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Book SynopsisThis book presents the main findings of an empirical exploration of media discourses on social representations of “otherness” in seven European countries. It focuses on the analysis of press discourses produced over a fifteen-year period (2000–2015) on three contemporary figures of otherness that challenge the identity of European societies, question the attitudes towards diversity, and pose significant challenges for policy-makers: immigration, Islam, and LGBT. The book provides a comprehensive and articulate map of how national media addresses such themes from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives, revealing patterns of continuity and discontinuity across time and space. Lastly, it discusses these patterns in the light of their cultural meanings and their influence on social and political collective behaviours.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Part I: The identity-otherness dynamics.- Chapter 1. Identity, otherness, and sociocultural dynamics (Sergio Salvatore).- Chapter 2. Theories and methods (Alessia Rochira).- Part II: Maps of Otherness.- Chapter 3. Immigration (Giuseppe A. Veltri).- Chapter 4. Islam (Gordon Sammuta).- Chapter 5. LGBT (Alina Pop).- Part III: Symbolic resources for the representation of otherness.- Chapter 6. The semiotic construction of Otherness (Sergio Salvatore).- Chapter 7. An interpretative model: Semiotic fields and semiotic forces (Sergio Salvatore).- Chapter 8. Implications for policy-making and further developments (Giuseppe Veltri).

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Book SynopsisThis insightful volume explores the experiences of ethnic migrants returning to Hong Kong, Singapore, and Israel. Return migrants who were exposed to the western culture and society undergo personal transformations that significantly impact their views on values such as gender, individualism, democracy, tradition, and individual autonomy. To evaluate how well these individuals are able to reintegrate back into their native countries, the authors conducted a thorough comparative study between returnees in the three research sites through in-depth interviews, ethnographic fieldwork, and analyses of government policies. Among the topics discussed: Family as a strategic middle ground between the individual and society The social psychology of coping and adaptation Public, outer historical, and macro forces that shape returnees’ experiences Comparisons and contrasts between two primarily Chinese societies, along with one racially and culturally different Western society Cost-and-benefit analyses of decision-making in migration Return Migrants in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Israel is a compelling new perspective on the migrant experience drawn from in-depth research on returnees across three countries and a variety of circumstances.Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction – Cost-and-Benefit Analysis: Decision-Making in Migration 1.1 Globalization, Public Policy and Assimilation of Return Migration 1.2 Public Policy Implications of International Migration for Global Governance 1.3 Migrant Transnationalism and Family-based Migration 1.4 Globalized Economic Space, Transnationalism and Translocality 1.5 Some Theoretical and Methodological Considerations 1.6 On a National Level and Public Policy 1.7 Migrant’s Coping Strategies as Responses to Policies 1.8 Ritual Process, Community Development and De-alienation in Chinese Diasporic Communities 1.9 Chinese Ritual Performance as De-alienation 1.10 Ethnic Chinese Community Development as De-alienation 1.11 Return Migration, Social Action and Public Policy 1.12 Analytic Procedure and Aims of Study Chapter 2 The Hong Kong Study 2.1 Research Methods and Demographic Characteristics of Returnee Respondents in Hong Kong 2.2 Vignettes of Four Returnees 2.3 Factors Associated with Return Migration 2.4 Plight and Blight of the Mobile Migrants: Hidden Injuries of Global Mobility 2.5 Adjustment to Local Environment 2.6 Migrant Coping Strategies as Responses to Immigration Policies: Migrant’s Cost-and-Benefit Analysis 2.7 Suggestions to Other Returnees: Looking Beyond the Horizons of Costs and Benefits 2.8 What Will the Future Hold? 2.9 Some Reflections 2.10 Policy Recommendations to the Hong Kong Government Chapter 3 The Singapore Study 3.1 Research Methods and Demographic Characteristics of Returnee Respondents in Singapore 3.2 Evolution of Government Policies and Programs: Cost-and-Benefit Calculation in Historical Perspective 3.3 Government Programs and Initiatives Targeted at Overseas Singaporeans: The Long Arm of Global Capital Accumulation 3.4 The Balance Sheet of Migrating 3.5 Reasons for Return —- Weighing the Costs and Benefits of Recouping a Socio-economic-financial Stake 3.6 Preparation for Return 3.7 Returnees’ Problems and Dilemmas 3.8 Returnees’ Personal and Collective Strategies for Coping as Responses to Government Policies 3.9 Will They Stay or Leave? Migration Decision-making within a Cost-and-Benefit Framework 3.10 Some reflections 3.11 Policy Recommendations to the Singaporean Government Chapter 4 The Israel Study 4.1 Human Capital and Economic Growth in Israel: Successes and Dilemmas 4.2 Brain Drain and Cost-accounting of Human Capital Accumulation 4.3 What Causes the Israeli Brain Drain and Loss of Human Capital? 4.4 Factors Influencing Israelis’ Decision to Return 4.5 Brain Drain from Non-academic Sector: Two Stories 4.6 Development of Migration Policies—Costs and Benefits of Human Capital Growth 4.7 Dilemmas and Challenges of Current Migration Policies: Costs and Benefits of Global Innovative Knowledge Transfer 4.8 Evaluation of Migration Policies: Legitimatizing the “Unholy” Alliance of Brain Strain, Brain Gain and Brain Drain in the Migration Drama 4.9 Some Reflections Chapter 5 Conclusion 5.1 Comparing Public Policies on Return Migration 5.2 Toward a Universal Policy on Return Migrants and their Re-integration 5.3 In Reflection: Thinking Back and Forth, Back and Forth

