Download or read book The Capacity to Share written by A. Hickling-Hudson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-09-03 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This discussion of Cuba's international policies in education shows how Cuba shares its educational resources with other countries. The postcolonial critique underlying the book explores Cuba's role in relation to how the disengagement from colonial legacies in education is taking place in many countries.
Download or read book Social Cognition in Schizophrenia written by David L. Roberts and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-21 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Individuals with schizophrenia and related disorders experience significant functioning deficits in the community. The study of social cognition in schizophrenia has grown rapidly over the past decade, and a consensus has developed among researchers that dysfunction in social cognition may contribute to the severe interpersonal problems that are a hallmark of schizophrenia. This has generated hope that treatments which improve social cognition in this illness may enhance an individual's ability to live a socially engaged and rewarding life. Social Cognition in Schizophrenia: From Evidence to Treatment provides a firm grounding in the theory and research of normal social cognition, builds on this base to describe how social cognition appears to be dysfunctional in schizophrenia, and explains how this dysfunction might be ameliorated. Composed of contributed chapters written by the top experts in the field, the volume is divided into three parts to address each of these areas. Part I, Foundations of Human Social Cognition, explores normal social cognition in childhood development, adulthood, and across cultures, as well the brain-bases of social cognition and clinical social cognition research. Part II, Social Cognition in Schizophrenia: Descriptive and Experimental Research, discusses social cognition and functional outcome, emotion processing, Theory of Mind, paranoid ideation, social cognition in early psychosis, and the social cognitive neuroscience of schizophrenia. Part III, Social Cognition in Schizophrenia: Treatment Approaches, focuses on findings from current treatment outcome research as well as several leading social cognitive intervention approaches-Integrated Neurocognitive Therapy (INT), Cognitive Enhancement Therapy (CET), Metacognitive Training (MCT), and Social Cognition and Interaction Training (SCIT). This comprehensive, accessible volume will be invaluable to researchers studying social cognition and psychosocial treatment development in schizophrenia, clinicians working with this patient population, students in social and clinical psychology, nursing, social work and occupational therapy, and medical students.
Download or read book The Complexity of Social Norms written by Maria Xenitidou and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the view that normative behaviour is part of a complex of social mechanisms, processes and narratives that are constantly shifting. From this perspective, norms are not a kind of self-contained social object or fact, but rather an interplay of many things that we label as norms when we ‘take a snapshot’ of them at a particular instant. Further, this book pursues the hypothesis that considering the dynamic aspects of these phenomena sheds new light on them. The sort of issues that this perspective opens to exploration include: Of what is this complex we call a "social norm" composed of? How do new social norms emerge and what kind of circumstances might facilitate such an appearance? How context-specific are the norms and patterns of normative behaviour that arise? How do the cognitive and the social aspects of norms interact over time? How do expectations, beliefs and individual rationality interact with social norm complexes to effect behaviour? How does our social embeddedness relate to social constraint upon behaviour? How might the socio-cognitive complexes that we call norms be usefully researched?
Download or read book Mental Capacity Legislation written by Rebecca Jacob and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This theoretical and practical guide to Mental Capacity Statute considers recent case law, medico-legal challenges and future legislation.
Download or read book Philosophical Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology written by August John Hoffman and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-12-24 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophical Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology describes the unique relationship between early schools of thought in Greek philosophy, modern psychology, and most recently evolutionary psychology. This volume provides the reader with a concise history and description of some of the most important theories used in understanding human behaviors (i.e., the mind-body duality, the essence of human nature, and how humans have evolved to cooperate with each other) and how the physical characteristics of communities have contributed to positive (i.e., prosocial) or destructive (i.e., antisocial) behavior. It explores human nature from the philosophical perspectives of Socrates, Plato, Descartes, Locke, and Rousseau as contributing factors to the development of modern psychology (i.e., Structuralism, Functionalism, Behaviorism, and Biopsychology) that ultimately is combined with evolutionary psychology. Philosophical Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology alsoincorporates various topics of psychology that support the development of evolutionary psychology such as language and communication, gender differences, aggression, cooperative behaviors, and natural selection.
