Abstract: Resiliency has emerged as a critical construct in areas as far ranging as child development to disaster mental health. Resiliency may be thought of as the ability to rebound, or bounce back, from adversity (Kaminsky, McCabe, Langlieb, & Everly, 2007). Numerous interventions have been...

Treatment of adult chickenpox with aciclovir is controversial because of the relatively high cost of medication and small proven benefits of therapy. A decision-tree model was used to estimate the cost effectiveness of aciclovir, from third-party payer and societal perspectives: the incremental...