1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910557129503321

Autore

Colizzi Marco

Titolo

Cannabis : Neuropsychiatry and Its Effects on Brain and Behavior

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (204 p.)

Soggetti

Medicine and Nursing

Neurosciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Over the years, there has been increasing interest into the public health impact of cannabis use, especially by young adults. This follows the evidence of a growing prevalence of regular cannabis use worldwide, with approximately 200 million users. Recreational cannabis use, especially a frequent use of products with high levels of its main psychoactive ingredient delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (Δ 9-THC), can cause dependence and have transient and long-lasting detrimental mental health effects, also negatively impacting cognitive processing and brain function and metabolism. In regular users, the development of tolerance to some of the effects of cannabis, especially the pleasurable ones, may lead to progressively heavier use in order to obtain the same effects in terms of their intensity, with higher health risks. However, the Cannabis Sativa plant contains different chemicals with different potential effects. In this regard, cannabidiol has gained interest because of its potential therapeutic properties, in line with evidence that CBD and Δ9-THC may exhibit opposite effects at the cannabinoid receptor type 1 (CB1), Δ9-THC being a partial agonist and CBD an antagonist/inverse agonist. Different cannabinoids may modulate human brain function and behavior in different ways, with different risk-benefit profiles.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910383845203321

Autore

Rothwell William J. <1951->

Titolo

Increasing Learning & Development's Impact through Accreditation : How to drive-up training quality, employee satisfaction, and ROI / / by William J. Rothwell, Sandra L. Williams, Aileen G. Zaballero

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

9783030140045

3030140040

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

658.3124

Soggetti

Personnel management

Employee health promotion

Personal coaching

Strategic planning

Leadership

Human Resource Development

Employee Health and Wellbeing

Coaching

Business Strategy and Leadership

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Align Learning with Organization Mission Values -- Chapter 3: Structuring for Accountability -- Chapter 4: Management of Training -- Chapter 5: Planning for Learning -- Chapter 6: Is Training the Answer? Assessing Needs -- Chapter 7: Intended Learning Outcomes -- Chapter 8: Who Should Be Involved in Instruction? -- Chapter 9: Conducting Learning Events Professionally -- Chapter 10: Deciding What to Include -- Chapter 11: Methods to Achieve Consistency -- Chapter 12: Feedback and Job Application -- Chapter 13: Records and Program Evaluation -- Chapter 14: Accreditation Sources.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a guide to the process of accrediting training programs, sets out how to achieve consistent measurement of the



results of training, and explains why accreditation is critical for capturing and developing today’s workers’ skills, aiding retention, and boosting strategic organizational credibility with millennials. Workplace and executive training is a multi-billion dollar industry and yet an enormous percentage of that budget is spent on programs that have never been rigorously examined to ensure that they are fit for purpose and deliver value for money. If you’re signing off on that budget, or asking your people to spend time on training programs, shouldn’t that concern you? Training accreditation offers vital quality assurance, ensures global consistency of results and delivers accountability for learning and performance outcomes. Apart from delivering better results and greater ROI, organizations can differentiate themselves from their competitors in the employment marketplace by offering accredited proprietary training. After all, digital natives, and indeed all of today’s most talented potential employees, expect (and increasingly demand) the high quality, engaging and transferable employee development that only accredited programs can deliver. Aligning with the standards set by the International Association of Continuing Education and Training (IACET) – today’s premier accreditation body for training programs – the authors offer principles for quality program structure, delivery, and improvement needed to achieve accreditation. They share practices used by high quality training program managers today, covering business alignment and program administration along with the planning, design, delivery and evaluation of learning systems.