purpose: the purpose of this article is to examine the relationship between the organizational commitment and the psychological empowerment in the libraries of ferdowsi university of mashhad. methodology: this study is an applied research on the librarians of ferdowsi university of mashhad. data were collected relying on allen and meyer (1990) organizational commitment questionnaire and spreitz...

The sixth edition of this perefl't ally popular book is well up to tb1] standard of the earlier ones and |i remarkably good value at todaVi prices. This has been an introdu^ tion to psychiatry for severe generations of professional work; ers in mental health, and at i1 own level it has not yet beei excelled. There is a certain wardian panache to the style whi^ makes it refreshingly differed fro...

This course is intended to introduce you to adult psychological assessment and to acquaint you with the types of assessment devices used by psychologists. During the semester, you will learn how to administer, score, and interpret a variety of psychological tests and how to write a psychological report using a core set of assessment measures commonly used by counseling and clinical psychologist...

becomes dictionary-like, and because theoretical discussion is limited to the end of each chapter, large parts of the book might be expected to be quite dull to a student reader; therefore, it cannot be recommended as a text. For these same reasons, as previously mentioned, and because of the outstanding documentation and bibliography, the book is better adapted to the needs of the more advance...

Emerging evidence has shown that human thought can be embodied within physical sensations and actions. Indeed, abstract concepts such as morality, time, and interpersonal warmth can be based on metaphors that are grounded in bodily experiences (e.g., physical temperature can signal interpersonal warmth). We hypothesized that social-category knowledge is similarly embodied, and we tested this hy...

Guidelines from NICE (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) and academic papers have repeatedly stressed the effectiveness and appropriateness of psychological therapies for a range of mental health problems. The Department of Health’s and the Care Services Improvement Partnership’s (CSIP) Programme Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) sets out a framework for...