[PDF] Top 20 Criminal psychology : a critical textual analysis : a thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Psychology at Massey University

... A subsequent analysis of the text focuses on three prominent d iscursive themes: a construction of the text's rational empiricism, of its advocating for treatment over punishment of offe[r] ... See full document

... Figure 18: Mean time in seconds taken by subjects in each group to complete entering application form information Figure 19: Group main effect times from the first ANOVA.. Figure 20: Mai[r] ... See full document

... All the mothers were encouraged to attend the hospital antenatal classes, the encounter groups not being intended as a complete preparation for childbirth but rather as a means of reduci[r] ... See full document

... With this in mind, it was decided to investigate whether a relationship or trend could be observed between sensitivity and response bias in a recognition memory task similar to that used[r] ... See full document

... The issues that have emerged from the literature that are pertinent to this study are: caregiver support and training; the needs and behaviours of children in out-of-home care; the careg[r] ... See full document

... Psychological wellbeing was not related to perceptions of professional status, effects of caregiving on caregivers' own families, or to caregivers' relationships with the natural familie[r] ... See full document

... The Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status RBANS was developed by Christopher Randolph and is a short, individually administered measure to assess attention, [r] ... See full document

... 'Healthy lifestyle' and public health strategies: Mandating values, limiting choices IHP as a fo1111 of public health education employs strategic and coercive approaches that result in p[r] ... See full document

... The results obtained suggest that distraction is not effective for either acute pain or chronic pain when its effectiveness was measured by reductions in reported pain tolerances and sub[r] ... See full document

... Distraction is useful for increasing pain thresholds and tolerances and reducing ratings of acute pain and is often incorporated in pain management programmes for chronic pain.. However,[r] ... See full document

... The deviant discourse associated homosexuals with behaviours that are morally and legally proscribed, and the discourse of conditional acceptance was used by officers to positively prese[r] ... See full document

... Potter and Wetherell 1987 propose that discourse analysis is able to avoid the pitfalls associated with traditional attitudinal research by approaching the study of "attitudes" using a d[r] ... See full document

... Hypotheses investigated were that: anxiety, depression and hostility were all elevated in arthritics compared with patients with other chronic painful disorders and pain-free controls; t[r] ... See full document

... Hypotheses investigated were that: anxiety, depression and hostility were all elevated in arthritics compared with patients with other chronic painful disorders and pain-free controls; t[r] ... See full document

... The participants were asked questions relating to older driver assessment methods - in particular their use of the common traffic signs driving assessment tool sent to all General Practi[r] ... See full document

... For example, while in the present study there were no significant differences in global satisfaction between clients seen solely by senior psychologists, and those seen by assistant clin[r] ... See full document

... This is achieved by 1 Using information in an applicants application form to answer 17 questions provided by the computer.. Note that in some instances not all 17 questions will be asked[r] ... See full document

... Abstract Twenty-two Parkinson's Disease PD patients and 22 age-matched and gender-matched comparison participants aged 48-83 years were tested on the California Verbal Learning Test CVLT[r] ... See full document

... A wide range of resilience factors and coping styles may be associated with reductions in stress and negative health outcomes and also with increases in psychological and physical wellbe[r] ... See full document

... To briefly recap, the discourses are: the scientific discourse cohering around a metaphor of pragmatism, the production discourse cohering around a metaphor of performance, the identity [r] ... See full document