Quarterly Review

1. EBM has been around for years. Why is EBM so hard to implemet? According to Mohammad and Salahshoor (2018) “Despite the emergence and development of evidence-based practice (EBP) in recent years, its adoption continues to be limited.” (p. 25). By use of used Rogers's diffusion of innovation theory, they were able to identify several factors that affect the adoption of Evidence based medicine, including individual innovation, attitude, knowledge, and the perception of evidence based medicine.…

Evidence-Based Practice Proposal - Section E: Change Model Implementation of evidence-based practice to create change in the clinical arena is the challenging task for the clinicians and research expertise. In the context of the implementation of EBP, various ‘change models’ were innovated for systematic guidance to assist the clinicians with their expectation for the change align with their organization (Melnyk & Fineout-Overholt, 2015, p.274). The author was in a position to chose the…

Psychological practice has been transformed and critiqued for over a century. What started out as talk therapy and discussions of subconscious desires is gradually being empirically tested. Psychological practices are becoming more evidence based, leading to improved psychological assessments and treatments. This paper will be a summary of the article, “Evidence Based Practice,” as well as a critique of the strengths and weaknesses. Evidence Based Practice in Psychology (EBPP) is defined as the…

power is limited by the other two branches of government and the President nominates justices to the court. However the in the UK the Supreme Court is used to interpret the law and resolve dispute, it is much more limited in its powers of judicial review than the constitutional or Supreme Courts of some other countries because of parliamentary sovereignty. A recent U.S Supreme Court ruling lossip v. Gross was carried out in 2015, the case was about executions carried out by a three drug protocol…

actually forced me to stop and thoroughly read every source to find what information I agreed/disagreed with. Pre-writing helped to pinpoint what my beliefs/ideas were in both the personal culture paper as well as the quote-directed paper. Peer review and tutoring really helped to improve the conciseness of my papers, drawing all my thoughts and ideas into clear, cohesive paragraphs that flowed smoothly from one to the next. My peers and my tutor also picked out errors that I tended to…

INTRODUCTION The workplace conditions and safety climate related-programmes, especially in emerging industrial countries, are remained poorly neglected (Bosak, Coetsee, & Cullinane, 2013). For instance, Indonesia as an emerging country has three major issues regarding psychological safety, labour market security and quality of the working environment issues such as poorly paid salary and wages, long working hours, accidents, etc. (OECD, 2014). In fact, Jamsostek (2013) reports that work…

Cramer, H., Lauche, R., Azizi, H., Dobos, G., & Langhorst, J. (2014). Yoga for multiple sclerosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. PloS one, 9(11), e112414. The purpose of this study was to systematically analyze the effectiveness and safety of yoga on patients with multiple sclerosis. This study reviewed articles from various sources including but are not limited to those studies who have conducted randomized controlled trials (RCT). The trials the have been included on this study were…

In discovering information that is put into resources we use, such as textbooks, scientists test their hypotheses with a specific method. This process, called the scientific method, is part of our instinct. Using this process to prove scientific theories has been used for thousands of years, evolving over time until it reached its current form. This process is the foundation of science, being very important in helping scientists to be able to build off work that was previously done. The…

I have never read a book that is capable of changing the reader's life or the way that one looks at certain things. Gail Hudson, of Kirkus Reviews, and I agree on many aspects of the book and Paulo Coelho. She thinks that the book is "a bag of wind" that "Americans should flock to like gulls". We also agree on the extraordinary writing skills of Paulo Coelho. He has been praised for his work…

College is arguably the single utmost essential transition in an individual’s life, which one experiences various forms of peer pressure and specific growth patterns. Those individuals fortunate enough to pay for their studies are able to further education far and wide across the globe, not while coming at the cost of the countless positives stringing along some negatives. With increased peer pressure and opportunity, some are introduced to a parent’s worst nightmare that being the cause and…