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Global Perspectives On Resilience, Well-Being, And Mental Health In Schools, Families, And Communities: Cross Cultural, Transdisciplinary, And Multisystemic Interventions. Reflections And New Meaning

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 This book presents a global perspective on the topics of resilience and well-being as it relates to children and youths in different settings (such as schools, communities and families), underscoring the cardinal importance of culture, and designing resilience interventions in different contexts and countries around the world. The philosophy adopted by the editor is a multisystemic, cross-cultural and transdisciplinary approach in understanding the protective factors, and risk factors as well as the processes and mechanisms of resilience and well-being of all children in especially vulnerable populations. This book includes chapters from Europe, North and South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia, showcasing the empirical studies of eminent researchers and practitioners to promote the scholarship and practice of interventions focused on resilience - more specifically, research in countries such as Greece, Portugal, Latvia, US, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, India and Australia are presented. An interesting aspect of this book is the diverse approach in research methodology and theories about resilience and well-being. A significant concept of this book is its emphasis on a critical thinking mindset in processing all relevant literature on resilience and well-being, as well as in understanding which factors, mediating variables or mechanisms, may lead to successful resilience and well-being focused interventions with children and youth, as well with people who care about them (e.g. educators, parents). To conclude, this book offers a cutting-edge collection of scholarly writings focused on interventions in applied settings (e.g. schools, community centers families). A well-designed intervention is the bridge between theory and practice (praxis). In this book, new models (R2 model, BRiTE) and new prevention programs (e.g. RESCUR, Indian Resilience Intervention Program) are presented. With these new insights, the reader will be enriched in conceptualizing resilience and well-being from a global perspective.
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Philosophy Of Science For Psychology Students

by Eric Charles Prichard

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 Psychology and philosophy are interesting disciplines in their own right, and closer cousins than many of us often realize. In this book, psychology and philosophy are in dialogue as the author aims to engage readers with some significant questions from the philosophy of science that impact how psychology is currently practiced. The author has done so by dividing the book into seven chapters: Chapter 1 discusses the replication crisis and answers the question: is psychology even science? Chapter 2 discusses the influence of positivism on psychology, particularly regarding psychology''s use of operational definitions. Chapter 3 discusses the statistical revolution and its relationship to induction in science and psychology. Chapter 4 discusses the Kuhnian concept of scientific revolutions and asks whether psychology can be paradigmatic. Chapter 5 addresses whether or not it can properly be said there is one scientific method. Chapter 6 addresses questions about the future of psychology as a scientific discipline. Finally, Chapter 7 is an invited chapter by Dr. Jeanette Braswell about the relationship between spirituality and psychology. Dr. Braswell is a brilliant writer who takes a perspective different from the modal standpoint on psychology. In summation, the goal of the book is to raise several questions about the philosophy of science and its relevance to psychology.
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Sexual Offenders And Sexual Offending: A Comprehensive Analysis

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 This book provides an in-depth exploration of the complex nature of sexual violence. The volume challenges conventional sexual stereotypes and examines the theoretical foundations of intimate partner violence. It investigates how gender dynamics influence the perpetration and perception of sexual violence, addressing issues such as sexism, rape myths, and societal attitudes towards sex offenders. The book explores the origins of intimate partner violence, highlighting the impact of witnessing domestic violence as a common risk factor for both victims and perpetrators. The text covers often overlooked topics, including female sex offenders and the nuances of sexual abuse within dysfunctional relationships. It addresses modern challenges like online sexual abuse and grooming, providing insights into the evolving landscape of sexual offending. Emphasis is placed on the roles of victims and witnesses, underscoring the importance of competency and thorough investigative interviews. Special attention is given to the psychological assessment of presumed sexual abuse in minors, stressing the need for forensic tests for credibility assessment. The book tackles the prevention of child sexual abuse and childhood exposure to domestic violence, exploring the psychological impact of trauma on individuals'' communication skills and behavior. It reviews the disclosure process for male sexual assault victims and examines the factors influencing their decision to come forward. Treatment and recovery are central themes, with chapters on psychological treatments for child and adolescent sexual abuse, the recovery process in adolescence, and the psychoanalytic perspective on violence victims. The book also discusses the probation path for young offenders and introduces the INSIGHT program, aimed at reducing sexual violence through cognitive change and well-being. Overall, this comprehensive analysis offers a rich blend of research, theoretical perspectives, and practical interventions, providing invaluable insights for practitioners, researchers, and policy-makers dedicated to understanding and addressing sexual violence.
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Mental Pain: A Focus On Diagnoses And Treatments In Clinical Psychology And Psychiatry