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Book SynopsisThis valuable resource prepares graduate-level students in social work and other helping professions to provide integrated behavioral health services in community-based health and mental healthcare settings. Responding to the increasing prevalence of behavioral health issues in the general U.S. population and the resulting additional responsibilities for social workers and health professionals, this textbook describes the latest evidence-based practices and interventions for common behavioral health disorders as well as issues related to suicide, violence, substance use, and trauma. Detailed case studies help illustrate the effects of a range of interventions, inviting readers to consider how best to implement behavioral health assessment and treatment practices that are evidence-based, trauma-informed, and recovery-oriented. In addition to outlining integrated behavioral health service models and assessment tools, chapters address specific topics such as: Public health approaches to addressing interpersonal violence Intersections of social, behavioral, and physical health Achieving recovery and well-being from behavioral health disorders Motivating clients to achieve and maintain recovery from addiction Stage-based treatments for substance use disorders Cognitive behavioral approaches to treating anxiety and depressive disorders Evidence-based approaches to treating the effects of trauma and PTSD Integrated Behavioral Health Practice equips graduate students and health professionals alike to provide sensitive and informed interprofessional care for patients and families while consistently engaging in practices that emphasize recovery and well-being.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Integrated Behavioral Health Service Models and Core Competencies.- Chapter 2. The Intersections of Social, Behavioral, and Physical Health.- Chapter 3. Models of Change and Well-being from Behavioral Health Disorders.- Chapter 4. Behavioral Health Screening and Assessment.- Chapter 5. Person-Centered Treatment Planning.- Chapter 6. Integrated Behavioral Health Approaches to Interpersonal Violence.- Chapter 7. Trauma-Informed Behavioral Health Practice.- Chapter 8. Screening and Assessment for Depression and Anxiety Disorders.- Chapter 9. Brief Approaches to Treating Depression and Anxiety.- Chapter 10. Screening, Assessment, and Brief Interventions for Substance Use.- Chapter 11. Stage-Based Treatment Approaches for Substance Use Disorders.

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Book SynopsisThis book takes a sociocultural, developmental and dialogical perspective to explore the constructive and interconnected nature of remembering and imagining. Conceived as cognitive-affective processes, both emerge at the border of the person and his or her socio-cultural world. Memory is approached as a functional adaption to the environment using the resources of the past in preparation for action in the present. Imagination is tightly related to memory in that both aim to escape the confines of the concrete here-and-now situation; however, while memory is primarily oriented to the past, imagination looks to the future. Both are embedded in the exchanges with the social and cultural milieu, and thus theorizing them has relied on key ideas from Lev Vygotsky, Frederic Bartlett and Mikhail Bakhtin. Thus, this book aims to integrate theories of remembering and imagining, through rich empirical studies in diverse cultural settings and concerning the development of self and identity. These two groups of studies compose the subparts that organize the book. Table of Contents Preface Chapter 1: Introduction - Memory and imagination as meaning-making processes: A hint for a continuous dialogue Maria C.D.P. Lyra – Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil Brady Wagoner - Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark Alicia Barreiro - Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, National Scientific and Technical Research Council and University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Subpart 1: Imagination and remembering in cultural settings Chapter 1. 2: The dynamics between remembering and imagining in school transitions: A study on fictional narratives Graciana Azevedo – Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil Maria Claudia Oliveira – Universidade de Brasília (UnB), Brazil Giuseppina Marsico – Salerno University, Italy /Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark Chapter 1. 3: Imagining and remembering in an educational context: An exploratory study Karina Moutinho – Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil Taciana Feitosa – Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil Candy E. Marques-Laurendon – Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil Chapter 1. 4.: The microgenetic analysis of remembering and imagining in the process of learning scientific concepts João T. R. Silva – Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE),campus Caruaru, Brazil Maria C.D.P. Lyra – Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil Brady Wagoner - Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark Chapter 1. 5.: Remembering and forgetting: A crossroad between personal and collective experience Alicia Barreiro - Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, National Scientific and Technical Research Council and University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Inga Endsleff - Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark Chapter 1. 5.: Remembering and forgetting: A crossroad between personal and collective experience Marina A. Pinheiro - Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil Jandson Ferreira da Silva – Instituto Federal do Ceará, Brazil Luca Tateo - University of Oslo, Norway and Federal University of Bahia, Brazil Subpart 2: Self-development and Identity Construction Chapter 2. 7.: Constructing continuity after ruptures: The role of “anticipatory recognition” in children’s self development Monica Roncancio-Moreno - Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Colombia Elsa de Mattos - Universidade Católica do Salvador, Bahia/Brasil Chapter 2. 8.: Dynamics between past, present and future: the role of constructive imagination in a musician-teacher’s life trajectory Angela Branco – Universidade de Brasília (UnB), Brazil Tatiana Valerio – Instituto Federal de Pernambuco, Campus Belo Jardim, Brazil Chapter 2. 9.: Being in the world; the ACT of making and striking out personal self-constructions Elisa Krause-Kjær - associate researcher at Aalborg University Denmark and psychologist at Educational Psychological Services (EPS), Denmark Chapter 2. 10.: Co-constructing the past and the future in times of uncertainty. Students’ positions during the Brazilian teachers’ strike in 2012 Gabriel Fortes Cavalcanti de Macêdo - Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil Ignacio Brescó de Luna (Aalborg University) – Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, España

