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• An Epidemiologic Analysis of Co-Occurring Alcohol and Tobacco Use and Disorders: Findings From the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions


• Co-Occurring Risk Factors for Alcohol Dependence and Habitual Smoking: Update on Findings From the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism


• Tobacco Cessation Treatment for Alcohol-Dependent Smokers: When Is the Best Time?


• Smoking Cessation and Alcohol Abstinence: What Do the Data Tell Us?


• Treating Smoking Dependence in Depressed Alcoholics


• Cigarette Smoking Among Adolescents With Alcohol and Other Drug Use Problems


• Barriers and Solutions to Addressing Tobacco Dependence in Addiction Treatment Programs


• Integrating Tobacco Dependence Treatment and Tobacco-Free Standards Into Addiction Treatment: New Jersey’s Experience


• Cancer Risk Associated With Alcohol and Tobacco Use: Focus on Upper Aero-Digestive Tract and Liver


• The Effects of Smoking and Drinking on Cardiovascular Disease and Risk Factors

• Introduction: Technology and Families


• Engaging Families via the Internet: Process and Challenges


• Instant Messaging Among Teens: An Exploratory Look at Gender and Time Usage


• Deconstructing Laundry: Gendered Technologies and the Reluctant Redesign of Household Labor

• The In-formation Field Hypothesis


• The Future of Textbooks?


• Tackled in the Red Zone: The Impact of Race on Football Card Values


• Migrant Families in Transition: A Case Study in the Deep South


• Routines: Every Day a Groundhog Day?

• Editorial December 2006
• A preventative approach to plagiarism: An empirical study of a first-year unit for undergraduates
• The problem of plagiarism in academic culture
• Taking the Mountain to Mohammed: Transitioning International Graduate Students into Higher Education in Australia
• The Validity of Student Evaluations of Teaching

• Indigenous post-secondary institutions in Canada and the U.S.


• Internationalizing the curriculum in business schools: A discussion of issues and first steps


• Understanding Chinese international graduate students’ adaptation to learning in North America: A cultural perspective


• The values we prize: A comparative analysis of mission statements

• Mental Illness, Mental Health, and Cultural Analytic Science


• Biological Psychiatry: A Practice In Search of a Science


• Behavior Analysis of Psychotic Disorders: Scientific Dead End or Casualty of the Mental Health Political Economy?


• Commentary on Wong and Wyatt


• Response to Dr. Wong and Dr. Wyatt


• Applied Behavior Analysis: Niche Therapy Par Excellance


• Behavior Analysis in the Real World


• The treatment of behavior: drugs or behavior analysis


• The Evening News and the Behavioral Blues


• Is Behaviorism Becoming a Pseudo-Science?: Power Versus Scientific Rationality in the Eclipse of Token Economies by Biological Psychiatry in the Treatment of Schizophrenia


• Six-to-One Gets the Job Done: Comments on the Reviews


• Response to the Commentaries on: "Behavior Analysis of Psychotic Disorders: Scientific Dead End or Casualty of the Mental Health Political Economy?"

• From "a defense of doubting", to concepts grounding


• An Interview with Kathy Charmaz: On Constructing Grounded Theory


• In Defense of Knowing, In Defense of Doubting: Cicero Engages Totalizing Skepticism, Sensate Materialism, and Pragmatist Realism in Academica


• Concepts and Concept Formation: Goffman and Beyond


• 'Rose's Gloss': Considerations of Natural Sociology and Ethnography in Practice


• Career Coupling: Career Making in the Elite World of Musicians and Scientists

• Taking Stock of Criminal Profiling: A Narrative Review and Meta-Analysis


• Indirect Assessment of Cognitions of Child Sexual Abusers With the Implicit Association Test


• The Massachusetts Youth Screening Instrument as a Predictor of Institutional Maladjustment in Severe Male Juvenile Offenders


• Accuracy of Megargee's Criminal Offender Infrequency (Fc) Scale in Detecting Malingering Among Forensic Examinees


• THE FAMILY LOW SELF-CONTROL DEVIANCE: A Cross-Cultural and Cross-National Test of Self-Control Theory


• Psychopathy and the Perception of Affect and Vulnerability


• Validity of the Level of Service Inventory—Revised (LSI-R) Among African American and Hispanic Male Offenders


• Managing Occupational Stress in a High-Risk Industry: Measuring the Job Demands of Correctional Officers

• Sociology and the body: classical traditions and new agendas


• Culture, technologies and bodies: the technological Utopia of living forever


• Somatic elements in social conflict


• Reclaiming women’s bodies: Colonialist trope or critical epistemology?


