Terrorist targeting and energy security

Sudden, short-term disruptions seriously endangering energy security can be triggered by a variety of events—among them attacks by terrorists. This study investigates terrorist attack practices against energy infrastructures and discusses how we may understand them. Our results indicate that attacks against energy infrastructures are comparatively few. Also, we find no strong connection between the ideologies of various terrorist groups and their proclivity to attack. In addition, the highly disproportionate number of attacks in a handful of countries highlights the strong geographic concentration of attacks. To explain these findings, we analyze terrorist targeting incentives including intimidation levels, symbolism, attack feasibility, and concerns for stakeholders. We argue that terrorists in general have comparatively few incentives to attack energy supply infrastructures based on our assessment of these factors. Moreover, higher levels of terrorist incidents in states more prone to internal violent conflict may suggest stronger incentives to attack energy infrastructures. When outlining energy security policies, the low frequency of worldwide attacks coupled with the high concentration of attacks in certain unstable countries should be taken into consideration. Energy importing countries could benefit from developing strategies to increase stability in key energy supply and/or transit countries facing risks of internal instability.     

Mental health care in the USSR.

The author received a scientist exchange grant from the National Institutes of Health and visited the USSR as a health-science representative in 1976. He reports that mental health services in the USSR are provided primarily by the medical profession through state mental hospitals and psychiatric sections in general hospitals and clinics. Drug therapy is the main treatment method, but psychotherapy is beginning to make some inroads. Family therapy settings are the newest additions to preventive mental health care. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

National Conference on Postdoctoral Training in Professional Psychology.

The Ann Arbor Conference on postdoctoral training (held in October 1992) was the 1st national conference to focus on the articulation of standards for postdoctoral education and training in professional psychology. Experts in education, practice, and credentialing drafted a policy document addressing the purposes of postdoctural training; entrance requirements; program content, structure, and organization; supervision; faculty–staff; evaluation mechanisms; and recommendations for the promotion of excellence. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Use of the Mini-Mult D scale in patients with Parkinson's disease.

The Mini-Mult was compared with the full Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) D scale and with the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale in a sample of 35 patients with Parkinson's disease. The Mini-Mult D scale was demonstrated to be an accurate measure of clinical depression in these difficult-to-test patients. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Psychology in health care: Future directions.

The nature of health care delivery in the U.S. will change radically in the next 5 years, and the nature of psychological services provided will also change. Psychology is evolving into a primary health care profession, at least in terms of "health psychology" broadly defined. Modern clinical health psychology includes, at the minimum, rehabilitation psychology, neuropsychology, and traditional health psychology. The present article represents the views of 20 experts from this evolving area of practice and research on matters of public policy, training, and the future of psychology in health care settings. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Two measures of overinclusive thinking in schizophrenia: A comparative analysis.

Compared the performance of 30 chronic schizophrenics and 30 patients with personality disorders on 2 measures of overinclusion. Consistent with previous research, schizophrenic Ss showed more overinclusion than nonschizophrenic Ss on an R. W. Payne-type test, and were more overinclusive on a Payne-type test than on an L. J. Chapman-type test. Results are interpreted within the framework of W. E. Broen and L. H. Storm's theory of partial collapse of response hierarchies in schizophrenia. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

The National Conference on Internship Training in Psychology.

The 1987 National Conference on Internship Training in Psychology was the first conference in the history of psychology to examine broad policy issues related to internship training in professional psychology. Delegates adopted a policy statement, which is printed here in its entirety. Core requirements for internship training were delineated, and implications of these policy statements are discussed. Perhaps most notably, the model of the one-year internship as the capstone of graduate education and training was considered to be outdated. A two-year supervised training experience was deemed necessary to produce an autonomously functioning professional psychologist. The need for another nomenclature was recognized. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)