Search for dissertations about: "psychological continuity"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 swedish dissertations containing the words psychological continuity.

2. 1. Advance Directives and Personal Identity

   Author : Elisabeth Furberg; Torbjörn Tännsjö; Niklas Juth; Wayne Sumner; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; advance directives; personal identity; psychological continuity; animalism; posthumous harm; moral authority; rights; utilitarianism; Filosofi; Philosophy; Practical Philosophy;

   Abstract : Advance directives are instructions given by patients – or potential patients – specifying what actions ought to be taken for their health in the event that they are no longer capable to make decisions due to illness or incapacity. Over the last decades, there has been a rising tide in favour of advance directives: not only is the use of such directives recommended by most medical and advisory bodies, they are also gaining increasing legal recognition in many parts of the world. READ MORE

4. 2. Bringing psychological treatment to the psychiatric ward : Affecting patients, staff, and the milieu

   Author : Mårten Tyrberg; Per Carlbring; Tobias Lundgren; Gillian Haddock; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Acceptance and Commitment Therapy; behavior therapy; inpatients; inservice training; psychiatry; psychotherapy; brief; qualitative research; randomized controlled trial; schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders; Psychology; psykologi;

   Abstract : The psychiatric ward is a complex setting. This has to do partly with the severity of the patients’ suffering. Often, they present with such diagnoses as psychosis, self-harm, substance abuse, and suicidality. In fact, they often present with a combination of these. READ MORE

5. 3. Change and Continuity in Psychological Health Across the Retirement Transition: Interindividual Differences and Post-Retirement Adjustment

   Author : Georg Henning; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; adaptation; leisure activity; personality; retirement adjustment; self-determination theory; well-being; work motivation;

   Abstract : Retirement is an important life event. Individuals leave their place of work, which often played a vital part in their daily lives, and enter a new phase of life with new opportunities, new challenges and new roles. The overarching aim of the present thesis is to shed light on changes in psychological health across the transition to retirement. READ MORE

6. 4. Trust issues : Welfare workers' relationship to their organisation

   Author : Jonas Welander; Kerstin Isaksson; Wanja Astvik; Juliska Wallin; Ildikó Asztalos Morell; Lotta Dellve; Mälardalens högskola; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; employee-organisation relationship; new public management; psychological contracts; job demands; job resources; organisational factors; trust; Working Life Studies; arbetslivsvetenskap;

   Abstract : In the past decades, the public sector has undergone important organisational policy changes, referred to as New Public Management. These management strategies focus on continuous cost improvements and rationalisation of operations. READ MORE

7. 5. Becoming Muslim: Meanings of Conversion to Islam

   Author : Anna Månsson; Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ethnology; Cultural anthropology; person-centered ethnography; psychological anthropology; Muslims in the U.S.; Muslims in Sweden; Islam in the West; conversion narrative; conversion to Islam; Muslim identity; identity-making; cognitive models; Kulturantropologi; etnologi; Non-Christian religions; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ;

   Abstract : "Becoming Muslim: Meanings of Conversion to Islam" is an ethnographic study analyzing the identity-making of female Muslim converts. It is based on eighteen in-depth interviews with six women in Sweden and three women in the U.S. READ MORE