Social skills training is a common treatment method for adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), yet very few evidence-based interventions exist to improve social skills for high-functioning adolescents on the spectrum, and even fewer studies have examined the effectiveness of teaching social skills in the classroom. This study examines change in social functioning for adolescents with ...

Successful decision making in a social setting depends on our ability to understand the intentions, emotions and beliefs of others. The mirror system allows us to understand other people's motor actions and action intentions. 'Empathy' allows us to understand and share emotions and sensations with others. 'Theory of mind' allows us to understand more abstract concepts such as beliefs or wishes ...

In a group of articles published within the past few years' 7 renewed effort was made to provide status for the general practitioner by extending his training and furnishing him with a more attractive job description. It is the purpose of this article to elaborate the thesis that it is not possible to restore the general practitioner, because of the passing of an era and its social setting, nor...

There are many ways of documenting and making sense of the past. Contemporary museums are attempting to facilitate these processes by creating online as well as in-museum experiences for visitors. Whether they encounter the past via physical or digital artefacts, visitors often reflect the values and interests of the communities to which they belong. Museums have a growing interest in gathering...

BACKGROUND The paper explores the diverse ethical issues in the care of persons with dementia, in the Netherlands and Kerala, India. These cross-cultural data are used to suggest newer ways for addressing the ethical issues in a mutually enhancing manner. METHODS A thorough review of the literature focusing on ethical aspects of the care for persons with dementia. RESULTS The medical paradi...

The main goal of the paper is to study in an experimental setting the relations between actions and beliefs and those between actions and feelings (expressed in terms of belief-dependent motivations). Our experimental study goes three steps beyond the existing experimental literature: (a) we test players’ behavior in a …nitely repeated game, in which we elicit beliefs at the beginning of each p...

shiffman has argued that some actors have a great deal of power in global health, and that more reflection is needed on whether such forms of power are legitimate. global health is a new and evolving field that builds upon the historical fields of public and international health, but is more multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary in nature. this article argues that the distribution of power ...

clinical learning occurs in the context of a dynamic environment. learning environment found to be one of the most important factors in determining the success of an effective teaching program. to investigate, from the attending and resident's perspective, factors that may affect student leaning in the educational hospital setting at shiraz university of medical sciences (sums). this study comb...