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The health sector is known to be one of the major contributors
towards the greenhouse gas emissions causing the climate crisis,
the greatest health threat of the 21st century. This volume
positions the health sector as a leader in the fight against
climate change and explores the role of the health system in
climate policy action. It delivers an overview of the linkages
between climate change and the health sector, with chapters on the
impact of climate change on health, its connection to pandemics,
and its effects on food, nutrition and air quality, while examining
gendered and other vulnerabilities. It delves into the different
operational aspects of the health sector in India and details how
each one can become climate-smart to reduce the health sector’s
overall carbon footprint, by looking at sustainable procurement,
green and resilient healthcare infrastructure, and the management
of transportation, energy, water, waste, chemicals, pharmaceuticals
and plastics in healthcare. Well supplemented with rigorous case
studies, the book will be indispensable for students, teachers, and
researchers of environmental studies, health sciences and climate
change. It will be useful for healthcare workers, public health
officials, healthcare leaders, policy planners and those interested
in climate resilience and preparedness in the health sector. The
Open Access version of this book, available at
http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0
license.
First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
Stella Chess and Alexander Thomas' new book illuminates one of the most significant theoretical and practical implications in professional publications on temperament today: the concept of goodness of fit. When individuals achieve accordance with the properties and expectations of their respective environments, they have attained goodness of fit, which ultimately enables their psychological growth and health. They can function on a healthy level with a potential for a positive life course. Beginning with a clear definition and explanation of the concept of goodness of fit, the book goes on to delineate the evolution of the goodness of fit concept, its clinical applications, and the biopsychosocial elements relevant to the goodness of fit model. The authors provide insightful step-by-step commentaries on individual case histories that concern such problems. Each case is unique and intriguing, and is reviewed by the authors in a compelling manner. As is appropriate to their research, they have wisely taken into account a wide variety of environmental expectations and demands-parental and other caregivers' child practices and goals, peer group judgments, special community values, as well as cultural and ethnic diversity. They also address possible educational rules and expectations, career stresses, sexual issues and marital conflicts. In the past, clinical applications of the concept of goodness of fit have been restricted to a modest number of community parent guidance temperament programs and have not received their due attention. In their recent work, however, Chess and Thomas, long-standing psychiatrists with forty years of clinical experience, step outside past boundaries and explore a panoply of clinical cases, including all age-periods, ranging from infancy to adulthood. Using the clinical data obtained from numerous case histories, the authors develop an insightful clinical system from which researchers and clinicians of mental health professionals, pediatricians and educators alike can benefit. Goodness of Fit: Clinical Applications, From Infancy through Adult Life aims to answer the question of how to create a healthy consonance between individuals and their environments in order to achieve optimal development, and will undoubtedly enhance both our understanding of psychological development and personality maturation as well as the clinical methods used to analyze them.
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The health sector is known to be one of the major contributors
towards the greenhouse gas emissions causing the climate crisis,
the greatest health threat of the 21st century. This volume
positions the health sector as a leader in the fight against
climate change and explores the role of the health system in
climate policy action. It delivers an overview of the linkages
between climate change and the health sector, with chapters on the
impact of climate change on health, its connection to pandemics,
and its effects on food, nutrition and air quality, while examining
gendered and other vulnerabilities. It delves into the different
operational aspects of the health sector in India and details how
each one can become climate-smart to reduce the health sector's
overall carbon footprint, by looking at sustainable procurement,
green and resilient healthcare infrastructure, and the management
of transportation, energy, water, waste, chemicals, pharmaceuticals
and plastics in healthcare. Well supplemented with rigorous case
studies, the book will be indispensable for students, teachers, and
researchers of environmental studies, health sciences and climate
change. It will be useful for healthcare workers, public health
officials, healthcare leaders, policy planners and those interested
in climate resilience and preparedness in the health sector. The
Open Access version of this book, available at
http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0
license.
First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
In 1956 Stella Chess and Alexander Thomas launched the pioneering
New York Longitudinal Study, a systematic investigation into the
concept of temperament that has been pursued to the present decade.
