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Psychological Problems in an Industrial Setting

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 1977
A study was undertaken to identify psychological problems reported by workers in an industrial setting and the degree to which these problems (1) affected an individual's ability to carry out work and home responsibilities and (2) were related to physical and psychophysiological disorders.
M, Rappaport, M P, Dolan, T, Clementi
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Health Psychology in African Settings

Journal of Health Psychology, 2007
African settings provide an important context in which to examine the relationship between cultural beliefs and health. First, research in African settings helps illuminate the sociocultural grounding of health and illness: the idea that beliefs play a constitutive role in the experience of distress.
Glenn, Adams, Phia S, Salter
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Robots in a domestic setting: a psychological approach

Universal Access in the Information Society, 2005
The study presented in this paper aims at improving the current understanding of human-robot interaction by adopting a psychological approach. The acceptability of robotic devices in home settings, especially by elderly people, does not depend only on the practical benefits they can provide, but on complex relationships between the cognitive, affective
Massimiliano Scopelliti, Vittoria Giuliani, Ferdinando Fornara   +2 more
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Clinical Psychology in Hospital Settings

2017
The book deals with current issues, pertinent every healthcare relationship. Changes in medicine as well as some constant aspects over time arise within a cultural ground and generate new questions and issues that are not only purely medical, but also bioethical, social, political, economic and psychological of course.
Carli, R., Paniccia, R. M., POLICELLI, SILVIA, Caputo, A   +3 more
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The Psychology of Set

Journal of Russian & East European Psychology, 2009
In chapter 3 of his 1940 textbook General Psychology, D.N. Uznadze (1886-1950) presents a theoretical substantiation of the concept of set and shows how set acts as a mechanism that ensures purposive behavior.
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Psychology and somatology: A critical psychology in the medical setting

Social Science & Medicine (1967), 1977
Abstract A non-technical approach to psychology in the medical setting, and distinct from the medical assumptions of psychiatry, is proposed. This view which emphasizes a concern for the social “reciprocity” of human existence is developed in contradistinction to more biological or mechanistic theories. The application of the “critical” psychology to
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Limit Setting and Psychological Maturation

Archives of General Psychiatry, 1968
THE ROLE OF limit setting in relation to the psychological maturation of the child has been an uncertain area not only with respect to the rearing of the child but also with respect to psychotherapeutic intervention on behalf of the nonadjusting child. For some, setting limits has come to have implications of authoritarianism and insensitivity to the ...
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Psychology in applied settings

1995
If psychology can be defined as the scientific study of behaviour the applications of such a discipline are virtually limitless. Indeed, since psychology first became recognized as a field of scientific endeavour in the last century, numerous specialist fields have emerged.
Roger Davies, Peter Houghton
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Preventive Psychology in Primary Care Settings

The Journal of Primary Prevention, 2005
This article will describe some of the more promising types of preventive interventions that exist in primary health care settings. It will present a rationale for practicing psychologists to consider issues of prevention when working in health care settings.
Leonard A, Jason, Karina, Corradi, Susan, Torres-Harding   +2 more
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