Psychologists engage in a multitude of social roles of varying degrees of emotionality, subjectivity, and objectivity due to the nature of their profession, as well as their unique backgrounds that have drawn them to that ...

A clearer picture of student understanding emerges when the item analyses are combined with analyses obtained using IRT methods. In particular, the nominal response model appears to be able to shed light on persistent ...

Use of valid and reliable transition assessments is crucial to the transition planning process in the individualized education program (IEP). However, few transition assessments are linguistically inclusive and even less ...

The current study aimed to examine the effects of sexual assault on female survivors’ levels of psychosocial and relational distress, including more specific subscales of relational distress (cohesion, consensus, and ...

Obesity and diabetes have very high prevalence rates in the modern world and are two key characteristics of metabolic syndrome. This in turn has been linked to other chronic diseases like cardiovascular disease, kidney ...

Two major controversies have marked the readjustment of Vietnam veterans to civilian life. The first surrounds the introduction of the diagnosis, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, into the American Psychiatric Association's ...