Therefore, when it comes to psychologicalinterventions that will support later economic success we need to both nurture well being and provide treatment for those in need.
Our research, which will appear in the Academy of Management Journal, suggests that simple, psychologicalinterventions can have a potent effect, perhaps as potent as costly compliance initiatives.
Parents are understandably reluctant to have their children medicated for bad behavior, but when all else fails, treating children to stabilize their uncontrollable aggressive acts and to make them more amenable to psychologicalinterventions is an attractive option.
But she gave in and worked with consultants after she discovered the challenges of luring new patients and making a livelihood in what the American Psychological Association has pointed out is a practice in decline: Thirty percent fewer patients received psychologicalinterventions in 2008 than they did 11 years earlier, according to this article.