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Becoming Resilient
Do you feel unhappy? Prone to depression and anxiety? Is there something you can do to beat the blues and bounce back? And not just bounce back, but flourish? Therapist and academic Dr Nimmi Hutnik has spent thirty years researching and contemplating these questions. Based on contemporary, state-of-the-art thinking in cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) and positive psychology, Becoming Resilient is written to put the control back where it belongs: with you. The book will help you determine if you indeed suffer from depression or one of the seven forms of anxiety: panic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, health/illness anxiety, generalized anxiety disorder, specific phobias, social anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder. It will help you gain tools and techniques to treat yourself and get back on course.Drawing upon both Western and Eastern traditions, Becoming Resilient will point you to the path of psychological transformation. A must read in perhaps the most stressful age in history.
Being Mindful, Being Christian
What is mindfulness? And should we as Christians be mindful? Mindfulness programmes are increasingly being used for issues as wide-ranging as depression, pain, employee engagement, and character development, and many Christians are wondering what to make of all this. In this book, experienced psychologists explain what is meant by "being mindful", help readers to view mindfulness more broadly than the context of Buddhism in which it is often framed, and profile the rich Christian tradition of mindful-like practice. By bringing a Christ-centred approach to mindful awareness, the authors demonstrate how to apply this practice to discipleship and spiritual growth. Readers are equipped to decide the extent to which they wish to learn and practice mindfulness, to approach it without fear, and to draw on the good within it to develop their relationship with Jesus.
Superhuman
From evolutionary biologist Rowan Hooper, an awe-inspiring look into the extremes of human ability—and what they tell us about our own potential—“an intriguing…look at some of the things that make us human—and more” (Kirkus Reviews). In 1997, an endurance runner named Yiannis Kouros ran 188 miles in twenty-four hours. Akira Haraguchi can recite pi to the 100,000th decimal point. John Nunn was accepted to Oxford University at age fifteen. After a horrific attack by her estranged husband, Carmen Tarleton was left with burns to more than eighty percent of her body. After a three-month coma, multiple skin grafts, and successful face transplant, Tarleton is now a motivational speaker....
Unfinalized Moments
Focusing on a diversely rich selection of writers, the pieces featured in Unfinalized Moments: Essays in the Development of Contemporary Jewish American Narrative explore the community of Jewish American writers who published their first book after the mid-1980s. It is the first book-length collection of essays on this subject matter with contributions from the leading scholars in the field. The manuscript does not attempt to foreground any one critical agenda, such as Holocaust writing, engagements with Zionism, feminist studies, postmodern influences, or multiculturalism. Instead, it celebrates the presence of a newly robust, diverse, and ever-evolving body of Jewish American fiction. This...
Immigrant Associations, Integration and Identity
This book sheds light on the integration processes and identity patterns of Angolan, Brazilian and Eastern European communities in Portugal. It examines the privileged position that immigrant organisations hold as interlocutors between the communities they represent and various social service mechanisms operating at national and local levels. Through the collection of ethnographic data and the realisation of 110 interviews with community insiders and middlemen, culled over a year's time, Joo Sardinha provides insight into how the three groups are perceived by their respective associations and representatives. Following up on the rich data is a discussion of strategies of coping with integration and identity in the host society and reflections on Portuguese social and community services and institutions.
To Right Every Wrong
Dave Andrews’s latest book, To Right Every Wrong, is the last in the Dave Andrews Legacy Series. It is a funny, sad, brutally honest retrospective, reflecting on what it has meant for him and his family to seek to live a lifetime dedicated to love and justice. The reflections in this book, subtitled The Making and Unmaking of One Improbable Minor Prophet, come in three parts—the personal, the prophetical, and the paradoxical. The personal part explores Andrews’s experience of the radical, compassionate spirituality that he shares with wife, Angie, and which has shaped their way of life as a family in community with marginalized and disadvantaged groups of people. The prophetical part e...
Culture Shock and Multiculturalism
It used to be widely accepted amongst anthropologists that when they conducted fieldwork with foreign cultures they experienced something called ‘culture shock.’ This book will argue that ‘culture shock’ is a useful model for understanding an important part of human experience. However, in its most widely-known form, the stage model, ‘culture shock’ has been heavily influenced by the same anti-science, latter-day religiosity that has become so influential more broadly: Multiculturalism. This book will examine culture shock through the model of ‘religion.’ It will show how the most well-known model of culture shock – so popular amongst business consultants, expatriates, inte...
Ethnic Minority Identity
Is racial integration a realistic goal? What reasonable expectations should the larger society have of ethnic minority groups? What hopes can ethnic minority groups nurture in their relations with society at large? In addressing these compelling and important social questions, Hutnik examines key psychological and sociological theoretical perspectives of ethnic minority identity and reviews the empirical work done on ethnicity. In addition to this extensive and critical appraisal of the research, the author considers what constitutes an ethnic group and investigates the sociology of ethnicity from assimilationism to cultural pluralism. In conclusion, she examines the implications of these findings in relation to the integration of ethnic minority groups in Britain. Social psychologists and social scientists working in the field of ethnic group relations will find this a valuable source book.
