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The accounting, medical, and legal professions share characteristics common to peer-reviewed professions. These professions also share challenges to professionalism. All three have been criticized for declining professionalism and for choosing commercial success over serving the public interest. Although the medical and legal professions have taken steps to promote a higher level of professional conduct by their members, the accounting profession has not launched initiatives to promote professionalism. We discuss the initiatives instigated by the legal and medical professions using the five elements of professionalism framework (Hamilton, 2008a). Specifically, the framework highlights the importance of growth in personal conscience, demands compliance with the ethics of duty, inspires realization of aspirational goals, requires accountability of peer professionals, and emphasizes devotion to serving the public good. We recommend that members of the accounting profession use the five elements of professionalism framework to define, demonstrate, and assess professionalism. We conclude that promoting professionalism is a means for restoring professional identity for individual accountants as well as a means for fulfilling the accounting profession's contract with society.

This study aimed to investigate Turkish targeted parents’ experience of alienating tactics used in the process of being alienated from their child. The study also aimed to explore targeted parents’ thoughts on the services they have received from mental health and legal professionals that they encountered during the process of family separation. Eighty-four targeted parents completed an online survey. The survey consisted of questions pertaining to sociodemographic information, questions developed by the researchers asking about the targeted parents’ experiences, and questions regarding 13 alienation tactics described in the literature. The majority of participants were male (94%), with an average age of 42 years. Participants reported they had been exposed to many alienating tactics and almost half of the participants had not seen their child despite the existence of court ordered visitation. Half of the participants had been referred to mental health professionals during the divorce process, with the majority of these participants of the opinion that these professionals had insufficient knowledge of parental alienation. Further, most participants thought that the legal professionals they encountered had insufficient knowledge of parental alienation. Participants also reported feeling hopeless, desperate, lonely, anxious, and unable to enjoy life. These findings are consistent with research with participants from other countries.

The future of health professions education: Emerging trends in the United States.

The shortage of accounting professionals is well-documented. To address this shortage, greater numbers of school students should be attracted and enrolled in undergraduate accounting programmes. Unfortunately, school students may have misperceptions of the accounting profession. These misperceptions may result in potential entrants to the profession being lost to other professions. Secondary school teachers play an influential role in students' perceptions of future careers. This survey assessed the perceptions of the secondary school career guidance counsellors and mathematics teachers' perceptions of the accounting profession in South Africa in comparison to the medical, engineering and legal professions. The findings suggest that the accounting profession is held in lower esteem than the engineering and medical professions, but in higher esteem than the legal profession. The findings confirm previous research conducted in the USA, Australasia and Japan. Marketing and recruitment programmes should educate secondary school teachers as to the true nature of the accounting profession.

Imogen Goold and Catherine Kelly (eds), Lawyers’ Medicine: The Legislature, the Courts and medical Practice, 1760–2000 (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2009), pp. xiv + 224, £30.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-84113-849-7. - Volume 55 Issue 1

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Child death in Germany sparks health-policy review

The study of female homosexuals — like the study of homosexuality in general — was not a major preoccupation of Soviet medical and legal professionals during the first years of the Bolshevik regime. Yet in contrast to pre-revolutionary discussions of the issue, a significant number of case histories and reports of women engaged in same-sex love appeared in scientific journals of the 1920s. Moreover, determined efforts were made by psychiatrists to move beyond a merely descriptive presentation of unusual individuals. Bolshevik policy on sexual and gender dissent was ambiguous, suggesting contradictory approaches to ‘homosexuality’. Some psychiatrists and sexologists endorsed the emancipation of male and female homosexuals, albeit in aesopian language. Meanwhile other medical professionals, buoyed by the revolutionary project to reconstruct humanity, adopted an interventionist approach against women who loved other women.KeywordsHomosexual IdentityRussian HistoryHomosexual DesireLove LetterSexual PerversionThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

