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Intended for those who are troubled by their lives and want to make
changes, but don't know where to begin, this is a book about
relationships. It is not intended as a self-help book, but as one
which will encourage the reader to really think about themselves
and the way they act - how their behaviour is driven by thoughts,
feelings, and impulses of which they may not have any conscious
awareness. Jukes examines his 'Mad Hypothesis' - so called because
it seems, at first glance, to be 'mad.' He has used it successfully
in therapeutic work to refer to everything that is wrong in a
patient's relationship and even their life: "You are responsible
for everything that is wrong with your relationship including any
behaviour of your partner which you use to justify, excuse, or in
any other way account for yo own behaviour towards him/her, or the
world in general." The author draws on his vast clinical experience
to explore this fascinating idea and looks at other related issues
such as anxiety, sulking, masochism, and attachment. He also
includes many illuminating case-studies which perfectly illustrate
his theories and make the text accessible to both clinicians and
non-professionals.
Given the fundamental challenges to society in this era, a radical
rewrite of how we approach science and culture is necessary. This
handbook applies Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) to achieve a much
needed convergence across the physical, life and social sciences,
the humanities and arts. In doing so it addresses challenges such
as mental illness, dementia, cancer care, toxic masculinity and
societal oppression. It also reveals how PCT can be applied to
practical issues such as understanding healthcare service
implementation and human-machine interaction, as well as deeper
questions such as consciousness and imagination. This second volume
of the successful interdisciplinary handbook offers rich examples
of how the unifying perceptual control framework can provide a
viable alternative to existing theories and methodologies for a
timely paradigm shift.
In an ideal world, all children would grow up in a stable, nurturing and healthy home. However, the reality is that globally, many bear the brunt of conflicts, trafficking, poverty, sexual victimisation, broken families, school disruption and harming cultural practices. Socialisation structures to teach children the fundamental moral values of right and wrong are often absent, and children spend too many hours on social media platforms or playing games on smart devices, which affects their physical, emotional and psychological development. It is therefore hardly surprising that the world is seeing an increase in youth offenders. Child and youth misbehaviour in South Africa addresses the complex and poorly understood phenomenon of juvenile misbehaviour and the factors that cause these activities.
Child and youth misbehaviour in South Africa discusses and analyses various presumptions on the nature and causes of aberrant behaviour and assesses them critically with regard to their applicability to South Africa. It presents the relevant legal processes pertaining to young people and reinforces theoretical explanations with research and real-world examples. The female youth offender is also given special attention in this book.
Contents include the following:
- Nature and extent of child and youth misbehaviour in South Africa
- Risk factors pertaining to youth offenders
- Socio-moral redirection of troubled youth
- Adverse childhood experiences and youth misbehaviour
- Traditional and contemporary theoretical explanations for youth misbehaviour
- Prevention and control of youth misbehaviour in South Africa
- Child Justice Act: practice and procedure
- Child trafficking and child prostitution in South Africa
Child and youth misbehaviour in South Africa is aimed at enabling both practitioners and students to address the plight of the South African youth in a constructive way and so become part of creating a safer South Africa for its people.
From Fossils to Mind, Volume 275 in the Progress in Brain Research
series, presents chapters on a variety of interesting topics,
including What could our premammalian ancestors hear, see, smell,
and touch? A review of ten years of research about cynodont
paleoneurology, Endocasts of ornithopod dinosaurs: anatomy and
comparison, Adaptationism and Structuralism in Brain Evolution
Research, Genomic approaches for tracing the evolution of brain
ageing and neurodegenerative diseases, Investigating the
Coevolution of Language and Tools in the Brain: An ALE
Meta-analysis of Neural Activation During Syntactic Processing and
Tool Use, and more.
Game-Based Learning in Education and Health: HCI and BCI Advances
and Dilemmas, Volume 276 in the Progress in Brain Research series,
highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume
presenting interesting chapters on topics such as Math computerized
games in the classroom: a Number Line Training in Primary School
Children, Digital games for learning basic arithmetic at home,
Game-Based Assessment of Cognitive Function among Children and
Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Different
aspects of fraction understanding are associated selectively with
performance on a fraction learning game, and more.
Adolescent Psychosis: Clinical and Scientific Perspectives
discusses new methodologies and novel scientific findings, with a
comprehensive orientation into phenomenology, nosology, diagnostics
and the history of adolescent early-onset psychosis research. This
volume informs on psychotic disorders in adults and discusses
recent epidemiological studies, along with co-morbid aspects
associated with other neurodevelopmental syndromes and somatic
diseases. The book also provides suggestions for future research to
bridge neuroscience and the clinic using a translational
perspective, from the clinic to the genes and relevant phenotypes,
biomarkers, etiological aspects and clinical outcome. Topics
discussed bring together expert researchers in the field to
represent different translational perspectives and future
possibilities.
