The European Journal of Counselling Psychology ejcop.psychopen.eu | 2195-7614 Social Learning Conceptualization for Substance Abuse: Implications for Therapeutic Interventions a Theodoros Giovazolias* , Olga Themeli a [a] Department of Psychology, University of Crete, Rethymno, Greece. Abstract Substance misuse and abuse among adolescents and young adults, especially students, remain a significant public health issue, often associated with serious academic, psychological and health problems
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How can the “Big 5” personality dimensions enhance acculturation? Provide an example (situation or scenario) for each of the 5 dimensions. 1. Extraversion Those with this personality trait have the tendency to be more outgoing, energetic, sociable, assertive and talkative in the company of others. Besides that, extraverts are highly motivated to seek social situations and are normally associated with leadership, thus are likely to be dominant in those situations. Certainly motivated by change
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Social Cognitive and Humanistic Perspectives Tana’ya Green Psy/203 Laurel Taron 8/24/15 Social Cognitive and Humanistic Perspectives Social cognitive is a psychological perspective which holds that, parts of an individual’s knowledge can be directly related to observation of others within the area of social interactions, personal experiences and also media influences. It postulates that, when people observe a model performing a behaviour or activity and
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Organisational Development is a field which studies in detail the nature of individuals, groups and structural behaviour within an organisation and improves the behaviour of each individual towards attainment of organisational goals. Organisational development focuses on improving individual integrity, productivity, change and building better relationship by achieving human objectives, organisational objectives and social objectives. Organisational development is a tool for guiding productivity in
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Behavioral Economics Matters for HIV Research: The Impact of Behavioral Biases on Adherence to Antiretrovirals (ARVs) Abstract Behavioral economics (BE) has been used to study a number of health behaviors such as smoking and drug use, but there is little knowledge of how these insights relate to HIV prevention and care. We present novel evidence on the prevalence of the common behavioral decision-making errors of present-bias, overoptimism, and information salience among 155 Ugandan HIV patients
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“It’s not possible to be both a trusting boss and a politically astute leader. One requires openness and the other requires concealment.” Discuss this statement in terms of developing effective competitive advantage in China. I don't agree with this. It's possible for leader to be this kind of people, and the development of organization requires it. Personality is affected by heredity, environment, and situation. And the personality of a leader is determined by environment and situation. Environment
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Organizational behavior is an academic discipline concerned with describing, understanding, predicting, and controlling human behavior in an organizational environment. Organizational behavior has evolved from early classical management theories into a complex school of thought—and it continues to change in response to the dynamic environment andproliferating corporate cultures in which today's businesses operate. "The task of getting organizations to function effectively is a difficult one," wrote
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Tarsadia University,Tarsadi,Bardoli. Asst. Prof., Department of Accountancy, DRB Commerce College,Veshu,Bharthan,Surat. This paper aims to identify the factors that affect consumers purchasing behavior towards Agriculture inputs like fertilizer, seeds, agrochemicals, oils and lubricants etc. Buying behavior refers to the act of consumers obtaining and using goods and services and the decision process that determines these acts. Buying decision is a set of many decisions which may involve a product
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Functionalism states it the function of something which defines something as what it is. Whatever it may be, everything is defined by its function. In terms of it inputs and outputs for a given function is what defines something as being itself. It is the function that is absolutely important. For example a kidney has a function and its function is what makes it a kidney. The kidney receives blood as an input and produces urea with filtered blood as an output. This is its function. In the same way
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<Katie Ramos> <EDU-213 > <11/16/2014> <Kimberly Capron> Stages of Social Development According to Erik Erikson there are eight stages of social development that each child should go through. First of which being learning basic trust versus mistrust, this starts at infancy and continues through two years of age. This occurs when the child is treated with love, care and nurture. When the child does not receive this the child adapts a sense of mistrust and insecurities
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