scholarly journals THE THEORETICAL INTEGRATIVE MODEL FOR THE LATVIAN CLINICAL PERSONALITY INVENTORY

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 388
Author(s):  
Jelena Kolesnikova ◽  
Viktorija Perepjolkina ◽  
Kristine Martinsone ◽  
Ainars Stepens
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Functional Impairment ◽  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Integrative Model ◽  
International Classification Of Functioning ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Combined Analysis ◽  
Psychological Instruments

The purpose of this article is to present a theoretical integrative model, which reflects contemporary tendencies in the understanding of mental disorders and functional impairment, and which is used as a theoretical frame for the development of the Latvian Clinical Personality Inventory (LCPI). This article, based on the latest research findings in the field, supports the necessity of a combined analysis of mental disorders and functional impairment. Due to scientific findings and deeper understanding of the interrelation between mental disorders and functioning impairment, it has become possible to develop psychological instruments for valid assessment of the disturbances in an individual's cognition, emotion regulation, and  behaviour combining with analysis of most essential and relevant aspects of their functioning. An integrative theoretical model of LCPI, developed on the selected criteria from Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM – 5; APA, 2013) and WHO International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF; WHO, 2001/2015) is presented in the article. Conducted literature analysis permits to conclude, that in a context of clinical personality assessment, a combined analysis of symptoms of mental disorders and relevant functioning criteria is very promising and will be useful in many assessment contexts. Based on such an integrative approach the Latvian Clinical Personality Inventory is currently being developed. This project is a part of the National Research Programme (No. 5.8.2.).

scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT OF THE SECOND PRELIMINARY ITEM POOL OF THE LATVIAN CLINICAL PERSONALITY INVENTORY: AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 469
Author(s):  
Viktorija Perepjolkina ◽  
Jeļena Koļesņikova ◽  
Kristīne Mārtinsone ◽  
Ainārs Stepens
Keyword(s):  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Assessment Instruments ◽  
Item Pool ◽  
Clinical Scales ◽  
Preliminary Version ◽  
The Moment

On the moment, there is a lack of available clinical personality assessment instruments in Latvia, so in the frame of the National Research Programme (2014-2017, project No. 5.8.2.) a new multi-item multi-scale self-report measure - the Latvian Clinical Personality Inventory (LCPI) is currently being developed. LCPI structure includes three parts: clinical scales, pathological personality scales and functioning scales and will provide a possibility to perform a combined analysis of mental disorders symptoms and functioning aspects using one clinical personality inventory. The main aim of this article to describe procedures and stages of the development of the preliminary version of the LCPI v2.2. item pool.

When our beliefs face reality: An integrative review of belief updating in mental health and illness

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobias Kube ◽  
Liron Rozenkrantz
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Healthy People ◽  
Integrative Model ◽  
Societal Implications ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Belief Updating ◽  
New Information ◽  
Health And Illness

“Belief updating" is a relatively nascent field of research, in which it is examined how people update their beliefs in the light of new evidence. So far, belief updating has been investigated in partly unrelated lines of research from different psychological disciplines. In this article, we aim to connect these disparate lines of research in an integrative approach. After presenting some prominent theoretical frameworks and experimental designs that have been used for the study of belief updating, we review how healthy people and people with mental disorders update their beliefs after receiving new information that supports or challenges their views. Available evidence suggests that both healthy people and people with particular mental disorders are prone to certain biases when updating their beliefs, although the nature of the respective biases varies considerably (depending on the particular mental disorder, for instance). Anomalies in belief updating are discussed both in terms of new insights into the psychopathology of various mental disorders and societal implications, such as irreconcilable political and societal controversies due to the failure to take information into account that disconfirms one's own view. We conclude by proposing a novel integrative model of belief updating and derive directions for future research.

scholarly journals Latvian Family Physicians’ Experience and Attitude in Diagnosing and Managing Depression

