1.1. Valuation methodology ACC is using LBO approach for its acquisitions and desires to maintain this acquisition policy for its latest target AirThread Connections (AC). According to this approach‚ AC will be financed significantly by debt which will obviously breach leverage ratios maintained by Air Thread/ACC. ACCs plans to bring down the leverage ratio to industry standards steadily to sustainable levels between the years 2008-2012. Owing to the uneven capital structures between 2008
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Token economy programmes (TEP’s) are mostly used in prisons and community-based projects to encourage pro-social behaviour‚ but in some cases they are used in treating eating disorders. Based on the principles of operant conditioning‚ they involve imposing a system of rewards that can be gained if a desired behaviour is performed. The programme enables staff to shape and modify a patients behaviour to what society redeems as appropriate and safe. The management draws up a list of appropriate behaviours
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The humanistic perspective on personality deals exclusively with human behavior. Humanistic psychologists believe that human nature includes a natural drive towards personal growth‚ that humans have the freedom to choose what they do regardless of environmental factors‚ and humans are mostly conscious beings and are not controlled by unconscious needs and conflicts. They also believe that a person’s subjective view of the world is more important than objective reality. Two of the humanistic theorists
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Tia Gardner September 21‚ 2012 Humanistic Perspective and Addiction There are several theories of addiction. All of them are imperfect. All are partial explanations. It is for this reason that it is important to be aware of and question addiction theories. One contemporary psychoanalytical view of substance abuse is that it is a defense against anxiety (Thombs D 2006). Addicts often abuse alcohol and other substances to guard against anxiety and other painful
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The psychological theoretical orientation chosen is the humanistic approach. There are six humanistic assumptions about people. First‚ is the democratic ideal‚ which is the belief in worth and dignity in all humans. Next‚ is that the emotional‚ internal world is dominant‚ and people should listen to what their internal world is trying to tell them. Another assumption‚ is that all living things are inclined towards growth and actualization (E. Sarno‚ personal communication‚ February 16‚ 2017). Also
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sample lesson: simple future June 5th‚ 2012 Introduction: This sample lesson is made for beginners (kids) for explaining simple future with an inductive approach. Using some visual aids to get the attention of the students through examples like‚ dialogs‚ conversations‚ images and videos. Teaching in a generative situation‚ which follows the real world is used in order to generate a real environment to make students experience like in the real life. Making students apply the language in
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Hum Humanistic and existential personality theories Sherry D Lewis Monica Young Quintina Jackson PSY/405 March 11‚ 2012 Dr. Amanze Ihedioha Humanistic and existential personality theories This paper is about human and existential personality theories. In this paper team C will analyze the strengths and limitations of the theories listed in explaining individual’s behavior. Through
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is a platonic one or intimate involvement. As we see in the humanistic model‚ relationships fulfill are psychological needs that predominantly consist of basic necessities such as food‚ water‚ homeostasis etc‚ as we move further up the pyramid we notice that a sense of security falls in‚ further up there is a sense of belonging‚ in terms of friendship‚ family and even sexually intimacy. Esteem is another important level of the humanistic model as it discusses about the sense of achievement‚ self-esteem
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The biological or medical model approach examines psychological disorders as a type of illness and assumes it is a physical issue. The approach believes that factors such as genes‚ bio-chemistry‚ neuro-anatomy and germs are the causes of psychological disorders‚ and use treatments such as drugs and psychosurgery to rectify them. (Saul McLeod‚ 2008/2014) Anxiolytic drugs such as benzodiazepines are commonly used in the treatment of somebody with depression or bipolar as they increase activity in the
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I. INTRODUCTION The emergence of humanistic learning theory can not be separated from the movement of humanistic education that focuses on affective outcomes‚ learning about how to learn and learning to enhance creativity and human potential. This humanistic approach emerged as a form of disapproval on two previous views‚ the views of psychoanalysis and behavioristik in explaining human behavior. Disagreement is based on the assumption that the views of psychoanalysis too pessimistic outlook bleak
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