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Religion and Men's Violence Against Women
This reference offers the nuanced understanding and practical guidance needed to address domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking in diverse religious communities. Introductory chapters sort through the complexities, from abusers' distorting of sacred texts to justifying their actions to survivors' conflicting feelings toward their faith. The core of the book surveys findings on…
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A Guide to the Extrapyramidal Side-Effects of Antipsychotic Drugs
It is often implied that antipsychotic-induced extrapyramidal side-effects are irrelevant to modern psychiatric therapeutics, rendered historic by newer, better treatments. This myth arises from limited awareness of the depth and breadth of neurological disruption antipsychotics can mediate. This volume discusses the extensive clinical boundaries of acute dystonias, drug-induced parkinsonism, a…
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- 9781139149112
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- 615 OWE g
Constraints of Agency Explorations of Theory in Everyday Life
This book explores the basic concept of agency and develops it further in psychology using it to better understand and explain psychological processes and behavior. More importantly, this book seeks to put an emphasis on the role of agency in four distinct settings: history of psychology, neuroscience, psychology of religion, and sociocultural theories of co-agency. In Volume 12 of the Annals o…
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- 9783319101309
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- xv, 276 pages
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- 153
Reasoning and Public Health: New Ways of Coping with Uncertainty
This book argues that in order to be truly effective, public health must embrace a group of reasoning strategies that have traditionally been characterized as informal fallacies. It will be demonstrated that these strategies can facilitate judgements about complex public health issues in contexts of uncertainty. The book explains how scientists and lay people routinely resort to the use of the…
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- 978-3-319-15013-0
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- XIII, 242
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- 153
Bases of Adult Attachment : Linking Brain, Mind and Behavior
A great deal is known about how infants form attachments, and how these processes carry over into adolescence. But after that, the trail grows cold: the study of adult attachment emphasizes individual variations, paying little attention to the normative mechanisms of adult bonding. A much-needed corrective, Bases of Adult Attachment examines this under-investigated topic with an eye toward c…
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- 978-1-4614-9621-2
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- XIII, 196
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Behavioral Analysis of Maternal Filicide
Maternal filicide has been discussed in the medical, mental health, and child abuse fields, yet little research exists with a criminal justice/law enforcement perspective. Nevertheless, criminal justice professionals responsible for investigation and prosecution of these offenders often must give attention to unique behavioral, social, and psychological dynamics not considered in many other typ…
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- 978-3-319-08150-2
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- XV, 108
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- SpringerBriefs in Psychology
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- 150
Advanced Robotics for Medical Rehabilitation: Current State of the Art and Re…
Focussing on the key technologies in developing robots for a wide range of medical rehabilitation activities – which will include robotics basics, modelling and control, biomechanics modelling, rehabilitation strategies, robot assistance, clinical setup/implementation as well as neural and muscular interfaces for rehabilitation robot control – this book is split into two parts; a review of …
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- 978-3-319-19896-5
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- XXII, 343
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- Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
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- 157.94 XIE a
Holistic Pedagogy: The Self and Quality Willed Learning
This book illuminates what must always be at the heart of powerful schooling and authentic learning. Its focus is on free learning, with an emphasis on early East Asian thought as a vehicle through which learning may emerge. The volume describes learning as helping the learner become more conscious, more aware. As such the authors explain how quality learning encompasses all learning that is ch…
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- 978-3-319-14943-1
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- XV, 226
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- Critical Studies of Education
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- 150 CAR h
Global Innovation of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
This book examines current trends in higher education and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. It introduces readers to pedagogical strategies that instructors worldwide are using to overcome some of the challenges they face in higher education. To maximize their students’ learning, this work argues that institutions are compelled to innovate their policies and instructors must be collab…
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- 978-3-319-10481-2
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- XVI, 369
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- Professional Learning and Development in Schools and Higher Education
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- 150 GLO
Handbook of Adolescent Behavioral Problems: Evidence-Based Approaches to Prev…
The Second Edition of the Handbook of Adolescent Behavioral Problems clarifies the current state of treatment and prevention through comprehensive examinations of mental disorders and dysfunctional behaviors as well as the varied forces affecting their development. New or revised chapters offer a basic framework for approaching mental health concerns in youth and provide the latest information …
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- 978-981-4560-43-6
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- XXXIII, 697
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- 150 HAN
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