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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"social exploration"”.
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What happens when we end: a psycho social exploration of therapists’ experience
… therapeutic ending. I used a narrative, psychosocial research method to interpret possible latent meanings in the therapists’ accounts. The method employed the embodied counter transference or subjective affective imaginative responses of the researcher, using an interpretation group to …
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Young people’s reflections on engaging with youth offending services. A psycho-social exploration
This exploratory, psycho-social study examined young people’s reflections on their experiences of engaging with a youth offending service (YOS). There is a paucity of research that explores this. Five participants were recruited from a YOS in the UK. Free association techniques were used; five …
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The experiences of school staff who work with emotionally based school non-attendance: a psycho-social exploration.
This psycho-social study explored the experiences of school staff who have worked with emotionally based school non-attendance. There is a paucity of qualitative accounts of school staff’s views in this area. Existing research focuses predominantly on the causes, risk and protective factors and the …
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A technological, economic and social exploration of phosphate recovery from centralised sewage treatment in a transitioning economy context
… techniques would be economically viable or socially accepted in South Africa. Therefore, this dissertation sets out to investigate the viability of a simpler and cheaper phosphate recovery technology. The dissertation addresses the hypothesis that the South African market is better suited …
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“It depends on the individual”: A psycho-social exploration of designated teachers’ and virtual school advisory teachers’ experiences of supporting looked after children in education.
… education of LAC pupils. This study is a psycho-social exploration of VSAT and DT’s experiences of supporting LAC pupils within education, both academically and emotionally. Eight interviews were conducted, four with VSATs and four with their link DTs in primary and secondary schools. …
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Intermittent swim stress effects on anxiety behavior
… of anxiety (i.e., open field test and juvenile social exploration), while serotonergic and noradrenergic neurons were assessed at the dorsal raphe nucleus and locus coeruleus, respectively, through immunohistochemistry techniques. Results indicated ISS-induced deficits were noted for social …
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Awe: A precursor to something more
… us. Awe has implications for collectivist and prosocial behaviors, the diminishment of the self, and exploration of knowledge gaps. This study delves into awe as an emotional antecedent to meaningful social exploration and interaction with differing others. Participants in awe, pride, and neutral …
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Examining the Sociocultural Experiences of Cherokee Nation Citizens in Athletic Competition and Sport
… three selective codes. Cherokee culture, psychoSocial identity, and athletic competition were the three major selective codes discovered in this study. Qualitative analyses revealed that participants have lived in an environment that is conducive for athletic growth, cultural awareness, and …
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A Comparative Study of Marxism and Critical Realism
… is based on Capital. In Capital, the method of social exploration employed by Marx is historically contextual. Capitalism provides Marx with the condition to construct his method, so that the explanation of capitalistic production is realised. In Marx‘s explanation, the calculation …
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Biobehavioral responses to immune skew and free fatty acids
… KO animals display differences in burrowing, social exploration, elevated zero maze and the open field test, without any depressive-like behavior (forced swim test (FST), saccharin preference) or cognitive dysfunction (novel object recognition, novel object location, Morris water maze). In …
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Neuroendocrine mechanisms of behavioral changes induced by hypoglycemia
… adverse behaviors including fatigue, confusion, social withdrawal, anhedonia and depressive-like behaviors. While these clinical symptoms are well characterized, the mechanisms of their cause are not understood. Here, we investigated how insulin-induced hypoglycemia causes social withdrawal and …
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Social Determinants of Immature Phenotype and Survival in Wild Baboons and Other Mammals
… by providing insight into the role that the social environment plays in immature survival in populations of wild mammals. In it, I place a particular emphasis on social determinants of immature development, behavior, and survival in the wild baboons of the Amboseli basin.The Amboseli baboons …