BACKGROUND International stroke care guidelines recommend the routine assessment and management of psychological and emotional problems post-stroke. Understanding the experiences of those delivering and receiving these services is vital to improving the provision of psychological support post-stroke. OBJECTIVES To explore patients', carers', and health professionals' experiences of psychologi...

Dental anxiety of patients is a common feature of the everyday experience of dental practice. This article advocates the use of regular assessment of this psychological construct to assist in patient management. Various tools, such as the Modified Dental Anxiety Scale (MDAS), are available to monitor dental anxiety that are quick to complete and easy to interpret. Patient burden is low. A new m...

Because psychological assessment typically lacks biological gold standards, it traditionally has relied on clinicians' expert knowledge. A more empirically based approach frequently has applied linear models to data to derive meaningful constructs and appropriate measures. Statistical inferences are then used to assess the generality of the findings. This article introduces artificial neural ne...

Psychological assessment is an important aspect in the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric conditions. The focus of this article is to describe how the Personality Assessment InventoryAdolescent (PAI-A) can be integrated into psychological assessment and treatment planning. The PAI-A is a self-report measure used to assess psychopathology, interpersonal styles (e.g., warmth or dominance), an...

People are exposed to persuasive communication across many different contexts: Governments, companies, and political parties use persuasive appeals to encourage people to eat healthier, purchase a particular product, or vote for a specific candidate. Laboratory studies show that such persuasive appeals are more effective in influencing behavior when they are tailored to individuals' unique psyc...

The purpose of this brief summary is to introduce the concept of cancer prehabilitation and the role of oncology nurses in prehabilitation care. Cancer prehabilitation has been defined by Sliver and Baima (2013) as "a process on the cancer continuum of care that occurs between the time of cancer diagnosis and the beginning of acute treatment." The evidence supports the notion that prehabilitati...

We review the state of forensic mental health assessment. The field is in much better shape than past; however, significant problems quality remain, with room for improvement. provide an overview psychology's history and discuss its possible future, multiple audiences mind. distill decades scholarship from about fundamental basic science science, clinical psychology, law expert evidence into ei...

objectives: we aimed to assess psychological stress status among iranian patients with cancer compared with non-cancer individuals. patients and methods: in a case-control study one hundred consecutive cancer patients who referred to fatemieh hospital in semnan, iran (regardless of the type of cancer and its stage) were enrolled. one hundred matched non-cancer individuals were selected as contr...

Background: Education plays an important role on a personal level because it is related to personal control, a healthy lifestyle, greater income, employment, interpersonal relations, and social support (Mirowsky & Ross, 2003). Self-regulation is the procedure implemented by an individual striving to reach a goal and consists of two inter-related strategies: (1) the identification of the desired...

The use and capabilities of telehealth technologies to conduct psychological assessments remotely are expanding. Clinical practitioners and researchers need to be aware of what influences the psychometric properties of telehealth-based assessments to assure optimal and competent assessments. The purpose of this review is to discuss the specific factors that influence the validity and reliabilit...