• Fieldwork embodied


• Researching embodiment by way of ‘body techniques’


• Breathing like a soldier: culture incarnate


• Listening to the dancer’s body


• Embodied knowledge in glassblowing: the experience of meaning and the struggle towards proficiency


• Vulnerable/dangerous bodies? The trials and tribulations of sleep

• Developments in East Asian Welfare Studies


• The Rules of the Game: The Politics of National Pensions in Korea


• Advocacy Coalitions and Health Politics in Korea


• The Fiscal Crisis of National Health Insurance in the Republic of Korea: In Search of a New Paradigm


• Full Responsibility with Partial Citizenship: Immigrant Wives in Taiwan


• East Asian Welfare Regimes: Testing the Hypothesis of the Developmental Welfare State

• Agents or Stewards: Using Theory to Understand the Government-Nonprofit Social Service Contracting Relationship


• For-Profit Welfare: Contracts, Conflicts, and the Performance Paradox


• The Principal's Moral Hazard: Constraints on the Use of Incentives in Hierarchy


• Determinants of Bureaucratic Turnover Intention: Evidence from the Department of the Treasury


• Policymaking in the Age of Internet: Is the Internet Tending to Make Policy Networks More or Less Inclusive?


• Citizens' Perceptions of Politics and Ethics in Public Administration: A Five-Year National Study of Their Relationship to Satisfaction with Services, Trust in Governance, and Voice Orientations


• "Then Let's Have a Dialogue": Interdependence and Negotiation in a Cohesive Regulatory System


• The Unintended Effects of Private School Competition

• Results of an Alcohol Prevention Program with Urban American Indian Youth


• A Response to No One Ever Asked Us: A Review of Children’s Experiences in Out-of-Home Care


• The Path through Bullying—A Process Model from the Inside Story of Bullies in Hong Kong Secondary Schools


• The Influence Of Family Violence On Youth Attitudes

• The Evolving Role of Health Educators in Advancing Patient Safety: Forging Partnerships and Leading Change


• Social Validation of Goals, Procedures, and Effects in Public Health


• Competition: A Social Marketer's Friend or Foe?


• From Evidence-Based Practice Making to Practice-Based Evidence Making: Creating Communities of (Research) and Practice


• Broadcasting Behavior Change: A Comparison of the Effectiveness of Paid and Unpaid Media to Increase Folic Acid Awareness, Knowledge, and Consumption Among Hispanic Women of Childbearing Age


• Community-Based Prevention Marketing: Organizing a Community for Health Behavior Intervention


• Applying Projective Techniques to Formative Research in Health Communication Development


• University Students' Perspectives on a Physical Activity Record-Keeping Log


• Drawing From Freirian Empowerment Methods to Develop and Use Innovative Learning Maps: Increasing Enrollment of Uninsured Children on Detroit's Eastside


• A Guide for Developing Intervention Tools Addressing Environmental Factors to Improve Diet and Physical Activity


• Acknowledging Adult Bias: A Focus-Group Approach to Utilizing Beauty Salons as Health-Education Portals for Inner-City Adolescent Girls

• General practitioners’ opportunities for preventing ill health in healthy vs morbid obese adults: a general population study on consultations


• Important risk factors of common diseases in women at midlife and beyond


• Palliative care in public health: a formal and content-related analysis of European journals


• Sample selection and outcome evaluation in primary prevention


• Style of management and the relevance for workplace health promotion in small and medium sized enterprises


• Well-being in the nursing home – a methodological approach towards the quality of life


• Does the use of a condom involve a risk for contacting sexually transmitted infections, HIV/AIDS?


• Explaining the condom use of heterosexual men in a high-income country: adding somatic culture to the theory of planned behaviour

• Socio-economic position and the use of preventive health care in older British women: a cross-sectional study using data from the British Women's Heart and Health Study cohort


• Prevalence and predictors of polypharmacy among older primary care patients in Germany


• Physical health care of patients with schizophrenia in primary care: a comparative study


• Use of Traditional Chinese Medicine by older Chinese immigrants in Canada


• Poor communication may impair optimal asthma care: a qualitative study


• Promoting physical activity among South Asian women with coronary heart disease and diabetes: what might help?


