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The ACT Workbook for Teens with OCD: Unhook Yourself and Live Life to the Full
by Patricia Zurita Psy.DThis workbook, based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Exposure Response Prevention (ERP), teaches teens with OCD new skills to handle the stream of pesky obsessions that show up in their mind.It presents the Choice Point - a tool to help teens choose how to handle those tricky moments when dealing with unwanted thoughts. Chapter by chapter, teens learn powerful skills to unhook from their obsessions, including exposure exercises and strategies for accepting their emotions, and complete activities to help them overcome their compulsions, avoidant behaviors, and requests for accommodations. With real-life examples and tons of fun activities, this workbook shows that fears, worry and nervousness are a part of life and gives teens the skills to choose how to respond to their obsessions and move towards the stuff they really care about. Making applying ACT and ERP skills fun, it encourages them to face their fears and live life to the full.
Acting For Real: Drama Therapy Process, Technique, And Performance
by Renée EmunahThis second edition takes the reader further into the heart of using drama for healing. Dr. Emunah offers an expanded understanding of her Integrative Five Phase model, a foundational approach that embraces the wide spectrum of possibilities within the playing field of drama therapy. Grounded by compassionate clinical examples, including ones that reach over time into deep-seated issues, the book offers tools for action-oriented treatment, embodied therapeutic interventions, and creatively engaging a wide variety of clients. This comprehensive text also contains over 120 techniques, categorized by phases in the session and treatment series, and subcategorized by therapeutic objective. Process-oriented drama therapy with group and individuals, as well as performance-oriented forms, are described in vivid detail. New to the second edition is an exploration of drama therapy outside of the clinical arena, including dramatic methods in family life and parenting, and drama therapy geared toward social change.
Acting Out: A Guide To The Development And Presentation Of Issue-Oriented, Audience- interactive, improvisational theatre
by Mario Cossa Sally Ember Lauren Glass Jennifer RussellThis handbook offers a compilation of background information, techniques and scenarios based on the Acting Out programme that offers theatre skills/counselling for groups of adolescents, free of charge. AO teens become performers, creating issues-oriented, audience-interactive, improvizational scenes with a variety of audiences.; Written for leaders who are familiar with improvizational theatre and working with groups, Part 1 discusses the importance of leader training, experience and intention. Psychodrama, sociodrama and theatre scenework are explained in some detail, with references offered for those who wish to learn more about these areas before proceeding. Information about group selection criteria, procedures and techniques for using the scenarios complete this section.; Part Two offers a set of eight topics each with its own list of scenarios. Each scenario begins with information about characters, settings and situations, and offerrs acting notes as well as age- appropriaeteness. A list of resources appears at the beginning of each thematic set of scenarios.
Acting Out and Sin: Psychoanalytic and Theological Perspectives (SpringerBriefs in Psychology)
by Henry KellermanThis brief treatise explores the common threads to psychoanalytic thought and theological theory. It uses a psychoanalytic lens to examine Judeo/Christian concepts of individual will, consciousness and the unconscious, and the apparent confounding idea of sin. What is new is that the definition of sin is revealed as a psychoanalytic translation of acting-out. Focusing on the behavior of acting-out it illuminates ideas that are part of Western cultural tradition providing insights to those interested in the psychology, and its history and philosophy. As such, it is a highly relevant work for psychologists, psychiatrists, and psychoanalysts, as well as for a comparative study of psychoanalytic and theological intersecting structures.
Acting Out Culture: Reading and Writing
by James S. Miller"Acting Out Culture" is the first thematic composition reader to focus students' attention beyond what rules and norms govern their everyday behavior to "how" the rules themselves have been shaped over time.
Acting Out Culture
by James S. MillerCultural messages bombard students daily, laden with unstated rules about what makes our work valuable, our bodies ideal, our connections meaningful. Acting Out Culture empowers students to critically read those messages and use writing to speak back to their culture and question its rules. This book appeals especially to those students who are not full participants in the dominant culture, as well as to their instructors, who want to help students see how subtle (and not so subtle) cultural forces can shape their lives--and how they can challenge and resist those forces. The new edition of Acting Out Culture builds on that success, with provocative readings (more than 50 percent of them new) that challenge the rules we live by; pedagogical tools to encourage students to read, think, and write critically about their culture; and instructional support featuring sample syllabi, additional discussion topics, and ideas for teaching with visuals and online content.
Acting Out Culture: Reading and Writing (Second Edition)
by James S. MillerStudents are bombarded every day with media messages laden with rules: what makes our work valuable, our bodies ideal, our communities picture perfect. Acting Out Culture empowers students to use writing to speak back to their culture and question its rules. Featuring fresh readings by writers who lay bare and challenge the rules we live by, the second edition of Acting Out Culture gives students the tools they need to analyze and write critically about assumptions at the heart of cultural norms.
