background and purpose: consideringbackground and purpose: considering the importance and necessity of competency-based education at a global level and with respect to globalization and the requirement of minimum competencies in medical fields, medical education communities and organizations worldwide have tried to determine the competencies, present frameworks and education models to respond t...

PURPOSE This study was done to identify fundamental data on competency reinforcement programs to prevent adolescent risk behavior by developing and examining a competency model. METHODS In this study, competences on prevention of adolescent risk behavior were identified through competency modeling, and a competency model was developed and tested for validity. RESULTS Competences for prevent...

Relationships among gender, gender role orientation, grade, and perceived self-competency were examined in this study. Subjects were almost entirely Caucasian and included one hundred and ninety-four adolescents in the sixth through twelfth grades. The adolescents responded to the Children's Sex Role Inventory and the Self Perception Profile for Adolescents. Boys had higher perceived social and...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between work environment and the competency maintenance activities of occupational therapists. METHOD A survey of 121 occupational therapists in three states and interviews with 8 occupational therapists in Ohio were used. RESULTS Analysis of survey data indicated that workplace support and the degree of competency monitori...

The concept of emotional intelligence and competency is contemporary issue in the management literature. Therefore, it has become imperative to study, understand leverage for sake enhancing capacity human capital at level individual as well organizations. As pace change fast uncertain world work, making more demands on a person’s cognitive, physical resources. These set capabilities are becomin...

The presence of a Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA) reduces risk for sexual gender minority (SGM) youth across variety domains, but little is known about the adult advisor-level variables contributing to these observed benefits. This study explored relationships between advisors' tenure, receipt professional development, self-efficacy, social emotional competencies (SECs). Participants (N = 1...

Abstract Policy-makers and scholars agree that creativity socio-emotional competencies can be taught, learned, enhanced through creative arts like theatre. Nevertheless, few authors have studied the processes underlying both constructs in artistic education, which would permit to understand how children develop them re-create adapted methodologies. Thus, we proposed observe a drama pedagogy tra...

Over one-quarter of psychologists and psychiatrists will lose a client to suicide, and the impact of suicide on therapists is profound. Therapists report both personal (e.g., emotional) and professional (e.g., fears of litigation, doubts about competency) reactions to client suicide, and these reactions are thought to be pronounced for therapists-in-training. However, little is known about the ...