Child physical abuse (CPA) is not only a highly prevalent public health problem, but it has been associated with a wide range of debilitating psychosocial sequelae that may develop during childhood and persist into adulthood. This paper outlines a treatment model, Combined Parent-Child Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CPC-CBT), that addresses the…

International Child Development Initiatives (ICDI) is a Dutch non-profit organization with a world-wide brief, and a focus on transitional and developing countries. ICDI promotes the well-being of children growing up in difficult circumstances. As a result of the global recession, 2009 was a challenging year for many organizations working in the…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present the design and implementation of music courseware that features a music search system that uses impression keywords. The paper applies the courseware to "Kansei" (sensibility) development for elementary and junior high school students. The objectives of this courseware are to cultivate…

This study examined empirical research on shyness, inhibition, and social withdrawal published in "Child Development,""Developmental Psychology," and "Development and Psychopathology" between 1990 and 1996, focusing on: (1) conceptual definitions; (2) operational definitions; (3) agreement between conceptual and…

Social scientists have repeatedly demonstrated that individuals tend to underutilize base-rate information in favor of case-specific information in problems investigating subjective probability estimation. Despite the pervasiveness of this base-rate fallacy, little progress has been made in establishing a definitive explanation for its cause. This…

This document is the transcript of a symposium that presented information to persons employed or anticipating employment in the human services field in order to assist them in providing support for survivors attempting to cope with the death of a special person. The symposium included the following topics: models of responses to bereavement (those…

A description is provided of "Uncomplicated Grief and Bereavement," a course designed to provide the graduate nursing student with the assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention, and evaluation skills required to facilitate a normal bereavement outcome among persons experiencing the loss of a significant other. The course description first…

The Knox-Sporakowski Attitudes Towards Love scale was subjected to factor analysis. Principal component analysis indicated unidimensionality of the scale. Additional analyses suggested the possibility of three subscales. Labels for the subscales were assigned. Suggestions for further research with the scale were made. (Author)

A study of the 1968 election and a role play experiment suggests candidates are viewed more favorably after an election, whether they have won or lost. The loser is apparently not derogated as a result of having lost. Men and women seem to differ in the kind of winner they prefer. (Author)

The ability of 24 Veterans Administration Day Treatment Center psychiatric outpatients to vary intentionally their degree of apparent psychopathology during structured interviews was studied. Patients defined as sick presenters behaved in a significantly more pathological manner during an interview preceded by "fake sick" instructions than they…

Studies indicate that when opinions and attitudes are changed through training programs, the change is likely to disappear unless it is supported by an environmental change as well. (Author/LH)

The hypothesis of the present study is that identity status, as defined by James Marcia, will relate to other characteristic differences between young adults, specifically, to the pattern of their daily lives and to their responses on the Rorschach. (Author/RK)

Attempts to delineate the areas of role conflict for women and to establish a conflict hierarchy. Suggests that the greatest role conflict revolves around a woman's image of herself, and that those areas which deal more directly with that central concept are more stressful. (Author/PC)

The study investigated the capacity of the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF) to discriminate between those who frequently recall dreams and those who do not. The results are interpreted as indicating that the frequent recaller experiences less and the infrequent recaller experiences more intrapsychic conflict. (Author)

This paper reports the results of a factor analysis of the Life Style Analysis, a 200-item questionnaire that consists of 100 items designed to measure Murray's need systems in relation to Adlerian life styles. (Author)