Dawkins, Ryan. 2014. “Congress and the Politics of Problem Solving: Developing a Mixed Method Research Design for New Data and New Insights.” Sage Research Methods.

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That is the offer Rick van Pelt, M.D., and his team in Clinical Practice Transformation (CPT) make to units across UAB Hospital. CPT serves as a kind of internal consulting group, part of the ...

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As I have mentioned in previous posts, cognitive behavioral therapy is more than challenging negative, automatic thoughts. There is a whole behavioral piece of this therapy that focuses on what people ...