Acting, Spectating and the Unconscious: A psychoanalytic perspective on unconscious mechanisms of identification in spectating and acting in the theatre. (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)
by Maria Grazia TurriFrom Aristotle’s theory of tragic katharsis onwards, theorists of the theatre have long engaged with the question of what spectatorship entails. This question has, directly or indirectly, often been extended to the investigation of acting. Acting, Spectating, and the Unconscious approaches the unconscious aspects of spectatorship and acting afresh. Interweaving psychoanalytic descriptions of processes such as transference, unconscious phantasy, and alpha-function with an in-depth survey of theories of spectating and acting from thinkers such as Brecht, Diderot, Rousseau and Plato, Maria Grazia Turri offers a significant insight into the emotions inherent in both the art of the actor, and the spectator’s experience. A compelling investigation of the unconscious communication between spectators and actors, this volume is a must-read for students and scholars fascinated by theatre spectatorship.
Acting to Manage Conflict and Bullying Through Evidence-Based Strategies
by Bruce Burton Margret Lepp Morag Morrison John O'TooleThis book offers a complete and detailed account of the evolution of an internationally successful, evidence-based program that has been the result of almost two decades of action research into conflict and bullying. It addresses one of the most serious problems encountered in schools and work places worldwide: that of bullying and inter-personal conflict. The book presents a comprehensive account of the research, development and refinement of the DRACON Project and the Acting Against Bullying and Cooling Conflicts programs. The effective strategies that emerged from the extensive international research and practice use a combination of theories of conflict and bullying management with drama techniques and peer teaching which have been unique in their application. The book analyses their evolution into an effective program that has impacted positively on bullying and conflict in a number of settings. In the UK the program successfully addressed behavioural problems amongst girls in schools through the use of peer teaching in a drama setting. In Sweden the program assists nursing students, nurses and other health professionals to deal with conflict in the workplace. In Australia it has been applied in hundreds of schools to reduce bullying and assist newly arrived refugees to deal with cultural conflict and develop resilience and self- identity in their new country. This volume makes a major and authentic contribution to the international effort to find effective strategies and techniques to deal with interpersonal conflict and bullying across a range of contexts.
Acting with Power: Why We Are More Powerful Than We Believe
by Deborah GruenfeldThere is so much we get wrong about power. This eye-opening look at the true nature of power explores who has it, what it looks like, and the role it plays in our lives.&“A refreshing and enlightening new perspective on what it means to be powerful.&”—Susan Cain, bestselling author of QuietGrounded in over two decades&’ worth of scientific research and inspired by the popular class of the same name at Stanford&’s Graduate School of Business, Acting with Power offers a new and eye-opening paradigm that overturns everything we thought we knew about the nature of power. Although we all feel powerless sometimes, we have more power than we tend to believe. That&’s because power exists in every relationship, by virtue of the roles we play in others&’ lives. But it isn&’t a function of status or hierarchy. Rather, it&’s about how much we are needed, and the degree to which we fulfill our responsibilities. Power isn&’t a tool for self-enhancement or a resource for personal consumption. It&’s a part you play in someone else&’s story. We often assume that power flows to those with the loudest voice or the most commanding presence in the room. But, in fact, true power is often much quieter and more deferential than we realize. Moreover, it&’s not just how much power we have but how we use it that determines how powerful we actually are. Actors aren&’t the only ones who play roles for a living. Like actors, we all make choices about how to use the power that comes with our given circumstances. We aren&’t always cast in the roles we desire—or the ones we feel prepared to play. Some of us struggle to step up and be taken more seriously, while others have trouble standing back and ceding the spotlight. Some of us are used to hearing we are too aggressive, while others are constantly being told we are too nice. Deborah Gruenfeld shows how we can all get more comfortable with power by adopting an actor&’s mindset. We all know what it looks like to use power badly. This book is about how to use power well.
Action and Inaction in a Social World: Predicting and Changing Attitudes and Behavior
by Dolores AlbarracínThis book explains how actions and inactions arise and change in social contexts, including social media and face-to-face communication. Its multidisciplinary perspective covers research from psychology, communication, public health, business studies, and environmental sciences. The reader can use this cutting-edge approach to design and interpret effects of behavioral change interventions as well as replicate the materials and methods implemented to study them. The author provides an organized set of principles that take the reader from the formation of attitudes and goals, to the structure of action and inaction. It also reflects on how cognitive processes explain excesses of action while inaction persists elsewhere. This practical guide summarises the best practices persuasion and behavioral interventions to promote changes in health, consumer, and social behaviors.
