Psychology & Psychiatry : Applied Psychology

Learn to be Happier. Week by Week. In this week-by-week guided journal, Tal Ben-Shahar offers a full year'sworth of exercises to inspire happiness every day. Using the groundbreakingprinciples of positive psychology that he taught in his wildly popularcourse at Harvard University and that inspired his worldwide bestseller Happier , Ben-Shahar has designed a series of tools and techniques toenable us all to find more pleasure and meaning in our lives. 52 weeks of new exercises, meditations, and “time-ins”. A journal to record your thoughts, feelings, and personal growth. Life-changing insights of philosophers, psychologists, artists,writers, scientists, and successful entrepreneurs. This is no ordinary self-help book that you read and toss aside. It's acomplete, user-driven journal filled with proactive challenges, thoughtprovokingquestions, and “time-ins” that allow you to pause and reflect.You can engage in these activities every day to stimulate your creativity,enhance your sense of empowerment, enrich the quality of your life, and,yes, feel Even Happier. more...

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Examines occupational stress, health and well being, with particular emphasis on the multi-disciplinary nature of occupational stress. This work is intended to pull together the various streams of research from a variety of disciplines to better capture the significant bodies of work in occupational stress and well being. more...

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Health psychology is an offer of help, an effort to understand how biological, behavioral, and social factors influence health and illness . As one of the fast-growing sub-specialties, it has now outstripped other divisions of psychology in terms of excitement in the public eye. more...

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How to apply mindfulness in daily life Who wouldn’t want to live a calmer, more peaceful existence? Thomas and Beverly Bien teach that if we find the center within through ongoing mindfulness we will have the capacity to live deeply and fully, with boundless peace and happiness, in any external circumstance. Finding the Center Within offers a step-by-step program for breaking down the barriers that prevent us from actualizing our wise inner self. The Biens combine Eastern spiritual wisdom with the pragmatic wisdom of Western psychology, teaching how to see things differently and remove the walls that conceal who and what we really are. They provide the tools needed to bring meditation into daily life, work with dreams, transform negative emotions, cultivate healthy relationships, and much more. Thomas Bien, PhD (Albuquerque, NM), is a clinical psychologist in private practice who also holds a master’s degree in theology from Princeton Theological Seminary. Beverly Bien, MEd (Albuquerque, NM), is the Executive Director of La Vida Felicidad, a nonprofit agency that provides services to people with disabilities; she has a master’s degree in counseling psychology. Together, they lead workshops and seminars. more...

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The new annual series, Research on Emotion in Organizations, presents empirical and conceptual articles at the forefront of research in this intriguing new area. Ignored for much of the previous century, the study of emotion and its antecedents and consequences in organizations is currently generating a torrent of new research. Topics include the effects on organizational behavior of mood and affective events, emotional labor and its effects, emotional intelligence, emotion and leadership, and the causes and effects of anger in the workplace. Chapters, sourced in part from the biannual International Conferences on Emotion and Worklife, represent a cross-section of cutting-edge scholarship in the field, and feature contributions from established leading scholars as well as the 'rising stars' in the field. As such, the series will play a leading role in driving an exciting new field of research for the foreseeable future. more...

Price: $120.00