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 This book is a curated compendium, uniting insightful contributions from the realms of psychiatry, psychotherapy, and psychopharmacology. Its primary focus is a detailed exploration of mental pain - a conceptual terrain often underexplored, yet profoundly impactful on the broader spectrum of mental well-being. At the outset, the book establishes mental pain as a fundamental construct, positioning it as a linchpin for an extensive and meticulous analysis of its relevance within prevalent mental health diagnoses. Diagnoses such as major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, personality disorders, and eating disorders are closely examined, seeking to describe the ways in which mental pain intersects with these conditions. The volume discusses its implications for the domains of suicidal and self-harm risks, underscoring the imperative for a nuanced comprehension of mental pain and evidence-based interventions, crucial for both adult and adolescent populations.As the book unfolds, it navigates the complex landscape of assessment and treatment methodologies with precision and depth. Contributors bring forth a discerning analysis of therapeutic approaches, weaving together established clinical paradigms with contemporary, evidence-based strategies. This book is aimed at equipping readers with the most current insights gleaned from evidence-based literature on mental pain. The intended audience encompasses clinicians seeking to confront this pervasive issue within their clinical practice and researchers driven to expand their understanding of the current knowledge.
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Spectrum Of Psychotherapies: An Integrative Overview Of Distinctive Characteristics And Common Elements

by Louis H. Falik

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 This book is a comprehensive overview of 12 approaches to psychotherapeutic practice, integrating the various approaches through the application of a conceptual model that provides a generic foundation linking all approaches. It is designed for graduate and professional training level survey courses in counseling and psychotherapy, comparing the approaches with regard to their theoretical foundations and therapeutic applications. Introductory chapters propose a generic social cognition model and relate it to functional components of the interpersonal interaction process based on Reuven Feuerstein’s theory of Structural Cognitive Modifiability that is proposed to underly all forms of psychotherapeutic interventions. Each chapter contains illustrative therapeutic responses consistent with the particular approach and integrative model, and organized to fit with semester or quarter hour survey courses. Each chapter has study questions for the reader as a guide for seminar discussion.
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Psychology Of Argumentation And Reasoning

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 The present book proposes a collection of different international scientific contributions coming from professionals and researchers working the topic of argumentation and reasoning in various fields of psychology and education. The interconnections of these scientific investigations provide, on the one hand, a perspective on reasoning as a social activity, and, on the other hand, contribute to contextualize the relationship with argumentation under the lenses of psychological studies. The volume offers the space for a dialogue among different scholars, to learn from their complementarity and enrich our understanding of argumentation and reasoning in psychology. The different chapters highlight how argumentation and reasoning are strictly context-dependent activities through the presentations of studies based on a plurality of methodologies and approaches dealing with different contexts and cultures. In the first section, a series of contributions present some relevant theoretical and empirical elements highlighting the pertinence of looking at argumentation and reasoning through different and complementary psychological perspectives. In the second section, a series of contributions dealing with educational and non-educational settings of activity are proposed through the analysis of situations of argumentation and reasoning with children and adults in various cultural and organizational contexts. All together, these contributions offer precious insights toward a more integrated view of the psychology of argumentation and reasoning, although similarities and differences remain fundamental in their essence.
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Psychology Of Mentalizing

