Elisabeth Vanderheiden

Claude-Hélène Mayer Editors

Mistakes,
Errors and Failures
across Cultures
Navigating Potentials
Editors
Elisabeth Vanderheiden Claude-Hélène Mayer
Catholic Adult Education of Germany Department of Industrial Psychology
Römerberg, Germany and People Management
University of Johannesburg
Johannesburg, South Africa
Institut für Therapeutische Kommunikation
und Sprachgebrauch
Europa Universität Viadrina
Frankfurt (Oder), Germany

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Part IV Mistakes, Errors and Failure in Education

18 Failures, Errors, and Mistakes: A Systematic Review
of the Literature ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������  347
Amber Simpson, Adam V. Maltese, Alice Anderson, and
Euisuk Sung
19 Low-Socioeconomic Status Students Turn Their Academic
Failure to Success: A Synthesis of Qualitative Research����������������������  363
Naomi Takashiro and Clifford H. Clarke
20 Errors and Mistakes in Foreign Language Learning: Drawing
Boundaries from the Discourse of Argentine Teachers������������������������  383
Thalita Camargo Angelucci and María Isabel Pozzo

Part V Mistakes, Errors and Failure in Psychology, Therapy

and Counselling
21 Psychodynamic Therapy: A Cross-Cultural and Generational
Failure ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������  401
Kathryn Anne Nel and Saraswathie Govender
22 Transcultural Sensitivity: A Way to Prevent Mistakes, Errors,
and Failures in Psychotherapeutic and Psychiatric Treatment
of Migrants ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������  417
Christine Bales, Josua Leibrich, Katja Brinkmann, Ibrahim Özkan,
Umut Altunoz, Janina Wesolowski, and Maria Belz
23 The Success and Failures of Michael Jackson. A Psychobiography
Through the Lens of the Trickster Archetype ��������������������������������������  435
Claude-Hélène Mayer
24 The Cognitive Bias in Cross-Cultural Design����������������������������������������  455
Pei-Luen Patrick Rau, Zhi Guo, Nan Qie, Xin Lei, and
Andong Zhang

Part VI Mistakes, Errors and Failure in Law, Justice and Crime

25 Errors and Failures in Forensic Practice ����������������������������������������������  475
Wayne Petherick
26 Failures in Wildlife Crime Eradication and Strategies Forward��������  495
Claude-Hélène Mayer

Part VII Mistakes, Errors and Failure in Medicine

27 Safety 3.0 and the End of the Superstar Clinician��������������������������������  515
Chris P. Subbe and Paul Barach