Thus their observations represent a mixture of lay and professional conceptions, although the students had already gone through the introductory theoretical studies and practical exercises in communication skills prior to the primary health care centre visit.
A health professional's conception of both harm to and benefit for a patient can differ sharply from that of the patient, but the health professional's understandings of benefits also often depend on the patient's view of what constitutes a benefit or a worthwhile risk.
The purpose of this study was to examine effects of program design on the bureaucratic and professional role conceptions of registered nurses in baccalaureate nursing programs.
Key lessons are the need to challenge health professionals' pre-conceptions and discomfort with issues related to sex and sexuality and to combine all levels of evidence – from the experimental to the anecdotal – and bringing experiential knowledge from the sex industry to bridge the health pleasure divide.
At about the same time, a preventive ideology - based on the untested assumption that serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia were simply exacerbations of mild disturbances rather than fundamentally different types of problems - became a dominant theme driving professional and public conceptions.
This chapter introduces a book that aims to serve as a guide to conduct professional penetration tests from conception to conclusion.
Secondly, blogging appears compatible with a narrative conception of professional learning in which pre-service teachers work collaboratively towards improved synthesis and understanding of their past and present pedagogical experiences, conceptions and beliefs, personalising their passage into the profession.
This essay therefore argues for a conception of professional core values that is compatible with reform that addresses the concerns of clients as well as those of lawyer.
Mediation Ethics: Codes of Ethics and Dealing with Dilemmas is the first book in Israel to present a theoretical conception of professional ethics in mediation, and alongside ethical codes for mediators, practical examples of ethical dilemmas, and ways to solve these dilemmas.
The results from our study seem to be inconsistent with previous research on WBA indicating that raters have a one- or two-dimensional conception of professional competence ('cognitive/clinical' and 'humanistic/(psycho)social') and are therefore unable to discriminate between different competencies or dimensions (Cook et al. 2010; Pulito et al. 2007; Archer et al. 2010).
