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Alcohol Misuse Among the ElderlyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
An Opportunity for Prevention Abstract: Current US census estimates predict that by the year 2020, 18% of the population will be 65 years or older. As most adults in this age group have health care needs, it is vital that clinicians are competent in identifying and intervening in the most common health issues among older adults. The article in this issue by Blazer and Wu again reminds us that alcohol use, including binge drinking, is common among older adults and that despite popular culture, alcohol misuse does not disappear as one ages. As noted in the article, the findings are very consistent with other epidemiological ...
Source: Twelve Step Facilitation.com - November 18, 2009 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: Alcohol Alcoholism Assessment Demographics Drugs Medication Older Adults Relapse prevention Research Symptoms of addiction Women at-risk drinking binge drinking Source Type: blogs

Test For Unconsciousness: The Sternal RubEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Ahhh the embattled sternal rub. Revered, reviled … the sternal rub is the Ann Coulter of medical interventions. Abrasive, annoying, loved by many, hated by many more. The subject of the usefulness of the sternal rub is bound to cause controversy in any EMS forum. In other words … it’s a great subject for The Spot. Like many controversial assessments and treatments, the sternal rub (sometimes referred to as the sternum rub) got its bad-boy reputation more from its misuse than from its own shortcomings. Never-the-less, the technique does have its shortcomings. Like so many other tools, it has its place wh...
Source: The EMT Spot - November 17, 2009 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Steve Whitehead Tags: Assessment Skills coma EMT emt assessment face flick glasgow glasgow coma score hand drop hand drop test sternal rub sternum rub unconsciousness unresponsive Source Type: blogs

International Journal of Health Technology Assessment in Health Care 2009 (Vol 25 No 4)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article assesses the role of MEDLINE and EMBASE in identifying economic evaluations. (Print subscription held at Fade Library) Posted in Journals Tagged: Contingent Valuation, Cost Effectiveness, Databases, Embase, Medline, Technology Assessment (Source: Fade Library)
Source: Fade Library - November 16, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: mevlux Tags: Journals Contingent Valuation Cost Effectiveness Databases Embase Medline Technology Assessment Source Type: blogs

Another Education Road Sign Screaming “Stop!”Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This morning the National Center for Education Statistics released a new report, Mapping State Proficiency Standards Onto NAEP Scores: 2005-2007. What the results make clear (for about the billionth time) is that government control of education has put us on a road straight to failure. Still, many of those who insist on living in denial about constant government failure in education will yet again refuse to acknowledge reality, and will actually point to this report as a reason to go down many more miles of bad road. According to the report, almost no state has set its “proficiency” levels on par with those...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 29, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Neal McCluskey Tags: Education and Child Policy General Government and Politics bureaucrat curricular standards failure government control government schooling national assessment of educational progress no child left behind parent politicians proficie Source Type: blogs

Guidance on qualified first aidersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Title: Guidance on qualified first aiders Skinny: National Minimum Standards (NMS) state: ‘a qualified first aider should be available at all times’ (NMS 38.2 for Older People and 42.2 for Younger Adults). This guidance is aimed at providers so that they can ensure the right first aid provision for people who use their services. It explains the factors that a care service provider can take into account when doing a risk assessment to find out their first aid needs. These include: the needs of service users how likely it is that first aid will be needed what kind of first aid is likely to be needed Publisher: Care ...
Source: Fade Library - October 27, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: western4uk Tags: Clinical Governance First Aid Grey Literature Guidance Private Sector Public Sector Quality Residential Care Risk Evaluation Ris Evaluation Risk Assessment Source Type: blogs

Atypical Cardiac Chest PainEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We taught you what cardiac chest pain looked like, right? You remember. We painted the perfect picture for you in your cardiac emergencies lecture in your EMT class. The pain felt like a pressure. It was brought on by exertion. It radiated to the left arm and through to the back. Sometimes, in your EMT skills stations, we would get fancy and have it begin at rest and radiate to the jaw. Just trying to keep you on your toes after all. All this stuff is good to know. But we may have done you a disservice. You may be walking around with the idea that you can do a quick OPQRST and a SAMPLE and walk away with a fairly good ...
Source: The EMT Spot - October 22, 2009 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Steve Whitehead Tags: Assessment Knowledge atypical chest pain cardiac chest pain emt assessment opqrst pain scale pain scale 1-10 sample subjective Source Type: blogs