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Book SynopsisJaan Valsiner has made numerous contributions to the development of psychology over the last 40 years. He is internationally recognized as a leader and innovator within both developmental psychology and cultural psychology, and has received numerous prizes for his work: the Alexander von Humboldt prize, the Hans Killian prize, and the Outstanding International Psychologist Award from the American Psychological Association. Having taught at Universities in Europe, Asia and north and south America, he is currently Niels Bohr professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. This book is the first to discuss in detail the different sides of Valsiner’s thought, including developmental science, semiotic mediation, cultural transmission, aesthetics, globalization of science, epistemology, methodology and the history of ideas. The book provides an overview, evaluation and extension of Valsiner’s key ideas for the construction of a dynamic cultural psychology, written by his former students and colleagues from around the world.Table of Contents1. Introduction—Brady Wagoner, Bo Allesøe Christiansen, Carolin Demuth Part I. Rethinking the History of Psychology 2. Valsiner and van der Veer: A case of intellectual interdependency—Rene van der Veer 3. Jaan Valsiner: A Ganzheitspsychologist?—Rainer Diriwächter 4. The Self inside Us: Biologism, internalization, quantification and science—Martin Dege 5. Rising up to humanity: Towards a cultural psychology of Bildung—Svend Brinkmann Part II. Developmental Science in the Making 6. The dynamics of agency and context in human development: Holism revisited—Nancy Budwig 7. Forever feeding forward—Tania Zittoun 8. The construction of generalized knowledge: First essay on abbreviation—Maria C.D.P. Lyra 9. The concept of Irreversible Time—Dany Boulanger 10. The trajectory of Jaan Valsiner’s Thought— James Wertsch 11. The bounded indeterminancy of tradition— Lívia Mathias Simão Part III. The Semiotic Mind 14. A stroll through the birthplace of signs—Carlos Cornejo 15. Expansive and restrictive semiosis—Alex Gillespie 16. Hypergeneralized affective-semiotic fields: The generative power of a construct—Angela Branco 17. Unfolding semiosis: The field of mediated activity— Maria-Cécile Bertau Part IV. Cultural Transmission and Transformation 12. Culture as a creative process—Vlad Glaveanu 13. The Carnivalesque pedagogy: Jaan as a pedagogist?!—Kyoko Murakami 14. Overcoming the binary logic of biculturalism—Elke Murdock 15. Sense of belonging in the context of migration—Isabel Albert & Stephanie Barros 16. Political plasticity and culture—Fathali M. Moghaddam V. Aesthetics in Culture and Mind 23. Aesthetic Notes on Ornamented Lives— Robert Innis 24. Pleromatization: Bringing psychology closer to human experience—Hroar Klempe & Olga Lehman 25. The Vorbild of Donor Portraits and Cultural Psychology— Lucas Mazur 26. Poetic Genesis: Intimacy as a special form of boundary dynamics—Emily Abbey & Ana Cecilia Bastos 27. The fabric of (faked) behaviors shows in theater rehearsals— Alberto Rosa VI. Psychology as a Global Science 27. Local ideas for a global science— Nandita Chaudhary 28. From cross-cultural psychology towards a collective culture of general psychology— Pernille Hviid & Jacob Waag-Villadsen 29. The relationalism of Jaan Valsiner —Danilo Silva Guimarães 30. Jaan Valsiner, creator of opportunities for cultural ecology—Xiaowen Li, Shuangshuang Xu and Aruna Wu VII. Epistemological Foundations of Psychology 33. The science of psyche: Jaan Valsiner’s way at the frontiers—Aaro Toomela 34. Ideas and challenges for cultural psychology— Sergio Salvatore 35. Action-theoretical cultural psychology and the decentred subject— Jürgen Straub 36. Valsiner on Facts: making cultural practices explicit—Bo A. Christensen 37. Bridging: Some personal reflections— Jens Mammen VIII. Innovating Methodology 38. Method as Process— Mariann Märtsin 39. Catalysis in cultural psychology: Its past and future— Zack Beckstead 40. The Catalytic powers of psychoanalytic thought models—Erik Stänicke and Tobias Lindstad 41. Interpersonal psychoanalysis as a culturally unique field— Philip Rosenbaum 42. From ‘I-AM’ to ‘WE-AM’ predicates— Kevin Carriere 43. Trajectory equifinality approach— Tatsuya Sato, Teppei Tsuchimoto, Yasuda Yuko, and Ayae Kido IX. Concluding Comments 43. Jaan Valsiner

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Book SynopsisThe Caribbean and Oceania are understudied areas from a psychological perspective, and this book is designed to fill that knowledge gap. In addition to diverse, rich cultural traditions and abundant economic opportunity for some, these regions also reflect the challenges of modernity, including crime, poverty, ethnic tensions, adaptations to climate change, and disparities in health, education, and access to care. With contributions from noted psychologists in the Caribbean and Oceania, as well as experts from around the globe, this book provides nuanced examination of significant psychological issues in nations such as Fiji, Guyana, Belize, Haiti, Jamaica, and more. Psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals with an interest in this part of the world, will find this volume a rich resource, as will those generally interested in the relationship between culture and psychology. This book takes you on an outstanding journey of what is occurring in cultural psychology in the 21st century. It addresses the abundance of each nation through a transformational lens of current practices in psychology in Oceania and the Caribbean. I would absolutely recommend it to anyone interested in sailing the high seas connecting the present with the endless possibilities of those who dare to journey into the waters of a divine future.”- Florence Denmark, Past-President, American Psychological Association "Chock full of expert knowledge and insights, Psychology in Oceania and the Caribbean is an indispensable resource for psychologists. A must-read that will expand your understanding of life in these regions and beyond! “- Pamela A. Hays, PhD, Author of Addressing Cultural Complexities in Practice "This is a breath-taking book in its coverage of the uniquely endowed psychology worlds of Oceania and the Caribbean. Now that Dr. Rich, Dr. Ramkumar, and colleagues have produced this awesome book volume on the cultural psychology of the rim water nations, I have a palpable sense of relief from their having addressed a huge gap in cultural psychology scholarship. This volume opens hitherto undreamed of opportunities for further studies on cultural practices in psychology in Oceania and the Caribbean!”- Elias Mpofu, PhD, DE.D, CRC, MAPS, Professor of Health Sciences at the University of North Texas, Honorary Professor of Health Sciences at the University of Sydney and Executive Board member of the Australian Psychological Society’s Rehabilitation Psychology Interest Group"This book represents a vital exploration into the purpose and practice of Psychology in island nations. It is a welcome compilation of academic writings from sociocultural perspectives within Oceania and the Caribbean and serves as a landmark account of the unique forces shaping the development and evolution of Psychology in these states." - Gerard Hutchinson MD, Professor of Psychiatry, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and TobagoTable of ContentsPreface 1. Psychology in Paradise: Perspectives from Oceania and the Caribbean: An Overview Chapter - Grant J. Rich & Neeta A. Ramkumar Section: Psychology in the South Pacific 2. Psychology in Polynesia 3. Psychology in Hawaii and American Samoa – Anthony Marsella (U. Hawai’i) (tentative) 4. Psychology in New Zealand- B Kennedy and B Stiles-Smith (Massey University) 5. Psychology in Melanesia 6. Psychology in Fiji - Neeta A. Ramkumar 7. Psychology in New Caledonia (France) 8. Psychology in Papua New Guinea 9. Psychology in Micronesia Section: Psychology in the Caribbean 10. Psychology in the French speaking Caribbean 11 Psychology in Haiti - Wismick Jean-Charles and Grant J. Rich 12. Psychology in the Dutch speaking Caribbean 13. Psychology in the Spanish speaking Caribbean 14. Psychology in Puerto Rico- Irene López (Kenyon College) 15. Psychology in Cuba Psychology in the Dominican Republic 16. Psychology in the Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean- Donna-Maria Maynard, Mia Jules, & Suriya Daya (University of the West Indies) 17. Psychology in Jamaica 18. Psychology in Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago- Jaipaul L. Roopnarine (Syracuse U.) 19. Psychology in Belize- Grant J. Rich (Walden University) Section: Conclusion 20. Conclusion: Past, Present, and Future of Psychology in Paradise

