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Career Development in Schizophrenia: A Heuristic Framework
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press; Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2005-06)
Adults with schizophrenia continue to have poor rates of competitive employment. We have learned how to support individuals in the workplace with supported employment (SE); but have paid limited attention to early vocational ...
Brief report: Violence in asperger syndrome, a critique
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1991-09)
Psychometric characteristics of a multidimensional measure to assess impairment: The Child and Adolescent Functional Assessment Scale
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1996-12)
The Child and Adolescent Functional Assessment Scale (CAFAS) is a multidimensional measure of degree of impairment in functioning. Interrater reliability data are presented for lay raters, graduate students, and frontline ...
Reasons for gateball participation among older Japanese
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1998-06)
This article focuses upon a game known as gateball which is popular among older Japanese. The game is described and patterns of social behavior among gateball players are also discussed. Using data collected from an ...
The Role of Clinical Information Technology in Depression Care Management
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006-01)
We examine the literature on the growing application of clinical information technology in managing depression care and highlight lessons learned from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s national program “Depression in Primary ...
The Symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorders in Adolescence and Adulthood
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-12)
This article describes the symptoms of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) manifested by 405 individuals between the ages of 10 and 53 years, all of whom had an ASD diagnosis. Data were collected using the Autism Diagnostic ...
Effects of Enforcement of Youth Access Laws on Smoking Prevalence
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1999-04)
Smoking is the primary preventable cause of death, and yet 3,000 adolescents become smokers each day. Most adult smokers begin this deadly habit when they are under the age of 18, which is the minimum legal age for the ...
Teratogenicity of polybrominated biphenyls in rats
(Elsevier, 1977-08)
The teratogenic potential of a mixture of polybrominated biphenyls (PBB) was investigated. Pregnant Wistar albino rats were given single doses of PBB in seasame oil by gavage on one day of pregnancy, from day 6 through 14 ...
Brief report: Haloperidol treatment of trichotillomania in a boy with autism and mental retardation
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1991-09)