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 164-170
Author(s):  
Vineta Viktorija Vinogradova ◽  
Jeļena Vrubļevska ◽  
Elmārs Rancāns
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Common Mental Disorders ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Family Physicians ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Primary Care Settings ◽  
National Research Programme ◽  
Management Approaches ◽  
Training Programmes

Abstract Depression is among the most common mental disorders in primary care. Despite high prevalence rates it remains to be under-diagnosed in primary care settings over the world. This study was aimed to identify Latvian family physicians’ (FPs) experience and attitude in diagnosing and managing depression. It was carried out within the framework of the National Research Programme BIOMEDICINE 2014–2017. After educational seminars on diagnosing and managing depression, FPs were asked to complete a structured questionnaire. In total 216 respondents were recruited. Most of the doctors, or 72.2% (n = 156), agreed with the statement that patients with depression use primary care facilities more often than other patients. More than a half of physicians, or 66.3% (n = 143) quite often asked their patients about their psycho-emotional status and 65.7% (n = 142) of clinicians thought that they can successfully assess a patient’s psychoemotional status and possible mental disorders. The majority, or 91.6 % (n = 198), supposed that routine screening for depression is necessary in Latvia. Despite the fact that a significant number, or 62.6% (n = 135) of FPs thought that their practice was well suitable for the treatment of depressive patients, half of the respondents, or 50.9% (n = 110), assessed their ability to build a trustful contact and to motivate patients for treatment as moderate. Although FPs acknowledged the importance and necessity to treat depression, current knowledge and management approaches were far from optimal. This justifies the need to provide specific training programmes for FPs.

scholarly journals Integrative Teaching of Mathematics as a Means of a Forming Modern Economist

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (26) ◽  
pp. 486-497
Author(s):  
Larisa P. Konnova ◽  
Alexander A. Rylov ◽  
Irina K. Stepanyan
Keyword(s):  
Educational Process ◽  
Integrative Model ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Teaching Mathematics ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
Contextual Approach ◽  
Proximal Development ◽  
Mathematical Methods ◽  
Computer Technologies ◽  
The Government

Introduction: A modern specialist in practically any field should not only possess professional expertise but also have a good command of modern computer technologies and main mathematical methods of data modeling and processing. It is employers’ requirements and, at the same time, students’ demands to receive this exact type of education. The study examines various ideas of educator-researchers striving to change the educational process to match the new goals. Meanwhile, the authors place the main emphasis on teaching mathematics. Drawing on the experience of teaching at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, the authors propose an integrative model of teaching mathematics that utilizes the contextual approach and content-based teaching. Materials and Methods: The main methods of the study are the analysis of scientific works and pedagogical modeling based on the following methodological approaches: competency-based, integrative, activity-based, as well as the concept of the zone of proximal development. The authors place special importance on the contextual approach and content-based teaching. Results: The analysis of works confirms the significance and relevance of interdisciplinary courses. The necessary modernization of the educational process and its contents is based on the integrative approach. The contextual approach is increasingly used in higher education to reinforce professional orientation. As for content-based education, it is currently used only in foreign language teaching. Within this study, the authors propose an integrative model of teaching mathematics at economics universities. To enforce the focus on the application in basic student training, the contextual approach is utilized which allows giving professional substance to the content of an educational course. The second part of the model is content-based teaching. The authors enhance its potential uses and believe that studying interconnected subjects together allows one to show common patterns and makes the educational process more efficient, intensive and mindful. Discussion and Conclusions: The relevance of having command of mathematical methods and computer technologies for multidisciplinary specialists makes it possible to generalize the creative model by adding various professional contexts.

An Integrative Approach to Depression: Part 2—Assessment and Treatment

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Zuess
Keyword(s):  
Conventional Treatment ◽  
Comprehensive Assessment ◽  
Integrative Model ◽  
Treatment Modalities ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Assessment And Treatment

This article is the second of a two-part series presenting an integrative model for understanding and treating depression. In this part, the integrative model provides the basis for comprehensive assessment and treatment, guiding the application of a wide variety of treatments. Evidence-based complementary and conventional treatment modalities for depression are also reviewed.

