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The Owl at the Window: A memoir of loss and hope
by Carl GorhamWinner of Best Memoir at the East Anglian Book Awards'She is dead. She was here just now and she was alive. How can she suddenly be dead? People in history are dead. Old people are dead. Grandparents are dead. Other people are dead. Not people like me. Not this person. The person I was married to. Had a child with. Not the person who was standing next to me. Chatting. Laughing. Being.' Shock is just one of many emotions explored in award-winning TV comedy writer Carl Gorham's account of his bereavement which is by turns deeply moving and darkly humorous.Part love story, part widower's diary, part tales of single parenting, it tells of his wife's cancer, her premature death and his attempts to rebuild his life afterwards with his six -year old daughter. Realised in a series of vivid snapshots, it takes the reader on an extraordinary journey from Oxford to Australia, from Norfolk to Hong Kong through fear, despair, pain and anger to hope, laughter and renewal.The Owl at the Window is a fresh and original exploration of what it means to lose a partner in your forties, and how Carl learned to live again.(P)2017 Hodder & Stoughton
The Owner's Manual for the Brain (4th Edition)
by Pierce HowardCutting-edge, user-friendly, and comprehensive: the revolutionary guide to the brain, now fully revised and updatedAt birth each of us is given the most powerful and complex tool of all time: the human brain. And yet, as we well know, it doesn't come with an owner's manual--until now. In this unsurpassed resource, Dr. Pierce J. Howard and his team distill the very latest research and clearly explain the practical, real-world applications to our daily lives. Drawing from the frontiers of psychology, neurobiology, and cognitive science, yet organized and written for maximum usability, The Owner's Manual for the Brain, Fourth Edition, is your comprehensive guide to optimum mental performance and well-being. It should be on every thinking person's bookshelf. What are the ingredients of happiness? Which are the best remedies for headaches and migraines? How can we master creativity, focus, decision making, and willpower? What are the best brain foods? How is it possible to boost memory and intelligence? What is the secret to getting a good night's sleep? How can you positively manage depression, anxiety, addiction, and other disorders? What is the impact of nutrition, stress, and exercise on the brain? Is personality hard-wired or fluid? What are the best strategies when recovering from trauma and loss? How do moods and emotions interact? What is the ideal learning environment for children? How do love, humor, music, friendship, and nature contribute to well-being? Are there ways of reducing negative traits such as aggression, short-temperedness, or irritability? What is the recommended treatment for concussions? Can you delay or prevent Alzheimer's and dementia? What are the most important ingredients to a successful marriage and family? What do the world's most effective managers know about leadership, motivation, and persuasion? Plus 1,000s more topics!
Owning Bipolar: How Patients and Families Can Take Control of Bipolar Disorder
by Joseph Shrand Michael G. Pipich“Essential reading, not only for the person learning to own their bipolar, but for the support system members and treatment providers walking alongside them in their journey to hope and healing.” —Sally Spencer-Thomas, PsyD, president United Suicide Survivor’s International Knowledge is power, and grasping the basics of bipolar disorder can give you the power you need to detect it, accept it, and own the responsibility for treatment and lifelong disease management. With its three-phase approach, Owning Bipolar can help you and your loved ones become experts at an illness that has called the shots in your life for too long. Now it’s time for you to take control. · The Pre-stabilization phase and recognition: confronting the causes of bipolar and the effects, including depression, anxiety, loss of energy, avoidance of responsibilities, and suicidal thoughts · The Stabilization phase and acting on it: starting effective medication, accepting the disease, and treating different types of bipolar · The Post-stabilization phase and living with it: undertaking long-term maintenance, accepting your new identity, and coming to terms with your responsibilities, and the responsibilities of your caregivers Accessible and encouraging, and accented with empathetic first-hand stories from people who share the disorder, this book is a vital companion for readers to help them understand, treat, and live successfully with bipolar. “Will provide clarity and understanding to a seemingly complex and confusing psychiatric condition.” —David B. Weiss, MD, FAPA
Owning it: Your Bullsh*t-Free Guide to Living with Anxiety
by Caroline ForanTHE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER - For readers of You Are a Badass ... A bullsh*t free perspective and a no-frills account of anxiety from the front line.For those facing the same struggle, Caroline explores exactly what anxiety is, its triggers and the various treatments - from CBT, acupuncture, diet and the often debated role of medication - that worked for her. With honesty, humour and a bullsh*t free perspective, Owning It is a no-frills account of anxiety from the front line.Through the filtered lens of social media, it may seem like life's a peach, but for lots of people - journalist and author Caroline Foran included - anxiety is always bubbling beneath the surface. Here, she chronicles her experiences. From being unable to cope with the thought of venturing outside, to walking away from her fast-paced job, to the different, and sometimes controversial, treatments available - from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to acupuncture to medication - Caroline shows us how she eventually found a way of owning her anxiety so that it doesn't own her.With extensive research and help from the experts, Owning It is written with honesty and a bullsh*t-free perspective; consider it your ultimate, practical guide that aims to get you feeling good again.(P)2018 Hachette Books Ireland
Owning Your Own Shadow
by Robert A. JohnsonA bestselling author shows how we can reclaim and make peace with the "shadow" side of our personality.
