Harry Dent and Tony Ward have published an “enactive practice framework” to incorporate emotion into correctional practice.
In the correctional rehabilitation domain, the role of how emotion should best be targeted remains underdeveloped.
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Kris Nielsen published an article comparing his new conceptual framework of mental disorder to existing work, which has then been discussed.
Over recent years there has been growing interest within philosophy of psychiatry, and theoretical psychopathology alike, in the philosophy of mind known as embodied enactivism.
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Anne Macaskill published new findings showing that the ability to delay a reward also depends on recent delay options and therefore on context.
This study suggests that delay discounting is affected not just by absolute delay length, but by the relative delay length.
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