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 This book aims to bring together recent research in the field of mentalizing. This mental capacity has been defined as the ability to keep the mind in mind, understanding overt behaviors in terms of their underlying emotional basis. The literature converges on the highlighted role of mentalizing in promoting healthy emotional development across the lifespan, emerging within the context of a secure parent-child attachment relationship. In other words, a parent can only understand the emotional world of their child through curiosity and questioning, providing a sense of safety and modeling for the child to be able to experiment and better make sense of their internal world, and thus themselves. This book starts off with a brief history of the development of the construct of mentalizing, from early psychoanalytic writing to its recent endorsement within the neuropsychoanalytic field. The focus then turns to the concept of epistemic trust and its crucial role in the development of mentalizing, whether as part of the parent-child and teacher-student relationships, or through more mature supervisory relationships. The book closes with two chapters focused on mentalizing across cultures, with a special focus on the Arab world and the role played by mentalizing in breaking the intergenerational transmission of war trauma. The authors of the various chapters are mentalizing specialists and have extensive experience working on the clinical applications and research development of this construct.
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Guide To Clinical Psychology: Therapies

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 The field of clinical psychology has shown explosive growth and today is the single largest subfield of psychologists. "A Guide to Clinical Psychology: Therapies" is a concise and up-to-date introduction to the various therapies in the field of clinical psychology and their applications in some disorders and some settings. It covers the history, theories, methods, and applications of clinical psychology in a balanced and engaging way. This book provides an overview of the main topics and issues in clinical psychology, such as assessment, diagnosis, intervention, and research. The book is written by leading experts in the field and includes case studies and examples to enhance learning and understanding. This book also describes how clinical psychologists conduct evidence-based treatments for common disorders. This book also discusses how clinical psychologists work with diverse populations, such as children, older adults, and women. This compilation includes contributions of mental health professionals working in diverse areas related to clinical psychology. Topics include approaches to counseling, the psychological counselling process, mindfulness, emotional intelligence, stress management, existentialism, positive psychotherapy, metacognitive therapy, transactional analysis, family therapy, memory disorders, efficacy of cognitive rehabilitation, psychosocial management of cognitive changes in old age, mindfulness based cognitive therapy, dialectical behaviour therapy, alcohol dependence, internet addiction, cyber fraud, impact of social media, obsessive compulsive disorder, autism spectrum disorder, postpartum psychosis, psychological management in general hospital setups, and Indian approaches to management of mental illness. "A Guide to Clinical Psychology: Therapies" is an essential resource for students, instructors, and practitioners who want to learn more about the science and practice of clinical psychology.
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Psychology And Risk Prevention: Current Research

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 This book covers several aspects of current research in the fields of social psychology, cognitive psychology, and the psychology of education on the topic of risk prevention. The research carried out by French, Spanish, and Canadian academics comprises various fields such as the prevention of road accidents, prevention in workplaces, prevention of sexism and racism, prevention of school failure, and prevention of adverse effects on health. The objective of this book is to highlight the contributions of major fields in the psychology of risk prevention from a perspective of understanding and targeting interventions: to raise awareness or change high-risk behaviors.
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Eating People: Understanding Cannibalism

by David Lester

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 Eating People: Understanding Cannibalism by David Lester reviews current knowledge about cannibalism. The book details examples of cannibalism in order for groups to survive after shipwrecks and airplane crashes, and in times of famine during wars. Examples of cannibalism during World War Two and in the German concentration camps is presented. Lester described his recent research on efforts to provide empirical data for a typology of cannibals and on serial murderers who have engaged in cannibalism of their victims. Other topics include: cannibalism in ancient mythology, cannibalism in animals, body parts used for medicinal purposes, and modern fads such as drinking urine and eating the placenta after childbirth. Lester also reviews current debates about cannibalism such as whether primitive societies ever incorporated cannibalism as a cultural custom in their societies and whether anthropological reports of cannibalism in these societies can be believed since anthropologists have never witnessed cannibalism. Arguments that children like cannibal fairy stories because those stories satisfy their unconscious desires are criticized, and the onus placed on their parents who choose to read such stories. Finally, cannibalism in the culture with the best documentation of cannibalism over the last 2,000 years (China) is detailed, and this provides evidence for different types of cannibalism including survival cannibalism and revenge cannibalism.
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Narratives: The Focus Of 21st Century Psychology

