The Bright Side of Shame
Transforming and Growing Through Practical Applications in Cultural Contexts
Editors: Mayer, Claude-Helene, Vanderheiden, Elisabeth (Eds.)
Free Preview- 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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This book provides new ideas on how to work with and constructively transform shame on a theoretical and practical level, and in various socio-cultural contexts and professions. It provides practical guidelines on dealing with shame on the basis of reflection, counselling models, exercises, simulations, specific psychotherapeutic approaches, and auto-didactical learning material, so as to transform shame from a negatively experienced emotion into a mental health resource. The book challenges theorists to adopt an interdisciplinary stance and to think “outside the box.” Further, it provides practitioners, such as coaches, counsellors, therapists, trainers and medical personnel, with practical tools for transforming negative experiences and emotions. In brief, the book shows practitioners how to unlock the growth potential of individuals, teams, and organisations, allowing them to develop constructively and positively.
- About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (40 chapters)
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Opening the Black Box Part 1: On Collective Shame in the German Society
Pages 3-19
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Opening the Black Box Part 2: Exploring Individual Shame in German Research
Pages 21-33
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lajjA: Learning, Unlearning and Relearning
Pages 35-49
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Shame as a Health Resource for the Repatriation Training of Japanese Returnees (kikokushijo) in Japan
Pages 51-66
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The Effect of Regulation on Shame in Adolescence in China
Pages 67-75
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Table of contents (40 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Bright Side of Shame
- Book Subtitle
- Transforming and Growing Through Practical Applications in Cultural Contexts
- Editors
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- Claude-Helene Mayer
- Elisabeth Vanderheiden
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-13409-9
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-13409-9
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-13408-2
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-13411-2
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXXIII, 622
- Number of Illustrations
- 38 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
- Topics