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Children need care, support and protection. The critical political and social circumstances in Bulgaria during the different historical periods put them into risk situation. Timely specialized and adequate intervention contributes to the harmonical development of the child personality and to providing for a better social life.
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The present work is an attempt to broaden the biography of the autonomous individual. Contrary to the conception of the inborn sociality of a person that deprives him of his uniqueness and refuted by various manifestations of mental disorders, the idea of an individual way of life could explain some contradictions and paradoxes in his behavior. Being alone in nature and without physical contact with similar individuals, he had not only to develop and improve his sensitivity and the way of perceiving reality, but also to change the metabolism of his own organism. Losing instincts by changing connections with reality, he manages to turn objects into a source of information, providing him certain and safe means of survival. That information will became his personal environment unattainable for animals. An environment, which purpose is to function as an untouchable, invisible „territory“, i.e. as a consciousness.
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This text aims to discuss the ideas of Сallistus Cataphugiota elucidated in the treatise On union with God and life of contemplation. The work advanced the main idea that contemplation is “fruit of deification“. Different definitions of contemplation, its three stages and final goal – deifying unity with the transcending Unity, were put forward. The article aims to illustrate the significance of the theology of contemplation, developed by Callistus Cataphugiota for Hesychastic tradition and Orthodox spirituality.
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The article deals with questions related to the influence of fairy tales in the modern life of young people. A survey was carried out with social service users at the Day Care Center for the Elderly with Disabilities in Veliko Tarnovo. Analyzes and outcomes are generalizations revealing the parental style of education and the influence of fairy tales during childhood.
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Adolescent delinquency of members of middle and higher classes remains in the shadow of sociological and criminological research which in a longer period was mostly oriented toward members of poor, socially excluded and marginalized layers. The relation of class stratification and delinquency is especially important in projection of a delinquent`s life perspective. Insight into forms and tendencies of delinquent behavior of members of higher classes, as well as critical review of their social perception and treatment, increase the possibility of adequate reaction in creating and implementing prevention measures.
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The paper presents typical cognitive biases of representatives of different legal professions and participants in court and other proceedings (judges, arbitrators, mediators, lawyers, parties), including: the anchoring, the framing effect, the hindsight bias, the representativeness heuristic, and the egocentric bias. The goal of this paper is to examine their implications on the legal and other decision-making processes, as well as the importance they have in the legal field. The starting assumption is that the making of legal decisions is not solely determined by legal norms, but also by a number of factors that have a nonlegal character, whose cognitive factors are distinguished by their importance. On these grounds, the paper presents numerous studies of cognitive biases of those participants who decide in the legal field which belong to the domain of behavioral science. All of them clearly prove the existence of numerous systematic thinking mistakes of participants in court and other proceedings. Based on this research, the authors discuss the implications of these mistakes in making legal and other decisions, as well as techniques for their alleviation or elimination (the so-called debiasing techniques), thus setting the conceptual framework for future research in this field, particularly related to the domestic legal system.
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People, in their everyday activities, are faced with multiple choices, decision making and problem solving when aiming at more effective adaptation, goal setting and goal attainment as well as efficient psychic energy expenditure and social integration. The present study aims at the elucidation of the cognitive processes that participate in decision making. It comments on fundamental conceptions in relation to the phenomenon, the stages in the process of decision making, the structure of the problems and the most common decision making mistakes.
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In this work, based on a brief review of the conceptualization of spiritual intelligence, characteristics of religion experience, the actuality of research tasks and methodological difficulties is given hypothesis of the existence of a separate construct “religious intelligence”.
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До недавнего времени потребление рассматривалось социальными исследователями как гедонистическая деятельность или погоня за удовольствием ради удовольствия [2, 6]. В России такое значение потребления стало актуальным относительно недавно, в постсоциалистический период. С потребительским гедонизмом связыва- ется первое десятилетие 2000-х годов, называемое «жирными нулевыми», когда новая инфраструк- тура (торговые центры, кредитные карты и т.д.) и выросшие доходы создали условия и возможности для гедонистического потребления. Несмотря на то, что не все группы в российском обществе по- лучили полный доступ к таким возможностям, изменения коснулись заметной его части.