Download or read book The Transhumanism Handbook written by Newton Lee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-03 with total page 863 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern humanity with some 5,000 years of recorded history has been experiencing growing pains, with no end in sight. It is high time for humanity to grow up and to transcend itself by embracing transhumanism. Transhumanism offers the most inclusive ideology for all ethnicities and races, the religious and the atheists, conservatives and liberals, the young and the old regardless of socioeconomic status, gender identity, or any other individual qualities. This book expounds on contemporary views and practical advice from more than 70 transhumanists. Astronaut Neil Armstrong said on the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969, “One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” Transhumanism is the next logical step in the evolution of humankind, and it is the existential solution to the long-term survival of the human race.
Download or read book Building Community Capacity written by Robert J. Chaskin and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on a gap in current social work practice theory: community change. Much work in this area of macro practice, particularly around "grassroots" community organizing, has a somewhat dated feel to it, is highly ideological in orientation, or suffers from superficiality, particularly in the area of theory and practical application. Set against the context of an often narrowly constructed "clinical" emphasis on practice education, coupled with social work's own current rendering of "scientific management," community practice often takes second or third billing in many professional curricula despite its deep roots in the overall field of social welfare. Drawing on extensive case study data from three significant community-building initiatives, program data from numerous other community capacity-building efforts, key informant interviews, and an excellent literature review, Chaskin and his colleagues draw implications for crafting community change strategies as well as for creating and sustaining the organizational infrastructure necessary to support them. The authors bring to bear the perspectives of a variety of professional disciplines including sociology, urban planning, psychology, and social work. Building Community Capacity takes a collaborative, interdisciplinary approach to a subject of wide and current concern: the role of neighborhood and community structures in the delivery of human services or, as the authors put it, "a place where programs and problems can be fitted together." Social work scholars and students of community practice seeking new conceptual frameworks and insights from research to inform novel community interventions will find much of value in Building Community Capacity.
Download or read book International Human Resource Management written by Anne-Wil Harzing and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I enthusiastically endorse the fourth edition of IHRM. The editors are to be congratulated for recruiting the top-rated authors in this field to contribute to this volume. The chapters are up to date, insightful, and sometimes even provocative. Students, including post-grads and advanced undergraduates, as well as savvy practitioners, will benefit from reading this volume." Neal M. Ashkanasy, Professor of Management, The University of Queensland Anne-Wil Harzing and Ashly Pinnington’s bestselling textbook has guided thousands of students through their International Human Resource Management studies. The fourth edition retains the critical edge, academic rigour and breadth of coverage which have established this book as the most authoritative text on the market. The new edition by our international team of experts provides an even more stimulating journey through the core curriculum, contemporary debates and emerging issues in IHRM. New for the fourth edition: Reduced number of chapters to allow for greater depth and an improved structure ensuring fundamental topics underpin your knowledge Expanded coverage of Equality and Diversity, Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability and Cross-Cultural Management in line with developments in the field New Stop and Reflect feature provides an opportunity to test your understanding at regular intervals This text comes with access to a companion website containing web links, SAGE journal articles and more.
Download or read book The Shared World written by Axel Seemann and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel treatment of the capacity for shared attention, joint action, and perceptual common knowledge. In The Shared World, Axel Seemann offers a new treatment of the capacity to perceive, act on, and know about the world together with others. Seemann argues that creatures capable of joint attention stand in a unique perceptual and epistemic relation to their surroundings; they operate in an environment that they, through their communication with their fellow perceivers, help constitute. Seemann shows that this relation can be marshaled to address a range of questions about the social aspect of the mind and its perceptual and cognitive capacities. Seemann begins with a conceptual question about a complex kind of sociocognitive phenomenon—perceptual common knowledge—and develops an empirically informed account of the spatial structure of the environment in and about which such knowledge is possible. In the course of his argument, he addresses such topics as demonstrative reference in communication, common knowledge about jointly perceived objects, and spatial awareness in joint perception and action.
