Dr. Chris Stout

This book is the authoritative guide for psychologists who want to become involved in international efforts to meet pressing global needs.

Psychologists are increasingly applying their knowledge, skills, and values to big-picture issues such as sustainability, human rights, conflict resolution, global education, and religious and cultural understanding. However, education, training, and professional development often overlook “thinking and acting globally” as a vital component of the… Show more

This book is the authoritative guide for psychologists who want to become involved in international efforts to meet pressing global needs.

Psychologists are increasingly applying their knowledge, skills, and values to big-picture issues such as sustainability, human rights, conflict resolution, global education, and religious and cultural understanding. However, education, training, and professional development often overlook “thinking and acting globally” as a vital component of the professional identities of psychologists.

With decades of international experience as scholars, educators, practitioners, policymakers, and consultants, contributors to this book describe exemplary programs, relevant trends, and dynamic possibilities for global engagement.

They focus specifically on nine key areas of expertise through which psychologists can make a difference: advocacy, assessment, consultation, intervention, leadership, policy, research, service, and teaching.

Chapters also highlight opportunities for international and interdisciplinary collaboration while empowering indigenous voices and psychologies.

I was honored to be invited to collaborate with my co-authors, Drs. Elaine D. Hanson, and Gwen V. Mitchell in writing the Chapter on Service: Towards a Global Psychology of Collaboration, Counterflow, and Capacity Building. Show less

As health care in the United States becomes increasingly patient-centric, hospitals, clinics, and other health care practices must strategically adjust their business models to focus on patient experience, and more specifically, patient outcomes. More than ever, health care professionals must know what works for which patients and why. Evidence-based medicine and evidence-based practice are more important to clinicians than ever before. While an evidence-base is predicated on having a robust… Show more

As health care in the United States becomes increasingly patient-centric, hospitals, clinics, and other health care practices must strategically adjust their business models to focus on patient experience, and more specifically, patient outcomes. More than ever, health care professionals must know what works for which patients and why. Evidence-based medicine and evidence-based practice are more important to clinicians than ever before. While an evidence-base is predicated on having a robust literature from which to base reviews and consensus guidelines, generally only studies with positive findings pass peer review muster. Thus, studies that should be helpful and guiding are often of little practical value. An approach that may address this concern is the increasing use of patient outcomes registries, which, when designed and applied suitably, can provide clinicians and other stakeholders with a real-world picture of treatments and their efficacy.

This article explores the following:
What is a Registry?
Outcome Registry Leaders
Building an In-House Registry
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The healthcare landscape is never boring! Every bit of time & energy spent on protecting patient's best interest to optimize their outcome & experience is time well spent.... what a pleasure it is to collaborate with such engaging, creative, & hardworking colleagues!

“Change the world.” It always struck me that saying that sounded a lot like grandiose hubris, or at best, a dauntingly overwhelming task. The utter impossibility of it seemed certain until I realized that it can mean helping one person at a time. That is a theme you’ll see throughout this book and our websites and our work. I have added some of my Linkedin Influencer blogs/essays that I hope may be inspirational, also. The format of this book is inspired by Brian Eno’s A Year With Swollen… Show more

“Change the world.” It always struck me that saying that sounded a lot like grandiose hubris, or at best, a dauntingly overwhelming task. The utter impossibility of it seemed certain until I realized that it can mean helping one person at a time. That is a theme you’ll see throughout this book and our websites and our work. I have added some of my Linkedin Influencer blogs/essays that I hope may be inspirational, also. The format of this book is inspired by Brian Eno’s A Year With Swollen Appendices, not so much the diary aspect but rather the overwhelmingly large collection of information in the various appendices. Additionally, this book is an “analog” version, if you will, of the content and links found at the CenterForGlobalInitiatives.org website and the associated DropBox account. Open-Sourced Humanitarian Interventionism It’s long been my goal to make life easier for those working in humanitarian and volunteer endeavors, as well as those in need of help. Indeed, in one way or another, we all need help in one form or another. So, just about everything you find herein and on the Center’s website, is free of charge, and a lot you could also find for yourself. What I’ve tried to do is speed up the search, vet what has been found, and then curate the results, making them as readily and easily available as I know how to. This is my dream of open-sourcing humanitarian work. Show less

One way to move towards better cross disciplinarity patient-centric collaboration...