• The effect of patient self-completion agenda forms on prescribing and adherence in general practice: a randomized controlled trial


• Health professionals, implementation and outcomes: reflections on a complex intervention to improve breastfeeding rates in primary care

• Improving Young Children’s Social and Emotional Competence: A Randomized Trial of the Preschool “PATHS” Curriculum


• The Effects of City-Wide Implementation of “Second Step” on Elementary School Students’ Prosocial and Aggressive Behaviors


• Addressing the Challenges and Opportunities for Today's Youth: Toward an Integrative Model and its Implications for Research and Intervention


• Altering Key Characteristics of a Disseminated Effective Behavioral Intervention for HIV Positive Adults: The “Healthy Relationships” Experience


• Using Technology to Enhance Prevention Services for Children in Primary Care


• Effect of Workplace Laughter Groups on Personal Efficacy Beliefs

• Household Telephone Service and Usage Patterns in the United states in 2004: Implications for Telephone Samples


• Cell Phone Survey Feasibility in The U.S.: Sampling and Calling Cell Numbers Versus Landline Numbers


• Issue Preferences and Evaluations of the U.S. Supreme Court


• Good Excuses: Understanding Who Votes With An Improved Turnout Question


• Color, Labels, and Interpretive Heuristics for Response Scales


• Helping Respondents Get It Right the First Time: The Influence of Words, Symbols, and Graphics in Web Surveys


• The Polls—Review: Public Opinion Research and Support for the Iraq War


• The Polls—Trends: Preventing Terrorism After The 9/11 Attacks

• Using Propensity Scoring to Estimate Program-Related Subgroup Impacts in Experimental Program Evaluations


• Before You Open the Doors: Ten Lessons From Florida's Faith and Community-Based Delinquency Treatment Initiative


• Issues, Challenges, and Solutions in Translating Study Instruments


• A Repeated Observation Approach for Estimating the Street Homeless Population

• How Can Practice-based Research Contribute to the Elimination of Health Disparities?


• Poor Nutritional Habits: A Modifiable Predecessor of Chronic Illness? A North Carolina Family Medicine Research Network (NC-FM-RN) Study


• Rural Community Members’ Perceptions of Harm from Medical Mistakes: A High Plains Research Network (HPRN) Study


• Cross-Sectional Comparison of Electronic and Paper Medical Records on Medication Counseling in Primary Care Clinics: A Southern Primary-care Urban Research Network (SPUR-Net) Study


• Practice-based Assessment of Tobacco Usage in Southwestern Primary Care Patients: A Research Involving Outpatient Settings Network (RIOS Net) Study


• The IRB Challenge for Practice-based Research: Strategies of the American Academy of Family Physicians National Research Network (AAFP NRN)


• The Role of Health Information Technology in the Translation of Research into Practice: An Oklahoma Physicians Resource/Research Network (OKPRN) Study


• Information Technology in PBRNs: The Indiana University Medical Group Research Network (IUMG ResNet) Experience


• Characterizing a Practice-based Research Network: Oregon Rural Practice-based Research Network (ORPRN) Survey Tools


• Strategies for Planning and Launching PBRN Research Studies: A Project of the Academy of Family Physicians National Research Network (AAFP NRN)

• Predicting Acute Anxiety and Depression following Hip Fracture


• Pessimism and Physical Functioning in Older Women: Influence of Self-Efficacy


• Coping and Adjustment in Children with Cancer: A Meta-Analytic Study


• Changes in Cancer-Related Risk Perception and Smoking Across Time in Newly-Diagnosed Cancer Patients


• Parental Smoking and Adolescent Smoking Stages: The Role of Parents’ Current and Former Smoking, and Family Structure


• The Relationship between Vigorous Physical Activity and Juvenile Delinquency: A Mediating Role for Self-Esteem?