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Book SynopsisThis textbook will familiarize readers with some of the most pressing solidarity and social justice issues in contemporary societies. Ongoing and emerging inequalities along the lines of gender, age, socio-economic status, ethnic background, and sexual orientation challenge the solidarity underlying societies, resulting in complex questions of social justice. Moreover, several global challenges, such as digitalization, climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemic challenge solidarity and social justice in new ways. How do societies respond to these enduring, growing or changing inequalities? Do these challenges lead to an expansion or an erosion of solidarity, in an 'us versus them' rhetoric? And to what extent do societies differ in their social justice values and hence the acceptance of social inequality? Taking a sociological, psychological, and political philosophical approach to these topics, this book offers state-of-the art theoretical and empirical contributions from globally-recognized scholars in sociology, psychology, and political philosophy, providing a unique interdisciplinary approach to understanding solidarity and social justice in response to social inequalities in contemporary European societies.Table of ContentsSection I Introduction. 1 Why Solidarity and Social Justice Still Matter Today. Introduction. Key Concepts in the Book. Outline of the Book. Glossary. References. Section II Theoretical Perspectives on Solidarity and Social Justice. 2 Who We Are and Who We Choose to Help (or Not): An. Introduction to Social Identity Theory. Introduction. A Brief Introduction to Social Identity Theory. How Can Social Identities Encourage Intergroup Animosity and Resistance to Social Change?. How Can Social Identities Facilitate Intergroup Solidarity and Social Change?. Conclusion. Glossary. References. 3 Understanding Solidarity in Society: Triggers and Barriers for In and Outgroup Solidarity. Introduction. Forms of Solidarity: To Whom Do We Owe?. Social Justice: What Do We Owe?. Macro−/Meso-level Solidarity: Sociological Ideas About Social Justice and Solidarity. Micro-level Solidarity: Psychological Ideas on Solidarity. Conclusion: Social Justice and Solidarity. Glossary. References. 4 Social Justice and the Justification of Social Inequalities. Introduction. What Is a Just Distribution of Burdens and Benefits?. How Can We Create a Just Decision-Making Process?. Who Is Included in Our Justice Judgments?. How Do People Justify Injustice and Inequalities?. Conclusion. Glossary. References. 5 The Philosophy of Social Justice and Welfare Provision: Towards Capacitating Solidarity. Introduction. The Good Polity: From T.H. Marshall to John Rawls. The Good Life: From the Means of Economic Security to the Ends of Human Flourishing. ‘Stepping-Stone’ Solidarity to Complement ‘Robin Hood’ and ‘Piggy-Bank’ Social Security. Conclusion: The Correlates of the Good Life in the Good Polity. Glossary. References. 6 Who Should Get What and Why? Insights from Welfare Deservingness Theory. Introduction. The Welfare Deservingness Model. Individual and Contextual Differences in Deservingness Opinions. Conclusion. Glossary. References. Section III An Empirical Overview of Social Inequalities Across Societal Fault Lines. 7 Gender Stereotypes: What Are They and How Do They Relate to Social Inequality?. Introduction. Where Do Gender Stereotypes Come From and How Are They Reinforced?. Gender Stereotypes and Social Inequality. Promoting Gender Equality. Conclusion. Glossary. References. 8 Gender Inequality: Perceptions of Fairness and Justice. Introduction. Gender Inequality in Housework, Care Work, and Paid Employment. A Social Justice Framework for Understanding Gender Inequality. Empirical Example: Accepting Unfair Arrangements at Work. Conclusion. Glossary. References. 9 Modern Ageism and Age Stereotyping. Introduction. Age-Related Stereotypes. Stereotype Origins. Consequences of Stereotypes. Countering Modern Ageism. Conclusion. Glossary. References. 10 Is the Intergenerational Social Contract Under Pressure?.-Studying Age Cleavages in Attitudes Towards Government Support for the Young and the Old. Introduction. Age and Attitudes Towards Welfare Provision for the Young and the Old. Data and Methodology. Conclusion. Glossary. References. 11 How to Study and Understand Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health. Introduction. Defining and Measuring Socioeconomic Position. Intersectionality, Self-Perceived SEP, and Stereotypes. Consequences of SEP for Health and Well-Being. Battling Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health and Well-Being. Conclusion. Glossary. References. 12 Deservingness and Socio-Economic Cleavages. Introduction. Deservingness theory and Socio-Economic Differences. Deservingness perceptions in Slovenia and Germany. Conclusion. Glossary. References. 13 They Take Away Our Jobs! They Undermine Our National Culture! Public Perceptions of Immigrants and Their Consequences for Solidarity Across Ethnic Boundaries. Introduction. Are They Friendly and Competent? Stereotypes of Immigrants. Stereotypes as Barriers for Inter-Ethnic Solidarity in the Context of Immigration. Host Society Members’ Perceptions of Economic and Cultural Threats. Threat Perceptions as Barriers for Host Society’s Solidarity with Immigrants. Conclusion. Glossary. References. 14 Welfare Chauvinism: Are Immigrants Granted Access to Welfare State Benefits?. Introduction. Welfare Chauvinism in Relation to the Welfare Deservingness Literature. Explanations of Welfare Chauvinism. Incidence of Welfare Chauvinism. Welfare Chauvinism: EU Versus Non-EU Immigrants and Different Welfare State Domains. Immigrants Themselves on Welfare State Access. Conclusion. Glossary. References. 15 Sexual Orientation as Social Justice Fault Line: The Role of Stigmatised Identities and Minority Community Solidarity in Social Inequalities in Wellbeing. Introduction. Social Inequality Affecting Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual People. Social Stigma, Minority Stress and Wellbeing of LGB People. Solidarity to Achieve Social Justice for LGB People. Conclusion. Glossary. References. 16 Perceptions of Deservingness: Civil and Social Rights for Same-Sex Families. Introduction. Civil and Social Rights of Same-Sex Families Within the EU: The Debate. The Current Study: Data and Methods. Results. Civil and Social Rights of Citizens Who Move Within the EU. Conclusion. Glossary. References. Section IV Global Challenges to Solidarity and Social Justice. 17 Leaving No One Behind: Climate Change as a Societal Challenge for Social Justice and Solidarity. Introduction. Environmental Justice in Reaction to Climate Change. Individual Behaviour in Climate Change Mitigation. Beyond the Motivation for Sustainable Behaviour. Sustainability Transitions: Challenges for Solidarity and Social Justice. Glossary. References. 18 Digitalisation of Public Services as a Challenge to Social Justice. Introduction. Digitalisation of Public Services Provision. Social Justice and the Digital Divide. Conclusion. Glossary. References. 19 The Covid-19 Pandemic and Societal Challenges to Solidarity and Social Justice: Consequences for Vulnerable Groups. Introduction. Inequalities in the Prevalence and Severity of COVID-19. Inequalities in the Impact of Measures to Curb COVID-19. Challenges to Solidarity and Social Justice During the Ongoing Pandemic. Conclusion. Glossary. References. Section V Conclusions. 20 Understanding Solidarity and Social Justice: Barriers that Remain. Introduction. Key Conclusions About Solidarity and Social Justice. Solidarity, and Social Justice in a Changing World?. References.

