Recent research has studied the communication behaviors of clinical hospital workers and observed a tendency for these workers to use communication behaviors that were often inefficient. Workers were observed to favor synchronous forms of communication, such as telephone calls and chance face-to-face meetings with colleagues, even when these channels were not effective. Synchronous communicatio...

*Corresponding author at: Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center, CIMCYC, Spain, Campus Universitario de Cartuja, s/n, 18011 Granada, Spain. E-mail address: [email protected] (M.T. Ramiro). Abstract Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV are important health problems that affect adolescents. The aim of the present study was to analyze the relationship between 1) depression, self-esteem a...

In this research we analyze the contribution of automatic syntax analysis to the field of clinical psychology. Using data from a cognitive study on patients with dementia, sentence grammar structures are extracted from transcribed speech samples and are analyzed for patterns of speech complexity. These are used to explore correlations between cognitive impairment due to differing diagnoses of d...

UK and USA more often diagnosed with schizophrenia? Why is HIV concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa? Why is it that the poorer you are the more ill-health you experience? Epidemiological studies have observed such disparities and more in the prevalence and experience of health, illness and disease. We also have different beliefs about what causes health, illness and disability. Consider HIV/AIDS ...

OBJECTIVES While the question of who is likely to be selected for clinical psychology training has been studied, evidence on performance during training is scant. This study explored data from seven consecutive intakes of the UK's largest clinical psychology training course, aiming to identify what factors predict better or poorer outcomes. DESIGN Longitudinal cross-sectional study using pros...

The paper presents an overview of ethical issues in clinical psychology. Specifically, it addresses the broad philosophical ideas and views on mental illness on which ethical principles are based, including Greek philosophy and Christianity. It goes on to describe the ethical code of the American Psychological Association as it pertains to general principles, psychological assessment or psychom...

Many leading doctors and psychologists now speculate that unresolved trauma is responsible for many of the chronic diseases of Western populations. The body learns and then defaults to a maladaptive reaction to stress and becomes unable to maintain normal homeostasis. Trauma also leads to dissociation as a survival mechanism and a splitting of the psyche. Shamanic healers have had their own way...

Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, 806 West Franklin Street, Richmond, VA 23284-2018, USA Department of Psychology, Knox College, Galesburg, IL 61401, USA Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA d School of Psychology, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 9HN, UK e The Wright Institute, Berkely, Calif...

Second Language System of Motivational Selves and English Language Skills: The Role of Socio-Economic Status among Iranian Language Learners1 A. Parastaar Aski* M.H. Abdollaahi, Ph.D.** A. R. Moraadi, Ph.D.*** H. R. Hassanaabaadi, Ph.D.****   Learning English in Iran is quite popular, yet not all are successful at this task. To shed light on this dilemma and its root causes, the ro...