The latest and greatest insights on happiness from around the world The Little Book of Being Brilliant is a 'greatest hits' compilation of the best and the latest information from the science of ...positive psychology. Top- selling author Andy Cope exercises his PhD in happiness, along with his decades of experience bringing 'The Art of Being Brilliant' to rapt audiences around the world, to distill the tips, techniques, facts and ideas you need to know to achieve sustainable wellbeing and happiness in your own life. Andy's keen for you to know that he wants you to enjoy the experience, hence his 'laugh 'n' learn' approach. Inside, you'll find guidance for taking action in the form of activities and challenges that will help you implement the latest empirical evidence on happiness. You'll learn why most people are miles away from feeling as great as they could, and what to do about it. Whether you're motivated to improve your daily life or looking for the insights that will super-charge your career, or in search of inspiration for your students or your team, this little book will set you in motion toward living brilliantly. * Develop resilience and embrace positivity by setting goals and taking charge of your life * Learn, once and for all, what science says about the connection between money and happiness * Overcome road rage and other forms of negativity that are dragging you down in the day-to-day * Internalize the latest positivity wisdom for work, sport, parenting, relationships, and more There's absolutely no filler in The Little Book of Being Brilliant, and no need to sift through half-baked ideas or wisdom that researchers have already overturned. For the latest proven techniques on getting happy and achieving success, along with the motivation required to put those techniques into practice, pick up this energetic and inspiring book today.
Psychoanalyst Elizabeth Meakins uses her popular columns from The Independent to explore the therapeutic process. Successful analysis, she argues, is less about following pre-formulated theory and ...more about being led by the experience of what is actually happening.
The number of disability related support services controlled and run by disabled people themselves has increased significantly in the UK and internationally over the past forty years. As a result, ...greater user involvement in service provision and delivery is a key priority for many western Governments. This book provides the first comprehensive review and analysis of these developments in the UK.
Drawing on evidence from a range of sources, including material from the first national study of user-controlled services, this book provides a critical evaluation of the development and organisation of user-controlled services in the UK and identifies the principal forces - economic, political and cultural - that influence and inhibit their further development. It summarises and discusses the policy implications for the future development of services and includes an up-to-date and comprehensive literature and research review.
"Independent futures" is essential reading for academics and students on a range of courses including: health and social care; social work; allied health professions, such as nursing, occupational therapy and speech therapy; social policy; sociology; and psychology. It will also be of interest to practitioners and policy makers who need a reliable overview of current policy and critical analysis of key issues affecting future policy and practice.
Self-Insight Dunning, David
2005, 20121012, 2005-02-17, 2012-10-12
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People base thousands of choices across a lifetime on the views they hold of their skill and moral character, yet a growing body of research in psychology shows that such self-views are often ...misguided or misinformed. Anyone who has dealt with others in the classroom, in the workplace, in the medical office, or on the therapist's couch has probably experienced people whose opinions of themselves depart from the objectively possible.
This book outlines some of the common errors that people make when they evaluate themselves. It also describes the many psychological barriers - some that people build by their own hand - that prevent individuals from achieving self-insight about their ability and character.
The first section of the book focuses on mistaken views of competence, and explores why people often remain blissfully unaware of their incompetence and personality flaws. The second section focuses on faulty views of character, and explores why people tend to perceive they are more unique and special than they really are, why people tend to possess inflated opinions of their moral fiber that are not matched by their deeds, and why people fail to anticipate the impact that emotions have on their choices and actions.
The book will be of great interest to students and researchers in social, personality, and cognitive psychology, but, through the accessibility of its writing style, it will also appeal to those outside of academic psychology with an interest in the psychological processes that lead to our self-insight.
All across America, angry fathers are demanding rights. These men claim that since the breakdown of their own families, they have been deprived of access to their children. Joining together to form ...fathers' rights groups, the mostly white, middle-class men meet in small venues to speak their minds about the state of the American family and, more specifically, to talk about the problems they personally face, for which they blame current child support and child custody policies. Dissatisfied with these systems, fathers' rights groups advocate on behalf of legal reforms that will lower their child support payments and help them obtain automatic joint custody of their children.
InDefiant Dads, Jocelyn Elise Crowley offers a balanced examination of these groups in order to understand why they object to the current child support and child custody systems; what their political agenda, if enacted, would mean for their members' children or children's mothers; and how well they deal with their members' interpersonal issues concerning their ex-partners and their role as parents. Based on interviews with more than 150 fathers' rights group leaders and members, as well as close observation of group meetings and analysis of their rhetoric and advocacy literature, this important book is the first extensive, in-depth account of the emergence of fathers' rights groups in the United States. A nuanced and timely look at an emerging social movement,Defiant Dadsis a revealing investigation into the changing dynamics of both the American family and gender relations in American society.
Objective
Self‐help interventions have been demonstrated to be effective in treating bulimic‐type eating disorders (EDs). In particular, computer‐based interventions have received increasing ...attention due to their potential to reach a wider population. This systematic review aimed to synthesize findings from qualitative studies on users' experiences of self‐help interventions for EDs and to develop an exploratory framework.
Method
A systematic review and meta‐synthesis on seven peer‐reviewed qualitative studies on structured computer and book‐based self‐help interventions for EDs was conducted using Noblit and Hare's (1988) 7‐phase meta‐ethnography. Four of the selected studies investigated computer‐based self‐help programs, and three of the studies investigated book‐based guided self‐help programs.
