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A Critical Examination of the Environmental Mastery Scale
(Springer Netherlands, 2006-10)
The Psychological well being Inventory (PWBI) is a multidimensional instrument that has enjoyed widespread use in a variety of research initiatives, from small-scale studies to national surveys. Recent empirical investigation ...
Violence Against Women: Synthesis of Research on Offender Interventions
(National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, 2003)
This report provides an overview of the latest research on interventions for men who assault women—wives, girlfriends, and acquaintances. The assaults may be physical or sexual, and they almost always involve psychological ...
Coping with voices: A group approach for managing auditory hallucinations.
(Routledge, 2006-12)
This article describes a group intervention designed to help people with severe mental illnesses cope with auditory hallucinations. Each session is comprised of both a supportive discussion and skills training. The skills ...
The National Survey of American Life: a study of racial, ethnic and cultural influences on mental disorders and mental health
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2004-11)
The objectives of the National Survey of American Life (NSAL) are to investigate the nature, severity, and impairment of mental disorders among national samples of the black and non-Hispanic white (n = 1,006) populations ...
Adolescent inhalant use, abuse and dependence
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2009-07)
Aims To compare adolescent inhalant users without DSM-IV inhalant use disorders (IUDs) to youth with IUDs (i.e. abuse or dependence) across demographic, psychosocial and clinical measures. Design Cross-sectional survey ...
Is the Interdependent Self More Sensitive to Question Context Than the Independent Self? Self-Construal and the Observation of Conversational Norms
(Elsevier, 2002-02-11)
Question answering requires close attention to the common ground to determine what the questioner wants to know. Because attentiveness to others is more likely to be a self-defining goal when the self is thought of as ...