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Ben-Porath, Yossef S. The MMPI-2 content component scales: Development, psychometric characteristics, and clinical application. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1993.
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S, Ben-Porath Yossef, and Williams Carolyn L. 1951-, eds. The MMPI-A content component scales: Development, psychometric characteristics, and clinical application. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
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Polischuk, Nikolay, and Dmitriy Kohman. The legal mechanism for the implementation of amnesty in the Russian Federation and the social consequences of its application. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1863097.
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The monograph is devoted to the legal mechanism of implementation and the social consequences of the application of amnesty. The conducted research makes it possible to really assess the effectiveness of the amnesty, as well as to determine the directions of its improvement. The formulated conclusions and proposals complement and develop theoretical and legal knowledge in the field under study. The author's classification of amnesties has been developed, which may predetermine the conduct of separate studies for each of the types. The concept of "relapse of amnestied persons" is formulated, the signs of the amnesty act are established, the priority of the penological (penal) component in the characterization of the personality of a potentially amnestied person is justified. Separate
ways of improving the mechanism of amnesty implementation in the Russian Federation are highlighted, taking into account the experience of foreign countries and modern achievements of criminal law, criminology and penal enforcement law.
For students, postgraduates and teachers of law schools and faculties, as well as a wide range of readers interested in amnesty issues.
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Dessì, Giuseppe, and Mario Pinna. Tre amici tra la Sardegna e Ferrara. Edited by Costanza Chimirri. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6655-478-3.
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Una Sardegna riservata e lontana anima i testi di questo doppio carteggio, tra paesaggi arcaici e mitologie personali e letterarie nelle quali si inserisce ogni tanto la Ferrara degli anni giovanili degli autori, ricca di vita, di riviste («Primato» di Bottai, il «Corriere Padano» con la presenza di Bassani…), incontri serali nelle osterie o nelle camere in affitto, passeggiate lungo i Rampari, e l’uso di scherzosi soprannomi che sarebbe continuato oltre la giovinezza. Un mondo fatto di cose concrete, animato e vivificato da forti curiosità e passioni intellettuali, emerge dalle lettere, accuratamente trascritte e annotate da Costanza Chimirri, che ricostruiscono la vita e la storia di Giuseppe Dessí, Mario Pinna, Claudio Varese. La corrispondenza si apre con gli anni trascorsi a Ferrara – dopo Pisa momento cruciale per la loro formazione – e consente di ricostruire atmosfere ed ambienti, letture e lavoro, offrendo dall’interno un significativo spaccato dell’Italia del Novecento. Mai slegati tra loro, bensì uniti dal continuo richiamo alla triplice amicizia nel nome di Giuseppe Dessí, che è sempre presente, anche in assenza, nei discorsi degli altri, i carteggi hanno consentito anche di riportare alle luce testi inediti del più appartato del gruppo (Mario Pinna, accanito lettore di classici, ispanista, autore di poesie in dialetto logudorese e di brevi racconti ambientati in Sardegna), di rafforzare il ruolo da sempre ricoperto dal più ‘antico’ – per tutti maître-camarade – Claudio Varese; e di confermare ancora una volta quanto l’universo creativo di Dessí, profondamente segnato dalla componente biografica, abbia continuato a svilupparsi e alimentarsi sotto lo sguardo sapiente e affettuoso di amici fraterni, in uno scambio capace di dare vita a un vero e proprio immaginario collettivo.
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Sobhany, Maryam Saffaripoor. Creativity quotient: A statistical instrument for combining cognitive and personality components of creative thinking. 1987.
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Thompson, Sue Ellen. COMPONENTS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE OF FEMALE VICTIMS IN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. 1989.
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Rauch, Andreas, and Michael Frese. A Personality Approach to Entrepreneurship. Edited by Susan Cartwright and Cary L. Cooper. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199234738.003.0006.
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The aim of this article is to review the personality approach on the basis of the theoretical framework, which assumes that the effects of a person's traits on his or her entrepreneurial behavior are mediated by specific traits and motivations, and moderated by environmental conditions. The article relies to a considerable extent on meta-analytical evidence. It argues that although the personality approach to entrepreneurship may help in explaining entrepreneurial behavior, it should be supplemented by sound and theoretically justified developments of modern personality psychology. The article also argues that it is essential to include a process view: Prime candidates for mediating processes are characteristics which are more proximal to the actions and the behavior of entrepreneurs. Although an individual's personality consists of stable trait components as well as of less stable ones, a personality approach also needs to consider the process dynamics of personality constructs.
