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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Self-Help Texts"”.
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Toward a New Psychological Model for Literary Analysis Illustrated by Contemporary Spiritual Self-Help Texts in Emerson's Tradition
… framework through which not only spiritual self-help texts that have a similar purpose but creative literature in general can be examined. The core assumption in ACT is that humans suffer based on the rigid ways in which they approach language. ACT not only offers strategies to escape the …
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The self-help of composition: Peter Elbow's "Writing without Teachers", composition studies, and the extracurriculum
… the original impetus for the book was based on self-instruction, or learning about writing outside of any course. For Composition Studies, Writing without Teachers, starting with its title, is a riddle or a Zen koan the discipline has delayed answering for over thirty-five years. This project …
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CAREGIVING AND THE WORK-LIFE BALANCE; THE IMPACT OF GENDER EXPECTATIONS ON EMPLOYED PARENT CAREGIVERS
… care professionals and community members, twenty self-help texts about caregiving, and interviews with seventeen men and women who are providing care for their parents, and in some cases, children, in the New York metro area. My interviews suggest that while women do take on a majority of child …
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'So many ways of being better': Contemporary US fiction and cultures of self-help
… between contemporary US fiction and cultures of self-help in order to illuminate key concerns around selfhood and authorship. It seeks to question dominant understandings of the relationship between self-help and fiction which often fail to account for the irreducible multiplicity of ways in …