Kategoria BISAC: Psychology >> Developmental - General

A Powerful Step Forward is the second book in an ongoing series that provides positive insight on a new way of seeing life, thinking forward, and healing from past pain. Serving as the sequel to Take the First Step, it delves deeper into the concept of self-preservation, challenging readers to examine their personal struggles in order to lead healthier lives. With an ultimate goal of empowerment, this non-fiction, self-help guide includes necessary nuggets of hope within every chapter.

As individuals and societies try to respond to fundamental economic and social transformation, the field of adult learning and education is rapidly getting increased attention and new topics for research on adult learning have emerged. This collection of articles from the International Encyclopedia of Education 3e offers practitioners and researchers in the area of adult learning and education a comprehensive summary of main developments in the field. The 45 articles provide insight into the historical development of the field, its conceptual controversies, domains and provision,...

Sylvia Crocker's A Well-Lived Life is a work of a daring and creative thinker, offering a bold reconceptualization of Gestalt therapy that extends all the way from its philosophical foundation to the nuances of its clinical application. In prose that is clear as a bell, Crocker fully exposes the depth and power of Gestalt therapy's field theoretical model, deftly moving from individual to larger systems work and back again, and capturing the full range of human psychological phenomena as she goes.

From the acquisition and maintenance of simple behavioral habits, to the...

Inga-Marie Hubner untersucht gesundheitliche Veranderungen von Personen beim Ubergang in den Ruhestand, indem quantitative Querschnitts- und Longitudinalanalysen mit qualitativen, explorativen Analysen kombiniert werden. Hierbei werden besonders die im sozialen Kontext erlebten Wahrnehmungen der eigenen Alternsprozesse als bedeutsame Einflussfaktoren fur die subjektive Bewertung der Gesundheit/des Wohlbefindens herausgestellt.

This volume seeks to explore the idea of identity as a flexible center of events around which aspects of the self and events in the outside world are organized. Historically, in much of the literature, identity was conceptualized as a somewhat fixed, unchanging construct. Scholars now have a greater awareness of more nuanced theories about identity and there is a greater willingness to accept that identity is not fixed, concrete, and permanent, but rather evolving and fluid.

Although this volume discusses a wide variety of aspects of identity as it flexibly changes during adulthood...