Applied Psychology category: 2264 books
Developing Leadership and Employee Health Through the Arts
Improving Leader-Employee Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
This book examines the problems that a “laissez faire” attitude from managers can create in the workplace, as well as the ensuing illness such problems may cause among employees. The book offers new ideas for dealing with these problems and proposes the use of cultural experiences as an active...
by Gudrun Voggenreiter
Language: German
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Language: German
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Arbeit ist in einem umfassenden Verständnis die Vorbedingung allen Lebens, ist Leben doch durch Bewegung und damit Veränderung, Umgestaltung definiert. Der Mensch möchte sein Selbst in eben diesen Umgestaltungen wiedererkennen, er möchte Spuren hinterlassen. Dabei kommt er häufig in Konflikt...
Emotional and Cognitive Overload
The Dark Side of Information Technology
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
We live in a world of limitless information. With technology advancing at an astonishingly fast pace, we are challenged to adapt to robotics and automated systems that threaten to replace us. Both at home and at work, an endless range of devices and Information Technology (IT) systems place demands...
Mapping the Terrain of the Heart
Passion, Tenderness, and the Capacity to Love
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1997
If you have read other books about love that have fallen short, read this book. Mapping the Terrain of the Heart is an eloquent guide through love's diverse landscapes that provides a whole new way to think about love relationships. Both descriptive and prescriptive, it is a book for anyone looking...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
The past several decades of rapid organizational change and global economic activity beseech a fresh understanding of work conditions and mental health across all nations and regions. This volume addresses psychosocial factors at work, legislation, frameworks, research innovations and common perceptions...
by E. Scott Geller, Bob Veazie
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
This refreshing teaching/learning narrative, based on actual life events and research-supported principles, begins with the lead character (Joanne Cruse) losing her job as the Safety Director for a large manufacturing company. Subsequently, her former psychology professor, Dr. Pitz ("Doc"), invites her...
Empath: An Empowering Book for the Highly Sensitive Person on Utilizing Your Unique Ability and Maximizing Your Human Potential
Positive Psychology Coaching Series, #12
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Have others ever told you to "stop being so sensitive?" Have you ever looked at other people and wondered how they manage to get through the day without noticing the suffering going on all around them?
Do you feel so emotionally delicate in comparison to your peers that you have tried...
Accelerated Learning: The Most Effective Techniques: How to Learn Fast, Improve Memory, Save Your Time and Be Successful
Positive Psychology Coaching Series, #14
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2019
Unleash the awesome power of your brain to achieve your true potential, learn anything, and enjoy greater success than you ever thought possible.
Packed with proven methods that help you significantly improve your memory and develop simple-yet-powerful learning methods, Accelerated Learning:...
Social Exchange
Advances in Theory and Research
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
INTRODUCTION In developing scientific theory there is perhaps nothing more propi tious than a compelling metaphor. If the metaphor is rich in imagery, complexly differentiated, emotionally evocative, and vitally wedded to the cultural lore, the theory to which it gives rise may enjoy a long and...
Navigating Everyday Life
Exploring the Tension between Finitude and Transcendence
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
Navigating Everyday Life explores the special moments, big and small, that rupture the surface of everyday life and that can help readers adjust to the disrupting effects of major life crises. Peter Adams delves into the two forces, finitude (the aspects that constrain a person to a situation) and...
Women's Leadership Journeys
Stories, Research, and Novel Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
This volume brings together research from leading scholars with stories from women leaders in diverse sectors to provide insights from their leadership journeys. The book begins with personal stories of women’s leadership journeys by chief executive officers, a former U.S. ambassador, a college...
by John Gahan, LCGI
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2017
Early hypothesis envisage a memory "engram," a truthful manuscript written by the body to explain long-ago experiences. Freud popularized descriptions of reserved memoirs, experiences actually obscured in the pits of the intuitive. Contemporary descriptions are conquered by correlation to...
Patterns
Building Blocks of Experience
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
In recent years, various tributaries of psychoanalytic and developmental theory have flowed into our dawning understanding of the role of early sensory and affective experiences in the construction of our personal worlds. In Patterns: Building Blocks of Experience, Marilyn Charles shows how such primary...
Digital Health
Critical and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
The rise of digital health technologies is, for some, a panacea to many of the medical and public health challenges we face today. This is the first book to articulate a critical response to the techno-utopian and entrepreneurial vision of the digital health phenomenon. Deborah Lupton, internationally...