Not much Freedom of Information at University of Wales, University of Kingston, Robert Gordon University or Napier UniversityEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion I was told by the Univerity of Kingston that “The course is one which the University has validated and continues to be subject to the University’s quality assurance procedures, such as internal subject reviews, annual monitoring and external examining” The only conclusion to be drawn from this is that “quality arrurance procedures” work about as well in universities as they did in the case of baby Peter. No doubt they were introduced with worthy aims. But in practice they occupy vast amounts of time for armies of bureaucrats, and because the brain does not need to be engaged they end u...
Source: DC's goodscience - October 20, 2009 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Academia CAM Central Lancashire Chinese medicine Edinburgh Napier University Education Freedom of Information Act Malcolm McVicar Marc Clement Michael Pittilo Northern College of Acupuncture Public relations Quality assessment Ro Source Type: blogs

All That NAEP Tells Us Is Things Ain’t GoodEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Yesterday, another round of scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress – the so-called “Nation’s Report Card” — came out. They revealed flattened 4th-grade math achivement between 2007 and 2009, and a two point (out of 500) increase in 8th grade. So what do these bits of data portend? Ask the experts: “The trend is flat; it’s a plateau. Scores are not going anywhere, at least nowhere important,” said Chester Finn, president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, according to the New York Times. “That means that eight years after enactment of No Child Left Behind, th...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 15, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Neal McCluskey Tags: Education and Child Policy CER education spending federal education finn national assessment of educational progress no child left behind school Source Type: blogs

Psychological Research on the InternetEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
URL: http://psych.hanover.edu/research/exponnet.htmlOn this website, you will find links to known experiments on the internet that are psychologically related. They are organized by general topic area with the topic areas listed chronologically with the most recently added at the top. For: AnyoneTopics: ADHD, Abnormal, Addiction, Anger, Behaviour Management, Child and Adolescent, Clinical Decision Making, Clinical Psychology, Clinicial Trials, Depression, General Psychology, Mental Health, PsychometricsFeatures: Assessment Instruments, Clinical Tools, Information, Online Research On this website, you will find links to...
Source: PsychSplash - October 14, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Psych Central Resource Editor Tags: ADHD Abnormal Addiction Anger Anyone Assessment Instruments Behaviour Management Child and Adolescent Clinical Decision Making Clinical Psychology Clinical Tools Clinicial Trials Depression Features For General Psychology I Source Type: blogs

ACT – some evidence for acceptance & commitment therapy in chronic painEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study was carried out with a group of over 100 participants attending a pain management programme. Two measurement times were used – at the time of screening for acceptance onto the programme and at the time participants started treatment, with a period of 18 weeks or so between them. None of the participants in the study had active treatment, so this is simply a study of the relationship between one variable at one point in time, and another variable at another point in time without intervention. Although you could argue that assessment is an interventions, and it’s certainly something we’ve o...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - October 14, 2009 Category: Occupational Therapists Authors: adiemusfree Tags: Chronic pain Coping Skills Resilience assessment health therapy acceptance ACT research treatment values Source Type: blogs

Alcohol Use for PainEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study examined the occurrence of alcohol use to manage pain in community-dwelling adults with tooth pain, jaw joint/face pain, and arthritis. Race/ethnicity, sex, and age were examined to determine their associations with alcohol use for pain. Community-dwelling adults from South Florida with tooth pain (n = 1,767), jaw joint/face pain (n = 1,199), or arthritis pain (n = 1,355) completed a structured telephone interview. Logistic regression models indicted that, similar to population rates, non-Hispanic whites and males were the most likely to use alcohol to manage pain. In addition, alcohol use for pain...
Source: Twelve Step Facilitation.com - October 6, 2009 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: Alcohol Alcoholism Assessment Drugs Medication Narcotics Anon Research Target populations arthritis face pain jaw joint orofacial tooth Source Type: blogs

WJ III Braille Adapted achievement tests now availableEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Sorry. After making this post there were reported technical difficulties with links. Can't figure it out just yet. Will update in the future (Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner))
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - October 2, 2009 Category: Neurologists Tags: braille assessment adpatations accomodations American Printing House for Blind achievement WJ III Source Type: blogs

Implicit AssociationsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
URL: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/Presented by the University of Washington and Yale University, there are different assessments that don’t take much time to take (usually five minutes or less) and have different things in them–such as gender, race, names, presidents, etc. When you take the assessment, you pick what you feel is related to that name or meaning. For: Clinicians, Researchers, Students, Teachers, ConsumersTopics: ADHD, Abnormal, Academia, Addiction, Behaviour Management, Bipolar, General Psychology, Health Psychology, Mental Health, Psychology and Technology, Teaching, Writing, Academia, B...
Source: PsychSplash - September 30, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Psych Central Resource Editor Tags: Academia Assessment Instruments Behaviour Management Clinical Tools Cognitive Consumers Editor's Pick Features For Information Teaching Topics Source Type: blogs

