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The ArtsMay 2024Adaptation and resilience in the performing arts
The pandemic and beyond
by Pascale Aebischer, Rachael Nicholas
This book offers insights into some of the digital innovations, structural adaptations and analogue solutions that enabled live performance in the UK to survive through the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides evidence of values-led policies and practices that have improved the wellbeing of the creative workforce and have increased access to live performance. Through sections that address digital innovations, workforce resilience and programming live performances outdoors and in community settings, this book provides practical insights into the challenges live performance faced during the pandemic. It shows how, in order to survive, individuals and companies within the sector drew on the creativity and resourcefulness of its workforce, and on new and existing networks. In these accounts, the pandemic functioned as catalyst for technological innovations, stock-taking regarding exploitative industry structures, and a re-valuing of the role of live performance for community-building.
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MedicineMay 2024Creative approaches to wellbeing
The pandemic and beyond
by Victoria Tischler, Karen Gray
A compilation of case studies illustrating the use of arts, culture and other community assets individuals and communities used to cope and develop resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic, demonstrating valuable lessons that might help us develop resilience in similar future crises.
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Strengths-Based Resilience
by Tayyab Rashid, Jane Gillham, Afroze Anjum
Informed by rigorous research from positive psychology, cognitive behavior therapy and mindfulness, the Strengths-Based Resilience (SBR) program helps participants cultivate resilience in the face of different adverse life phases, whether it is challenges in higher education, work, relationships, or more. The 14-module SBR program helps clients to build resilience through a series of evidence-based skills. Core modules focus on:• Integrating mindfulness, relaxation, and gratitude intodailyselfcare routines• Developing a personal story of resilience• Learning a more flexible thinking style• Identifying and using strengths to solve problems• Incorporating slowness and savoring• Practicing positive communication for healthierrelationships• Contributing to community by learning to act altruistically• Pursuing a sense of meaning by exploring past and futureselves This color-illustrated manual is clearly structured, providing step-by step instructions, and listing the practice elements and goals of each module. It is an essential resource for all mental health practitioners wanting to help their clients build resilience. For:• psychotherapists• clinical psychologists
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Humanities & Social SciencesStrengths-Based Resilience Workbook
by Tayyab Rashid, Jane Gillham, Ruth Louden, Afroze Anjum
Learn how to develop and to use your strengths to build resilience: • A tried and tested 14-module positive psychology program• Learn skills you can integrate into daily life• Clearly structured• Full of resources and activities Do you want to learn skills that focus on strengths that will help you become more resilient? And be able to integrate these skills into your daily life? Then this 14 module strengthsbased resilience program will help you do just that with an approach that has been proven to work. You will learn how to: • Integrate mindfulness, relaxation, and gratitude intoyour daily self-care routine• Explore your own story of resilience• Learn to be more flexible in your thinking• Identify and use strengths to solve problems• Incorporate slowness and savoring• Practice positive communication for healthier relationships• Contribute to community by learning to do the good you can• Find a sense of meaning by exploring your past andfuture self Each module is clearly structured with step-by-step instructions, listing the practice elements and goals for each session. The book is full of tips so you can start developing the skills now and make changes that will help you flourish in life. For:• psychotherapists• clinical psychologists
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Health & Personal DevelopmentNurturing Your Soul’s Resilience
A Path to Inner Strength and Wellbeing
by Gaby Gschwend
Fears, stress, loneliness, losses and negative beliefs about oneself and the world reduce our own well-being and have a great impact on both mental and physical health. How can we strengthen our resilience to increase and maintain health and wellbeing? The book encourages the reader to take responsibility for the successes in their life and actively contribute to their health and shows how to increase resilience. Many examples illustrate different ways and exercises that strengthen resilience and enable the readers to actively contribute to their own health and wellbeing. Important factors are a friendly attitude toward oneself which includes the own perception of one’s weaknesses, strengthening positive attitudes and feelings. Target Group: psychotherapists, psychiatrists, clinical and health psychologist
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PsychologyPositive Psychology at the Movies
Using Films to Build Character Strengths and Well-Being
by Ryan M. Niemiec, Danny Wedding
This book uses movies as a medium for learning about the latest research and concepts, such as mindfulness, resilience, meaning, positive relationships, achievement, well-being, as well as the 24 character strengths laid out by the VIA Institute of Character. This book systematically discusses each of the 24 character strengths, balancing film discussion, related psychological research, and practical applications. Resources provided in this book include a suggested syllabus for a complete positive psychology course based on movies, a list of suitable movies for children, adolescents, and families as well as a list of questions for classroom and therapy discussions. Target Group: Psychologists, consultants, therapists and counselors, movie enthusiasts, and all those interested in positive psychology and improving life.
