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    As the decade neared its end‚ it also became the end of his psychoanalytic career and the commencement of cognitive therapy‚ even Beck did not foresee its significance at the time. He set out to empirically demonstrate the psychoanalytic theory that depression is anger turned inward. In attempting to provide empirical support for certain

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    Swanson’s Middle Range Nursing Theory of Caring By: Shari Semelroth RN‚ BSN Mennonite College of Nursing Abstract Do we honestly make an effort to improve the environment‚ care‚ medical treatment‚ and interactions with those patients who are suffering a loss? Do we adequately provide the care that they need? These questions are answered in Swanson’s Middle Range Theory of Caring. We examine the five caring processes and their applications to one’s daily nursing routines. Many healthcare organizations

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    Comparing conflict theory and social control theory Ann M Thomas CJA/540 criminological theory September 7‚ 2010 Professor Steve Nance A major purpose of this paper is to discuss conflict theory and social control theory from many phases. Sociological imagination originated in 1950 beginning with C. Wright Mills‚ an American sociologist. The concept of sociological imagination refers to how many factors there are in sociology that shape and mold the connections between what indirectly associates

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    formative period in the 1950’s called ethnoscience; (2) the middle period during the 1960’s and 1970’s‚ commonly identified with the study of folk models; and (3) the most recent period beginning in the 1980’s with the growth of schema theory and the development of consensus theory. Cognitive anthropology is closely aligned with psychology‚ because both explore the nature of cognitive processes (D’Andrade 1995:1). It has also adopted theoretical elements and methodological techniques from structuralism and

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    Motivation theories and practices remain as one of the most difficult subject to understand. In order to fully comprehend this topic‚ one must go through several disciplines and enormous research. This is especially crucial in the workplace. There is no methodology that is more efficient in increasing productivity than using motivation. Despite the importance of practicing motivation theories‚ it is still an area that very few have ventured in. One of the many reasons behind the reluctances of managers

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    What is Motivation? Buchanan defines motivation as follows: "Motivation is a decision-making process‚ through which the individual chooses the desired outcomes and sets in motion the behaviour appropriate to them". How does motivation differ from "motives" Buchanan defines motives as: "learned influences on human behaviour that lead us to pursue particular goals because they are valued". Motivation can therefore be thought of as the degree to which an individual wants AND chooses to engage in certain

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    University of Arizona Author of Social Bond Theory Hirschi’s Two Theories and Beyond T ravis Hirschi has dominated control theory for four decades. His influence today is undiminished and likely will continue for years‚ if not decades‚ to come (see‚ e.g.‚ Britt & Gottfredson‚ 2003; Gottfredson‚ 2006; Kempf‚ 1993; Pratt & Cullen‚ 2000). Beyond the sheer scholarly talent manifested in his writings‚ what accounts for Hirschi’s enduring influence on criminological theory? Three interrelated considerations

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    Learning Theories  • The Technological Revolution • The Spectrum of Learning Theories • Behaviorism • Constructivism • Fitting the Other Theories into the Spectrum • Theory of Multiple Intelligence • Learning Theories and the Brain • Brain Structures • Implications for Learning Theory • Implications for Multimedia • References   By Darren Forrester & Noel Jantzie Kilde: http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/%7Egnjantzi/learning_theories.htm   This

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    Good morning everybody‚ Today the topic for our debate is “work can be dehumanizing rather than fulfilling.”To which I am in favour of as I believe that work is depriving employees of human qualities such as individuality‚ compassion‚ civility and is making it mere mechanical and routine and not enough creative‚ satisfying or making employees happy to be at work. I would like to start off by quoting the founding father of sociology‚ Karl Marx‚ who‚ in his Economic and Political Manuscript reflects

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    “A major proportion of deaths could be prevented if people were to change their health-behaviours” Human behaviour plays a central role in the maintenance of health and the prevention of disease. Health-risk behaviour can be defined as any activity undertaken by people with a frequency or intensity that increases risk of disease or injury (Steptoe & Wardle‚ 2004). The health risk behaviours might cluster together into a risky lifestyle. Much of the mortality and morbidity is caused by individual

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