• Personal Digital Assistants are Comparable to Traditional Diaries for Dietary Self-Monitoring During a Weight Loss Program


• The Association of Illness Severity, Self-Reported Cognitive Impairment, and Perceived Illness Management with Depression and Anxiety in a Multiple Sclerosis Clinic Population

• Curtain Down on Act One: Practice Learning in the First Year of the New Social Work Award


• Students and Refugees Together: Towards a Model of Practice Learning as Service Provision


• Globalization and Social Work Education: Evaluation of Student Learning in a Macro Practice Class


• The Case of Psychosocial Work: The Pedagogic Discourse of Psychosocial Education in Sweden 1938-1989


• A Model for Developing International Student Exchanges


• Mission Possible; Building Social Work Professional Identity through Fieldwork Placements in China


• Getting to Know You: Social Work Students' Experiences of Direct Work with Children in Education Settings

• Participatory research: A method for process consent with persons who have dementia


• Day care for persons with dementia: An alternative for whom?


• Investigating poor insight in Alzheimer’s disease: A survey of research approaches


• The subjective experience of individuals with Down syndrome living with dementia


• Measuring family perceived involvement in individualized long-term care


• Health care decision-making of persons with dementia


• Personhood in dementia care: Developing a research agenda for broadening the vision

• A Quest for Universalism: Re-assessing the Nature of Classical Social Theory's Cosmopolitanism


• Cosmopolitan Citizenship: Virtue, Irony and Worldliness


• ‘Political’ Cosmopolitanism and Judgment


• Cosmopolitanism: Europe's Way Out of Crisis


• Cosmopolitan Justice and Immigration: A Critical Theory Perspective


• The Cosmopolitan Language of the State: Post-national Citizenship and the Integration of Non-nationals


• Hannah Arendt's Jewish Cosmopolitanism: Between the Universal and the Particular


• Cultural Uniqueness and Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism


• Glimpses of Cosmopolitanism in the Hospitality of Art

• Risk and need assessment in British probation: the contribution of LSI-R


• The influence of sample type, presentation format and strength of evidence on juror simulation research


• The usefulness of measuring spatial opportunity structures for tracking down offenders: A theoretical analysis of geographic offender profiling using simulation studies


• The roles of interrogation, perception, and individual differences in producing compliant false confessions


• Automation of a screening polygraph test increases accuracy


• Heuristics in causal reasoning and their influence on eyewitness testimony


• Guilty and innocent suspects' strategies during police interrogations

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• Global health partnerships


• New mental health legislation


• Dying for a drink

• Postmodern Masculinities and the Eunuch


• Strain, Emotion, and Suicide Among American Indian Youth


• Techniques of Affirmation: Deviant Behavior, Moral Commitment, and Subcultural Identity


• Street Youth, Gender, Financial Strain, and Crime: Exploring Broidy and Agnew's Extension to General Strain Theory

• A description of the social-ecological framework used in the trial of activity for adolescent girls (TAAG)


• The impact of including husbands in antenatal health education
  services on maternal health practices in urban Nepal: results from a randomized controlled trial


• Parenting programmes for preventing tobacco, alcohol or drugs misuse in children <18: a systematic review


• Testing a conceptual model related to weight perceptions, physical activity and smoking in adolescents


• A systematic review of environmental correlates of obesity-related dietary behaviors in youth


• Associations of social–environmental and individual-level factors with adolescent soft drink consumption: results from the SMILE study


• Psychosocial factors associated with non-smoking adolescents' intentions to smoke


• Occupational well-being of school staff members: a structural equation model


• Baseline survey of sun-protection knowledge, practices and policy in early childhood settings in Queensland, Australia


• Testicular self-examination: a test of the health belief model and the theory of planned behaviour


• Health and safety intervention with first-time mothers


• Perceived parenting style and practices and the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages by adolescents

• Older Adults' Perceptions of Well-Being after Intergenerational Experiences with Youth


• Mobilizing Community Resources for Intergenerational Programming in Urban Communities in China


• An Examination of Conflict in Emerging Adulthood between College Students and Their Parents


• Physical Activity: An Innovative Context for Intergenerational Programming


• The Quest for Legacy in Later Life


• Weaving Threads of a Common Identity: Non-Formal, Intergenerational Education and the Community Museum of Ollantaytambo, Peru

• Youth Leadership, Racism, and Intergroup Dialogue


• Entrance and Exit from the Military: Reflections from American Indian and Alaska Native Veterans


• Examining the Validity of the Bem Sex Role Inventory for Use with Filipino Americans Using Confirmatory Factor Analysis


