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Organizational Creativity as a Process Requiring Positive Attitudes

Creative organizations demonstrate a positive attitude toward problems. In fact, they seek them out as opportunities for disruptive change. Unfortunately, in lesser organizations the word 'problem' is often perceived negatively. In the creative process of Figure 1, problems are anticipated and sought proac-tively. They are viewed with a positive attitude as opportunities for innovation and improvement. As solutions are implemented, new problems or opportunities are discovered. For example, top Japanese corporations place newly-hired research and development scientists and engineers into sales departments to begin their careers. The intent is for them to learn experientially how to discover the problems of the customer, and recognize that such learning is the beginning of innovation. Thus, a positive mindset toward creativity begins with a positive attitude toward problem finding, meaning the behavior of continuously and deliberately discovering and formulating new and useful problems...


Some people enjoy the way that affirmations reinforce learning. The theory is that mentally rehearsing principles strengthens the neural pathways associated with them, more deeply implanting the ideas and making them available for coping under pressure. The procedure is straightforward. Find a place to relax undisturbed for about fifteen minutes. Deeply relax your body. Take two easy, deep breaths, saying your calming word or phrase to yourself as you breath in and out. Simply read the first statement and allow it to sink in. You might think of a time when you actually believed that statement and acted on it. Or you might imagine what your life would be like if that statement were part of your thinking. Imagine how you would feel and behave. Repeat the statement again let it roll around in your mind. Feel free to modify or add to the following list of affirmations 20. Your own affirmations

The Importance of Creativity to Organizations

Creativity can facilitate and increase problem solving and adaptability skills. While many organizations pay lip service to creativity, the most effective organizations recognize its importance and develop positive attitudes toward it. Effective organizations are simultaneously efficient and creative. The efficient organization follows well-structured, stable routines to deliver its products or services in high quantities with high quality and at low cost. It reacts quickly to unexpected turns of events to maintain routines with minimal disruption and without becoming mired in bureaucracy. In a stable world, efficient organizations may be successful. But in a changing world, organizations also need creativity as an ongoing process. While organizational efficiency implies mastering routine, organizational creativity requires mastering the process of deliberately changing routine. Organizational creativity is a proactive process it allows the organization to deliberately...

Macro Level Creativity Attitude Research

The second category of macro level empirical research consists of a program of field work by creativity researcher Min Basadur and his colleagues, who developed scales to measure the extent to which organizations do not value new ideas, have negative stereotypes of creative people, and whose employees feel too busy for new ideas. These provide an opportunity for innovation-minded managers to enhance creative behavior among staff by nurturing and developing specific positive attitudes. To the extent that employees value new ideas, believe that increased creative behavior and performance can be developed and is not the sole domain of a select few, and feel they are not too busy for new ideas, they are more likely to engage in creative thinking and to try to improve their creative performance. Some theorists have offered conceptual models explaining how individuals' attitudes play important roles in creativity. For example, some theorists have argued that a negative attitude suppresses...

Rule Versus Model Based Accounts of Reasoning

Ordinary conditional of everyday discourse could be a material conditional (Edgington, 1995 Evans, Handley, & Over, 2003 Evans & Over, 2004). However, this distinction does not affect the validity of the arguments discussed here. In the previous example, because there is no case in which true premises can lead to a false conclusion, the argument is valid. Let us contrast this with one of the classical fallacies of conditional reasoning known as affirmation of the consequent (AC). Suppose we are tempted to argue from the previous conditional that if the letter on the right is known to be a 3 , then the letter on the left must be an A. See Table 8.2 for the truth table.

Motivation and education

Stronge (1984) suggests that involving patients in the care or protection of their wounds promotes healing. Logically, careful explanation of the importance of diet or appropriate exercise can only improve the rate of healing. A positive attitude to healing by the nurse has a significant effect on the outlook of the patient. Fernie and Dornan (1976) found it improved the healing of pressure sores.

Settings for informal contact with peers engaged in similar creative activities

Autonomously creative people in Europe and the United States have often used cafes, bars, and restaurants as places to meet and mingle with one another during or at the end of their workdays. The cafe life of Vienna and Paris, for example, has often been cited as an important factor in sustaining the creative ferment of these two cities during certain periods in their history. Historians and sociologists of art and literature have also cited the roles played by particular bars in the emergence and development of bebop jazz in Harlem in the 1940s, the New York School of artists and poets in the 1940s and 1950s, and the development of the beat poets in San Francisco's North Beach in the 1950s. (Interestingly, certain restaurants have also been cited as playing important roles in the productive backchannel exchange of information that helped fuel Silicon Valley's creativity.) In such settings creative people are able to satisfy some of their needs for social contact that may have been...

