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Ergonomics: Safety Or Wellness Issue, William C. Mcpeck Apr 2009

Ergonomics: Safety Or Wellness Issue, William C. Mcpeck

William C. McPeck

This is an article I wrote for the worksite wellness newsletter of a local health related non-profit.


Book Review 22 Liberation From The Lie: Cutting The Roots Of Fear Once And For All, William C. Mcpeck Apr 2009

Book Review 22 Liberation From The Lie: Cutting The Roots Of Fear Once And For All, William C. Mcpeck

William C. McPeck

This is my personal review of Liberation From the Lie: Cutting the Roots of Fear Once and for All by Eric Gross, BookSurge Publishing, 2009.


Book Review 21 The Immunity To Change By Robert Kegan And Lisa Laskow Lahey, William C. Mcpeck Mar 2009

Book Review 21 The Immunity To Change By Robert Kegan And Lisa Laskow Lahey, William C. Mcpeck

William C. McPeck

This is my personal review of Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization (Leadership for the Common Good) by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey,


Book Review 20 - The Tazie Effect By Heather Whittaker, William C. Mcpeck Mar 2009

Book Review 20 - The Tazie Effect By Heather Whittaker, William C. Mcpeck

William C. McPeck

This is my personal review of the book, The Tazie Effect by Healther Whittaker, published in March 2009, by Penn-Tech Professionals.


Application Of Positive Psychology Research Findings At The Worksite, William C. Mcpeck Feb 2009

Application Of Positive Psychology Research Findings At The Worksite, William C. Mcpeck

William C. McPeck

This presentation examined three issues: 1. The elements that make up positive psychology 2. The challenges associated with applying research findings 3. Examples of how several elements of positive psychology might be applied at the worksite


Worksite Wellness And The 10 Essential Public Health Services, William C. Mcpeck Feb 2009

Worksite Wellness And The 10 Essential Public Health Services, William C. Mcpeck

William C. McPeck

This white paper examines how the 10 Essential Public Health Services being promoted by the CDC relate to worksite wellness.


Maine's Aging Workforce: Calamity Or Opportunity?, William C. Mcpeck Jan 2009

Maine's Aging Workforce: Calamity Or Opportunity?, William C. Mcpeck

William C. McPeck

This presentation explored the issues associated with Maine's aging workforce and offered strategies to employers to help them address many of the issues.


Modelling Contralesional Movement Slowing After Unilateral Brain Damage., Casimir Jh Ludwig, Ian D. Gilchrist, Stephen H. Butler, Stephanie Rossit, Monika Harvey Jan 2009

Modelling Contralesional Movement Slowing After Unilateral Brain Damage., Casimir Jh Ludwig, Ian D. Gilchrist, Stephen H. Butler, Stephanie Rossit, Monika Harvey

Dr. Stephanie Rossit

No abstract provided.


Immediate And Delayed Reaching In Hemispatial Neglect, Stephanie Rossit, Keith Muir, Ian Reeves, George Duncan, Philip Birschel, Monika Harvey Jan 2009

Immediate And Delayed Reaching In Hemispatial Neglect, Stephanie Rossit, Keith Muir, Ian Reeves, George Duncan, Philip Birschel, Monika Harvey

Dr. Stephanie Rossit

No abstract provided.


The Neural Basis Of Visuomotor Deficits In Hemispatial Neglect., Stephanie Rossit Dr., Paresh Malhotra, Keith Muir, George Duncan, Ian Reeves, Philip Birschel, Monika Harvey Jan 2009

The Neural Basis Of Visuomotor Deficits In Hemispatial Neglect., Stephanie Rossit Dr., Paresh Malhotra, Keith Muir, George Duncan, Ian Reeves, Philip Birschel, Monika Harvey

Dr. Stephanie Rossit

No abstract provided.


Non-Lateralized Deficits In Anti-Saccade Performance In Patients With Hemispatial Neglect, Stephen H. Butler, Stephanie Rossit Dr., Ian Gilchrist, Casimir Ludwig, Bettina Olk, Keith Muir, Ian Reeves, Monika Harvey Jan 2009

Non-Lateralized Deficits In Anti-Saccade Performance In Patients With Hemispatial Neglect, Stephen H. Butler, Stephanie Rossit Dr., Ian Gilchrist, Casimir Ludwig, Bettina Olk, Keith Muir, Ian Reeves, Monika Harvey

Dr. Stephanie Rossit

No abstract provided.


