A must-read for students both within doctoral programs and contemplating pursuit of their Ph.D., this book focuses on the major concerns of individuals embarking upon protracted programs of graduate study at the doctoral level. It will discuss in detail the potholes and mine fields that doctoral students and candidates confront across all disciplines, and provide strategies to effectively overcome those obstacles. All original contributions, each chapter contains overview comments by Lumsden.
Do you overthink before taking action? Are you prone to making negative predictions? Do you worry about the worst that could happen? Do you take negative feedback very hard? Are you self-critical? Does anything less than perfect performance feel like failure?If any of these issues resonate with you, you're probably suffering from some degree of anxiety, and you're not alone. The good news: while reducing your anxiety level to zero isn't possible or useful (anxiety can actually be helpful!), you...
Interventions, Training, and Technologies for Improved Police Well-Being and Performance
The need for evidence-based practice to enhance current and future police training and assessment has never been greater. This need focuses on the procedures and findings of research within the field of police work along with the philosophy guiding these research approaches and commentaries on the methods being used. With many future directions for the science of police training and assessment, the focus on new training techniques and technologies for improving performance is of the upmost impor...
Applied Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology
Applied sport, exercise, and performance psychology practice has diversified considerably over the years, as consultants have explored various theoretical models to guide them in helping their clients. Applied Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology: Current Approaches to Helping Clients provides in-depth and critical coverage, from a global perspective, of the common approaches practitioners now use with clients. Chapters are supplemented with case studies showing the approaches in action....
Mobbing 2.0 - Ursachen und Folgen von Cybermobbing
by Sebastian Ketting, Karolin Strohmeyer, and Julia Steinborn
Excess Baggage (Critical Approaches in the Health Social Sciences)
by Ellen Rosskam and Ray H. Elling
Based on groundbreaking research on the working conditions of airport check-in workers in two countries, a previously unstudied category of predominantly women workers, Ellen Rosskam describes a form of work characterized as modern-day Taylorism. An occupation greatly affected by new forms of work organization and management practices-caught in the throes of rapid change due to international competition, alliances, mergers, and the application of cost-efficiency strategies-check-in work has been...
The MMPI-2 Restructured Clinical Scales Jpa V87#2
This special issue contains the most up-to-date, complete evaluation of the issues and evidence associated with the landmark revision to the MMPI-2 and the development of Restructured Clinical (RC) Scales. A wide range of topics are discussed, such as the problem of confounding variance from the MMPI’s “first factor”; the relative merits of developing scales via criterion keying versus logical construction, and, correspondingly, the relative merits of complex and heterogeneous scales versus narr...
First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
These strategies for the professional leader are designed to accompany the main text. The book provides step-by-step procedures for training peer helpers using the main text and includes such tips as suggested time for homework and for group work on each of the 67 exercises for learning the eight peer helping skills and also for all exercises in learning and applying skills in conflict resolution. The main text provides an introductory training programme to help adolescents and adults learn eigh...
A First Step Towards A New Freedom (For those in treatment)
by E F Dudzinski