Intimate Violence Across the Lifespan

Intimate Violence Across the Lifespan-1

Tova Band-Winterstein • Zvi Eisikovits 2014 Interpersonal, Familial, and Cross- Generational Perspectives The question of how a long-standing intimate violence affects the experience of adult ageing is becoming increasingly pressing as the twenty-first century progresses. We are entering an age where there are greater numbers of older people around, who are living longer than previous generations, and where […]

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Increasing Psychological Well-being in Clinical and Educational Settings

Increasing Psychological Well-being in Clinical and Educational Settings-1

Giovanni Andrea Fava • Chiara Ruini Editors 2014 Interventions and Cultural Contexts In the past decades, psychological well-being has achieved a prominent role in the biopsychosocial consideration of the dynamic balance between health and disease. Early pioneers were physicians and scientists embracing the psychosomatic approach. George Engel defined etiologic factors as “factors which either place […]

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Pragmatic Disorders

Pragmatic Disorders-1

Louise Cummings 2014 Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology Volume 3 Clinical pragmatics has undergone a remarkable transformation in its relatively short history. From relative obscurity in early studies of language disorders in children, the field has developed into a thriving area of clinical language study which is on a par with clinical phonology and […]

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The Myth of Executive Functioning

The Myth of Executive Functioning-1

Leonard F. Koziol 2014 Missing Elements in Conceptualization, Evaluation, and Assessment These first three quotations were used to open chapters 2, 7 and 8 of Subcortical Structures and Cognition: Implications for Neuropsychological Assessment [ 1 ]. They are reused here because they have special relevance for Volume II of this ebook series. These quotes capture […]

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