by T. L. Brink

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 Humans are emotional beings who feel deeply, reason occasionally, and narrate constantly. Narratives are the stories we tell ourselves to help us understand what we are feeling, thinking, and doing. Narratives help us remember the past, interpret the present, and prepare for the future. Narratives justify ourselves, to ourselves and to others. Narratives can motivate our successes, or be used to excuse our failures. To change our lives, we must change our narratives. This book should not be regarded as a rejection of traditional religion, classical philosophy, psychoanalysis, behaviorism, humanistic psychology, or cognitive science. These are the milestones of humanity''s attempts to understand human nature. We accept these as the building blocks for a more complete formulation. The first chapter explains what narratives are, and why all narratives are not equal (and some are even dead ends). The second chapter focuses on the most important thing in the study of humans (their values) and why we must distinguish between the ultimate, the utilitarian, and the ulterior dimensions of relevance. The third chapter reviews the role of religious narratives in understanding those values (historically, and in the present; in society, and in individuals). The fourth chapter considers classical philosophy, especially logic, and how this contributes to narratives (but cannot always save us from the dead-end narratives of conspiracy theory and determinism). The fifth chapter charts the historical development of psychology as a science (from mind, to behavior, to mental processes, to narrative and willpower). The sixth chapter looks at the lifespan, and how narratives develop as we confront the challenges posed by our changing relationships. The seventh chapter goes into greater depth on the interacting roles of adulthood: spousal, parent, career, consumer. The last chapter emphasizes the need for resilience and transformation in order to flourish and find flow in those roles.
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Looking For A Perfect World: Empirical And Applied Lines

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 The vision of perfectionism as a multidimensional variable has gained weight in scientific evidence as social functioning sets more rigorous performance standards of an individual or group differentiation in any field (e.g., academic, sports, work, social, religious...). There is a need to establish how we achieve the goals we set ourselves in any field of action, thanks mainly to the creation of valid and reliable instruments to measure it. In today's societies, there is an increasing emphasis on how to respond to the demands of the environment as quickly as possible, being effective and achieving the best results. The demands of the environment make it possible to stimulate contextually (if they are seen as traits) and to construct perfectionist patterns and attitudes (if they are understood as learned cognitions or behaviors), which are usually associated with agonizing feelings of devaluation, incapacity or psychological vulnerability. Perfectionists are characterized by setting their goals too high as they are always on a quest to do things perfectly. In cases where they cannot do something perfectly, they do not even try, or they live with significant suffering that floods their lives, causing feelings of dissatisfaction and affecting their self-esteem, mainly because their attention is reduced to focusing only on the end of the tasks they perform, leaving the development of the task in the background. People who seek to do things perfectly are rigid when it comes to carrying them out, causing difficulty in adapting to changes, and preventing them from enjoying the present moment or taking advantage of their mistakes to improve themselves. In the same way, we can say that they reject reality, or at least they are reluctant to experience it in a way that is very different from the way they shape it. It is impossible to make everything perfect, as all people make mistakes, but perfectionists conceive failure as an expression of their maladjustment and for this reason, they generate high levels of anxiety, becoming people who try to control everything around them.
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Autism Spectrum Disorder: Symptoms, Diagnosis And Types Of Treatment

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 While this book is not intended to serve as a how-to manual for providing assessment and intervention for individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), it should serve as an informational source and guide of evidence-based practice. The first six chapters of this text discuss assessment, including common characteristics and presentations of an ASD diagnosis (Chapter 1), common co-occurring conditions (Chapter 2), factors associated with ASD (Chapter 3), evidence-based assessment in clinical settings (Chapter 4), and best practices for assessment in school settings (Chapter 5). The second part of this book focuses on various forms of intervention, including behavioral intervention with an emphasis on applied behavioral analysis (Chapter 6), an overview of treatments for core symptoms of ASD (Chapter 7), the use of cognitive behavioral therapy for autistic individuals (Chapter 8), treatment for severe maladaptive behaviors including feeding difficulties and aggression (Chapter 9), school-based modifications and interventions (Chapter 10), and pharmacological interventions (Chapter 11). Since ASD is a diagnosis usually given in childhood and early intervention is important, the majority of the content in this book is focused on and comes from research from children. However, several chapters allude to research based on autistic adults, and Chapter 12 focuses on important considerations when providing intervention to adolescents and young adults.
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Influences And Importance Of Self-Awareness, Self-Evaluation And Self-Esteem

