This paper deals with the mental health as a predictor of emotional competence of school lecturers of Himachal Pradesh. Mental health and emotional problems can have a profound impact on all aspects of teaching at all levels. These problems may also have negative impact on academic performance, retention and learning rates. The present study is a wonderful effort of the researcher in trying to ...

I t is difficult to assess whether stroke neurology is disproportionately affected by the often adversarial relations between physicians and attorneys. Nevertheless, expansion of therapeutic options for patients with stroke has created increased potential for litigation. To address this issue rationally and productively, the stroke clinician must understand some fundamental principles of legal ...

Background/Study aim The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) recommends that trainees complete 150 endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) procedures before assessing competency. However, this recommendation is largely based on limited evidence and expert opinion. With new evidence suggesting that this historical threshold is underestimating training requirements, we evaluated the learni...

Competency in the use of ICT is enjoying renewed attention in the research and practice, but there may be a notable lack of a deeper theoretical view in this area of interest. This paper presents a grounded theory that revolves around three core elements namely: e-Competency Sets, e-Competency Acquisition, and Triggers. It is proposed that the practitioner possesses an eCompetency Set, consisti...

As director of a forensic psychiatry fellowship program, I am sometimes asked how important psychiatric diagnoses are in sanity and competency opinions. Given that the legal, usually statutory, definition of mental disease or defect is the primary concern in criminal forensic opinions and that legal definitions do not reflect descriptive diagnoses, what difference does it make whether someone i...

Evaluations of competency to stand trial (CST) in defendants with mental retardation or borderline intellectual functioning can be difficult when deficits are masked by the type of adaptations seen in many with developmental disabilities. Accordingly, many evaluators have used validated test instruments, such as the CAST*MR (Competence Assessment to Stand Trial for Defendants with Mental Retard...

In this study, we examined whether a specialized training program, the Slater Method, affects rates at which persons with intellectual disabilities attain competence to stand trial. We reviewed records of all 30 persons with Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR) clinical diagnoses of mental retardation (in this article, intellectual disability) or borderline intellec...