International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care 2009 (Vol 25 Supplement 1)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article looks at the general development and present situation concerning health technology assessment in the UK including its developments and rising concerns. (Print subscription held at Fade Library) Posted in Journals Tagged: Decision Making, Health Planning, Health Technology Assessment (Source: Fade Library)
Source: Fade Library - September 29, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: mevlux Tags: Journals Decision Making Health Planning Health Technology Assessment Source Type: blogs

Is 360-degree feedback for doctors usefull or not?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
During residency new doctors are faced with several assessments. The 360-degree feedback is just one of them. It involves the evaluation of performance on various tasks by, firstly, peers with knowledge of a similar scope of practice, secondly, co-workers from allied health professions and, thirdly, patients. Or: ‘letting future behaviour be guided by a systematic and critical analysis of past actions and their consequences’. How the 360-degree feedback is put into practice differs with were they work. The most often heard complaint by residents about these 360-degree feedback is: “how can a secretary judge me&#...
Source: Dr Shock MD PhD - September 21, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Dr Shock Tags: Education assessment feedback medical education Source Type: blogs

Neuropsychology Abstract of the Day: Aphasia AssessmentEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions & Implications: The data support the reliability and validity of the Scenario Test as an instrument for examining daily-life communication in aphasia. The test focuses on multimodal communication; its psychometric qualities enable future studies on the effect of Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) training in aphasia.PMID: 19724959 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: BrainBlog)
Source: BrainBlog - September 16, 2009 Category: Neurologists Tags: cva neuropsychology assessment aphasia stroke brain CNS Source Type: blogs

Alcoholic Liver DiseaseEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Addictive drinking, but not minor slips, is associated with increased mortality. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] (Source: Twelve Step Facilitation.com)
Source: Twelve Step Facilitation.com - September 14, 2009 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: Adjunctive therapy Alcohol Alcoholics Anon Alcoholism Assessment Disease of addiction Drugs Recovery Relapse prevention Target populations Training cirrhosis liver substance abuse Source Type: blogs

The Role of AA SponsorsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A pilot study of the role of AA sponsors An AA sponsor is a close 1-on-1 collaboration between an older sober member and a relative newcomer to sobriety. Its a two way helping relationship – the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] (Source: Twelve Step Facilitation.com)
Source: Twelve Step Facilitation.com - September 13, 2009 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: 12-Step Groups Adjunctive therapy Alcohol Alcoholics Anon Alcoholism Assessment Brief-TSF Contrast to other models Disease of addiction Mutual-help Recovery Relapse prevention Research Self-help Alcoholics Anonymous Affiliation Source Type: blogs

The Role of AA SponsorsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSIONS: The roles identified broadly corresponded with the AA literature delineating the duties of a sponsor. This non-random sample of sponsors was highly engaged in AA activity but only had a past history of moderate alcohol dependence. Research; The role of AA sponsors: a pilot study. Whelan PJ, Marshall EJ, Ball DM, Humphreys K. Alcohol Alcohol. 2009 Jul-Aug;44(4):416-22. Epub 2009 Mar 18. See also; 12 Step Sponsor Twelve-Step Programs as an Adjunct to Psychotherapy and Psychopharmacology Brief-TSF can assist patients cease alcohol consumption. ALCOHOLISM MYTHS Screening for Alcohol Problems The Twelve-...
Source: Twelve Step Facilitation.com - September 13, 2009 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: 12-Step Groups Adjunctive therapy Alcohol Alcoholics Anon Alcoholism Assessment Brief-TSF Contrast to other models Disease of addiction Mutual-help Recovery Relapse prevention Research Self-help Alcoholics Anonymous Affiliation Source Type: blogs

Pandemic influenza paediatric clinical pathways: information for health care professionals working in primary care and the communityEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Title: Pandemic influenza paediatric clinical pathways: information for health care professionals working in primary care and the community The Skinny: Forms part of the Swine Flu Clinical Package and should be used with the adult modules and provides additional paediatric information suitable for clinical staff in locations where acute medical care may be provided to children. This information should be used in combination with local training by paediatric specialist staff as available to you. Publisher: DH Size of Publication: 21p Published: 09/09/2009 Posted in Children, Grey Literature, Infants, Influenza, Neonates, ...
Source: Fade Library - September 10, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: western4uk Tags: Children Grey Literature Infants Influenza NHS Neonates Pandemic Young People Acute Services Adults Ambulance Services Assessment Care Pathways H1N1 Primary Care Source Type: blogs

