481 Search Results for Psychology of Optimal Experience
Aldao, a., Nolen-Hoeksema, S., and Schweizer, S. "Emotion-regulation strategies
across psychopathology: A meta-analytic review." Clinical Psychology
Review, Vol. 30, No. 2 (2010): 217 -- 237.
Summary
This article considered of a meta-analytic r Continue Reading...
Chemical Dependency, Particularly Alcoholism, Within the History Of Psychology
Since the dawn of humankind, people have been experimenting with various chemicals for recreation, to alter their conscious state for religious purposes, or for medicinal Continue Reading...
Bioecological Theory
Bioecological model differs from others in that it charts and describes the development of the human and the group over the spectrum of the life course, through successive generations both past and present.
The model consists o Continue Reading...
Mindful vs. traditional martial arts toward improved academic grades in children diagnosed with ADHD
While medication and psychotherapy are the current best practice in treating attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), their benefits and aim Continue Reading...
Pressure on Performance
The Effects of Time Pressure and Performance Pressure on the Ability to Solve Anagrams in College Students.
Anxiety and stress have been demonstrated to affect test performance and cognitive performance. Previous research h Continue Reading...
Annotated Bibliography: Mental Rehearsal in SportsBertollo, M., Saltarelli, B., & Robazza, C. (2009). Mental preparation strategies of elite modern pentathletes. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 10(2), 244-254. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2 Continue Reading...
100). Much of the focus of personnel selection using psychological testing was on new troops enlisting in the military during two world wars and the explosive growth of the private sector thereafter (Scroggins et al., 2008). Psychological testing fo Continue Reading...
The two scenarios are likely to sway employees to provide false information if they are encouraged. However, the relationship had much strength in the positive. Therefore, in this study, there were clear choices. The participants were required to e Continue Reading...
People living with mental illness are often marginalized, demeaned, and seen as being outside the normal boundaries of society. For people with BPD, this is doubly painful as it reinforces their sense of worthlessness and victimization, and may eve Continue Reading...
Personality Theory
Describe and discuss the basic characteristics, tenets and methods of investigation/research for psychodynamic and cognitive perspectives regarding personality psychology, and the benefits/strengths and limitations/weaknesses of e Continue Reading...
Witness the result that there was no significant reduction in the measurement/perception of pain. We might also conclude that FM patients are either particularly susceptible to imagery, or that the study proves that there is a clear difference betwe Continue Reading...
Individual and Analytical Psychological Theory
The field of Psychology offers a vast network of concepts, principles, and theories to explain and describe the mental and behavioral characteristics of an individual or group. It is a science that expl Continue Reading...
CBT integrates theory, i.e. The tenets of psychotherapy, with practical, behavior modification exercises. This, in turn, creates real tangible results. As Cooper writes, "If, on the one hand, you look at the particular therapies that have been shown Continue Reading...
Further, "Just as the models of family therapy are, unsurprisingly, isomorphically represented in their corresponding training models and methods, so the development of the clinical reality of family therapy can serve as a methaphor for the training Continue Reading...
Tina's Story
There is a considerable of variation in the occurrence of MDD among U.S. youth as reported by research studies on depression in adolescents. Fleming and Offord (1990) conducted a critical review and found that currently the occurrence d Continue Reading...
In civilian life, such individuals will have gained a traditional ethical education whereas in a combat context, such individuals will have been instructed on the use of lethal force. According to Willis, "habit and practice help the willingness and Continue Reading...
From the fact that two individuals were able to keep their hands in for 5 seconds longer than that of the other participants it seems as though the motivational approach may be more effective than sensory discriminative in quelling pain. Nonetheless Continue Reading...
Thus, inter-generational "assimilation tends to lower psychological well-being to the levels experienced by native-born adolescents" (Harker pp).
One of the most significant demographic developments during the last few decades has been the increas Continue Reading...
Modular neural networks.
The argument for modular brain architecture is one that holds that the brain is bestowed with some finite characteristics from birth. Scientists that advocate the modularity concept believe that the human information process Continue Reading...
future research agenda that Judge, et al. (2008) present addresses their critique of personality research in organizational behavior.
According to Judge, Klinger, Simon and Yang (2008), the various criticisms directed at early organizational behavi Continue Reading...
