| Description |
1 online resource (295 p.) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Expanded table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Preface -- Note -- About this book -- Part I: Understanding social exclusion -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- What do people crave most? -- Social rejection and social exclusion -- Where does exclusion come from? -- The power of group dynamic processes -- The case of Mark -- Chapter 2: The roots of social exclusion: A disliked topic -- Why do Homo sapiens exclude others? -- The brain, the heart and the mind -- Identifying our hidden minds |
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Chapter 3: Psychosocial issues of social exclusion: Special psychological phenomena in our societies -- The model of situational awareness -- Stigmatisation and the systemic bearing of stigma -- Modern increases in the rates of depression and attempted suicides -- Changing the perspective on depression -- Self-exclusion 2020 and the pandemic of fear -- Loneliness versus aloneness -- Masculinity, femininity, partnership and marriage -- Binge-watching: belonging to virtual reality -- Chapter 4: The experience and impact of exclusion -- Separation from emotion |
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The psychophysiological experience of the pain of exclusion -- Reduction of prosocial behaviours -- Self-destructive and aggressive behaviours -- Fear of loneliness in the future -- Mental and physical desensitisation processes -- Decreased experience of pain -- The sensation of physical cold -- Notes -- Part II: Experiences of exclusion -- Chapter 5: How young people cope with stress -- Stress and strain versus coping -- Growing up as discovering oneself among others -- Analysis of stress behaviours -- Functions of coping with social exclusion -- What do adolescents get stressed about? |
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Adolescents' ways of coping with the stress of exclusion -- Strategies of positive change -- Chapter 6: Teenagers at risk of social exclusion -- The aim and the implementation of the research project -- The nature of the studied variables -- The risk of social exclusion -- The need to belong -- The sense of belonging -- Experiential and strategic emotional intelligence -- Mood and positive emotions -- Self-esteem -- Anger expression -- Coping in difficult and stressful situations -- Description of our study of Polish youths -- Psychological tools -- Research design and statistical procedures |
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Results uncover four different youth groups -- The socially included: the feeling of relevance and belonging -- The invisible kids -- The rejected, frozen and needy -- The unneedy loiterers -- Notes -- Chapter 7: The orphan: Notes from a psychodynamic therapy -- Consultation -- Collecting data -- Identifying the focal theme -- Establishing the contract in the relationship with the patient -- Therapy in the context of transference phenomena -- The course versus the assumptions of therapy -- Understanding and diagnosing the patient -- Epilogue |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000318456 |
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1000318451 |
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