Effects of LifeSkills Training on Medical Students' Performance in Dealing with Complex Clinical Cases

Abstract

The relationship between the quality of clinical decision-making and personality characteristics was confirmed. The potential to modify this relationship using a brief cognitive behavior intervention suggests that such interventions should be an essential component of medical education.

Cognitive behavioral therapy to reduce overt aggression behavior in Chinese young male violent offenders

“…It is closely associated with aggression, especially verbal and physical aggression (Barratt, ; Ramirez & Andreu, ). Consistent with previous research, WLST has been shown to reduce hostility and improve handling of difficult patient scenarios in U.S. medical students (Campo et al, ), to reduce anger and blood pressure and heart rate and rest and during anger recall in Singaporean male coronary bypass patients (Bishop et al, ) and to increase anger control and reduce anger directed inward, anxiety and daytime blood pressure in U.S. inner city adolescents (Barnes et al, ). In addition to improved awareness and evaluation of reactions to distressing situations, this hostility reduction benefit of WLST is also likely to be due to the interpersonal skills training.…”

“…Bishop et al () found in a randomized controlled trial of male Chinese, Malay, and Indian coronary bypass patients in Singapore that WLST produced significant decreases not only in anger and resting blood pressure and heart rate, but also reduced the increase in blood pressure and heart rate during recall of a situation in which the patient experienced anger—findings suggesting improved interpretation of and evaluation of one's reaction to distressing situations. Campo et al () found that WLST reduces hostility and improves competence in difficult patient scenarios in medical students, a finding that our group has replicated in Chinese medical students (Zhu et al, ). These concrete findings, combined with its targeting of social‐cognitive information processing approaches associated with higher aggression, suggest that WLST has considerable promise as a means of reducing aggression in young violent offenders in China.…”

Effcacy of Williams LifeSkills Training in improving psychological health of Chinese male juvenile violent offenders: a randomized controlled study

“…In this 9-week study, we found that WLST significantly improved trait anxiety, negative coping skills, and tangible social support, with a close-to-significant trend toward a larger decrease in depression, among male juvenile violent [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] as well as in meta-analysis of interventions relevant to young offenders with mood disorders, anxiety disorders, or selfharm tendencies [23] . These findings reinforce our similar previous fi ndings that WLST improves psychosocial health in Chinese medical students [18] , as well as our prior study in this same incarcerated population of young male offenders in which WLST produced significant reductions in overt aggressive tendencies, hostility, and impulsivity [17] .…”

“…WLST also reduces hostility and maladaptive clinical decision-making in U.S. medical students [16] and overt aggression, hostility, and impulsivity in young Chinese male violent offenders [17] .…”

Adaptation and implementation of an evidence-based behavioral medicine program in diverse global settings: The Williams LifeSkills experience

“…In one, done by Campo et al [36], secondyear medical students who participated in the WLS ® workshop over a 2-day period showed significant reductions in hostility and in the use of placating and avoidant responses in difficult patient scenarios following the training. In contrast, a comparison group of second-year students the following year who did not receive WLS ® training showed slight increases in both hostility and placating and avoidant responses.…”