This study examined the relationship between therapist characteristics, therapeutic orientations, person-level and agency-level practices with cultural competency among 221 Los Angeles County community mental health clinicians. Results from an online survey indicated that compared to White therapists, ethnic minority therapists were more personally involved in communities of color, more likely ...

Introduction  Since the last century surgical correction of nasal septum deviation has been improved. The Universal Eclectic Technique was recently reported and there are still few studies dedicated to address this surgical approach. Objective  The objective of this study is to compare the results of septal deviation correction achieved using the Universal Eclectic Technique (UET) with those ob...

BACKGROUND There are multiple models of mental illness that inform professional and lay understanding. Few studies have formally investigated psychiatrists' attitudes. We aimed to measure how a group of trainee psychiatrists understand familiar mental illnesses in terms of propositions drawn from different models. METHOD We used a questionnaire study of a sample of trainees from South London ...

E. L. Hall, M. Ghaffari, X. Liao, S. M. Alhaj Ali*, Saurabh Sarkar, Scott Reynolds and Kovid Mathur Center for Robotics Research University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH 45221-0072 USA Phone: 513-556-2730 Fax: 513-556-3390 Email: [email protected] Internet: http://www.robotics.uc.edu/ * The Hashemite Univ. (Jordan) ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to introduce a concept of eclecticism for t...

This paper describes a theoretical model for conceptualizing art therapy through an integrative multilayered prism that ecologically “layers” dynamic, humanistic, systemic, and social understandings of art, therapy, and people. The result is a systemic but multifaceted model for the teaching of art therapy and the implementation of its theory. The “depth” of art therapy is the multifaceted char...

We explore the conflict between personalization and privacy that arises from the existence of straddlers in a recommender system. A straddler is a person with eclectic tastes who rates products across several different types or domains. While straddlers enable serendipitous recommendations, information about their existence could be used in conjunction with other sources of data to uncover iden...