Background: Older individuals (e.g., 55 years and over) constitute a growing proportion of the forensic mental health patient population. As group, they are vulnerable to outcomes similar other with serious disorders same age; however, these concerns can be compounded by complex forensic-related care backgrounds clinical presentations, lengthy periods time spent in p...

a r t i c l e i n f o Recursive mindreading is the ability to embed mental representations inside other mental representations e.g. to hold beliefs about beliefs about beliefs. An advanced ability to entertain recursively embedded mental states is consistent with evolutionary perspectives that emphasise the importance of sociality and social cognition in human evolution: high levels of recursiv...

introduction: the lack of mental health interferes with one's individual achievement and ability for undertaking the responsibilities of everyday life. researches show that psychological well-being and parenting styles have an important role in ones' increasing general health. the current study examined the relationship between psychological well-being and parenting styles with studen...

Group and individual broad ability profiles of children with mental retardation and a matched sample of children with average achievement was investigated through use of the 7 Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) factor clusters from the Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of Cognitive Abilities. Results indicate that, as a group, the ranked performance of the children with mental retardation on the CHC factor cl...

We estimated the effect of human capital on leadership. Our human capital measures included not only the traditional measures of education and on-the-job learning but also measures of cognitive and noncognitive abilities. The measures of cognitive abilities included numeracy, literacy, and problem solving, and the noncognitive abilities measures included perseverance, openness to learning, and ...

Mental abacus (MA) is a technique for performing fast, accurate arithmetic using a mental image of an abacus; experts exhibit astonishing calculation abilities. Over 3 years, 204 elementary-school students (age-range at outset: 5-7 YO) participated in a randomized, controlled trial to test whether MA expertise (a) can be acquired in standard classroom settings; (b) improves students' mathematic...

Dr. Lilly Pad was conducting an Eye Test. She would hold up a brown letter ‘‘E’’ and ask the kids what it was: a ‘‘Brownie.’’ She’d hold up another, with a red letter ‘‘E’’ and say ‘‘Are youIRed E?’’ Lots of word play. There was a teenager sitting in a corner. He hadn’t been saying anything before this, but during this game, he was the first to get it, each and every time. An ‘‘I’’ written in t...

The present research examined whether teaching children with autism to pass tasks that assess mental state understanding had any positive effects on communication. Two aspects of communication previously shown to be deficient in children with autism were considered. These are conversational ability, in particular the ability to expand on conversation, and the use of mental state terms in speech...