I want to thank Arthur Bohart (2023) and Amy Curtis Ronald Miller for each writing an excellent commentary on my existential, multicultural case study of "Keo" (Shapiro, 2023). In this response, begin by discussing Bohart’s comments, which deal with more theoretical issues; then turn the questions raised Miller, address clinical, practical, personal issues.

background the main purpose of this study was to identify factors that influence healthcare quality in the iranian context.   methods exploratory in-depth individual and focus group interviews were conducted with 222 healthcare stakeholders including healthcare providers, managers, policy-makers, and payers to identify factors affecting the quality of healthcare services provided in iranian hea...

Personal control is an individual's belief about the degree that he or she can bring about good events and avoid bad events. High personal control is associated with intellectual, emotional, behavioral, and physiological vigor in the face of challenging situations and events; low personal control is associated with maladaptive passivity and poor morale. In this paper, we sketch the roots of the...

Every student entering the control engineering classroom brings years of experience in the hands-on practice of controls, earned through the control of the motions and actions of his or her own body and the control of objects in the environment. Much of this control experience has been subjected to conscious observation and experimentation, yet this expertise is very seldom leveraged when teach...

Research on teachers’ (personal) theories and beliefs and their (practical) knowledge derived from experience, whether held implicitly or stated explicitly as their personal practical theories (PPTs), indicates that such beliefs can influence teachers’ classroom practices and, therefore, the opportunities that their students have for learning. This study uses a content analysis of 472 self-repo...

This paper addresses the problem of capturing rich, longterm personal activity logs of users’ interactions with their workstations, for the purpose of deriving predictive, personal user models. Our architecture addresses a number of practical problems with activity capture, including incorporating heterogeneous information from different applications, measuring phenomena with different rates of...

Bullying can have significant and long term adverse eVects on the health and behaviour of children. Not only does the victim suVer psychological and possibly physical damage, but the persistent bullies are at risk of continuing their aggressive, antisocial behaviour. Approximately one third of British schoolchildren report bullying. Achieving a reduction in the rate of bullying in schools would...

Introduction. This study investigated whether rural people with HIV/AIDS (PHAs) exchanged information with their peers, and why they valued this process. Method. In-depth interviews and personal social network solicitation were conducted with 34 rural-dwelling PHAs in Canada. Analysis. Personal networks were analyzed statistically. Interview transcripts were coded using the constant comparison ...