Early Conceptualizations of Memory

Two additional discoveries provided access to patients' memories. Through self-analysis, Freud realized that dreams were a potent source of childhood memories because of their shared proximity to primary process thinking and to pictorial imagery (Greenson 1970). Once untangled, dream material offered convincing affirmation of interpretive work that contained speculations about the patient's past and often evoked heretofore unremembered details of experience. Freud's (1905a) simultaneous discovery of transference was the second momentous contribution. Defined as new editions or facsimiles of the impulses and phantasies belonging to the past that are now directed toward the analyst, the transference brought childhood experience directly into the consulting room. The patient was recreating his or her history in the relationship with the analyst. There was no need to search for specific repressed memories the past lived on in the present, and the present colored the representation of the...

The Psychology of Rebellion

By rebellion, the individual both affirms uniqueness and establishes a principled connection with all of humanity. It is, for example, an appropriate and normal part of a child's development to rebel. There are at least two important phases of developmental rebellion that all or most people negotiate (1) the 'terrible twos' and (2) adolescence. Around two years of age, it is normal for the child to say 'no' to a host of demands from its caregivers. This negativism allows the child the opportunity to test the waters of autonomy. Adolescence, in addition, is notorious as a period of rebellion, and quite likely is a crucial epoch for the adolescent to establish an identity separate from the identities of others. Negativism as affirmation is part of the normal development of the self.

Separate Versus Comparative Evaluation

In the same vein, decision principles that are hard to apply in isolated evaluation may prove decisive in comparative settings, producing systematic fluctuations in attribute weights. Kahneman and Ritov (1994), for example, asked participants about their willingness to contribute to several environmental programs. One program was geared toward saving dolphins in the Mediterranean Sea another funded free medical checkups for farm workers at risk for skin cancer. When asked which program they would rather support, the vast majority chose the medical checkups for farm workers, presumably following the principle that human lives come before those of animals. However, when asked separately for the largest amount they would be willing to pay for each intervention, respondents, moved by the animals' vivid plight, were willing to pay more for the dolphins than for workers' checkups. In a similar application, potential jurors awarded comparable dollar amounts to plaintiffs who had suffered...

Dark Side to Creativity

Contrast to positive creativity, to describe the undesirable, or indeed harmful, consequences of creativity since the late 1990s. These terms provide a more general classification of creativity with respect to the nature of the outcome, or product. Good products and outcomes, in other words those that are beneficial and affirming, are labeled positive. Those that are undesirable, harmful and or damaging are negative.

Professionalism And Risks

The alternative, no social contract and no understanding or agreement of mutual obligation, cannot be called a community. Community is not merely a collection of individuals held together only by explicit undertakings. Such explicit compacts, such affirmations of mutual responsibility, cannot come about without the tacit undertakings and expectations that enabled them in the very beginning.31

Competency to Testify

In 1975, Congress enacted the Federal Rules of Evidence, in which it is declared every person is competent to be a witness (Fed. R. Evid. 601). The advisory committee noted, No mental or moral qualifications for testifying as a witness are specified. Standards of mental capacity have proved elusive in actual application. Rule 602 requires a witness to have personal knowledge of the matter he or she testifies about, and Rule 603 requires that the witness take an oath or affirmation to tell the truth. Many states have adopted the Federal Rules directly, whereas others have modified the language somewhat. In California, the rule of evidence regarding witness competency is as follows except as otherwise provided by statute, every person, irrespective of age, is qualified to be a witness and no person is disqualified to testify to any matter (Cal. Evid. Code 700, 2009). However, a person in California is disqualified to be a witness if he or she is 1) incapable of expressing himself or...

Influences ofNondirectional Outcome Motivation

In one study, Tetlock (1985) had participants read an essay either supporting or opposing affirmative action that had ostensibly been written by someone from a previous experiment. They were then informed that the author of the essay had been assigned to take this position by the experimenter and asked to judge the extent to which the arguments presented in the essay reflected the author's own attitude. People who were not provided with any additional motivations displayed the typical fixation on a single cause. These individuals reported that the position taken in the supportive essay could be explained by the positive attitude of the author toward affirmative action, whereas the position taken in the opposing essay could be explained by the negative attitude of the author toward affirmative action despite knowing that both essays had been largely coerced by the experimenter. However, people who were motivated to make accurate judgments (by informing them that they would later be...

