Effects of disclosure of comprehensive pretherapy information on clients at a university counseling center
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A study of the reactions of patients in a university counseling center to pretherapy information on treatment procedures revealed the utility of this methodology in ensuring patients' satisfaction with treatment outcomes. Assessment of the effects of comprehensive and partial written, pretherapy disclosure on patients' psyche reveals that information on pretherapy procedures provides patients with a chance to extensively evaluate treatment procedures and merits of the psychologist before opting for desired treatment.
Publication Name: Professional Psychology, Research and Practice
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0735-7028
Year: 1995
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Databases of biological information
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Ongoing genome sequencing projects have accumulated a vast array of biological data. Aside from managing these data, bioinformatics is also tasked with making sense of the generated data. Presently, this wealth of data has been segregated into more manageable parts. As a result, there are databases that focus on sequence-function relationships, on molecular classification and on comparison and classification of organisms. The future directions for the science of bioinformatics are discussed.
Publication Name: Trends in Neurosciences
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0166-2236
Year: 1998
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Psychiatry's sickness and its biological cure
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The psychiatric profession should depart from the traditional metaphysical model of mind-body and strive to become a simultaneously humanistic, technological and scientific medicine. This can be achieved through functionalism, which is primarily a methodological orientations. Functionalism calls for concepts, theories and methods proper for human behavior and phenomenology.
Publication Name: Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0033-2747
Year: 1997
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