The findings from this study - that temperamental profiles of
infants, children, adolescents, and adults show specific individual
behavioral characteristics - are accepted as basic to the
psychological mechanism of behavioral functioning. Now, these two
preeminent authorities and teaches in the field of child and
adolescent psychiatry present an essential introduction to their
internationally recognized work. This volume takes the reader from
concept - including the definition of temperament and the studies
that support and expand upon that definition - to specific
explorations of temperament and its impact across various practice
settings and special populations.
Cities, Change, and Conflict was one of the first texts to embrace
the perspective of political economy as its main explanatory
framework, and then complement it with the rich contributions found
in the human ecology perspective. Although its primary focus is on
North American cities, the book contains several chapters on cities
in other parts of the world, including Europe and developing
nations, providing both historical and contemporary accounts on the
impact of globalization on urban development. This edition features
new coverage of important recent developments affecting urban life,
including the implications of racial conflict in Ferguson, Missouri
, and elsewhere, recent presidential urban strategies, the new
waves of European refugees, the long-term impacts of the Great
Recession as seen through the lens of Detroit's bankruptcy, new and
emerging inequalities, and an extended look into Sampson's Great
American City. Beyond examining the dynamics that shape the form
and functionality of cities, the text surveys the experience of
urban life among different social groups, including immigrants,
African Americans,women, and members of different social classes.
It illuminates the workings of the urban economy, local and federal
governments, and the criminal justice system, and also addresses
policy debates and decisions that affect almost every aspect of
urbanization and urban life.
Contents: Part I: Basic Concepts of Theory and Practice of Temperament. Our Initial Concept of Temperament. Our Initial Hypothesis. Our First Research Effort: From Failure to Success. We Launched the New York Longitudinal Study. Analysis of Data and the Definition and Rating of Temperament Definition and Rating of Temperament and Categories. The Clinical Interview for Temperament. The Concept of Goodness and Fit. Parent Guidance. Part II: New Applications to the Theory and Practice of Temperament. The Rapid Expansion of Temperament Theory and Practice Since 1970. Parent and Child Education About Temperament. Prevention and Early Intervention in Temperament Programs. The Kaiser Permanente Temperament Program. A New Mental Health Profession: The Temperament Counselor. Temperament and School Functioning. Temperament and Pediatric Practice. Temperament and Nursing. Temperament and Psychotherapy of Children. Temperament and Psychotherapy of Adolescents. Temperament and Psychotherapy of Adults. Temperament and the Handicapped Child. Temperament and Culture. Temperament in Consistency and Change. A Look to the Future.
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
A selection of the year's outstanding contributions to the
understanding and treatment of the normal and disturbed child.
This thesis demonstrates that an ultralow temperature refrigeration
technique called "demagnetisation refrigeration" can be
miniaturised and incorporated onto millimeter-sized chips to cool
nanoelectronic circuits, devices and materials. Until recently, the
lowest temperature ever reached in such systems was around 4
millikelvin. Here, a temperature of 1.2mK is reported in a
nanoelectronic device. The thesis introduces the idea that on-chip
demagnetization refrigeration can be used to cool a wide variety of
nanostructures and devices to microkelvin temperatures. This brings
the exciting possibility of discovering new physics, such as exotic
electronic phases, in an unexplored regime and the potential to
improve the performance of existing applications, including
solid-state quantum technologies. Since the first demonstration of
on-chip demagnetization refrigeration, described here, the
technique has been taken up by other research groups around the
world. The lowest on-chip temperature is currently 0.4mK. Work is
now underway to adapt the technique to cool other materials and
devices, ultimately leading to a platform to study nanoscale
materials, devices and circuits at microkelvin temperatures.
