Russell Sage College

About: Russell Sage College is a education organization based out in Troy, New York, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Insanity defense & Nurse education. The organization has 166 authors who have published 211 publications receiving 4373 citations.

Development Through Life: A Psychosocial Approach

Abstract: 1. The Development Through Life Perspective. Assumptions of the Text. A Psychosocial Approach. The Scientific Process. The Life Span. 2. Psychosocial Theory. What Is a Theory? The Psychosocial Perspective. Evaluation of Psychosocial Theory. 3. Theories of Change. Biological Evolution. Cultural Theory. Psychosexual Development. Cognitive Development. Theories of Learning. Social Roles. Systems. 4. The Period of Pregnancy and Prenatal Development. Genetics and Development. Normal Foetal Development. The Birth Process. The Mother, the Foetus, and the Psychosocial Environment. Applied Topic: Abortion. 5. Infancy (Birth to 2 Years). Developmental Tasks. The Psychosocial Crisis: Trust Versus Mistrust. Applied Topic: The Role of Parents. 6. Toddlerhood (2 to 4 Years). Developmental Tasks. The Psychosocial Crisis: Autonomy Versus Shame and Doubt. Applied Topics: Discipline and Day Care. 7. Early School Age (4 to 6 Years). Developmental Tasks. The Psychosocial Crisis: Initiative Versus Guilt. Applied Topic: The Impact of Television. 8. Middle School Age (6 to 12 Years). Developmental Tasks. The Psychosocial Crisis: Industry Versus Inferiority. Applied Topic: Sex Education. 9. Early Adolescence (12 to 18 Years). Developmental Tasks. The Psychosocial Crisis: Group Identity Versus Alienation. Applied Topic: Adolescent Alcohol Use. 10. Later Adolescence (18 to 22 Years). Developmental Tasks. The Psychosocial Crisis: Individual Identity Versus Identity Confusion. Applied Topic: Career Decision Making. 11. Early Adulthood (22 to 34 Years). Major Concepts in the Study of Adulthood. Developmental Tasks. The Psychosocial Crisis: Intimacy Versus Isolation. Applied Topic: Divorce. 12 Middle Adulthood (34 to 60 Years). Developmental Tasks. The Psychosocial Crisis: Generativity Versus Stagnation. Applied Topic: Adults and Their Aging Parents. 13. Later Adulthood (60 to 75 Years). Developmental Tasks. The Psychosocial Crisis: Integrity Versus Despair. Applied Topic: Retirement. 14. Very Old Age (75 Until Death). Developmental Tasks. The Psychosocial Crisis: Immortality Versus Extinction. Applied Topic: Meeting the Needs of the Frail Elderly. Appendix: Variations in Life Expectancy. (Each chapter concludes with a Summary and References.)

Major Depressive Disorder in the 6 Months After Miscarriage

Abstract: Objective. —To test a priori hypotheses that miscarrying women are at increased risk for a first or recurrent episode of major depressive disorder in the 6 months following loss and that this increased risk is greater for childless women, women with prior reproductive loss, and women aged 35 years or older; and to evaluate whether risk varies by time of gestation or by attitude toward the pregnancy. Design. —Cohort study. Setting. —The miscarriage cohort consisted of women attending a medical center for a spontaneous abortion (n=229); the comparison group was a populationbased cohort of women drawn from the community (n=230). Participants. —Miscarriage was defined as the involuntary termination of a nonviable intrauterine pregnancy before 28 completed weeks of gestation. Half of all participants were between 25 and 34 years of age; 40% were white and 35% Hispanic; 55% had more than a high school education. Participants constituted 60% of miscarrying women and 72% of community women who completed the first phase of this cohort study. Main Outcome Measure. —Major depressive disorder was measured using the Diagnostic Interview Schedule. Results. —Risk for an episode of major depressive disorder among miscarrying women in the 6 months following loss was compared with the 6-month risk among community women who had not been pregnant in the preceding year. Among miscarrying women, 10.9% experienced an episode of major depressive disorder, compared with 4.3% of community women. The overall relative risk (RR) for an episode of major depressive disorder for miscarrying women was 2.5 (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.2-5.1) and was substantially higher for childless women (RR, 5.0; 95% CI, 1.7-14.4) than for women with children (RR, 1.3; 95% CI, 0.5-3.5) ( P Conclusions. —Physicians should monitor miscarrying women in the first weeks after reproductive loss, particularly women who are childless or who have a history of major depressive disorder. Where appropriate, supportive counseling or psychopharmacologic treatment should be considered.

Culturally Situated Design Tools: Ethnocomputing from Field Site to Classroom

Abstract: Ethnomathematics is the study of mathematical ideas and practices situated in their cultural context. Culturally Situated Design Tools (CSDTs) are web-based software applications that allow students to create simulations of cultural arts—Native American beadwork, African American cornrow hairstyles, urban graffiti, and so forth—using these underlying mathematical principles. This article is a review of the anthropological issues raised in the CSDT project: negotiating the representations of cultural knowledge during the design process with community members, negotiating pedagogical features with math teachers and their students, and reflecting on the software development itself as a cultural construction. The move from ethnomathematics to ethnocomputing results in an expressive computational medium that affords new opportunities to explore the relationships between youth identity and culture, the cultural construction of mathematics and computing, and the formation of cultural and technological hybridity.

An Application of the Theory of Foreign Direct Investment to Multinational Banking in LDCs

Abstract: For assessing the determinants of MNBs' expansion into LDCs, a model that incorporates both supply and demand factors is constructed. A reduced form of the model is tested by using pooled data over the period 1975–1982 for a sample of twenty-three LDCs. The results of the study indicate that market size, the presence of multinational corporations from the home country, the extent of economic development, and the balance of payments are all significant determinants of the growth of MNBs in LDCs.