Many of our current social problems have been attributed to the breakdown or loss of community as a place and to the fragmentation of connections due to an extreme value of individualism in the Western world, particularly in the United States.
This book brings together the latest research on positive psychology from an international cast of researchers and particularly from the growing body of European researchers.
Relationships are at the heart of our lives; at home with our families, with our friends, in schools and colleges, with colleagues at the workplace and in our diverse communities.
The Handbook contains psychometric tools developed and adapted in India in four areas, namely, Personality, Education, Organisational Behaviour and Social Phenomena.
India is greying rapidly and with the decline of the strong bonds of the joint family system and the well knit familial relations the aged of to-day and the future will have to make a large number of adjustments and changes in life styles to survive into a happy old age.
Social psychology is the scientific study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others.
Social psychology is the scientific study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others.
The book ';Social Needs of Girl and Psychosocial Problems' covers the topic Sexual Abuse, Marriage, Trafficking, Social Security System, Violence, Social Needs, Diet and Nutrition, Inequality, Self Help Groups and Prisoners.
This volume presents the reader with a stimulating tapestry of essays exploring the nature of personal autonomy, self-determination, and agency, and their role in human optimal functioning at multiple levels of analysis from personal to societal and cross-cultural.
The purpose of the volume is to open up new perspectives in the study of literacy by bringing together current research findings from linguistics, psychology, sociology and anthropology.
Consciousness in Interaction is an interdisciplinary collection with contributions from philosophers, psychologists, cognitive scientists, and historians of philosophy.
Spanning from care-giving infants and civilian rescuers risking their life to the collapse of empathy in agents of torture and extinction, this unique book deals with and illustrates the altruistic best and atrocious worst of human nature.
Alignment in Communication is a novel direction in communication research, which focuses on interactive adaptation processes assumed to be more or less automatic in humans.
Doing more than one thing at the same time - a phenomenon that is often called 'multitasking' - is characteristic to many situations in everyday and professional life.
The new edition of this bestselling book, The Psychology of Meaning in Life, has been thoroughly updated to offer an inspiring exploration of cutting-edge findings from the psychology of meaning in life.
Social Justice, Social Discrimination, and Mental Health explores the theory and background of social justice in the context of mental health of individuals, cultures, and communities.
Este libro es una selección de artículos basados en la investigación "Trauma y Transmisión en las generaciones", primer estudio empírico cualitativo en el campo del psicoanálisis y la salud mental sobre los efectos de la guerra del 36, la posguerra, la dictadura y la transición, y publicados en Quaderns de Salut Mental.
En este libro se estudian la psicoterapia de grupo y el psicodrama desde una perspectiva teórica y técnica así como sus aplicaciones en las tareas de prevención, atención y rehabilitación en el campo de la salud mental individual, grupal y comunitaria.
Avances en psicología del deporte es una obra escrita por profesionales de amplia trayectoria que proporciona información de forma clara, rigurosa y amena sobre las más recientes estrategias para influir sobre la conducta humana en el ámbito del deporte y el ejercicio.
La mente del deportista es el manual que le faltaba a tu cerebro: reúne todo lo necesario para desplegar tu verdadero potencial para entrenar y competir.
Para que el funcionamiento del grupo y el trabajo en equipo sean eficaces, se requiere una comprensión decisiva de los procesos interpersonales (¡así como trabajar duro!
Des de principis del segle passat, assistim a una crisi de l'autoritat fundada en el patriarcat que té diverses conseqüències en les formes de vida i molt especialment en la política.