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The Transformative Self: Personal Growth, Narrative Identity, and the Good Life - Hardcover

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by Jack J. Bauer (Author)The Transformative Self explores three of life's perennial questions: How do we make sense of our lives? What is a good life? How do we create one? In this comprehensive volume, developmental psychologist Jack J. Bauer responds to those three questions by integrating three main areas of study-narrative identity, the good life, and personal growth-to present an innovative model of humane flourishing and human development. The Transformative Self synthesizes an extensiv...

Talent Without Borders: Global Talent Acquisition for Competitive Advantage - Hardcover

$94.05

by Robert E. Ployhart (Author), Jeff A. Weekley (Author), Julian Dalzell (Author)Talent is one of the most important strategic resources in the modern economy: it is the resource that creates economic growth through exceptional innovation, service, and performance. But talent is scarce, and finding the right talent, in the right place, and at the right time, is challenging. Talent is not distributed evenly within and across borders. Hence, generating a competitive advantage in the modern econ...

Music, Language, and the Brain - Paperback

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by Aniruddh D. Patel (Author)In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the standpoint of cognitive neuroscience, Aniruddh D. Patel challenges the widespread belief that music and language are processed independently. Since Plato's time, the relationship between music and language has attracted interest and debate from a wide range of thinkers. Recently, scientific research on this topic has been growing rapidly, as scholars from diverse disciplines, ...

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by Michael Hallsworth (Author), Elspeth Kirkman (Author)The definitive introduction to the behavioral insights approach, which applies evidence about human behavior to practical problems.Our behavior is strongly influenced by factors that lie outside our conscious awareness, although we tend to underestimate the power of this "automatic" side of our behavior. As a result, governments make ineffective policies, businesses create bad products, and individuals make unrealistic plans. In contrast...

Critical Thinking for Helping Professionals: A Skills-Based Workbook - Paperback

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by Eileen Gambrill (Author), Leonard Gibbs (Author)Critical thinking values, skills, and knowledge are integral to evidence-based practice in the helping professions. Inflated claims of knowledge, both in the media as well as in the peer-reviewed literature, show critical thinking to be ever more important to decrease the influence of marketing in the guise of scholarship. Practitioners must be able and willing to think critically about decisions that affect clients' lives. This requires mini...

Seeking Stability Amidst Disorder: The Foreign Policies of Saudi Arabia, the Uae and Qatar, 2010-20 - Hardcover

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by Tobias Borck (Author)The 2010s were a decade of transformation and conflict in the Middle East, bookended by the Arab Uprisings and the coronavirus pandemic. Throughout this time, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar--the three Arab states with the most ambitious regional policies--declared stability to be their main objective. Yet, rather than being a common denominator, this seemingly shared goal in fact obscured differences between their often-competing agendas. These three Gulf monarchies a...

Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection - Paperback

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by Mimi Zhu (Author)"Radical and revolutionary." --Jonny Sun, New York Times bestselling author of Goodbye, Again A collection of powerful interconnected essays and affirmations that follow Mimi Zhu's journey toward embodying and re-learning love after a violent romantic relationship, a stunning and provocative book that will guide and inspire readers to lean into love with softness In their early twenties, Mimi Zhu was a survivor of intimate-partner abuse. This left them broken, in search of...

Emotions in a Crusading Context, 1095-1291 - Paperback

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by Stephen J. Spencer (Author)Emotions in a Crusading Context is the first book-length study of the emotional rhetoric of crusading. It investigates the ways in which a number of emotions and affective displays - primarily fear, anger, and weeping - were understood, represented, and utilized in twelfth- and thirteenth-century western narratives of the crusades, making use of a broad range of comparative material to gauge the distinctiveness of those texts: crusader letters, papal encyclicals,...

Mastery of Your Anxiety and Panic: Brief Six-Session Version for Primary Care and Related Settings - Paperback

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by Michelle G. Craske (Author), David H. Barlow (Author), Lauren S. Woodard (Author)This edition of Mastery of Your Anxiety and Panic: Brief Six-Session Version for Primary Care and Related Settings, Workbook, outlines a time-limited treatment for those dealing with panic disorder and agoraphobia. Developed for use with patients who seek treatment from a primary care provider, this guide is based on the principles of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). The program described can be delivered ...

The Inflamed Feeling: The Brain's Role in Immune Defence - Paperback

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by Mats Lekander (Author)What do feeling sick and being afraid of strangers have in common? The answer is that these feelings represent a behavioural drive which evolved in our ancestors to combat the most dangerous threat to survival: infection. Behaviour and emotions play pivotal roles in the struggle for good health. When your body is telling your brain that you are sick, you are experiencing survival strategies that developed years ago. Listening to these feelings will allow you to save e...

Ethics for Rational Animals: The Moral Psychology at the Basis of Aristotle's Ethics - Hardcover

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by Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi (Author)Ethics for Rational Animals brings to light a novel account of akrasia, practical wisdom, and character virtue through an original and comprehensive study of the moral psychology at the basis of Aristotle's ethics. It argues that practical wisdom is a persuasive rational excellence, that virtue is a listening excellence, and that the ignorance involved in akrasia is in fact a failure of persuasion. Aristotle's moral psychology emerges from this reconstruction...