Level of Control, Staffing Policy, and Training Needs for Overseas Units of Multinational Corporations: An Integrative Approach

2002 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-122
Author(s):  
Hoon Park ◽  
Youngsun Paik ◽  
Cristina Suarez Duffy
Keyword(s):  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Host Country ◽  
Integrative Model ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Cultural Training ◽  
Functional Training ◽  
Training Requirements ◽  
Host Country Nationals ◽  
Foreign Operations ◽  
Expatriate Managers

This paper suggests an integrative model in which MNCs combine staffing policy with training requirements given the level of control over foreign operations. The main premise of the paper is that different levels of control need determine the type of personnel and the extent of training required for managing foreign operations. At the highest level of control need, expatriate managers are provided with extensive cultural training. Conversely, at the lowest level of control need, host country nationals are given minimal functional training. When the control needs are moderate, firms can select either expatriates or host country nationals. Since the costs incurred in extensive functional training for host country nationals are usually greater than those for expatriates who require only a minimal level of cultural training, MNCs tend to prefer expatriates to host country nationals.

Corporations

2020 ◽  
pp. 340-360
Author(s):  
Paul B. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Integrative Model ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Interpretive Analysis ◽  
Corporate Form ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
Important Challenge ◽  
Interpretive Theory ◽  
Corporate Personality

This chapter situates corporations and corporate law theory within the nascent New Private Law movement. Most theorists allied to the New Private Law focus on fundamental private law and so, in turn, bodies of law addressed to singular forms of interaction. Corporations and other compound structures — including trusts, companies, and partnerships — pose an important challenge and opportunity for interpretive theory carried out in the spirit of the New Private Law. These structures entail a compounding of singular forms of interaction with novel elements supplied by organizational law. In the chapter I argue for an integrative model of interpretive analysis of compound structures. I explain what an integrative model of the corporation might look like. I also offer an illustration of the model’s relative advantages by contrasting it with dominant reductive analyses that distort the corporate form by treating it as a mere extension of various singular forms of interaction found in contract, property, and fiduciary law. I offer reinterpretation of core elements of the corporate form — corporate personality, purpose, agency and fiduciary administration - and conclude by showing how an integrative approach promises to shed new light on these elements while revealing interpretive excesses of alternative renderings found in reductive theories of the corporation.

Assessment of efficacy of specialized psychiatric assistance for patients with combined mental and somatic pathology

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S2) ◽  
pp. 874-874
Author(s):  
V.F. Lebedeva ◽  
V.Y. Semke
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Clinical Improvement ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Primary Care Unit ◽  
Psychiatric Institution ◽  
Medical Network ◽  
Treatment Measures ◽  
Somatic Disorders ◽  
Gradual Approach

Objective and methodsUse of developed prophylactic and rehabilitative programs based on city primary care unit and psychiatric services of psychiatric institution has allowed improvement of quality of life, high clinical and economic efficacy of treatment of patients with combined mental and somatic pathology.ResultsAccording to data of catamnesis (2–9 years) in group of patients in need for course therapy according to addressing, recovery has been achieved in 46,2% of cases, stable clinical improvement - in 44,1%; in group of patients in need for systematic therapy and dynamic observation, recovery has been achieved in 24,7% of cases, stable clinical improvement - in 65,5%. The most effective measures were at initial stages of mental disorders. Differentiated gradual approach to treatment of combined mental and somatic disorders under conditions of general medical institution and principle of continuum of treatment measures have allowed reducing transient disability in 1,8 times, number of not based addressing and examinations per 1 patient in 2,3 times.ConclusionIntegrative approach to medical assistance rendering for patients with mental disorders, revealed in general medical network is enough effective. Successful interaction of psychiatrists of primary care unit, internists, psychiatrists of dispensary and hospital was contributed by principles: collective character of decision making, continuum in resolution of issues of treatment-prophylactic assistance, observation of principles of medical ethics and deontology oriented at interests of patients, accomplishment of treatment-diagnostic assistance, necessary in such an amount that maximum therapeutic effect was achieved during rational use of medical resources.

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