A meta-analysis of procrastination's possible causes and effects, based on 691 correlations, reveals that neuroticism, rebelliousness, and sensation seeking show only a weak connection. Strong and consistent predictors of procrastination were task aversiveness, task delay, self-efficacy, and impulsiveness, as well as conscientiousness and its facets of self-control, distractibility, organization, and achievement motivation. These effects prove consistent with temporal motivation theory, an integrative hybrid of expectancy theory and hyperbolic discounting.
Conclusions Children with severe heart disease may benefit from interventions specifically targeting perceptual organizational abilities, such as visual–spatial abilities. Moreover, older children and adolescents with CHD may benefit from psychological interventions reducing anxiety symptoms and depression.
T here is a growing divergence in the United States between the demands placed on our system for assisting people with disabilities and the data required to manage and refine that system. Currently, the federal government spends more than $226 billion a year on some 200 programs that provide income, health insurance, housing, and a wide array of services to millions of working-age people with disabilities.
This document sets out the Government's response to the report and recommendations of the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence's review of the General Social Care Council's conduct function. The review was commissioned following the discovery of a backlog of conduct cases at the GSCC.
Mariatu Kamara is UNICEF Canadas Special Representative for Children in Armed Conflict and is also the founder of the Mariatu Foundation, which seeks to provide refuge and healing for women and children in her native Sierra Leone.Ms. Kamara is a survivor of the civil conflict in Sierra Leone.
Clinical Manual of Prevention in Mental Health urges clinicians everywhere to inquire about risk factors and protective factors in patients’ lives in addition to focusing on the presenting problem. It is the authors’ intent to provide mental health professionals with the knowledge and practical applications necessary to be prevention-minded in all of their interactions with patients, families, and the community.