The Role of Creativity Training in Entrepreneurship

In engineering, creativity has been introduced as exercises training to promote divergent thinking or idea generation techniques (e.g., brainstorming). In the former case, manufacturing engineers have increased their tendency to generate new solutions, while in the latter case the training has improved scores on creativity tests. Positive effects of creativity training have been attributed to enhancements in the following areas good thinking skills (e.g., divergent thinking), positive attitude, confidence, motivation to be creative, and reduction of anxiety about creativity. The effects of short-term training on creativity do not persist over time and do not transfer to situations significantly different from those experiences in training. However, it appears to be possible to train students to seek new ideas and to

Power Differences Stars Followers and Friendship

Creator and enthusiastically supports the star's growth, sometimes as benefactor, at other times, affirming the creator's ideas. The creator may identify the follower as a friend, but the relationship is often grounded in an imbalance of power, wherein the eminent person gets needs satisfied but does not always give back.

Some Thoughts on Methodology

Imagine a typical subliminal perception experiment in which subjects are given brief or masked exposure to objects or words. Later, knowledge of the target is assessed either by direct tests (what word did you see ) or by indirect tests (changes in response times over time). Note that there are actually two constructs here the accessibility of the information at encoding and the availability of the stored knowledge sometime after presentation. Some (Brody, 1989 Eriksen, 1959) maintain that unconscious perception can subliminal perception Historically, subliminal perception studies have been controversial. They have ranged from the embarrassing eat popcorn - drink coke hoax that was foisted on the public a half-century ago by an overzealous advertising agent (Pratkanis, 1992) to the vigorously debated use of subliminal messages in psychotherapeutic settings (Silverman, 1983 Weinberger, 1992). Admittedly, much of the early work was suspect and has been vigorously criticized (Eriksen,...

Session 8 Memorialization Continuing Bonds Inner Representations and Interactive Relationships and Therapeutic Use of

Discuss how they can serve as ongoing role models. Thus a ritual might be to help the survivor design a behaviour or plan to emulate what they most admired while this person was alive. Encouraging an inner dialogue with the deceased regarding their plan, then contemplating their loved one's response, begins the process (paradox) of creating an inner reality while moving on and reconstructing one's life. Other ideas include seeking their wisdom (internally) when faced with moral dilemmas and life-altering decisions. Thus the deceased remain alive within us, providing a connection to the past while, at the same time, being available for ongoing guidance and support.

Do People Think Logically

Psychologists have published numerous empirical studies the results of which demonstrate various ways in which people's reasoning commonly violates the rules of logic or otherwise goes astray. Examples abound. Simple statements are readily misinterpreted (All A are C may be taken to mean also All C are A, a confusion that is sometimes referred to as the premise-conversion phenomenon). Conditional assertions (If A then C) are frequently interpreted as biconditional assertions (If and only if A then C). Conditional arguments sometimes take the invalid forms (mentioned above) of denying the antecedent (If A then C not A therefore not C) and affirming the consequent (If A then C C therefore A). People often fail to see the logical equivalence between a conditional assertion, IfA then C, and its contrapositive, If not C then not A. Judgments of the validity of formal arguments are often influenced by features that are irrelevant to the question of validity (the truth or falsity of...

Theoretical Origins of Sociological Stress Research

By attending to these principles, stress research has made important contributions to sociological research on the nature of stratification hierarchies, their implications for daily life, and their effects on individual health and well-being. With respect to the components principle, stress researchers have disaggregated the dimensions of stratification that are linked with stress through analyses that estimate the associations of gender, race, income, education, and occupational status with stress exposure and coping resources (e.g., Kessler & Neighbors, 1986 McLeod & Kessler, 1990 Pearlin & Schooler, 1978 Turner & Avison, 2003 Turner, Wheaton, & Lloyd, 1995). These analyses reveal that the different components of socioeconomic stratification are related to stressful experiences in different ways. For example, income predicts the risk of marital separation divorce but education does not, whereas education is a stronger predictor of negative events in one's social network (McLeod &...