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There is a growing trend in private practice to diversify, develop new areas of specialization, and expand the scope of work or income. Author Chris Stout and expert contributors draw on their wealth of experience to provide both early career and seasoned mental health professionals the knowledge and tools needed to establish a new practice or enhance an already active private practice so it succeeds over the long term. Designed for rapid reading and pick-up-and-put-down use, this reference is… Show more

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An unprecedented, moving, and inspirational look at some of the newest humanitarian organizations freely giving their time, with members sometimes even putting their lives on the line, to make the world a better place and heal those who have been harmed.

From Braille Without Borders and Unite for Sight, to Geekcorps and PeaceWorks, humanitarian groups are working worldwide largely in undeveloped countries to better the lives of the residents. Whether they are empowering people with… Show more

An unprecedented, moving, and inspirational look at some of the newest humanitarian organizations freely giving their time, with members sometimes even putting their lives on the line, to make the world a better place and heal those who have been harmed.

From Braille Without Borders and Unite for Sight, to Geekcorps and PeaceWorks, humanitarian groups are working worldwide largely in undeveloped countries to better the lives of the residents. Whether they are empowering people with schools for the blind, prosthetic limbs, the devices to understand and use technology, or the information to work for civil peace, the men and women of these agencies offer tremendous talent to their causes, great dedication and, sometimes, even risk their lives to complete their missions. Working in war or civil war zones, humanitarians with nonprofits, non-governmental agencies, and university-connected centers and foundations have been injured, kidnapped, or killed. Now terrorist events and war crimes are more and more often bringing these self-sacrificing workers into the national spotlight by media headlines. Their work is, doubtless, remarkable. And so too are the stories of how they developed - including the defining moments when their founders felt they could no longer stand by and do nothing. In this set of books, founders and top officials from humanitarian organizations established in the last 50 years spotlight how and why they began their organizations, what their greatest victories and challenges have been, and how they run the organizations, down to where they get their funding and how they spend it to grow the group and its efforts. Led by Chris E. Stout, named Humanitarian of the Year by the American Psychological Association, the contributors here come from across training disciplines including psychology, medicine, technology, science, politics, social work, and business.

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"Chris E. Stout is a humanitarian's humanitarian and his fingerprints are all over the projects everywhere in the world that have to do with the relief of human misery and the enhancement of human health and dignity. This new work by Professor Stout epitomizes and is a remarkable capstone to a sturdy spate of weighty works that he has published over the last decade, related to the psychology of terrorism and international conflict." - J. Harold Ellens, PhD, Research Scholar, University of… Show more

"Chris E. Stout is a humanitarian's humanitarian and his fingerprints are all over the projects everywhere in the world that have to do with the relief of human misery and the enhancement of human health and dignity. This new work by Professor Stout epitomizes and is a remarkable capstone to a sturdy spate of weighty works that he has published over the last decade, related to the psychology of terrorism and international conflict." - J. Harold Ellens, PhD, Research Scholar, University of Michigan

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"Chris Stout is one of those rare idealists who puts his values into practice. During my years as chief executive officer of the American Psychological Association, I had many occasions to talk with Chris about his humanitarian activities, and I have always come away astonished at the energy and commitment he has devoted to the causes he believes in. The three volumes of The New Humanitarians demonstrate that there are other social entrepreneurs who, like Chris, are making a difference in the… Show more

"Chris Stout is one of those rare idealists who puts his values into practice. During my years as chief executive officer of the American Psychological Association, I had many occasions to talk with Chris about his humanitarian activities, and I have always come away astonished at the energy and commitment he has devoted to the causes he believes in. The three volumes of The New Humanitarians demonstrate that there are other social entrepreneurs who, like Chris, are making a difference in the world." - Raymond D. Fowler, Ph.D., Former President and former CEO of the American Psychological Association, Professor Emeritus, University of Alabama

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Luchins (2003, Administration and Policy in Mental Health, 31(2), 183–186) distinguishes the
mutual strengths and shortcomings of qualitative and quantitative approaches as applied to
the complexities of evaluating psychiatric hospital functioning in particular, and behavioral
healthcare practice in general. This brief response offers an examination of the complex
interplay of factors within non-linear models in a conceptualization of complex adaptive
systems for understanding… Show more

Luchins (2003, Administration and Policy in Mental Health, 31(2), 183–186) distinguishes the
mutual strengths and shortcomings of qualitative and quantitative approaches as applied to
the complexities of evaluating psychiatric hospital functioning in particular, and behavioral
healthcare practice in general. This brief response offers an examination of the complex
interplay of factors within non-linear models in a conceptualization of complex adaptive
systems for understanding causal factors in mental health administration as well as calling into
question the myth of the relationship between measurement and hence control and
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