June 2009

Counseling in Schools

Author(s): Sue Pattison, Ph.D., Accred MBACP., H.V., MA Couns.

June 2009

Enhancing the research prowess of emotionally tensed distance learners (DLS) through three behaviour techniques

  Understanding the relationship between learners’ emotions and how they achieve academically is a regular research emphasis. And in particular, knowing how to select adequate Behaviour Techniques (BTS) and subsume that in psychotherapy to enhance the academic potentials of the Distant Learners (DLS) still constitute a challenge. Participants in the study are 1057 DLS graduates of the four academic...

Author(s): Osiki, Jonathan Ohiorenuan

June 2009

Employment, experiences of intimate partner violence, and health related quality of life

    We wanted to study the relationship between being unemployed or not, health related quality of life (HRQOL), and intimate partner violence (IPV) among women who had just arrived at a women’s shelter and one year later. This seems as an important issue as employment rates are quite low among abused women. In measuring HRQOL, SF-36 was used both at baseline and follow-up. Lower scores in SF-36...

Author(s): Kjersti Alsaker, Bente E. Moen and Valborg Baste