BACKGROUND Treatment and rehabilitation interventions in juvenile justice institutions aim to prevent criminal reoffending by adolescents and to enhance their prospects of successful social reintegration. There is evidence that these goals are best achieved when the institution adopts a family-centered approach, involving the parents of the adolescents. The Academic Workplace Forensic Care for ...

one of the ways to ensure food safety is to educate the public. of the organizations providing food safety education in the united states (u.s.), the cooperative extension system (ces) is one of the most reliable. the effectiveness ces programs depends not only on what is being taught but also on how it is taught. both a needs-based curriculum and how that curriculum is delivered are equally im...

Little has changed in the delivery of optometric education in Australia for the past 40 years. In existing programs students undertake study in basic disciplines prior to gaining clinical exposure. This often occurs in university staff-student clinics, which are not necessarily representative of optometric practice in the wider community. Recently two new optometry programs have opened, both lo...

CONTEXT Gender differences influence decision making about reproductive health. Most information on reproductive health decision making in Latin America has come from women's reports of men's involvement. METHODS Data were collected in Honduras in 2001 through two national surveys that used independent samples of men aged 15-59 years and women aged 15-49. Bivariate and multivariate analyses w...

Background: The birth of an exceptional child in a family can lead to Decreasing the mental well-being of family members. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of the family-centered problem-solving intervention on the mental well-being of mothers of children with autism spectrum. Method: The research design was a quasi-experimental design with a pre-test, post-test, and foll...

This article focuses upon programs for undergraduate women in science and engineering, which are a strategic research site in the study of gender, science, and higher education. The design involves both quantitative and qualitative approaches, linking theory, method, questions, and analyses in ways not undertaken previously. Using a comprehensive, quantitative, cross-institutional, and longitud...

We compared and contrasted physician assistant and physical therapy profession admissions processes based on the similar number of accredited programs in the United States and the co-existence of many programs in the same school of health professions, because both professions conduct similar centralized application procedures administered by the same organization. Many studies are critical of t...