The Know Your Self Curriculum: An Effective Template for Mentoring Psychological Resilience and Culturally-Inclusive Community
This chapter discusses results from this study of the Know Your Self curriculum and explores their implications for prevention-oriented mental health programs. First, it reviews student learning outcomes: culturally-inclusive community, reductions in harmful behaviors, and growth in the five dimensions of person-centered psychospiritual maturation. Then it examines structural components and learning modules of the curriculum. Third, it discusses implications of these results for prevention programs, including a bio-cultural evolutionary perspective on person-centered psychospiritual maturation as an emergent and teachable human phenomenon. Finally, it discusses the curriculum as a conceptually-integrative reformulation of humanistic psychology, acknowledging Carl Rogers’ pioneering contributions.
Information overload has been one of the causes of preventable medical errors [1] and escalating costs [2]. A context-aware application with embedded clinical knowledge is proposed to provide practitioners with the appropriate amount of information and content. We developed a prototype of a context-aware medical application to address clinicians' information needs that arise in a data intensive unit, the Cardio-Thoracic Intensive Care Unit (CTICU). A major clinical decision supported by the prototype, the extubation decision, is illustrated.