Research Shows $100 Billion Ed. Stimulus Likely Hurting EconomyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Tomorrow morning, the president’s Council of Economic Advisers will release a report assessing the short and long-term effects of the stimulus bill on the U.S. economy. As with previous iterations, this report will attempt to forecast overall effects of the stimulus across its many different components and the different economic sectors it targets. In doing so, it ignores the clearest research findings available pertaining to a key portion of the stimulus: k-12 education. The president has committed $100 billion in new money to the nation’s public school systems, and required that states accepting the funds pro...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 9, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Andrew J. Coulson Tags: Education and Child Policy Government and Politics Tax and Budget Policy department of education economic growth economists economy educational productivity k-12 money national assessment of educational progress public school publi Source Type: blogs

Handbook of AlcoholismEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
While the war on drugs continues to attract world attention, it is often overlooked that alcoholism remains a major worldwide health concern. No matter what your expertise, the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] (Source: Twelve Step Facilitation.com)
Source: Twelve Step Facilitation.com - September 9, 2009 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: Addiction Alcohol Alcoholism Assessment Disease of addiction Medication Research Training books counselling dependent health war on drugs Source Type: blogs

Seven Flawless Physical Restraint TipsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Physical restraint techniques and procedures are a subject of debate and controversy in EMS. Few agencies have taken the time and energy to research and develop a comprehensive restraint guideline for field providers to follow. When violent or aggressive patients show up (and they always do) EMT’s are left to fend for themselves. In these situations we take on a great deal of risk, both personal and legal, to bring the patient safely to the hospital. I’ve had my share of both good and bad take-downs. When things go well the call transitions smoothly from the street to the hospital. The patient stays protected,...
Source: The EMT Spot - September 8, 2009 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Steve Whitehead Tags: Skills advocate behavioral emergency care EMT emt assessment people care restraint Source Type: blogs

Intake Symptomatology and AA ParticipationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Longitudinal model of intake symptomatology, AA participation and outcome: Retrospective study of the project MATCH outpatient and aftercare samples. The present study used data gathered in Project... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] (Source: Twelve Step Facilitation.com)
Source: Twelve Step Facilitation.com - September 8, 2009 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: 12-Step Groups Alcohol Alcoholics Anon Alcoholism Assessment Source Type: blogs

Identifying Teen Alcohol Abuse or DependenceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSIONS: The Chilean version of the AUDIT is a valid and reliable tool for identifying adolescents with hazardous, harmful, and dependent alcohol use. The suggested cut-off points make screening with the AUDIT more accurate for adolescent populations. Research; Drug Alcohol Depend. 2009 Aug 1;103(3):155-8. Epub 2009 May 6. The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) as a screening instrument for adolescents. Santis R, Garmendia ML, Acuña G, Alvarado ME, Arteaga O. See also; 12-Step Treatment More Effective than Alternative Brief-TSF ASSESSMENT Brief-TSF can assist patients cease alcohol consumption. Learn...
Source: Twelve Step Facilitation.com - September 1, 2009 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: Alcohol Alcoholism Assessment Demographics Research Symptoms of addiction Target populations Youth AUDIT Chile Chilean Spanish WHO World Health Organization Source Type: blogs

Safety behaviours – do they maintain kinesiophobia?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Let me start by saying this post is conjecture, but based both on observing patients, and after reading an interesting paper on ’subtle avoidance and safety behaviours relevant to social anxiety’. First some definitions: I hope you’re all familiar with the term ‘kinesiophobia’, or ‘fear of movement’ – it’s the fear and avoidance of movements that an individual believes will hurt or harm them. Safety behaviours: are strategies that may be used to reduce the anxiety of carrying out a behaviour – and are usually ‘logically’ linked to the underlying belief...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - August 24, 2009 Category: Occupational Therapists Authors: adiemusfree Tags: Chronic pain Coping Skills Low back pain assessment psychology research therapy health disability pain management occupational therapy physiotherapy activity avoidance pain-related anxiety and avoidance coping strategies ki Source Type: blogs

