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This user-friendly manual provides a cross-cultural psychological
assessment battery including projective methods. Authors outline a
new, empirically validated, reliable system which seeks to update
the scoreable and interpretable factors and entwine commonly
respected "tried and true" graphomotor tests, thereby maximizing
their efficacy in the assessment of significant psychological
traits in children and adults. Because of its use as a gender fair,
culture free, language free testing method, it will be a valuable
asset in all areas of current psychological assessment. The RPS
test takes approximately 20 to 40 minutes to administer, and does
not require any administration materials that most practitioners
would not have readily available. The RPS can be used by evaluators
on its own or in conjunction with other psychological and
neuropsychological test data, as well as by mental health treatment
providers seeking a quick and accurate way to assess the
psychological functioning of individuals aged eight years and
older. Multiple appendices contain information on scoring criteria,
scoring keys and a wealth of sample questions which will also be a
useful resource for evaluators. This manual is appropriate for
users ranging from graduate-level students in training and
supervision to even the most skilled assessment psychologists for
quick and valid assessment of a wide range of clients.
This book explores the complex ways in which belonging, identity
and time are entangled in shaping young people engagement with the
middle years of school. The authors argue that these
'entanglements' need to be understood in ways that move beyond a
focus on why individual young people engage with the middle years.
Instead, there should be a focus on the socio-ecologies of
particular places, and the ways in which these ecologies shape the
possibilities of young people engaging productively in the middle
years. Drawing on extensive qualitative data from an outer-urban
metropolitan context, this book will appeal to scholars of
sociology, education and policy studies.
This book explores individual language policy among bilingual youth
who belong to different ethnic minority groups in Vietnam, through
vivid stories detailing their life with multiple languages. It
examines the youth's daily language behaviours through the unique
theoretical lens of individual language policy, and the ways in
which this policy interacts with and is influenced by language
policies at macro, meso and micro level. It contributes to research
on language and identity, and language policy in non-Anglophone
societies and will appeal to a broad international readership,
including researchers in sociolinguistics, teachers working with
ethnic minority students and policymakers concerned with minority
language maintenance around the world.
This book is a first attempt to combine insights from the two
perspectives with regard to the question of meaning by examining a
collection of theoretical and empirical works. This volume
therefore is destined to become an important addition to
psychological literature: both from the viewpoint of the history of
ideas (again this would be one of the first times that positive and
existentialist psychologies meet) and from the viewpoint of
theoretical and empirical research into the meaning concept in
psychology.
This book pays tribute to Scott O. Lilienfeld of Emory University,
a leading scholar in the field of clinical science who has made
important contributions to a wide range of central topics including
definition of the field, cognitive biases and critical thinking,
memory, personality and personality disorders, projective testing
and its problems, cultural sensitivity and issues like
microaggressions, forensic psychology and neuroscience, among
others. His writings are known for their clarity, their astute
critical frame, their fairness, and their intellectual courage in
the face of controversy. This anthology serves as a thorough
introduction to the scientific evolution of clinical psychology,
collecting contributions from leading authorities in each of these
domains to comment on past and future insights made possible by
Scott Lilienfeld's work.
This book provides a chronology of the 68th Nebraska Symposium on
Motivation, which is focused on contemporary research knowledge
about sexual violence and alcohol use. This book is more
specific to dating and intimate partner sexual violence in young
adult populations. The target audience is researchers,
prevention agencies and policymakers within academia and military
settings. Alcohol use has long been recognized as a major
contributor to sexual assault, with an estimated 50% of sexual
assaults in the U.S. involving drinking by the victim, perpetrator,
or both. Beyond the usual harmful effects, alcohol-involved
assaults are associated with unique sequelae for female victims,
including increased self-blame, stigma, and greater alcohol use to
cope. Moreover, heavier drinking on the part of the perpetrator is
associated with more serious incidents of assault (e.g., involving
physical force) that result in more severe outcomes for victims.
The purpose of this Symposium on Motivation is to bring together a
group of experts in the areas of alcohol and sexual aggression to
articulate the causes, consequences, and mechanisms of
alcohol-involved sexual assault. Speakers will talk about classic
and contemporary research and theories on these issues using
cutting-edge approaches (e.g., virtual reality, neuroscience,
laboratory-based alcohol administration) from a variety of
perspectives (perpetrators, victims, bystanders).
