Abstract Animal communicators worldwide employ intuitive interspecies communication ( IIC ) to engage in detailed, two-way with nonhuman animals. ’s potential for doing research rather than on animals has been insufficiently explored, due contingent onto-epistemological biases. Cooperating animal as interpreters, pilot interviews felines were conducted. Challenges included clearly filtering the...

PURPOSES To test the effectiveness of motivational interviewing in a population of hazardous drinkers utilizing community health care centers in rural southeastern Idaho. DATA SOURCES This study targeted rural people at risk for alcohol dependence utilizing low-income community health care centers in rural southeastern Idaho. The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) was used to s...

Cognitive interviewing techniques are quickly gaining recognition as useful methods for pretesting and designing questionnaires. The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), and the Bureau of the Census have all set up cognitive laboratories for pretesting and designing questionnaires. Conducting cognitive interviews to test a questionnaire allows rese...

BACKGROUND Reports from research have shown that mental illness has increased dramatically in recent years and is currently one of the biggest problems among Swedish children and adolescents. AIM The aim of this study was to describe how Swedish school nurses experience their work with schoolchildren who have mental illness. METHOD Data were gained by individual interviews with school nurse...

INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................... 109 POTENTIAL MOTIVATION AND MOTIVATIONAL ROUSAL ....................... 110 Potential Motivation .............................................................................. 110 Motivational Arousal ............................................................................. 111 EVIDENCE ON TH...

Motivational interviewing (MI) as a counseling approach has gained empirical support for its use in a number of settings and for a variety of behaviors. However, the majority of practitioners trained to use MI have been professionals rather than laypeople. This article presents the rationale, design, and evaluation of an MI-based training for cancer survivors and caregivers to deliver peer supp...

Virtual patients will provide a means to train the next generation of clinical residents. Interacting and engaging with virtual characters portraying standardized patients can have meaningful outcomes. As a cumulative set of data analysis, we investigate the comparison of how well novices, subjects without any clinical interviewing background, with experts, clinicians, or resident student clini...

I Individuals face a self-control problem when the attainment of their overriding long-term interests comes at the expense of short-term but influential outcomes. For example, the boredom that is often associated with studying long hours is a price students have to pay in order to attain academic success, and the discomfort that is often associated with diering or undergoing a medical checkup i...

Motivational interviewing (MI) is an increasingly prominent behavioral therapy that draws from and claims to synthesize two American therapeutic traditions long thought to be antithetical-"client-centered" and "directive" approaches. This paper proposes that MI achieves its hallmark "client-centered directiveness" through the aesthetic management of the therapeutic encounter, and more particula...