Blindsight seeing but not perceiving

Blindsight has been used in films and television programmes to send subliminal messages to normally sighted people, by showing brief images too fast to consciously see, although they are subconsciously perceived by the brain, working at much higher speeds. This has been used for advertising and also in the film The Exorcist, where a single frame, showing a skull, was used to add subliminal fear. It is thought to take around half a second to perceive that something has been seen, but, since chemical transmission between nerve cells can occur in around one millisecond, thousands, even millions, of nerve connections may have been made before one is actually aware . Many countries ban the use of these subliminal messaging methods. A similar phenomenon occurs with sound. We have all experienced being woken from sleep by a noise that seems to have occurred just after we actually woke up. This is another example of our conscious perception lagging behind the brain's processing of the...

Emotion as Energizing Creative Passion

Creativity might also support mental health by promoting feelings of self-worth and competence. A great deal of self-esteem can come from creative accomplishment. Those suffering from affective disorders, or any form of mental illness, may have a fragile sense of worth. A deep involvement in creative work may allow them to channel their anxieties into a valuable pursuit. The work itself may represent a part of the self that is valued and under the individual's control. The recognition that comes when the work is complete can be self-affirming. Of course, the criticism and failure that are also an inevitable part of efforts toward creativity may have the opposite effect. When creative work is progressing well, it may be wonderfully supportive. In times of difficulty, individuals may seek therapy as a way of coping with their symptoms.

Controlling Nervousness

So how do you make nervousness work for you First, you should think positive thoughts. The nervousness that a presenter feels is similar to the nervousness that an athlete feels. How do athletes handle nervousness Many successful tennis players imagine success. Steffi Graf, for instance, believes that positive thinking is a powerful force in playing tennis.9 So does Jimmy Connors. Connors, while waiting to return a service, imagines not only hitting the ball but also the flight of his service return across the net. In his book The Inner Game of Tennis,10 Tim Galloway presents an excellent discussion of the power of positive thinking in one's tennis game. If you are combatting nervousness before a presentation, consider adopting the positive attitude of a successful basketball or tennis player. Imagine yourself delivering a successful presentation. Imagine yourself delivering each of your main points. Imagine the audience focused on your message and nodding in agreement.

Social Integration and Offenders with Mental Illness Massachusetts FTT Community Reentry Studies

Women also emphasize the importance of engagement in social roles in families (such as mother, daughter, sister) and other networks of informal supports for affirmation. While the benefits of these relationships seem clear, they can also have adverse effects. To begin, most females anticipate returning to their families post incarceration. However, family ties are often attenuated due to serving sentences in an institution far from home, providing an example of environmental or contextual constraints affecting social supports. Additionally, previous social relationships based on deviant behaviors such as drug dealing and use may encourage subsequent forms of deviant or criminal behavior upon release from correctional custody. Essentially, for these females, their engagement with the criminal justice system shapes the nature and configuration of their social engagement after release.

Disciplinary and Philosophical Considerations

The controversy about the introduction of a more social element in creativity research has many ramifications, including disciplinary allegiance. Eminent psychologists who have introduced more social dimensions in their research have made a point of explicitly affirming their loyalty to psychology. They are not 'switching sides,' they point out, merely broadening the frame of creativity research. The fact that these kinds of statements need to be made reflects the tension that exists between disciplines, disciplinary affiliations, and the problems that can be associated with stepping out into other disciplines.

Creative and Spiritual Contemplation


Team Member Characteristics

To a large extent the innovativeness of a team depends on the personal characteristics of the team members. The higher the creative ability of the individual members, the higher will be the creativity of the team. Teams whose members who are open to new experiences, extroverted, and have a divergent thinking style are more likely to be creative. It also is beneficial if team members have a positive attitude toward the team. The teamwork literature suggests that it is important for team members to have a range of team relevant skills such as shared leadership, coordination, performance monitoring, and adaptability.

Personal Agency and Obdurateness

Although little research has explored factors influencing the likelihood that a person with severe mental illness will be employed, the research that has been conducted suggests that a strong sense of self-efficacy and positive attitudes toward work make it more likely for one to select obtaining work as a goal and to take the action necessary to contend with the numerous barriers to finding employment (Mowbray & Bybee, 1995). Why and how do some individuals develop a positive attitude toward work despite mental illness and enrollment in the disability system While the traditional psychological and psychiatric orientation would seek premorbid or personality characteristics associated with having such attitudes, an alternate perspective, consistent with symbolic interactionist and social cognitive positions, is that people exercise choice in how to define and negotiate the constraints that they are confronted by (Fine, 1992). In lay terms, some people see constraints imposed by the...