No Neglect-Specific Deficits In Reaching Tasks, Stephanie Rossit Dr., Paresh Malhotra, Keith Muir, George Duncan, Ian Reeves, Katrina Livingstone, Hazel Jackson, Caroline Hogg, Pauline Castle, Gemma Learmonth, Monika Harvey Jan 2009

No Neglect-Specific Deficits In Reaching Tasks, Stephanie Rossit Dr., Paresh Malhotra, Keith Muir, George Duncan, Ian Reeves, Katrina Livingstone, Hazel Jackson, Caroline Hogg, Pauline Castle, Gemma Learmonth, Monika Harvey

Dr. Stephanie Rossit

No abstract provided.


"Let's Do The Time Warp Again": Assessing The Competence Of Counsel In Mental Health Conservatorship Proceedings, Grant H. Morris Jan 2009

"Let's Do The Time Warp Again": Assessing The Competence Of Counsel In Mental Health Conservatorship Proceedings, Grant H. Morris

Grant H Morris

Thirty years ago, I wrote an article on mental health conservatorships in California and the role of counsel for persons for whom a conservatorship has been proposed. Data was gathered on the performance of attorneys in court hearings conducted in San Diego County Superior Court. The data revealed that lawyers representing proposed conservatees were inactive and ineffective in representing their clients’ interests. The lawyers did not consider themselves advocates in an adversary process in which conservatorship was to be avoided. A year after the article was published, the California Supreme Court, citing that article as authority for the “paternalistic attitude” …


Kenya Aby Program Highlighted At Unite For Sight Conference In New Haven, Leah Neubauer Jan 2009

Kenya Aby Program Highlighted At Unite For Sight Conference In New Haven, Leah Neubauer

Leah C. Neubauer

No abstract provided.


Future Orientation Of Adolescents In Foster Care: Relationship To Trauma, Mental Health, And Hiv Risk Behaviors, Peter Cabrera, Wendy Auslander, Michael Polgar Jan 2009

Future Orientation Of Adolescents In Foster Care: Relationship To Trauma, Mental Health, And Hiv Risk Behaviors, Peter Cabrera, Wendy Auslander, Michael Polgar

Elián P. Cabrera-Nguyen

Future orientation has been found to protect against risk behaviors in adolescents from diverse backgrounds. However, no studies have specifically examined future orientation as a potential protective factor against HIV risk behaviors in foster care adolescents. In this study, 343 foster care adolescents were interviewed about their future orientation, mental health, trauma histories, and cognitions related to HIV risk behaviors. Results indicated variability in future orientation, but there were no significant differences by race, gender, and age. Future orientation was significantly associated with mental health, trauma, HIV-related knowledge, attitudes, behavioral intentions, and number of sexual intercourse partners. Furthermore, externalizing behaviors …


An Examination Of The Persistence Of The Residual Child Welfare System In The United States: Addressing Charges Of Radical Theoretical Myopia With Implications For Social Work Practice, Peter Cabrera Jan 2009

An Examination Of The Persistence Of The Residual Child Welfare System In The United States: Addressing Charges Of Radical Theoretical Myopia With Implications For Social Work Practice, Peter Cabrera

Elián P. Cabrera-Nguyen

The United States follows what has been termed a residual approach to its public child welfare system. This article describes the residual model and contrasts it with the policies of other industrialized nations. It also explores the causes and persistence of the residual model in the United States through the lens of structural-functionalist theory. By doing so, this article attempts to respond to critics of structural social work who maintain that it is overly reliant on conflict theory and has nothing to offer in terms of distinct practice methods. Suggestions for a structurally informed social work practice are made.


A Critique Of The False-Positive Report Probability, Joseph Lucke Jan 2009

A Critique Of The False-Positive Report Probability, Joseph Lucke

Joseph Lucke

The false positive report probability (FPRP) was proposed as a Bayesian prophylactic against false reports of significant associations. Unfortunately, the derivation of the FPRP is unsound. A heuristic derivation fails to make its point, and a formal derivation reveals a probabilistic misrepresentation of an observation. As a result, the FPRP can yield serious inferential errors. In particular, the FPRP can use an observation that is many times more likely under the null hypothesis than under the alternative to infer that the null hypothesis is far less probable than the alternative. Contrary to its intended purpose, the FPRP can promote false …


"The Natural History Of Truth: The Neurobiology Of Belief", Neil Greenberg Jan 2009

"The Natural History Of Truth: The Neurobiology Of Belief", Neil Greenberg

Neil Greenberg

The pursuit of truth is woven into the fabric of every organism*. Any estimate of how best to survive and thrive in the reality in which we are immersed requires a sense of self, of the world, and of their relationship to each other. I wish to explore the idea that this pursuit has at its heart two complementary modes of reality testing utilizing separate cerebral systems which deal, respectively with the correspondence of experience with the world and the coherence of the experience with previous experiences: “is it real” and “does it fit?” At multiple levels of the nervous …