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Negotiating with Confidence –Psychological Strategies and Methods
With 20 Exercises for Self-Learning
by T. Fritzsche
From a psychological perspective, there are many aspects to negotiating. Given the right knowledge of backgrounds and mechanisms, it is an art form possible to get to grips with and put into practice. In an entertaining and informative way, this book introduces the reader to the basics of communication and body language, cooperative negotiation, strategic negotiation, the different personalities of negotiators, and negotiating. Using practical exercises and valuable practical tips, this book takes the reader through the main psychological strategies and methods so he can negotiate in a flexible, goal-oriented, and successful manner. Target Group: For people who want to improve their negotiating skills.
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2022Psychoanalysis and the family in twentieth-century France
Françoise Dolto and her legacy
by Richard Bates, David Hopkin, Maire Cross, Jennifer Sessions
In the last quarter of the twentieth century, if French people had a parenting problem or dilemma there was one person they consulted above all: Françoise Dolto (1908-88). But who was Dolto? How did she achieve a position of such influence? What ideas did she communicate to the French public? This book connects the story of Dolto's rise to two broader histories: the dramatic growth of psychoanalysis in postwar France and the long-running debate over the family and the proper role of women in society. It shows that Dolto's continued reputation in France as a liberal and enlightened educational thinker is at best only partially deserved and that conservative and anti-feminist ideas often underpinned her prominent public interventions. While Dolto retains the status of a national treasure, her career has had far-reaching and sometimes harmful repercussions for French society, particularly in the treatment of autism.
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The ArtsDecember 2025The double game of music
Paradoxes of power, status and class in music education
by Live Weider Ellefsen, Petter Dyndahl, Anne Jordhus-Lier, Siw Graabræk Nielsen
The double game of music imagines music education as a series of games - each with its own rules, play currency and players - to challenge readers to rethink the significance of music and musical upbringing in shaping social structures. Drawing on their own empirical research and a wide range of international contributions, the authors unravel the intertwining of social positioning and power hierarchies with players beliefs in the pure values and virtues of their games, whether these relate to parenting, children's play, schooling, academic pursuits, musical leisure activities or the television and music industries. In a world where music is often celebrated as an important tool for inclusion and democratisation, this groundbreaking book offers a timely critique, revealing complexities and contradictions that tend to be overlooked by teachers, researchers, politicians and others interested in the powers of music education.
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Health & Personal DevelopmentFinding New Paths
With ACT and PEP to a Self-determined and Fulfi lling Life
by Michael Waadt, Jan Nachtigall
Find clarity and direction – even when thoughts and emotionsfeel overwhelming. This empowering guide combinesAcceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) with ProcessandEmbodiment-Focused Psychology (PEP). Using mindfulness,tapping techniques, and the Choice Point model, ithelps readers overcome inner blocks and live with greaterpurpose and autonomy. • ACT and PEP for emotional resilience• Mindfulness and tapping to shift patterns• Tools for values-based decision-making
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2025Beyond the Pale and Highland Line
The Irish and Scottish Gaelic world
by Simon Egan
This book offers important new insights into the history and culture of the Gaelic-speaking world from the mid-fifteenth century through to the reign of James VI and I. Throughout this period, the reach of the English and Scottish crowns within these western regions was limited. The initiative lay with local communities and royal power was contingent upon negotiating with well-established and largely autonomous aristocratic lineages. Moreover, events within this western world could exert a powerful, often unpredictable, influence upon the affairs of the wider archipelago. Using a series of case studies, this collection examines the evolving relationship between Ireland and Scotland in rich detail. It demonstrates how this world interacted with the encroaching English and Scottish states and underlines the importance of paying closer attention to this neglected area of Irish and British history.
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Health & Personal DevelopmentJust because I can´t fly
A Story About Bullying and Finding Your Own Strengths
by Nathalie Aoun, Seline Kwasny, Liv Trine Sallander
When Pablo the penguin is mocked for not fl ying, he feels small – until a new friend helps him discover his unique strengths. This heartfelt story gently addresses bullying and self-worth, offering children tools to build conf dence and resilience through practical exercises and emotional support. • Story-based support for bullying situations • Encourages self-worth and inner strength • Includes exercises for children and caregivers
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2021Emotional monasticism
Affective piety in the eleventh-century monastery of John of Fécamp
by Lauren Mancia
Medievalists have long taught that highly emotional Christian devotion, often called 'affective piety', appeared in Europe after the twelfth century and was primarily practiced by communities of mendicants, lay people and women. Emotional monasticism challenges this view. The first study of affective piety in an eleventh-century monastic context, it traces the early history of affective devotion through the life and works of the earliest known writer of emotional prayers, John of Fécamp, abbot of the Norman monastery of Fécamp from 1028-78. Exposing the early medieval monastic roots of later medieval affective piety, the book casts a new light on the devotional life of monks in Europe before the twelfth century and redefines how medievalists should teach the history of Christianity.