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Siever, Larry. Clinical Phenomenology of Borderline Personality Disorder. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199997510.003.0004.
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This chapter takes an in-depth look at the clinical phenomenology of borderline personality disorder (BPD); the core, essential dimensions that are widely recognized as part of this personality disorder; and will essentially examine what an individual with BPD looks like. Although research on mental illness is moving toward a more neurobiological approach to understanding illness, as we learn more about the brain and the ways in which it affects us, clinicians must maintain awareness of clinical phenomenology. The importance of learning the biological components of mental illness cannot be underscored enough, but as we learn what parts of the brain are activated during various mental activities, we need to be able to understand patients’ clinical manifestations of a disorder and the ways in which it directly affects their lives and the lives of those around them.
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Penny, Robert E. The definitional component of personality ratings. 1985.
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Mullins-Sweatt, Stephanie, Douglas B. Samuel, and Ashley Helle. Clinical Utility of the Five Factor Model. Edited by Thomas A. Widiger. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199352487.013.7.
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The purpose of this chapter is to discuss the clinical utility of the Five Factor Model (FFM). This chapter will consider the clinical application of the FFM for treatment in general, but its primary focus will be on the clinical utility of an FFM of personality disorders. Discussed herein will be the three fundamental components of clinical utility: ease of usage, communication, and treatment planning. Empirical research concerning the clinical utility of the FFM also will be considered in terms of the three components. Finally, research and examination of clincians’ perspectives of the utilty of categorical and dimensional models of personality will be discussed.
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Lucas, Richard. Subjective Well-Being in Psychology. Edited by Matthew D. Adler and Marc Fleurbaey. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199325818.013.13.
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Within psychology, subjective well-being refers to a person’s overall evaluation of the quality of life from his or her own perspective. Traditionally, psychologists have focused on three specific components of subjective well-being: life satisfaction, positive affect, and negative affect, though disagreements exist about precisely how these components should be best measured. Psychological research shows that intuitively appealing predictors of SWB, such as income and health, are typically only weakly correlated with SWB, whereas personality predictors tend to be stronger. This chapter reviews basic psychological research on SWB, addresses questions about the conceptualization and measurement of the construct, and discusses recent attempts to clarify the associations among the various components that are typically studied.
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Beautiful Elements: Creative Components to Personalize Your Jewelry. Kalmbach Publishing Company, Books Division, 2015.
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Pratt, Michael W., and M. Kyle Matsuba. Peer and Romantic Relationships in Emerging Adulthood. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199934263.003.0008.
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Chapter 8 focuses on the development of peer and romantic relationships. The authors draw on Erikson’s theory as focused around the key period of intimacy development in emerging adulthood, and also discuss attachment theory models on this topic. They review the longitudinal research evidence on links between the three components of personality in the McAdams and Pals model and intimacy development. Turning to the evidence from our Futures Study sample, the authors analyze stories told at ages 26 and 32 about friends and about romantic partners, and how these two domains of relationships are linked with personality development. Finally, to illustrate key topics, the chapter ends with a case study on the complex and stressful romantic relationship of an iconic Canadian political couple from the 1970s, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and his emerging adult-aged wife, Margaret Sinclair.
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Crits-Christoph, Paul, and Jacques P. Barber. Psychological Treatments for Personality Disorders. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med:psych/9780199342211.003.0027.
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For the treatment of borderline personality disorder, a meta-analysis found statistically significant effects indicating a beneficial effect of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) over treatment as usual for reduction in anger, parasuicidality, and mental health. All of these effects were moderate to large. However, DBT is not uniquely effective for borderline personality disorder. Two type 1 randomized controlled trials found equal effects for versions of psychodynamic therapy. Single type 1 studies have also supported the efficacy, compared to treatment as usual, of cognitive therapy, schema therapy, and Systems Training for Emotional Predictability and Problem Solving (STEPPS, a therapy that combines cognitive-behavioral techniques and skills training with a systems component) as treatments for borderline personality disorder.
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Morin, Jean-François G., Maggie Harris, and Patricia J. Conrod. A Review of CBT Treatments for Substance Use Disorders. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935291.013.57.