The Oxford Handbook Of Clinical Psychology (Oxford Library Of Psychology)
by David H. BarlowThe exponential growth of clinical psychology since the late 1960s can be measured in part by the extensive-perhaps exhaustive-literature on the subject. This proliferation of writing has continued into the new century, and the field has come to be defined as much by its many topics as its many voices. <p><p> In addition to core sections on topics such as training, assessment, diagnosis, and intervention, the handbook includes valuable chapters devoted to new and emerging issues in the clinical field, including heath care reforms, cultural factors, and technological innovations and challenges. Each chapter offers a review of the most pertinent literature, outlining current issues and identifying possibilities for future research. <p> Featuring two chapters by Editor David H. Barlow -- one on changes during his own 40-year odyssey in the field, the other projecting ten themes for the future of clinical psychology -- The Oxford Handbook of Clinical Psychology is a landmark publication that is sure to serve as the field's benchmark reference publication for years to come. It is an essential resource for students, clinicians, and researchers across the ever-growing clinical psychology community.
The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics
by Dirk Geeraerts Hubert CuyckensThe Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics presents a comprehensive overview of the main theoretical concepts and descriptive/theoretical models of Cognitive Linguistics, and covers its various subfields, theoretical as well as applied. The first twenty chapters give readers the opportunity to acquire a thorough knowledge of the fundamental analytic concepts and descriptive models of Cognitive Linguistics and their background. The book starts with a set of chapters discussing different conceptual phenomena that are recognized askey concepts in Cognitive Linguistics: prototypicality, metaphor, metonymy, embodiment, perspectivization, mental spaces, etc. A second set of chapters deals with Cognitive Grammar, Construction Grammar, and Word Grammar, which, each in their own way, bring together the basic concepts into aparticular theory of grammar and a specific model for the description of grammatical phenomena. Special attention is given to the interrelation between Cognitive and Construction Grammar. A third set of chapters compares Cognitive Linguistics with other forms of linguistic research (functionallinguistics, autonomous linguistics, and the history of linguistics), thus giving a readers a better grip on the position of Cognitive Linguistics within the landscape of linguistics at large. The remaining chapters apply these basic notions to various more specific linguistic domains, illustrating how Cognitive Linguistics deals with the traditional linguistic subdomains (phonology, morphology, lexicon, syntax, text and discourse), and demonstrating how it handles linguistic variationand change. Finally they consider its importance in the domain of Applied Linguistics, and look at interdisciplinary links with research fields such as philosophy and psychology. With a well-known cast of contributors from around the world, this reference work will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in (cognitive) linguistics, psychology, cognitive science, and anthropology.
