This paper describes a study that explored the extent and nature of workplace violence in child protective services (CPS). A total of 68 workers and clients reported on their experiences. Of workers, 70% reported being the victim of client violence, and 22% reported they had perpetrated a violent act toward a client. Of clients, 55% reported being a victim of assault by a CPS worker, while 42% ...

The diversity of neurological sequelae that may occur after an inflammatory disorder in the brain (brain abscess, encephalitis, or meningitis) provides a range of challenges to the rehabilitation team. The therapist must identify the problems underlying the individual’s movement dysfunctions without the template of the cluster of “typical” problems available with some other ne...

Title of Document: COMMON FACTORS IN COUPLE THERAPY FOR PARTNER AGGRESSION: A THERAPY PROCESS AND OUTCOME STUDY Woochul Park, Doctor of Philosophy, 2014 Dissertation Directed By: Professor Norman B. Epstein, Ph.D. Department of Family Science The present study investigated roles of common factors related to outcome indices that exist across therapy models in couple therapy for partner aggressio...

OBJECTIVES Past literature documents many individual predictors of treatment engagement among mental health clients in community settings, but few studies have examined clinic characteristics that may be associated with treatment engagement. With data from a patient activation and self-management trial, this study examined the variation in demographic and clinic characteristics across community...

The caption for Table 1, " Clisssent and referral facility characteristics, by study-gender group, " should be " Client and referral facility characteristics, by study-gender group. " The publisher apologizes for the error. Please see Table 1 with the correct caption here. open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use...

We identify data-intensive operations that are common to classifiers and develop a middleware that decomposes and schedules these operations efficiently using a backend SQL database. Our approach has the added advantage of not requiring any specialized physical data organization. We demonstrate the scalability characteristics of our enhanced client with experiments on Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 b...

BACKGROUND Little attention has been paid to understanding the impact of values, attributes and characteristics of drugs workers on therapeutic relationships and treatment outcomes. Interaction of values with other variables is considered to be of importance since values play a role in determining attitudes and behaviours. This exploratory study investigates the impact of drug workers' personal...