Browsing Department of Learning, Society and Religious Education by Author "Stevenson, Kevin"
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The benefits of mindfulness as a weekly activity: experiences from a male homeless service
Stevenson, Kevin (St. Kliment Ohridski Press, 2022-06)The social services in Ireland are organized by different organizations which have different views on social activities within residential and homeless services for ser-vice-users. Mindfulness has become a ‘buzzword’ when ... -
Demoicracy as a viable outcome of a party-less European Union
Stevenson, Kevin (International Association for Political Science Students (IAPSS), 2017-10)The European Union today is a cosmopolitan entity that functions in conjunction with political parties. This reliance on parties is one example of cosmopolitanism’s need to replicate the nation-state at supranational and ... -
The embodied fluency model: uncanniness between the mere-exposure effect and angst
Stevenson, Kevin (Ideas Forum International Academic and Scientific Association (IFIASA), 2022)Human beings can be said to naturally seek familiarity in their environment for survival purposes, and this can explain why the mere-exposure effect, where being merely exposed to external factors in our environment, can ... -
Highlighting the DSM-V's omission of client context
Stevenson, Kevin (University of Niš, 2023-09)The DSM-V is a product of a medical culture that holds individual symptoms as important within the search for biological indicators and psychopathological genetic etiologies (Van Praag, 1990, p. 21). Such an approach ... -
The hypothetical imperative as an indicator of irrational will: the case of the 2018 Toronto van attack
Stevenson, Kevin (Ideas Forum International Academic and Scientific Association (IFIASA), 2023)The categorical imperative inherent in Kant's ethics has had indubitable historical influence on societies worldwide whether in the form of laws, democracy or public deliberation. The Toronto Van Attack of 2018 and its ... -
Improv to improve: the importance of philosophy in the university
Stevenson, Kevin (Sociedad Española de Fenomenología, 2016)The status of philosophy is contingent upon the civilizations that embrace or undermine its importance. Such status is never fully understood, nor clear, due in part to its inutility. In a goal-oriented world, philosophizing ... -
Limerick City's coat of arms: a visual review
Stevenson, Kevin (Mary Immaculate College, 2024-09-20)The presentation hopes to provide an approach to understanding the Limerick City Coat of Arms and its evolution. It does not provide an exhaustive list of the Coat of Arms, hoping that the presentation will provoke interest ... -
A qualitative analysis on the client’s experience of the propeller model approach to counselling therapy, Dublin Business School
Stevenson, Kevin (DBS Library, 2023-03)The successful development of psychotherapeutic and counselling approaches can reflect the evolution and innovation within the industry of psychological treatment. Measuring the benefits of an approach involves inquiry ... -
The role of the environment in system creation in Luhmann and Hegel: between imagination and reason
Stevenson, Kevin (National University of Galway and St. Angela's College, 2023-08)This paper will aim to accomplish two things to show Luhmann’s and Hegel’s support of language and communication as dependent on culture, but also their differences with respect to how culture is formed in conjunction with ... -
Una identidad pragmática, estética y fenomenológica (Pre-published)
Stevenson, Kevin (Fundación Mindán Manero, 2017-06)The conflict between aesthetic experience and the modern vision of the world frames aesthetic experience as a defender of the plurality derived from the perspectives of individuals. This signifies that aesthetic experience ... -
Understanding the self as hypostasis: a phenomenological view on therapeutic presence
Stevenson, Kevin (Tribunal of Milan, 2021)Natural scientific views on the human being have the tendency to reduce selfhood to a static object. This tendency arguably derives from the need to objectify the present in which the human being is found. Phenomenology ...