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Dunigan, Molly, author.
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352.530973 23
Publication Date
2013
Summary
Over the past decade, private contractors have been deployed extensively around the globe. In addition to supporting U.S. and allied forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, contractors have assisted foreign governments, nongovernmental organizations, and private businesses by providing a wide range of services, including base support and maintenance, logistical support, transportation, intelligence, communications, construction, and security. At the height of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, contractors outnumbered U.S. troops deployed to both theaters. Although these contractors are not supposed to engage in offensive combat, they may nonetheless be exposed to many of the stressors that are known to have physical and mental health implications for military personnel. RAND conducted an online survey of a sample of contractors who had deployed on contract to a theater of conflict at least once between early 2011 and early 2013. The survey collected demographic and employment information, along with details about respondents⁰́₉ deployment experience (including level of preparation for deployment, combat exposure, and living conditions), mental health (including probable posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and alcohol misuse), physical health, and access to and use of health care. The goal was to describe the contractors⁰́₉ health and well-being and to explore differences across the sample by such factors as country of citizenship, job specialty, and length and frequency of contract deployment. The findings provide a foundation for future studies of contractor populations and serve to inform policy decisions affecting contractors, including efforts to reduce barriers to mental health treatment for this population.
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35315.7461
by
Dwivedi, Kedar Nath.
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618.9289 22
Publication Date
2004
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This comprehensive guide provides overviews of the key psychological processes affecting mental health, such as development, attachment, emotion regulation and attention, and draws out the implications for preventive measures and promotion of emotional well-being. The authors, from a range of professional disciplines, emphasise the importance of early intervention and prevention, exploring in particular how initiatives in parenting and education can promote children's emotional well-being. The topics they cover include: the prevention and management of addiction and eating disorders; the devel.
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34722.2266
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Brugnoli, Maria Paola, author.
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615.85122 23
Publication Date
2014
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Anesthetist and pain specialist, Maria Paola Brugnoli, brings together her experience, knowledge and emotional intelligence in this integrative work on clinical hypnosis and pain management. In it, she presents a new system approach to study the neurophysiological states of consciousness to improve the use of clinical hypnosis and mindfulness in pain therapy and palliative care. The book explores the fields of clinical hypnosis and mindfulness as applied to the therapy of suffering and various type of acute and chronic pain, and in dying patients. It is organized in order to show all scientifi.
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NATO Advanced Research Workshop on the Importance of Psychosocial Wellbeing of Children in the Postwar Period for Social Reconstruction and Stability of Terrorist & War Affected Regions (2003 : Ljubljana, Slovenia)
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618.928521 22
Publication Date
2005
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Aims to show how community-based psychosocial approaches promote the psychosocial well being of children following war and terrorism. This book focuses on community-based interventions that link individual mental health/psychosocial well being with the health and stability of the community.
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2849.5601
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Ruti, Mari.
Call Number
150.195 22
Publication Date
2009
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1.2492
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Graham, Carol, 1962-
Call Number
330.01 22
Publication Date
2009
Summary
For centuries the pursuit of happiness was the preserve of either the philosopher or the voluptuary and took second place to the basic need to survive on the one hand, and the pressure to conform to social conventions and morality on the other. More recently there is a burgeoning interest in the study of happiness, in the social sciences and in the media. Can we really answer the question what makes people happy? Is it really grounded in credible methods and data? Is thereconsistency in the determinants of happiness across countries and cultures? Are happiness levels innate to individuals or c.
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0.7669
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Grimwood, Bryan S. R., author.
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306.4819 23
Publication Date
2018
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"By recognizing tourism as a profound social force, this book engages with notions of power and perspectives of wellness in tourism and the contested conceptualizations of tourism spaces and places for wellness"--
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Loe, Meika, 1973-
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646.700846 22
Publication Date
2011
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Aging Our Way follows the everyday lives of 30 elders (ages 85-102) living at home and mostly alone, to understand how they create and maintain meaningful lives for themselves. Meika Loe explores how the very old navigate the practical challenges of living as independently as possible while staying healthy, connected, and comfortable--Book jacket.
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Horowitz, Daniel, 1938- author.
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306.0973 23
Publication Date
2018
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Happier? provides the first history of the origins, development, and impact of the shift in how Americans - and now many around the world - consider the human condition. This change, which came about from the fusing of beliefs and knowledge from Eastern spiritual traditions, behavioral economics, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and cognitive psychology, has been led by scholars and academic entrepreneurs, in play with forces such as neoliberalism and cultural conservatism, and a public eager for self-improvement. Ultimately, the book illuminates how positive psychology, one of the most inf.
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0.3288
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Cybriwsky, Roman A., author.
Call Number
306 23
Publication Date
2016
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"An authoritative, comprehensive, and highly accessible assessment of the happiest and least happy countries and cities in the world, as well as of the happiest and least happy cities and states in the United States. Supplies insightful and interesting information about all of the most contented and least contented countries and cities around the globe -- and the factors that make the people who live in these places notably happy or discontented. Examines and explains the complexity of happiness and contentment as they apply to specific places and regions in the world. Synthesizes and evaluates the maze of existing rankings of cities and countries in the world with fresh and original information to produce a novel assessment of the geography of global happiness. Presents information about cities and countries in all parts of the world fairly and in both positive and negative lights."--Publisher's description
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0.2888
by
Petitto, Melissa.
Call Number
641.6553
Publication Date
2019
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0.1213
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Helm Baxter, Anna.
Call Number
641.5
Publication Date
2021
Summary
In Fabulous Food Boards! discover creative and tasty boards for every occasion.
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0.1091
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