Why do people enter total institutions – places that confine and control them around the clock – and how does the experience change them? This book updates Goffman's classic model by introducing the Re-inventive Institution, where members voluntarily commit themselves to pursue regimes of self-improvement.

Total Institutions and Reinvented Identities (Identity Studies in the Social Sciences)

Politics & Social Sciences

Scott, S.

Philosophy

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Dorrik A. V. Stow Editor in Chief, Association of Geoscientists for International Development ( AGID) AGID is particularly pleased to see published this latest hurricanes, floods-that are wreaking havoc, destroying report in its Geosciences in International Development livelihood and lives in some corner of the globe. Series, as a significant contribution to the onset of the UN As geoscientists there are perhaps three concerns that Decade of National Disaster Reduction, and as a mark of should be uppermost in our minds as we join an inter AGID's growing concern over the potential and actual national effort to combat the adverse effects of natural effects of geohazards throughout the developing world. hazards. The first must be to improve our scientific The problem of geohazards is increasing, not because understanding of the nature and causes of such hazards and to work towards more reliable prediction of their the rate of earth processes is accelerating, nor because the occurrence and magnitude.

Geohazards: Natural and man-made (AGID Report Series)

Science & Math

McCall, G.

Laming, D.

Earth Sciences

Springer

These stories, poems and letters are about becoming through compassionate interaction with others. They are about defining life through personal involvement not competitive intrigue. They are about seeing how we depart from others so as to be truly one with them.

Voyage From a Lady Slipper

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

1st Book Library

<p>Why do people enter total institutions - places that confine and control them around the clock - and how does the experience change them? This book updates Goffman's classic model by introducing the Re-inventive Institution, where members voluntarily commit themselves to pursue regimes of self-improvement.</p>

<p>Der Schwerpunkt der neuen Auflage liegt beim Vorschul- und Grundschulalter, berücksichtigt aber ebenso das Jugendalter. Die Autoren betrachten spezifische Störungen unter entwicklungspsychopathologischen Aspekten. Ausführlich beschreiben sie jugendliche Delinquenz - Selbstmord(versuch) sowie Schizophrenie, Substanzmissbrauch und Essstörungen. In den Leitlinien: neues Klinik- und Detailwissen. Die Auflage betrachtet die Wechselwirkung von Genetik und Umwelt, vor allem zur Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit-Hyperaktivitätsstörung. Psychotherapeutische Interventionen sind bezüglich deren Evidenzbasiertheit strenger hinterfragt. Plus: Neurofeedback.</p>

Kinderpsychiatrie kompakt (German Edition)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Goodman, R.

Rothenberger, A.

Psychology & Counseling

Steinkopff

Vascular Access In Clinical Practice

BERMAN

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