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“...Offers lessons as to how various peacekeeping experiences can translate into psychological realities for the peacekeeper, and stimulates further research questions....An indispensable resource for a broad range of interests, including those of management, psychology, political and military sciences and sociology.”–Julian Barling, Ph.D. Editor, The Journal of Occupational Health Psychology Associate Dean, School of Business, Queen's University
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In this remarkable volume, a multinational team of scientists catalogues the stressors and benefits for combat-trained soldiers deployed on missions where they are told to hold their fire and assume the role of peacekeeper. Theory and direct research with peacekeepers is incorporated. Missions covered include, but are not limited to, peacekeeping operations in Haiti, Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, and Lebanon.
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“...Offers lessons as to how various peacekeeping experiences can translate into psychological realities for the peacekeeper, and stimulates further research questions....An indispensable resource for a broad range of interests, including those of management, psychology, political and military sciences and sociology.”–
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In this remarkable volume, a multinational team of scientists catalogues the stressors and benefits for combat-trained soldiers deployed on missions where they are told to hold their fire and assume the role of peacekeeper. Theory and direct research with peacekeepers is incorporated. Missions covered include, but are not limited to, peacekeeping operations in Haiti, Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, and Lebanon.
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Individuals from over 100 nations have been called on to deploy to areas around the globe to maintain the peace among former warring factions and nations (United Nations Department of Public Information [UNDPI], 2001a). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
peacekeeping stressors, peacekeeping research, soldiering tasks, deductively formulated theory stage, postdeployment survey, deployment stressors, individual peacekeeper, consensus about leadership, nontraumatic stressors, postmodern motivations, peacekeeping studies, predeployment phase, peacekeeping environment, command consultation, integrated threat theory, former warring factions, peacekeeping context, predeployment training, peacekeeping skills, job engagement, occupational stress research, peacekeeping deployment, natural history stage, sustainment training, military socialization Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Military Medicine, Journal of Personality, United Nations, Journal of Applied Psychology, Sierra Leone, Journal of Traumatic Stress, Academic Press, Operation Joint Endeavor, World War, South Lebanon, African Americans, Psychological Bulletin, American Journal of Psychiatry, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Princeton University Press, San Francisco, Clinical Quarterly, Department of Defense, American Psychological Association, European Americans, Fort Detrick, British Army, Cambridge University Press New!
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Individuals from over 100 nations have been called on to deploy to areas around the globe to maintain the peace among former warring factions and nations (United Nations Department of Public Information [UNDPI], 2001a). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
peacekeeping stressors, peacekeeping research, soldiering tasks, deductively formulated theory stage, postdeployment survey, deployment stressors, individual peacekeeper, consensus about leadership, nontraumatic stressors, postmodern motivations, peacekeeping studies, predeployment phase, peacekeeping environment, command consultation, integrated threat theory, former warring factions, peacekeeping context, predeployment training, peacekeeping skills, job engagement, occupational stress research, peacekeeping deployment, natural history stage, sustainment training, military socialization Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Military Medicine, Journal of Personality, United Nations, Journal of Applied Psychology, Sierra Leone, Journal of Traumatic Stress, Academic Press, Operation Joint Endeavor, World War, South Lebanon, African Americans, Psychological Bulletin, American Journal of Psychiatry, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Princeton University Press, San Francisco, Clinical Quarterly, Department of Defense, American Psychological Association, European Americans, Fort Detrick, British Army, Cambridge University Press New!
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- Social Psychology (12th Edition) by Shelley E. Taylor on page 67, page 68, and page 69
- Human Resource Management (Made Simple Series) by Shaun Tyson on page 125, page 145, and page 282
- Social Psychology by Eliot R. Smith on page 66, page 68, and page 238
- Social Psychology, Third Edition by Michael A. Hogg on page 48, and page 50
- Outlines & Highlights for Social Psychology by Taylor ISBN: 013099006X (Cram101 Textbook Outlines) by Cram101 Textbook Reviews on page 67, and page 68
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- The Psychology of Diplomacy (Psychological Dimensions to War and Peace) by Harvey J. Langholtz in Back Matter
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