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  2. Black power movement - Wikipedia

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    The black power movement or black liberation movement was a branch or counterculture within the civil rights movement of the United States, reacting against its more moderate, mainstream, or incremental tendencies and motivated by a desire for safety and self-sufficiency that was not available inside redlined African American neighborhoods.

  3. Contingency theory - Wikipedia

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    A contingency theory is an organizational theory that claims that there is no best way to organize a corporation, to lead a company, or to make decisions.Instead, the optimal course of action is contingent (dependent) upon the internal and external situation.

  4. Metaphysics - Wikipedia

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    Metaphysics is the study of the most general features of reality, including existence, objects and their properties, possibility and necessity, space and time, change, causation, and the relation between matter and mind.

  5. Ecological systems theory - Wikipedia

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    Ecological systems theory is a broad term used to capture the theoretical contributions of developmental psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner. [1] Bronfenbrenner developed the foundations of the theory throughout his career, [2] published a major statement of the theory in American Psychologist, [3] articulated it in a series of propositions and hypotheses in his most cited book, The Ecology of ...

  6. Recovery model - Wikipedia

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    In general medicine and psychiatry, recovery has long been used to refer to the end of a particular experience or episode of illness.The broader concept of "recovery" as a general philosophy and model was first popularized in regard to recovery from substance abuse/drug addiction, for example within twelve-step programs or the California Sober method.

  7. Trauma-informed care - Wikipedia

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    Another is the broad range of topics within the TVIC framework. They found no assessment measured for implicit bias in professionals. They found conflation of "trauma focused", such as may be used in primary health care, policing and education, with "trauma informed" where trauma specific services are routinely provided.

  8. Applied behavior analysis - Wikipedia

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    ABA is an applied science devoted to developing procedures which will produce observable changes in behavior. [3] It is to be distinguished from the experimental analysis of behavior, which focuses on basic experimental research, [9] but it uses principles developed by such research, in particular operant conditioning and classical conditioning.

  9. Gender empowerment - Wikipedia

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    Gender empowerment is the empowerment of people of any gender. While conventionally, the aspect of it is mentioned for empowerment of women , the concept stresses the distinction between biological sex and gender as a role , also referring to other marginalized genders in a particular political or social context.