Back to table of contents Previous article Next article Book Forum: ForensicsFull AccessHandbook of Forensic Psychology: Resource for Mental Health and Legal ProfessionalsRALPH SLOVENKO, J.D., Ph.D., RALPH SLOVENKOSearch for more papers by this author, J.D., Ph.D., Detroit, Mich.Published Online:1 Sep 2005https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.162.9.1773AboutSectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail In this big book, the editors, both from the Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, have assembled 71 contributors, nearly all from university departments of psychology, to produce an encyclopedic handbook of forensic psychology. The volume is organized into four parts: 1) Basic Issues, 2) Assessment, 3) Mental Disorders and Forensic Psychology, and 4) Special Topics. Each part has several chapters, which, in turn, have several sections on different topics.Part 1, Basic Issues, is designed to orient mental health professionals to the practice of law and orient legal professionals to the practice and limitations of psychology. Part 1 has four chapters. The first, “Psychology and the Law,” has seven sections on different issues in psychology and law. Chapter 2 provides an introduction to psychology for attorneys, chapter 3 on ethical issues in forensic psychology, and chapter 4 on forensic report writing.Part 2, Assessment, has the following chapters: “Assessment of Dangerousness and Criminal Responsibility,” “Forensic and Ethical Issues in the Assessment and Treatment of the Suicidal Patient,” “Assessing Intent and Criminal Responsibility,” “Assessing Adjudicative Competency,” “Assessing Mental Competency in the Elderly,” “Child Custody Evaluations,” “Forensic Interviewing of Children,” “Evaluation of Psychological Damages,” “Detecting Malingering,” “Assessment of Substance Abuse,” and “Assessment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.”Part 3, Mental Disorders and Forensic Psychology, has five chapters: “Conduct Disorders and Impulse Control in Children,” “Psychopathic Personality,” “Sexual Deviance,” “Disorders of Impulse Control,” and “Developmental Disabilities and Mental Retardation.”Part 4, Special Topics, has chapters covering issues in eyewitness testimony, recovered memories, Daubert testing (1) of hypnotically refreshed testimony, the polygraph, nonverbal detection of deception, sexual harassment, child abuse and neglect, partner violence, elder abuse, involuntary commitment, selection of jurors, issues of ethnicity, psychology in correctional settings, evaluation of youth in the juvenile justice system, influence tactics in the interrogation room, voluntary intoxication, and sexual assault.As this description of the chapters would indicate, just about every conceivable topic in forensic psychology is covered, but the coverage of each topic is rather thin. Thus, chapter 1 in part 1 covers psychiatrist/psychologist-patient privilege (five pages), expert testimony (five pages), involuntary civil commitment (three pages), criminal commitment (two pages), duality and sexual relationships with clients (one page), memory enhancement techniques (three pages), and Internet psychotherapy (one page). Some of these topics are also discussed in subsequent chapters.As might be expected from a multiauthored work, the writing is uneven, ranging from the interesting to the pedantic, and with repetition. For example, the Tarasoff(2) decision of the California Supreme Court in 1976 on the duty of a therapist to report a patient who poses a danger is discussed no fewer than five times (pp. 8, 86, 104, 560, 774). A somewhat less than satisfactory and uneven bibliography follows each chapter (italicization is inconsistent). Be that as it may, the encyclopedic nature of the book should prove helpful as a reference work for mental health and legal professionals. It was obviously a major enterprise to assemble and coordinate 71 contributors. The book is attractively printed.Reprints are not available; however, Book Forum reviews can be downloaded at http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org.Edited by William T. O’Donohue and Eric R. Levensky. Burlington, Mass., Elsevier Science, 2004, 1,064 pp., $149.95.

BackgroundChanging people’s behaviour by giving advice and instruction, as traditionally provided in healthcare consultations, is usually ineffective. Healthy Conversation Skills (HCS) training enhances health professionals’ communication skills and ability to empower and motivate people in health behaviour change. Guided by the Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF), this study examined the impact of HCS training on health professional barriers to conducting behaviour change conversations in both clinical and non-clinical settings. Secondary aims were to i) identify health professionals’ barriers to having behaviour change conversations, and explore the ii) effect of HCS training on health professionals’ competence and attitudes to adopting HCS, iii) feasibility, acceptability and appropriateness of using HCS in their clinical and non-clinical roles, and iv) acceptability and quality of HCS training.MethodsHCS training was conducted in October-November 2019 and February 2020. Pre-training (T1), post-training (T2) and follow-up (T3; 6-10 weeks post-training) surveys collected data on demographics and changes in competence, confidence, importance and usefulness (10-point Likert scale, where 10 = highest score) of conducting behaviour change conversations. Validated items assessing barriers to having these conversations were based on eight TDF domains. Post-training acceptability and quality of training was assessed. Data were summarised using descriptive statistics, and differences between TDF domain scores at the specific time points were analysed using Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-rank tests.ResultsSixty-four participants consented to complete surveys (97% women; 16% identified as Aboriginal), with 37 employed in clinical settings and 27 in non-clinical settings. The training improved scores for the TDF domains of skills (T1: median (interquartile range) = 4.7(3.3-5.3); T3 = 5.7(5.3-6.0), p < 0.01), belief about capabilities (T1 = 4.7(3.3-6.0); T3 = 5.7(5.0-6.0), p < 0.01), and goals (T1 = 4.3(3.7-5.0); T3 = 4.7(4.3-5.3), p < 0.01) at follow-up. Competence in using ‘open discovery questions’ increased post-training (T1 = 25% of responses; T2 = 96% of responses; T3 = 87% of responses, p < 0.001), as did participants’ confidence for having behaviour change conversations (T1 = 6.0(4.7-7.6); T2 = 8.1(7.1-8.8), p < 0.001), including an increased confidence in having behaviour change conversations with Aboriginal clients (T1 = 5.0(2.7-6.3); T2 = 7.6(6.4-8.3), p < 0.001).ConclusionsProvision of additional support strategies to address intentions; memory, attention and decision processes; and behavioural regulation may enhance adoption and maintenance of HCS in routine practice. Wider implementation of HCS training could be an effective strategy to building capacity and support health professionals to use a person-centred, opportunistic approach to health behaviour change.

We assemble studies within a set that we label randomized control trials (RCTs) in the US legal profession. These studies are field experiments conducted for the purpose of obtaining knowledge in which randomization replaces a decision that would otherwise have been made by a member of the US legal profession. We use our assembly of approximately 50 studies to begin addressing the question of why the US legal profession, in contrast to the US medical profession, has resisted the use of the RCT as a knowledge-generating device.

A therapeutic approach to assessing legal capacity in Australia

Ethical issues in pediatric pharmacogenomics.