Offering a unique set of case studies that invites readers to question and reimagine the concept of community engagement, this collected work provides an overview and analysis of numerous, creative participatory research methods designed to improve well-being at both the individual and societal level.
Personality Psychology: The Basics provides a jargon-free and accessible overview of the discipline, focusing on why not all individuals think, feel, speak, or act the same way in the same situation.
Dieses Referenzwerk bietet eine Zusammenstellung von Leitlinien und Empfehlungen zur psychologischen Begutachtung von Funktionen und Funktionseinschränkungen und stellt somit eine umfangreiche praktisch relevante Orientierung zur Qualitätssicherung gutachterlicher Tätigkeiten dar.
Through proper engagement, identity-based conflict enhances and develops identity as a vehicle to promote creative collaboration between individuals, the groups they constitute and the systems they forge.
Andreas Galling-Stiehler untersucht das Phänomen, dass Skandale um Politiker und Top-Manager zunehmend als Folge der Personalisierung durch Public Relations, Public Affairs und andere Formen der Auftragskommunikation sowie ihrer Rezeption durch die Medien erscheinen.
This book joins together disclosure, privacy, and secrecy to pursue a greater understanding of how people are both public and private in their interactions.
Dans ce livre, où se mêlent la pratique et la formation, la vie de l’autre en soi et la part de soi dans la vie des autres, Danièle Brun montre comment la perte et le deuil tissent leur présence dans nos existences.
"Wir sind, was wir erinnern": Das autobiographische Gedächtnis erlaubt mentale Zeitreisen in die eigene Vergangenheit und erfüllt damit wichtige Funktionen für unser gegenwärtiges Selbst.
Serial killers like Seattle's Ted Bundy, Maryland's Beltway Sniper, Atlanta's Wayne Williams, or England's Peter Sutcliffe usually outsmart the task forces on their trail for long periods of time.
Jemanden lieben, miteinander streiten, zusammen arbeiten, gemeinsam lernen – das Leben steckt voller Sozialpsychologie, denn das vielseitige Fachgebiet beschäftigt sich damit, wie Gedanken, Gefühle und Verhalten von Menschen durch die Anwesenheit anderer Menschen beeinflusst werden.
The Development of Persistent Criminality addresses one of the most pressing problems of modern criminology: Why do some individuals become chronic, persistent offenders?
Originally published in 1980, this book presents a detailed account of a series of investigations that examined the patterns of resort to drugs and alcohol use in college youth, and how such substance uses are linked to personality characteristics and daydreaming patterns.
Das Buch bündelt in einzigartiger Weise Erkenntnisse aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen zum Verständnis des Begriffs Resilienz und zu Möglichkeiten der Resilienzförderung.
In this highly readable text, the author details the findings of an exhaustive series of studies of Isreali combat veterans, documenting the effects of combat stress reaction on mental and physical health, social interaction, and military effectiveness.
This edited book approaches the learning experience as a creative, constructive process from an epistemological orientation that combines transdisciplinary, participatory, and collaborative approaches to explore the most constructive ways forward for a networked constructivist (project- and problem-based) pedagogy.
In this book, Steve Davidson offers an innovative approach to psychotherapy and to personal development that builds upon operations theory and the idea that by methodically building operational competence, by identifying needs and wants, and then taking necessary action, we have a better opportunity to find happiness and personal fulfillment.
'If you've ever wondered why we keep secrets and what motivates us to spill them, look no further' Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think AgainAn eye-opening look at why we keep the secrets we keep, how to better understand and cope with them, and when (and how) we should bring them to light.
This book weaves together critical components of student development and community building for social justice to prepare students to engage effectively in community-campus partnerships for social change.
Du suchst eine kompakte Zusammenfassung der zentralen Grundlagenfächer der Psychologie – weil Du den Stoff wiederholen möchtest oder weil die Zeit vor der Prüfung nicht mehr für ein dickeres Buch reicht?
Explorations in Personality, published by OUP in 1938, established an elaborate agenda for understanding our subjective human nature that is as relevant to students of personality psychology today as it was to its audience then.
