Danny Wedding

Saybrook University · School of Humanistic and Clinical Psychology

Background: Raising children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) causes tremendous stress for parents that may lead to marital conflict and relationship dissatisfaction. Many factors are associated with parent relationships including severity of autistic behaviors and social support. This study aimed to investigate whether severity of autistic beh...

Background: Fear of COVID-19 leads to stress and may result in various kinds of mental health problems. Many factors are associated with an individual's perception of stress, including neuroticism and perceived social support. This study aimed to examine the role of neuroticism and perceived social support as mediators of fear of COVID-19 on perce...

Secure attachment is fundamental to the development of resilience among adolescents. The present study investigated whether meditation and precept practices influence the relationship between attachment and resilience. This study recruited 453 10th–12th-grade boarding school students who completed the Experience of Close Relationship Questionnaire...

Objective Professionalism is a critical part of a medical education, and various activities have been proposed to enhance professionalism among medical students. Watching films is an activity to promote character related to professionalism. Limitation of such is a single group pre-posttest design raising concerns about the errors of measurement. Th...

Being a reviewer is an honor and it continues to be a very rewarding experience throughout a career. Reviewers get the opportunity to maintain scientific standards and assist in growing the scientific psychological literature. Being a reviewer enhances and integrates scientific values and clinical skills following the scientist-practitioner model....

Equanimity is widely and commonly practiced, but few have investigated the concept in clinical research. While the mediation model of neuroticism, perceived stress and depression have been demonstrated, it remains unclear whether equanimity mediates the relationship of these variables in parallel, serial or moderated mediation models. This study ai...

(1) Background: Mental well-being and mental health problems are both important, especially among medical students who will be future doctors. The proposed study aimed to explore both positive and negative mental health experiences, especially mistreatment, occurring among medical students in their clinical years. (2) Methods/design: The study will...

Objective: Psychological distress among medical students is related to personality. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) is a common instrument used to assess personality and psychological problems during the medical school admission process in Thailand. The purpose of this study was to examine how the MMPI can predict medical st...

Purpose To identify predictors for 12‐month suicide attempt from general psychiatric outpatients. Design and Methods A case‐control study compared 55 cases of suicide attempt within the previous 12 months matched for age and sex with 55 nonsuicidal cases. All were interviewed for psychiatric and personality disorder (PD) diagnoses using a DSM‐IV‐T...

Abstract Introduction: Professionalism is required of all physicians, and various activities have been proposed to enhance professionalism in medical students. The aim of this study was to examine how watching films influenced positive psychology character strengths. Methodology: This study used a pretest-posttest design with 40 first-year medic...

Background: This study identified and investigated the relationship between demographics, mental health problems, positive personality traits and perceived social support and motivation in medical education (MME) among first year medical students. Methods: One hundred-thirty eight first year medical students completed the Academic Motivation Sca...

Pathogenic beliefs (PBs) are a key construct within control-mastery theory, a dynamic cognitive-relational psychotherapy approach. It is common for these beliefs to trigger interpersonal problems. The present study explored the relationship between PBs and interpersonal problems. Sixty-eight patients with depressive disorder were assessed using a 5...

This article reviews psychology’s attempts to influence public attitudes about both the science and the profession of psychology. The early history of the profession is reviewed, and the efforts of the American Psychological Association (APA) to shape the public’s perception of psychology are discussed. The rise of social media is reviewed, and imp...

Background Rater agreement is important in clinical research, and Cohen’s Kappa is a widely used method for assessing inter-rater reliability; however, there are well documented statistical problems associated with the measure. In order to assess its utility, we evaluated it against Gwet’s AC1 and compared the results. Methods This study was carri...

In this study we explore the association between attachment dimension (anxiety and avoidance), attachment style (secure, preoccupied, fearful and dismissing), self-esteem and romantic relationships, as determined by relationship status, relationship satisfaction and the length of relationships in 398 young Thai people. For the results, males scored...

In this study we explore the association between attachment dimension (anxiety and avoidance), attachment style (secure, preoccupied, fearful and dismissing), self-esteem and romantic relationships, as determined by relationship status, relationship satisfaction and the length of relationships in 398 young Thai people. For the results, males scored...

Albert Bandura (1977) has noted the power of modeling, stating, “Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do. Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling: from observing others one forms an idea of how n...