Action and Insight
by Paul L. WachtelThe publication of this set of selected papers provides an opportunity to reflect on the compass of this work. It offers me, as well as the reader, the chance to reflect on the main themes and how they interact, and to consider the underlying as¬sumptions that have energized and, inevitably, limited the work. It affords as well a chance to consider the important questions that remain unanswered and how they might be pursued.
Action As An Organizer of Learning and Development: Volume 33 in the Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology Series (Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology Series #Vol. 33)
by Charles A. Nelson John J. Rieser Jeffrey J. LockmanThis is the 33rd volume in the Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology held in October 2002. The symposium was held to honor the scientific and mentoring contributions of Anne Danielson Pick and Herbert L. Pick, Jr.--two longtime and beloved professors of the Institute of Child Development. It focused on "Action as an Organizer of Learning and Development" and integrated the best and most innovative research on the role of action in perceiving and understanding. Taken together, the book captures the intellectual excitement that characterized the 33rd symposium and appeals to developmental psychologists, particularly those interested in perceptual development.
Action, Emotion and Will: 1963 Edition
by Anthony Kenny Dr Anthony KennyAction, Emotion and Will was first published in 1963, when it was one of the first books to provoke serious interest in the emotions and philosophy of human action. Almost forty years on, Anthony Kenny's account of action and emotion is still essential reading for anyone interested in these topics.The first part of the book takes an historical look at the emotions in the work of Descartes, Locke and particularly Hume. In the second part, Kenny moves on to discuss some of the experimental work on the emotions by 20th Century psychologists like William James. Separate chapters cover feelings, motives, desire and pleasure. This edition features a brand new preface by the author.
Action Guide For Effective Discipline In The Home And School
by Margaret K. CaterFirst published in 1992. This Action Guide is for individual or group study of the book Effective Discipline in the Home and School by Genevieve Painter and Ray Corsini. This book assists parents, teachers, and counselors in training children so that home and school will be happy and efficient, organized but pleasant -- with adults satisfied with their children and children growing up to be respectful, responsible, and resourceful. It provides solutions and emphasizes practicality.
Action in Perception
by Alva Noë"Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us," writes Alva Noë. "It is something we do." In Action in Perception, Noë argues that perception and perceptual consciousness depend on capacities for action and thought -- that perception is a kind of thoughtful activity. Touch, not vision, should be our model for perception. Perception is not a process in the brain, but a kind of skillful activity of the body as a whole. We enact our perceptual experience.
Action Methods In Group Psychotherapy: Practical Aspects
by Daniel J. TomasuloFirst published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Action, Mind, and Brain: An Introduction
by David A. RosenbaumAn engaging and accessible introduction to the psychology and neuroscience of physical action.This engaging and accessible book offers the first introductory text on the psychology and neuroscience of physical action. Written by a leading researcher in the field, it covers the interplay of action, mind, and brain, showing that many core concepts in philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and technology grew out of questions about the control of everyday physical actions. It explains action not as a &“one-way street from stimuli to response&” but as a continual perception-action cycle. The informal writing style invites students to think through the evidence step by step, helping them develop general thinking stills as well as learn specific facts. Special emphasis is placed on the role of underrepresented groups. The book discusses the intellectual background of the field, from Plato to Kant, Dewey, and others; applications and methods; and the physical substrates of action—bones, tendons, ligaments, muscles, and nerves. It considers the control of actions in space; learning, and the roles of nature and nurture; feedback; feedforward, or anticipated feedback; and degrees of freedom—the multiple ways of getting things done and three methods for narrowing the alternatives. The book is generously illustrated, including many images of thinkers who contributed to the field.