'TIMELY' David Mitchell 'MOVING ... REMARKABLE' SUNDAY TIMES 'ONE
OF THOSE RARE BOOKS I HADN'T REASLISED I'D BEEN WAITING FOR UNTIL I
READ IT.' Owen Sheers 'OPEN-MINDED, THOUGHTFUL AND WISE... A
LIBERATING BOOK' Colm Toibin In an age of polished TED talks and
overconfident political oratory, success seems to depend upon
charismatic public speaking. But what if hyper-fluency is not only
unachievable but undesirable? Jonty Claypole spent fifteen years of
his life in and out of extreme speech therapy. From sessions with
child psychologists to lengthy stuttering boot camps and exposure
therapies, he tried everything until finally being told the words
he'd always feared: 'We can't cure your stutter.' Those words
started him on a journey towards not only making peace with his
stammer but learning to use it to his advantage. Here, Jonty argues
that our obsession with fluency could be hindering, rather than
helping, our creativity, authenticity and persuasiveness. Exploring
other speech conditions, such as aphasia and Tourette's, and
telling the stories of the 'creatively disfluent' - from Lewis
Carroll to Kendrick Lamar - Jonty explains why it's time for us to
stop making sense, get tongue tied and embrace the life-changing
power of inarticulacy.
This book offers a unique perspective on the topic of boredom, with
chapters written by diverse representatives of various mental
health disciplines and philosophical approaches. On one hand,
studying boredom involves the mental processes of attention,
memory, perception, creativity, or language use; on the other,
boredom can be understood by taking into account many pathological
conditions such as depression, stress, and anxiety. This book seeks
to fill the knowledge gap in research by discussing boredom through
an interdisciplinary dialogue, giving a comprehensive overview of
the past and current literature within boredom studies, while
discussing the neural bases and causes of boredom and its potential
consequences and implications for individual and social well-being.
Chapters explore the many facets of boredom, including:
Understanding the cognitive-affective mechanisms underlying
experiences of boredom Philosophical perspectives on boredom,
self-consciousness, and narrative How boredom shapes both basic and
complex human thoughts, feelings, and behavior Analyzing boredom
within Freudian and Lacanian frameworks Boredom Is in Your Mind: A
Shared Psychological-Philosophical Approach is a pioneering work
that brings together threads of cross-disciplinary boredom research
into one comprehensive resource. It is relevant for graduate
students and researchers in myriad intersecting disciplines, among
them cognitive psychology, cognitive neurosciences, and clinical
psychology, as well as philosophy, logic, religion, and other areas
of the humanities and social sciences.
The author offers a new account of the formation of sexual
identity, coined "emerged fusion," which avoids the traps of the
essentialism versus constructivism debate, and offers a viable
third alternative. This book is a theoretical tool that will be
useful in sociology, queer studies, and gender studies as a new
approach to understanding sexual identity.
Personality disorder affects more than 10% of the population but is
widely ignored by health professionals as it is viewed as a term of
stigma. The new classification of personality disorder in the
ICD-11 shows that we are all on a spectrum of personality
disturbance and that this can change over time. This important new
book explains why all health professionals need to be aware of
personality disorders in their clinical practice. Abnormal
personality, at all levels of severity, should be taken into
account when choosing treatment, when predicting outcomes, when
anticipating relapse, and when explaining diagnosis. Authored by
leading experts in this field, this book explains how the new
classification of personality disorders in the ICD-11 helps to
select treatment programmes, plan long-term management and avoid
adverse consequences in the treatment of this patient group.
The modern West has made the focus on individuality, individual
freedom, and self-identity central to its self-definition, and
these concepts have been crucially shaped by Christianity. This
book surveys how the birth of the Christian worldview affected the
evolution of individualism in Western culture as a cultural meme.
Applying a biological metaphor and Richard Dawkins' definition of a
meme, this work argues the advent of individualism was not a sudden
innovation of the Renaissance or the Enlightenment, but a long
evolution with characteristic traits. This evolution can be mapped
using profiles of individuals in different historical eras who
contributed to the modern notion of individualism. Utilizing
excerpts from original works from Augustine to Nietzsche, a
compelling narrative arises from the slow but steady evolution of
the modern self. The central argument is that Christianity, with
its characteristic inwardness, was fundamental in the development
of a sense of self as it affirmed the importance of the everyday
man and everyday life.
This book offers an in depth analysis of the interactional
challenges that arise due to various dementias and in a variety of
social contexts. By assessing conversations between persons with
dementia and their family members, caregivers, and clinicians, it
shares insights into both the language and actions selected by the
participants. Using several different research methods, authors
highlight competencies and areas of struggle, as well as choices
that ease interactions along with those that seem to complicate
them. Each chapter provides practical strategies to help readers
better navigate day-to-day interactions with persons with dementia.
