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Social work interventions for occupational posttraumatic stress disorder

Various occupations expose practitioners to traumatized communities or victimized individuals. The exposure increases the risk of these groups to significant levels of stress that affect their health and health outcomes negatively.

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Root causes of alcohol abuse: biological, psychological, and socio-cultural factors

Alcohol abuse was once considered a problem of willpower. Now, it is widely recognized as a medical problem with three primary roots causes: biological factors, psychological factors, and socio-cultural factors.

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Developing an empathetic coaching model through listening and client empowerment

I did a lot of online research to try to scan for ideas that could help me be a more effective coach. One of the ideas that came up from several sources is that the coaching relationship is dynamic. That is that the relationship is something that is fluid and can take many directions.

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Native American representation in James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans

Early settlers believed the West housed new opportunities, gold, land, and most of all freedom. However with the expansion came controversy. Native Americans, the people that lived in America before European settlement, were pushed and forced out of their homelands.

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Organizational culture and safety failures at Citizen's Hospital

Citizen's Hospital is an organization where employees and the organization share common goals. The organization has a personality of confusion.

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Marxist and feminist approaches to crime in criminology

Critical theories of criminology are associated with the writings of Karl Marx. Marx viewed the entirety of human existence as a class struggle between the haves and the have-nots of the world. Marx viewed crime as a symptom of social injustice.

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Organizational culture, collectivism, and employee responsibility in Stohr and Finkelstein

A collective organization approach is one that seeks to empower individual capacity to handle organizational issues at an individual level. In this case, the spirit of independence is vital since it responds to organizational challenges, and thus, maintaining spillovers cooperatively.

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Freud's psychoanalytic theory and its application to criminal behavior

Freud's Psychosocial Development Theory Presumes That Adult Character Is Established By Age 5 Freud finds that we humans are extremely symbolic creatures; we have a common set of symbols that provide us a very effective language for our shared wishes.

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Personality trait change in middle age: the role of cognitive appraisal

The mechanism for personality change is apparently the way that an individual views a stressful life event (Sutin, et al., 2010).

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Social negotiation of group prototype ambiguity in organizations

Bartel, C. (2013). THE SOCIAL NEGOTIATION OF GROUP PROTOTYPE AMBIGUITY IN DYNAMIC ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXTS. Academy of Management Review, 503-524.

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