BACKGROUND Both women's and men's occupational health problems merit scientific attention. Researchers need to consider the effect of gender on how occupational health issues are experienced, expressed, defined, and addressed. More serious consideration of gender-related factors will help identify risk factors for both women and men. METHODS The authors, who come from a number of disciplines ...

Health and community professionals have considerable exposure to suicidal people and need to be well skilled to deal with them. We assessed suicide intervention skills with a Dutch version of the SIRI in 980 health and community professionals and psychology students. Suicide intervention skills clearly differed among professional groups and were strongly related to experience, especially suicid...

Moral psychology is a rapidly growing field with two principle lineages. The main line began with Jean Piaget and includes developmental psychologists who have studied the acquisition of moral concepts and reasoning. The alternative line began in the 1990s with a new synthesis of evolutionary, neurological, and social-psychological research in which the central phenomena are moral emotions and ...

Spiritual intelligence is a construct of psychology that began to receive attention and became the focus study among scholars in field psychology. Prior this most studies referred theories conceptual frameworks relating spirituality Western scholars. However, theory framework proposed are sometimes not suitable be used as measuring instrument context muslim community studies. Therefore, purpose...

Multicultural advocates within professional psychology routinely call for “culturally competent” counseling interventions. Such advocates frequently cite and celebrate traditional healing practices as an important resource for developing novel integrative forms of psychotherapy that are distinctively tailored for diverse populations. Despite this interest, substantive descriptions of specific f...

Welas asih is a Javanese behavior where one feels the pain of others which then arouse desire to help. In its application, can provide help even for those who are not relatives. This inseparable from various philosophies that exist in society make welas as way life. paper made review concept community juxtaposed with psychology. The psychology question compassion also refers ability someone fee...

The simulation modeling community consists of several frameworks or approaches that have been developed at different times to handle different problems, and persist in a state of relatively limited interaction. Various forms of hybrid modeling, combining aspects of two or more modeling approaches, have been proposed and used, but these still represent a relatively small part of the world of sim...

Cohort Profile: Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy genetics consortium (NVP Genetics Consortium) Lucı́a Colodro-Conde, Simone M Cross, Penelope A Lind, Jodie N Painter, Annika Gunst, Patrick Jern, Ada Johansson, Merete Lund Maegbaek, Trine Munk-Olsen, Dale R Nyholt, Juan R Ordoñana, Lavinia Paternoster, Juan F S anchez-Romera, Margaret J Wright and Sarah E Medland* QIMR Berghofer Medical Resea...

PsychExps (http://www.olemiss.edu/PsychExps) is a web-based cognitive psychology laboratory supported by the Department of Education FIPSE program and the University of Mississippi. Cognitive psychology experiments written in Macromedia's Authorware language are delivered via the worldwide web to participants, where they are executed in "non-trusting" mode using the free Authorware Web Player. ...

This article follows the development and progress of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development's 'Healthy and Safe Communities' initiative as it was implemented by a community empowerment organization during a four-year community revitalization project in the aftermath of the Los Angeles riots. The author explores practical aspects of Community Health Psychology through assessing the w...