This paper looks at assessment views held by Alberta Education in regards to teaching and learning for educators Alberta. The standardization model of excludes Indigenous thought systems articulated through rigorous processes the nehiyaw mâmitoneyihcikan – Cree mind intelligences. Infusion, integration, indigenization models that privilege dominant educational design continue perpetuate an invi...

Compassion is central to the purpose of medicine and the care of patients and their families. Compassionate healthcare begins with compassionate people, but cannot be consistently provided without systemic changes that enable clinicians and staff to collaborate and to care. We propose seven essential commitments to foster more compassionate healthcare organizations and systems: a commitment to ...

In 2020, as a 24-year-old MD PhD student studying cardiovascular population health, I suffered non-ST elevated myocardial infarction while playing basketball. It was confirmed the cause familial hypercholesterolemia leading to 95%+ occlusions of both left anterior descending and circumflex arteries. The following reflective essay describes my experience patient grappling with his own mortality ...

Human-level AI will require much more than just common sense about the world. It will require compassionate intelligence to guide interaction and build applications of the future. The cognition of such an agent includes Metacognition: thinking about thinking, thinking about feeling, and thinking about others’ thoughts and feelings. We summarize the core meta-architectures and meta-processes of ...

Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) evolved from behavioral theory and developed to focus more on cognitive models that incorporated reappraisal of thinking errors and schema change strategies. This article will describe the key elements of CBT for schizophrenia and the current evidence of its efficacy and effectiveness. We conclude with a description of recent concepts that extend the theoretical...

A compassionate love scale was developed that can be used, in alternative forms, to assess compassionate or altruistic love for different targets (e.g., close others and all of humankind). Using three samples (total N = 529), the Compassionate Love scale was developed and piloted. Three studies (total N = 700) were then conducted to provide validation of the scale and to examine correlates of c...