The Team Around the Child TAC and the lead professional: A guide for managersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Title: The Team Around the Child TAC and the lead professional: A guide for managers The Skinny: Replaces guidance originally published by the DfES in 2006 and reprinted in 2007. It remains non-statutory guidance. The new guidance has been updated and re-titled in order to reflect policy developments and include revisions identified in consultation with practitioners and managers across the children and young people’s workforce. It also seeks to link together the processes and tools, to show how collaboratively they provide a package of support to help practitioners and managers implement integrated working in their prac...
Source: Fade Library - August 24, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: western4uk Tags: Child Protection Services Children Education Grey Literature Interagency Relations Local Authorities NHS Public Sector Quality Social Services Vulnerable People Young People Common Assessment Framework Guidance Integrated Care Source Type: blogs

Early identification, assessment of needs and intervention – The Common Assessment Framework for children and young people: A guide for managersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Title: Early identification, assessment of needs and intervention – The Common Assessment Framework for children and young people: A guide for managers The Skinny: Replaces guidance originally published by the DfES in 2006 and reprinted in 2007. It remains non-statutory guidance. The new guidance has been updated and re-titled in order to reflect policy developments and include revisions identified in consultation with practitioners and managers across the children and young people’s workforce. It also seeks to link together the processes and tools, to show how collaboratively they provide a package of support to h...
Source: Fade Library - August 24, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: western4uk Tags: Children Education Grey Literature Local Authorities NHS Quality Social Services Vulnerable People Young People Child Protection Common Assessment Framework Guidance Integrated Care Integrated Working Management Safeguarding Source Type: blogs

Early identification, assessment of needs and intervention – The Common Assessment Framework for children and young people: A guide for practitionersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Title: Early identification, assessment of needs and intervention – The Common Assessment Framework for children and young people: A guide for practitioners The Skinny: Replaces guidance originally published by the DfES in 2006 and reprinted in 2007. It remains non-statutory guidance. The new guidance has been updated and re-titled in order to reflect policy developments and include revisions identified in consultation with practitioners and managers across the children and young people’s workforce. It also seeks to link together the processes and tools, to show how collaboratively they provide a package of support...
Source: Fade Library - August 24, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: western4uk Tags: Child Protection Services Children Education Grey Literature Interagency Relations Local Authorities NHS Quality Social Services Vulnerable People Young People Common Assessment Framework Guidance Integrated Care Integrated Wor Source Type: blogs

Twelve Step Facilitation (TSF) WorksEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article discusses the rationale for interventions that facilitate alcohol-dependent patients’ affiliations with AA and related mutual-help organizations (e.g., Narcotics Anonymous [NA]). The article also reviews recent research comparing those interventions with other treatment methods. Research; Professional Interventions That Facilitate 12-Step Self-Help Group Involvement. Journal article by Keith Humphreys; Alcohol Research & Health, Vol. 23, 1999 The Twelve-Step Facilitation Handbook: A Systematic Approach to Early Recovery from Alcoholism and Addiction by Joseph Nowinski See also; Twel...
Source: Twelve Step Facilitation.com - August 21, 2009 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: 12-Step Groups Addiction Adjunctive therapy Alcohol Alcoholics Anon Alcoholism Assessment Brief-TSF Buy Brief-TSF Disease of addiction Mutual-help Recovery Relapse prevention Research Self-help Stages of Change Training b Source Type: blogs

Functional capacity evaluations – my take on them!Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Functional capacity evaluations There are many forms of functional assessment available. These range from a series of structured activities carried out in the home or work environment over a period of days or weeks to those that are carried out in a very precise manner in a clinic and often under the supervision of an occupational therapist or physiotherapist. Both commercial (ie standardised and franchised) ‘Functional capacity evaluations’ (FCE) are available, as well as semi-structured or individualised assessments. The term functional capacity evaluation has been criticised, because it can suggest that it is ab...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - August 20, 2009 Category: Occupational Therapists Authors: adiemusfree Tags: Chronic pain Low back pain Return to Work assessment occupational therapy pain management Clinical reasoning physiotherapy function FCE RTW functional assessment Source Type: blogs

International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care 2009 (Vol 25 No 3)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article looks at a study which investigated the views of UK stakeholders on the current arrangements for implementing “only in research” decisions as well as how improvements might be made. (Print subscription held at Fade Library) Posted in Journals Tagged: Cost Effectiveness, Medical Technology, Policy, Technology Assessment (Source: Fade Library)
Source: Fade Library - August 19, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: mevlux Tags: Journals Cost Effectiveness Medical Technology Policy Technology Assessment Source Type: blogs

