This article discusses developmental changes in perceptions of control, the relationship between perceived control and strategies used by children to cope with stress, and the interaction between perceived control and coping in their association with psychological adjustment and disorder. Developmental research on children’s perceptions of control has identifed both changes and consistencies in...

L. Wang e-mail: [email protected] This chapter describes current research investigating the use of the video game Portal 2 (Valve Corporation) as a vehicle to assess and potentially support problem solving skills in students. Portal 2 is an example of a well-designed game in that it provides players with a very rich, interesting environment whereby players interact with complex problems, encount...

Background: Clinical reasoning process leads clinician to get purposeful steps from signs and symptoms toward diagnosis and treatment. This research intends to investigate the effect of teaching clinical reasoning on problem-solving skills of medical students.   Methods: This research is a semi-experimental study. Nineteen Medical student of the pediatric ward as case group participated...

Background: Non-technical skills are interpersonal and cognitive skills involved in safe performance and preventingadverse events during surgery. it is necessary to dominate the non-technical skills to ensure patient safety. This studyhas aimed to assess the validity and reliability of Oxford Non-technical skills 2 system (Oxford NOTECHS 2) in Iran andto evaluate surgical teams’ non-technical s...

The need for improving and evaluating students’ cognitive skills, including problem-solving, has been highlighted in both the mathematics education literature curricula worldwide. objective of this study was to assess problem-solving skills lower secondary school students using a teacher-based evaluation method, taking into account their grade level, gender, grade-point averages, grades. To tha...

This study investigated the differential effectiveness of assertiveness and problem-solving training on dually diagnosed patients' adaptive social behavior, distress and psychiatric symptoms, anger control, and problem-solving coping skills using a counterbalanced design. Assessments were conducted at pretreatment, midphase, posttreatment, and a 3-month follow-up examination. A combined asserti...