The Challenge of Attaining Results

These findings have proved less easily replicated with students ofaverage or above-average ability. What is consistent, however, is the change in behavior and attitude students experience, generally in terms of increased confidence in abilities and a more positive attitude toward school work (Blagg, 1 991 Kriegler, 1 993).

The Challenge of Defining Good Thinking

Norms provide criteria of adequacy for products of thinking such as arguments or grounded decisions. Examples of norms include suitable conditions for formal deduction or statistical adequacy, formal (e.g., affirming the consequent) or informal (e.g., ad hominem argument) fallacies to be avoided, or maximized payoffs in game theory (Ham-blin, 1970 Nisbett, 1993 Voss, Perkins, & Segal, 1 991). Heuristics guide the process of thinking, but without the guarantees of success that an algorithm provides. For instance, mathematical problem solvers often do well to examine specific cases before attempting a general proof or to solve a simpler related problem before tackling the principal problem (Polya, 1954, 1957).

Theory Research and Practice

Coming to accept both self and other are thus mutually dependent processes that can be facilitated by working through ruptures in the therapeutic alliance. For the patient, establishing the therapeutic relationship requires negotiation at both the interpersonal and intrapsychic level, necessitating constant negotiation that balances the patient's requirements for agency with their needs for relatedness. The therapist, by empathizing with the patient's experience and reaction to the rupture, demonstrates that potentially divisive feelings (e.g., anger, disappointment) are acceptable and that experiencing nurturance and relatedness are not contingent on disowning part of oneself. He or she demonstrates that relatedness is possible in the very face of separateness and that nurturance is possible even though it can never completely fill that void that is part of the human condition. If the therapist is good enough, the patient will gradually come to accept the therapist with all of his or...

Evidence Based Treatments


Staging Surgical Indications and Preoperative Treatment

This classification has one major drawback (i.e., malignancy in stage I is based on histologic criteria only). Whether all of these tumors are malignant is unknown, and the assumption that all are malignant may lead to an overly optimistic affirmation of the results of surgery.

Natural History of Treated Primary Hyperparathyroidism

In the mid-1960s, the number of operations for PHPT started to increase in most centers. This also happened at our hospital, but the number of patients with substantial disease remained remarkably constant.2 In patients with mild hypercalcemia, with few or no symptoms, it is difficult to register any immediate positive effects of surgery. Therefore, controversy exists as to whether surgical therapy should be used in such patients. In one study, one third of the population of asymptomatic patients had silent complications such as premature osteopenia and abnormal renal function.3 Martin and colleagues4 found that the bone loss of mineral content as a result of PHPT is only partially reversible. However, at that time, they and others5 believed that surgery for PHPT should not be undertaken solely to prevent osteoporosis. The results of some studies suggest an improvement of muscle strength and psychiatric symptoms after surgery for mild PHPT.67 Other observations indicate increased...

The Cancer Counselling Center of Ohio


The Listening Environment

The following LISTEN paradigm is only a suggestion, and health care clinicians should modify it for their own practice situation and environment. The purpose of the paradigm is to provide a structural mnemonic that moves the conversation logically and holistically throughout the interview. As determined by the clinician, any particular part of the interview may be expanded as the situation warrants, and any part may be minimized. By covering each part at least minimally, the clinician can achieve a general overview of the functioning and strengths of the patient or client, as follows L Listening is active and empathie, as the clinician maintains a friendly countenance and good eye contact, while responding in a respectful and affirming way to the person. Active listening includes verbal and nonverbal listening. It means to look and listen, to listen with the eyes and the ears, assessing the person's behavior and facial responses. It includes an assessment of dress, grooming, and...

The 10th Amendment


Diagnostic Checklist

Dence from the literature, and financial aspects (such as costs, investment, and amortization). In addition, patient preferences, treatment time, the number of visits, comfort, pre- and postoperative complications, and reluctance to undergo surgery are all factors to be considered. Patients seeking esthetic treatment should be encouraged to understand and evaluate the entire scope of the clinical task. When patients fully comprehend the extent of the work entailed, they are able to appreciate it and convey a positive impression to their personal contacts. In other words, the patient's positive attitude and greater willingness to cooperate during the treatment surely lead to a better working environment for the entire dental team.

