International Contributions in Psychology – serie
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29 produkter
Thriving in the Wake of Trauma
A Multicultural Guide
Inbunden, 2005
662 kr
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Race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, migration status, religion and many other cultural factors play an important role in recovery from a traumatic event. However, most conventional attempts to help people recover from trauma do not anticipate or address these factors. Here, a psychologist …
Culturally Competent Family Therapy
A General Model
Av Shlomo Ariel
E-bok, 1999
546 kr
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The problems of a family are often conditioned by the cultural issues its members face, regardless of their socioeconomic background. However, most therapeutic models ignore this important factor. Ariel's book offers a model for diagnosis and therapy that incorporates cultural issues. It provides …
Counseling Refugees
A Psychosocial Approach to Innovative Multicultural Interventions
Av Fred Bemak, Rita Chi-Ying Chung m. fl.
E-bok, 2002
1363 kr
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There are more than 26 million refugees in the world, and the population is expected to grow. However, there is minimal training or understanding in the mental health and social services fields that provides the awareness, knowledge, and skills to effectively work with refugees. Subsequently, this …
Brief Treatments for the Traumatized
A Project of the Green Cross Foundation
E-bok, 2002
1204 kr
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Trauma is now being recognized as a major mental health challenge, with clients from children to the elderly presenting symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, often with no awareness of the cause. Yet managed care—and the growing incidence of trauma patients, presenting increased demands on …
Counseling the Inupiat Eskimo
E-bok, 1999
1169 kr
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Current research indicates that in order to counsel a group of people different from the mainstream, it is important to understand their unique worldview. This book defines the worldview of personal well-being for the Inupiat Eskimo in order to establish guidelines for counseling strategies. …
Five Stages of Culture Shock
Critical Incidents Around the World
E-bok, 1994
1169 kr
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The educational literature suggests that international contact contributes to a comprehensive educational experience. The Five Stages of Culture Shock examines an international shipboard educational program and seeks to identify specific insights resulting from informal extracurricular contact …
Worlds of Common Sense
Equality, Identity, and Two Modes of Impulse Management
E-bok, 1994
1169 kr
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This book explores the construction and maintenance of alternative worlds of common sense. Employing a comparative approach, Dr. Pepinsky monitors events in Norway and the United States over several decades, treating these countries as prototypes of societies that are classifiable as modern Western …
Prevent, Repent, Reform, Revenge
A Study in Adolescent Moral Development
Av Ann Diver-Stamnes, R. Murray Thomas
E-bok, 1995
1136 kr
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Prevent, Repent, Reform, Revenge is a study of the aims that people intend to achieve by the sanctions and treatments they recommend for wrongdoers. The book is designed to answer two main questions: What kind of analytical scheme can profitably reveal the nature of people's reasoning about the …
Thriving in the Wake of Trauma
A Multicultural Guide
E-bok, 2005
682 kr
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Race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, migration status, religion and many other cultural factors play an important role in recovery from a traumatic event. However, most conventional attempts to help people recover from trauma do not anticipate or address these factors. Here, a psychologist …
Acculturation and Psychological Adaptation
E-bok, 2003
1325 kr
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This volume addresses the psychological impact of interethnic contact and acculturation in Latin American settings, focusing on the effects of acculturation on self-esteem among adolescents. Opening with an account of relevant theoretical and empirical literature on interethnic contact and …
Politics of Stereotype
Psychology and Affirmative Action
E-bok, 2003
889 kr
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Affirmative Action was initially an emergency stop-gap measure to resolve a serious and immediate problem. As such, like most temporary corrective measures, it was imperfect: the guidelines vague and definition unclear, with a misguided understanding of merit. Stereotypes have not disappeared from …
Progress in Asian Social Psychology
Conceptual and Empirical Contributions
Av Kuo-Shu Yang, Kwang-Kuo Hwang m. fl.
E-bok, 2003
1144 kr
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This volume presents ways of thinking dramatically different from mainstream psychology, which is seen by many as primarily a product of Western civilization. Asian social psychologists in this edited collection apply Asian perspectives to issues of major concern in their societies, including …
Racial Sensitivity and Multicultural Training
E-bok, 2004
981 kr
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Offering implications for democraticizing psychology on a global scale, this work illustrates how professional training for mental health practictioners is often inadequate on issues pertaining to race and racism. The author shows prime examples in his homeland South Africa, and focuses on how …
New Ideas in Therapy
Introduction to an Interdisciplinary Approach
Av Dennis Delprato, Douglas Ruben m. fl.
