Since the early 20th century, the Swedish psychology profession has undergone several changes in its essential tasks, epistemological foundations, and social roles. These changes occurred through an ongoing "tuning" with Swedish society, in which the profession strove to appear relevant to society's concerns and problems as well as enroll others to share the profession's goals and aims. Studyin...

In order to contribute to higher levels of job satisfaction, job involvement and productivity, a match or fit should be established between the dominant career anchor associated with a specific occupation and that of the employee. A career anchor is an individual's set of self-perceived talents, abilities, motives, needs and values that form the nucleus of one's occupational self-concept. Psych...

Children generally acquire bladder control at the age of 3 to 4 years, but some fail to achieve this control at the appropriate age. Since enuresis is a source of suffering for the child and his parents and may have secondary effects on the child's emotional development, pediatricians, general practitioners, child psychiatrists, psychologists, and educators concerned themselves with this problem.

Progress in science is marked by the formation of theories that explain a body of observations. Contrary to this guiding philosophy, clinical psychologists have prescribed to an atheoretical system of diagnostic reasoning since 1980. We report two studies demonstrating that clinicians have not internalized atheoretical reasoning despite the system’s widespread acceptance. The results show that ...

Pain management is relatively young as a specialty. Although increasing attention is being paid to issues such as pain at the end of life and pain in underserved populations, only recently has an open discussion of ethical issues in chronic pain treatment come to the fore. Psychologists specializing in pain management are faced with a myriad of ethical issues. Although many of these problems ar...

The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) is an increasingly common model of health care delivery with many exciting opportunities for psychologists. The PCMH reflects a philosophy and model of care that is highly consistent with psychological science and practice. It strives to provide patient-centered, comprehensive, team-based, coordinated, accessible, and quality and safetyoriented health ca...