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Book SynopsisThis book is an up-to-date compendium of knowledge on the secret language of close relationships, namely nonverbal routes of communication. In close relationships, as everyone learns sooner or later, the usefulness of words can be somewhat limited, because people (a) mean different things by the same words, (b) mean the same thing by different words, (c) sometimes find it hard to express their feelings in words, and (d) lie. Nonverbal signals therefore often provide the best means of communication. The book points out how decoding (interpreting) nonverbal signals is a major key to success, because often what people say wholly belies how they feel—nonverbal signals reveal their true feelings rather than what they want other people to think their feelings are. This book helps decode those secret signals. The book is written by the leading worldwide experts in the field of nonverbal communication to ensure accuracy, comprehensiveness, and timeliness.Table of Contents1. Interpersonal Oculesics: Eye-Related Signals of Attraction, Interest, and Connection.2. Communication and Communal Emotions in the Learning of Love.3. The Role of Nonverbal Communication in Leadership Skills.4.The Look of Love: Evolution and Nonverbal Signs and Signals of Attraction.5. Love Signals and the Reproductive Force.6. The Verbal and Nonverbal Communication of Romantic Interest.7. Misunderstood Non-verbal Cues in Close Relationships: Contributions of Research Over Opinions.8. What Words Don’t Tell Us: Non-verbal Communication and Turmoil in Romantic Relationships.9. Negative Emotions, Facial Clues, and Close Relationships: Facing the End?.10. Love in the Time of COVID-19: What We Can Learn About Non-verbal Behaviour from Living with a Pandemic.11. Non-verbal communication: From good endings to better beginnings.12. The Functions and Consequences of Interpersonal Touch in Close Relationships.13. Nonverbal Skills in Relationships: Too Little or Too Much May Be a Bad Thing.14. Non-verbal Communication in Relationships as a Link between Affect and Social Intelligence.

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Book SynopsisDieses Buch zielt darauf ab, ein tieferes Verständnis des Konzepts und der negativen Folgen von Mitarbeiterbindung zu vermitteln, indem es Mitarbeiter in Organisationen und die OB-Theorie berücksichtigt und die Erfahrungen von Mitarbeitern in europäischen und ostasiatischen Kulturen vergleicht. Durch eine internationale Analyse der Mitarbeiterbindung in der Dienstleistungsbranche unterstreicht der Autor die Bedeutung dieses hochrelevanten, aber oft übersehenen Themas für die Lösung praktischer Probleme wie Konfliktlösung, Mitarbeiterbindung, Dienstleistungsmentalität und Arbeitsaufwand. Ausgehend von einer klaren Definition und Bewertung des Konzepts der Mitarbeiterbindung untersucht dieses Buch die bedeutsamen theoretischen und praktischen Implikationen der Ansichten der Mitarbeiter über die Organisation, die Arbeitsgruppe und den Vorgesetzten.Table of ContentsKapitel 1. Einführung.- Kapitel 2. Mitarbeiter in Organisationen.- Kapitel 3. Das Konzept der Mitarbeiterbindung.- Kapitel 4. Ergebnisse der Mitarbeiterbindung.- Kapitel 5. Mitarbeiterloyalität im interkulturellen Vergleich.- Kapitel 6. Empirische Untersuchung der Mitarbeiterbindung.- Kapitel 7. Ergebnisse.- Kapitel 8. Diskussion.- Kapitel 9. Schlussfolgerung.

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Book SynopsisDecolonisation in and beyond community psychologies: A transnational plurilogue.-Revisiting Maritza Montero's work from a decolonial perspective.-The Psychological, A Critique From Decolonial Community Psychology.-Emotion and Affect in Social and Political Life: Community Psychology's Contributions and Erasures.-Reproducing Coloniality: Language, Gender, and Neoliberal Discourses of Selfhood.-Teaching community psychology from an entanglement framework.-Decolonizing community-based research and practice in the Indonesian context: Refuting superiority, foregrounding solidarity.-Sacred Cenote Spaces Nurturing Heart-Centered Collective Transformation.-Community Psychology and life on the streets: problematizations of the concept of community.-Decolonial Attitude And Community Psychology In Social Policy.-Reflections on Decoloniality, Liberation and Community Psychology.-Towards a decolonising psychology: Reflexivity with mothers and adolescents from the Maya Region of Yucatan.-Aula en la Montaña: Deconstructing coloniality in childhood through community action.-Challenging Borders and Border Violence: A Decolonial Community Psychology Perspective.-Everyday Solidarities and Epistemic Justice: Nourishing Ecologies of Wellbeing.-Refusing Necropolitics in St. John and in Palestine: Unearthing Stories of Land Dispossession, Desire and the Will to Live.-Reimaging a Decolonial and Post-Sectarian Lebanon: A Reflection on the October 17 Uprising.-Colonial constructions of friendship and land dispossession: implications for contemporary land and environmental defending.-A march is beginning, a march for freedom: Miya poetry as decolonial praxis toward justice and liberation.-Scars of Resistance: Battling Through the Pain, Bearing the Bruises.-From collective reflexivity to personal responsibility: Making sense of community critiques about Kurdish Power' research.-Anthropocentric limits of community: Relation as a black and indigenous ethic.-Illegible Fugitivity and Subversive Resistances: black decolonial roots of decoloniality.-Contributions of Afro-Pindoramic thought to the decolonial turn in community psychology.-Decolonial Community Psychology from Abya Yala.-Weaving Pathways Towards Decoloniality Through Indigenous Community-Based Research and Cosmopraxes.-Decolonial Practices from a Community Psychology.-Contributions and contradictions in decolonizing community psychology: Accompanying Mayan and Andean Women through feminist PAR.-The Indigenous Foundations of the Decolonial Community Psycholog.

