Evidently, the recent past years have seen many disciplines focused on issues that touch on children. ... He opined that many scholars had failed to credit children as a social group because there was minimal research on childhood. ... Recent research on childhood sociology has viewed childhood as an independent social agency. ... Researchers in this discipline have focused on this social agency, and the results are intriguing. Sociology has accorded attention to the effect of the media in promoting the different social systems such as the gender system. ...

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The environmental aspects of a child's life can impact their social and emotional development greatly, depending on the safety and stability of where they live. ... "An environment of affection and attention is a powerful force for healthy child emotional and social development"(Secor, N/A). ... "According to the World Health Organization, the most fundamental way economic struggle affects child social and emotional development is through poor nutrition. ... Without it, brain growth can slow, delaying cognitive, social and emotional development"(Secor, N/A). ... Withou...

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The Refugee Act of 1980 defines a refugee as a person who cannot return home because of a "well-founded fear of persecution on the basis of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion" who is not able to seek or receive protection from their country of origin (www.unhcr.org 2014). ... Psychological Issues for Refugees Besides the suffering accompanying refugee life, refugees also experience unparalleled psychological distress. The effects of early traumatizing experiences depend of characteristics both of the individual and of the socia...

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Abstract Autism is characterized by patterns of delay and development of social, communicative, and cognitive skills, which arise in the first years of life. ... Autism is four times more likely to occur in boys than in girls and has no racial, ethnic, or social boundaries. ... Early intervention programs that include educational programs and behavior training programs help emphasize developing language and social skills. ... ABA- Founders, Methods and Techniques The history of ABA (applied behavior analysis) can be traced to our founding fathers who wanted to develop a procedure for...

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Some of the settings where group dynamics occurs are in the classroom, the workplace and in other social settings. ... We are all members of groups and I concur with our author that those memberships to family, religious, work, civic, and social groups strongly influence our behavior in smaller groups. ... This group established a group culture that is reflective of the social structure developed by its members. ... Consensus encourages open communication and it requires members to identify the issue and understand the issue before deciding anything. ... Perhaps it was too risky to pres...

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Throughout the history of civilisation the enduring problem of crime has bought with it huge social and economic problems. ... The concept that physical characteristics are related to social behaviour have been traced back to the Greek physician Hippocrates, who designed a group of typologies and physiques and tried to correlate them with character traits. ... These studies into biological research show that most studies offer inconclusive results and it seems unlikely that biological theories alone can explain the problem of crime and anti-social behaviour. ...

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Factors that significantly effect the nature and the progression of the therapy are the ethnicity and cultural background of the patient, the social context, the environment in which the therapy is conducted and the attitude that the patient may have toward psychotherapy. ... Although is easier to notice cultural issues when they are blatantly apparent between the patient and the therapist, all psychology is actually cross-cultural in the fact that one persons internalized construction of his cultural world is the same as anyone else's. ... Through this framework they established that s...

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Many families struggled with issues such as poverty, violence, health and mental health concerns. ... A Community Advisory Committee supports the Centre to continue to meet community need and respond to social change. ... The availability and immediacy of the walk-in service enables clients to address their mental health issues without delay, work towards resolution of their most pressing concerns, become clearer about additional counselling and other service needs and receive ongoing support. ... Schools, hospitals, family physicians and other social service agencies send people to the wa...

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Highly stressful type - approach-avoidance- a choice must be made about whether to pursue a single goal that has both attractive and unattractive aspects (e.g. being offered a job promotion with much more pay but you"ll have to move to a new city you hate) Quite stressful * Life Changes are any noticeable alterations in one's living circumstances that require readjustment * Holmes and Rahe - Social Readjustment Rating Scale measures life change as a form of stress. ... * Social Support refers to various types of aid and succor provided by one's soc...

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Accordingly, several branches exist of psychology: developmental psychology, animal psychology, educational psychology, psychotherapy, industrial psychology, psychology of personality, social psychology, are but some of them. ... While some scientists propose genetic traits as the reason, others look to the social environment as the cause of our differences. ... Social psychology studies problems that arise from the interaction of men, because a person will behave differently when isolated than when in the company of other humans. ... Most cognitive psychologists ignore the issue of the effe...

