CAREERS What do psychologists do? If you are one of the thousands of new psychology students receiving this issue free, read on as Jon Sutton illustrates some potential career paths ahead of you psychological well-being. It’s demanding work. You would deal with a wide range of psychological difficulties and serious mental illnesses. Clinical psychologists work largely in health and social care settings, including hospitals, health centres, community mental health teams, child and adolescent
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Bullying is aggressive behaviour with the intent of intimidating and wounding one either physically or emotionally, and has a tendency to be deliberate and recurring. Bullying is demonstrated by various forms of aggressive behaviour such as verbal, psychological, physical, racial, and in cyber-space (internet & social media). Fundamentally, aggression is developed from social behaviour and maintained by conditions such as operant conditioning. Positive reinforcement after an aggressive act causes repetition
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wants to look fit and give special attention to their lifestyle. However this urge of wanting to look slim and fit may not always be regarded as healthy or ordinary. There are circumstances where the urge of wanting to look slim may result as a psychological disorder known as anorexia nervosa. Anorexia nervosa is the most familiar, though not the most common of eating disorder, perhaps due to its seemingly continuous media attention. Consequently many myths and misunderstandings have arisen (Lask &
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COUNSELLING FOR SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT: A PANACEA FOR SOCIO-POLITICAL INSTABILITY AND ETHNIC/RELIGIOUS CRISES IN NIGERIA BY: IRABOR PETER ODION 07037830536 DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL STUDIES, COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, IGUEBEN, EDO STATE BEING A PAPER PRESENTED AT THE COUNSELLING ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (CASSON) HELD AT SCHOOL HALL, NATIONAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL, NIKE ENUGU, ENUGU STATE FROM 16TH TO 17TH OF APRIL, 2012 ABSTRACT Counselling-which that provides direction or advice as
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A Case Study on an interpersonal issue in a family situation from a psychological perspective. By Andrew S. Heldt An Assignment for the Master of Theology on Personal and Social Psychology Year 2: Semester 2 Outline 1. Assignment Question…………………………………….…………………..1 2. Introduction………………………………………………….……………….1 3. Case study – Description…………..……………..………………………….1 a) Early Childhood…………...………………………………...………..1 b) Adolescence……………….………………………………..………….2 c) Church and family relationships……………………………………
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Impact of poor attachment on personal development Attachment theory offers an understanding of personality development and behaviour in close relationships and provides an account of the difference in people’s emotional and relationship styles. It relates to how resilient children will become later in life when facing life stressors. In its earliest form, attachment theory concentrated on the dynamics and quality of relationships between children and their parents, but it has since been expanded
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mentoring functions. However, they all classify their functions based on the theory of Kram 1985 (Ragins and Cotton 1999). Therefore, for the purpose of this research, the researcher refers to Kram’s theory in 1985. She defined mentoring function as “essential characteristics that differentiate developmental relationships from other relationships” (p. 22). She further classifies the functions into two: career and psychological. The career functions are further divided into five: coaching, challenging
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CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the Study Education is the key that unlocks the door to development. Ghana as a developing country has never relented in her efforts to draw up educational programmes to meet the changing demands, needs and aspirations of her citizens as well as the nation as a whole since independence in 1957. The first initiative in education taken by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was the Associated Development Plan that aimed at ensuring that every child of school going age
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Marriage Guidance – Summary MGG201W MGG201W – Marriage Guidance – facilitative couples counselling Theme ONE – Understanding couples Intimacy involves: love, affection and caring, deep attachment to another person. The TRIPOD of couple relationships An intimate relationship consists of three factors that form a tripod on which the relationship rests. 1. Passionate attraction (PA) 2. Mutual expectations (ME) 3. Personal intentions (PI) Passionate attractions (PA) → Individual experiences intensely
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While other forms of counselling focused on building self-esteem and behaviour modification in crisis intervention, the focus is on how to increase the client’s functioning and decrease the intensity of stress currently experienced by individual. There is a need to identify those
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