Resignation syndrome (RS) designates a long-standing disorder predominately affecting psychologically traumatized children and adolescents in the midst of a strenuous and lengthy migration process. Typically a depressive onset is followed by gradual withdrawal progressing via stupor into a state that prompts tube feeding and is characterized by failure to respond even to painful stimuli. The pa...

An Internet post claimed that at least 200 nurses recently resigned en masse from a large hospital in Zhejiang Province in China. However, this is actually not a new phenomenon. As is the case for doctors (1,2), the current nursing situation in public hospitals is not very optimistic. According to rough estimates, there is hundreds of nurses fried squid public hospital in Zhejiang Province ever...

Zusammenfassung Konstruktiver Journalismus ist eine relativ neue Form des mit dem Ziel, die aktuell überwiegend negativ orientierte Medienberichterstattung durch lösungsorientierte Elemente zu ergänzen. Mithilfe von Techniken der positiven Psychologie sollen Publikum gesellschaftlich relevante Informationen vermittelt werden, um einer mündigen Bevölkerung beizutragen. Dabei nimmt Stärkung proso...

The majority of previous studies on vocal expression have been conducted on posed expressions. In contrast, we utilized a large corpus of authentic affective speech recorded from real-life voice controlled telephone services. Listeners rated a selection of 200 utterances from this corpus with regard to level of perceived irritation, resignation, neutrality, and emotion intensity. The selected u...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to investigate the cumulative return to work (RTW) rate and to clarify the predictors of the time to full-time RTW (full RTW) and resignation among Japanese stroke survivors, within the 365-day period following their initial day of sickness absence due to stroke. SETTING This study was based on tertiary prevention of occupational health in large-scal...