The first known review of the most famous work of the Florentine Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, certainly did not anticipate a best-seller: “I found this type of book to be written by an enemy of the human race” (Kraye 1997: 275), concluded the Cardinal Pole five years after the death of the Italian writer in […]
Date: January 1st, 1970
Globalization is an accelerated global interconnectedness (Held et al., 1999). There are different descriptions of globalization and its impact on the state, generally dependent on the understanding of what the terms imply. The state can be defined as “the sovereign authority in a specified territory, with the right to use force both to maintain internal […]
Date: January 1st, 1970
The case study is a descriptive qualitative methodology that is used as a tool to study something specific in a complex phenomenon. The “event” is understood as an integrated system in operation, why it requires an analysis that gets interpret and reconstruct the system. The case study is the comprehensive study of one or very […]
Date: January 1st, 1970
Allport defined personality as a dynamic organization, inside the person, of psychophysical systems that create the person’s characteristic patterns of behaviour, thoughts, and feelings (as cited in Carver & Scheier, 2004, pp. 5). There are seven perspectives on personality, i.e., dispositional, biological, psychoanalytic, neoanalytic, learning, phenomenological, and cognitive self-regulation (Carver & Scheier, 2004). The Big […]
Date: January 1st, 1970
This essay will explore the role of guided discovery and associated techniques in helping clients understand the origin of their problems, their maintaining factors and the processes that will allow them to bring new perspective to the problems. The paper primarily discusses the role of Socratic dialogue and its facilitating role in the process of […]
Date: January 1st, 1970
According to Ian Brooks, “Organisation behaviour (OB) is the study of human behaviour in organisational contexts with a focus on individuals and group processes and actions”. “Hence it involves an exploration of organisation and managerial processes in the dynamic context of the organisation and is primarily concerned with the human implication of such activity” (Brooks, […]
Date: January 1st, 1970
Stress is a term in psychology and biology. The definition of stress was first employed in a biological context by the endocrinologist Hans Selye in the 1930s. Recent decades, stress is more commonly used in popular parlance. It refers to the consequence of the failure of an organism – human or animal – to respond appropriately to emotional or physical threats, whether actual or imagined. Stress is a universal element and persons from nearly every […]
Date: January 1st, 1970
Cells can be split into two types, prokaryotic (see figure 1) and eukaryotic (See figure 2). Karyose originates from a Greek, meaning kernel, as in a kernel of grain. In physiology, it is used to refer to the nucleus of a cell. Pro means before, and eu means true. Therefore you could say that prokaryotic […]
Date: January 1st, 1970
In this essay, the concept of behaviour from the point of view of behaviour analysis will be discussed. Skinner (1953) maintained that psychology is a science. His perspective on the purpose and the subject matter of psychology and why behaviour should be studied will be examined. Skinner (1981) proposed that behaviour is shaped by the […]
Date: January 1st, 1970
As childbearing women go through bio-psycho-social changes, they experience social morbidity and depressive symptoms, which are often unidentified and untreated. Maternal depression and mood disorders during postpartum phase are common. Postnatal psychiatric disorders categorised into three main divisions: postpartum blues, postpartum psychosis and postpartum depression. Postpartum blues is a comparatively a mild emotional disturbance with […]
Date: January 1st, 1970