Semantic Framing

Attribute-framing manipulations affect the perceived quality of items by changing their descriptions. Part of the impact of such semantic factors may be due to spreading activation (Collins & Loftus, 1975), wherein positive words (e.g., crime-free ) activate associated positive concepts, and negative words activate negative concepts. The psy-chophysical properties of numbers also contribute to these effects. A 96.3 crime free rate, for example, appears insubstan-tially different from 100 and suggests that virtually all are law abiding. The difference between 0 and 3.7 , in contrast, appears more substantial and suggests the need for intervention (Quattrone & Tversky, 1988). Like the risk attitudes previously described, such perceptual effects often seem natural and harmless in their own right but can generate preference inconsistencies that appear perplexing, especially given the rather mild and often unavoidable manipulations (after all, things need to be described one way or...


Perceived coping inefficacy is associated with distress, autonomic arousal, and plasma catecholamine secretion (Bandura et al. 1985). Research on children with recurrent abdominal pain reveals that accommodative coping strategies (distraction, acceptance, positive thinking, cognitive restructuring) are correlated with less pain, whereas passive coping strategies (denial, cognitive avoidance, behavioral avoidance, wishful thinking) are correlated with increased levels of pain (Thomsen et al. 2002 Walker et al. 1997). Active coping strategies (problem solving, emotional expression, emotional modulation, decision making) are inconsistent in their relationship to pain (Thomsen et al. 2002 Walker et al. 1997). Claar et al. (1999) studied self-perceived academic, social, and athletic competence as moderators between symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome and functional disability in youth with a history of recurrent abdominal pain. The relationship between


Fear of intimacy or rejection can also make for focus on creative work rather than relationships. Gail Lewis reported conflicting studies about peer relationships, speculating that tension develops from the contradictory needs for solitude, working alone, and self discovery and at the same time, for recognition, affirmation, and social support.

What Is Logic

The first of these forms illustrates the fallacy of drawing a conclusion from denial of the antecedent, and the second that of drawing a conclusion from affirmation of the consequent. (The first and second terms of the if premise of a conditional syllogism are referred to respectively as the antecedent and the consequent.) Inductive arguments can take a great variety of forms, and it is not possible to divide them neatly into those that are valid, or compelling, and those that are not.

Biases of attention

In a variant on the dot probe task Gotlib, MacLachlan, and Katz (1988) found with more appropriate negative and positive words that normal participants attended more to positive words than to negative words, whereas mildy depressed participants attended equally to both. Gotlib and his colleagues interpret these findings as evidence that normal individuals show a positive bias, but no bias is shown by mildly depressed individuals who are therefore realistic . Of course this interpretation runs headlong into the problems faced by the depressive realists which we have mentioned above and which we will cover in detail in the later section on judgement and reasoning. Overall, though, the findings emphasise that attentional biases can be found in depression with carefully chosen depression-related content, especially at longer display times. These findings concur with results obtained from the emotional priming paradigm with clinically depressed patients (Power et al., 1996) in which...

Patient differences

Stephen Covey4 describes the space between stimulus and response. In this space lies the freedom to choose a response. For example, when a car cuts in front of a driver (stimulus), the driver's instantaneous thought or attitude (space) is to become angry and then try to get back in front of the other car (response). The result is road rage. However, if in this space the person has a positive attitude, everything changes. While the stimulus cannot be changed, the individual's attitude and response can change through the self-awareness of choosing how to fill that space. It takes practice and forethought to anticipate how to fill that space. In driving defensively, good drivers learn how to watch out for other drivers and let them go without getting angry. The same process can occur with the noncompliant patient.

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Goldfried, Ph.D., is distinguished professor of psychology at Stony Brook University. He is a diplomate in clinical psychology and recipient of numerous awards from the American Psychological Association, and awards from the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy (AABT) and the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR). He is past president of SPR, founder of the journal In Session Psychotherapy in Practice, and author of numerous articles and books. Dr. Goldfried is cofounder of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration (SEPI) and founder of AFFIRM Psychologists Affirming Their Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Family (www.sunysb.edu affirm).


Reduced activity is recommended in patients with unaltered or progressive complaints. Twisting and bending when lifting should be avoided. The physiotherapist should motivate the athlete to remain active, to use and flex his back in order to maintain general physical fitness, and to maintain a positive attitude. In general there is no reason to be overcautious. The effect of traction is limited at best to short-term pain relief, and has no documented effect on recovery. Exercises to improve the function of the deep stabiliz

The Art Of Positive Thinking

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