Based on Learned Optimism (LO), what follows is my article on pleasures, gratifications, strengths, virtues, and their application in practice. Optimistic people have the strength

This articles addresses diversity classification (i.e.., gays/lesbians, women, physical disability, religion, spirituality, etc.) A) Everything (behaviors, traits, adjectives, images, etc.) I have ever seen, heard,

As an Italian and by passport Italian-American, I need to know more about the ethnic minority group of Italian Americans. I am Northern Italian-American and

Overall, European Americans have a conflict between trying to homogenize with the American society and keeping their ethnical family background, or a conflict between individuality

It is helpful for therapists to engage Latinos with their spiritual power and reconnect them with their history, family and community feelings. One good approach

What is conformity? Conformity is group influence in action. Social influence is common and it consists of people’s efforts to change other people’s behaviors. Most

This article describes the five basic traits, continuity, genes versus environment and the twin studies. In terms of the five basic traits, I would describe

This article explains the meaning of ethnicity and summarizes migration and its five Different Phases of the Life Cycle. In regard to the meaning of

The way people see and define themselves depends on the personal-social identity continuum at a specific time in their lives (Baron, Byrne, & Branscombe, 2005).

As far as theories of development, the psychoanalytic theory says that development depends on the unconsciousness and emotions and goes through stages throughout age in