Assessments of parenting and parenting support needEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Title: Assessments of parenting and parenting support need (Summary) The Skinny: Looks at how a range of health, education and family practitioners make their assessments of parenting and parenting support need. It also considers if and how these ideas were affected by factors such as practitioners’ own experience of being a parent, relationships with their own parents, their ethnicity, social class, disability, and gender and that of the families they are working with. The project draws on 54 qualitative interviews with practitioners from four professional groups and explores: the process for assessing parenting an...
Source: Fade Library - August 17, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: western4uk Tags: Grey Literature NHS Parenting Quality Assessment Social Services Support Training Source Type: blogs

Practice Management 2009 (Vol. 19 No. 7)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article argues that obesity is a biological problem – not a psychological problem. (Print subscription held at Fade Library) Posted in Journals, Obesity, Psychology Tagged: Obesity, Obesity Surgery, Psychiatry, Psychological Assessment, Psychology (Source: Fade Library)
Source: Fade Library - August 13, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: bsnnbrou Tags: Journals Obesity Psychology Obesity Surgery Psychiatry Psychological Assessment Source Type: blogs

Functional capacity evaluations – do they predict function in the ‘real world’?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
What do you do when a client has a goal ‘to establish functional abilities for work’, spends a lot of time looking at setting baselines at home, develops a good knowledge of how to maintain consistency, starts to work and sustains abilities in a specific workplace, then completes a functional capacity evaluation that says he can do more than what he’s identified he can? I’ve had a long-standing interest in whether functional assessments carried out in a clinic or work setting over a single session (or even two-day period) can predict sustainable function in a ‘real world’ setting such as...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - August 13, 2009 Category: Occupational Therapists Authors: adiemusfree Tags: Chronic pain Return to Work assessment research disability FCE function functional capacity evaluation health occupational therapy Source Type: blogs

Historical Brazil psychological assessment instrumentsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
While attending the Brazilian assessment/measurement conference we were treated to a visit to a collection of historical psychological assessment instruments. Below are pictures of a few...and a few select comments. I've requested the name of the professional who has these instruments in her collection and will post her name as soon as I receive it. I found this very interesting....as I also collect old measures of cognitive functioning.An obvious concept formation category test (Gf)A tool to measure some aspect of psychomotor strength (Gp)A measure of psychomotor dexterity and speed (Gp, Gps)A very neat HUGE single blog a...
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - August 4, 2009 Category: Neurologists Tags: assessment history intelligence Brazil Source Type: blogs

Nutritional Therapy in Alcoholic Liver DiseaseEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Role of Nutritional Therapy in Alcoholic Liver Disease By Christopher M. Griffith, M.D., and Steven Schenker, M.D. Alcoholic liver disease (ALD) evolves through various stages, and malnutrition correlates with the severity of ALD. Poor nutrition is caused both by the substitution of calories from alcohol for calories from food and by the malabsorption and maldigestion of various nutrients attributed to ALD. The only established therapy for ALD consists of abstinence from alcohol. Sufficient nutritional repletion coupled with appropriate supportive treatment modalities may be effective in reducing complications associat...
Source: Twelve Step Facilitation.com - July 31, 2009 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: Adjunctive therapy Alcohol Alcoholism Assessment Detoxification Medication Research Source Type: blogs

Neuropsychology Abstract of the Day: fMRI Study of Digit Symbol TaskEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In this study, we examined the cortical areas related to cognitive aspects of DST using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and determined executive brain functions involved in this test on the basis of fMRI results. Eleven healthy young adults (mean=21.6 years) performed a modified DST (mDST) task and its control task, which required a simple graphomotor response during fMRI data acquisition. The direct comparison of brain activations between the mDST task and the control task revealed greater activations in a fronto-parietal cortical network, including the bilateral inferior frontal sulci, left middle frontal gy...
Source: BrainBlog - July 29, 2009 Category: Neurologists Tags: neuropsychology assessment neuroimaging Wechsler cognition fMRI brain psychometrics CNS Source Type: blogs