The Oxford Handbook of EEG Frequency (Oxford Library of Psychology Series)
by Philip Gable Matthew Miller Edward BernatThe use of electroencephalography (EEG) to study the human mind has seen tremendous growth across a vast array of disciplines due to increased ease of use and affordability of the technology. Typically, researchers study how the magnitude of the waves changes over time or how the rhythm (frequency) of the waves changes over time. <p><p>The Oxford Handbook of EEG Frequency is arguably the first book to comprehensively describe the ways to study how the frequency of the waves changes over time and how changes in frequency are linked to cognitive, affective, and motor processes.
Oxford Textbook of Psychotherapy
by Glen O. Gabbard Judith Beck Jeremy HolmesThe first of its kind, this is a 'must have' volume for all trainee and practicing psychological therapists, whatever their background - psychiatry, psychology, social work, and nursing.
Oxytocin, Vasopressin, and Related Peptides in the Regulation of Behavior
by Martin Kavaliers Elena Choleris Donald W. PfaffThe mammalian neurohypophyseal peptide hormones oxytocin and vasopressin act to mediate human social behavior - they affect trust and social relationships and have an influence on avoidance responses. Describing the evolutionary roots of the effects that these neuropeptides have on behavior, this book examines remarkable parallel findings in both humans and non-human animals. The chapters are structured around three key issues: the molecular and neurohormonal mechanisms of peptides; phylogenetic considerations of their role in vertebrates; and their related effects on human behavior, social cognition and clinical applications involving psychiatric disorders such as autism. A final chapter summarizes current research perspectives and reflects on the outlook for future developments. Providing a comparative overview and featuring contributions from leading researchers, this is a valuable resource for graduate students, researchers and clinicians in this rapidly developing field.
Oxytocin, Well-Being and Affect Regulation
by Eliana Nogueira-ValeThis book brings together neuroscience and psychoanalysis to explain the complex interactions between neurobiological and psychological phenomena involved in the development of human attachment and affect regulation. The author reviews research from the burgeoning fields of affective neuroscience and neuropsychoanalysis to tell the story of how the discovery of a specific hormone – oxytocin – paved the way for the study of the neurobiological bases of emotions in a way that can contribute to integrate neuroscientific research into psychotherapy, especially for the treatment of anxiety disorders. The book starts by presenting a brief history of neuroscience, spanning from the discovery of oxytocin, at the beginning of the 20th century, until the emergence of affective neuroscience and neuropsychoanalysis as new scientific fields at the turn of the 20th to the 21st century. Then it reviews the long tradition of psychoanalytic research on human attachment starting with John Bowlby’s seminal Attachment Theory and explains how these early findings have been complemented by neuroscientific and psychological research on brain development and affect regulation. Finally, the two last chapters of the book show how this prolific dialogue between neuroscience and psychoanalysis can contribute to the future of psychotherapy. Oxytocin, Well-Being and Affect Regulation was originally published in Portuguese for the Brazilian market and this English edition for the international market is a revised version with two new additional chapters. It will be of interest to both students and professionals from different fields within the behavioral and health sciences, such as psychology and medicine, who will find in this book a brief and accessible introduction to key topics in the emerging fields of affective neuroscience and neuropsychoanalysis. The translation of the original manuscript in Portuguese into English was done with the help of artificial intelligence. A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content.
The Oz Principle: Getting Results Through Personal and Organizational Accountability
by Tom E. C. Smith Roger Connors Craig HickmanUsing the wizard of oz and its characters as a metaphor, this book gives lots of examples and practical steps people and organizational leaders can take to improve organizational accountability. The authors contend that we need to reframe how we think of accountability -- it's not about playing the "blame game", it's about taking responsibility for what we do and figuring out how we can rise above the things that happen to us and to the places we work that we can't control and achieve the results we want to achieve. Although a bit simplistic and self-promotional, this book lays out some good principles that, if followed, would make our worklife and personal lives better, richer and more fulfilling
P.Y. Galperin's Development of Human Mental Activity: Lectures in Educational Psychology (Cultural Psychology of Education #14)
by Irina EngenessThis open access book introduces the legacy of Piotr Galperin to a wider audience of researchers, educators and psychologists. Previous translations of Galperin’s work present only some aspects of his conceptual thinking; however, his main contribution to the general, genetic and pedagogical psychology as a unique holistic and systemic approach to studying of psychological phenomena and processes, mechanisms of their formation and development, is still quite unknown in most parts of the world.The eight lectures chosen for the book have been translated from Russian for the first time, and they belong to the Study of the Formation of Human Mental Activity from Galperin’s collection of the Lectures in Psychology (Galperin, 2002). These eight lectures present the central ideas of Galperin’s pedagogical theory, and they conceptualise learning to learn approach and argue how teaching and learning process can enhance the development of higher mental functions with learners and therefore enhance the development of students as learners. These ideas may be of primary importance to educational practitioners and researchers interested in developmental learning and teaching approach given the current concerns of educational practice that schools struggle to prepare students for their adult and the need to develop the capacity in lifelong learning with students in the 21st century.
