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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"self-help books"”.
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Factors Influencing National Implementation of Online Computer-aided Cognitive Behaviour Therapy in Primary Care Trusts across England: A Mixed-Methods Study
… factors (past experience of the Lead, number of self-help books available and length of assessment) explained 76% of the variance in FPs uptake. Availability of specific self-help books reduced FF completion rates. Phone screening associated negatively with FF clinical improvement. At Supporter …
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Bodies Degraded by Friction
… relationship role underrepresented in self-help books and mass media. Several themes run throughout the book: the consequences of the use of technology-mediated communication as digital isolationist mechanisms, the collisions of real/virtual identity and real/virtual place, disruption …
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Well I'll Be: Positive Images Of Southern Women As Response To Feminism From 1980-2000
… several media forms, from television to self-help books, it becomes apparent that the function of the southern woman is often to either soften the blow of feminism or push the agenda of patriarchy. I look thoroughly at movies and television of the 1980s as well as books and societal …
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How to win friends and influence people
… Carnegie. The book is one of the best-selling self-help books of all time. Every part of the book was material for my project: The words. The author. The style. The physical object. I also use myself, the reader as a material. These materials can be manipulated like paint or clay or wood. But …
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From motivator to ‘psychoeducator’: A critical exploration of emotional distress and recovery
… from the perspective of an author of several self-help books, a motivational speaker and a coach. The chosen method is critical memoir. The objectives to achieve that aim were dialogues with the internal and external influences on my route to recovery. The artefact presented which accompanies …
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Comedian autobiographies - an examination of the publishing phenomenon
… writing as “a historically situated practice of self-representation” (Smith and Watson, Reading Autobiography, 2001, p. 14), which is “inspired by a creative, and therefore fictional, impulse to select only those events and experiences in the writer’s life that go to build up an integrated …
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Konsten att lyckas som par : Populärterapeutiska berättelser, individualisering och kön
… Three case studies have been carried out; self-help books for couples, TV programs with relationship-focus, and web discussion boards connected to the TV programs. The analysis is made in relation to sociological theories of individualization, therapeutic culture, feminist studies of …
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Boot Camp for the Psyche: Inoculative Nonfiction and Pre-Memory Structures as Preemptive Trauma Mediation in Fiction and Film
… that in much the same way an author may write a self-help tract such as The Gift of Fear to try and inform women how to repel a sexual predator by graphically relating harrowing tales of sexual predation, so do some horror texts and film claim to preemptively mediate different types of trauma …
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Pulling oneself together: power and character in British literature, 1914-1939
… parliamentary debates, medical treatises, and self-help books, my dissertation shows how state power administered British bodies and minds through the inter-related sites of law, medicine, and labor. My first chapter, “Character, Power, and Britain’s Emergency Measures,” argues that the …
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Hoarding Disorder: new horizons
… of the disorder. This collaborative work has helped develop innovative and creative interventions that led to the development of the London Hoarding Treatment Group model. • DISSEMINATION As part of good practice and to improve the quality of life for individuals who engage in hoarding …