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This review article presents a summary of the existing literature on well-established CBT treatments for substance use disorder. It provides an overview of the origins, procedure, and evidence for six CBT treatment models: relapse prevention (RP) and mindful-based relapse prevention (MBRP), guided self-change (GSC), community reinforcement approach (CRA), behavioral couples therapy (BCT), and personality-targeted brief interventions. Common intervention components include orienting clients towards a meaningful goal, teaching necessary skills to reduce substance use and successfully achieve the goal, and establishing plans to face potential relapses, which generally appear to produce moderate to large effects across contexts and substance-related outcomes.
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Barlow, David H., Todd J. Farchione, Shannon Sauer-Zavala, Heather Murray Latin, Kristen K. Ellard, Jacqueline R. Bullis, Kate H. Bentley, Hannah T. Boettcher, and Clair Cassiello-Robbins. Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med-psych/9780190685973.001.0001.
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The Unified Protocol (UP) for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders: Therapist Guide is a treatment programv applicable to all anxiety and unipolar depressive disorders and potentially other disorders with strong emotional components (e.g., eating disorders, borderline personality disorder). The UP for the Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders addresses neuroticism by targeting the aversive, avoidant reactions to emotions that, while providing relief in the short term, increase the likelihood of future negative emotions and maintains disorder symptoms. The strategies included in this treatment are largely based on common principles found in existing empirically supported psychological treatments—namely, fostering mindful emotion awareness, reevaluating automatic cognitive appraisals, changing action tendencies associated with the disordered emotions, and utilizing emotion exposure procedures. The focus of these core skills has been adjusted to specifically address core negative responses to emotional experiences.
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Cothran, Rickey, and Martin Thiel, eds. Reproductive Biology. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190688554.001.0001.
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This is the sixth volume of a ten-volume series on The Natural History of the Crustacea. The volume synthesizes in nineteen chapters our current understanding of diverse topics in crustacean reproductive biology. The first part of the volume address allocation strategies to reproduction, gamete production, brooding behavior and other components of parental care in crustaceans. The second part of the volume centers on sexual systems in crustaceans. The third section of the volume covers crustacean mating systems and sexual selection. The volume ends with three chapters covering diverse topics including reproductive rhythms, and crustacean personality research, and record breaking crustaceans with respect to reproductive characters. Collectively, these nineteen chapters provide an integrative and comprehensive treatment of crustacean reproductive biology from gamete formation to mating and reproductive strategies and their evolutionary and ecological consequences.
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Hemmelgarn, Anthony L., and Charles Glisson. Understanding and Assessing Organizational Social Context (OSC). Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190455286.003.0003.
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This chapter describes the OSC measurement system. The OSC measure assesses culture, climate, and worker attitudes as the key components of OSC. Including multiple dimensions of culture and climate, the OSC measure provides a personality profile of organizations based on the responses of direct service providers within the work units that are assessed. Empirically derived, the dimensions and resulting measurement profiles allow users to assess the health of their organization’s social context using national norms for behavioral health and social service organizations. The authors explain the use of the OSC measure in their ARC organizational improvement process, and they integrate research and case examples to illustrate how the OSC measure can be applied for organizational assessment and change efforts. These efforts include using social context profiles to identify targets for change, action plans, and objectives to achieve within organizational development efforts.
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Baturo, Alexander, and Jos Elkink. The New Kremlinology. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192896193.001.0001.
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The New Kremlinology is the first in-depth examination of the development of regime personalisation in Russia. In the post-Cold War period, many previously democratising countries experienced authoritarian reversals whereby incumbent leaders took over and gravitated towards personalist rule. Scholars have predominantly focused on the authoritarian turn, as opposed to the type of authoritarian rule emerging from it. In a departure from accounts centred on the failure of democratisation in Russia, this book's argument begins from a basic assumption that the political regime of Vladimir Putin is a personalist regime in the making. Focusing on the politics within the Russian ruling coalition since 1999, The New Kremlinology describes the process of regime personalisation, that is, the acquisition of personal power by a leader. Drawing from comparative evidence and theories of personalist rule, the investigation is based on four components of regime personalisation: patronage networks, deinstitutionalisation, media personalisation, and establishing permanency in office. The fact that Russia has gradually acquired many---but not all---of the characteristics associated with a personalist regime, underscores the complexity of political change and that we need to unpack the concept of personalism to understand it better. The lessons of the book extend beyond Russia and illuminate how other personalist and personalising regimes emerge and develop. Furthermore, the title of the book, The New Kremlinology, is chosen to emphasise not only the subject matter, the what, but also the how --- the battery of innovative methods employed to study the black box of non-democratic politics.