P5 eHealth: An Agenda for the Health Technologies of the Future
by Gabriella Pravettoni Stefano TribertiThis open access volume focuses on the development of a P5 eHealth, or better, a methodological resource for developing the health technologies of the future, based on patients’ personal characteristics and needs as the fundamental guidelines for design. It provides practical guidelines and evidence based examples on how to design, implement, use and elevate new technologies for healthcare to support the management of incurable, chronic conditions. The volume further discusses the criticalities of eHealth, why it is difficult to employ eHealth from an organizational point of view or why patients do not always accept the technology, and how eHealth interventions can be improved in the future. By dealing with the state-of-the-art in eHealth technologies, this volume is of great interest to researchers in the field of physical and mental healthcare, psychologists, stakeholders and policymakers as well as technology developers working in the healthcare sector.
PACIENTES DE ANA, LOS (EBOOK)
by Marcela VillavellaPor el ojo de la cerradura del consultorio de Ana, la psicoanalista que le da título a este libro magnético, vemos los problemas que hasta allí cargan los pacientes, esa otra parte fundamental del título y de la ecuación que se pone en juego en la consulta. Celos, amores perdidos y encontrados, miedo a la muerte pero también miedo a la vida, obsesiones, penas y pequeñas victorias diarias: los problemas de "Los pacientes de Ana" son los nuestros, y es imposible no quedar encandilado por las múltiples historias de estas páginas que, narradas con agudeza, gracia y vitalidad, logran que la ficción se parezca más que nunca a la vida misma.
Pacific Identities and Well-Being: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Routledge Monographs in Mental Health)
by Margaret Nelson Agee Tracey McIntosh Philip Culbertson Cabrini 'Ofa MakasialeFilling a significant gap in the cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary literature within the field of Pasifika (Polynesian) and Maori identities and mental health, this volume focuses on bridging mental health related research and practice within the indigenous communities of the South Pacific. Much of the content reflects both differences from and relationships with the dominant Western theories and practices so often unsuccessfully applied with these groups. The contributors represent both experienced researchers and practitioners and address topics such as research examining traditional and emerging Pasifika identities; contemporary research and practice in working with Pasifika youth and adolescents; culturally-appropriate approaches for working with Pasifika adults; and practices in supervision that have been developed by Maori and Pasifika practitioners. Chapters include practice scenarios, research reports, analyses of topical issues, and discussions about the appropriateness of applying Western theory in other cultural contexts. As Pasifika cultures are still primarily oral cultures, the works of several leading Maori and Pasifika poets that give voice to the changing identities and contemporary challenges within Pacific communities are also included.
Pacific-Indigenous Psychology: Galuola, A NIU-Wave of Psychological Practices
by Siautu Alefaio-TugiaThis book provides an overview of Pacific-Indigenous knowledge as insights of Oceanic citizen-science to inform culturally-safe practice for psychology. It profiles contemporary Pacific needs in areas of crisis such as family violence, education disparities and health inequities, and points to ancient Pacific-indigenous knowledges as tools of healing for global diasporic communities in need. The historical evolution of psychology’s knowledge base and practice illustrates a fundamental crisis in the method of producing knowledge for psychology - the absence of Pacific-indigenous cultural knowledge. It suggests more effective research methodologies grounded in Pacific-Indigenous epistemologies and ontologies for psychology and overall community capability. It fosters practice perspectives and strategies based on NIU-psychology (New Indigenous Understandings) for innovative solutions to modern-day crises of humanity.
