How Interdisciplinary? Taking Stock of Decision-Making Research at the Intersection of Psychology and Law

2020 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 541-561
Author(s):  
Lauren Clatch ◽  
Ashley Walters ◽  
Eugene Borgida
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Team Approach ◽  
Conceptual Integration ◽  
Interdisciplinary Work ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Psychology And Law ◽  
Single Discipline ◽  
Collaborative Team ◽  
Disciplinary Background

Contemporary inquiries in psychology and law increasingly cross disciplinary boundaries for inspiration. Our focus is on whether such research is substantive in both directions and whether interdisciplinary psychology-and-law author teams produce more meaningful interdisciplinary work, specifically in decision-making research conducted between 2004 and 2017. We found that interdisciplinary psychology-and-law author teams ( a) produce publications that show more cross-disciplinary integration in methods than single-discipline teams, ( b) produce publications with more conceptual integration in the introduction and discussion than only law author teams, and ( c) elicit more citations than only law or only psychology author teams. When considering a collaborative team approach, we suggest that the disciplinary background of the collaborators is a meaningful indicator of the type of interdisciplinary research to be conducted. We also suggest that it would be beneficial for both psychology and law journals to be more open to publishing scholarship from mixed disciplinary teams.

scholarly journals Using a multidisciplinary approach to reveal decision-making capacity within acute care for an individual with aphasia

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 2050313X2110270
Author(s):  
Ruth Maxwell ◽  
Michelle O’Brien ◽  
Deirdre O’Donnell ◽  
Lauren Christophers ◽  
Thilo Kroll
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Multidisciplinary Team ◽  
Team Approach ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Multidisciplinary Team Approach ◽  
Decision Making Capacity ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Functional Assessments ◽  
Health Nursing ◽  
Communication Approach

Formal assessments of cognition that rely on language may conceal the non-linguistic cognitive function of people with aphasia. This may have detrimental consequences for how people with aphasia are supported to reveal communicative and decision-making competence. This case report demonstrates a multidisciplinary team approach to supporting the health and social care decision-making of people with aphasia. The case is a 67-year-old woman with Wernicke’s type aphasia. As the issue of long-term care arose, the speech and language therapist used a supported communication approach with the patient who expressed her wish to go home. A multidisciplinary team functional assessment of capacity was undertaken which involved functional assessments and observations of everyday tasks by allied health, nursing, catering and medical staff. In this way, the patient’s decision-making capacity was revealed and she was discharged home. A collaborative multidisciplinary team approach using supported communication and functional capacity assessments may be essential for scaffolding the decision-making capacity of people with aphasia.

Reducing Venous Thromboembolism Risk Through a Collaborative Team Approach

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa LeCuyer ◽  
Victoria Nyman ◽  
Frances Sykes ◽  
Kimberly Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Venous Thromboembolism ◽  
Team Approach ◽  
Collaborative Team

Recent Advancement in Fuzzy System

2014 ◽  
pp. 158-168
Author(s):  
İ. Burhan Türkşen ◽  
İbrahim Özkan
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Fuzzy Logic ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Decision Process ◽  
Fuzzy System ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Decision Under Uncertainty ◽  
Recent Advancement ◽  
Human Decision

Decision under uncertainty is an active interdisciplinary research field. A decision process is generally identified as the action of choosing an alternative that best suites our needs. This process generally includes several areas of research including but not limited to Economics, Psychology, Philosophy, Mathematics, Statistics, etc. In this chapter the authors attempt to create a framework for uncertainties which surrounds the environment where human decision making takes place. For this purpose, the authors discuss how one ought to handle uncertainties within Fuzzy Logic. Furthermore, they present recent advances in Type 2 fuzzy system studies.

Developmental Psycholegal Capacities

2018 ◽  
pp. 158-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Grisso
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Medical Patients ◽  
Psychology And Law ◽  
History Of ◽  
Legal Contexts ◽  
Criminal Culpability

This chapter provides a history of theory and research, beginning in the 1970s, on the abilities of children and adolescents to make decisions related to their civil and criminal rights. In this context, the author describes his entry into the field of psychology and law in the 1970s with his seminal studies of juveniles’ capacities to waive Miranda rights. The chapter then inventories the growth of research, to the present, on children’s decision-making capacities in legal contexts. Research has focused especially on youths’ competence to make decisions as medical patients and as defendants, as well as perspectives on their reduced criminal culpability due to developmental immaturity.

Dealing With Death Taboo: Discussion of Do-Not-Resuscitate Directives With Chinese Patients With Noncancer Life-Limiting Illnesses

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (9) ◽  
pp. 760-766 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hon-Wai Benjamin Cheng ◽  
Pui-Shan Karen Shek ◽  
Ching-Wah Man ◽  
Oi-Man Chan ◽  
Chun-Hung Chan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Ethnic Disparities ◽  
Retrospective Chart Review ◽  
Female Gender ◽  
Tertiary Hospital ◽  
Chinese Patients ◽  
Team Approach ◽  
Do Not Resuscitate ◽  
Ethnic Chinese

Background: Noncancer patients with life-limiting diseases often receive more intensive level of care in their final days of life, with more cardiopulmonary resuscitation performed and less do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders in place. Nevertheless, death is still often a taboo across Chinese culture, and ethnic disparities could negatively affect DNR directives completion rates. Objectives: We aim to explore whether Chinese noncancer patients are willing to sign their own DNR directives in a palliative specialist clinic, under a multidisciplinary team approach Design: Retrospective chart review of all noncancer patients with life-limiting diseases referred to palliative specialist clinic at a tertiary hospital in Hong Kong over a 4-year period. Results: Over the study period, a total of 566 noncancer patients were seen, 119 of them completed their own DNR directives. Patients had a mean age of 74.9. Top 3 diagnoses were chronic renal failure (37%), congestive heart failure (16%), and motor neuron disease (11%). Forty-two percent of patients signed their DNR directives at first clinic attendance. Most Chinese patients (76.5%) invited family caregivers at DNR decision-making, especially for female gender (84.4% vs 69.1%; P = .047) and older (age >75) age group (86.2% vs 66.7%; P = .012). Of the 40 deceased patients, median time from signed directives to death was 5 months. Vast majority (95%) had their DNR directives being honored. Conclusion: Health-care workers should be sensitive toward the cultural influence during advance care planning. Role of family for ethnic Chinese remains crucial and professionals should respect this family oriented decision-making.

scholarly journals RAISING VALUE AND SUSTAINABILITY AWARENESS FOR CRITICAL MATERIALS: A SERIOUS GAME FOR THE AEROSPACE SECTOR

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 737-746
Author(s):  
G. W. Scurati ◽  
J. W. Nylander ◽  
S. I. Hallstedt ◽  
F. Ferrise ◽  
M. Bertoni
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Serious Game ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Aerospace Sector ◽  
Critical Materials ◽  
Cost Implications

AbstractAviation strives today to include environmental and social considerations as drivers for decision making in design. This paper proposes a serious game to raise awareness of the value and cost implications of being ‘sustainability compliant’ when developing aerospace sub-systems and components. After describing the development of the game, from needfinding to prototyping and testing, the paper discusses the results from verification activities with practitioners, revealing the ability of the game to raise sustainability awareness and support negotiation across disciplinary boundaries in design.

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