Results
Six concepts were synthesized. They included intervention‐related factors (anonymity and privacy; accessibility and flexibility; guidance) and user‐related factors (agency/autonomy; self‐motivation; and expectations/attitudes). The study revealed the “machine‐like” and relational properties of the computer; the expansion of treatment time and space in psychological interventions, the changing role of the medical health professional from a “therapist” to a “guide,” and a change from understanding interventions as a conclusive treatment plan to a starting point or stepping stone toward recovery.
Discussion
Computer‐based self‐help interventions should take advantage of the “machine‐like” properties of a computer (neutrality, availability, etc.) as well as its ability to facilitate human interactions. Users should also be facilitated to have a realistic understanding of the purpose of self‐help interventions and the place of self‐help interventions in their broader treatment plans to moderate expectations and attitudes.
Resumen
Objetivo
Las intervenciones de auto‐ayuda han demostrado ser efectivas para tratar trastornos de la conducta alimentaria (TCA) tipo bulímico. En particular, las intervenciones basadas en computadora han recibido una creciente atención debido al potencial de poder alcanzar una población más amplia. Esta revisión sistemática tuvo como objetivo el sintetizar los hallazgos de los estudios cualitativos de las experiencias de usuarios de intervenciones de auto‐ayuda para TCAs y para desarrollar un marco exploratorio.
Método
Se realize una revisión sistemática y meta‐síntesis de siete artículos de estudios cualitativos revisados por pares sobre intervenciones estructuradas de auto‐ayuda basadas en libro y en computadora para los TCAs utilizando la meta‐etnografía de 7 fases de Noblit y Hare (1988).
Cuatro de los estudios seleccionados investigaron programas de autoayuda basados en computadora, y tres de los estudios investigaron programas de autoayuda guiados basados en libros.
Resultados
Se sintetizaron seis conceptos. Incluían factores relacionados con la intervención (anonimato y privacidad; accesibilidad y flexibilidad; orientación) y factores relacionados con el usuario (agencia/autonomía; auto‐motivación; y expectativas/actitudes). El estudio reveló que la computadora poseía propiedades “similares a una máquina” y propiedades relacionales; la expansión del tiempo y el espacio de tratamiento en las intervenciones psicológicas, el rol cambiante del profesional médico de un “terapeuta” a un “guía”, y un cambio de la comprensión de las intervenciones como un plan de tratamiento concluyente a un punto de partida o paso hacia la recuperación.
Discusión
Las intervenciones de autoayuda basadas en computadora deben aprovechar las propiedades “similares a una máquina” de una computadora (neutralidad, disponibilidad, etc.) así como su capacidad para facilitar las interacciones humanas. Los usuarios también deben ser facilitados para tener una comprensión realista del propósito de las intervenciones de autoayuda y el lugar de las intervenciones de autoayuda en sus planes de tratamiento más amplios para moderar las expectativas y las actitudes.
Intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors often do not seek critically needed help. A good understanding of the relationship between the pattern of violence and help-seeking is critical to developing ...adequate services for the survivors, as well as for reaching out to those who do not seek help. This study used the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey to examine how IPV survivor’s help-seeking varies, depending on the characteristics of the survivors and the pattern of victimization. Logistic regression analyses were conducted, with the survivors’ help-seeking and use of formal or informal help as the dependent variables. The study results show that women are the primary victims of IPV, that the pattern of victimization is associated with both whether survivors seek help or not, and which help sources they utilize, if any. IPV consequences are also associated with survivors’ help-seeking, as are demographic factors such as age, gender, race, and immigration status.
This study examined self‐stigma of seeking psychological help and mental health literacy as predictors of college students’ (N = 1,535) help‐seeking attitudes, with additional attention to ...psychological and demographic correlates. Results indicated that mental health literacy predicted help‐seeking attitudes above and beyond self‐stigma. Asian American race/ethnicity, male gender, current psychological distress, and help‐seeking history were also significant predictors. Implications for addressing mental health literacy and self‐stigma while attending to demographic and psychological variations in help seeking are discussed.
Conformity to traditional masculine gender norms may deter men's help-seeking and/or impact the services men engage. Despite proliferating research, current evidence has not been evaluated ...systematically. This review summarises findings related to the role of masculinity on men's help-seeking for depression.
Six electronic databases were searched using terms related to masculinity, depression and help-seeking. Titles and abstracts were reviewed and data systematically extracted and examined for methodological quality.
Of 1927 citations identified, 37 met inclusion criteria. Seventeen (46%) studies reported qualitative research; eighteen (49%) employed quantitative methods, and two (5%) mixed methods. Findings suggest conformity to traditional masculine norms has a threefold effect on men experiencing depression, impacting: i) their symptoms and expression of symptoms; ii) their attitudes to, intention, and, actual help-seeking behaviour; and, iii) their symptom management.
Results demonstrate the problematic impact of conformity to traditional masculine norms on the way men experience and seek help for depression. Tailoring and targeting clinical interventions may increase men's service uptake and the efficacy of treatments. Future research examining factors associated with men's access to, and engagement with depression care will be critical to increasing help-seeking, treatment uptake, and effectual self-management among men experiencing depression.
•Men may find it difficult to recognise and communicate symptoms of depression.•Men prefer collaborative interventions involving action-oriented problem solving.•Masculine norms like stoicism conflict with depression, heightening self-stigma.•Masculine norms may inhibit help-seeking and reinforce maladaptive coping styles.•Reframing a more fluid masculinity to integrate depression may boost help-seeking.
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