INTRODUCTION Contraception-induced mood changes have been identified since the 1960s. To our knowledge, there has been no reported case about self-mutilation associated to any form of contraception. We report the case of a 17-year-old adolescent girl who presented with de novo self-mutilation and depressive symptoms three and a half weeks after the administration of 150 mg of Depot-Medroxyproge...

The sympathetic innervation of the skin primarily subserves thermoregulation, but the system has also been commandeered as a means of expressing emotion. While it is known that the level of skin sympathetic nerve activity (SSNA) is affected by anxiety, the majority of emotional studies have utilized the galvanic skin response as a means of inferring increases in SSNA. The purpose of the present...

The establishment of the European Higher Education Area has involved specifying lists of professional competencies that programs are expected to develop, and with this the need for procedures to measure how every course within a higher education program is aligned with the program's competencies. We propose an instrument for characterizing this alignment, a process that we call assessing the re...

This paper summarises a research study that investigated the potential of the Queensland secondary school subject Modern History to adopt characteristics of socially critical environmental education (SCEE). The study arose out of my own classroom practice. While teaching Modern History in Queensland schools, I found the dividing line between human problems and environmental ones was often blurr...

The development and implementation of language teaching programs can be approached in several different ways, each of which has different implications for curriculum design. Three curriculum approaches are described and compared. Each differs with respect to when issues related to input, process, and outcomes, are addressed. Forward design starts with syllabus planning, moves to methodology, an...

This book has long been recognized by nurses its usefulness. The third edition will be welcomed. The arrangement, which is based on the syllabus the General Nursing Council of England and Wales, is a help to those studying for examinations. As this syllabus forms the basis of some of those laid down by registration councils in India, the book will be aS valuable to nurses in this country as in ...