Overview
- Provides new ideas on how to work with and constructively transform shame on a practical level, and in various socio-cultural contexts
- Addresses shame on the basis of positive psychology and growth perspectives
- Offers practical approaches to transforming shame from a negatively experienced emotion into a mental health resource
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Table of contents (40 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Transforming Shame in Cultural Perspectives
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Working with Shame and Gender
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Managing Shame in Spiritual and Religious Perspectives
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Transforming Shame in Organisational Contexts
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Keywords
- Shame as Health Resource
- Shame in Cultural Context
- Cultivating lajjA for Self-Realization
- Shame in Adolescence in China
- Shame and HIV/AIDS in South Africa
- Transforming Shame in Organisational and Professional Contexts
- Managing Shame in Organisations
- Motivational Interviewing Techniques in Coaching
- Shame and Anxiety
- Unemployment and Managing Shame
- Shame in a Medical Context
- Shame in Multicultural Educational Contexts
- Shame and Gender
- Shame and Ego-State Therapy
- Dealing with Shame
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Claude-Hélène Mayer is an Adjunct Professor at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, and a Senior Research Associate at the Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. She has published several monographs, text collections, journal articles and special issues on transcultural mental health and well-being, conflict management and mediation in transcultural contexts, women in leadership, and psychobiography.
Elisabeth Vanderheiden is a pedagogue, theologian, mediator, Managing Director of Catholic Adult Education Rhineland-Palatinate, and Federal Chairperson of Catholic Adult Education Germany. She has published numerous articles on vocational qualification, in particular for teachers and trainers, as well as current topics in general, vocational and civic education and intercultural opening processes.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Bright Side of Shame
Book Subtitle: Transforming and Growing Through Practical Applications in Cultural Contexts
Editors: Claude-Hélène Mayer, Elisabeth Vanderheiden
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13409-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13408-2Published: 08 May 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13411-2Published: 07 July 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-13409-9Published: 25 April 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIII, 622
Number of Illustrations: 38 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Positive Psychology, Cultural Studies, Health Psychology, Cross Cultural Psychology