Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a delayed and/or protracted response to exceptionally threatening or catastrophic events. The event is persistently remembered or relived with concomitant distress sometimes even leading to harmful life-long psychological sequelae. We present a 6-year old boy who developed the classical syndrome following corporal punishment at school when his class teac...

While motivation is of great interest to computing educators, relatively little work has been done on understanding faculty attitudes toward student motivation. Two previous qualitative studies of instructor attitudes found results identical to those from other disciplines, but neither study considered whether instructors perceive student motivation to be more important in certain computing cla...

Medical education in North America changed dramatically during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Although American medical schools had begun to establish ties with major universities in the 870s,1 few physicians in this country had any meaningful exposure to high quality basic science. According to William G. Rothstein,2 there were 65 medical schools in 860, 75 in 870, 00 i...

I n this issue of the CJHP, pharmacist Marie Craig shares her experience in educating and supporting patients at the Arthritis Clinic in Newmarket, Ontario. 1 This important role for pharmacists is well recognized by our Canadian professional and academic associations, as it is globally. In 1997, the World Health Organization (WHO) introduced the role of teacher as 1 of the 7 key responsibiliti...

AIM This investigation represents an attempt to design and validate a skill acquisition model for the nurse educator role. BACKGROUND The preparation and role development of nurse educators has become a significant focus for the profession.The NLN Nurse Educator Competencies and skill acquisition theory provide a basis for studying skill acquisition among nurse educators. METHOD A total of ...

COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Donna Austin, Director, Family Mediation Program, Lane County Paul Edison-Lahm, Multnomah County Family Court Facilitator Dr. Adam Furcher, PhD, Psychologist and Mediator, Portland Janice Garceau, LCSW, Director, Family Court Services, Multnomah County Kelly Lemarr, Attorney/Branch Manager, St. Andrew Legal Clinic, Washington County Jane Parisi-Mosher, MA, LMFT, Therapist, Me...

Sustaining effective school-based prevention programs is critical to improving youth and population-based health. This article reports on results from the Aban Aya Sustainability Project, an effort to sustain a school-based prevention program that was tested via a randomized trial and targeted violence, drug use, and risky sex-related behaviors among a cohort of 5th-grade African American child...

Urban Nulden and Christian Hardless Goteborg University, Sweden INTRODUCTION Teaching, tutoring and assessing students becomes radically different in a virtual learning environment than in a traditional classroom (Harasim, Hiltz et al., 1995; Hiltz and Wellman, 1997). The more activities that are ‘net-based,’ the more technology-based support is required for the educator. Computers free educato...