Hello Happy! is an interactive self-care activity book for children
aged 7+ to colour and doodle their way to happiness, calm and
confidence. The encouraging and simple activities and exercises
tackle anxiety, sadness and stress; children will enjoy using their
creativity to combat negative feelings, work out why they feel
worried and how to put stress back in its place through writing,
colouring, doodling and drawing. Featuring the charming and quirky
illustrations of Katie Abey, a UK-based illustrator. Her quirky
pictures will keep the reader entertained and focused as they work
through the book, or simply dip into the pages for ten minutes of
calm colouring. Part of Mindful Kids, a thoughtful new range of
activity books for children from Studio Press. Includes an
introduction and notes for grown-ups by consultant Dr Sharie
Coombes, Child & Family Psychotherapist. Dr Sharie Coombes is a
former primary teacher, headteacher and local authority adviser who
retrained as a child and family psychodynamic psychotherapist,
neuropsychotherapist, solution-focused therapist, and specialist
paediatric hypnotherapist. Alongside a busy private therapy
practice in Brighton, she has worked part-time as a child,
adolescent and family psychotherapist at the NHS Tavistock Clinic
in London with adopted and fostered children, young people and
families. She now works with the psychosocial team in the British
Red Cross Refugee Support and International Family Tracing team.
Sharie has 2 adult children.
Environmental psychology, which studies the ways in which people
perceive and respond to the physical environment, is an established
area of study. Conservation psychology has a much more recent
history, prompted by the desire to focus psychological research on
the need to protect the natural environment. What is conservation
psychology, and what is its relationship to environmental
psychology? The Oxford Handbook of Environmental and Conservation
Psychology includes basic research on environmental perceptions,
attitudes, and values; research on specific environments, such as
therapeutic settings, schools, and prisons; environmental impacts
on human well-being; and ways to promote a more sustainable
relationship between people and the natural environment. By
presenting an extensive review of current research, the handbook
serves as a thorough guide to the state of knowledge about a wide
range of topics at the intersection of psychology and the physical
environment. Beyond this, it provides a better understanding of the
relationship between environmental and conservation psychology, and
some sense of the directions in which these interdependent areas of
study are heading. Research on the human-environment relationship
is increasingly relevant to understanding and addressing the
environmental challenges society is facing. This handbook should
serve as a resource for professionals both within and outside of
psychology who are trying to comprehend the human implications of
environments, and to design programs, policies, and environments
that are cognizant of human psychology.
A no-nonsense and helpful guide on how to cope with a slew of mental-health issues that are hellbent on ruining the lives of millions of people worldwide.
Our brains do their best to help us out, but every so often they can be real assholes―having melt downs, getting addicted to things, or shutting down completely at the worst possible moments. Your brain knows it’s not good to do these things, but it can’t help it sometimes―especially if it’s obsessing about trauma it can’t overcome. That’s where this life-changing book comes in.
With humor, patience, science, and lots of good-ole swearing, Dr. Faith explains what’s going on in your skull, and talks you through the process of retraining your brain to respond appropriately to the non-emergencies of everyday life, and to deal effectively with old, or newly acquired, traumas (particularly post-traumatic stress disorder).
Statistics for Applied Behavior Analysis Practitioners and
Researchers provides practical and useful content for individuals
who work directly with, or supervise those who work directly with,
individuals with ASD. This book introduces core concepts and
principles of modern statistical analysis that practitioners will
need to deliver ABA services. The organization of the book works
through the flow of behavior analytic service provision, aiming to
help practitioners read through research, evaluate intervention
options, incorporate statistics in their analysis of time-series
intervention and assessment data, and effectively communicate
assessment and intervention effects using statistics. As
professionals who provide applied behavior analysis (ABA) services
are required to use evidence-based practices and make data-based
decisions regarding assessments and interventions, this book will
help them take a modern, scientific approach to derive knowledge
and make decisions based on statistical literacy.
Wise Use of Null Hypothesis Tests is a user-friendly handbook meant
for practitioners. Rather than overwhelming the reader with endless
mathematical operations that are rarely performed by hand, the
author emphasizes concepts and reasoning. In Wise Use of Null
Hypothesis Tests, the author explains what is accomplished by
testing null hypotheses-and what is not. The author explains the
misconceptions that concern null hypothesis testing. He explains
why confidence intervals show the results of null hypothesis tests.
Most importantly, the author explains the Big Secret. Many-some say
all-null hypotheses must be false. But authorities tell us we
should test false null hypotheses anyway to determine the direction
of a difference that we know must be there (a topic unrelated to
so-called one-tailed tests). In Wise Use of Null Hypothesis Tests,
the author explains how to control how often we get the direction
wrong (it is not half of alpha) and commit a Type III (or Type S)
error.
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