The use of counselling as a way of responding to people in distress has grown rapidly in recent years. While it has proven popular with many people, the rapid growth of counselling has also generated some disquiet and numerous questions. Confusion abounds in many quarters about what counselling is and to what extent it works. The position is complicated by the fact that there is considerable de...

This paper brings together three strands of theory about how people interact in order to achieve common goals: aspects of identity (categorical, relational and positional); types of identity interaction (selection, mobilization and commitment); and conditions of tie formation and dissolution (boundary areas on the Cynefin sensemaking framework). The paper explains how the three strands come tog...

A dilemma in urban mobility with tremendous effects on citizens’ wellbeing is the unconscious antipode between their shortand long-term goals. People do not anticipate all consequences of their modal choices and thus make decisions that might be incoherent with their desires, e.g. taking their own car due to convenience but causing a congested city. Omnipresent Information Systems on smartphone...

influential people, I am focused in taking part in the vast frontier of the chemistry field and entering the medical field in the future. In order to achieve this goal, I have put much effort in chemistry and have also partaken in chemistry research. Under Dr. Jing Li's supervision, I am currently doing research on the synthesis and crystal growth of novel metal-based coordination compounds. Th...

with health care instructions has come in for increasing criticism over the last 20 years. A recent, influential review of research in this area argued for a shift away from compliance to a more negotiated approach to the medical encounter, termed concordance.1 The concordance model views medical interactions as a potential opportunity for both parties to take part in decisions about treatment,...

I n ancient Greece, a group of traveling “wise men,’’ known as sophists, lectured on a large variety of subjects. Their presentations were spectacular and highly influential because they spoke beautifully. Socrates, on the other hand, tried to develop the minds of young people by asking a series of carefully conceived questions; he taught his students to think. Socrates considered the sophists ...

Although a number of theoretical frameworks have been developed in previous empathy research, the extent to which these frameworks consider cultural and ethnic aspects is limited. This literature study reviews the most influential frameworks of general and ethnocultural empathy. The core components of ethnocultural empathy are identified as well as factors facilitating empathy for persons from ...

Using survey data on consumer product purchases, this paper introduces an approach to estimate jointly individual utility functions and risk perceptions implied by their decisions. The behavioral risk beliefs reflected in consumers' risky decisions differ from the stated probabilities given to them in the survey. These results are not consistent with a Bayesian learning model in which the infon...

BACKGROUND Homeless people have high dropout rates when they participate in therapeutic processes. The causes of this failure are not always known. This study investigates whether dropping-out is mediated by personality disorders or whether psychosocial problems are more important. METHOD Eighty-nine homeless people in a socio-laboral integration process were assessed. An initial interview wa...

Blogging becomes a popular way for a Web user to publish information on the Web. Bloggers write blog posts, share their likes and dislikes, voice their opinions, provide suggestions, report news, and form groups in Blogosphere. As its size doubled for every 6 months, Blogosphere is expanding with about 175,500 daily blogs. Bloggers form their virtual communities of similar interests. Activities...