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Making Moral Judgments : Psychological Perspectives on Morality, Ethics, and …
ABSTRACT This fascinating new book examines diversity in moral judgements, drawing on recent work in social, personality, and evolutionary psychology, reviewing the factors that influence the moral judgments people make. Why do reasonable people so often disagree when drawing distinctions between what is morally right and wrong? Even when individuals agree in their moral pronouncements, the…
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- 210 p
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Making Mental Health : A Critical History
ABSTRACT Making Mental Health: A Critical History historicises mental health by examining the concept from the ‘madness’ of the late nineteenth century to the changing ideas about its contemporary concerns and status. It argues that a critical approach to the history of psychiatry and mental health shows them to constitute a dual clinical-political project that gathered pace over the cours…
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- 9780429351464
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- 186 p
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The rise of autism: risk and resistance in the age of diagnosis
ABSTRACT The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429285912, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. This innovative book addresses the question of why increasing numbers of people are being diagnosed with autism since the 1990s. Providing an engaging account of competing and …
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- 9780429285912
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- 202 p
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Age-Period-Cohort Analysis : New Models, Methods, and Empirical Applications
This book explores the ways in which statistical models, methods, and research designs can be used to open new possibilities for APC analysis. Within a single, consistent HAPC-GLMM statistical modeling framework, the authors synthesize APC models and methods for three research designs: age-by-time period tables of population rates or proportions, repeated cross-section sample surveys, and accel…
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- 9780429096204
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- 352 p
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Honouring and admiring the immoral: an ethical guide
Is it appropriate to honour and admire people who have created great works of art, made important intellectual contributions, performed great sporting feats, or shaped the history of a nation if those people have also acted immorally? This book provides a philosophical investigation of this important and timely question. The authors draw on the latest research from ethics, value theory, phil…
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- 9780367810153
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- 138 p
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Social Work, Sociometry, and Psychodrama: Experiential Approaches for Group T…
This open access book outlines the intersections between social work and the methods of sociometry and psychodrama. Different sections offer essential practice wisdom for both trauma-focused and trauma-informed experiential work for individuals, groups, organizations, and communities. This text enriches the understanding of various action-based approaches and highlights how to enliven social wo…
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- 978-981-33-6342-7
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Groupwork with Refugees and Survivors of Human Rights Abuses
Groupwork with Refugees and Survivors of Human Rights Abuses describes, explores and promotes the power of groupwork for refugees and survivors of human rights abuses in a range of contexts. Drawing on multiple theoretical approaches, the book features chapters from practitioners running groups in different settings, such as torture rehabilitation services, refugee camps, and reception centr…
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Dialogue for Intercultural Understanding: Placing Cultural Literacy at the He…
This open access book is a result of an extensive, ambitious and wide-ranging pan-European project focusing on the development of children and young people’s cultural literacy and what it means to be European in the 21st century prioritising intercultural dialogue and mutual understanding. The Horizon 2020 funded, 3-year DIalogue and Argumentation for cultural Literacy Learning (DIALLS) proje…
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- 978-3-030-71778-0
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Efficient cognition :the evolution of representational decision making
An argument that representational decision making is more cognitively efficient, allowing an organism to adjust more easily to changes in the environment.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Whistled Languages A Worldwide Inquiry on Human Whistled Speech
The main focus of this monograph on whistled speech is the result of a worldwide inquiry primarily based on the author’s unprecedented fieldwork and laboratory experience. The different questions raised by the origin and the evolution of whistled forms of languages are also explored, including the role of environmental constraints in the emergence of whistled speech, their phonetic and phonol…
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