Although mental health promotion is consistent with the philosophy of family medicine, it is largely unclear what behaviors or interventions comprise mental health promotion in practice. A recent effort in psychology, known as "positive psychology," has endeavored to better understand happiness, meaning in life, character strengths, and how these all can be developed. Because happiness is assoc...

Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 Columbia Business School, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10027 Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215 Program in Placebo Studies, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215 Division of Preventive Medicine...

medical education is a new discipline which started about 50 years ago. the pioneer of this discipline was george miller from the university of chicago who suggested most of prominent medical professionals have little or no knowledge of psychology of learning and advocated the validity of present medical education in the world. he hypothesized that while very eminent and well trained scientific...

Acknowledgments Members of the NeuroExercise Study Group (in alphabetical order by name). Dr. Justine A. Aaronson, Department of Medical Psychology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Dr. Vera Abeln, Institute of Movement and Neurosciences, German Sport University Cologne, Germany; Dr. Jurgen A.H.R Claassen, Department of Geriatric Medicine, Radboud University Medical...

doi:10.1093/jpepsy/jsj093 Advance Access publication December 21, 2005 Journal of Pediatric Psychology vol. 31 no. 8 © The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society of Pediatric Psychology. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: [email protected] Commentary: The Role of Memory in Managing Children’s Distress During Medical Pro...

Sandra N. Moses1,2,3, Faith M. Hanlon4,5 and Jennifer D. Ryan3,6,7 1Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, 2Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto, Toronto, 3Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest, Toronto, 4The Mind Research Network, Albuquerque, NM, 5Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 6Department of Psychology, Unive...

In this issue of Medical Education, Janss et al. address the need for medical team training and suggest that knowledge available from both social and organisational psychology might be used to guide the development of a training intervention. The differences in the interpersonal dynamics of ad hoc medical action teams are well described in this article, as are specific needs for the management ...

1 Department of Psychology III, Institute of Psychology, Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany 2 University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany 3 Cognitive and Information Sciences, University of California, Merced, Merced, CA, USA 4 Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA *Correspondence: roland.pfister@psychologie...

Tatiana S. Pavlova a*, Alla B. Kholmogorova b, c a Center for Emergency Psychological Aid, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, Moscow, Russia b Faculty of Psychological Counseling, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, Moscow, Russia c Research Institute of Psychiatry, Federal Medical Research Center for Psychiatry and Narcology of the Ministry of Health of the R...

1 Exercise Oncology, Department of Medical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) and Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany, 2 Gender Studies and Health Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany, 3 Division of Physical Activity, Prevention and Cancer, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), H...