This study is one of few studies exploring predictors for the quantity or degree of use of CAM by patients with cancer. Understanding factors related to these patients' heavier or lighter CAM use has implications for health care offerings and cancer treatment decision-making.
Five contextual factors give rise to the proposal that psychologists secure prescription privileges: (a) the historical overattachment of applied psychology to psychotherapy; (b) the oversupply of psychotherapists; (c) the rise of managed care; (d) the hegemony of syndromal classification; and (e) the weakening of the medical guild and rise of drug company attention to psychopharmacology. Whereas some of these factors present real problems for psychology, the acquisition of prescription privileges by psychologists is not the proper response. The cost to the discipline in loss of professional identify, safety, and training disruption is too great. Instead, the profession should build a more honorable alternative based on psychological science.
Sixteen inner city children attending a pedodontic clinic were shown either a filmed demonstration of a child model cooperatively undergoing dental treatment or a film unrelated to dental activity. The group viewing the modeling film showed significantly fewer disruptive behaviors during restorative care and were rated as less fearful than the control group.
The hypothesis that a low frequency of self-reinforcement is a generalized response pattern measurable by a self-report questionnaire is evaluated and supported. Preliminary reliability and validity data for the questionnaire are reported, and clinical and research applications of the questionnaire are oifered.
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