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 Self-esteem forms a critical component of mental health, as an absence of self-esteem is associated with mental disorders like depression. As such, understanding the nature and meaning of self-esteem and related phenomena like self-perception is essential for treatment of a variety of mental illnesses. Chapter One utilizes terror management theory to explain what self-esteem is, how the need for self-esteem develops, how people attain and maintain self-esteem, and why self-esteem is so important for psychological well-being. Chapter Two demonstrates how self-esteem is the fundamental mental attitude that provides the qualities necessary to perform democracy and reject authoritarian threats. Chapter Three deals with the definition of self-awareness, the description of the neural substrates that have been associated with it, and the examination of an interpretive neuroanatomical model of the phenomenon, with a focus on neurological and neuropsychological diseases. Chapter Four advocates a culture of self-evaluation as part of academic and professional culture through critical reflection on teaching and the results of one's own work. Chapter Five analyzes self-concept as a predictor of the academic self-efficacy perceived by adolescents. Lastly, Chapter Six studies the relationship between testosterone levels and self-esteem in school-age boys and girls.
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Psychodrama: Advances In Psychotherapy And Psychoeducational Interventions

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 It has been 100 years since the creation of psychodrama. This book aims to increase the evidence of psychodrama as a theoretical and practical model for its application in psychotherapy and in psychoeducational and social interventions. It is based on the international increase of scientific contributions about psychodrama in the past few years as a model of intervention with informed evidence. This book compiles different psychodramatic treatments for intervening in a wide diversity of profiles and settings: treatment of PTSD, adolescents with problem behavior, families, gender-based violence and prisons. Additionally, this book proposes several current techniques to be used in the psychotherapeutic and psychoeducational context: psychodramatic images, intermediary objects, masks and various role-playing methods. In short, this book is a tool of special interest for researchers in psychodrama, psychotherapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, social educators and social workers. The reader can learn and enjoy the current contributions in psychodrama through the integration of research, theory and professional practice.
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Power Of Peer Providers In Mental Health Services

by Patrick W. Corrigan

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 People with lived experience of mental illness and recovery are joining leagues of skilled providers who offer services to meet the needs of people with serious psychiatric disorders. The emergence of peer power rides the crest of insights that appeared over the past 50 years related to hope, recovery, and self-determination. Key to these insights is support: coaches, navigators, mentors, and care coordinators who are in the field, addressing the person’s goals, and barriers to goals, as they emerge. Peers can clearly learn the interpersonal and instrumental skills of support. In fact, their learned experience may give them special skills and insight into this supportiveness. This book is a deep review into both the conceptual and empirical elements of peer support services.
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Understanding Emotional Intelligence

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 This book looks at the topic of emotional intelligence from a variety of perspectives, including adolescence, bullying, intimate relationships, and more. Chapter One describes the origin of the concept of emotional intelligence, the change and evolution of emotional intelligence throughout childhood and adolescence, and reviews published findings on the relationship of emotional intelligence with socio-emotional adjustment and bullying behavior. Chapter Two analyzes the role that emotional intelligence might play in establishing effective, stable, healthy, and happy intimate relationships. The third chapter provides a synthesized historical overview of the notion of emotions and the nature of their relationship to the rational mind and analyzes how concepts of "rational" and "emotional" can co-exist. Following this, the fourth chapter explores how the research area of emotional intelligence can be leveraged to prevent bullying victimization and peer aggression. Chapter Five deals with the practical implications of emotional intelligence for work and health. Chapter Six details how levels of physical activity correlate with emotional intelligence in adolescents. Lastly, the final chapter addresses the question of whether self-compassion can predict future anxiety and depression.
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Traffic Psychology: An International Perspective

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 Driving is a dynamic life event that can impact immediate and long term physical, social, emotional and psychological well-being. This book discusses research from a broad spectrum of traffic psychology professionals from around the globe, with particular emphasis placed on topics with international impact.
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Hermeneutics And Discourse Analysis In Social Psychology

