Abstract The concept of historical significance is seen as a key reasoning. Assigning based on criteria and related to the identity who assigns significance. However, little known about reasoning-, reading-, writing processes when students attribute aim this study investigate how experienced history teachers with master’s degree reason, read, write while thinking aloud. We analyzed think-aloud ...

UNLABELLED The link between alliance and treatment outcome is robust. Nevertheless, few, if any, self-report measures exist to assess the alliance between hospitalized adolescents and their treatment team as a whole. The present study looks to extend the use of a brief self-report measure of inpatient treatment alliance designed for adult inpatients to be used with adolescents. The scale is des...

Born at 28 weeks of gestation and weighing 800g birth, her father preferred a public health facility where the cost neonatal intensive care is less prohibitive. At same time, mother suffered wound dehiscence was re-admitted for prolonged period. Incidentally, resident doctors in hospitals were three into nationwide industrial action time. With no one available to help out with household chores,...

OBJECTIVE Scholars increasingly recognize that therapeutic alliance and symptomatic change are associated with one another. A common assumption is that alliance predicts symptomatic change. However, the issue is far from settled. One challenge in determining the causality is the establishment of temporal precedence showing that alliance, as opposed to previous symptomatic change, drives subsequ...

We examined the therapeutic alliance in evidence-based treatment for children (N=97, 24 girls and 73 boys, ages 6-13 years) referred clinically for oppositional, aggressive, and antisocial behavior. We predicted that the quality of the child-therapist alliance would be related to therapeutic improvements in the children at the end of treatment and that the alliance would be predicted by allianc...

OBJECTIVES Investigate effect of baseline motivation for change on treatment fidelity, therapeutic alliance, treatment dose, and treatment outcome in a randomized controlled trial of family therapy for youth with poorly controlled diabetes. METHODS Seventy-four adolescents and caregivers completed measures of motivation for change. Measures of fidelity, alliance, dose, and youth health status...

Male bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay, Western Australia form two levels of alliances; two to three males cooperate to herd individual females and teams of greater than three males compete with other groups for females. Previous observation suggested two alliance tactics: small four to six member teams of relatives that formed stable pairs or trios and unrelated males in a large 14-member secon...

Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is the 3rd most common psychiatric diagnosis, and is associated with significant social, occupational, health, and educational impairment. Fortunately, both pharmacological and psychological treatments can reduce symptoms. Cognitive behavioral therapy is considered the gold standard treatment for SAD, and a robust literature supports its effectiveness. In contrast,...