Parental Attachment and the Development of Self-Compassion The Positive Psychology movement focuses on identifying protective factors that promote wellbeing and protect people from the negative psychological effects related to life’s everyday challenges. Research increasingly supports self-compassion as a key component in positive mental health outcomes. However‚ very few studies have examined factors that lead to the development of self-compassion. Attachment is known to contribute to the development
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Gabriella Arreola United States Government – 2305 Dr. Nancy Hart 6 October 2014 Essay Set II – Affirmative Action The Supreme Courts have recently decided to allow states to abolish affirmative action in college admissions if state voters say so. Instead of getting rid of affirmative action altogether‚ the court decided to let state voters control what will happen. Affirmative action in evaluating college applicants has supporters and opponents on both sides of the political spectrum‚ but generally
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Discuss sex differences in parental investment? Trivers (1972) “Parental investment is the investment a parent makes in an indiviual offspring that increases it’s chances of survival at cost of the parent’s ability to invest in other offspring.” The beneifts of parental investment increases survival of the offspring which comes from survival of the fittest developed from the evolutionary theory. There are sex differences in parental investment because the initial investment made my females is
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Title of Research: Finding the Value of One (1) Strategy: Its Effect on Pupil’s Speed and Accuracy to Add and Subtract Dissimilar Fractions. I. Introduction/Background of the Study Addition and subtraction of dissimilar fractions is one of the competencies that should be mastered by a pupil before he/she will graduate in the elementary. (PELC‚ BEC‚ 2002) However‚ this skill is one of the skills that is least mastered by pupils. It has been observed that Grade VI-pupils have difficulty in
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1.0 BACKGROUND OF FOUNDER They are two founders who developed Interpersonal Deception Theory. Judee Burgoon or known as Professor Burgoon is the director of Human Communication Research for The Management of Information Centre. Besides that‚ she is also She is Professor of Communication and Professor of Family Studies and Human Development at the University of Arizona She was the PHD holder from West Virgina University. Professor Burgoon has authored 7 books and over 240 articles‚ chapters
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I. The title: Helping students at Military Medical University learn vocabulary more effectively by applying games. II. The rationale for the research: Vocabulary mastery is the basic knowledge to learn any language in general and English in particular because vocabulary is considered a bridge to link four skills of listening‚ speaking‚ reading and writing together (Carter‚ 1992). Similarly‚ the linguist Wilkins (1972) already emphasizes the importance of vocabulary learning “without grammar
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TIMET in Action: Using Collectivist Approach within the Thai English Speaking Class By Piraya Mitrsomwang A research proposal submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Quality Examination (QE) for the degree of Doctoral Degree in English Studies Faculty of liberal Arts‚ Thammasat University‚ 2013 Abstract In the realm of English Language Teaching (ELT‚) speaking is deemed to play a critical part of language learning and teaching process. Nonetheless‚ despite the various
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Parental Substance Abuse and Child Welfare Temple University Harrisburg Introduction Parental substance abuse and the welfare of children have become a growing epidemic in society today. Thousands of families are facing struggles with addiction which can lead to the interruption of cognitive development and mental growth of their young children. It has been found that “more than 8.3 million children younger than 18 years (11.9%) lived with at least one parent who was dependent on or abused
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COUNSELING COUPLES THROUGH SEPARATION A DEVELOPMENTAL APPROACH By Terry Levy and Wendy Joffe The goal of this paper is to present a conceptual model of what occurs on psychological‚ emotional and interpersonal levels during and following the termination of a close relationship. A close relationship is defined as ongoing‚ emotionally and/or sexually intimate‚ and involving feelings of commitment and attachment. This paper is to be a guide for the therapist who endeavors to understand
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The Concept of Intentional Action Abstract The concept of intentional action‚ which is the notion of how people assign blame/praise unto actions and how they consider them to be intentional or unintentional has been a subject of discussion within the area of philosophical theories of the mind and folk psychology. To investigate whether people assign moral considerations with regard to actions and how they consider them intentional/unintentional‚ 6 people were given a 5 question questionnaire to
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