General education in the professional curriculum: faculty perceptions of contributions.

This study investigated general education contributions to the professional development of majors in five selected health professional disciplines from 114 accredited programs. The findings identified that the most important general education contributions to health professional development, as perceived by faculty, included abilities to communicate verbally and in writing, to solve problems, to understand one's own and others' behavior, and to develop a personal value system. Although health professional faculty reported strong satisfaction with the size, content, and contribution of the general education curriculum, there was little collaborative curriculum planning between faculty in professional and general education programs.

Addiction relapse.

The paper examines the phenomenon of addiction relapse from the "Addictive Processes" frame of reference. Consistently high relapse rates (seventy-five to ninety percent) which have been reported throughout the literature for a variety of compulsive behaviors support the conceptualization of addiction as a family of social problem behaviors which share essential similarities. Relapse studies are cited from the areas of compulsive drug or alcohol use, smoking, and criminal recidivism.