The 2018 Citizens’ Assembly on the 8th Amendment of Constitution instigated an important process for public participation and deliberation about legal status abortion in Republic Ireland. Examining processes Assembly, I argue that it was consistent with democratic deliberations as discrete initiatives function alongside other deliberative processes. identify examine some limitations Citizen pro...

Approaches to Improving Self-Efficacy among 8th Graders: Solution-Focused and Strategic Therapies A. Bahraami F. Bahaari, Ph.D.  To compare the effectiveness of two approaches to improving self-efficacy, a specially selected sample of 45 eighth graders was randomly placed into three groups of control and experimental. The experimental groups were taught for ten sessions o...