Psychological resilience is the ability of successfully adapting to life’s stressors. It is the process of facing trauma‚ tragedy adversity‚ threats or much stress and overcoming these adversities. Difficulties include family and relationship problems‚ a loved one’s death‚ severe health problems‚ and workplace and financial stressors. Some factors that make someone resilient are optimism‚ having a positive attitude‚ the ability to regulate emotions‚ and the ability to see failure as a form of helpful
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Tests‚ Allies‚ Enemies Ramanujan had always lived in a tropical climate in his hometown and had his mother to cook for him but now he had to face the English winter‚ and he had to do all his cooking to adhere to his caste’s strict dietary rules. As he was a pure vegetarian‚ wartime shortages made things worse (Marianne Freiberger‚ 2015). Having crossed the threshold‚ the hero is tested and faces the challenges in the special world as is said by Campbell in his theory of hero’s journey. I believe
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Psychological Contracts: an introduction to the concept Richard Hall Associate Professor in Work and Organisational Studies University of Sydney While the origins of the concept of ‘the psychological contract’ can be traced to the 1960s‚ the idea gained widespread currency in the academic and research fields of organisational psychology‚ organisational behaviour and HRM in the 1990s following the publication of a key article‚ then a book‚ by Rousseau (1989‚ 1995) which stimulated renewed interest
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Environmental Safety for your Infant; Co-Sleeping and it’s Dangers The pamphlet created on Co-sleeping with infants was presented to a co-workers sister who has a 2 week old son. The mother’s age is 31‚ and her highest level of education is a High School Diploma – which while attaining this diploma‚ remedial education classes were attended. Healthcare knowledge of the mother and family are minimal. The mother‚ Ms. Brown‚ was very receptive to my education about having the baby co-sleep. Ms. Brown
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“Sleeping Late At Night As Factor Affecting The Academic Performance Of High School Students” Joaquin Carl F. Loyola IV-Integrity CHAPTER I The Problem And it’s Settings INTRODUCTION Sleeping problems are almost always involved in mental disorders‚ including depression‚ alzheimer’s disease‚ stroke as well as head injury. And symptoms are strongly influenced by the amount of sleep a person gets. Difficulties may arise
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Introduction This study focuses on motivation on why people attend and participate in sporting events; the researcher will be reviewing it based on Psychological disciplinary theories. Sport tourism could be defined as’ leisure based travel that takes individuals temporarily outside of their home communities to participate in physical activities‚ to watch‚ or to venerate attractions associated with physical activities according to Gibson‚ (2006). Individuals seek to travel to either participate
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Issues in Psychological Testing PSY/475 October 24‚ 2011 Issues in Psychological Testing What are at least two ethical issues associated with psychological testing? What impact do these issues have on the field of psychological testing? Informed consent involves the process by which a psychologist gain an individual’s voluntary consent prior to the administration of an assessment or test. As stated by Hogan (2007)‚ “The psychologist is responsible for informing the person about
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PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF TRAUMA Introduction A traumatic event is any situation whereby a person is affected psychologically due to the severity of the event. In such cases‚ a person may find it difficult to move on to normal life which they had no problem with before the traumatic event. A recent event that affected hundreds of people in Kenya was the Westgate terror attack. Terror attacks cause people to lose trust in humanity. This attack left many people traumatised Fortunately‚ these consequences
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Psychological Testing in the Workplace Introduction Psychological tests are popular among private and public companies‚ government agencies and in the military as well. Psychological testing is used for several purposes‚ they can be used in the pre-employment process‚ and they can be used as an aid in regarding employment retention as well as in job placement. While the uses of psychological testing are wide spread‚ there are issues revolving around the validity and reliability of these tests
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Psychological Case Study Abstract The aim of this case study is to investigate the participants relationships with other family members. Why does she argue so much with her mother? The problem that the client is faced with is in the relationship that she has with her mother. Although the love between them is clearly evident‚ there is a lot of friction between them and there are frequent arguments fought out. Symptoms from the client include violent swearing‚ shouting‚ sarcastic remarks‚ verbal
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