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Gambling and gaming are popular past-time activities that involve social elements. The built-in social features of online games and gambling platforms offer users valuable social interactions and can function as protective factors against gambling and gaming harms. However, being socially motivated to gamble or stay within online games might lead to spending excessive time gaming or gambling, often at the expense of other important routines and daily activities. Together, these factors might lead to gambling and gaming related problems and long-term individual and public health harms. Problem gambling is typically associated with other harmful behaviors, including alcohol use and cigarette s...
This open access book focuses on making the transition from in-person, classroom education to other feasible alternative modes and methodologies to deliver education at all levels. The book presents and analyzes research questions to explore in this arena, including pedagogical issues relating to technological and infrastructure challenges, teacher professional development, issues of disparity, access and equity, and impact of government policies on education. It also provides unique opportunities and vehicles for generating scholarship that helps explain the varied educational needs, perspectives and solutions that arise during an emergency and the different roles educational institutions a...
Este libro lo componen 8 capítulos que muestran un panorama en distintos escenarios de varias ciudades de la República mexicana; se trata de estudios empíricos, donde el lector podrá constatar los distintos tipos de violencias ejercidas y sufridas por hombres y mujeres, y cómo esto repercute en su salud física y mental, así como estrategias, tanto de evaluación como de intervención, para la detección y prevención de dichas violencias. Dra. Luz Adriana Orozco Ramírez Doctora en Psicología por la Universidad de Sevilla, España. Es docente-investigador de tiempo completo categoría “D” en la Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas (UAT) impartiendo cátedra en la Licenciatura en P...
La diversidad de tratamientos psicológicos existentes en la actualidad en las áreas de Psicología Clínica y de la Salud exige un control de calidad más estricto, es decir, de sus efectos. Asimismo, es incuestionable la importancia del método científico, como medio idóneo para detectar los programas psicoterapéuticos más eficaces y efectivos y los mecanismos psicológicos a través de los que actúan. La preocupación por fundamentar la práctica profesional sobre la evidencia empírica no es nueva y comenzó hace siglos, sólo que la aparición de nuevos instrumentos, como el meta-análisis, ha posibilitado la labor de integración de las investigaciones empíricas sobre intervenci...
Roman Valdez is the Devil.He sneers at me.He hates me.He wants to hurt me.Let him try.He thinks he's untouchable. The self-appointed Devil of Sun Valley High. But I've already lost everything and everyone I care about.It's me he should be afraid of. Not the other way around.Because I have nothing left to lose, and he can't break what's already broken.At least, that's what I thought.But when the Devil begins picking up the pieces, I realize while he might not break me. He can absolutely shatter me, heart and soul.And I just might let him.
In My Body Is a Book of Rules, Elissa Washuta corrals the synaptic gymnastics of her teeming bipolar brain, interweaving pop culture with neurobiology and memories of sexual trauma to tell the story of her fight to calm her aching mind and slip beyond the tormenting cycles of memory.
Internationally-recognized pain expert Don Goldenberg helps readers better understand the intricacies of chronic pain through the lens of personal stories, including his own. One out of three Americans lives with chronic pain. Pain is the number one reason we seek medical care and accounts for 40% of doctor visits. Chronic pain is the most common cause of work loss world-wide. The yearly cost of chronic pain in the United States is between $560-$630 billion, higher than that of heart disease, diabetes and cancer combined. Despite this, physicians and the public are woefully ill-informed about chronic pain. The litany of self-help books available to the public are largely misleading, quick-fi...
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It's hard to deny a Devil ?Especially one who promises you a night you'll never forget.One night.No exchanging names.No exchanging numbers.That was the deal we made.I was moving away. I'd never see him again and I wanted to leave Sun Valley with zero regrets.Only I got more than I bargained for and nine months later delivered a bundle of joy complete with ten tiny fingers and ten perfect toes.A year and a half later, I'm back.And this Devil is no longer the devil in my dreams. Now he haunts my nightmares.He's savage.He's sinful.And I'm barely a blip on his radar.I came with good intentions. Determined to tell him the truth. But with so much on the line, I'm beginning to reconsider.Because making a deal with the devil again just might be another mistake.