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Supervision and counseling for professional development in organizational settings

"Supervision leads to a mental and emotional education that can guide practical work, frees from fixed patterns of experience and behavior, and promotes the willingness as well as the ability to act suitably, carefully, and courageously." (Koster, 2003, pp. 1-2).

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Transformational leadership and the evolution of managerial roles

There are many fundamental differences between leaders and managers, with the most significant being in how each attempts to attain complex, often challenging objectives that require the coordination of limited resources.

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Counseling an adolescent client with depression and substance dependence

As a counsellor, I have had quite a few opportunities to deal with people who had numerous issues with themselves and their surroundings. The crux of this study will be focusing on the story of my adolescent client 'Dave' and the effect it had on my personality.

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Parental socialization strategies and intergenerational racial attitudes

As, parents will try to have an impact upon: the way that the child is viewing at the world around them. In some cases, this could mean that the parents will force the children not to associate with a particular group.

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Judicial discretion in criminal sentencing and its limitations

Judges are viewed as idealistic symbols empowered with the power and authority to affect significant change in an individual's life.

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Cognitive learning theory and social cognitive theory in human development

Cognitive learning theory presents a positive perspective of development that lay emphasis on conscious thinking. This learning perspective incorporates the transformation of information in the environment into knowledge, which is retained in the mind.

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Women's power, subordination, and punishment in ancient Rome

What was the role -- or roles -- of women in ancient Rome? There are a number of sources in the literature that point to a wide variety of interesting and sometimes humiliating roles and positions that women were linked to in Ancient Rome, and this paper reviews several of those.

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Genetic and environmental factors in mental illness development

The nature/nurture debate has sparked a deluge of research over the last five decades or so.

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Employment selection and identity development in emerging adulthood

Title an exploration of employment selection behaviors and the link to identity development. This study considers the employment selection behaviors of emerging adults. Employment selection is a critical element of the development process.

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Quality questioning and classroom observation for teacher development

Quality questioning is fast becoming one of the operative pedagogical techniques in the contemporary classroom. Ever since Benjamin Bloom in the 1950s and the taxonomy of learning, teachers have been encouraged to use questioning to buttress core subjects and engage students.

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