psychosozial

Positive psychology emerged at the turn of the millennium with a broad research agenda: The study and promotion of positive emotions, character traits, and institutions. Since then, it has not only played a key role in shaping psychological...

This article explores the underlying factors in the field of Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung (reworking of the past) that contribute to the lack of public attention towards the individuals imprisoned in the GDR for ›antisocial behavior‹, despite...

The term »recognition« can mean very different things. As a defining moment of social action, recognition plays a central role in coming to terms with injustice suffered. Recognition processes permeate psychosocial relationships and support...

This article examines central aspects of the depth dimension of pedagogical relationships. Of particular interest is the relation between pedagogical work that focuses on elaborated didactics and pedagogical work that focuses on emotional...

If psychology wants to pass its findings on to psychological amateurs, it must clarify its relationship to common-sense psychology. Common-sense psychology and scientific psychology differ significantly in their conception of the human being, their...

Children and adolescents who went through the residential childcare facilities system of the German Democratic Republic because of social conspicuousness, refusal, family problems or nonconforming, »inconvenient« political beliefs (of their own or...