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Book SynopsisPart I - Social and Community Psychology.- Chapter 1: Introduction to Part I - Social and Community Psychology.- Chapter 2: For a Non-Constructionist Critical Social Psychology: Reflections from the Crtitical Realism of Ignacio Martín-Baró.- Chapter 3: Factors that Facilitate and Hinder the Reintegration Processes of Former Combatants and their Families.- Chapter 4: Revisiting Social Class in the Study of Collective Action: The Case of a Chilean Socio-Environmental Movement.- Chapter 5: Dimensions of Social Integration in Colombian and Cuban Population Living in Quito, Ecuador.- Chapter 6: Ethnic Identity and Social Behaviors in Mapuche Indigenous Adolescents Sanctioned by the Juvenile Criminal Responsibility Law in Southern Regions of Chile.- Part II – Education, Cognition and Developmental Psychology.- Chapter 7: Introduction to Part II – Education, Cognition and Developmental Psychology.- Chapter 8: The Role of the Coach in Teaching Life Skills to Young Brazilians At-Risk of Social Vulnerability.- Chapter 9: Towards a Critical Psychosocial Approach to School Violence: Contributions from a Study with Students from the City of Córdoba, Argentina.- Chapter 10: Control Paths and Covariation of Variables as an Expression of Cognitive Change in Problem Solving.- Chapter 11: Characterization of Care Practices in Colombian Families with Children in Early Childhood in a Situation of Forced Displacement.- Chapter 12: Perceptions of Parenting Styles and Their Relationship to Self-Perceptions of Children in Buenos Aires: Gender Differences.- Part III – Neuropsychology, Clinical and Health Psychology.- Chapter 13: Introduction to Part III – Neuropsychology, Clinical and Health Psychology.- Chapter 14: Influence of Sex, Age, and Culture on Coping Strategies of Paraguayan and Mexican Adolescents.- Chapter 15: Implementation of the Psychological Intervention Program in Resilience for Informal Caregivers of Patients with Alzheimer's Dementia PIRCA.- Chapter 16: Suicidal Ideation and Peer Group: Analysis in a Sample of Venezuelan Adolescents.- Chapter 17: Analysis of the Perception of Static and Dynamic Events in People with Alzheimer’s Disease.

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Book SynopsisPart I. Theoretical Perspectives.- Chapter 1. Subjective Disconnection: An Attachment Perspective.- Chapter 2. The Evolutionary Theory of Loneliness.- Part II. Assessing and Measuring Loneliness.- Chapter 3. The Measurement of Loneliness: An Obituary (and How to Move On).- Chapter 4. Disciplinary and Methodological Pluralism in Loneliness Studies.- Part III. Personality and Loneliness.- Chapter 5. Pathological narcissism and loneliness.- Chapter 6. Loneliness and Dark Personality.- Part IV. Covid-19 and Loneliness.- Chapter 7. Impact of COVID-19 Policy Stringency and Lockdown on Loneliness.- Chapter 8. Loneliness before and after the COVID-19 pandemic.- Part V. Economic and Political Impact of Loneliness.- Chapter 9. Financial Inclusion and Loneliness in Old Age: An Overview and Some Empirical Evidence from Ghana.- Chapter 10. Connecting the Dots: Perceived Organizational Politics, Green Creativity, and the Experience of Workplace Loneliness.- Chapter 11. Loneliness and Political Behavior.- Part VI. Genetics of Loneliness.- Chapter 12. Disrupted sociocognitive neural responses in loneliness.- Chapter 13. Behavior Genetic Analysis of Loneliness.- Part VII. Physiological Effects of Loneliness.- Chapter 14. Loneliness and Health.- Chapter 15. The Endocrinology of Loneliness and Social Isolation.- Chapter 16. The link between loneliness and social isolation with inflammation.- Chapter 17. Biological Pathways Linking Loneliness to Physical Health.- Part VIII. Effects of Loneliness on Mental Health.- Chapter 18. The Stigma Associated with Loneliness: What it is, why we Care, and What we Can do About it.- Chapter 19. Loneliness Among Adults with Serious Mental Illness.- Chapter 20. Aggression and loneliness.- Chapter 21. Loneliness: Coping & Flourishing.- Part IX. Loneliness in Specific Groups.- Chapter 22. Loneliness among LGBTQ+ communities.- Part X.  Influence of Social Media on Loneliness.- Chapter 23. Loneliness and social media use: do motives for using social media matter?.- Chapter 24. Together and yet apart. The phubbing and loneliness.- Chapter 25. A Psychological Perspective on the Complex Interplay Between Loneliness and Cyberbullying .- Part XI.  Loneliness Across Cultures.- Chapter 26. What makes us (less) lonely across the globe? Causes and remedies for loneliness in different cultures.- Part XII. Loneliness Over the Lifespan.- Chapter 27. Owner of a Lonely Mind: Loneliness and Theory of Mind in Adolescents.- Chapter 28. Loneliness at the End of Life.- Chapter 29. Loneliness and Risk of Dementia: Moderators, Mediators, and Future Directions.- Chapter 30. Loneliness in Older Veterans.- Part XIII. Interventions to Reduce Loneliness.- Chapter 31. A Social Cure for Loneliness.- Chapter 32. Interventions for Social Isolation and Loneliness in Later Life: Considering the Needs of Family Caregivers.- Part XIV. Epilogue.- Chapter 33. Epilogue and future directions for loneliness research.

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Book SynopsisOhne Vertrauen kommt man im beruflichen Alltag nicht weit. Doch im internationalen Management drohen Vertrauensfallen: Aufgrund kultureller Unter-schiede bleibt man misstrauisch, Vertrauen entwickelt sich viel zu langsam oder man verliert es gar – obwohl es eigentlich keinen Grund gibt, nicht zuvertrauen. Wie man solche Fallen vermeiden und die Vertrauensentwicklung fördern kann, lässt sich aber lernen. Dieses Buch erläutert die wichtigsten Vertrauensfallen und zeigt, wie man erfolgreich mit ihnen umgeht. Table of ContentsEinleitung: Warum Vertrauen an kulturellen Unterschieden scheitern kann.- Teil I. Vertrauensfallen verstehen.- Teil II. Vertrauensfallen: Beispiele und Strategien.- Fazit und Ausblick.- Anhang.

