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An individual's decision to use alcohol and the frequency, quantity and situation of such use are the result of a combination of biological and social factors. Drinking is not only a personal choice, but also a matter of custom and social behaviour, and is influenced by access and economic factors including levels of disposable income and cost of alcoholic beverages. Until prevention efforts cease to focus narrowly on the individual and begin to adopt broader community perspectives on alcohol problems and strategies to reduce them, these efforts will fail. This book, first published in 1998, challenges the current implicit models used in alcohol problem prevention and demonstrates an ecological perspective of the community as a complex adaptive system composed of interacting subsystems, an appreciation and understanding of which offers an alternative approach to the prevention of alcohol dependence and alcohol-related problems.

Alcoholism --- Prevention. --- Social aspects. --- Health Sciences --- General and Others

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Medical education --- Medical education. --- Education, Medical --- Medical personnel --- Education --- health sciences --- teaching planning --- development of teaching --- educational resources --- teaching methodology --- educational techniques --- Professional education --- Health Sciences --- General and Others --- Medical Education, Training & Research

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Biochemistry --- Physiology --- Physiologie --- Biochimie --- Periodicals. --- Périodiques --- Biochemistry. --- Physiology. --- Health Sciences --- Animal physiology --- Animals --- Biology --- Anatomy --- Biological chemistry --- Chemical composition of organisms --- Organisms --- Physiological chemistry --- Chemistry --- Medical sciences --- Composition

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This book introduces the basic principles of motivation as they apply to classroom learning and management in a readable, non-technical form. Covington argues against the popular notion that the problems existing in schools today stem primarily from a lack of student motivation. Instead, he asserts that students are motivated, sometimes even overly motivated, but often for the wrong reasons. Traditional teaching methods, including conventional grading procedures and an emphasis on competition, can contribute to student demoralization, and Covington identifies the ways in which students respond to misguided incentives. For some students, motivation is directed at avoiding failure by avoiding participation. For others, demoralization leads to withdrawal from an educational system that they believe to be irrelevant to their lives. Still other students are driven to prove their worth by outperforming fellow students. The book suggests practical, concrete ways that teachers can use classroom incentives to inspire a desire to learn.

Health Sciences --- Psychiatry & Psychology --- Motivation in education --- Self-esteem in children. --- Learning. --- Learning process --- Comprehension --- Education --- Self-respect in children --- Child psychology

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In the last two decades, an approach to the study of motivation has emerged that focuses on specific cognitive and affective mediators of behaviour, in contrast to more general traits or motives. This 'social-cognitive' approach grants goal-oriented motivation its own role in shaping cognition, emotion and behaviour, rather than reducing goal-directed behaviour to cold-blooded information processing or to an enactment of a personality type. This book adds to this process-oriented approach a developmental perspective. Critical elements of motivational systems can be specified and their inter-relations understood by charting the origins and the developmental course of motivational processes. Moreover, a process-oriented approach helps to identify critical transitions and effective developmental interventions. The chapters in this book cover various age groups throughout the life span and stem from four big traditions in motivational psychology: achievement motivation, action theory, the psychology of causal attribution and perceived control, and the psychology of personal causation and intrinsic motivation.

Motivation (Psychology) --- Self-control --- #PBIB:1999.4 --- Self-discipline --- Self-mastery --- Control (Psychology) --- Discipline --- Action, Psychology of --- Drive (Psychology) --- Psychology of action --- Psychology --- Health Sciences --- Psychiatry & Psychology --- Self-control.