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Safety At Work:
Skills to Calm and De-escalate Aggressive & Mentally Ill Individuals - For All Involved in Threat Assessment & Threat Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Corporate Security, Human Resources, Executive Protection, and Loss Prevention Professionals must deal with individuals suffering from psychiatric or substance use disorders on a frequent basis. Ellis Amdur and William Cooper offer these officials a comprehensive set of strategies to keep themselves,...
An Intelligent Career
Taking Ownership of Your Work and Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Written by three career experts, An Intelligent Career is a playbook for the modern knowledge worker, providing a complete guide that will allow workers to take a composite, dynamic view of a life's work in the 21st century. "Knowledge work" is fundamental in today's economy. It is the basis...
Psychology and Work Today
Pearson New International Edition CourseSmart eTextbook
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
This book describes industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology programs in action, showing how they are developed and implemented in a variety of organizational settings, using workers who differ by gender, age, culture, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status.
Compassion
The Core Value That Animates Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1996
This text is an attempt to stimulate and support therapists' efforts to take care of themselves, to understand and maintain commitment. Such reflection, it argues helps therapists to be active and receptive.
by Prof. Calvin S. Hall
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
BASICS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR
Absorbing, easy to read and understand, here is a fascinating presentation of Freud’s principal theories on psychology. Culled from forty years of writing by the founder of psychoanalysis, this is the first book which gives, in a comprehensive and systematic form,...
by Walter Kaufmann
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
What is Existentialism? It is perhaps the most misunderstood of modern philosophic positions—misunderstood by reason of its broad popularity and general unfamiliarity with its origins, representatives, and principles.
Existential thinking does not originate with Jean Paul Sartre. It has prior...
Snakes in Suits
When Psychopaths Go to Work
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Revised and updated with the latest scientific research and updated case studies, the business classic that offers a revealing look at psychopaths in the workplace—how to spot their destructive behavior and stop them from creating chaos in the modern corporate organization.
Over the past...
Foucault on Leadership
The Leader as Subject
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Michel Foucault, one of the most cited scholars in the social sciences, devoted his last three lectures to a study of leader development. Going back to pagan sources, Foucault found a persistent theme in Hellenistic antiquity that, in order to qualify for leadership, a person must undergo processes...
by Dr. Carl A. Wickland M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Thirty Years Among the Dead, first published in 1924, details Swedish-American GP and psychiatrist Carl Wickland’s experiences as a psychical researcher.
After moving to California in 1918, Wickland began to turn away from conventional medical psychology and moved toward the belief that psychiatric...
The Global Hillary
Women's Political Leadership in Cultural Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Is there a linkage between "smart power" and Hillary Clinton's leadership style? Can she advance American leadership and women's development worldwide? The Global Hillary addresses these questions and many others.
Bringing together two key aspects of Clinton’s ongoing career—her...
When Reporters Cross the Line
The Heroes, the Villains, the Hackers and the Spies
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
When Reporters Cross the Line tells the true story of moments when the worlds of media, propaganda, politics, espionage and crime collide, casting journalism into controversy. Its pages feature some of the best-known names in British broadcasting, including John Simpson, Lindsey Hilsum and Charles...
The Multisensory Handbook
A guide for children and adults with sensory learning disabilities
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Do you support a child or adult with sensory perceptual issues or cognitive impairment?
For people with challenging sensory and cognitive conditions, everyday life can become so unpredictable and chaotic that over time, lack of engagement can often lead to a state of learned helplessness. In...
by Chidi Venantius Efobi
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
The safety measures stated in this book are just generic guidelines and should not be taken as standards. It does not remove the liability from the reader to use sound engineering practice and established standards to make judgments in specific situations he/she encounters.
Just Culture
Balancing Safety and Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Building on the success of the 2007 original, Dekker revises, enhances and expands his view of just culture for this second edition, additionally tackling the key issue of how justice is created inside organizations. The goal remains the same: to create an environment where learning and accountability...