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An attempt has been made to show the complex profile of modern psychology, situated in her traits of synthesis, relativity and integrated vision. The thesis has been argumented that, the integral psychology offers an successful approach to prove the theoretical and empirical unity of knowledge. A model of spiritual intelligence has been analyzed whose conditions of development are placed in the phenomena of moral motivation and critical conscience.
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Two mean logical focuses are present in terms of content. The authority is viewed as a dynamic feature of the manager as a result of the social perception process. This is a precondition for the manager to constantly assess the effect of the manager’s activity and behavior in different situations. Any assessments changes reflect on the credibility and gives effect on the level of his authority and reputation. Charisma, which is considered both a goal and prerequisite for successful leadership is also analyzed and discussed.
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The phenomenon of "forced overhearing" is considered in the article. The author analyzes the communicative processes of mobile phones use, leading to the transformation or blurring of boundaries of private and public dimensions. The value and nature of public/common/social spaces and features of modern people’s behaviour are studied in the situations when there is a need or a wish for a mobile phone talk. The author describes the concepts of ethics of indifference and mobile etiquette.
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The article explores the connection between the concept of personal identity and the concept of love, focusing on the possibility of personal identity. The investigation starts from the premise that personal identity has a transcendental status with respect to philosophical inquiry, especially in the domain of ethics. Then the author outlines some major problems involved in the clear explication of the concept of personal identity. The proposed solution is that personal identity is constituted by the relation to a loved one. The conclusion is that love has a transcendental status with regard to personal identity, which means it also has transcendental status with respect to all activities contingent on personal identity.
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The increase of adolescents’ anti-social actions and the deepening of negative divergent behavior are both social and normative phenomena. It is necessary to study the conditions and mechanisms for the emergence and development of asocial behavior. This paper investigates the personal dispositions, which facilitate deviations. The deviation as purposeful behavior is common for individuals with asocial proclivity, and it provokes social problem, which in essence carries the features of destructive personal characteristics. The composition of deviating behavior consists of primary and secondary characteristics. The primary ones are related to the specifics of experiences and moods. The emotionally-volitional activity is characterized with one’s deep instability and weak purposefulness, combined with contradicting moods, anxiety, crying, and depression experiences, which lead to inadequate relation with the social environment. The secondary characteristics are pertinent to high psychological and social spheres of personality, as follows: changes in the structure and function of the Ego; difficulty to analyze and evaluate social phenomena; inability to understand and accept social norms and requirements; unstable convictions; internal conflict; etc. Self-evaluation and the boundaries of self-control change.
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It raises issues of female loneliness of modern Russians; defines the concept of "women's loneliness"; examines personality traits of single women seeking psychological help; types of women are allocated to the problem of female loneliness; the results of factor analysis of the causes of female loneliness; It offered an explanation of the causes of female loneliness in modern Russia; defined strategy counseling women experiencing a situation lack of men for stable love relationships as a problem.
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This theoretical study presents conceptual views on the psychological mechanisms through which the regime, the social-educational work and the prison subculture influence on the mental functioning of prisoners.The penitentiary institution provides constructive and destructive transformations of the conscious layers into unconscious ones, as well as the reverse process.
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The paper contains the study of privacy, describes love feelings and emotions of people in the conditions of the Kolyma prison. Love relationships between free people and prisoners of Sevvostlag (late 1940s.) are considered on the base of archival sources. The strict ideological control over personal feelings of members of the CPSU(b) and the deliberate shift of their life priorities are shown.
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Childhood aggression is an important focus for educatures and parents owing to its relative stability over time and consistent link to a variety of negative outcomes later in adolescence including delinquency,substance use, conduct problems,poor adjustment and academic diffiuculties. In addition verbaland physical aggression often are the first signs,as well as later desining symptoms,of several childhood phychiartie disorders. By adolescence, this developmental course results in a hightened risk of substance use, delinqnent acts, and school failure.
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Social skills are developed along the entire life of a person. The social skills in the separate periods of development are influenced by different factors. Since in the first years of children’s life parents are the primary source of social and emotional support and the main factor in the formation of their personaltraits, there is the question of what happens to the children, who are abandoned by their parents and what influence the abandonment has on their social functioning. The aim of this publication is to describe the methodology and the approaches used for research of children “deprived of parental care” in their early school age and placed under the social services of the “Adoptive Care”Family-Type Residential Center.
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The aim of the study is to provide a generalized methodology for planning psychological, pedagogical and social work with clients in need / at risk.
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