Music Therapy in Mental Health for Illness Management and Recovery - Paperback

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by Michael Silverman (Author)Many music therapists work in adult mental health settings after qualifying. For many, it will be a challenging and even daunting prospect. Yet until now, there has been no psychiatric music therapy text providing advice on illness management and recovery. The new edition of this established and acclaimed text provides the necessary breadth and depth to inform readers of the psychotherapeutic research base and show how music therapy can effectively and efficiently...

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by Graziano (Author)Each of us has a protected zone two or three feet wide, swelling around the head and narrowing towards the feet. This zone isn't fixed in size: if you're nervous, it grows; if you're relaxed, it shrinks. It also depends on your cultural upbringing. Personal space is small in Japan and large in Australia. This safety zone, called personal space, provides an invisible spatial scaffold that frames our social interactions. As Michael Graziano argues in The Spaces Between Us, i...

Modern Relationships: Romance, Friendship, and Family in the 21st Century - Hardcover

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by Mahzad Hojjat (Editor), Anne Moyer (Editor)Over the course of the last few decades, the nature of close personal relationships has evolved dramatically. More and more people choose to marry in their 30s and 40s, meaning that an unprecedented number of people start families later in life than ever. Around the world, more cultures are embracing nontraditional lifestyles, ranging from cohabitation prior to marriage to polyamory. Many regions have grown more accepting of diverse gender and sex...

Attachment and Character: Attachment Theory, Ethics, and the Developmental Psychology of Vice and Virtue - Hardcover

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by Edward Harcourt (Editor)There are many exciting points of contact between developmental psychology in the attachment paradigm and the kinds of questions first raised by Aristotle's ethics, and which continue to preoccupy moral philosophers today. The book brings experts from both fields together to explore them for the first time, to demonstrate why philosophers working in moral psychology, or in 'virtue ethics' - better, the triangle of relationships between the concepts of human nature, ...

The Other Side of Suffering: Finding a Path to Peace After Tragedy - Hardcover

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by Katie E. Cherry (Author)In this work, the author addresses a perennial question: how does someone recover from a catastrophic disaster or other personal tragedy? The answer, she suggests, may come from coastal residents who survived the 2005 Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. These survivors endured a long and painful journey after losing homes and communities in these deadly storms, and their experiences provide an authentic and relatable example for other people who must overcome a life changi...

The Void Inside: Bringing Purging Disorder to Light - Hardcover

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by Pamela K. Keel (Author)Purging disorder is characterized by vomiting or misuse of laxatives or other medications, after normal food intake, to control weight or shape. More than two million girls and women in the US suffer from purging disorder, and nearly a half million boys and men join them. But purging disorder's status as an "other" eating disorder has left it invisible to all but those who experience it firsthand. The Void Inside: Bringing Purging Disorder to Light chronicles the gro...

Treating Later-Life Depression: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach, Clinician Guide - Paperback

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by Ann M. Steffen (Author), Larry W. Thompson (Author), Dolores Gallagher-Thompson (Author)As demographic trends shift toward an aging population, there is a growing need for improved mental health treatment for older adults. With depression as the leading mental health concern in later life, one of the greatest challenges for treatment providers is the wide variability of life circumstances that accompany depressive symptoms for clients across outpatient mental health, integrated primary car...

Therapy Thieves: How to Save Mental Health Care from Its Providers - Hardcover

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by Francis A. Martin (Author)Acting on what started as a hunch, Dr. Francis Martin has cataloged well over 20,000 distinct approaches to counseling and psychotherapy that are advertised on the webpages of licensed, practicing mental health providers. No doubt some portion of them are harmful, but the sheer volume of advertised practices and techniques, often with names deceptively similar to actual evidence-based practices, should be cause for concern among all stakeholders in the helping pro...

Working Memory: State of the Science - Hardcover

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by Robert Logie (Editor), Valerie Camos (Editor), Nelson Cowan (Editor)Working memory refers to how we keep track of what we are doing moment to moment throughout our waking lives. It allows us to remember what we have just done, focus on what we are doing now, to solve problems, be creative, think about what we will be doing in the next few seconds, and continually to update in our mind changes around us throughout the day. This book brings together in one volume, state-of-the-science chapte...

Game Theory in Biology: Concepts and Frontiers - Paperback

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by John M. McNamara (Author), Olof Leimar (Author)The principles of game theory apply to a wide range of topics in biology. This book presents the central concepts in evolutionary game theory and provides an authoritative and up-to-date account. The focus is on concepts that are important for biologists in their attempts to explain observations. This strong connection between concepts and applications is a recurrent theme throughout the book which incorporates recent and traditional ideas fro...

Secrets of Creativity: What Neuroscience, the Arts, and Our Minds Reveal - Paperback

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by Suzanne Nalbantian (Editor), Paul M. Matthews (Editor)Secrets of Creativity: What Neuroscience, the Arts, and Our Minds Reveal draws on insights from leading neuroscientists and scholars in the humanities and the arts to probe creativity in its many contexts, in the everyday mind, the exceptional mind, the scientific mind, the artistic mind, and the pathological mind. Components of creativity are specified with respect to types of memory, forms of intelligence, modes of experience, and kin...