• Language, Identity and Empowerment: The Case of Spanish in the Southwest


• Predictors of Use of Senior Centers by Elderly Chinese Immigrants in Canada


• Native American Women Who Lead Human Service Organizations


• The Relationship Between Shame and Acculturation Among Latino/Chicano Students: Implications for Social Work Education


• Filipinos and the Myth of Model Minority in Hawai'i: A Pilot Study


• Demographic Profiles of Asian Immigrant Elderly Residing in Metropolitan Ethnic Enclave Communities


• Family Structure and Patterns and Psychological Adjustment to Immigration in Israel

• Lobbying, corruption and political influence


• Government transparency and policymaking


• Political business cycles at the municipal level


• Reinforcement vs. change: The political influence of the media


• Flags of our fathers: Voting on Confederate symbols in the State of Georgia


• Immigration and income redistribution: A political economy analysis


• Legislature size and government spending in Italian regions: Forecasting the effects of a reform


• Inefficient households and the mix of government spending


• Political support and tax reforms with an application to Italy


• The growth effects of fiscal policy in Greece 1960–2000

• Reflexivity in Teams: A Measure and Correlates


• Leadership, Individual Differences, and Work-related Attitudes: A Cross-Culture Investigation


• The Telework Tradeoff: Stress Mitigation vs. Constrained Restoration


• The Long-Term Impact of the Feedback Environment on Job Satisfaction: A Field Study in a Belgian Context


• Gender, Health and Stress in English University Staff—Exposure or Vulnerability?


• Employees’ Well-being in Greater China: The Direct and Moderating Effects of General Self-efficacy


• A General Mediated Model of Aspects of Self Knowledge (M-ASK): Children's Participation in Learning Activities across Social Contexts


• Recruiters’ Perceptions and Use of Applicant Résumé Information: Screening the Recent Graduate

• Prevalence and Predictors of Disclosure of Transgender Identity


• Religiosity and Sexual Concerns


• Measuring Sexual Risk Using Audio Computer-Assisted Self-Interviewing (ACASI) versus Computer-Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI) in China


• The Relationship Between Attitudes Towards Women, Consumption of Pornography, and Other Demographic Variables in a Survey of 1,023 Consumers of Pornography


• Voyeurism: It Is Good as Long as We Do Not Get Caught


• Gender Identity Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence: A Critical Inquiry

• Home-ownership among opposite- and same-sex couples in the US


• Wage determination and the gender pay gap: A feminist political economy analysis and decomposition


• Adding links, adding persons, and adding structures: Using Sen's frameworks


• Explorations on human rights

• Hospice Enrollment and Evaluation of Its Causal Effect on Hospitalization of Dying Nursing Home Patients


• Cancer Stage at Diagnosis and Survival among Persons with Social Security Disability Insurance on Medicare


• Comparing Self-Reported Health Status and Diagnosis-Based Risk Adjustment to Predict 1- and 2 to 5-Year Mortality


• Delayed Access to Health Care and Mortality


• Women's Satisfaction with Their On-Going Primary Health Care Services: A Consideration of Visit-Specific and Period Assessments


• Hospital Competition, Managed Care, and Mortality after Hospitalization for Medical Conditions in California


• Does the Market Value Racial and Ethnic Concordance in Physician–Patient Relationships?


• Do Professional Interpreters Improve Clinical Care for Patients with Limited English Proficiency? A Systematic Review of the Literature


• Primary Care Quality and Addiction Severity: A Prospective Cohort Study


• Racial Disparities in Completion Rates from Publicly Funded Alcohol Treatment: Economic Resources Explain More Than Demographics and Addiction Severity


• Workplace Drug Testing and Worker Drug Use


• The Complementarity and Substitution between Unconventional and Mainstream Medicine among Racial and Ethnic Groups in the United States


• Explaining Direct Care Resource Use of Nursing Home Residents: Findings from Time Studies in Four States


• Determinants of Children's Participation in California's Medicaid and SCHIP Programs


• The Effect of New Insurance Coverage on the Health Status of Low-Income Children in Santa Clara County


• Survey Conditioning in Self-Reported Mental Health Service Use: Randomized Comparison of Alternative Instrument Formats

• A proposal for archiving context for secondary analysis


• The Contexts of Context: Broadening Perspectives in the (Re)use of Qualitative Data


• Ethnography and data reuse: issues of context and hypertext


• Making the Long View: Perspectives on context from a qualitative longitudinal (QL) study


• ‘Whatever You Say, Say Nothing’: The Issue of ‘Macro-Context’ in the Construction of a Catalogue and Archive of Qualitative Material on the Northern Ireland Conflict


• Secondary Analysis of Dennis Marsden Mothers Alone


• Community Experiences of the 2001 Foot and Mouth Disease Epidemic in North Cumbria: An Archiving Story

• Who Holds Up the World?