Ultimately, it may be the greatest measure of humanity that we recognize that the relevance of animal sentience in relation to our needs is not a function of their similarity to us or of our chosen relationships with them.
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Admissions Summary and Analysis
Postpartum depression (PPD) represents increased symptoms of depression that are correlated to having recently given birth. Although rather un-discussed in mainstream social communications, it often tends to have a re Continue Reading...
According to the manual, the personality disorder 'is clinical syndrome which has more long lasting symptoms and encompass the individual's way of interacting with the world; the mental disorder includes paranoid, antisocial, and borderline personal Continue Reading...
As one might expect, cultural psychology is no different. The author of this brief report has been asked to consider a brief case study and example from the cultural psychology field. Specifically, the author has been asked to go to a grocery store o Continue Reading...
Counseling Report
The field of counseling is very complex and multi-dimensional. This report includes a general description of counseling, how cultural insensitivity can occur within the construct of counseling, the impacts of cultural of said insen Continue Reading...
Motivation
Many psychologists have put forward theories to advance the concept of motivation. Some of the psychological theories and models that explain motivation include incentive theory, drive theory, self-control model, push and pull model, int Continue Reading...
Currently I am a patient care assistant at a local hospital, a position I dearly enjoy. I still get stressed out, especially when I go to work while my four-year-old is ill. Yet for some reason I always come home happy and satisfied.
I would like t Continue Reading...
The negotiation ended with one of the parties walking out of the room and the problem had to be settled eventually by a ruling from management. This event also had a negative effect on the working relationships between members of the different group Continue Reading...
accumulates data in the form of numbers that can be assessed in an objective fashion, usually involving equations. It frequently takes the form of an experimental design. "Quantitative research gathers data in numerical form which can be put into ca Continue Reading...
One study published in the American Psychiatric Association found that "PTSD has been shown to predict poor health not only in veterans of the 1991 Gulf War but also in veterans of World War II and the Korean War. Our study extends these findings in Continue Reading...
Medical Ethics
Ethics Interview
Medical Ethics Interview
Healthcare providers include nurses, doctors, social workers and a number of other professions that seem to exist on the periphery of the helping field. One of those on the outside, that man Continue Reading...
Social Work Exercises
Preparing for 3 Clients
Mrs. Nancy Cannon telephoned from her place of work ( the Capital Insurance Company -- phone [HIDDEN] She sounded concerned. She said that on the previ-ous Saturday night, her 14-year-old daughter Amy h Continue Reading...
Professional Counseling
The relevance of counseling as a helping profession cannot be overstated. This is more so the case taking into consideration the role counseling plays towards the facilitation of the development of not only an individual but Continue Reading...
In other words, environment also plays a strong influence in human behavior. Additionally, a quality like 'sloppiness' is not due to a single trait -- sloppiness can be the result of carelessness, inattention, clumsiness, a lack of energy, or emotio Continue Reading...
Counseling Psychotherapy
Why Counseling?
Life can be shattering. Deception, lies, and tremendous heartache can derail the most prodigious, honest, and sincere individual. Devastation can acquiescent a beautiful and wonderful spirit into a horrendou Continue Reading...
Sociology Discussion Responses
Response to Post #1
I would agree completely with you that personal awareness is a crucial factor in relation to the ability of therapists and counselors to provide high-quality professional services. It is obvious th Continue Reading...
Obesity Psychology
The Psychology of Obesity
Obesity is a significant public health problem. Due to negative nutritional habits, a lack of exercise and a greater proclivity toward lifestyle decisions which expose individuals to lesser physical acti Continue Reading...
Christian counseling has become an important treatment modality for a growing number of health care practitioners and patients across the country in recent years. Introduced during the early 1980s, Christian counseling advocates integrating religious Continue Reading...
An important point emphasized by many theorists was that it was essential for the therapeutic alliance to be flexible in order to accommodate the patient or client's perceptions. Another cardinal aspect that was emphasizes by clinicians and theoris Continue Reading...
The embedded traumatic experiences are usually deeply disturbing to the individual and can lead to typical symptoms of PTSD, such as depression, suicidal tendencies and loss of personal motivation.
In terms of existential analysis, these traumatic Continue Reading...