Download or read book Transforming Social Work Practice written by Jan Fook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transforming Social Work Practice shows that postmodern theory offers new strategies for social workers concerned with political action and social justice. It explores ways of developing practice frameworks, paradigms and principles which take advantage of the perspectives offered by postmodern theory without totally abandoning the values of modernity and the Enlightenment project of human emancipation. Case studies demonstrate how these perspectives can be applied to practice.
Download or read book Family Care and Social Capital Transitions in Informal Care written by Patrick Barrett and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-08-04 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becoming a caregiver is increasingly an inevitable experience for many people and, therefore, a likely life transition. Drawing on research and personal experiences of working with family caregivers, this book examines a range of family caregiving situations from across the life course. It seeks to capture the dynamics of caregiving in a number of common situations: caregiving during infancy, for adults who acquire a disability through accidents or illness, for older people with age-related issues, and caregiving by children and adolescent carers and grandparent carers. In drawing attention to key moments of vulnerability faced by family and informal caregivers, and by suggesting how to assist ‘reconnection’ at these moments, the book provides a guide for those working in the area of health, disability and care. Informal care is conceptualised as occurring with the context of personal interrelationships, these being nested within wider kin networks and linked with wider professional formal care networks. Informal care is seen both as an expression of social capital and as an activity that builds social capital. It is an indicator of resources of mutual support within social networks, and it has the effect of adding to the stock of social resources. The book makes a case, therefore, for facilitating the development of social capital by strengthening the capacity of informal caregivers and caregiver groups, and by improving the linkages with formal care organisations.
Download or read book The ABC Of Reinsurance written by Stefan Pohl and published by VVW GmbH. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Titel in englischer Sprache Eine wichtige Neuerscheinung für alle, die mit Rückversicherungen zu tun haben. Vor allem Einsteiger finden hier übersichtlich und verständlich alle relevanten Informationen auf einen Blick! Das „ABC der Rückversicherung“ ist in zwei Teile untergliedert. Im ersten befassen sich die Autoren intensiv mit der traditionellen Rückversicherung. Dazu zählen Themen wie die Vertragsrückversicherung und die fakultative Rückversicherung - und zwar sowohl in der proportionalen als auch in der nichtproportionalen Form. Der erste Teil behandelt zusätzlich zentrale Methoden der Bepreisung und der Rechnungslegung von Rückversicherungsverträgen. Zahlreiche Illustrationen, Beispiele und Übungsaufgaben mit nachvollziehbaren Musterlösungen sorgen dafür für bestmögliche Verständlichkeit. Ganz bewusst verzichteten die Autoren darauf, mathematische Herleitungen zu erklären. Aus gutem Grund: Im Vordergrund steht klar und deutlich die schnelle Anwendbarkeit, daher werden konkret die Vor- und Nachteile der einzelnen Techniken und Konzepte herausgearbeitet. Der zweite Teil widmet sich dann den fortgeschrittenen Aspekten in der Rückversicherung. Dazu gehören Methoden des alternativen Risikotransfers, aber auch die verschiedenen Anwendungsgebiete der passiven Rückversicherung kommen nicht zu kurz. In erster Linie ist der zweite Teil dazu gedacht, einen kompakten Überblick über weitere Themengebiete zu geben, die rund um die traditionelle Rückversicherung flankierend auftauchen. Bereits Anfänger, die mit dem Thema noch nicht sehr vertraut sind, können so die wichtigsten Konzepte der Rückversicherung und die in der Praxis verwandten Fachtermini einsortieren und grob bewerten! Zahlreiche Referenzen geben dabei nicht nur Sicherheit, sie dienen auch einem vertieften Einstieg. Im Einzelnen werden hier die folgenden Themengebiete angesprochen: Fronting und Captives zur Steuerung des Selbstbehaltes der zedierenden Gesellschaft Run-Off-Management zur Abwicklung von Versicherungsbeständen Regulatorische Themen wie die Äquivalenz von einzelnen Aufsichtsregimen und die Erfassung von global systemrelevanten Versicherern sowie Skizzierung von Methoden zur Optimierung von Rückversicherungsstrukturen und Selbstbehalten Ein Glossar, der die im Buch gebrauchten Fachtermini kurz erläutert, rundet das für die Branche wichtige Buch ab. Ideal für Anfänger bei Versicherungsunternehmen, die sich mit der aktiven oder passiven Rückversicherung beschäftigen, und die sich einen kompakten, schnellen und anwendungsorientierten Überblick verschaffen wollen! Those who are dealing with assumed or ceded reinsurance can find here all information at a glance. In the first part the authors deal with traditional assumed reinsurance, i.e., treaty and facultative reinsurance, both proportional and non-proportional in nature. Illustrations, practical examples and exercises enhance the reader’s experience. The second part is dedicated to advanced reinsurance, e.g., to methods of alternative risk transfer and work fields in ceded reinsurance. Ideal for the beginner to obtain an application-oriented overview of the relevant concepts and techniques in reinsurance!
