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The following insights are derived from Motivating Self and Others by Martin Ford and Peyton Smith. Leadership search and selection processes typically focus on positive experiences and accomplishments and on positive leadership dispositions. And yet, when leaders fail, it is usually because of negative behavior patterns that are associated with specific social, emotional and motivational […]
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May 4th, 1987 marked the beginning of a string of violent sexual attacks on women across Southern Ontario. During this time at least eighteen women across the districts of Scarborough, Peel, and St. Catharine’s were physically and sexually brutalized. Three were killed. At about 9.30 in the evening on Sunday the 7th of August 1987, […]
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Diagnosed later in life with dyslexia, I have first-hand experience of the interrelatedness between dyslexia, anxiety, and negative emotion. After completing a master’s degree, I undertook an education training course at a local University. Here I was asked by a Lecturer specialising in learning difficulties to have a screening for dyslexia. I had never imagined […]
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International adoption is not a modern invention: it has existed throughout known human history. But then something occurred that had never happened before in such a short period of time and on a such vast scale.
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Despite the many debates about what psychology’s subject matter is, it holds certain basic categories in common that are assumed just to exist ‘out there’, ‘in nature’. Development is one such. Most psychologists of whatever persuasion, along with lay people in Western cultures, approach childhood, education and adult character with development as their framework. History challenges that assumption.
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The intersection of music, wellness, and aging is understood as an integrated whole that not only reflects and speaks to our being but also to the transcendent concepts that define and direct us in life’s journey.
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This book examines a wide variety of psychological perspectives on peace and presents a new conceptualization of peace by focusing on its underlying components.
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In my experience, people exhibit an innate fascination with the self and, specifically, the extent to which they are able to command, regulate, or control it. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle each spoke of the virtues of exerting power over oneself, the importance of regulating one’s morals and one’s impulses is central to Freud’s view of […]
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