In subsequent sessions, women reviewed their action plans and their progress towards goals and engaged in problem-solving skills concerning difficulties that arose in trying to implement their plans.
This allowed us to design two problem-solving tests of similar difficulty level.
The DLB group reported early visual hallucinations, depression, problem solving difficulty, gait problems, and tremor and stiffness.
Self-reliance will be fostered by encouraging subjects to engage in problem-solving to deal with difficulties rather than seeking reassurance and advice, by encouraging relevant and realistic activity goals, and by encouraging self-reinforcement.
An umbrella term referring to a collection of symptoms, which may include memory loss and difficulties with problem-solving or language.
There is some evidence that divorce may also be driven by difficulties in problem-solving or negotiation, including a positive effect of neuroticism and antagonism for older women.
The intervention was delivered by local community health workers; these workers were women who were influential and resourceful, and could help the women with depression and their families to mobilise community resources to overcome psychosocial difficulties through problem-solving.
One difficulty for the problem-solving account is to find a proper framework for identifying and counting problems (Rescher 1984; Kleiner 1993).
Dementia symptoms can include memory loss and difficulties with thinking, problem-solving or language.
Hypothetical scenarios from the Means-Ends Problem Solving test (MEPS; Platt and Spivack 1975) have previously been used in research on depressed individuals, and difficulties with their problem-solving process were reported (Marx et al. 1992; Wierzbicki 1984; though see also Doerfler et al. 1984, and Joffe et al. 1990).
