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Saturday, July 04, 2009

Norwegian healthcare professionals' perceptions of patient knowledge and involvement as basis for decision making in hematology.

27 Feb 2009 PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES: To investigate how healthcare professionals relate to patients with different levels of knowledge and involvement in their disease and treatment. DESIGN: Qualitative, exploratory approach based on semi-structured interviews. ... Read more...

Using life coaching techniques to enhance leadership skills in nursing.

27 Feb 2009 This article describes a recent initiative, which used life-coaching to develop strong leadership skills and empower individual team members and the team as a whole. A three-stage process was used to enable a team of nurses in a GP practice to ... Read more...

Tomorrow's leaders, starting today: a pilot leadership development program for dental students.

27 Feb 2009 Effective leadership is vitally important as the dental profession strives to meet current and future challenges. Leadership development programs have been created for mid-career dental professionals, but the relative lack of such programs for ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Assertiveness'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Conflict in the workplace: part 1. 30 May 2009
• Norwegian healthcare professionals' perceptions of patient knowledge and involvement as basis for decision making in hematology. 27 Feb 2009
• Using life coaching techniques to enhance leadership skills in nursing. 27 Feb 2009
• Tomorrow's leaders, starting today: a pilot leadership development program for dental students. 27 Feb 2009
• Cultural competency in medical education: demographic differences associated with medical student communication styles and clinical clerkship feedback. 30 Jan 2009
• Self-silencing and age as risk factors for sexually acquired HIV in midlife and older women. 30 Jan 2009
• How repeated 15-minute assertiveness training sessions reduce wrist cutting in patients with borderline personality disorder. 30 Dec 2008
• Victimization, anger, and gender: low anger and passive responses work. 30 Dec 2008
• Social problem-solving and mild intellectual disabilities: relations with externalizing behavior and therapeutic context. 30 Dec 2008
• The efficacy and tolerability of methylphenidate and behavior modification in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and severe mood dysregulation. 29 Nov 2008
• Internal medicine residents' perceived ability to direct patient care: impact of gender and experience. 29 Nov 2008
• Cognitive behaviour therapy within assertive outreach teams: barriers to implementation: a qualitative peer audit. 29 Nov 2008
• Assertiveness expectancies: how hard people push depends on the consequences they predict. 29 Nov 2008
• An ethnographic study of physiotherapists' perceptions of their interactions with patients on a chronic pain unit. 30 Oct 2008
• Developing a self-rating measure of patient competence in the context of oncology: a multi-center study. 30 Oct 2008
• Evaluation of assertiveness training for psychiatric patients. 30 Oct 2008
• Subjective dimensions of patient competence: relationships with selected healthcare usage behaviors and general features of self-rated competence. 23 Oct 2008
• Language skills in shy and non-shy preschoolers and the effects of assessment context. 15 Oct 2008
• Working with families in Assertive Community Treatment (ACT): the case manager's perspective. 29 Sep 2008
• The link between nursing discourses and nurses' silence: implications for a knowledge-based discourse for nursing practice. 29 Sep 2008

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Technical information about 'Assertiveness'

Definition: Strongly insistent, self-assured, and demanding behavior.

Descriptor UI: D001242

Alternative terms: Assertiveness; Assertivenesses;

Tree Number: F01.752.049;

History Note: 80

Technical Notes: no qualif; assertiveness training: coord IM with BEHAVIOR THERAPY (IM)