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 Today it is accepted that philosophical hermeneutics has become an important research paradigm within the social sciences, including social psychology. This interpretive turn seems preferable for the studies of moral belief systems, worldviews, and legal systems as compared to the positive behavioral approach. It soon became clear that one of the consequences of the H-D paradigm is the discursive approach, especially as it relates to the attainment of a rational consensus among a group of peers. The desire for a rational consensus is based on the understanding that only discursively achieved agreements can prevent the use of force. This new book examines hermeneutics and the use of discourse in general in social interactions.
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Body Image And Obese Identity In Bariatric Patients: Psychological Factors And Clinical Management

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 Obesity is a chronic medical disorder which derives from complex interactions of genetic, environmental, neuroendocrinological, psychosocial and behavioural factors. In recent years, the number of cases of obesity has exponentially increased, with approximately 600 million people worldwide currently classified as obese. Bariatric surgery has become one of the main methods of weight loss, being associated with higher long-term weight loss in comparison to conventional treatments, as well as lower risk of disease and a reduction of general mortality. However, obesity has also emotional costs: many candidates for bariatric surgery suffer from mental health disorders, in particular depression and binge eating disorders. These disorders are strictly connected to self-representation and body image, which are both complementary to identity. Body image as a multidimensional construct encompasses perceptions about body size, emotions, and cognition about physical appearance as well as attitudes to control body shape. In many cases, post-obese people are still not satisfied with their physical appearance and frequently request further plastic surgery intervention. These results suggest that obese identity remains unchanged after surgery, and that overweight people have difficulties in building a new mental representation as thin, and not as ex-obese. The aim of this book is to describe the role of body image and obese identity in bariatric patients, and discuss how to treat these patients from a psychological point of view.
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Psychotherapy: Perspectives, Strategies And Challenges

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 Psychotherapy: Perspectives, Strategies and Challenges first discusses the biological components of psychotherapy from the perspective of mechanisms of learning, readaptation, and possible mechanisms of neurogenesis. Following this, the authors highlight recognizable stages of growing from a novice therapist into a seasoned clinician. The nuances of the psychotherapeutic process of dynamic psychotherapy are explored, analyzing the role of patients’ timing in reaching treatment goals, time as a therapist''s tool to provide specific interventions and time as a continuous process of the patient''s growth, which does not stop with the end of therapy. Previous reports showing the ameliorating effects of religious interventions on infectious diseases are reviewed, and possible underlying mechanisms are suggested. This compilation also reviews the major historical psychoanalytic approaches to psychotherapy that address political issues. Insights from the discipline of psychology on shame and its relation to aggression are presented in the context of domestic violence and political structures from a critical and feminist standpoint. The relevance of psychotherapeutic interventions for female breast cancer patients is explored, using accounts that provide crucial information about the psychological experience of the disease. Additionally, successful psychotherapy for depressive adolescents with suicide attempts is studied in a hospital context. The effectiveness of psychotherapy and intervention programs conducted with mothers and their children is assessed in an effort to inform families to seek effective treatments and researchers to advance their intervention methods and techniques, which contribute to the healthy development of society. In closing, it is argued that politically sensitive or socially responsible approaches are bound to play a major role in the renewal of psychotherapy.
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Socio-Economic And Demographic Analysis Of Mental Wellbeing: The Indian Case

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 A Socio-Economic and Demographic Analysis of Mental Wellbeing: The Indian Case takes a multidisciplinary look at the mental health problem in India with contributions from psychologists, economists and a psychiatrist. Such a novel multidimensional view is necessary as the mitigation of the problem requires the design of appropriate institutional frameworks for medical treatment and counselling based on cost-benefit analysis; an appreciation of the socio-economic triggers of mental illness and how these can be neutralized through policy; and the identification of vulnerable groups as well as important mechanisms through which these groups can protect themselves from mental illness. This book will serve as a catalyst for the further use of interdisciplinarity in tackling the mental health problem in India and other developing countries: while psychologists and psychiatrists can develop appropriate institutional strategies for dealing with mental health problems, the economist plays an important role in measuring the costs and benefits associated with alternative strategies and in optimizing choice. The significance of this book can be attributed to the fact that one of every six people in the world live in India: any notable success in reducing the incidences of mental illness and deficient mental wellbeing in this country will lighten the socio-economic burden on the world by a significant amount. The Indian story, with its successes and failures, can also be an important guide for policy in other developing countries. This book is accessible to any interested person (a layperson, policy maker or an academic) in any part of the world. At the same time, the arguments and conclusions are derived with enough rigour to satisfy the most demanding reader.
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Double Moon Drawing: An Instrument For Intervention And Research In Structurally Complex Family Situations

