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Sperry, Len; Mansager, Erik – Counseling and Values, 2004
The authors offer a course correction for understanding the term holism as used in spiritually oriented psychotherapy literature. This is done to allow the relationship between psychotherapy and spirituality to expand beyond limited dualistic conceptualizations, They first address numerous sources from which spiritually oriented psychotherapy…
Descriptors: Psychotherapy, Psychology, Religious Factors, Holistic Approach
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Malesky, L. Alvin, Jr.; Ennis, Liam – Journal of Addictions and Offender Counseling, 2004
A covert observation of posts on a pro-pedophile Internet message board investigated evidence of distorted cognitions that were supportive of sexually abusive behavior. Implications for the treatment and supervision of members of online communities that support pedophilic interests and behaviors are discussed. The purpose of the present study was…
Descriptors: Internet, Sexuality, Sexual Abuse, Computer Mediated Communication
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Briner, Rob B.; Harris, Claire; Daniels, Kevin – British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 2004
The main aim of this paper is to make the case for why a fundamental reappraisal rather than incremental development of work stress and coping theory is required. In order to do this we present, in simplified form, some of the basic tenets of theory in this field. These tenets are questioned and their limitations identified in two ways. The first…
Descriptors: Coping, Stress Management, Stress Variables, Research
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Goldstein, Sara E.; Tisak, Marie S.; Persson, Anna V.; Boxer, Paul – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2006
The present study assessed children's evaluations of hypothetical peer provocation. Participants (N = 75, ages 8-11) were presented with hypothetical vignettes depicting relationally aggressive, physically aggressive and prosocial peers engaging in provocative behaviours directed at the participant, including (a) relational (not receiving a party…
Descriptors: Aggression, Prosocial Behavior, Child Behavior, Peer Relationship
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Kratochvil, Christopher J.; Delbello, Melissa; Upadhyaya, Himanshu; Wozniak, Janet – Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2005
A 12-year-old boy with no psychiatric history and no evidence of substance use presents with his first manic episode. Throughout the past 4 weeks, his family, school, and friends have noted distinct changes in his mood and behavior. His mood has oscillated between euphoria and severe irritability, with little or no provocation. He has been awake…
Descriptors: Pharmacology, Pediatrics, Mental Disorders, Males
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Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2005
This parameter reviews the current status of reactive attachment disorder with regard to assessment and treatment. Attachment is a central component of social and emotional development in early childhood, and disordered attachment is defined by specific patterns of abnormal social behavior in the context of "pathogenic care." Clinically relevant…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Children, Adolescents, Infants
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Pfau, Michael; Compton, Joshua; Parker, Kimberly A.; Wittenberg, Elaine M.; An, Chasu; Ferguson, Monica; Horton, Heather; Malyshev, Yuri – Human Communication Research, 2004
This investigation compared the traditional explanation for the way inoculation confers resistance to influence with an alternative rationale for resistance based on attitude accessibility. Four hundred forty-three participants took part in the investigation in four phases spanning 54 days. The combined multiple regression and structural equation…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Multiple Regression Analysis, Attitudes, Resistance (Psychology)
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Schneider, Edward F.; Lang, Annie; Shin, Mija; Bradley, Samuel D. – Human Communication Research, 2004
This study investigates how game playing experience changes when a story is added to a first-person shooter game. Dependent variables include identification, presence, emotional experiences and motivations. When story was present, game players felt greater identification, sense of presence, and physiological arousal. The presence of story did not…
Descriptors: Identification (Psychology), Violence, Video Games, Psychological Patterns
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Ashwin, Chris; Wheelwright, Sally; Baron-Cohen, Simon – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2005
People show a left visual field (LVF) bias for faces, i.e., involving the right hemisphere of the brain. Lesion and neuroimaging studies confirm the importance of the right-hemisphere and suggest separable neural pathways for processing facial identity vs. emotions. We investigated the hemispheric processing of faces in adults with and without…
Descriptors: Human Body, Asperger Syndrome, Cognitive Processes, Bias
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Guest, Claire M.; Collis, Glyn M.; McNicholas, June – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2006
The organization Hearing Dogs for Deaf People provides assistance dogs that alert their deaf or hard-of-hearing recipients to key sounds, thus increasing their independence and also providing companionship. Fifty-one recipients took part in a longitudinal study to monitor the dogs' working performance over time and to examine the social and…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Deafness, Longitudinal Studies, Animals
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Kidd, Jennifer M. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2004
In this article I argue that we need a greater understanding of the role of emotion in career development and career management. Notions of careers as sequences of events and experiences and new relational approaches to organizational career development suggest opportunities for exploring the experience, expression, and management of emotion…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Careers, Career Education, Career Development
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Diefendorff, James M.; Croyle, Meredith H.; Gosserand, Robin H. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2005
This investigation had two purposes. The first was to determine whether the display of naturally felt emotions is distinct from surface acting and deep acting as a method of displaying organizationally desired emotions. The second purpose was to examine dispositional and situational antecedents of surface acting, deep acting, and the expression of…
Descriptors: Labor, Emotional Response, Psychological Patterns, Work Attitudes
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Muris, Peter; Ollendick, Thomas H. – Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 2005
A substantial proportion of children and adolescents come to suffer from psychological disorders. This article focuses on the temperament factors that are involved in the pathogenesis of child psychopathology. It is argued that besides the reactive temperament factor of emotionality/neuroticism, the regulative process of effortful control also…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Etiology, Psychopathology, Adolescents
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Sabik, Natalie J.; Tylka, Tracy L. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2006
Feminist consciousness is theorized to be a powerful resource against the detrimental effects of sexism. The present study examined whether feminist identity styles moderated the relation of perceived lifetime and recent sexist events to disordered eating for 256 college women. Using hierarchical moderated regression, we found two styles of…
Descriptors: Feminism, Eating Disorders, Gender Bias, College Students
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Becker, L. R.; Beukes, L. D.; Botha, A.; Botha, A. C.; Botha, J. J.; Botha, M.; Cloete, D. J.; Cloete, J. L.; Coetzee, C.; De Beer, L. J.; De Bruin, D. J.; De Jager, L.; De Villiers, J. J. R.; Du Toit, C. M.; Engelbrecht, A.; Evans, R.; Haupt, M. M. C.; Heyns, D.; Howatt, L. M.; Joubert, A. P.; Joubert, J. C.; Niemann, A. C.; Phatudi, N. C.; Randall, E.; Rauscher, W. J.; Rautenbach, W. C.; Scholtz, S.; Schultz, J. C.; Swart, R.; Van Aswegen, H. J.; Van Heerden, J. C.; Van Vollenhoven, W. J.; Van Wyk, E. M.; Van Wyk, J. G. U.; Van der Walt, C. A.; Van der Westhuizen, C. N.; Vermeulen, D.; Vorster, A. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2004
In South Africa, recent government plans to change the institutional landscape of higher education have resulted in mergers of colleges into universities or technikons. The research reported in this article focuses solely on the impact of a "college-into-university'' incorporation as manifested in the personal, emotional and career…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Organizational Change, Universities, College Faculty
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