Actions for Contemporary Africa's Growth and Development : Issues, Paradox and Solutions

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Contemporary Africa's Growth and Development : Issues, Paradox and Solutions

Author
Attah-Poku, Agyemang
Published
Lanham : University Press of America, 2012.
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1 online resource (342 pages)
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Contents
Contemporary Africa's Growth and Development; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction; What Is Love-Shyness?; Love-Shyness is a Serious Problem; Viewing Someone to Love as a Cure-All; Normative Timetables of Self-Revelation; Why This Book?; Love-Shyness Costs Society Money; Plan of the Book; PART ONE: THE BIOLOGICAL UNDERPINNINGS OF LOVE-SHYNESS; Chapter 2: Love-Shyness and the Nature versus Nurture Debate; The Phenomenon of Inborn Temperament; The Work of Hans J. Eysenck; Love-Shyness and the Inborn Anxiety Threshold., The Importance of Social Stimulus ValueThe Work of Alexander Thomas; The Jerome Kagan Work; The Importance of Enzymes; Some Related Work on Depression; Biogenic Amines; Anxiety Disease; Dopamine; Schizophrenia; Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders; Conclusions; Chapter 3: Societal Reactions and Elastic Limits; The ""Wish Bone Effect""; The Sociological Perspective; Every Group Needs a Deviant; The ""Apperceptive Mass"" Concept; Conclusions; PART TWO: THE RESEARCH STUDY AND THE DATA IT UNCOVERED; Chapter 4: How the Information Was Obtained; Who is ""Love-Shy?""; Why Study Men Only?, The ""Felt Deprivation"" ConceptThe ""Closet Heterosexual"" Concept; The ""Male Lesbian"" Concept; The Prevalence of Love-Shyness; How the Respondents Were Obtained; The Importance of LOVE-Shyness; Summary; Chapter 5: Love-Shyness: Its Intrauterine Beginnings; The East German Research; My Own Findings; Love-Shys as Quiet Babies; Chapter 6: Family Composition; Brothers and Sisters; Quality of Parents' Marriages; Conclusions; Chapter 7: Love-Shyness and the All-Male Peer Group; The Key Importance for Dating of Friendship Networks; The Harlow Research; The Polish Peasant; Bullying., Frailness of Body BuildMasculine Toys; The Baseball, Basketball and Football Syndrome; Most People Know What Is in Their Best Interests; Current Peer Group Interaction; Chapter 8: Beauty and the Love-Shy; The Need for Beauty; The Love-Shys' Own Esthetic Attributes; Beauty and the Older Love-Shys; Cloning as a Future Option; Accentuating the Positive; Summary; PART THREE: THERAPY AND PREVENTION; Chapter 9: Practice-Dating Therapy; Behaviour Therapy Approaches; The ""Practice-Dating"" Model; Chapter 10: Some Therapeutic Adjuncts; The Nude Jacuzzi Experience; Therapy Employing Sexual Surrogates., and BibliotherapyWhy Not Simply Use Commercial Dating Services?; Self-Image Psychology as a Therapeutic Adjunct; Self-Image Therapy; Some Rejoinders for Traditional Psychotherapists; Chapter 11: Some Recommendations Concerning Prevention; Research on Gene Splicing; Bullying; The Cruellest Bully of All; Some Recommendations Concerning Dogs; Coeducational Dormitories: Their Limitations; The ""Harrad"" Dormitory Option; The Psychic Healing of Important Enzymes; The Effect of Increasing Social Interaction; The High School Curriculum; Ballroom Dancing; Religion; Encounter Groups.
Summary
This book examines the various factors that have influenced the growth and development process of contemporary Africa. This volume comes up with comprehensive and detailed suggestions and recommendations to address this painful paradox of Africa's reduced growth and development in the midst of abundant resources.
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9780761860341 (electronic bk.)
0761860347 (electronic bk.)
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