Psychology

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Chapter 4

Playing the Tape Out

From: Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea

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After losing his wallet during a trip, Wood almost falls back into the alcohol spiral. "A test of resolve." However, following an endoscopy, Wood learns he can add stomach ulcers to a … 13 $1.30 Add
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Great Beginnings

From: Cracking the Boy Code

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• Getting off to a good start “sets the table” for a constructive conversation. The approach you use should be guided by the situation at hand. • Respect always promotes … 10 $1.00 Add
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Methods For Creating Successful Classrooms

From: Freedom To Learn

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The most incredible thing about children is that they are ready made for learning. If a teacher is prepared to begin at the students’ developmental level, children are perfectly built to … ; 33 $3.30 Add
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Nature-based Play, Regulation, and Healthy Neurophysiology

From: Nature-Based Therapy

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This chapter provides a basic understanding of the mammalian nervous system and how consideration for different neural states (in both ourselves and our clients) can inform and enhance … ; ; 20 $2.00 Add
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Our bodies, our minds, mental shortcuts, and the media

From: Too Dumb for Democracy?

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Chapter Four focuses on why it is so difficult to make well informed discussions. The chapter explores our biological and psychological motivations behind our abilities towards good political … 27 $2.70 Add
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Peace by the River – Christian McEachern and the Canadian Veteran Adventure Foundation

From: Field Excercises

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Readings in this book consist of case studies of programs that use outdoor activities such as farming and gardening to help veterans cope with PTSD and disability. This reading discusses … 14 $1.40 Add
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Powerful Beginnings: Building a Community

From: Catch the Fire

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Readings in section 2 of this title provides a guide for structuring community programs for success and how to integrate the arts into these programs. This reading explores the initial stages of … ; 26 $2.60 Add
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The Power of sound

History and Biology

From: i-Minds, 2nd edition

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Dings, and bings, various ringtones, and device alert our brains. They make us react. Not merely attentionally but neurophysiologically as well. The two are strongly biologically attached. The … 19 $1.90 Add
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The Sources of Power Relations

Developmental Stages and Mind Forms

From: The Power Manual

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Chapter 4, The Sources of Power Relations, introduces the reality that the way we relate to power is developmental and that the foundation starts in childhood, where we learn through our … 7 $0.70 Add
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A Tale of Instability in Seven Parts

Quake

From: On Opium

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As the author describes the upending of her life: the losses of the past months and years: her love, her family, her body, her work, her income, her freedom—treasured friendships, even. she … 15 $1.50 Add
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Building Successful Groups

From: Freedom To Learn

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An essential element of teaching is first to get appropriate conduct and learning-related behaviors to occur. Only then can teachers strengthen those behaviors with the use of social approval. … ; 31 $3.10 Add
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Chapter 5

Two Fighters

From: Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea

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Wood begins the chapter discussing his friendship with Moaiad, a past roommate. His mother suggests tea when Wood is told the quit coffee, beginning his connection with peppermint tea. Wood … 13 $1.30 Add
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Our milieu

From: Too Dumb for Democracy?

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Chapter Five explores the conditions under which we tend to make the best decisions about complex issues, political or otherwise. We do best when we have lots of time and resources at our … 11 $1.10 Add
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Outdoor Risky Play in Nature-based Therapy

From: Nature-Based Therapy

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The meaningful integration of environmental conditions and activity choices creates the milieu. Comfort with changing weather conditions, spending time in a forest, and getting dirty, wet, or … ; ; 19 $1.90 Add
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Powerless and Powerful Identities

Hegemony and Supreme Power

From: The Power Manual

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Powerless and Powerful Identities, explores the space between Gramsci’s hegemony, the idea that the very acceptance of power as dominance renders one powerless, and the philosophy of … 11 $1.10 Add
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Rat Park

From: Fighting For Space

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This chapter highlights the research done by experimental psychologists since the 1960s in the addiction studies. Taking Skinner’s Box and juxta positioning it against the Rat Park … 23 $0.46 Add