Evidence-based treatments (EBTs) for substance abuse and dependence have demonstrated superiority over treatment as usual when applied with strict fidelity in controlled clinical trials. Effective counselor training is critical if substance abuse programs are to realize these interventions' full potential to enhance client outcomes in community practice. Although few empirical evaluations of tr...

exposure-based cognitive behavioral therapy (“exposure therapy”) is the most effective psychological treatment for anxiety disorders. however, popular exposure-based treatments differ substantially in how exposure is delivered, and emerging research indicates that the effectiveness of exposure is closely tied to its manner of delivery. the author will present research indicating that there are ...

Design We aimed to evaluate the effect of progressive resistance training on cardiorespiratory fitness and muscular strength in coronary heart disease, when compared to control or aerobic training, and when combined with aerobic training. Secondary aims were to evaluate the safety and efficacy of progressive resistance training on other physiological and clinical outcomes. Methods and results E...

New structure and training algorithms of the RBF-type neural network are proposed. An extra neuron layer is added to realize the principal component method. A novel training algorithm is designed for training each separate neuron in the hidden layer, which guarantees the efficiency and finiteness of the training procedure. Results were obtained for a variety of problems. In particular, the resu...

The paper presents an approach to education in software engineering, implemented as a postgraduate course for industry. A distinguishing feature of the approach is its stress on team projects and a flexible way of controlling the proportion between active and passive participation of students. This provides for high visibility of life cycle activities during the project, despite the actual perf...

clinical training provides the possibility of learning a wide range of important diseases that doctors may encounter in their future career. the present study was conducted to analyze the viewpoint of the students on the outpatient clinical training. this descriptive study was carried out on 109 medical students during internship using convenience sampling. data were collected by a questionnair...

Effective and productive providers are the key to successful provision of long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs). But LARCs demand more of providers than short-acting resupply methods. In addition to sound training, key elements to developing highly productive providers of LARCs include a thorough understanding of the service delivery system context; selecting providers with the most pot...