Download or read book Intervention in the Brain written by Robert H. Blank and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The political and policy implications of recent developments in neuroscience, including new techniques in imaging and neurogenetics. New findings in neuroscience have given us unprecedented knowledge about the workings of the brain. Innovative research—much of it based on neuroimaging results—suggests not only treatments for neural disorders but also the possibility of increasingly precise and effective ways to predict, modify, and control behavior. In this book, Robert Blank examines the complex ethical and policy issues raised by our new capabilities of intervention in the brain. After surveying current knowledge about the brain and describing a wide range of experimental and clinical interventions—from behavior-modifying drugs to neural implants to virtual reality—Blank discusses the political and philosophical implications of these scientific advances. If human individuality is simply a product of a network of manipulable nerve cell connections, and if aggressive behavior is a treatable biochemical condition, what happens to our conceptions of individual responsibility, autonomy, and free will? In light of new neuroscientific possibilities, Blank considers such topics as informed consent, addiction, criminal justice, racism, commercial and military applications of neuroscience research, new ways to define death, and political ideology and partisanship. Our political and social institutions have not kept pace with the rapid advances in neuroscience. This book shows why the political issues surrounding the application of this new research should be debated before interventions in the brain become routine.
Download or read book Fog for 5G and IoT written by Mung Chiang and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-04-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines how Fog will change the information technology industry in the next decade. Fog distributes the services of computation, communication, control and storage closer to the edge, access and users. As a computing and networking architecture, Fog enables key applications in wireless 5G, the Internet of Things, and big data. The authors cover the fundamental tradeoffs to major applications of fog. The book chapters are designed to motivate a transition from the current cloud architectures to the Fog (Chapter 1), and the necessary architectural components to support such a transition (Chapters 2-6). The rest of the book (Chapters 7-xxx) are dedicated to reviewing the various 5G and IoT applications that will benefit from Fog networking. This volume is edited by pioneers in Fog and includes contributions by active researchers in the field. Covers fog technologies and describes the interaction between fog and cloud Presents a view of fog and IoT (encompassing ubiquitous computing) that combines the aspects of both industry and academia Discusses the various architectural and design challenges in coordinating the interactions between M2M, D2D and fog technologies "Fog for 5G and IoT" serves as an introduction to the evolving Fog architecture, compiling work from different areas that collectively form this paradigm
Download or read book Federal Trade Commission Decisions written by United States. Federal Trade Commission and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 1188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book CUSTOM Grand Canyon University SWK 540 Human Behavior in the Social Environment II Adolescence to Late Adulthood Custom Electronic Edition written by Elizabeth D. Hutchison and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a custom eBook for Grand Canyon University.
Download or read book Kant on Freedom and Spontaneity written by Kate A. Moran and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-27 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays on the foundational themes of freedom and spontaneity in Immanuel Kant's philosophy.