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Book SynopsisSozialpsychologie der Parnerschaft - ein umfassender Überblick über die Partnerschaftsforschung Welche Faktoren halten Partnerschaften zusammen und welche Faktoren stellen die Stabilität enger Beziehungen in Frage? Welche Rolle spielen Konflikte, Fairness und emotionale Nähe in der Partnerschaft? Ein Überblick über den aktuellen Forschungsstand zur Partnerschaft aus sozialpsychologischer Perspektive vor. Ina Grau und Hans Bierhoff liefern Erklärungsansätze für das Gelingen oder Scheitern enger Beziehungen.Trade ReviewFrom the reviews: "This book presents an overview of mostly empirical social-psychological research on couples. It is extremely rich and comprehensive. … Anyone who is interested in examining, in a scientific way, how couples live together in relationships will find here an exceptionally rich overview of the empirical data concerning many everyday hypotheses about marriage. … Also, for well-founded theological reflection upon marriage, this book is a source of information that no one should miss." (Alfons Vansteenwegen, INTAMS Review, Vol. 13 (1), 2007)Table of ContentsEinführung.- I Theoretische und methodische Grundlagen.- 1 Partnerschaftsdiagnostik.- 2 Theorien und Modelle der Paarbeziehung.- II Einflussfaktoren auf Partnerschaften.- 3 Was unterscheidet Singles und Paare?.- 4 Transgenerationale Interaktionen und Partnerschaft.- 5 Bindung und Partnerschaftsrepräsentation 137.- 6 Persönlichkeit und Partnerschaft.- 7 Universelle und indizierte Prävention von Beziehungsstörungen.- III Inhalte und Prozesse.- 8 Prozessmodelle der Partnerschaftsentwicklung.- 9 Dimensionen enger Beziehungen.- 10 Emotionale Nähe.- 11 Fairness in Beziehungen.- 12 Wahrnehmung und Kognitionen in Partnerschaften.- 13 Attribution in Partnerschaften.- IV Konflikt und Trennung.- 14 Kohärenzsinn und andere Persönlichkeitsmerkmale als protektive Faktoren der Ehequalität.- 15 Paarkonflikt und Trennung.- 16 SchuSdzuschreibungen in Partnerschaften.- 17 Die Bedeutung von Stress für die Partnerschaft.- 18 Auswirkungen von Scheidung.- V Ausblick.- 19 Neuere Entwicklungen in der Partnerschaftsforschung: Wechselwirkungen zwischen Telekommunikation und Paarbeziehung.- Sachwortverzeichnis.

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Book SynopsisDieser Sammelband setzt sich zum Ziel, wesentliche Beiträge und Potenziale der Psychologie für (globale) Nachhaltigkeit herauszuarbeiten, innerhalb der psychologischen Disziplin (weiter) für den gesellschaftlichen Nachhaltigkeitsdiskurs zu sensibilisieren und künftige Forschungs- und Anwendungsperspektiven in den interdisziplinären Dialog einzubringen. Die Psychologie als Wissenschaft vom Erleben und Verhalten des Menschen bietet in vielfältiger Weise konzeptionelle sowie empirische Anknüpfungspunkte für den aktuellen Diskurs um nachhaltige Entwicklung – insbesondere im Hinblick auf die Umsetzung der als Agenda 2030 im September 2015 von den UN proklamierten Sustainable Development Goals.Table of ContentsRelevanz und Begriffliche Einordnung.- Grundlagen und Theorien.- Zielgruppen und Anwendungskontexte.- Praxis und Projektbeispiele.

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Book SynopsisDie Autoren erörtern in diesem essential die wesentlichen Punkte für das Verständnis und die Organisation von Freiwilligenarbeit. Sie beschäftigen sich mit den folgenden Fragen: Wie können wir freiwillige Arbeit verstehen? Wie wesentlich ist es für diese Art von Arbeit, dass sie unbezahlt bleibt und von sogenannten Laien mit besonderer Motivlage ausgeführt wird? Was folgt daraus für das Zusammenspiel von Freiwilligenarbeit und der professionalisierten, bezahlten Erwerbsarbeit? Diese Fragen werden zunehmend gestellt, denn ohne die unbezahlten Tätigkeiten von Freiwilligen kann kein derzeitiges Gemeinwesen bestehen.Table of ContentsEine Begriffserklärung.- Die Verbreitung von Freiwilligenarbeit: Statistiken.- Freiwillige Arbeit als Tätigkeit.- Motivation zur Freiwilligenarbeit.- Gestaltung von Freiwilligenarbeit.- Freiwilligenarbeit als psychosoziale Ressource.- Ein Fazit zur Flüchtlingshilfe.

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Book SynopsisDieses essential liefert planungsrelevante Informationen über architekturpsychologische Konzepte und empirische Ergebnisse zu den Wirkungsweisen gebauter Umwelten auf den Menschen und liefert Hinweise, wie die Beziehungen zwischen Mensch und gebauter Umwelt optimiert werden können.

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Book SynopsisLeading researchers on economic resilience from economic geography, economic history and organizational studies discuss recent approaches to better understand the impact of structures, processes, agency, governance and multilevel settings on economic resilience.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Covid-19 pandemic as new challenge for regional economic resilience research.- Regional economic resilience: Review and outlook.- The resilience of Britain’s core cities to the great recession (with implications for the Covid recessionary shock).- Regional economic resilience of resource-based cities and influential factors during economic crises in China.- Investigating the governance mechanisms that sustain regional economic resilience and inclusive growth.- Resilience in the periphery: What an agency perspective can bring to the table.- Regional resilience: lessons from a region affected by multiple shocks.- Developing resilience understanding as a tool for regional and tourism development in Bavaria.- Crisis, coping and resilience as a multi-layered process – Haniel, Thyssen and Krupp between the 1950s and the 1970s.- Resilience process framework for inter-organisational cooperation.- Team diversity and development of resilience capabilities in organizations.- Sociolinguistic resilience among young academics: A quantitative analysis in Germany and France.

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Book SynopsisDas Buch bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über die Mensch-Umwelt-Beziehungen und betrachtet sowohl Wohnen aus systemischer Sicht als auch die lebensraumbezogenen Wohnbedürfnisse.Je hektischer und instabiler der Alltag bzw. die Außenwelt, desto wichtiger wird ein Zuhause, das Regeneration erlaubt, das Sicherheit und Geborgenheit schenkt. Ein Zuhause, das nicht nur den individuellen Wohnwünschen und -anforderungen entspricht, sondern auch die (oft unbewussten) grundlegenden menschlichen Wohnbedürfnisse wie etwa nach Privatheit, sensorischer Wahrnehmung, Selbstbestimmung und Regulation, Aneignung, Ortsbindung, Entwicklung und Entfaltung (…) erfüllt.Davon ausgehend, dass jeder (natürliche und gebaute) Raum unser Empfinden, Denken, Verhalten und Zusammenleben beeinflusst, führt der Weg zu „Humanen Lebensräumen“ über die Betrachtung von Wohnung, Wohngebäude bzw. Wohnumfeld hinsichtlich der wechselseitigen Wirkung "Mensch – Raum" aber auch über die Bewusstseinsschärfung der Bewohner für die eigenen Wohnbedürfnisse und jene der Mitbewohnenden.Table of ContentsEinleitung.- Grundlagen und Zielsetzungen der Wohn- und Architekturpsychologie.- Begriffsbestimmung.- Mensch-Umwelt-Beziehungen.- Wohnbedürfnisse.- „Wohnen“ – eine systemische Betrachtung.- Fazit.- Homeoffice – Segen oder Belastung?.- Literatur- & Quellenverzeichnis