Future of Schools and Teacher Education: How Far Ahead Is Finland? - Hardcover

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by Eduardo Andere (Author)In 100 years as a nation-state, Finland has become the world's benchmark for quality in school education. Despite the fact that Finland is consistently top ranked by international performance measures, the country continues to rapidly change their curriculum and educational policies. This book documents these main curricula changes, telling the story of the future of school education in Finland as it begins to develop in 2016, 2017, and 2018 onwards. Drawing from 14 ...

Young Adult Development at the School-To-Work Transition: International Pathways and Processes - Paperback

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by E. Anne Marshall (Editor), Jennifer E. Symonds (Editor)The school-to-work transition is a critical part of the human life-span for young adults, their families, and society. The timing of the transition varies greatly and its co-occurrence with a number of other life transitions make it challenging to summarize or generalize. Individual differences and normative developmental factors, as well as external contextual factors such as global pandemics, changing economic circumstances, workplac...

Stories Changing Lives: Narratives and Paths Toward Social Change - Hardcover

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by Corinne Squire (Editor)Personal narrative and its significance for social change is a prominent topic in the psychological and wider social sciences. Yet while the importance of narrative for social change is commonly assumed by narrative researchers, no single text addresses it exclusively and from a variety of scholarly perspectives. Stories Changing Lives explores the strong and qualified significance of personal stories and how they catalyze and contribute to social change. The first o...

Possible: A Sociocultural Theory - Hardcover

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by Vlad P. Glăveanu (Author)This book explores an eminently human phenomenon: our capacity to engage with the possible, to go beyond what is present, visible, or given in our existence. Possibility studies is an emerging field of research including topics as diverse as creativity, imagination, innovation, anticipation, counterfactual thinking, wondering, the future, social change, hope, agency, and utopia. The Possible: A Sociocultural Theory contributes to this wide field by developing a soc...

Adaptive Mentalization-Based Integrative Treatment (Ambit) for People with Multiple Needs: Applications in Practise - Paperback

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by Peter Fuggle (Editor), Laura Talbot (Editor), Chloe Campbell (Editor)Meeting the complex needs of some of the most vulnerable populations in our society often involves the need for connected networks of care providing health, social care, educational and voluntary sector services. This presents major challenges for both clients and practitioners for this to work well. Adaptive mentalization based integrative treatment (AMBIT) has been developed over the last 15 years to address the needs o...

Applications of the Unified Protocols for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Children and Adolescents - Paperback

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by Jill Ehrenreich-May (Volume Editor), Sarah M. Kennedy (Volume Editor)The Unified Protocols for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Children (UP-C) and Adolescents (UP-A) are evidence-based interventions originally designed to target core dysfunctions underlying emotional disorders, such as anxiety and depressive disorders, in children and adolescents. However, the UP-C and UP-A re increasingly being used to address other diagnostic clusters and problem areas that share thes...

The Healing Journey (2nd Edition): Pioneering Approaches to Psychedelic Therapy - Paperback

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by Claudio Naranjo (Author)This book takes an in-depth look at the spiritual and psychotherapeutic potential of the amphetamine derivatives MDA and MMDA, harmaline (the active compound in ayahuasca), and ibogaine. To distinguish them from classical psychedelics such as LSD and psilocybin, Naranjo coins the terms "emotion-enhancers" and "fantasy-enhancers" for these substances. Number of Pages: 221 Dimensions: 0.6 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN Publication Date: April 19, 2013

Motivational Interviewing in HIV Care - Paperback

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by Antoine Douaihy (Editor), K. Rivet Amico (Editor)It is no exaggeration to say that motivational interviewing (MI) has transformed the culture of clinical practice and the way healthcare practitioners and researchers understand behavior change. MI, as an empirically supported therapeutic approach, has grown all across prevention, intervention, treatment, and research settings. Nowhere is the need to target behavior change more urgent than in people living with HIV. MI is a collaborative, pe...

Intelligence and Intelligibility C - Hardcover

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by Lloyd (Author)Across several intellectual disciplines there exists a tension between an appreciation of the cognitive capacities that all humans share and a recognition of the great variety in their manifestations in different individuals and groups. In this book G. E. R. Lloyd examines how, while avoiding the imposition of prior Western assumptions and concepts, we can reconcile two conflicting intuitions: that all humans share the same basic cognitive capacities and yet their actual mani...

Bringing Psychotherapy to the Underserved: Challenges and Strategies - Paperback

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by Jeffrey Zimmerman (Editor), Jeffrey E. Barnett (Editor), Linda Campbell (Editor)Bringing Psychotherapy to the Underserved examines the challenging problem of providing psychotherapy services to underserved, often marginalized populations, both within and outside of the US. The book begins by addressing systemic factors that prevent certain populations from accessing services (health system issues, issues relating to the military, and natural and man-made disasters). Expert contributors the...