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human nature and how it influences the practice of counseling

Question # 1: Person-Centered Chapter 7 (answer all parts of the question) Think about Roger’s view of human nature and how it influences the practice of counseling. Questions: In your own words, explain the concept, “actualization tendency.” How does the actualization tendency influences the practice of Person-Centered Therapy? Make sure to make reference to the […]

Implicit stereotyping as a predictor of discrimination

Stereotypic explanatory bias: Implicit stereotyping as a predictor of discrimination Denise Sekaquaptewa,a,* Penelope Espinoza,a Mischa Thompson,a Patrick Vargas,b and William von Hippelc a Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1109, USA b Department of Advertising, University of Illinois, IL, USA c School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Received […]

C A S E E X A M P L E

Background Miriam often spoke in a flat voice, seemingly disconnected from her feelings and even from any sense of the meaningfulness of her sentences. She had survived terrifying and degrading childhood abuse, and now, some 35 years after leaving home, she had the haunted, pinched look of someone who expected the abuse to begin again […]

motivations for engaging in cyberaggression

1. Read this week’s assigned article (Rafferty & Vander Ven, 2014) 2. answer the question #2: The article describes three motivations for engaging in cyberaggression: sanctions, power-struggles, and entertainment. Please classify each of these three as being an example of an instrumental or hostile form of aggression. Explain why each of these sources matches one […]