The Journal of Social and Psychological Sciences is a fully peer-reviewed periodical that publishes the finest scholarship concerning the interface between Psychology and Sociology. The journal is essentially multidisciplinary and invites all submissions in the humanities and social sciences that have a Psychosocial orientation. It also serves as a forum where academics express their thoughts about the current state of research within this field. It is a useful resource for anyone with a broad interest in Psychosocial theory, research and practice.
The Journal of Social and Psychological Sciences is proud of annoucing the publication of its special issue entitled: BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL APPROACHES TO MENTAL HEALTH & ILLNESS. The Abstracts of this issue are as follows:
The emergence of the bio-psychosocial model is described as a progressive reaction to the bio-reductionism of traditional psychiatry. Though formally announced by the physician and psycho-analyst George Engel in 1977, the roots of the model can be traced, via the inter-disciplinary project of social psychiatry, to a range of theoretical influences in psychiatry, biology and sociology. The advantages the model offers to practitioners and researchers are outlined but its limits are also explored by drawing upon some philosophical principles of critical realism. It is concluded that the biopsychosocial model has not fulfilled its potential because of its uncritical silence about professionally-codified knowledge and a range of professional, social and economic interests.Keywords: Biopsychosocial, Psychology, Mental Health
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Coping Measures of Patients with Chronic Illness in a Nigerian Tertiary Health Institution.
Agunbiade O. Melvin ,Ikuteyijo Lanre and Titilayo Ayotunde
The study focused on investigating adult patients’ coping measures in relation to their perception illness and the belief in regaining their health. Methods of data collection included questionnaires and in-depth interviews. Two categories of patients were involved namely: clinically diagnosed adults(18-60 years) with primary depressive symptoms and those suffering from: asthma, diabetes mellitus, heart problem, hypertension, stroke and tuberculosis at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals, Ile-Ife, Nigeria( 2002 to 2007). Analysis was based on 156 responses. Findings showed that 65 per cent of the depressed patients considered drug use as burdensome. Religion was a common coping measure among respondents in both Groups. However, significant relationship was found between the ages of respondents in both groups and their decisions to seek God’s help (χ2 = 11.46, P < .05), similar significant relationship was also observed in their attitudes to prayers (χ2 = 11.18, P < .05). The study concluded that coping measures of adult patients with chronic disease tends more towards religious measures especially among adult patients with depression many of who perceived drug use as burdensome. Incorporating religion into the overall care for the depressed may be difficult to practice going by the secularity of the Nigerian populace.Keywords: Psychosocial, Psychology, Mental Health, Critical Illness
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Beyond Therapy: Autonomist Movements Against “Mental Illness”
Jeffery Shantz
There is a growing network of radical mental health groups across North America and beyond in which people are exploring extreme states of consciousness outside the conventional maps of disease and disorder. These networks seek autonomy from the psy disciplines and their various practitioners, including even restorative therapists. Emphasizing self-determination, participatory decision-making and control by psy survivors themselves, I term these movements’ autonomist movements to express this focus on autonomy. Autonomist movements attempt to break these hermeneutic circles, providing opportunities for the expression of experiential voices. They provide a context in which the views and experiences of clients or survivors are taken seriously.Keywords: Mental Illness, Psychology, Psychosocial, Biopsychosocial
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What Contributions Have Biological Approaches Made to our Understanding of Gender and Sexuality?
Shadreck Mwale
The terms gender and sexuality like many other sociological concepts are highly contested concepts. Traditionally men and women have had their identities defined by the physical, visible differences between them and biology has been very influential in determining and maintaining these definitions. However, according to Connell (2002 pg 9) ‘gender is…the social relations in which all individuals act’ and sexuality is a ‘set of social processes which produce and organise the structure and expression of desire’ (Cranny-Francis et al 2003 pg 9). This paper intends to explore the influences of biological approaches on our understanding of gender and sexuality in the first part, the second part highlights some of the criticisms of biological approaches from a social constructionist and post-modern perspective. Drawing from these criticisms one can argue that biological definitions of gender and sexuality have contributed more to the establishing of inequalities and discrimination among others gender and sexuality lines. Keywords: Gender, Sexuality, Psychology, Psychosocial, Biopsychosocial
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Women Executives in the Gaming Industry: Can They Break Through The Glass Ceiling?
James Ike Schaap
This study investigates to what extent the glass ceiling exists for women in the Nevada gaming industry. The results of this study show that women in the gaming industry have less of an opportunity to demonstrate relevant abilities, such as leadership and conceptual skills, by means of their involvement in strategy implementation. Based on the results of this study, the researcher concludes that if women want to break the glass ceiling, they must begin by understanding the male-dominated system—at least in the short run. Most importantly, women must seek out opportunities to demonstrate the skills that are most important to promotion into senior-level leadership positions. Keywords: Glass ceiling, leadership, senior-level leadership, strategy implementation, gaming industry, and hospitality industry.
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Additive or Multiplicative Perceptual Noise? Two Equivalent Forms of the ANCHOR Model
Alexander A. Petrov
ANCHOR is an integrated memory-based scaling model that accounts for a wide range of phenomena in category rating and absolute identification. The model uses anchors stored in memory that serve as prototypes for each response category. The stimuli are represented by magnitudes. Two alternative formulations of the magnitude variability are considered: additive noise, which leads to logarithmic scales, and multiplicative noise, which leads to power scales. Both formulations are consistent with Weber’s and Stevens’s laws. Four variants of the ANCHOR framework systematically explore these alternative formulations. The performance of the models is evaluated against experimental data. The results show that the form of the perceptual equation is not critical for the operation of the model. Thus, the power vs. logarithmic controversy does not affect ANCHOR’s central claim that human scaling performance is memory-based. Keywords: Psychophysics, Weber’s law, memory-based categorization, modelling.
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CALL FOR PAPERS - The Journal of Social and Psychological Sciences
Volume 2 Issue 1 January 2009
The Journal of Social and Psychological Sciences invites all submissions in the humanities and social sciences that have a Psychosocial orientation. Examples of topic areas include: Gender and Identity, Embodiment of Gender, Psychosocial Rehabilitation, Psychoanalysis and Social Theory. Manuscripts may be in form of reviews, short communications, letters to the editor, research papers, commentaries and replies to other articles or research papers.Important Dates:
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