The book is part of a continuing effort to offer guidance and hope
to those for whom such conversations have become part of their
daily lives. It presents concrete recommendations for specific
groups such as family members, caregivers, and clinicians; it will
also be of interest to researchers in the field of dementia and
early career scholars interested in the methodologies discussed.
The book includes a new theoretical synthesis of William Stern's
classic personology published in the 1930s with contemporary
cultural psychology of semiotic mediation developed by the author
over the last two decades. It looks at the human mind as it
operates in its full complexity, starting from the most complex
general levels of aesthetic and political participation in society
and ending with individual willful actions in everyday life
contexts.
This exciting new edited collection bridges the gap between
narrative and self-understanding. The problem of self-knowledge is
of universal interest; the nature or character of its achievement
has been one continuing thread in our philosophical tradition for
millennia. Likewise the nature of storytelling, the assembly of
individual parts of a potential story into a coherent narrative
structure, has been central to the study of literature. But how do
we gain knowledge from an artform that is by definition fictional,
by definition not a matter of ascertained fact, as this applies to
the understanding of our lives? When we see ourselves in the
mimetic mirror of literature, what we see may not just be a matter
of identifying with a single protagonist, but also a matter of
recognizing long-form structures, long-arc narrative shapes that
give a place to - and thus make sense of - the individual bits of
experience that we place into those structures. But of course at
precisely this juncture a question arises: do we make that sense,
or do we discover it? The twelve chapters brought together here
lucidly and steadily reveal how the matters at hand are far more
intricate and interesting than any such dichotomy could
accommodate. This is a book that investigates the ways in which
life and literature speak to each other.
This book shows why mindful leadership is the key element for
supportive management and leadership in the 21st century. It
highlights the fundamentals of mindful leadership in philosophy and
history in different cultural traditions and shows latest research
on mindfulness and digitalization, technology, social networking,
and leading-self concepts. The book bridges the past and the
future. By combining a range of research perspectives, it connects
mindfulness to serving leadership concepts and describes resilience
for both individuals and organizations. In addition, it presents
theoretical aspects and practical recommendations on how to
implement mindful leadership and supportive environments in
organizational cultures. The book encompasses history, present
leadership challenges and future management perspectives and
enables the implementation of models of good practice into daily
working life. It includes contributions from researchers of
different continents, and offers an international overview of
state-of-the art leadership research. This book is of interest to
professionals and researchers working on leadership, from the
perspective of positive psychology, organizational studies, and
wellbeing studies.
This volume showcases innovative research on dialectal, vernacular,
and other forms of "oral," speech-like writing in digital spaces.
The shift from a predominantly print culture to a digital culture
is shaping people's identities and relationships to one another in
important ways. Using examples from distinct international contexts
and language varieties (kiAmu, Lebanese, Ettounsi, Shanghai Wu,
Welsh English, and varieties of American English) the authors
examine how people use unexpected codes, scripts, and spellings to
say something about who they are or aspire to be. This book will be
of particular interest to students and scholars interested in the
impact of social media on language use, style, and orthography, as
well as those with a broader interest in literacy, communication,
language contact, and language change.
This book presents a theoretical framework developed to support
psychologists working with indigenous people and interethnic
communities. Departing from the cultural shock experienced as a
psychologist working with indigenous people in Brazil, Dr. Danilo
Silva Guimaraes identifies the limits of traditional psychological
knowledge to deal with populations who don't share the same ethos
of the European societies who gave birth to psychology as a modern
science and proposes a new approach to go beyond the
epistemological project that aimed to construct a subject able to
represent the world free from any cultural mediation. According to
the author, the purpose of cultural psychology is to produce
general psychological theories about the cultural mediation of the
self, others and world relationships. Based on this assumption, he
argues that to achieve this aim, cultural psychology needs to
understand how indigenous perspectives participate in the process
of knowledge construction, transforming psychological conceptions
and practices. In this volume, the author presents his own
contribution to open cultural psychology to indigenous perspectives
by discussing the theoretical and practical implications of the
notion of dialogical multiplication for the construction of work in
co-authorship in the relation between psychology and indigenous
peoples. With the growing migrations around the world, competences
in psychological communication across cultures are more demanded
each day, which makes Dialogical Multiplication - Principles for an
Indigenous Psychology a critical resource for psychologists working
with interethnic and intercultural communities around the world.
This book addresses the need to radically transform societies
plagued by racism. It places prominence on persistent racialized
violence in the lives of Black Americans as influential in how
Black people in the U.S. and abroad perceive themselves as Black in
juxtaposition to their perceptions of White people and other People
of Color. An absence of understanding of the often-masked role of
violence in the lives of Black people increases the likelihood of
reproducing it. The author offers a reformulation of racial
identity theory to examine the construction of Manichaeism in
people and societies, and how meaningful engagement that confronts
the violence is vital to psychological development, though this
engagement also is not without dire risks.
