In covering the assessment of individual differences, this book pays tribute to works of Douglas N Jackson. It shows how the use of deductive, construct-driven strategies in the assessment of individual differences leads to benefits in terms of the applicability of the assessment instruments.
Offering a comprehensive integration and clarification/delineation of the different ways identity has been thought about and used in different theoretical traditions, this title discusses the implications of different theoretical senses of 'identity' for language educators.
In this second edition, the author surveys the recent changes that have taken place in psychoanalytic social theory. Traditions of thought covered include critical theory, Lacanian and post-Lacanian theory, post structuralism and feminism.
An analysis of the recent exlposion of research and literature on the enhancement of self-esteem. On both theoretical and practical levels, the author defines self-esteem and how it can be developed or enhanced.
Studies the way the brain's two hemispheres process image and language, as well as Jungian ways of understanding the unconscious through archetypes and the word association test. This text argues that emotional complexes facilitate the move of language across hemispheres.