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This digital document is an article from Behavioral Healthcare, published by Thomson Gale on June 1, 2007. The length of the article is 1396 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Company index.(Directory)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: Behavioral Healthcare (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 27Issue: 6Page: 47(2)

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This volume summarizes recent scientific data about neurobiological disorders in children and adolescents and discusses treatment approaches based on these findings--particularly pharmacological treatments.Second, the contributors recommend fundamental changes in our society's institutions--including the medical profession, the insurance industry, the educational system, and the legal system--necessitated by these new findings.This is the 54th issue of the quarterly journal New Directions for Mental Health Services. ... Read more

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An original compilation of diverse sources on Chinese patterns of thinking and behavior, this comprehensive reference work is addressed primarily to social scientists, psychologists, psychiatrists, and mental health professionals. More than 3500 bibliographic citations are included, some 1800 of which are abstracted. Materials were selected from a painstaking search of the literature in psychology, psychiatric, and related disciplines and cover primarily Chinese and English-language sources, although some relevant publications in other languages are also cited. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Environmental Health Perspectives, published by Thomson Gale on April 1, 2007. The length of the article is 618 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Fetal lead exposure and infant mental development index.(Correspondence)(Clinical report)
Author: Roberto Ronchetti
Publication: Environmental Health Perspectives (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 115Issue: 4Page: A186(1)

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This digital document is an article from Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, published by Early Childhood Australia Inc. (ECA) on June 1, 2009. The length of the article is 6124 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: SEVERAL PSYCHOLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS have been developed and used over the years to measure various domains of child development. The Australian Early Development Index (AEDI) is a current assessment tool being used as a community measure of young children's development. It measures the following domains: Physical health and wellbeing; Social competence; Emotional maturity; Language and cognitive skills, Communication skills and general knowledge. This article examines the tacit nuanced construction of the child within the AEDI, and critiques this within a cultural-historical theoretical perspective of child development. The paper argues that the AEDI image of the child has its roots in Piagetian and Gesellian stage theories of universality. This position is juxtaposed with more encompassing views held in the Vygotskian tradition. The paper advances arguments for an alternative consideration of child development that does not prescribe vulnerability to certain groups of children.

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Title: The Australian early development index, who does it measure: Piaget or Vygotsky's child?(Report)
Author: Joseph Agbenyega
Publication: Australasian Journal of Early Childhood (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2009
Publisher: Early Childhood Australia Inc. (ECA)
Volume: 34Issue: 2Page: 31(8)

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Studies on Alcohol, published by Alcohol Research Documentation, Inc. on January 1, 1998. The length of the article is 6333 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Objective: The Addiction Severity Index (ASI) includes items to assess patients' history of trauma (physical or sexual). The goal of this study was to assess the sensitivity and specificity of those questions in relation to the Trauma History Questionnaire (THQ), a more thorough measure of lifetime trauma and, in addition, to an actual post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnosis. Method: At the start of treatment cocaine dependent outpatients (N = 110, 65.5% male) were assessed on the ASI, the THQ and a FITSD symptom checklist as part of a multisite clinical trial. Results: Specificity of the ASI questions was higher than sensitivity for both sexual trauma (specificity = .96, sensitivity = .46) and physical trauma (specificity = .71, sensitivity = .50), while for PTSD the sensitivity of the ASI (.91) was higher than its specificity (.43). Other findings indicated that patients were more likely to report trauma on the THQ than on the ASI (which may be due to the self-report format of the THQ); that the ASI was better at assessing sexual than assessing physical trauma; and that the higher the number of ASI trauma items endorsed, the more likely was the PTSD diagnosis. Finally, PTSD patients had greater severity than non-PTSD patients on other ASI items (e.g., psychological severity, need for treatment). Conclusions: The ASI trauma questions show stronger utility as a screen for PTSD than for trauma. Results of the study are discussed in light of ways to modify the ASI to screen more accurately for trauma, clinical implications, and limitations of the study method. (J. Stud. Alcohol 59: 56-62, 1998)

From the supplier: The aim of the Addiction Severity Index (ASI) was to assess patients' history of trauma such as physical or sexual. It was also developed to provide a standardized evaluation for patients beginning substance abuse treatment. It measures the severity of the problem in relation to family, social, legal, psychological, employment, and medical problems. The ASI was evaluated as a means of trauma assessment by comparison with the Trauma History Questionnaire and actual diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder.

