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Chapter 2: Literature Review

Introduction
Poor student development has been established to stem from the inability of teachers to effectively manage classroom behaviour, also stemming from ineffective instructional strategies. As teachers show a diminished capacity to support and respond to students’ needs, student rates of misbehaviour and poor academic performance will continue. The unproductive, unengaged environment of classrooms run by teachers without adequate classroom management skills results in a need to examine the efficacy of classroom management as a practice in addressing these problems. The following literature review examines the existing literature related to classroom management, providing a definition of classroom management, determining Continue reading...

Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

In the quickly expanding field of medical technology, it is important to understand the many roles nursing leaders and managers can play in the various situations that arise in hospitals and doctor’s offices. Each situation requires firm leadership that will set guidelines, allowing other staff members to follow as seamlessly as possibly. This is all for the benefit of the patient. Unfortunately, some situations may leave nurses without leadership if too much emphasis is placed on management, especially if management is not equipped to handle the situation. Similarly, staff may not understand which further steps to take if Continue reading...

Abstract

Addiction has become a major problem for society. Addiction crosses over ethnic, economic and cultural lines. Addiction to legal drugs, illegal drugs and alcohol affects millions of people in the United States. The costs of addiction are economic, psychological and physical, not only to the individual but to society as a whole. The dynamics of addiction on the individual are varied and complex. Many do recover from addiction with intense interventions and go on to live a normal life.
According to the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Psychology, addiction is a set of behaviors that, in this case, involve the Continue reading...

Socially miscommunicated, culturally misconceived, politically abused, humility remains an elusive concept. Socially, humility is viewed as self-degrading act; culturally as appeasement for "superior" cultures; and, politically, as repugnant act of unprincipled opportunism. Given how universal humility is across social, cultural and political systems, literature on humility appears to be scarce (Tangney, 2000). Interestingly, bordering constructs such as self-esteem, modesty and narcissism (Tangney) do not initiate serious investigation into humility as not only a psychological construct but a social, cultural and political as well. Accordingly, instead of viewing humility in either / or dichotomies of (un)favorability (Exline and Geyer, Continue reading...