Psychotherapy cannot be defined with any precision, and it is not entirely clear when a supportive conversation becomes counseling or when counseling becomes psychotherapy. Raymond Corsini (1914–2008), until his recent death one of the world's leading psychotherapy scholars, defined psychotherapy as follows:

The Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Test Battery consists of a series of individual neuropsychological measures that, in combination, permit a skilled examiner to make detailed inferences about the integrity of the cerebral hemispheres. Because the brain is the organ of adaptive behavior, brain dysfunction is typically observable in some behavio...

Presents an obituary for Raymond J. Corsini, one of psychology’s most prolific authors and editors. Ray’s most important contributions include editing an award-winning four-volume encyclopedia of psychology (1994, Wiley), a dictionary of psychology (1999, Brunner/ Mazel), and one of the leading graduate texts on psychotherapy (Corsini & Wedding, 8t...

A systematic review of studies related to the psychological characteristics of Sasang types was conducted with the goal of delineating generalizable psychological profiles based on Sasang typology, a traditional Korean medical typology with medical herbs and acupuncture that is characterized as personalized medicine. Journal articles pertaining to...

Do you have opportunities to teach, counsel, or mentor international students at your university or in your practice? Do you supervise international students in practica and internships? If so, are you aware of the different cultural backgrounds of your students and their sometimes unique educational and personal needs? This article briefly reviews...

Thousands of psychologists teach in U.S. medical schools, and these psychologists are responsible for ensuring that the medical students they train are aware of the ways in which research findings from the behavioral and social sciences can enhance the practice of medicine. In addition, it is imperative that physicians appreciate the limits of thei...

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The following list includes a large number of films that are relevant to classes in positive psychology and related subjects. The films are classified according to the positive psychology typology developed by Chris Peterson and Marty Seligman in their book titled Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification (2004). All films are...

Prenatal exposure to alcohol is a leading preventable cause of birth defects and developmental disabilities. Individuals exposed to alcohol during fetal development can have physical, mental, behavioral, and learning disabilities, with lifelong implications. These conditions are known as fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs). Health care profess...

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) occurs in approximately 3 of 1,000 live births in the general population of the U.S. and is the leading known cause of mental retardation. The Midwest Regional Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Training Center (MRFASTC) surveyed 1,000 licensed occupational therapists (OT) of the American Occupational Therapists Association in a si...

This commentary reviews the contributions made in each of the other articles in this issue in the context of the author's international experience. I discuss the tremendous diversity in education, training, experience, and legal status of psychologists around with world, using examples from Argentina, Australia, Brunei, Iran, Japan, Mexico, South A...

Do you have adequate knowledge of the hallmarks of fetal alcohol syndrome and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders? Can you identify pregnant women who are at risk for having a child with the disorder? A large random sample survey of American Psychological Association members uncovered large deficits in psychologists' knowledge about the diagnosis, tre...

Reviews the book, Meeting Movies by Norman N. Holland (see record 2006-11509-000). Meeting Movies is a very personal book in which Holland discusses eight films that have been personally meaningful to him. These films are Casablanca, Vertigo, The Seventh Seal, Freud, Persona, Children of Paradise, Shakespeare in Love, and 8 1/2. Holland describes w...

Background Conduct a comprehensive survey of FASD knowledge, skill, and attitudes regarding recognition, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention among family physicians in the Midwest. Methods A 35 question survey on FASD recognition, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention was sent to a random sample of 1,000 active members of the AAFP from Missouri and...

Psychologists and psychiatrists have been portrayed in hundreds of films for nearly a century. They are most often depicted as clinicians working in various settings such as psychiatric hospitals and mental health centers. Many recent films have included psychologists as lead characters. Are these portrayals accurate? Are they improving? Are the ag...

This paper offers commentaries on Pate and Kohout’s (2005) report of data from the 1997 and 2003 surveys of psychologists in medical school settings. The commentaries reflect upon the significance of the survey findings and implications for psychology’s role in medical school and academic health science settings. Though the response rate to the sur...

C.R. Snyder and T.R. Elliott (this issue, pp. 1033-1054) propose a four level matrix model for graduate education in the 21st century. The model is critically reviewed and found to be robust and heuristic. Several critical issues confronting training directors in the 21st century that are not acknowledged by Snyder and Elliott are identified and di...

This book is designed to supplement a core text in abnormal psychology and psychopathology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)

Optometrists legally use drugs to diagnose and treat eye disease in every state. This was not always the case, and this significant, often contentious, change in scope of practice occurred over 3 decades. The authors examine the history of prescribing drugs in optometry and extract 4 lessons for clinical psychology: Education must precede legislati...

