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Crisis intervention theory and school-based applications

Crisis theory intervention can be traced back as far as 400 B.C. (Roberts 2005). However, more modern crisis theory came out of studies that were done on crisis and bereavement.

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John Dewey's introduction to ethics and moral conduct

Dewey's introduction in Ethics is rather broad in scope and makes an attempt to illustrate a brief overview of the reasons necessary to write this particular treatise.

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John Dewey's pragmatist approach to ethics and social theory

Other than Aristotle, John Dewey has been called the greatest philosopher who ever lived. His beliefs on ethics, though, are somewhat different than other philosophers and not always in line with what individuals such as Aristotle and Nietzsche discussed.

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Role-based aggression in Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment

Studies of human aggression tend toward myriad and often competing conclusions about that which drives us to behave ethically or unethically, about the forces that incline us toward altruism as opposed to those which incline us toward aggression, about the impulses to behave according to internal…

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Douglas Groothuis' critique of New Age movement tenets and beliefs

The opening line of the Foreword to Douglas R. Groothuis' Unmasking the New Age reads, "Advertising that it can transform people and society worldwide, the New Age movement is spearheading a comprehensive attack on many of the highest values of both the Christian church and Western culture," (9).

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Approaches to discourse analysis in linguistic and social research

The meaning of the term is very heterogeneous and covers more than one approach to this subject. These approaches are very different with regard to their focus, purpose and techniques.

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Developing nonverbal communication skills for interpersonal effectiveness

Although there is no consensus about the exact definition of "nonverbal communication" among experts, it is generally regarded as any communication conveyed through body movements (the "body language") and the intonations and emphasis that are given to words (also called the "paralinguistics").

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John Dewey's philosophical framework and educational contributions

John Dewey (1859-1952) is widely regarded as one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Although Dewey's contributions lie along several fronts, he is perhaps best known for the significant impact he made on the development of educational thinking.

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Anna Freud's pioneering work in child psychoanalysis

Anna Freud devoted herself to the analysis of children and adolescents and her famous psychoanalyst father, Sigmund Freud was a major influence in her life and career.

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Corporate social responsibility in consumer advertising imagery

The last few decades have seen the emergence of two trends that have important implications for the field of consumer advertising.

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