• Continuing Efforts in Global Chronic Disease Prevention


• Differences in Food Consumption and Meal Patterns in Texas School Children by Grade


• Mexican Americans With Type 2 Diabetes: Perspectives on Definitions, Motivators, and Programs of Physical Activity


• Health Behaviors of the Young Adult U.S. Population: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2003


• A Practical, Cost-effective Method for Recruiting People Into Healthy Eating Behavior Programs


• Young Adults’ Perceptions of Cigarette Warning Labels in the United States and Canada


• Diabetes Hospitalization at the U.S.–Mexico Border


• From Heart Health Promotion to Chronic Disease Prevention: Contributions of the Canadian Heart Health Initiative


• Development and Introduction of a Comprehensive Tobacco Control Policy in a Canadian Regional Health Authority


• Addressing the Obesity Epidemic: A Genomics Perspective


• Globalization of Behavioral Risks Needs Faster Diffusion of Interventions


• School-based Programs: Lessons Learned from CATCH, Planet Health, and Not-On-Tobacco


• Recommendations for Integration of Chronic Disease Programs: Are Your Programs Linked?


• HealthCARE Principles: A Model for Healthy City Collaboratives


• Filipino Child Health in the United States: Do Health and Health Care Disparities Exist?

• Perceptions of Gay and Lesbian Stepfamilies


• Does the Rebound Effect Exist? Time to Remarriage and Subsequent Union Stability


• The Family that Plays Together Fares Better: Examining the Contribution of Shared Family Time to Family Resilience Following Divorce


• Fear of Intimacy Among Married and Divorced Persons in Association with Physical Abuse in Childhood


• Family and Work Role-Identities of Divorced Parents: The Relationship of Role Balance to Well-Being


• The Effects of Parental Divorce on College Students


• Young Adults' Relationship with Parents and Siblings: The Role of Marital Status, Conflict and Post-Divorce Predictors


• Direct and Indirect Influences of Parents' Marital Instability on Children's Attitudes Toward Cohabitation in Young Adulthood


• Post-Divorce Adjustment and Social Relationships: A Meta-Analytic Review

• Special Section: Palliative Care as a Public Health Issue in the Developing World


• Palliative Care: A Public Health Priority in Developing Countries


• Palliative Medicine, an Urgent Public Health Need in the Developing World


• Plain Language: A Strategic Response to the Health Literacy Challenge


• Strategic Orientation of Public Health in Transition: An Overview of South Eastern Europe


• Substance Abuse and the Uninsured Worker in the United States


• A Decade of Work on Organized Labor and Tobacco Control: Reflections on Research and Coalition Building in the United States

• Part D: Let the Pharmacists Do It?


• Multicenter Double-Blind Study of the Efficacy of Paroxetine versus Clomipramine in Elderly Patients with Major Depression


• An Exploratory Analysis of Alendronate in Older Men with Low Glomerular Filtration Rate


• Differences in the Ways that Family Caregivers Experience Medication Administration Hassles


• Deconstructing Racial Differences in Receipt of Secondary Stroke Prevention Agents in Nursing Homes


• Gender Differences in Chemical Restraint Use in a Nursing Home: Patterns of Psychotropic Drug Prescribing


• Pharmacologic Considerations in a Medically Complex, Post Hardware Removal Patient: A Case Study


• Integrating a Performance Measurement System and Evidenced Based Medicine for Managing Chronic Diseases in Oman


• Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Amifostine (Ethyol®) in Patients with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

• Met and Unmet Needs, and Satisfaction Among Social HMO Members


• PURE: A Proposal for More Retirement Income Security


• Options to Liberalize Social Security Disabled Widow(er)s Benefits


• The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Nursing Home Case-Mix and Quality Demonstration A Descriptive Overview


• Geography Still Dictates Rx Coverage for Many Near-Poor Seniors and Disabled Persons