AAA to deploy Brain Fitness Software DriveSharp to Assess and Train Older Driver's BrainsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety just started to recommend a new driver safety program called DriveSharp (see AAA and Posit Release Program to Improve Drivers' Minds), developed by Posit Science. DriveSharp is a computerized cognitive assessment and training tool based on Karlene Ball's research on older adults' cognitive fitness and driving. In the press release for the agreement, Peter Kissinger, driver safety research and policy veteran and CEO of the AAA Foundation, says that "Part of making our nation's roads safer is helping mature drivers who wish to stay active - a quickly growing population - maintain ...
Source: SharpBrains - July 14, 2009 Category: Neurologists Authors: Alvaro Fernandez Tags: Health & Wellness Brain Fitness Industry AAA AAA Foundation AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety aging cognitive fitness Cognitive Training computerized cognitive assessment crash rates DMV driver safety DriverZED DriveSharp d Source Type: blogs

5 Steps to Find the Real You: An Interview with David Borchard, Ed.D. NCCEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
My interview today is with David Borchard, Ed.D. NCC, a licensed professional counselor career management consultant with 30 years of experience helping adults identify their passions and develop a vision for the next phase of their lives. He specializes in career management coaching and life/work transition counseling and has helped thousands of adults regenerate their careers. Dr. Borchard is also the author of three books: “Your Career Planner”, “Will The Real You Please Stand UP?” (He’s not talking about multiple personalities here), and “The Joy of Retirement.” Oh, and he̵...
Source: World of Psychology - July 11, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: General Industrial and Workplace Men's Issues Mental Health and Wellness On the Couch Personal Personality Psychology Self-Esteem 5 Steps Attribute Batteries Blue Note career assessment Career Coach career counseling Career Source Type: blogs

WJ III CHC cluster g an specificity characteristics: Floyd et al. (2009) publishedEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The following article, which was previously previewed in an earlier post, has now been published. Check the prior post for links to supplementary tables mentioned in the article. [Conflict of interest disclosure - I am a co-author of the WJ III, which was the focus of this publication]Floyd, R., McGrew, K., Barry, A., Rafael, F & Rogers, J. (2009) General and Specific Effects on Cattell–Horn–Carroll Broad Ability Composites: Analysis of the Woodcock–Johnson III Normative Update CHC Factor Clusters Across Development. School Psychology Review, 38(2), 249-265AbstractMany school psychologists focus their interpretat...
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - July 7, 2009 Category: Neurologists Tags: g (gen intelligence) WJ III NU g (gen IQ) ISIR Woodcock specificity CHC theory ISIR Corner assessment factor analysis psychometrics Source Type: blogs

Applied Psych Test Development Series: Parts C/D--Develop norm plan and calculating normsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The fourth and fifth in the series Art and Science of Applied Test Development is now available. The fourth module (Part D--Develop norm [standardization] plan) is now available.The fifth module (Part E--Calcuate norms and derived scores) is also now available.These are the fourth and fifth in a series of PPT modules explicating the development of psychological tests in the domain of cognitive ability using contemporary methods (e.g., theory-driven test specification; IRT-Rasch scaling; etc.). The presentations are intended to be conceptual and not statistical in nature. Feedback is appreciated.This project can be tracked ...
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - July 1, 2009 Category: Neurologists Tags: test development Woodock IRT assessment testing Source Type: blogs

Applied Psych Test Development Series: Part C--Use of Rasch scaling technologyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The third in the series Art and Science of Applied Test Development is now available. The third module (Part C: Test and Item Development--Use of Rasch Scaling Technology) is now available.This is the third in a series of PPT modules explicating the development of psychological tests in the domain of cognitive ability using contemporary methods (e.g., theory-driven test specification; IRT-Rasch scaling; etc.). The presentations are intended to be conceptual and not statistical in nature. Feedback is appreciated.This project can be tracked on the left-side pane of the blog under the heading of Applied Test Development Test ...
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - June 29, 2009 Category: Neurologists Tags: test development Woodock IRT Rasch assessment measurement ISIR Gv psychometrics ISIR Corner CHC theory Source Type: blogs

More make-believe from the University of Westminster. This time it’s NaturopathyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Here is a short break from the astonishing festival of chiropractic that has followed the British Chiropractic Association (BCA) v Simon Singh defamation case, and the absurd NICE guidance on low back pain. Singh’s statement already has over 10000 signatories, many very distinguished, Sign it now if you haven’t already. And getting on for 600 separate complaints about exaggerated and false claims by chiropractors have been lodged with the General Chiropractic Council and with Trading Standards offices. Click to sign The BCA has exposed the baselessness of most of chiropractic’s claims m...
Source: DC's Improbable Science - June 25, 2009 Category: Pharmacists and Pharmacologists Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Academia Anti-science British Chiropractic Association CAM Dangerous advice Freedom of speech General Chiropractic Council Geoffrey Petts Quality assessment Universities University of Westminster Westminster university antioxidant Source Type: blogs