Inbunden, 1987
1099 kr
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According to the editors of New Ideas in Therapy, cognitive behaviorist theory is increasingly hampered by intrinsic theoretical limitations. A promising alternative and the subject of this book is interbehaviorism--a theory introduced by the late J.R. Kantor that looks at clinical events in terms …
From AI to Zeitgeist
A Philosophical Guide for the Skeptical Psychologist
Av N H Pronko
Inbunden, 1988
762 kr
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This book is a reflection of a growing awareness among philosophers and psychologists of the inescapable entanglement of psychology with its philosophical underpinnings. It deals with the dissection of the assumptions that control contemporary inquiry into psychological events, and it offers a …
Using Bibliotherapy in Clinical Practice
A Guide to Self-Help Books
Inbunden, 1993
1067 kr
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Pardeck provides mental health professionals with readily available information on self-help books that can be effectively used with various clinical problems. The materials presented can also be used by those not necessarily trained in clinical intervention; this group would include parents, …
Multicultural Counseling in a Divided and Traumatized Society
The Meaning of Childhood and Adolescence in South Africa
Av Joyce Hickson, Susan Kriegler
Inbunden, 1996
881 kr
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This book is developed from the framework of locating childhood and adolescence within the wider context of South African society. The merging world-view and identity of South African children are described. A portion of the book describes the psychological traumas associated with political unrest …
What Wrongdoers Deserve
The Moral Reasoning Behind Responses to Misconduct
Av Ann Diver-Stamnes, R. Murray Thomas
Inbunden, 1993
855 kr
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This study analyzes the reasoning process through which individuals determine what consequences are appropriate for those who do wrong. The authors presented six cases of wrongdoing to a large number of teenagers and young adults. This sample was asked what consequences would be appropriate for the …
Five Stages of Culture Shock
Critical Incidents Around the World
Inbunden, 1994
1037 kr
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The educational literature suggests that international contact contributes to a comprehensive educational experience. The Five Stages of Culture Shock examines an international shipboard educational program and seeks to identify specific insights resulting from informal extracurricular contact …
Soviet and American Psychology During World War II
Av Albert R. Gilgen, Carol K. Gilgen m. fl.
Inbunden, 1997
1099 kr
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This book compares the influence of the period leading up to World War II and of the war itself on the discipline of psychology in two major, but very different countries. During the 1930s, Soviet psychologists were formally isolated from developments in Western psychology by the ideological …
Post-Soviet Perspectives on Russian Psychology
Av Albert R. Gilgen, Carol K. Gilgen m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
1037 kr
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The study of psychology for the uses of the state, for industrial/labor purposes, for dealing with individual and ethnic tensions has a long history in Russia. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian psychologists and scholars of the discipline from outside Russia have had the opportunity to …
Cognitive Psychology in the Middle Ages
Av Simon Kemp
Inbunden, 1996
1037 kr
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This book summarizes the ideas about cognitive psychology expressed in the writings of medieval Europeans. Up until the 13th century, Christians who wrote about cognitive psychology, foremost of whom was St. Augustine, did so in the Neoplatonic tradition. The translation of the works of Aristotle …
Counseling the Inupiat Eskimo
Inbunden, 1999
1067 kr
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Current research indicates that in order to counsel a group of people different from the mainstream, it is important to understand their unique worldview. This book defines the worldview of personal well-being for the Inupiat Eskimo in order to establish guidelines for counseling strategies. …
Vygotsky's and A.A. Leontiev's Semiotics and Psycholinguistics
Applications for Education, Second Language Acquisition, and Theories of Language
Inbunden, 2003
1037 kr
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This work introduces Russian theories of language from the Vygotskian perspective, with a chapter by famed scholar A. A. Leontiev about Vygostky and Russian psycholinguistics. The holistic nature of Russian psychology is highlighted, viewing the personality development of each individual as a …
Working with Cultural Differences
Dealing Effectively with Diversity in the Workplace
Inbunden, 2008
831 kr
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Given the internationalization of business, and the increasing need to work effectively with culturally diverse people in one's own country, people are facing new and more common challenges in developing workplace relationships. The challenges include communicating across differences in the use of …
Fooling Ourselves
Self-Deception in Politics, Religion, and Terrorism
Inbunden, 2008
694 kr
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Self-deception occurs because we often see the world the way we would like it to be, rather than the way it is. Our brains so long for things the way we want them, we might not even be aware we are fooling ourselves, explains author Harry Triandis, a widely known Professor Emeritus of Psychology. …
Fooling Ourselves
Self-Deception in Politics, Religion, and Terrorism
E-bok, 2008
736 kr
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Self-deception occurs because we often see the world the way we would like it to be, rather than the way it is. Our brains so long for things the way we want them, we might not even be aware we are fooling ourselves, explains author Harry Triandis, a widely known Professor Emeritus of Psychology. …
Undreaded Job
Learning to Thrive in a Less-Than-Perfect Workplace
E-bok, 2010
636 kr
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This essential guide explains how to find satisfaction in the workplace in the face of imperfections involving oneself and others. The Undreaded Job: Learning to Thrive in a Less-than-Perfect Workplace was written to help people find satisfaction in the workplace, turning work into a major …
Adolescence
Biological and Psychosocial Perspectives
E-bok, 1998
1136 kr
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Integrating diverse scientific data, this book relates the biological versus psychosocial aspects of adolescence. Relevant data from scientific literature have been pulled together into a systematic presentation of the biological and psychosocial issues of contemporary adolescence. Part I describes …