Prescriptive authority is not a back alley way to the practice of psychiatry, according to this survey of nurse psychologists. Only 5% of the 266 nurse psychologists with an option to pursue prescriptive authority as advanced nurse practitioners or clinical nurse specialists had availed themselves of this opportunity and were prescribing. Liability...

Recent studies have demonstrated an alternative to drug treatment for patients presenting with anxiety disorders. This new technique involves electrical stimulation of the peripheral nervous system to induce chemical changes in the brain that can support and promote healing. This method was developed in part from studies of ancient Chinese acupunct...

This article discusses the ways in which client attitudes about mental illness, psychotherapy, and therapists are shaped by contemporary films. Five common myths about mental illness that are promulgated by films are discussed, and the potential applications of films in psychotherapy are reviewed. Numerous examples of films relevant to psychotherap...

Obituary for David Merrill Clayson (1934-2001).

Obituary for David Merrill Clayson (1934-2001). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)

Cognitive therapists have described cognitive distortions that are frequently associated with depression. These distortions include arbitrary inference, selective abstraction, overgeneralization, magnification and minimization, personalization, and dichotomous thinking, which are often present in suicidal individuals. This article suggests it is us...

A survey of 3,894 psychologists employed within medical schools and academic health centers was conducted in 1997 by the Research Office of the American Psychological Association (APA) in collaboration with the Association of Medical School Psychologists (AMSP). This survey, published as the 1997 Employment Characteristics and Salaries of Medical S...

Examines the way alcohol use has been portrayed in films with particular emphasis on the western genre. Saloons, bar fights, and town drunks are all staple features of the genre, a genre that has contributed significantly to the prevailing image of masculinity. This paper argues that these images influence and shape contemporary attitudes about alc...

In 1997 the Research Office of the American Psychological Association (APA) collaborated with the Association of Medical School Psychologists (AMSP) to conduct a comprehensive employment and salary survey of psychologists employed in medical schools and academic health centers. Questionnaires were mailed to 3894 psychologists; postcard reminders an...

Research productivity is one of the defining characteristics of academic excellence. However, research may become a low priority at medical schools and academic health centers as faculty increasingly are asked to generate clinical revenue to support their faculty positions. This increased demand for clinical revenue results in less time for teachin...

During the past 20 years, psychologists have successfully modified federal statutes, resulting in recognition of the profession's clinical and research expertise. Despite these successes, professional psychology's training institutions have largely failed to address basic issues in health policy and the implications of national health policy for ps...

During the past 20 years, psychologists have successfully modified federal statutes, resulting in recognition of the profession's clinical and research expertise. Despite these successes, professional psychology's training institutions have largely failed to address basic issues in health policy and the implications of national health policy for ps...

The emergence of managed behavioral health care has increased the value of data describing outcomes of mental health treatment. At the same time, increased development of the national information infrastructure and other computer linkage systems has facilitated the flow of information among a wide network of data systems. These two developments cre...

The Mental Health Studios is an interactive multimedia program designed to educate the public about the biological basis of mental and addictive disorders. Using sound, text, graphics, charts, and video, the software provides detailed scientific information about the brain and depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, and subs...

The reviewer notes that this work (see record 1993-99095-000 ) is a reference book that compares mental health policy in 20 different countries: Argentina, Canada, Chile, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, the People's Republic Of China, Romania, Russia and Commonwealth of Independent States, Saudi...

The emergence of managed behavioral health care has increased the value of data describing outcomes of mental health treatment. At the same time, increased development of the national information infrastructure and other computer linkage systems has facilitated the flow of information among a wide network of data systems. These two developments cre...

A rudimentary conceptual model of the forces involved in establishing US health policy is offered to facilitate the understanding of the policy-making process. The authors use the model to make recommendations for how psychologists as external players can be maximally effective in interacting with Congress to influence public policy. The American P...

Reviews the advantages of financing mental health care in the US along the lines of the Canadian single-payer system and argues that the pillars of the Canadian system (accessibility, comprehensiveness, portability, public administration, and universality) are standards a restructured US system could achieve. The merits of including mental health c...

Although psychologists are recognized as autonomous providers under almost every major federal health care initiative, they are not federally recognized as such under Medicaid because of Medicaid's unique federal–state partnership. State-by-state information on the access to psychologists under state Medicaid regulations are presented. As the move...