• Older People as Resources in South Africa: Mpumalanga Households

• Psychotherapy in psychiatry


• Psychosis and the dynamics of the psychotherapy process


• The efficacy of various modalities of psychotherapy for personality disorders: A systematic review of the evidence and clinical recommendations


• From general day hospital treatment to specialized treatment programmes


• Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: Mentalization Based Therapy and Cognitive Analytic Therapy Compared


• Psychotherapy and mental health teams


• The organization and delivery of psychological treatments


• Psychotherapy training for psychiatrists: UK and global perspectives

• Taking a pro-choice perspective on promoting inclusion of teenage mothers: Lessons from an evaluation of the Sure Start Plus programme


• A critical review of the validity of measuring stages of change in relation to exercise and moderate physical activity


• Ethnicity questions and antenatal screening for sickle cell/thalassaemia (EQUANS) in England: Observation and interview study


• Health inequalities: Political problematizations in Denmark and Sweden


• "Love your body, move your body, feed your body": Discourses of self-care and social marketing in a body image health promotion program


• The end of death in late modernity: An emerging public health challenge


• The challenge of balancing methodological research rigour and practical needs in low-income settings: What we are doing and what we need to do better

• Buprenorphine Treatment: Factors and First-Hand Experiences for Providers to Consider


• Correlation Between High Methadone Doses and Methadone Serum Levels in Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) Patients


• Primary Care Affiliations of Adults in a Methadone Program with Onsite Care


• Relationship of Depression to Smoking Outcomes in a Methadone-Maintained Population


• Controlled-Release Oxycodone Admissions in Public and Private Substance Abuse Treatment: Associations with Organizational Characteristics


• Predicting Long-Term Stable Recovery from Heroin Addiction: Findings from a 33-year Follow-Up Study


• Alcohol and Cocaine Use and Abuse Among Opioid Addicts Engaged in a Methadone Maintenance Treatment Program


• Risk of Psychoactive Substance Dependence Among Substance Users in a Trauma Inpatient Population


• The Impact of Gender, Depression, and Personality on Craving

• The case for long-acting antipsychotic agents in the post-CATIE era


• Prolactin level during 5 years of risperidone treatment in patients with psychotic disorders


• Weight development in patients treated with risperidone: a 5-year naturalistic study


• Long-term maintenance of weight loss in patients with severe mental illness through a behavioural treatment programme in the UK


• Comparative study of neurological soft signs in schizophrenia with onset in childhood, adolescence and adulthood


• Patterns, predictors and impact of substance use in early psychosis: a longitudinal study


• Patterns of social distance towards people suffering from schizophrenia in Austria: a comparison between the general public, relatives and mental health staff


• Avoidable mortality of psychiatric patients in an area with a community-based system of mental health care


• Are GAF scores reliable in routine clinical use?


• The destinies of the low- and middle-income country submissions

• Effect of age and gender on energy expenditure in common activities of daily living in a Chinese population


• Applicability of a toolkit for geriatric rehabilitation outcomes


• Family carers of stroke survivors: needs, knowledge, satisfaction and competence in caring


• Development of a measure of receptivity of the physical environment


• Intra- and inter-rater reliability of the Sollerman hand function test in patients with chronic stroke


• Cross-cultural validation of the Falls Efficacy Scale International (FES-I) in older people: Results from Germany, the Netherlands and the UK were satisfactory


• Prevalence of pain in the head, back and feet in refugees previously exposed to torture: A ten-year follow-up study


• Status of the disabled in Turkey. A theoretical approach to the perception of the disabled in Turkey

• The Couple's Assessment Outline: A Teaching Tool for Psychiatric Training


• Clinical Supervisory Practice in Oncology Settings


• The Use of a Peer Supervision Group by Social Work Clinicians


• Contracting in Supervision: A Goal Oriented Process


• Toward a Practice Theory of Learning through Experience in Social Work Supervision


• Marital and Family Therapy Training and Supervision: A Regional Model for Rural Mental Health

• Coming to Terms with the Loss of a Child: The Feelings of Birth Parents and Grandparents About Adoption and Post-Adoption Contact


• Improvements in Salivary Cortisol, Depression, and Representations of Family Relationships in At-Risk Adopted Children Utilizing a Short-Term Therapeutic Intervention


• Teaching Medical Students About Adoption and Foster Care


• Parenting Styles and Attributions and the Behavior of Children in the "No" Stage in Adoptive and Biological Families


• Adoption Consents: Legal Incentives for Best Practices

• Longitudinal Associations Between Fathers’ Heavy Drinking Patterns and Children’s Psychosocial Adjustment


• Is Theory of Mind Understanding Impaired in Males with Fragile X Syndrome?


