Tim Brunson DCH

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Business training and education needs of chiropractors.

Posted At : February 22, 2008 12:09 PM | Posted By : Tim Brunson, PhD
Related Categories: Chiropractic


This report is an examination of the perceived need for business skills among chiropractors. METHODS: An online survey was completed by 64 chiropractors. They assessed the need for business skills and current levels of business skills. Using this information, gaps in business skills are identified.

RESULTS: The need for business skills is broad, encompassing all major business functions. Existing business skills are well below needed levels.

CONCLUSION: The chiropractic profession needs significantly greater business and practice management skills. The existing gap between needed business skills and existing skills suggests that current training and education programs are not providing adequate business skills training.

J Chiropr Educ. 2008 Fall;22(2):145-51. Henson SW, Pressley M, Korfmann S. Western Carolina University.

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Daydreaming, absorption and hypnotizability.

Posted At : February 22, 2008 1:37 AM | Posted By : Tim Brunson, PhD
Related Categories: General


The revised form of the Absorption Scale extracted from Tellegen's Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (Tellegen, 1981; Tellegen & Atkinson, 1974) and the Short Imaginal Processes Inventory (Huba, Aneshensel, & Singer, 1981), a self-report questionnaire concerned with daydreaming activity, were administered to 2 samples of Ss (N = 479, N = 476), who also received the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility, Form A (Shor & E. Orne, 1962). In both samples, hypnotizability was significantly correlated with absorption (average r = .24) and with a subscale measuring positive-constructive daydreaming (average r = .13). Absorption and positive-constructive daydreaming were also highly correlated (average r = .57). Of the subscales of the positive-constructive daydreaming scale, only those relating to positive reactions to daydreaming, and problem solving in daydreaming, consistently correlated with hypnotizability. Daydreaming and absorption each share some features in common with hypnosis, but they appear to have more in common with each other.

Int J Clin Exp Hypn. 1989 Oct;37(4):332-42. Hoyt IP, Nadon R, Register PA, Chorny J, Fleeson W, Grigorian EM, Otto L, Kihlstrom JF.

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