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Meaning-Centered Positive Education (PE 2.0): Based on the New Paradigm of Existential Positive Psychology (EPP)
This chapter makes the case that a brave new world of artificial intelligence (AI), climate change, and global nuclear warfare calls for a paradigm...
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Sexuality, Breast Cancer Survivorship, and Script Theory
IntroductionWith new diagnostic technologies and treatment modalities available, more people than ever are living as cancer survivors in the USA, a...
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Post-capitalism: Towards Social and Ecological Wellbeing
We are in the midst of a metacrisis—climate change, ecological collapse, institutional racism, spiking inequality, and inhumane poverty—which is the...
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Development of prosociality and the effects of adversity
Understanding how children become kind and caring prosocial adults matters for the survival and thriving of humanity. However, adversity can impact...
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Raising Amos: Diagnosing Social-Political Pathologies as A Spiritual Practice
In this article, political pastoral analyses or diagnoses are deemed to be a spiritual practice. To move this argument forward, I begin with a brief...
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Socio-structural Foundations of the Collective Unconscious in Our Society
This article looks at the question of what effect the socio-structural changes in our society over the past 50 years have had on the collective...
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How Exposure to Personal Distress With and Without Self-compassion Affects Distress Tolerance: Results from a Two-Sample Randomized Trial
ObjectivesSelf-compassion is a caring way of relating to personal distress that has known soothing physiological effects characterized by feelings of...
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Media Contagion Suicides Among Married Women of India: Rethinking Women’s Empowerment Practices in India
Introduction: In the last few months there was an increased incidences of suicide among women in Kerala, the top ranked literate state in India. The...
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The Impact of COVID-19 and Telehealth Services on Attrition Rates in Psychotherapy
Attrition in psychotherapy has been identified as a significant obstacle in the productive delivery of mental health services. Defined generally as...
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When Something Happens
It occurs that children with disabilities, especially children with cognitive disabilities, are subjected to mistreatment and abuse such as physical,...
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Turing Testing and Gandhi’s Wisdom in the Era of Cognitive Computing
As compared to the philosophy of science, the philosophy of technology is newer and much weaker. The chapter focuses on how predictability,...
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Impact of COVID-19 on Profession and Health of Female Sex Workers: Apprehension, Acquiescence, and Resilience
In Surat city of Gujarat, India, female sex workers (FSW)-based targeted interventions (TI) and community-based organizations (CBO) have been...
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Happiness, Underdevelopment, and Mental Health in an Andean Indigenous Community
Evidence indicates that developed countries are not happier compared to middle-income countries. Furthermore, there are indicators of an unhappy,...
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Manipulative Social Behavior and Personality Disposition
The discourse so far makes it abundantly clear that interactions of the personality dispositions of the influencing agent, characteristics associated...
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Ferenczi’s variations on the death drive
This theoretical paper discusses three variations on the death drive, developed by Sándor Ferenczi. We present a brief history of the use of the term...
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Toxikers at Work
Toxikers at work It is often unbelievable what victims report about their experiences with Toxikers. Our authentic case studies try to cover the...
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COVID-19 Impact on Older People in Liberia: Analysis
Social policy development in Liberia falls short in representing the voices of the country’s 180,000 people aged 65 or over in determining policies...
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Follow the Leader: Parent- and Child-led Synchrony in Competitive and Cooperative play
Social interactions involve both cooperation to achieve a shared goal and competition over shared resources and rewards. The ability to engage in...
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Restoring Peace as If Our Life Depends on It (as It Does!)
This chapter critically reflects on the rhetoric of binaries and division including the effects this has on the colonization of the mind, body, and...
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Psychopathy and Gender : How Relevant Is the Construct of Psychopathy in Females ?
This chapter will consider the relevance of the construct of psychopathy to adult women and adolescent girls. First, there will first be an outline...