• Modeling Family Dynamics in Children with Fragile X Syndrome


• The Effects of Thematic Importance on Story Recall among Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Comparison Children


• Familial Association and Frequency of Learning Disabilities in ADHD Sibling Pair Families


• Development of Social Anxiety: Social Interaction Predictors of Implicit and Explicit Fear of Negative Evaluation


• Psychopathological Profile in Children with Chronic Tic Disorder and Co-existing ADHD: Additive Effects


• Sex Differences in the Pathway from Low Birth Weight to Inattention/hyperactivity


• Examining Subtypes of Behavior Problems Among 3-Year-Old Children, Part I: Investigating Validity of Subtypes and Biological Risk-Factors


• Examining Subtypes of Behavior Problems among 3-Year-Old Children, Part II: Investigating Differences in Parent Psychopathology, Couple Conflict, and Other Family Stressors

• Need for Cognition and Psychosocial Adjustment in Prostate Cancer Patients and Partners


• A Structural Model of the Relationships Between Perceived Control and Adaptation to Illness in Women with Breast Cancer


• Hematopoietic Stem Cell Donation in Children: A Review of the Sibling Donor Experience


• Spiritual Life After Cancer: Connectedness and the Will to Meaning as an Expression of Self-Help


• Social Support, Optimism, and Self-Efficacy Predict Physical and Emotional Well-Being After Bone Marrow Transplantation


• Providing Psychosocial Group Support for Young Women with Breast Cancer: Findings from a Wellness-Based Community Collaboration


• Oncology Nurses' Teaching and Support for Suicidal Patients

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• Generic and disease-specific health related quality of life of liver patients with various aetiologies: A survey


• Quality of life after radiofrequency ablation combined with transcatheter arterial chemoembolization for hepatocellular carcinoma: comparison with transcatheter arterial chemoembolization alone


• What contributes more strongly to predicting QOL during 1-year recovery from treatment for clinically localized prostate cancer: 4-weeks-post-treatment depressive symptoms or type of treatment?


• Examining predictive models of HRQOL in a population-based, multiethnic sample of women with breast carcinoma


• Specific associations of insulin resistance with impaired health-related quality of life in the Hertfordshire Cohort Study


• Psychometric properties of the initial Brazilian version of the CHQ-PF50 applied to the caregivers of children and adolescents with cerebral palsy


• Reliability and validity of the Infant and Toddler Quality of Life Questionnaire (ITQOL) in a general population and respiratory disease sample


• Development and psychometric analysis of the systemic lupus erythematosus needs questionnaire (SLENQ)


• Life mapping: a ‚Therapeutic Document’ approach to needs assessment

• Twenty-First-Century Migration as a Challenge to Sociology


• At the Lower End of the Table: Determinants of Poverty among Immigrants to Denmark and Sweden


• Understandings of 'Difference' in the Speech of Teachers Dealing with Refugee Children in Hungary


• Mediating and Moderating Effects of Inter-Group Contact: Case Studies from Bilingual/Bi-National Schools in Israel


• Categorising Category Labels in Interview Accounts about the 'Muslim Minority' in Greece


• Reconstructing 'Home/lands' in the Russian Federation: Migrant-Centred Perspectives of Displacement and Resettlement


• Examining 'Window Dressing': The Views of Black Police Associations on Recruitment and Training


• Sense of Belonging and Life Satisfaction among Hong Kong Adolescent Immigrants in Canada

• An Experiment on the Social Facilitation of Gambling Behavior


• Gambling Behavior of Student-Athletes and a Student Cohort: What are the Odds?


• A Cross-Cultural Study of Gambling Behaviour Among Adolescents


• Does Providing Extended Relapse Prevention Bibliotherapy to Problem Gamblers Improve Outcome?


• A Test of the False Positive Bias Hypothesis


• Toward an Animal Model of Gambling: Delay Discounting and the Allure of Unpredictable Outcomes


• Self-Exclusion Program: A Longitudinal Evaluation Study


• Who Plays Bingo in Later Life? The Sedentary Lifestyles of ‘Little Old Ladies’