An essential read for anyone who has encountered a crisis of
confidence. Where does self-confidence come from? How does it work?
Why are some people more confident than others? On the surface,
these seem like simple questions - but answers can feel hard to
come by when we need them most. In this bestselling book, Charles
Pepin brings to light the strange alchemy that is self-confidence.
Pepin examines the role confidence plays in the lives of our most
respected public figures including the likes of Madonna, Mozart,
Frieda Kahlo, Martin Luther King and Serena Williams, and argues
that above all, to live a life of confidence is to live a life of
action. Drawing on the collective wisdom of philosophers,
psychologists and the lives of people we encounter on a daily
basis, Pepin invites us to probe the mystery and mastery of
self-confidence.
This book demonstrates how applying behavioural science to
commercial problems can effectively help businesses to understand
and achieve the best outcomes for their customers. Bringing
together theory and practice the author describes how approaches
underpinning behavioural science can be adapted to the fast-moving
environment of the private sector. The first part of the book
discusses the underlying theory and principles behind behavioural
science. It outlines the history of the discipline, explaining how
behavioural scientists use theories and models of behaviour, and
discussing why behaviour is so hard to predict. It then describes
how the theory can be applied to designing products, services and
interventions. In Part II Rubinstein uses several key case studies
to explore the challenges of integrating behavioural science into
established practices, considering how to use behavioural science
in multidisciplinary teams and why this might be useful. She
addresses concerns about the ethics of using behavioural science in
this context before describing the value of applying behavioural
science to business and how best to realise its potential. This
book is a must-read for both practitioners and academics interested
in applying the science of behaviour to real-world challenges.
"Tourse, Hamilton-Mason, and Wewiorski discuss major concepts that
help explicate the systemic nature of institutionalized racism in
the U.S. - with a focus on social construction, oppression,
scaffolding, and institutional web - providing insight into racist
thought and behavior that construct and mark people of color as 'a
problem.' [...] I highly recommend this book for those who are
engaged in working to combat domination and racism at the local,
national, and global levels." -Gary Bailey, DHL, MSW, ACSW,
Professor of Practice, Director of Urban Leadership Program,
Simmons College School of Social Work This important volume
provides a powerful overview of racism in the United States: what
it is, how it works, and the social, cultural, and institutional
structures that have evolved to keep it in place. It dissects the
rise of legalized discrimination against four major racial groups
(First Nations, Africans, Mexicans, and Chinese) and its
perpetuation as it affects these groups and new immigrants today.
The book's scaffolding framework-which takes in institutions from
the government to our educational systems-explains why racism
remains in place despite waves of social change. At the same time,
authors describe social justice responses being used to erode
racism in its most familiar forms, and at its roots. This timely
resource: Examines the sociology of discrimination as a constant in
daily life. Traces the history of the legalization of racism in the
United States. Locates key manifestations of racism in the American
psyche. Links racism to other forms of discrimination. Identifies
the interlocking components of institutionalized racism. Offers
contemporary examples of resistance to racism. A forceful synthesis
of history and social theory, Systemic Racism in the United States
is vital reading for practitioners and other professionals in
fields related to human rights, social policy, and psychology. And
as a classroom text, it challenges its readers to deepen their
understanding of both historical process and current developments.
In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts
present career-long collections of what they judge to be their
finest pieces-extracts from books, key articles, salient research
findings, and their major practical theoretical contributions.
Susan T. Fiske has an international reputation as an eminent
scholar and pioneer in the field of social cognition. Throughout
her distinguished career, she has investigated how people make
sense of other people, using shortcuts that reveal prejudices and
stereotypes. Her research in particular addresses how these biases
are encouraged or discouraged by social relationships, such as
cooperation, competition, and power. In 2013, she was elected to
the National Academy of Sciences, and, in 2011, to the British
Academy. She has also won several scientific honours, including the
Guggenheim Fellowship, the APA Distinguished Scientific
Contributions Award, the APS William James Fellow Award, as well as
the European Federation of Psychologists' Associations Wundt-James
Award and honorary degrees in Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, and
Switzerland. This collection of selected publications illustrates
the foundations of modern social cognition research and its
development in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century.
In a specially written introductory chapter, Fiske traces the key
advances in social cognition throughout her career, and so this
book will be invaluable reading for students and researchers in
social cognition, person perception, and intergroup bias.
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