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Book SynopsisIn the summer of 2018, the authors of the book stood in the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris. They marvelled at the Foucault pendulum, which made its circular movements on a long rope under the dome. Like Casaubon in Umberto Eco's book The Foucault Pendulum, the authors were amazed and wondered what could be at the ideal end of the thread pendulum. The fixed point that could give us support and security in an uncertain world and difficult times? What uncertainties, what times or even what threats are we actually talking about? Where can we find the fixed points, the safe spaces of our lives? This book deals with these and other questions. The authors found inspiration for the book in Umberto Eco. And so it is also a homage to Eco. Table of ContentsThe Foucault Pendulum and the Search for the Fixed Point.- Of Threats Great and Small - Memories.- Threats 2.0: Postfactual and Factual Narratives.- The Great Narratives Still Exist.- Shelters, Holding Places, and Other Psychological Peculiarities.- Of the Search for the Island.- Look Up Eco - A Virtual Conversation.

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Book SynopsisDieses Buch gibt in fünf Themenfelder gegliedert einen Überblick über die Emotionsforschung in der kulturübergreifenden Psychologie. Es werden kulturelle Ähnlichkeiten und Unterschiede in verschiedenen Aspekten von Emotionen erörtert – vom emotionalen Ausdruck über die emotionale Anerkennung bis hin zur Emotionsregulation. Die Emotionsforschung aus der Perspektive der interkulturellen Psychologie ermöglicht den Leser:innen eine differenziertere Sicht: Es geht nicht nur um den Unterschied zwischen Individualismus und Kollektivismus, sondern auch darum, wie der breite Kontext viele psychologische Prozesse dazwischen beeinflusst, die wiederum die emotionale Verarbeitung und Reaktion steuern. Das Buch enthält einen systematischen Literaturüberblick auf der Grundlage maschinell generierter Inhalte. Fragen und zugehörige Schlüsselwörter wurden für die Maschine vorbereitet, die sie abgefragt, entdeckt, zusammengestellt und durch Clustering mit künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) strukturiert hat. Springer Nature hat in den letzten Jahren viel zu dem Thema in Zeitschriften veröffentlicht, so dass die Herausforderung für die Maschine darin bestand, die relevantesten Inhalte zu identifizieren und sie in einer strukturierten Weise zu präsentieren. Die automatisch generierten Literaturzusammenfassungen dienen Fachkräften aus den Bereichen Psychologie, Erziehung und Wirtschaft, aber auch Wissenschaftler:innen und Studierenden dazu, sich schnell einen Überblick über die aktuelle Entwicklung des Themas zu verschaffen. Sie sollen außerdem als Anregung und Impuls für aktuelle Forschungsfragen, für neue Strategien sowie für mögliche Lösungen in schwierigen Situationen nützlich sein.Table of ContentsKulturelle Ähnlichkeiten und Unterschiede im Gefühlsausdruck.- Emotionale Anerkennung in verschiedenen Kulturen.- Glück und Wohlbefinden auf der ganzen Welt.- Emotionsregulation in verschiedenen Kulturen.- Umgang mit Emotionsproblemen: wo sich klinische Psychologie und interkulturelle Psychologie treffen.

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Book SynopsisDas Buch bietet neben aktuellem Grundwissen zum Thema Stalking konkrete Hilfestellung für Betroffene. Im ersten Teil gibt es einen Einblick in den neueren Stand der Forschung, unter Berücksichtigung der aktuellen Rechtsprechung. Dabei wird es kritisch zu einigen Aspekten der bisherigen Behandlung des Themas eingegangen, u.a. die häufig zitierten Tätertypologien betreffend. An deren Stelle treten zunehmend Ansätze zur Beschreibung von Täterpersönlichkeiten im Sinne eines Täter-Profiling. Als Sonderphänomen wird das sog. „Cyberstalking“ behandelt und von anderen Formen der Internetbelästigung abgegrenzt. Im zweiten Teil des Buches werden Hilfethemen angesprochen. Dabei geht es vor allem um Prävention, Kontrolle und Handlungsmöglichkeiten zur Reduzierung der Belastung im Einzelfall. Auch das Thema von Personen, die stalken (Täter) angesprochen und behandelt werden Aspekte der Beratung und Therapie behandelt. Im Anhang zum Buch findet sich ein screening-Fragebogen zur Selbst-Einschätzung des Gewaltrisikos für Stalking, sowie eine Liste von Beratungs- und Hilfeeinrichtungen in Deutschland. Table of ContentsTEIL I: 1 Was versteht man unter Stalking, was gehört nicht dazu?- 2 Die Sonderform des Cyberstalking.- 3 Welchen Nutzen haben Stalker-Typologien – gibt es Alternativen?.- 4 Die beiden Wurzeln: Beschädigung/Rache und Beziehungswunsch.- 5 Sind Stalker psychisch krank? (Abgrenzung und Konsequenzen).- 6 Risiko- und Gefahreneinschätzung (Stalkerprofile).- TEIL II: Rat und Hilfe.- 1 Rechtliche Grundlagen.- 2 Vorbeugen und De-Eskalieren.- 3 Umgang mit Strafverfolgungsbehörden (Polizei, Staatsanwaltschaft).- 4 Professionelle Hilfe (Beratungsstellen, Opferschutz, Therapiemöglichkeiten).- 5 Cyberstalking: Vorbeugen und Bekämpfen.- 6 Hilfen für Stalker.

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Book SynopsisEinleitung.- Das Konzept der Nachhaltigkeit. Ansatzpunkte der Psychologie.- Soziale Belange: Befriedigung der Grundbedürfnisse, Lebensqualität, Selbstwirksamkeit usw.- Für eine nachhaltigen Entwicklung relevante psychologische Schlüsselbegriffe: von Allmendeklemme über Stadtplanung und Umweltbewusstsein bis Zukunftsperspektive.- Resümee.- Literatur.

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