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Rizvi, Shireen L., and Kristen M. Roman. Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199997510.003.0016.
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Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based, psychosocial treatment originally developed for suicidal individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD). It is now broadly seen as the treatment of choice for individuals with BPD. DBT is a comprehensive, cognitive-behavioral treatment designed to help a client achieve a “life worth living.” Research on DBT’s effectiveness is compelling and was the first to empirically demonstrate that individuals with BPD and severe emotional dysregulation and/or suicidal behavior could be effectively treated with a psychosocial therapy. As the research literature on DBT continues to grow, it will be important to move beyond randomized clinical trials comparing DBT to control treatments and instead focus on identifying important predictors and mediators of change. This chapter describes the foundation and theoretical underpinnings of DBT, provides details about the structure of DBT in all its components, and summarizes some existing research. A detailed case example is provided.
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Pickard, Hanna. Stories of Recovery. Edited by John Z. Sadler, K. W. M. Fulford, and Werdie (C W. ). van Staden. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198732372.013.45.
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I explore the role of narrative understanding in recovery from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and personality disorder (PD), and explain why self-autonomy and self-creation, as components of narrative understanding, are central to the recovery process. Drawing on a hypothetical clinical vignette, I show how narrative understanding can impede recovery if it is not harnessed to a patient’s sense of agency for change and hope for the future. I suggest that this risk can be averted by focusing on how narrative is a form of understanding that can surprise us and defy expectations, allowing us to free ourselves from our pasts and treat our futures as open. I conclude by reflecting on the difficult balance that clinicians must strike in supporting patients to develop narratives that genuinely promote recovery: they must hold hope for their patients, yet temper their hope with realism about the genuine constraints and hardships their patients face.
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Fortin, Katharine. International Legal Personality of Armed Groups under Human Rights Law. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198808381.003.0006.
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This final chapter of Part II of the book draws together the conclusions of the previous two chapters to develop conclusions about the circumstances in which armed groups can acquire legal personality under human rights law. Examining these conclusions, the chapter argues that there is a need for a threshold test to be met before international human rights law can be applied. It argues that this threshold test should include an ‘organization’ component and an ‘international’ requirement. Drawing upon the conclusions in Chapter 2 on the normative value of human rights law versus international humanitarian law, the chapter ends by considering how an armed group’s control of territory may be relevant to such a threshold test.
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Szypielewicz, Ludmiła, ed. Sovremennye trendy v mežkulʹturnoj kommunikacii i didaktike/Contemporary Trends in Intercultural Communication and Didactics. University of Warsaw Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323555131.
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The monograph presents a system-dynamic model of intercultural communication and pedagogy. Authors hailing from eight countries (Armenia, Finland, Georgia, Iraq, Japan, Poland, Russia and Ukraine) examine the principles of interaction of linguistic cultures, components of intercultural dialogue, models and mechanisms of overcoming difficulties in communication between representatives of different cultures. The volume offers answers to a number of crucial questions. Why is it so important to highlight the current trends in intercultural communication? Which factors help and which hinder the development of communication? Which pedagogical methods and techniques are more effective? What is the influence of language on personality formation? How are the individual and the collective mentality, ideology, and culture reflected in language and at the same time formed by it? Among the authors are both those with extensive research experience and young ones. The monograph may be of interest not only to linguists but also to diplomats, sociologists, businesspeople, ethnographers, psychologists, cultural studies scholars, and, more generally, all those who confront these issues in their professional or everyday lives.
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Black, Donald W., and Nancee Blum, eds. Systems Training for Emotional Predictability and Problem Solving for Borderline Personality Disorder. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med:psych/9780199384426.001.0001.
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This edited, multi-authored text brings together all that is known about Systems Training for Emotional Predictability and Problem Solving (STEPPS), a group treatment program for outpatients with borderline personality disorder. The book describes the program, the evidence that is supportive of STEPPS, and its implementation in a variety of settings and countries. Created at the University of Iowa in 1995, STEPPS combines cognitive-behavioral therapy, skills training, and psychoeducation with a systems component for family, friends, and significant others. The 5-month-long program is easily learned and delivered by therapists from a wide range of theoretical orientations. Data show that STEPPS is effective and produces clinically important improvement. The program is well accepted by patients and therapists. STEPPS is listed in the US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA) National Registry of Evidence-based Practices (NREPP). The program is embraced by the health care systems in the United Kingdom and The Netherlands and is used in correctional settings.
