Behavioural Couples Therapy (BCT) is designed for married individuals seeking help for alcoholism or drug abuse. BCT sees the substance-abusing patient together with the spouse. Its purposes are to build support for abstinence and to improve relationship functioning. Behavioural Couples Therapy promotes abstinence with a Recovery Contract. It involves both members of the couple in a daily ritual to reward abistinance. Behavioural Couples Therapy improves relationship with techniques for increasing positive activities and improving communication. Behavioural Couples Therapy has three primary objectives namely a) To eliminate abusive drinking and drug abuse, b)To engage the family's support for the patient's efforts to change, c) To change couple and family interaction patterns conducive to long-term, stable abstinence and a stable relationship. It focuses on the four promises or commitments. Trust Discussion and Recovery Contract, Catch the Partner Doing Something Nice as well as Assigning Practices. There are necessary Shared Rewarding Activities and Caring Day Relationship Agreements that need to be followed in order to get a complete recovery from the substance abuse completely.

SUMMARY TO COVER PAGE Taxonomic studies using morphology, anatomy, and shell characteristics have revealed clearly that the taxonomic position of Pinctada fucata Gould is in the family Pteriidae. The distribution is mainly in the coralline patches of the coasts and the two Oceanic Islands of India. Gross productivity was correlated with the season and salinity. Seasonal and depth wise pattern and shade also had an effect on the settlement of barnacles and mortality of pearl oysters .The treatment mixed algae with raw rice flour given maturing oysters 62 percentage in lab conditions on day 29 itself . Matured stage III 43 percentage pearl oysters fed with mixed algae and without feeding changed to stage V. The larval life cycle was 20 to 25 days in Phase I. In the Phase II 23 to 60 day old spat, Phase III 60 to 2 years, and the growth rates were observed as 120 um and 64 um per day. The graft tissue deposited nacreous coating on the nucleus within 18 days on a 4 mm wax nucleus .The nacreous pearl sac formed on the shell bead nucleus which had produced good and lustrous pearls. The inner epithelial cells with mucous cells produced abnormal sac and D quality pearl ."

Job Satisfaction is the Psychological disposition of people toward their work and this involves a collection of numerous attitudes or feelings. It involves a delineation of those factors that an employee perceives to either foster a positive attitude towards work or a negative attitude to work. Research devoted solely to the study of medical professionals and their job satisfaction is very scarce and the study of job satisfaction in relation to emotional competency, personality, organizational health, spousal support, job characteristics and daily hassles of medical professionals namely Doctors, Social Workers, Nurses and Physiotherapists are very scarce. Highest levels of Job Security were experienced by Doctors and high levels of Self Awareness have been reported amongst Nurses and Physiotherapists. Social Workers had the highest levels of Self Management. These professionals have the highest service orientation and their jobs aim towards helping the challenged lot of the society. Hence, they tend to be duty conscious when compared to all other group of professionals.

Personality of an individual is considered to be the intriguing factor for one's success in life. Success in all endeavours is considered to be the hall mark of achievers. All of us strive to be successful in life, some achieve success on their own and others need to be helped to achieve success. Personality Development will increase Self-esteem, Memory, modify Leadership, help set clear Goals, be more Assertive, Creative, Motivated, and will be able to Manage Stress effectively. It was found to be quite a challenge to help develop Personality among Youths in Colleges. Therefore the Personality Development Module involves both Lectures and Training Methods was evolved and tried out among the students proved to be fruitful. This module will be most helpful to those college teachers who teach subjects other than Psychology and find it difficult to inculcate Personality Development among the students. Further this book will be handy to help, who wish to be Trainers especially for those with a Psychological base may be able to inculcate a wonderful modification into individuals thus resulting in the Personality Development of the target groups.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is all about Cognition, Communication and Change. It also focuses on Self-Awareness, Attitude, Personality Development and Psychology. Learners and Professional Educators can apply these tools to virtually any aspect of Learning and Teaching; Self-Management, Presentation Skills, use of Language for precise Communication, Study Skills, Classroom Management, Teaching Design, Business Marketing, Sports and so on. NLP is the practical discipline which trains a person, to best exercise the Emotional Intelligence in order to achieve and reproduce excellence in all contexts. It is a balanced perspective and contains extremely influential techniques. One can get innovative ideas regarding the combination of Effective NLP techniques that has been used widely to enhance student's Emotional Intelligence and achieve various benefits. As there are plenty of techniques available in NLP the reader can understand the scientific methods which enable to apply based on need of the target group.

A systematic approach of seismic microzonation is explained in this book. A case study conducted is described with results and discussion. In the present study, seismic hazard analysis of political capital city of Kerala, south India is carried out using deterministic approach. Using the vulnerable source ground motion is simulated by stochastic finite fault simulation method. The ground motion is simulated at rock level for 100 sites within the study area. Using the Geographic Information System (GIS) software the rock level acceleration is mapped for study area. The influence of local soil condition on ground motion is studied by one- dimensional ground response analysis. The results obtained from seismic hazard analysis and ground response analysis at 100 locations of the study area is used to prepare the microzonation maps of the city in GIS environment.