Various studies on the National Policy on Education (NPE) have concentrated on the cognitive value of pedagogy and learning of the language aspect but few have viewed its importance on the togetherness of the nation - Nigeria. This paper deals with how the language policy can influence and ensure the co-existence of Nigeria in achieving self-actualisation, national unity, social, cultural, econ...

1 CHAPTER 1: AN OVERVIEW OF THE THESIS 2-8 1.1. The Origins of Schema Therapy 1.2. Early Maladaptive Schemas 1.3. Schema Domains 1.4. Schema Perpetuation 1.5. The Schema Mode Concept 1.6. Schema Modes and the Present Doctoral Thesis 2 3 4 5 6 8 PART I: SYSTEMATIC REVIEW 9-52 CHAPTER 2: SYSTEMATIC REVIEW JOURNAL ARTICLE 10-52 ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION METHOD RESULTS DISCUSSION REFERENCES 12 13 16 25...

BACKGROUND Research has implicated causal, mediating and meaningful roles for mental imagery in the experience of psychological distress, including self-injury. AIMS The present study aimed to further the understanding of this relationship through exploring the lived experiences of mental imagery from the perspective of those who self-injure. METHOD This study employed an inductive qualitat...

The capacity for a parent to self-regulate their own performance is argued to be a fundamental process underpinning the maintenance of positive, nurturing, non-abusive parenting practices that promote good developmental and health outcomes in children. Deficits in self-regulatory capacity, which have their origins in early childhood, are common in many psychological disorders, and strengthening...

This is an essay on the `conditions of possibility' (Kant) for thinking about the seemingly bizarre spaces of a grandly chaotic city. It is concerned with the possibility of distinctively different, contradictory (therefore incompatible) yet coexisting general modes of thinkingöepistemes or discursive formations (Foucault)öand with the possible processes of their production. I begin with those ...

In this chapter, I discuss self-consciousness as a unique feature of our species. as a student of early childhood, my goal is to provide some developmental light on the origins and consequences of this feature that arguably shapes human experience. at the core of my argument is the idea that self-consciousness is inseparable from the human propensity to take an ethical stance toward others, but...