This book illustrates the role of researchers' affects and emotions in understanding and making sense of the phenomena they study during ethnographic fieldwork.
Built from stories and memories shared by self-defined David Bowie fans, thisbook explores how Bowie existed as a figure of renewal and redemption,resonating in particular with those marginalized by culture and society.
This book explores, from a leisure studies perspective, the central role that leisure has to play in positive psychology, exploring themes such as flow, fulfilment, altruism, well-being, and interpersonal relationships.
This book sums up 100 of years of research into the study of happiness-from 19th century scientific insights on the subject to the pop psychology perspectives of modern-day America.
An invaluable tool for helping children to overcome any emotional and physical issues, The Journey for Kids presents simple imagery exercises that will appeal to children from 5-12.
'Equal parts practical, funny and illuminating - belongs on the required reading list for life' - Sarah Knight, internationally bestselling author of Get Your Sh!
This text provides students of family therapy with a unique opportunity to understand and compare the inner workings of 14 traditional and non-traditional family therapy models.
Next to an introduction to the field and functions of family psychology this edition has been updated and expanded in the areas of indicators and effects of the changing way of family life; theoretical approaches to family and its appliance to questions of psychological research and practice;- process and results of education and socialisation in families; procedure of family diagnostics and evaluation, as well as analysis of family data; intervention in families (prevention, consulting and therapy) to strengthen family relations and to solve problems.
You've done what you can: you've seen your doctor, made an appointment with a therapist, picked up the prescription for the antidepressant and swallowed that first strange pill.
A new framework for the neuroscientific study of emotions in humans and animalsThe Neuroscience of Emotion presents a new framework for the neuroscientific study of emotion across species.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Essential, clever and kind' Alain de Botton'I am a huge admirer of Julia's work' Elizabeth Day____________________In her bestselling follow-up to Grief Works and This Too Shall Pass, much-loved psychotherapist Julia Samuel invites us into her sessions as she explores the relationships that have the power to touch us and hurt us most: those with our family.
Love and the Politics of Intimacy articulates the concept of love within the relationship between the intimate and the social, rethinking how intimacy is conceived and experienced in the context of 21st-century neoliberalism.
Philosophical reflection on the emotions has a long history stretching back to classical Greek thought, even though at times philosophers have marginalized or denigrated them in favour of reason.
Intentional behaviorism is a philosophy of psychology that seeks to ascertain the place and nature of cognitive explanation of behavior by empirically determining the scope of an extensional account of behavior based on the limitations of a behavioral approach to explanation.
Theorists are increasingly arguing that it is fruitful to approach anxiety from the cognitive perspective, and the empirical evidence supports that contention.
Der Autor, Mario Eduard Giovanelli vermittelt in seinem einfach verständlichen, informativen, meist ernsthaft, manchmal auch witzig, zynisch und sarkastisch geschriebenen Buch, 'Zum Blöken zu dämlich - Von den Dummheiten und Irrtümern Einzelner über die der Massen, bis hin zur Beherrschung des Schach des Lebens', im ersten Teil über sowohl historische als auch gegenwärtige Dummheiten, Irrtümer und Fehlentscheidungen Einzelner bis hin zu denen der Massen.
Questions about the causes of events, from terrorist attacks to mass shootings to economic and public health crises dominate conversations across the US.
Ein beziehungsorientierter und traumafundierter Traueransatz- Ein neuer Ansatz in der Trauerbegleitung von Kindern und Jugendlichen- Praxisorientiert mit zahlreichen Beispielen- Autor hält Vorträge, gibt Workshops und andere VeranstaltungenKinder und Jugendliche erleben viel häufiger schwere, nicht selten auch traumatisierende Verlustsituationen als gemeinhin angenommen.