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Quite fittingly, the American Association of Geographers (AAG) session, including Gilbert's panel of friends, was held in Washington, D.C., the city where Gilbert started his professional career in 1934 on flood hazards in the Mississippi Valley. The obituary that Charles Colby and Gilbert wrote for Barrows makes explicit the pragmatic, intellectual, and discursive lessons Gilbert took from Barrow's environmental policy studies.[35] As the editors of I Environment i noted in a tribute to Gilbert when he stepped down as executive editor, "Above all, Gilbert's view of the environment has been unapologetically humanistic."[58] See Ian Burton and Robert W. Kates, "Gilbert F. White, 1911-2006", I Annals of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) i 98, no. 2 (2008): 479-486 (http://www.aag.org/cs/membership/tributes%5fmemorials/sz/white%5fgilbert%5ff); Robert W. Kates, "Gilbert F. White: 1911-2006, A Biographical Memoir" (Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences, 2011), http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/white-gilbert.pdf. 31 James K. Mitchell, "Perspectives on Alternatives: Differentiation and Integration in Pursuit of a Better Fit Between Society and Nature", Mini-Forum on the Contributions of Gilbert F. White", I Progress in Human Geography i 32, no. 3 (2008): 451-45; James L. Wescoat, "Gilbert Fowler White (1911-2006), Wisdom in Environmental Geography", I Geographical Review i 96, no. 4 (2006): 700-710. [Extracted from the article]

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Since healthcare faces challenges of access, quality, and cost, effective leadership for healthcare is needed. This need is especially acute among physicians, whose demanding training focuses on scientific and clinical skills, eclipsing attention to leadership development. Among the competencies needed by leaders, emotional intelligence (EI) - defined as the ability to understand and manage oneself and to understand others and manage relationships - has been shown to differentiate between great and average leaders. In this context, teaching EI as part of the medical training curriculum is recommended. Furthermore, because physicians' developmental needs evolve over the course of prolonged training, specific components of EI (e.g., teambuilding, empathy, and negotiation) should be taught at various phases of medical training. Consistent with the concept of a spiral curriculum, such EI competencies should be revisited iteratively throughout training, with differing emphasis and increasing sophistication to meet evolving needs. For example, teamwork training is needed early in undergraduate medical curricula to prompt collaborative learning. Teamwork training is also needed during residency, when physicians participate with differing roles on patient care teams. Training in EI should also extend beyond graduate medical training to confer the skills needed by clinicians and by faculty in academic medical centers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We present a "practitioner's guide" to social skills assessment and intervention with students attending public schools. Important characteristics of assessment instruments are discussed, including psychometric properties and strategies applicable to school settings. We then review several social skills assessment protocols and rating scales that can be used efficiently by school psychologists, teachers, and other related professionals. The process of assessment-derived intervention planning is covered, with a description of social skills curricula/training programs and presentation of an illustrative case study. We conclude with a summary of salient issues and recommendations to facilitate the routine assessment and teaching of social skills by school practitioners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although myths and stereotypes about lottery winners tend to be negative (e.g., winners become extravagant), people continue to spend billions of dollars buying lottery tickets in the hope of winning. The authors applied findings from the self-enhancement literature to understand this paradox. Eighty college students received class credit for their participation, in which they read a scenario that asked them to imagine that they, or a target other, had won a lottery. Participants' responses to a 34-item questionnaire displayed a self-serving bias, such that changes to the self were expected to be more positive than changes to the other. For several items, this effect was moderated by the participant's gender. The present research indicates that the pervasive tendency to display self-serving biases can apply to future-oriented processing, an under-researched topic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Neuropsychological performance was examined among a group of patients with end-stage heart disease undergoing routine evaluation for transplantation using a matched case-control design. Heart transplant candidates and controls were matched case by case for gender, race, education and age range. In order to match all 44 controls, a clinical series of 303 heart transplant candidates evaluated between October 1995 through March 1998 were considered. Although not specifically matched on variables of estimated IQ and socioeconomic status, statistical analysis showed no group differences on these variables. A separate analysis of variance on each neuropsychological test indicated that the heart transplant candidates performed significantly worse than controls on tasks of fine motor speed and dexterity (i.e., Grooved Peg Board), psychomotor speed and mental flexibility (i.e., Trail Making Test,Part B), and abstract reasoning and problem solving ability (i.e., Shipley Institute of Living Scale-Abstraction subtest). Implications of the results and future directions are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study evaluated the effects of psychotropic medication in concert with comprehensive behavioral intervention on multiple forms of self-injury in a deaf-blind child. Treatment consisted of a combination of reinforcement for noninjurious behaviors, plus brief, response-contingent interruption/immobilization. In addition, the study included programming for cross-setting generalization, training parents as home interventionists, and evaluating maintenance of intervention effects. Using a modified multiple-baseline design, treatment was demonstrated to be successful in reducing self-injurious behaviors to near-zero levels, with results maintained at a 6-month follow-up, Therapeutic effects were established across program settings and within the child's home. Psychotropic medication did not have a positive influence on the control of self-injury. Issues relevant to the comprehensive assessment and management of self-injurious behavior are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Examines the psychology of decision-making concerning property ownership. Subjects' judgment of ownership in a person pictured with an object; Effect of prior use as a justification for ownership; Past investment in an object as a justification for ownership; Effect of disputants' intentions on the strength of their perceived claim on ownership.

Studies incarcerated and nonincarcerated African American men raised in families with strong attachments to Black Christian churches. The incarcerated group differed from the nonincarcerated group on childhood deviant behavior, church involvement, family influence on values, and peer selection. Method; Results.