Psychology
Eduquo articles under this heading are related to an academic and applied discipline involving the scientific study of mental functions and behavior. There are three board subtopics as follow:
  • Counseling Psychology. This subheading encompasses articles seeking to facilitate personal and interpersonal functioning across the lifespan with a focus on emotional, social, vocational, educational, health-related, developmental, and organizational concerns.
  • Educational Psychology. The second subheading contains articles covers the study of how humans learn in educational settings, the effectiveness of educational interventions, the psychology of teaching, and the social psychology of schools as organizations.
  • Others. Articles in this subheading will be related to psychology which do not classify under the two above mentioned subheadings.

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Unveiling a New ScienceTooltip 06/24/2009 Hits: 8
During the early days of the second American invasion of Iraq, a group of soldiers set out for a local mosque to contact the town's chief cleric. Their goal was to ask his help in organizing the distribution of relief supplies. But a mob gathered, fearing the soldiers were coming to arrest their spiritual leader or destroy the mosque, a holy shrine.
This review explores the empirical research on the importance of interpersonal communication skills in consultation. Studies have 'found consultants' facilitative characteristics, along with an appropriate use of verbal and nonverbal skills, to be important in the consultation process. Because of the state of the research literature, however, the need for more studies on verbal and nonverbal communication skills is suggested.
Motivation Theory and ResearchTooltip 07/11/2009 Hits: 54

In this section we examine the role of theory in the study of motivation. Throughout this text we integrate theoretical principles and show how they relate to research and practice. We believe that a good theoretical understanding of motivation and knowledge of different types of research paradigms are necessary to appreciate the role of motivation in settings involving teaching and learning.

This study investigated the demographic, intrapersonal, and organizational factors associated with burnout among a population of school counselors in the northeastern United States (n = 78). Three hierarchical regression analyses were completed to determine the amount of variance that each cluster contributed to the 3 subscales on the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Educators Survey (MBI-ES; C. M. Maslach, S. E. Jackson, & M. P. Leiter, 1996): Emotional Exhaustion, Depersonalization, and Personal Accomplishment. The final models accounted for 45%, 30%, and 42% of the overall variation on each subscale, respectively.