Pacific Rim Objective Measurement Symposium (PROMS) 2015 Conference Proceedings
by Quan ZhangThis book collects and organizes the original studies presented at PROMS 2015 conference on theories and applications of Rasch model. It provides useful examples of the Rasch model used to address practical measurement problems across a range of different disciplines including Item Response Theory (IRT), philosophy of measurement, dimensionality, the role of fit statistics and residuals, application, educational application, language testing, health-related research, business and industrial application and Rasch-based computer software. PROMS 2015 (Pacific Rim Objective Measurement Symposium) was held from August 20-24th 2015, in Fukuoka, Japan. The goal of this conference is to bring together the researchers from academia, universities, hospitals, industry, management sector as well as practitioners to share ideas, problems and solutions relating to the multifaceted aspects of Rasch Model.
Pack Elsa Punset (2 ebooks): Inocencia radical y Brújula para navegantes emocionales
by Elsa PunsetElsa Punset, experta en inteligencia emocional, nos ayuda a entender nuestras emociones, a enfrentarlas y a transformarlas en nuevas oportunidades de cambio. Elsa Punset nos habla en este pack del impacto de las emociones en la vida diaria. «Siempre quise arrancar las emociones del campo académico, de la fría disección, para llevarlas a las manos de las personas, a la vida real, al interior de cada uno de nosotros. Porque allí es donde importan, traspasan, duelen y transforman. Las emociones son el lenguaje universal con el cual sentimos, nos comunicamos, nos amamos o nos odiamos. Tenemos que lograr descifrarlas, amaestrarlas, disfrutarlas sin temor». Este pack contiene los títulos:- INOCENCIA RADICAL- BÚJULA PARA NAVEGANTES EMOCIONALES Inocencia radical:Nacemos inocentes, vulnerables, curiosos, dotados de la pasión por vivir. Cómo nos enfrentamos a estas etapas cruciales de nuestra existencia determinará el tejido de nuestras emociones. Elsa Punset nos alienta en Inocencia radical a sacar provecho de nuestra capacidad innata para amar y para transformar. Brújula para navegantes emocionales:En los últimos tiempos las emociones, gracias a las puertas abiertas por la neurociencia, pueden catalogarse, comprenderse e incluso gestionarse: son la llave de nuestro centro neurálgico. Conocerse a uno mismo permite descubrir las fuentes de nuestra felicidad, nuestra ira y nuestro dolor para poder convivir armoniosa y plenamente con nosotros mismos y con los demás.
The Pact
by Jodi PicoultPerfect for fans of Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects and Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones, Number One bestselling author Jodi Picoult returns with the deeply moving THE PACT.When Chris wakes up in hospital, Emily is the first person he asks for. She is the love of his life. But Emily is dead, and Chris is the sole witness to what happened in the park that night.He claims it was a suicide pact: they were both meant to die.Then the investigation turns up motive for murder, and there is only one suspect . . .(P)2006 Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks
Pädagogen-Burnout vermeiden: Selbsthilfe für gestresste Lehrer (essentials)
by Désirée LindeMit diesem essential erhalten gestresste Lehrer praxiserprobte Anleitungen, um einem drohenden Burnout vorzubeugen. Ausgehend von den stresserzeugenden, schulischen Arbeitsbedingungen geht es um grundlegende Veränderungen im Umgang des Lehrers mit sich selbst. Psychologische Anregungen und Hinweise zur Selbstreflexion von Ursachen für die Stressreaktionen dienen als Grundlage für ein neues Selbstcoaching. Dadurch verändert sich die Einstellung zu sich selbst und der Berufspraxis mit ihren besonderen Herausforderungen. Der Praktiker bekommt Tipps, insbesondere für die Gestaltung der Aufgaben abseits des Unterrichts, sowie zu Möglichkeiten der Schülermotivation und dem Umgang mit Verhaltensschwierigkeiten, da diese zu den Stressfaktoren gehören, die Lehrer und Erzieher am meisten belasten.