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The mental process of acquiring knowledge by the use of reasoning, intuition, or perception is referred to as cognition. This refers to the mental processes involved in gaining knowledge and comprehension which include thinking, knowing, remembering, judging, and problem-solving. Cognition is res...

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He continued to study the issues surrounding testimonies. ... A person also must have thorough knowledge of social and cultural issues, legal knowledge, excellent writing skills, good oral presentation skills, and the ability to maintain their composure under stress. ... Also, they consult with attorneys on mental health and other issues in the civil and criminal court system...

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This is due to the rapid progress of social development. ... Psychology becomes the center of the modern chslovekoznaniya Academician BG Ananiev decades ago has tracked this trend: thanks to the subject matter of psychology is of particular importance for all the sciences that study human: biological, human, social. 6. Mathematisation and cybernetization: Psychologists their concepts are increasingly issued in the form of mathematical and cybernetic models 7. ... Establish the frequency of citing scientific papers (used to examine the links between research areas, the ranking trends; research ...

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It is important to keep in mind that many variables can cause students to act up, such as poorly designed classroom seating, ineffective classroom rules and procedures, not planning for the first day, parental involvement issues, students with disabilities, etc. ... Clusters are great for group work, activities, social interaction, and cooperative learning promotion. ...

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Jeannne Brooks-Gunn, professor of child development at teachers college and at the college of physicians and surgeons, both at Columbia University, has specialized in research focusing on family and community influences on the development of children says, it starts with an evaluation by a child psychiatrist is appropriate for any child with emotional or behavioral issue. ...

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Little research is directly devoted to personality issues, and if consumer personality is investigated at all, it tends to be from the narrow perspective of developing yet another individual difference measure in an already crowded field of personality scales or considering the moderating effects of a given trait on some relationship of interest. Understanding the individual person in his or her role as a consumer should be a key issue in the study of consumer behavior, but in order to realize this vision the scope of personality research has to be broadened. ... The few articles that ...

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While divorce can truly affect the psychological behavior of a child, the gender of the child plays a huge role in the way divorce can affect the child's behavior. " Older studies showed boys had greater social and academic adjustment problems than girls. ... The studies show that children living with opposite-sex parents (mother-custody boys and father-custody girls) were not as well adjusted on measures of competent social behavior (Journal of Marriage and The Family, vol. 50). ... Journal of Marriage and The Family says that girls of divorce are most often fearful of issues regarding c...

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Personality Personality has been defined in many ways some have emphasized the dual influence of heredity and early childhood on personality development others have stressed broader social and environmental influences and the fact that personalities develop continuously over time. ... According to Freud human personality results from a dynamic struggle between inner psychological drives like hunger, sex etc. and social pressures like to follow rules, laws and moral codes. ... Managerial Use of Scales Measuring Personality The main issue for managers is to make use of personality scales. ...

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Abstract In most instances, positive psychology is attributed to the study of negative traits of the human self, such as mental disorder. However, through positive psychology, the field of psychology has managed to branch out in to the study of the elements that constituted to the 'good life', or rather, what adds the greatest value to an individual's life. This paper focuses entirely on the positive psychology learning course, with special emphasis on the core principles that define it. This paper also focuses on various elements, such as the emotional and cognitive changes ob...

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The psychology of sports is not a new area. Studies first began in this area around the 1930's. The mind of an athlete simply impressed and amazed scientist. The mind of an athlete is completely different from the mind of an ordinary person. Scientist spent their research time on the motor aspect...

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Creating a Salutary Learning Atmosphere in Class (LAC) It is commonly agreed abroad that the effect of teaching and learning is to a great extent decided by the learning atmosphere in class (LAC). However, in China, most teachers seem that not paying enough attention to it or not knowing how to create a salutary learning in class, which seriously affected their teaching outcome. Therefore, in the following thesis, I would like to have a discussion on this topic. Chapter One Notion of LAC The effect of teaching is decided not only by the way teachers teach or the way stude...

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