Theories are a collection of connected ideas that provide an organized, explanatory, and predictive perspective phenomenon (an observable fact or event). Concepts, definitions, models, assertions, assumptions form the basis theories. They derived using deductive inductive reasoning as their two primary methodologies. Nursing thinkers use these approaches. "A creative rigorous structuring projec...

Two research hypotheses were tested in the research reported here: The first was that nonlinguistic maternal responses to intentional child communication, but not to preintentional communication, will predict later intentional communication but not later language development. The second hypothesis was that linguistic mapping of intentional communication, but not of preintentional communication,...

OCCAM is a program which organizes memories of CvenB and learns by creating generalizations describing the reasons for the oumomes of the event% OCCAM integrates two sources of information when forming a ge”eBJiZatioIl: l Correlational information which meals perceived regularities in We”% l Prior causal theories which explain regularities in eyents The former has been extensively studied in ma...

background: prevention of  suicide is one of  the most important issues of  community medicine in the world. because of  high accessibility of  people to different drugs in our society, one of   the easiest ways of  suicide is intentional self‑poisoning. in this study, demographic factors and health status of  the patients with intentional self‑poisoning were evaluated. methods: a cross‑section...

Purpose – If the ideal self is the emotional driver of intentional change, the purpose of this paper is to explore the components of a person’s personal vision and how it comes from their ideal self. Design/methodology/approach – Based on the concept of the ideal self from intentional change theory, the paper examines a variety of theoretical foundations, from psychoanalytic to positive psychol...