A Positive Case Formulation for Chronic PainEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The past couple of days I’ve looked at resilience, strengths and growth as part of assessing a person with chronic pain. The rationale is that although we are often seeking to provide support for deficits, or develop strengths, I wonder whether we always appreciate what people already have used to live with their pain. To illustrate how we might include positive coping resources, I thought I’d provide a case study, based on a real person but with details somewhat disguised to protect confidentiality. Kevin is an ex-mechanic with low back pain that hasn’t responded well to nerve blocks. He’s had hi...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - June 23, 2009 Category: Occupational Therapists Authors: adiemusfree Tags: Chronic pain Clinical reasoning Motivation Resilience assessment health therapy acceptance biopsychosocial coping strategies function goals pain management rehabilitation Source Type: blogs

Bouncing back – resilienceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
After looking at positive coping in my post from yesterday, I hoped to bring an assessment to light – and lo and behold I found one! This brief assessment differs from other resilience measures in that it looks at recovery, resistance, growth and adaptation rather than simply the resources a person might bring into a stressful situation. Smith and colleagues from the University of New Mexico developed this assessment and tested it on four groups of people – those recovering from cardiac problems, a group of women with fibromyalgia, and as usual, two groups of university students. What’s nice about this sc...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - June 22, 2009 Category: Occupational Therapists Authors: adiemusfree Tags: Coping Skills Resilience assessment health biopsychosocial change Chronic pain coping strategies function pain management Resources self management Source Type: blogs

Accentuate the positiveEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
How often do we spend most of our assessment time looking at people’s problems, deficits, functional difficulties? I know that much of my time in assessment involves looking across a range of domains and experiences – and whooops! by the time we come to an end I’ve hardly looked at what this person has continued doing despite their pain and distress. After reading this 2005 paper by Tedeshi and Kilmer I’m ready to re-orient myself and review the structure of my assessment interview to see how I can integrate the resources and strengths that a person brings into the situation. There are three main ar...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - June 21, 2009 Category: Occupational Therapists Authors: adiemusfree Tags: Motivation Resilience assessment health pain acceptance change Chronic pain Clinical reasoning function growth pain management positive psychology self efficacy therapy Source Type: blogs

WMF Press: Dean-Woodcock Neuropsych Report SoftwareEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Woodcock-Munoz Foundation (WMF) Press has just made its first publication--- a piece of neuropsychological assessment report software. The Dean-Woodcock Neuropsychological Report is a scoring and interpretive program that assists qualified evaluators and service providers in creating neuropsychological reports based on test results from the Dean-Woodcock™ Neuropsychological Battery™, the Woodcock-Johnson® III, and the Batería III NU Woodcock-Muñoz®. Click here to be taken to the page, which also lists requirements necessary to download the software for free.[Conflict of interest - I'm the Research Director for ...
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - June 17, 2009 Category: Neurologists Tags: Woodock WMF assessment software neuropschology report software Dean-Woodcock Neuropsych Battery Source Type: blogs

WCST: Does it really measure frontal lobe executive functions?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
ConclusionsThe present interest in prefrontal cortex function has renewed the use of the WCST in clinical and experimental settings. However, much criticism has questioned the utility of this test as a marker of prefrontal function. A critical review of clinical studies suggests that the original WCST does not distinguish between frontal and non-frontal lesions. Likewise, functional neuroimaging studies confirm that delivery of negative feedback during WCST rule transitions activates a widespread network of frontal and non-frontal regions within a split-second time scale. New methodological and conceptual advances from the...
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - June 16, 2009 Category: Neurologists Tags: assessment WCST executive functions neuropschology executive functioning frontal lobes brain location Source Type: blogs

Art and Science of Test Development: Encyclopedia of Gv (visual-spatial) testsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Yesterday I blogged about my "Art and Science of Test Development" project. Today I continue with another tidbit.When trying to develop new tests to measure cognitive abilities, a test developer often looks at existing tests (whats been done before). Many years ago I was given a Xeroxed copy of the large and out-of-print International Directory of Spatial Tests", which is a godsend if you are thinking of developing a new measure in the domain of Gv (visual processing). It includes images and brief descriptions of over 390 different visual-spatial tests grouped into 13 categories. We (authors of the WJ III) used i...
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - June 11, 2009 Category: Neurologists Tags: test development assessment ISIR Gv psychometrics CHC theory Source Type: blogs