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The Teacher’s Ultimate Stress Mastery Guide

April 8, 2013 By

This book shows teachers how to build emotional strength to prevent stress and/or burnout by discovering how stress affects health, how to boost psychological immunity, and how to maintain teaching effectiveness!

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Against Theory of Mind

April 7, 2013 By

The 'theory of mind' framework has been the fastest growing body of empirical research in contemporary psychology. It has given rise to a range of positions on what it takes to relate to others as intentional beings. This book brings together disparate strands of ToM research, lays out historical roots of the idea and indicates better alternatives

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Working with Loss, Death and Bereavement

April 6, 2013 By

Various social workers encounter complex and diverse forms of loss throughout their practice. This book helps trainee and practitioners navigate these difficult situations by developing the skills and values necessary for practice. It explores definitions and assessment of loss, and psychological aspects of loss and grief.

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Police Suicide

April 4, 2013 By

Examines the need for improved research that focuses on related psychological components and successful prevention and intervention strategies. This book examines police suicidal behaviours and should prove helpful in developing suicide assessment and training programs.

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Employment and Labor Issues

April 3, 2013 By

Unemployment is a considerable source of social distress, leading to loss of social contact and activity, increased isolation from others, increased family tensions and loss of self-esteem. This book reviews the results of follow-up studies and controlled psychological autopsy studies in terms of the association between unemployment and suicide.

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Multimedia in Education and Special Education

April 2, 2013 By

Advances in media, technology and psychology have had an enormous effect on how students learn and how teachers teach. This book presents new media applications for teaching as well as various methodologies to help students with special needs.

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Child Abuse and Neglect

April 1, 2013 By

Examines child abuse and neglect. This book opens with the background on child maltreatment including its history, an overview of the research, and the risk factors. It also examines different forms of maltreatment - physical abuse, neglect, psychological maltreatment, sexual abuse, fetal abuse, and Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome.

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Creativity and Cultural Production

March 28, 2013 By

Phillip McIntyre presents the latest scholarly research into creativity and creative practice. The book provides insights to media practitioners and policy professionals, looking at television, radio, film, journalism, photography, popular music and new media in relation to psychology, sociology and cultural studies.

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The Ecology of Human Development

March 25, 2013 By

To understand the way children develop, Bronfenbrenner believes that it is necessary to observe their behavior in natural settings, while they are interacting with familiar adults over prolonged periods of time. His book offers an important blueprint for constructing a new and ecologically valid psychology of development.

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Executive Power

March 23, 2013 By

Executive Power arms readers with effective, fast-acting techniques that show them, step-by-step, how to get what they need before they and their companies pay a heavy toll for lack of it. This book contains specific, carefully formulated psychological tactics that can be applied to any business situation, with any person.

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