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April 2022Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
by Eifert, Georg H.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) aims to teach people to face emotional problems openly with mindfulness and compassion while pursuing what they truly care about in their lives. The book provides an introduction to the principles and methods of ACT and presents therapeutic strategies across disorders. ACT is not primarily about eliminating and controlling symptoms, but about developing greater psychological flexibility through learning mindful acceptance. Using numerous examples, the book describes how clients can learn to respond with greater kindness to their unwanted inner experience, to gently deal with their emotional and thought barriers, and to focus on committed life-goal-oriented action. Numerous experiential exercises, metaphors, mindfulness techniques, and behavioral activation methods are presented for this purpose. In addition, this new edition of the book provides information on current effectiveness evidence and developments in ACT, e.g. promoting self- compassion. For:• psychotherapists• psychiatrists• clinical psychologists• students and teachers in psychotherapeutictraining, furthertraining, and continuing education
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August 2019Borderline Personality Disorder
by Bohus, Martin
Borderline disorder is a complex, serious, and nonspecifically treated, often chronic disorder that often leads to the limits of emotional resilience for those affected and their social environment. With the development of disorder-specific treatment concepts in the 1990s, empirically proven treatment success was demonstrated for the first time. This book is based on the dialectical-behavioral psychotherapy of Marsha Linehan and presents theoretical and treatment principles in concise form. The volume offers many practical tips for diagnosing, planning treatment, and structuring outpatient and inpatient treatment. Therapists will find a clearly structured treatment concept as well as numerous practice-oriented instructions for coping with this therapeutic challenge. For:• psychotherapists• professionals in psychiatry orpsychosomatic medicine• social workers• teachers and students
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November 2010Die Pariser Weltausstellung 1889
Bilder von der Globalisierung
by Beat Wyss
Die gelungenste Weltausstellung aller Zeiten war die Exposition Universelle de Paris von 1889. Weit über 32 Millionen Menschen besuchten das gigantische Spektakel mit knapp 62.000 Ausstellern aus 54 Nationen und 17 französischen Kolonien. Das Wahrzeichen der Schau, der Eiffelturm, blieb Paris bis heute erhalten. Einen legendären Ruf erwarb sich auch das offizielle, wöchentlich erscheinende Journal der Weltausstellung. Auf großformatigen, mit Stahlstichen üppig illustrierten Seiten berichtete es von den Sensationen vor Ort, von dreirädrigen selbstfahrenden Karren und ethnologischen Dörfern, in denen es Kamelreiten für die Kinder und Bauchtänze für die Herren gab. Der Schweizer Kunsthistoriker Beat Wyss hat die hundert originellsten Abbildungen ausgewählt. Sie illustrieren, wie die Expo den Erdball auf ein »Weltdorf« zwischen Trocadéro und Champ de Mars schrumpfen lässt, wie räumliche Distanzen abgebaut und dabei kulturelle Differenzen freigelegt werden. Das späte 20. Jahrhundert wird dafür den Begriff der Globalisierung prägen. Beat Wyss zeigt, wie die Gesellschaften seit dem 19. Jahrhundert mit diesem Prozeß umgehen und mit der Verwestlichung der Welt eine Orientalisierung des Westens einhergeht. Dem Leser als Flaneur über die Bühne der Weltausstellung wird klar: Die Expo 1889 belegt nicht nur den aktuellen Zustand einer Zeit, sondern bietet über die spektakuläre Anordnung ihrer Exponate den Vorschein einer gesellschaftlichen Utopie.
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2022Psychoanalysis and the family in twentieth-century France
by Richard Bates
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August 2016Nursing and psychology/psychiatry
by Klaus Kaufmann Mall
Why do people act and behave the way they do? What is going on inside of them? To answer these questions, which may be going through many nursing professionals’ minds, basic psychological knowledge is essential. This title will help all those confronted with these kinds of questions in their daily nursing practice. It provides an overview, using case studies, over the most common mental illnesses, outlining symptoms, causes, progression, and treatment options. This title highlights the mental illnesses as well as provides insight into challenges and opportunities the nursing profession provides for those working in the field. Target Group: Nursing practitioners, Nursing Students.
