There are an increasing number of educational programs to improve clinical competence and skills to treat mental disorders. For complex disorders there is also a focus on improving the quality of interprofessional work. This paper reports on interprofessional outputs of an educational program on eating disorders. A total of 207 professionals who completed the program were requested to describe ...

Every planning of an efficient teaching has the aim of achieving satisfactory learning outcomes. From a constructivistic point of view, it is a commonly accepted fact that such a planning has to take into account the prior ideas that students bring to the class. In order to know them, we carried out a survey about the prior ideas on the nature of sound that our fifteen third-year engineering st...

BACKGROUND Online mental health resources have been proposed as an innovative means of overcoming barriers to accessing rural mental health services. However, clinicians tend to express lower satisfaction with online mental health resources than do clients. OBJECTIVE To understand rural clinicians' attitudes towards the acceptability of online mental health resources as a treatment option in ...

BACKGROUND A growing body of evidence shows that team training can develop essential team skills and contribute to better patient outcomes. Current simulation-based team training (SBTT) programmes most often include targets and feedback focused on the whole team and/or leader, ignoring the follower as a unique entity. By considering followers' individual experiences, and tailoring behavioural t...

Are we able to infer what happened to a person from a brief sample of his/her behaviour? It has been proposed that mentalising skills can be used to retrodict as well as predict behaviour, that is, to determine what mental states of a target have already occurred. The current study aimed to develop a paradigm to explore these processes, which takes into account the intricacies of real-life situ...

Automation surprises occur when an automated system behaves differently than its operator expects. If the actual system behavior and the operator’s “mental model” are both described as finite state transition systems, then mechanized techniques known as “model checking” can be used automatically to discover any scenarios that cause the behaviors of the two descriptions to diverge from one anoth...

Networking researchers work from mental models of the Internet’s important properties. The scenarios used in simulations and experiments (including our own) reveal aspects of these mental models, often including one or more of the following implicit assumptions: Flows live for a long time and transfer a lot of data. Simple topologies, like a “dumbbell” topology with one congested link, are suff...

Many philosophical and scientific discussions of topics of mind-matter research make implicit assumptions, in various guises, about the distinction between mind and matter. Currently predominant positions are based on either reduction or emergence, providing either monistic or dualistic scenarios. A more-involved framework of thinking, which can be traced back to Spinoza and Leibniz, combines t...

Life in today's global village has two ontological and epistemological aspects. One problem of the globalized world related to these two aspects, which will be discussed in this article first is the fact that the civilization of the globalized world has, in some ways, been disconnected from its culture, since civilization moves towards collectivism whereas culture moves towards ind...

The excellence cluster CoTeSys – Cognition for Technical Systems – addresses most diverse scenarios with different kinds of interactions between humans and machines. For most of these scenarios, human gaze is a very important cue to get information concerning the user’s intentions, current mental state, etc. To get this data the framework consisting of a highly accurate head-mounted gaze tracke...