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...counselors. The fear has long been that patients aren't interested in asking such spiritually intimate questions of their doctors, and the doctors, for their part, would be uncomfortable answering them. But this turns out not to be true. When psychologist Jean Kristeller of Indiana State University conducted a survey of oncologists, she found that a large proportion of them did feel it was appropriate to talk about spiritual issues with patients and to offer a referral if they weren't equipped to address the questions themselves. They didn't do so simply because they didn't know...
American businesses have a particular interest in personal health, since worker illness costs them billions each year in insurance claims, sick days and high staff turnover. A 2008 survey of major U.S. employers found that 64% consider their employees' poor health decisions a serious barrier to affordable insurance coverage. Now some companies are tackling the motivation problem head on, using tactics drawn from behavioral psychology to nudge their employees to get healthy...
...like Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, where service-oriented careers are emphasized, the percentage of graduates who enter public service following graduation has dropped by half in just one generation. In Harvard’s Class of 2008, OCS’s senior survey results indicate that just two percent of seniors are employed in government at graduation...
While few Harvard professors will give their pupils below a C-, the National Council on Teacher Quality was not afraid to give Massachusetts a near-failing grade in its latest state survey on education policy. According to the report, Massachusetts received an overall grade of D, which was below the national average of D+. South Carolina received the highest overall score, with a B-. The council evaluated each state in terms of 15 goals, broken up into three sub-areas. Massachusetts state policy received a D- for identifying effective teachers, a D+ for retaining effective teachers...
...Despite many studies of the effectiveness of castration - both surgical and chemical - the results are inconclusive. Some surveys suggest castration can dramatically reduce recidivism. One 1989 survey in Germany of 104 voluntary castrates showed a 75% drop in sexual interest, libido, erection and ejaculation. But measuring such changes is notoriously difficult and often depends on the subjective self-reports of sex offenders. A 1989 Psychological Bulletin study concluded that "the recidivism rate for treated offenders is not lower than that for untreated offenders; if anything, it tends to be higher." Many other studies emphasize the mental nature of deviant sexual...