Addressing spirituality in therapy is not only important for a substantial number of clients but many therapists also regard it as potentially valuable. However, practitioners report difficulties and confusion regarding how to work with spiritual difference, especially when clients’ spiritual beliefs are perceived as undermining their psychological well-being. The current study aimed to explore...

The current consensus objective of development aid in the international community is to reduce poverty in general and to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in particular. In addition, the dominant view identifies economic growth as the principal means to this end. But the policy objective of aid can be defined in many ways, and has in fact varied over time with shifting priorities ...

Key advances in cancer treatment have led to an increasing number of long-term cancer survivors. Knowledge of the long-term effects of cancer treatment of leukaemia survivors is to some degree limited. This article investigates the effects of the treatment of childhood leukaemia on the quality of life, physical and psychological wellbeing and general development of survivors. This article revie...

We describe a novel method for reducing a pair of large matrices {A,B} to a pair of small matrices {H,K}. The method is an extension of Golub–Kahan bidiagonalization to matrix pairs, and simplifies to the latter method when B is the identity matrix. Applications to Tikhonov regularization of large linear discrete ill-posed problems are described. In these problems the matrix A represents a disc...

1 The current paper is a working draft. Please do not cite without author_s permission. I would like to acknowledge Sandy Hofferth and the staff at PSID for giving me access to the 1997 Child Supplement before its public release. Does food insecurity in the United States affect child well-being? Specifically, is the amount or quality

According to the World Health Organization, epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events (including disease), and the application of this study to the control of diseases and other health problems. Various methods can be used to carry out epidemiological investigations: Surveillance and descriptive studies can be used to study distribution; a...