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Fulford, K. W. M., Martin Davies, Richard G. T. Gipps, George Graham, John Z. Sadler, Giovanni Stanghellini, and Tim Thornton. Introduction. Edited by K. W. M. Fulford, Martin Davies, Richard G. T. Gipps, George Graham, John Z. Sadler, Giovanni Stanghellini, and Tim Thornton. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199579563.013.0043.
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In this introduction to Section VI, the thrust of the component chapters is described. The classification and diagnosis of mental disorders collects a number of philosophical challenges to the field that call for responses from a variety of philosophical resources: hermeneutics, phenomenology, philosophy of mind, narrative theory, philosophy of science, epistemology-to name a few. The authors in this section address the general challenges in the classification of psychopathology, as well as address particular kinds of mental disorders, including autism, dementia, mania, psychotic disorders, and personality disorders.
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Kawachi, Ichiro. Trust and Population Health. Edited by Eric M. Uslaner. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190274801.013.35.
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Research in public health approaches trust as a component of social cohesion, a characteristic of the social context in which an individual is embedded. This article discusses the theoretical mechanisms why living in a trusting environment might be associated with better health outcomes. A conceptual dilemma in health studies is that individual trust perceptions overlap with the personality trait of “cynical hostility” (from the field of psychology). Multi-level studies help to distinguish between the health effects of cynical distrust (an individual characteristic) and trustworthiness of the environment. I review the empirical studies linking trust and health outcomes. To date, trust has been examined as a contextual feature of residential neigborhoods and workplaces. Future research needs to strengthen causal inference.
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Carrión, Victor G., John A. Turner, and Carl F. Weems. Emotion Processing. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190201968.003.0003.
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Prolonged difficulty identifying and regulating emotions is another essential symptom of PTSD, and has been associated with hormonal dysregulation, social and academic difficulties, and structural and functional brain deficits in youth and adults. Individual subject variance in personality, disposition, sex, and genotype has been shown to uniquely modulate the prefrontal and limbic brain regions associated with emotion processing. The current chapter examines how the component processes of emotion regulation, such as fear conditioning, can be dysregulated by the experience of traumatic stress, by which the brain centers that manage reactions to emotionally charged stimuli are over- or underactivated. The preclinical literature that serves as the basis for our understanding of these systems is reviewed, as well as studies of adults and children who have experienced trauma. Future directions, such as clinical care based on neuroendocrine research, are also discussed.
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Kugel, Uri, Catherine Hausman, Laurie Black, and Bruce Bongar. Psychology of Physical Bravery. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935291.013.36.
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Research indicates that the presence of physical courage or bravery is linked to increased resilience, decreased PTSD-related symptomatology, and greater feelings of personal competence. Seligman identifies courage as a factor of strength in his positive psychology model, and courage is widely identified as a healing component in clinical psychology. Recent data collected from the Physical Courage Survey (PCS), analyzing acts of physical courage, demographic variables, and personality characteristics indicate that bravery and courage are probably impacted by both nature and nurture. More specifically, individuals who performed acts of heroism and bravery are more likely to be self-confident, be an older child, have a tendency to take risk and seek sensation, be less cautious, be resilient, have a greater sense of humor, be a leader, have a deep sense of empathy for others, and attribute their success on the battlefield to training and modeling of others.
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Mouton, Angela R., and Monica N. Montijo. Hope and Work. Edited by Matthew W. Gallagher and Shane J. Lopez. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199399314.013.30.
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The world has an employee engagement crisis. Low employee engagement has a detrimental impact not only on employee performance and well-being but also on organizational outcomes, including revenue and profitability. This chapter sets out the argument that a key predictor of employee engagement (and therefore performance and well-being) is hope. The relationship between these variables is unpacked from a theoretical and empirical perspective. While the literature has tended to focus on the agency and pathways components of hope theory, this chapter argues that much more attention should given to the fact that hope rests on the pursuit of positively valenced, personally valued, meaningful goals. The chapter offers suggestions on how organizations and employees might amplify hope, engagement, and positive outcomes in the workplace by focusing on goals that matter not only to the organization but to employees also.
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Kirkpatrick, Kate. Death of God, Death of Love. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198811732.003.0008.
