Facial Action Coding System

responsibility, check the patients in, reviewing coding compliance, reviewing billing compliance, check out patients, monitor payer adjudication, generate patient statements and finally follow up payments and collections. Each step has to be done thoroughly by attaining the information necessary to process the claim for the care provider. This will ensure that they will receive payment for the care and services they provided for the patient. A billing and coding specialist will be placed in any…

According to the Family Theory, each part of a system is interrelated, dependent on each other, and affects one another (Codina Leik, 2014). Therefore, if one part of the system is damaged or dysfunctional, such as one member of a family, the rest of the system or family is also affected (Codina Leik, 2014). It is extremely important to incorporate this theory into assessments and family interventions in primary care. Both of my preceptors incorporated this system into their assessments and…

In 2011, Kevin Chran wrote about Paul Ekman and his research on facial emotion measurement. As a matter of fact, when Ekman was fourteen in 1948 his mother committed suicide due to bipolar depression. Not only ... but also he wished that he could have seen the depression in her face but he couldn’t at the time. In the same fashion he wanted to find a way to help save more lives. Nevertheless, he ended up finding out that Darwin was right about emotions being universal. Until recently everybody…

are feeling, right? That’s because most humans are really good at silently communicating and interpreting a whole range emotions using only their facial muscles. Whether voluntary or involuntary, a simple curled lip, raised eyebrow, or crinkled nose, can speak volumes. In fact, many psychologists believe that not only are some of our basic facial expressions innate and not learned, but that they’re also universal across cultures. They believe that whether you were born in Tokyo, Oklahoma,…

The operational definition for the term “Duchenne smile” as delineated by the literature is, “the activation of the orbicularis oculi (cheek raiser) muscle that makes crow’s feet at the outer corner of the eye, called Action Unit 6 (AU 6) according to the Facial Action Coding System (FACS; Ekman et al. 2002).” The Duchenne smile is an natural response to a coexisting positive effect. In contrast, Ekman et al., 1990 and Frank et al., 1993 notes that the non- Duchenne smile, often called a…

Summary The author describes the main subject of his book as "thin-slicing": our ability to use limited information from a very narrow period of experience to come to a conclusion. This idea suggests that spontaneous decisions are often as good as—or even better than—carefully planned and considered ones. To reinforce his ideas, Gladwell draws from a wide range of examples from science and medicine (including malpractice suits), sales and advertising, gambling, speed dating (and predicting…

Malcolm Gladwell in his book, Blink, suggests that thin-slicing suggests that spontaneous decisions are either better of just as good as carefully planned and considered decisions. Gladwell supports his claim by using examples of how normal, every-day people have had experiences with thin-slicing. Gladwell’s purpose is to use examples of regular people and their experiences with thin-slicing in order to persuade readers that intuitive judgment is developed by experience, training, and knowledge.…

discovered my bloody razor blades, I was assigned a psychiatrist, he has helped better cope and handle my emotions. My emotion process or emotion regulation has changed to wear when an event makes me frustrated or depressed I don’t always seek the extreme action. When today we still tend to dismiss people’s emotions to the point where it’s too late to help. Tragedies such as Virginia Tech, Columbine, Sandy Hook, and many others have all been the cause of people not people able to handle…

Nonverbal Communications also know as the body language is a communiation when people send and recive wordless clues. ‘Non’ means ‘not’ and ‘verbal’ means ‘words’. It includes facial expressions, gestures but also tone of voice. Nonverbal Communication informs about basic emotional states, features of someone’s temperament but it can also inform about someone’s social status, origin, self-esteem and education. To understand nonverbal communication better it should be also known what exactly…

qualification and the highest qualification is an undergraduate diploma. Materials Materials consisted of eight different grey-scale photographs pasted onto separate blank sheets of card and Answer Sheets. These eight photographs express different facial expressions; four displaying hands, four with the hands hidden…