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The history and psychology of cosmetic surgery in America

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Globalization's impact on psychology and intercultural communication

Globalization has been most prominently seen as an economic issue, affecting business dealings among the various countries. Concomitantly, the different paradigms of culture have been seen as an important issue relating to business.

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Carl Rogers' humanistic psychology and coping with death

The human life cycle is marked by periods of great joy and advancement, but must also be impacted by tragedy, sadness and loss. The death of a loved one, particularly the loss of a husband or child to a wife or mother, will significantly alter the terms of one's life.

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Future challenges in health psychology and aging populations

In Health Psychology, Taylor (2011) notes that in thinking about future challenges to health we must acknowledge that we have made great strides in health-related issues over the past years.

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Sociology and psychology in extending US public healthcare delivery

Improving healthcare behaviors and access to public healthcare has been a key issue of debate among politicians and officials on all levels of the government for quite some time. The ability to improve individual behaviors that result in improved health have an impact on society.

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Adler and Jung's theories of individual psychology and the self

The field of Psychology offers a vast network of concepts, principles, and theories to explain and describe the mental and behavioral characteristics of an individual or group.

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Wajda's Danton: psychology over ideology in the French Revolution

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The evolution and application of industrial/organizational psychology

Industrial/organizational Psychology deals with the human component of organizations as well as clarifying primary motivational drives together with implications of people, socially, that work at the same place within a setting of an organization.

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Professional goals in psychology: counseling developmentally disabled adults

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The emergence of clinical psychology as a scientific profession in the nineteenth century

However, a "climate of ideas receptive to the development of clinical psychology" emerged as early as the late 18th century (Reisman, 1976, p. vii).

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