Pädagogik für Psychotherapeutinnen und Psychotherapeuten: Grundlegend, prägnant und anwendungsorientiert
by Gabriele Rössler Wolfgang MackPsychotherapeutinnen und Psychotherapeuten behandeln Menschen, die durch familiäre Erziehung, durch schulische und berufliche Bildung geprägt wurden. Nicht selten gehen psychische Erkrankungen mit sozialen Problemen einher, die eine sozial- oder rehabilitationspädagogische Begleitung erfordern. In diesem Buch finden angehende Psychotherapeutinnen und Psychotherapeuten eine anwendungsorientierte Einführung in Erziehungs- und Sozialisationsprozesse sowie pädagogische Interventionen. Die Bedeutung der einzelnen Themen für die psychotherapeutische Praxis wird in jedem Kapitel gesondert erläutert.
Pädagogisch arbeiten in traumatischen Prozessen: Geflüchtete Kinder und Jugendliche in der Schule (Kritische Sozialpsychologie)
by Christoph MüllerDas Buch ist eine kritische und systematische Auseinandersetzung mit den schulpädagogisch sowie gesellschaftspolitisch hochaktuellen Themen Flucht und Trauma.Geflüchtete Kinder und Jugendliche befinden sich häufig in einem sequenziell traumatischen Prozess, zu dem neben den fluchtauslösenden Bedingungen und der Flucht selbst auch die Lebensbedingungen im Aufnahmeland gehören.Im Zentrum dieser Studie stehen die Fragen, wie sich die emotionalen Belastungen und potenziellen Traumatisierungen geflüchteter Schüler*innen in der Schule zeigen, wie sie sich im Erleben und Handeln der Lehrkräfte widerspiegeln und welche pädagogischen Konsequenzen sich daraus ergeben.Um dem nachzugehen, was es für die Lehrkräfte bedeutet, inmitten der traumatischen Prozesse der geflüchteten Schüler*innen pädagogisch zu arbeiten, wurden u.a. themenzentrierte Tiefeninterviews mit Lehrkräften geführt und tiefenhermeneutisch ausgewertet.Aufbauend auf den Ergebnissen der Studie werden Konsequenzen für die pädagogische Praxis, die Professionalisierung von Lehrkräften und hinsichtlich eines strukturellen Handlungsbedarfs gezogen.
Pädagogische Psychologie
by Elke Wild Jens MöllerDieses Lehrbuch bildet das psychologische Anwendungsfach „Pädagogische Psychologie“ in seiner ganzen Breite ab. Es gibt einen verständlichen Überblick über zentrale Konstrukte, Theorien und Befunde des Fachs, deren Kenntnis für eine professionelle Arbeit in pädagogischen Praxisfeldern unverzichtbar ist und die entsprechend auch in Lehrveranstaltungen zentral behandelt sowie in Prüfungen thematisiert werden sollten. Eine ansprechende didaktische Gestaltung sowie zahlreiche kostenlose Lern- und Lehrmaterialien auf lehrbuch-psychologie.springer.com unterstützen eine motivierte und effektive Aneignung der behandelten Inhalte.
Pädagogisches Rollenspiel: Wissensbaustein und Leitfaden für die psychosoziale Praxis (essentials)
by Manfred GüntherManfred Günther beschreibt in diesem essential eindrucksvoll das Pädagogische Rollenspiel. Er zeigt, wie dieses in den 1970er-Jahren als ein neues, angeleitetes Methodenangebot entstanden ist. Das Pädagogische Rollenspiel entwickelte sich als ein VT-fundiertes Vorhaben, das praktisch eingesetzt großen Spaß macht und das dabei mühelos im pädagogischen Sinn erwünschte Kompetenzen übertragen kann. Denn beim Spiel geht es kulturübergreifend häufig um das Einüben von wichtigen sozialen Fähigkeiten oder auch um Aufarbeitung von Themen oder Konflikten.