This thesis demonstrates that an ultralow temperature refrigeration
technique called "demagnetisation refrigeration" can be
miniaturised and incorporated onto millimeter-sized chips to cool
nanoelectronic circuits, devices and materials. Until recently, the
lowest temperature ever reached in such systems was around 4
millikelvin. Here, a temperature of 1.2mK is reported in a
nanoelectronic device. The thesis introduces the idea that on-chip
demagnetization refrigeration can be used to cool a wide variety of
nanostructures and devices to microkelvin temperatures. This brings
the exciting possibility of discovering new physics, such as exotic
electronic phases, in an unexplored regime and the potential to
improve the performance of existing applications, including
solid-state quantum technologies. Since the first demonstration of
on-chip demagnetization refrigeration, described here, the
technique has been taken up by other research groups around the
world. The lowest on-chip temperature is currently 0.4mK. Work is
now underway to adapt the technique to cool other materials and
devices, ultimately leading to a platform to study nanoscale
materials, devices and circuits at microkelvin temperatures.
Cities, Change, and Conflict was one of the first texts to embrace
the perspective of political economy as its main explanatory
framework, and then complement it with the rich contributions found
in the human ecology perspective. Although its primary focus is on
North American cities, the book contains several chapters on cities
in other parts of the world, including Europe and developing
nations, providing both historical and contemporary accounts on the
impact of globalization on urban development. This edition features
new coverage of important recent developments affecting urban life,
including the implications of racial conflict in Ferguson, Missouri
, and elsewhere, recent presidential urban strategies, the new
waves of European refugees, the long-term impacts of the Great
Recession as seen through the lens of Detroit's bankruptcy, new and
emerging inequalities, and an extended look into Sampson's Great
American City. Beyond examining the dynamics that shape the form
and functionality of cities, the text surveys the experience of
urban life among different social groups, including immigrants,
African Americans,women, and members of different social classes.
It illuminates the workings of the urban economy, local and federal
governments, and the criminal justice system, and also addresses
policy debates and decisions that affect almost every aspect of
urbanization and urban life.
Culture and diversity are both challenge and opportunity. This
volumelooks at what psychologists are and can be doing to help
society meetthe challenges and grasp the opportunities in
education, at work, andin clinical practice. The increasingly
international and globalized natureof modern societies means that
psychologists in particular facenew challenges and have new
opportunities in all areas of practiceand research.The
contributions from leading European experts cover relevant
interculturalissues and topics in areas as diverse as personality,
educationand training, work and organizational psychology, clinical
and counsellingpsychlogy, migration, and international youth
exchanges.As well as looking at the new challenges and
opportunities that psychologistsface in dealing with people from
increasingly varied culturalbackgrounds, perhaps more importantly
they also explain and discusshow psychologists can deepen and
acquire the intercultural competenciesthat are now needed in our
professional lives.
Dieses essential zeigt praxisnah, wie eine gelungene Unterstutzung
von Fluchtlingen und Migranten bei deren Bewaltigung der
integrationsbedingten Anforderungen in eine fur sie neue und
unbekannte Kultur und Gesellschaft geleistet werden kann. Es werden
die Herausforderungen auf Seiten der Fluchtlinge und Migranten
einerseits, und der aufnehmenden Gesellschaft andererseits sowie
der Fachkrafte, Helfer und Unterstutzer in der Fluchtlings- und
Migrantenarbeit aus psychologischer Sicht behandelt.
Hilfestellungen zur Bewaltigung dieser Herausforderungen werden
prasentiert und analysiert, verbunden mit Hinweisen zur Entwicklung
entsprechender interkultureller Kompetenzen.
Dieses essential bietet einen Zugang zur interkulturellen Thematik
fur Techniker und Ingenieure anhand von Fallbeispielen aus der
Praxis deutscher Fach- und Fuhrungskrafte im Auslandseinsatz. Es
werden die wichtigsten Komponenten interkultureller
Handlungskompetenz benannt und naher analysiert. Zudem werden
Methoden beschrieben, mit denen es gelingt, unterschiedliche
kulturelle Einflussfaktoren fruhzeitig zu erkennen und entsprechend
zu bearbeiten. Der erfahrene Autor Alexander Thomas sensibilisiert
fur kulturell bedingte Problemlagen und zeigt Wege auf, wie eine
eigenstandige Entwicklung interkultureller Handlungskompetenz
gelingen kann.
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