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Title: The Addiction Severity Index as a screen for trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder. (alcoholism)
Author: Lisa M. Najavits
Publication: Journal of Studies on Alcohol (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1998
Publisher: Alcohol Research Documentation, Inc.
Volume: v59Issue: n1Page: p56(7)

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This digital document is an article from Skeptic (Altadena, CA), published by Skeptics Society & Skeptic Magazine on January 1, 2001. The length of the article is 892 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: THE CRACKPOT INDEX[R].
Author: John Baez
Publication: Skeptic (Altadena, CA) (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2001
Publisher: Skeptics Society & Skeptic Magazine
Volume: 8Issue: 4Page: 18

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This digital document is an article from Clinical Psychiatry News, published by Thomson Gale on December 1, 2006. The length of the article is 660 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: First suspicion index developed for elder abuse.(Geriatric Psychiatry)(Elder Abuse Suspicion Index)
Author: Patrice Wendling
Publication: Clinical Psychiatry News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 34Issue: 12Page: 38(1)

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2007. The length of the article is 6183 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Objective: The Alcohol Dependence Scale (ADS) yields continuous scores purported to reflect the severity of the dependence syndrome. We evaluated the concurrent validity of the ADS as a general measure of severity and the screening accuracy of the total score and subscales to detect Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV), physiological dependence. Method: Treatment-seeking, alcohol-dependent individuals entering the Combining Pharmacotherapies and Behavioral Interventions for Alcohol Dependence (COMBINE) Study (N = 1,372; 69% men) completed the ADS, diagnostic interviews, and other measures before randomization. Analyses of variance tested differences between ADS quartiles on alcohol-related measures. Areas under the receiver operating characteristic (AUROC) curve assessed screening accuracy for DSM-IV physiological dependence (tolerance or withdrawal) or withdrawal alone. Results: ADS quartiles differed on age, other demographics, and prior treatment episodes. Linear correlation showed moderate to large magnitude associations with alcohol-related self-report measures and most indices of consumption. ADS quartiles differed significantly on proportion with DSM-IV physiological dependence, but AUROC curves indicated that the ADS had limited accuracy as a continuous measure to detect DSMIV physiological dependence (AUROC = .75 [95% confidence interval {CI}: .70-.79] and .67 [95% CI: .60-.74] for men and women, respectively; p = .08) or withdrawal alone (AUROC = .77 [95% CI: .74-.80] and .74 [95% CI: .69-.79] for men and women, respectively; p = .30). Screening accuracy was comparably limited based on ADS subscales reflecting psychoperceptual or psychophysical withdrawal. Conclusions: The ADS reflected variation in symptom severity but did not adequately identify physiological dependence or withdrawal in treatment-seeking individuals with DSM-IV alcohol dependence. (J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs 68: 149-156, 2007)

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Title: Further validation of the alcohol dependence scale as an index of severity *.(Report)
Author: Andrew J. Saxon
Publication: Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 68Issue: 1Page: 149(8)

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, published by Alcohol Research Documentation, Inc. on March 1, 2009. The length of the article is 3249 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Objective: This study evaluated the psychometric properties of the 15-item alcohol Short Index of Problems (SIP) instrument and those of a newly constructed 15-item drug Short Index of Problems (SIPD) instrument in 277 newly entered substance-abuse patients. Method: The SIP is derived from the longer, 50-item Drinker Inventory of Consequences (DrInC), which was designed to assess adverse consequences of alcohol use. The SIP-D was constructed by substituting the term "drug use" for the term "drinking" in each SIP item. A 3-month recall interval was employed. Results: Factor analyses of each of the instruments revealed similar solutions, with only one main factor accounting for the majority of variance. Nonparametric item response theory methods produced the same finding. Internal consistency reliability estimates for the SIP and SIP-D total scores were .98 and .97, respectively. Concurrent validity was demonstrated by examining the correlations of the total scores for each of the instruments with the recent summary indexes of the newly revised Addiction Severity Index (ASI-Version 6): alcohol, drug, medical, economic, legal, family/social, and psychiatric problems. Conclusions: This study is the first to confirm the psychometric validity of the SIP when used as an independent instrument unembedded within the DrInC. The study also supports the use of the SIP-D as a brief measure of adverse consequences of drug use. The findings strongly support the unidimensional structure of both measures.

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Title: Reliability and validity of the alcohol short index of problems and a newly constructed drug Short Index of Problems.(Drinking Inventory of Consequences)(Report)
Author: Arthur I. Alterman
Publication: Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2009
Publisher: Alcohol Research Documentation, Inc.
Volume: 70Issue: 2Page: 304(4)

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