conclusions to empower the staff of self-care support system, an appropriate training design is needed beside a good self-care support program. self-care team members must teach specific information or skills to patients and their families. these members must possess special knowledge and skills. also, the evaluation of self-care support program is one of the main components of the national sys...

Three new direct-service staff participated in a program that used a video model to train target skills needed to conduct a discrete-trial session. Percentage accuracy in completing a discrete-trial teaching session was evaluated using a multiple baseline design across participants. During baseline, performances ranged from a mean of 12% to 63% accuracy. During video modeling, there was an imme...

keeping and retaining of professional staff in organizations and increase their performance have always been the concern of many organizations and companies in competitive situation.  achievement of these objectives, depends on many factors such as perceiving organization and supervisor supports by the staff. in this research, the effect of perceived organizational and supervisor support on org...

OBJECTIVES To describe and evaluate a pilot methadone maintenance program for heroin-dependent inmates of Las Malvinas men's prison in San Juan, Puerto Rico. METHODS Data from self-report of inmates' drug use before and during incarceration, attitudes about drug treatment in general and methadone maintenance in particular, and expectations about behaviors upon release from prison and from tes...

This research aims to identify the relationship between Job Satisfaction, Psychological Well-being and Perceived Organizational Support amongst prison officials. 190 employees working in state facilities and privately-run prisons were evaluated using theS10/12 Job Satisfaction Form 1, the Psychological Well-being Scale 2 and the Scale of Perceived Organizational Support 3. Main results depict a...