Although psychologists are recognized as autonomous providers under almost every major federal health care initiative, they are not federally recognized as such under Medicaid because of Medicaid's unique federal–state partnership. State-by-state information on the access to psychologists under state Medicaid regulations are presented. As the move...

determining when a patient is unfit to drive an automobile because of a neurological defect or disease is a difficult problem both for physicians and for the neuropsychologists they may consult / psychological methods should prove useful and should supplement clinical judgment in arriving at decisions about when, or if, patients with cognitive limi...

There is a vast and growing literature in psychology demonstrating the general limits of human judgment and clinical inference. These findings clearly apply in the new specialty of clinical neuropsychology, and there is little empirical research to support the widespread belief that judgmental accuracy correlates substantially with experience, prof...

We review the literature on clinical judgment and statistical/actuarial prediction both in clinical psychology and in neuropsychology and we attempt to place these findings within the broader context of judgment theory. Current research on judgment in neuropsychology is consistent with research in other areas that documents the limitations of human...

Substance abuse is a serious problem in the workplace which costs employers millions of dollars each year in both direct and indirect costs. This cost is in addition to the human pain and suffering which exists for the individual addicted to drugs or alcohol and for his or her family. This article addresses the specific problem of substance abuse i...

This book is intended for the general clinician who is faced with the task of assessing clients who may or may not have organic impairment. The primary goal of this book is to provide the clinician with procedures that can be utilized in the general outpatient clinical setting. For the most part, the procedures described in this book can be used...

Thirty-two right-handed subjects (16 males and 16 females) participated in a choice reaction time experiment replicating two previous studies which demonstrated the superiority of the left hemisphere in rapidly identifying facial emotion as either positive or negative. Slides of hemifaces split along the vertical axis, showing either positive (happ...

Thirty-two right-handed subjects (15 males and 17 females) participated in a study investigating the effects of the perception of positive and negative emotional stimuli on choice reaction time. Slides of faces showing positive (happy, surprise) or negative (anger, disgust, sadness) affect were presented via a tachistoscope to either the right or l...

Thirty-two right-handed university students (16 males and 16 females) participated in a choice reaction time study assessing the perception of hemispheric differences in positive (happiness, surprise) and negative (anger, disgust) facial affect. Subjects were exposed to slides of facial expressions in either the left or right visual field, and late...

Research in assertion training has focused primarily on the acquisition, transfer, and maintenance of skills. Little research has been conducted on other parameters influencing skills training. The present study examined the subjective reactions of two different samples of patients (psychiatric and nonpsychiatric) to filmed vignettes of assertive a...

This report describes a single-case study of the differential effects of neutral, moderately aversive, or highly aversive covert images used in covert sensitization on physiological arousal to homosexual stimuli in a bisexual male. During the experiment, data became confounded after it was revealed that the patient had begun using aversive scenes f...

The present series of single case studies was designed to evaluate the comparative efficacy of masseter EMG feedback with progressive relaxation training in the treatment of TMJ dysfunction. Study 1 employed a multiple baseline design across the symptoms of jaw pain, jaw tension and shoulder pain in a patient with chronic TMJ problems. The results...

Compared the diagnostic accuracy of 14 clinical neuropsychologists with predictions made from the taxonomic key approach in E. Russell et al (1970) and cross-validated discriminant functions in classifying 30 protocols into 1 of 5 diagnostic groups (left, right, or diffuse brain damage; schizophrenic; and normal). The superiority of statistical mod...

Suggests that the development of computerized axial tomography (CT scanning) will alter the role of the clinical neuropsychologist working in a medical setting. The CT technique is rapid, noninvasive, and more accurate than traditional neurodiagnostic and neuropsychological measures. It is likely that the ability to isolate the suspected location o...

An attempt was made to compare the diagnostic conclusions of the Halstead-Reitan battery with the diagnosis of the computerized tomography (CT) scanner), which has recently created profound changes in neuroradiological practice. Subjects were 45 patients whose neurological diagnosis was used as a criterion for CT, EEG, and three Halstead-Reitan dia...

The MMPI was administered to a group of 27 male transsexual candidates for sex change surgery, and their test results were compared with those of 24 male kidney transplant surgical candidates and 26 males suspected of having a psychophysiological disorder. The data revealed a notable absence of psychopathology among the transsexuals as well as the...

Background Despite warnings to the contrary, many women continue to drink alcohol during pregnancy, placing their infants at risk for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). Previous studies in high-risk populations have documented knowledge deficits about the effects of alcohol drunk during pregnancy among high-risk groups. Improving knowledge abo...