Action, Perception and the Brain
by Jay SchulkinTheories of brain evolution stress communication and sociality are essential to our capacity to represent objects as intersubjectively accessible. How did we grow as a species to be able to recognize objects as common, as that which can also be seen in much the same way by others? Such constitution of intersubjectively accessible objects is bound up with our flexible and sophisticated capacities for social cognition understanding others and their desires, intentions, emotions, and moods which are crucial to the way human beings live. This book is about contemporary philosophical and neuroscientific perspectives on the relation of action, perception, and cognition as it is lived in embodied and socially embedded experience. This emphasis on embodiment and embeddedness is a change from traditional theories, which focused on isolated, representational, and conceptual cognition. In the new perspectives contained in our book, such 'pure' cognition is thought to be under-girded and interpenetrated by embodied and embedded processes. "
Action Power: The Miracle Way to a Successful New Life
by Vernon Linwood HowardTESTED TECHNIQUES FOR APPLYING CONCENTRATED ACTION POWER TO MAKE MORE MONEY, GET AHEAD FASTER, INFLUENCE PEOPLE, AND GET EVERYTHING YOU WANT OUT OF LIFE—ALMOST MAGICALLY!Discover now how to get what you want in life, by using the miraculous forces of ACTION POWER. Take your first step to a new way of life that will lead to the highest goals of success you most desire.Once the miraculous force of your ACTION POWER is in full operation you will launch out from your current setup and rise like a rocket to new peaks of personal achievement and financial success. You will think success. You will feel success. You will talk success. You will start acting towards success.“Vernon Howard’s Action Power accentuates the positive. The author gives specific directions for improving one’s thinking and actions. It is pleasant and stimulating reading.”—CLYDE F. GILLETT, M.D.“Regardless of whether you want to sell your products to customers or sell yourself a happier life, you now have the amazing key in your hands. A thrilling guide.”—GENE ADAMS, Editor, Specialty Salesman“If you want to get into self-enriching action, start with this great book. Vernon Howard shows you what to do and how to do it—the easy way.”—MARTHA WALKINSHAW, Cook Realty
Action Research and Critical Psychology: An Investigation of Subjectivity and Participation (Theory and History in the Human and Social Sciences)
by Martin DegeThis book examines the theoretical developments in the field of Action Research from a historical perspective. The central focus of the investigation is the concepts of democracy and subjectivity as defined by the field’s various traditions. To address this issue, this book offers a thorough investigation of the theoretical and historical underpinnings of Action Research in order to argue that such a clarification allows for a transcendence of the distinction between theory and practice in political action. This transcendence will be achieved with the theories of the German critical psychologist Klaus Holzkamp and his interpretation of subjectivity and democracy. Holzkamp establishes a comprehensive mode of change based on the contradiction of existing possibilities for action and restrictions in a concretely given empirical situation. This book is aimed at History of Psychology Classes, Social Workers, Activism Researchers, Undergraduate Courses in Critical Thinking and Political Action, and Decolonial Theory in Psychology.
Action Research in Education, Second Edition: A Practical Guide
by Sara Efrat Efron Ruth RavidAcclaimed as a text and professional development tool, this user-friendly resource has now been revised and updated, and offers expanded coverage of collaborative action research (CAR) and participatory action research (PAR). Preservice and inservice educators get crucial step-by-step guidance for conducting classroom- and school-based studies to improve their instructional practices. Organized to mirror the full cycle of action research, the book provides balanced coverage of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches. Vivid vignettes and examples illustrate research approaches for a range of teaching and learning situations, school subjects, and age groups (PreK–12). Readers learn how research approaches are driven by the research question, as well as how to develop data collection strategies; design and/or evaluate assessment tools; interpret, analyze, report, and implement study results; and design a new cycle of research that builds on the previous one. New to This Edition *In-depth descriptions of CAR and PAR--which enable groups of teachers to work together to solve problems in a classroom or school--plus examples of both throughout the book. *Expanded or new discussions (with examples) of such topics as how research approaches and methods are driven by the research question, how to assess different types of reliability and validity, the differences between analysis and interpretation, and how to use sequential cycles of research for continuous improvement and professional development. *Fully updated references and resources. Pedagogical Features *Both individual and group exercises and activities in every chapter. *New and updated checklists and guidelines that enable busy educators to self-assess the progress and quality of their studies. *Sample templates to assist in development of research instruments. *Example boxes illustrating the components of an action research report. *Summary tables highlighting key aspects of different research strategies. *Chapter summaries (now shorter for ease of use) and suggestions for further reading.
Action, Styles, And Symbols In Kinetic Family Drawings Kfd
by Robert C. Burns S. Harvard KaufmanFirst published in 1972. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Action Understanding (Elements in Perception)
by Angelika Lingnau Paul DowningThe human ability to effortlessly understand the actions of other people has been the focus of research in cognitive neuroscience for decades. What have we learned about this ability, and what open questions remain? In this Element the authors address these questions by considering the kinds of information an observer may gain when viewing an action. A 'what, how, and why' framing organises evidence and theories about the representations that support classifying an action; how the way an action is performed supports observational learning and inferences about other people; and how an actor's intentions are inferred from her actions. Further evidence shows how brain systems support action understanding, from research inspired by 'mirror neurons' and related concepts. Understanding actions from vision is a multi-faceted process that serves many behavioural goals, and is served by diverse mechanisms and brain systems.
Actions, Styles, and Symbols in Kinetic Family Drawings (K-F-D): An Interpretative Manual
by Robert C. Burns S. Harvard KaufmanThis classic text focuses on the features of K-F-D that have emerged after more than 12 years of clinical experience with 10,000 drawings. One-hundred and thirty drawings are reproduced, showing common characteristics of K-F-D figures and the varied actions and symbols that reflect relations between family members. Included are a K-F-D Grid and an Analysis Sheet to assist clinicians in interpreting their own patients' K-F-Ds.