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Part IV (Chapters 8 and 9) constructively argues that Sartre is a useful resource for contemporary hamartiology. Chapter 8 argues (i) that Sartre’s account of love provides further evidence of the Jansenist inflection of his pessimism. On this basis, it makes the case that (ii) Being and Nothingness presents a ‘hermeneutics of despair’ (to adapt Ricoeur’s phrase). It then asks (iii) whether—and if so, how—this reading of Sartre might usefully inform contemporary hamartiology, arguing that some theological categories (such as sin and love) cannot be known merely conceptually, but must be acknowledged personally. Finally (iv) it presents the ‘original optimism’ of the Christian doctrine of sin, which is lacking in the situation Sartre describes. In both the Augustinian and Kierkegaardian accounts of Christianity, an important component of this original optimism is love.
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Friedman, William. About Time. The MIT Press, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/1050.001.0001.
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In About Time, William Friedman provides a new integrated look at research on the psychological processes that underlie the human experience of time. Few intellectual problems are as intriguing or as difficult as understanding the nature of time. In About Time, William Friedman provides a new integrated look at research on the psychological processes that underlie the human experience of time. He explains what psychologists have discovered about temporal perception and cognition since the publication of Paul Fraisse's The Psychology of Time in 1963 and offers fresh interpretations of their findings. In particular he shows that the experience of time depends on many different psychological processes and that it is essential to divide temporal experience into component categories in order to understand these processes. In chapters on perception and memory, Friedman discusses our impressions about the rate of time's passage and our ability to localize memories in time. He takes up representation and orientation, our ability to build mental representations of the time structures that surround us and to view these patterns from the unique perspective of the present moment. Moreover he shows that we can learn a great deal about the psychological basis of temporal experience by studying the development of this knowledge in children and the way in which views of time vary by culture, personality type, and kind of psychopathology. Bradford Books imprint
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Brugha, Traolach S. The Psychiatry of Adult Autism and Asperger Syndrome. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198796343.001.0001.
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Within general psychiatry, awareness of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and the use of the terms ‘autism’, ‘autistic disorder’, ‘Asperger syndrome’, the ‘autism spectrum’, and ‘high functioning autism’ (HFA) are growing. However, autism has yet to become part of the accepted mainstream, core curriculum of general psychiatry. Psychiatrists are now expected to be able to recognize autism and consider its effects on their adult patients, particularly those showing signs of comorbid mental disorder, for example, schizophrenia, personality disorder, mood disorder, or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). From childhood through to adulthood and old age there is a failure in autism to develop skills in reciprocal social interaction, understanding, and flexibility. This can profoundly affect behaviour in the community, personal independence, employability, and social relationships, including marriage and parenting. Most cases of autism in adults are unrecognized and undiagnosed, both within the general population and in adults using psychiatric services. This book gives a comprehensive introduction to autism and Asperger syndrome written to fit the adult clinician’s perspective. It will assist with autism recognition and diagnosis in adulthood. It is designed to enhance the clinician’s role in treating patients with co-morbid mental disorder, while understanding and taking account of the autism component. It will also help in signposting patients with autism to appropriate care and support, as family involvement diminishes, or ceases in adulthood and old age, and in the psychiatrist’s role in providing advice to the courts and in the context of detention in accordance with mental health law.
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Kant, Tanya. Making it Personal. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190905088.001.0001.
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The encounter of “personalized experiences”—targeted advertisements, tailored information feeds, and “recommended” content, among other things—is now a common and somewhat inescapable component of digital life. More often than not however, “you” the user are not primarily responsible for personalizing your web engagements: instead, with the help of your search, browsing, and purchase histories, your “likes,” your click-throughs, and a multitude of other data you produce as you go about your day, your experience can “conveniently”—and computationally—be personalized on your behalf. This book explores a host of new questions that emerge from web users’ encounters with these forms of algorithmic personalization. What do users “know” about the algorithms that apparently “know” them? If personalization practices seek to act on users’ behalf (for instance, by deciding what content is personally relevant), then how do users retain or relinquish their autonomy? Indeed, what kinds of selfhoods are made possible when personalization algorithms intervene in identity construction? Making It Personal is the first full-length monograph to critically analyze the sociocultural implications of algorithmic personalization through the accounts and testimonies of web users themselves. At the heart of the book are interviews and focus groups with web users who—through a myriad of resistant, tactical, resigned, or trusting engagements—encounter algorithmic personalization as part of their lived experience on the web. The book proposes that for those who encounter it, algorithmic personalization creates new implications for knowledge production, autonomy, cultural capital, and formations of self.