The observation that use of different ICU drugs correlated with different psychological outcomes merits further investigation.
As approximately 25-30% of patients experience anxiety and/or depression severe enough to merit psychological intervention, this is a serious problem.
"From a psychological standpoint, there is merit to having a separate account for entirely discretionary or luxury spending," said Steve Levinson, a psychologist and co-author of "Following Through: A Revolutionary New Model for Finishing Whatever You Start".
A meta-analysis study on health correlates of caregiving found that predictors of physical health are different from psychological health hence both merit theoretical and empirical attention [ 7].
While other cognitive strategies, such as psychological acceptance, may also have merit in helping parents of individuals with ASD cope (Blackledge and Hayes, 2006; Weiss et al., 2012), when dealing with a crisis, parents are focused on dealing with the problem at hand.
A serious filmmaker like Mr. Figgis can be forgiven for slumming when he has a cast as stellar as the one that infuses the scream-by-numbers thriller with more psychological credibility than its screenplay merits.
A serious filmmaker like Mike Figgis can be forgiven, I suppose, for slumming, when he's got a cast as stellar as the one that infuses the scream-by-numbers thriller "Cold Creek Manor" with more psychological credibility than its screenplay merits.
Because the public and the markets had faith in him, his actions had a psychological power far greater than was merited by the actual weapons in the Fed's arsenal.
Harvard's Nardell agrees that there are psychological benefits, but cautions that the overall merits have not yet been established: "Florence Nightingale believed very strongly that beds should be as close to windows as possible, and there are merits to that view as well".
Such an analysis, however, they find lacking on its own merits: individual characters do not fit psychological theories of the time they are written.
