Introduction: Self-management is considered a potential answer to the increasing demand for family medicine by people suffering from a chronic condition or multi-morbidity. A key element of self-management is goal setting. Goal setting is often defined as a moment of agreement between a professional …

The goal of this book is to provide useful information to companies that do business in China, or that are considering doing so. We chose to apply a marketing perspective. Marketing, by definition, mediates between the customer and the brand (or the organization hosting the brand, figure 1) (Alsem, Kostelijk, …

Purpose: The Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA), including the PG-SGA Short Form (SF, aka ‘abridged’), was originally developed in the mid 1990’s as a scored, patient self-report, paperbased instrument and has been widely validated. The PG-SGA (SF) has been used for screening, assessment …

Long-term absenteeism is a persistent problem in the police organisation in the Netherlands. Around 4% of staff has been absent for over three months. For the National Police's Enhancing Professional Resilience programme, we conducted research into opportunities for increasing people's resilience when …

Conference paper of the Third North American Correctional and CriminalJustice Psychology Conference (NACCJPC Since some time now, working alliance has been recognized in psychotherapy as a main factor conducive to positive outcomes (Norcross, 2012). In mandated supervisory context, relevance and manifestation …

European honors in disguise: international faculty development and student exchange neededTalking about diversity is an international adventure. Geopolitical issues are important for spreading honors. Designing international honors courses and organizing an international exchange for honors teachers …

This presentation describes the results of a rapid review that aims on which methods and measurements are used to evaluate multi-component interventions in the field of physical activity (PA), sedentary (SB) behavior or diet. This rapid review is part of DEDIPAC, a sub project of the Joint Programming …

Methodological issues in an practice oriented research project.Presentation: Sustainable labour participation:•Vitality: high levels of energy, vigour, and resilience while working and the willingness to keep investing energy in the job during trying circumstances.•Employability: the ability to keep …

Methodological issues in an practice oriented research project.Presentation Zürich: Sustainable labour participation:•Vitality: high levels of energy, vigour, and resilience while working and the willingness to keep investing energy in the job during trying circumstances.•Employability: the ability to …

Designing a green gas supply to meet a regional seasonal demand: a case study.One of the issues concerning the replacement of natural gas by green gas is the seasonal pattern of the gas demand. When constant production is assumed, this may limit the injected quantity of green gas into a gas grid to the …