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 The book presents a graphic projective tool, The Double Moon Drawing (DMD), that can be used with families in research and clinical settings. This book is an extension of Ondina Greco’s original work (1999) "La Doppia Luna. Test dei confini e delle appartenenze familiari" [The Double Moon. Assessing family boundaries and belonging], Vita e Pensiero, Milano. The DMD examines family boundaries in structurally complex family situations. In these situations, a dialectic relationship exists between the present and the distant elements. DMD offers the opportunity to graphically represent crucial aspects of the inner representation of the family situation which are unlikely to emerge at the verbal level. The subject often feels emotionally connected to significant people who are not present in the "here and now". The tool makes explicit a "double axis" of representation: the axis of the persons and elements that are present in everyday life and the axis of lost or distant elements which nonetheless remain present psychically. Observing the subjects’ representations of boundaries and family belonging in both axes is crucial from a clinical point of view. DMD is specifically designed to address the theme of "who is absent" and illustrates the ways in which the subject deals with the loss or distancing of emotionally significant elements. The theoretical assumptions of DMD combined with 20 years of experience in its clinical use and application to qualitative research have led to the construction of a theoretical-methodological "Biaxial model". This model offers a space-related metaphor that makes explicit both a theoretical hypothesis about structurally complex family situations and a methodological way to read the verbal and graphic indicators noted during clinical or research interviews with the subject. The number of complex family situations is significantly increasing nowadays. There are blended families due to rising divorce rates; more medically assisted procreation families, gay/lesbian families; single mother families, etc., so the DMD tool will be increasingly useful both for clinical work and research in the future. New developments about the use of DMD are represented on one side by a quantitative reading of the drawing, to connect the qualitative analysis of the data of the DMD to a quantitative analysis, in order to have a more informative and reliable picture of family relationships. Psychometric properties of a new scale are assessed and correlations between DMD scores and family boundary ambiguity in a group of adolescents from separated families are calculated to assess the construct validity. It is fascinating to observe how the symbolic level of analysis of the DMD can be integrated with the analysis of the interactive patterns between participants. Stemming from the pragmatic approach to human communication typical of the systemic approach, this level of analysis can contribute to a deeper understanding of the emotional and relational dynamics of the couples and families when they are dealing with the task represented by the drawing. The presentation of numerous clinical examples enriches the work, showing the ductility of DMD, which can be used with subjects of different cultures.
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Comprehensive Thematic Abbreviation Dictionary In Psychology And Its Relevant Sciences

by Shahriar Abbassi

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 This manuscript includes all generally used and professional abbreviations and acronyms in Psychology and its branches like Analytical, Clinical, Cognitive, Educational, Emotional, Family, Forensic, General, Human, Individual, Industrial, Sexual, Social, and Sports Psychology and also its related fields of science and practice, for example : Addiction, Behavioral Science, Counseling, Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Hypnosis, Neurology, Neuroscience, Social Work, Psychosomatic Medicine, Mental Health & Hygiene, Sociology and Parapsychology. Geographical Considerations - relevant abbreviations in other European languages and Psychology Abbreviations usually used in English- Speaking Countries - have been added too. It is an extensive Abbreviation Dictionary with thematic classification of about 400 Entries (Chapters). The book also includes an additional section titled "Concise List of Psychology Terms" (Psychological Terminology) at the end of it. The main remarkable and probably innovative specifications of the book are as follows: 1. Comprehensiveness, Breadth and Variety of Content; 2. Thematic Classification (based on subjects); 3. Entries (Chapters) in other European Languages and Countries.
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