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Books > Social sciences > Psychology
The Leader's Guide to Emotional Agility takes a new approach to
emotional intelligence in action and translates it into critical
skills that every leader needs to get the most out of themselves
and their people. It outlines 8 steps for achieving emotional
agility and resilience: Step 1: Becoming authentic Step 2: Becoming
self-aware Step 3: Becoming aware of others Step 4: Using the
emotions Step 5: Understanding the emotions Step 6: Managing your
own emotions Step 7: Managing the emotions of others Step 8:
Mindfulness for leaders The chapters, underpinned with scientific
research, offer real-life illustrations from leaders facing real
challenges and triumphs, as well as exercises, case studies, tips
and strategies to put these steps into action. It also includes a
self-assessment at the start of the book to help you find out how
emotionally agile you already are. This straight-talking guide is
the ultimate guide for busy managers wanting hard advice on how to
deal with the softer side of business life.
A unique approach to understanding and overcoming grief. Bestselling author Raymond Moody and his colleague Dianne Arcangel show how the grieving process can transform our fear and grief into spiritual and emotional growth.
Self-Control in Animals and People takes an interdisciplinary look
at what self-control is, how it works, and whether humans are alone
as a species in their ability to demonstrate self-control. The book
outlines historical and recent empirical approaches to
understanding when self-control succeeds and fails, and which
species may share with humans the ability to anticipate better
future outcomes. It also provides readers with in-depth
explorations of whether various species can delay gratification,
the ways in which people and animals exhibit other forms of
self-control, what influences the capacity and expression of
self-control, and much more. In addition to its comprehensive
coverage of self-control research, the book also describes
self-control assessment tests that can be used with young children,
adults, and a wide variety of nonhuman species, with the goal of
making fair and clear comparisons among the groups. This
combination makes Self-Control in Animals and People a valuable
resource for cognitive, developmental, and clinical psychologists,
philosophers, academic students and researchers in psychology and
the social sciences, and animal behaviorists.
On Life and Living Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D., is the woman who has transformed the way the world thinks about death and dying. Beginning with the groundbreaking publication of the classic psychological study On Death and Dying and continuing through her many books and her years working with terminally ill children, AIDS patients, and the elderly, Kübler-Ross has brought comfort and understanding to millions coping with their own deaths or the deaths of loved ones. Now, at age seventy-one facing her own death, this world-renowned healer tells the story of her extraordinary life. Having taught the world how to die well, she now offers a lesson on how to live well. Her story is an adventure of the heart -- powerful, controversial, inspirational -- a fitting legacy of a powerful life.
'With their fascinating synthesis of two fields of study,
leadership and sexuality, editors James Beggan and Scott Allison
provide a forum for scholars to investigate two concepts that have
long shaped human behavior and captured both academic interest and
the curiosity of the general public. In addition to its appeal to
academics, this cross-disciplinary book will interest anyone who
has ever had a boss, been on a date, or contemplated an office
romance.' -Robert Giacalone, John Carroll University, US Although
both leadership and sexuality are important and heavily researched
topics, there is little work that addresses the interaction of the
two areas. Leadership and Sexuality: Power, Principles, and
Processes is a scholarly synthesis of leadership principles with
issues related to sexuality and sexual policy-making. The authors'
multi-disciplinary analysis of the topic examines sexuality in the
context of many different kinds of leadership, exploring both the
good and the bad aspects of leadership and sexuality. These
integrated topics are examined through three broad areas of study.
The first involves individuals who become leaders in sexual domains
by advancing new views of human sexuality. The second involves
problems that leaders of businesses and other institutions must
address as a result of issues related to human sexuality, including
sexual harassment and sexually-based discrimination in the
workplace. The third area involves understanding how being a leader
influences sexual desire and sexual attraction, and may impact the
course of workplace romance and the expression of sexuality.
Written to be accessible to both laypeople and scholars, this book
will appeal to academics and scientists interested in human
sexuality as well as many related disciplines, including
psychology, sociology, leadership studies, heroism science,
political science, religion, and economics. Contributors: S.T.
Allison, J.K. Beggan, L. Dwight, O. Efthimiou, J. Fyke, S. Huss, K.
Lucas, S. Pichler, C. Pitzulo, C. Shakeshaft, W.R. Stayton, M.B.
Stone, B. Trisler, E. Turley
Transdiagnostic Group Therapy Training and Implementation provides
clinicians with a user-friendly roadmap for delivering a brief,
transdiagnostic group therapy that can be used for patients
suffering from stress, depression, anxiety, and a range of other
related mental health problems. This is supplemented by over an
hour of training videos hosted on the book's companion website,
visually demonstrating how to effectively implement the therapy.
The book introduces the empirical research that has led to a
greater emphasis on transdiagnostic treatment approaches, and
details how to implement each phase of the therapy, supported by
clinical examples to make practical application easier.
Unusual focus on healing factional divisions in psychoanalysis *
Contains contributions from internationally respected clinicians *
Offers a thoughtful and practical guide to working effectively with
other analysts in a variety of settings
Most of us laugh at something funny multiple times during a typical
day. Humor serves multiple purposes, and although there is a
sizable and expanding research literature on the subject, the
research is spread in a variety of disciplines. The Psychology of
Humor, 2e reviews the literature, integrating research from across
subdisciplines in psychology, as well as related fields such as
anthropology, biology, computer science, linguistics, sociology,
and more. This book begins by defining humor and presenting
theories of humor. Later chapters cover cognitive processes
involved in humor and the effects of humor on cognition. Individual
differences in personality and humor are identified as well as the
physiology of humor, the social functions of humor, and how humor
develops and changes over the lifespan. This book concludes noting
the association of humor with physical and mental health, and
outlines applications of humor use in psychotherapy, education, and
the workplace. In addition to being fully updated with recent
research, the second edition includes a variety of new materials.
More graphs, tables, and figures now illustrate concepts,
processes, and theories. It provides new brief interviews with
prominent humor scholars via text boxes. The end of each chapter
now includes a list of key concepts, critical thinking questions,
and a list of resources for further reading.
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