in childhood and can be treated with family involvement. However, family systems theory was most directly inspired and ignited by the cybern...

We consider the dynamics of expanding semigroups generated by finitely many rational maps on the Riemann sphere. We show that for an analytic family of such semigroups, the Bowen parameter function is real-analytic and plurisubharmonic. Combining this with a result obtained by the first author, we show that if for each semigroup of such an analytic family of expanding semigroups satisfies the o...

Chris Dede Graduate School of Education George Mason University Fairfax, VA 22030 (703) 993-2019 [email protected] Marilyn Salzman Department of Psychology George Mason University Fairfax, VA 22030 (703) 352-8375 [email protected] R. Bowen Loftin Virtual Environment Technology Lab University of Houston Houston, TX 77023 (713) 743-1006 [email protected] Katy Ash Department of Psychology George Mason Unive...