International Review of Research in Mental Retardation (International Review of Research in Mental Retardation)
International Review of Research in Mental Retardation is an ongoing scholarly look at research into the causes, effects, classification systems, syndromes, etc. of mental retardation. Contributors come from wide-ranging perspectives, including genetics, psychology, education, and other health and behavioral sciences.
About Grief is a refreshingly down-to-earth book about an issue that blindsides many people. Written in a warm and conversational way that is, at times, deeply moving, at times, surprisingly amusing, and always practical, it covers a wide range of issues facing people in grief. Marasco and Shuff have done the footwork for readers who wish to know more about this complex subject. Using a variety of sources, including books, films, music and many hours spent talking with people in grief, the autho...
This volume examines areas of current significance within the industrial, occupational and organizational fields of psychology. Emphasis is placed on the psychological aspects of employment, such as personnel selection, burnout at the workplace, retirement, management and job analysis.
Psychology of Ageing (Critical Concepts in Psychology)
Cognitive and biological ageing has become a fast-growing and dynamic area of study and research, and the scale of this acceleration in growth makes this new four-volume collection in the Psychology Press Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Psychology, especially timely. A primary question is why we and all other complex animals and plants age, a question studied mainly by biologists, and Volume I ('Biological Bases of Ageing') includes key research on models for ethological and evolutionar...
Mixing Methods in Psychology
Can qualitative and quantitative methods be combined effectively in psychology? What are the practical and theoretical issues involved? Should different criteria be used to judge qualitative and quantitative research? The acceptance of qualitative research methods in psychology has lead to a split between qualitative and quantitative methods and has raised questions about how best to assess the validity of research practice. While the two approaches have traditionally been seen as competing par...
Defining the nature of schizophrenia continues to be one of the central challenges left to psychiatry and medical science. The Dialectics of Schizophrenia summarizes the various approaches and points up their weaknesses and strengths.
Essential Interviewing (Counseling S.)
by David R. Evans, etc., Margaret Hearn, and Max Uhlemann
From building rapport to facilitating change in both co-operative and resistant clients, this book guides readers step by step to mastery of each component of the complex process of effective professional/client communication. With an underlying foundation based on drawing out the stories that people have and listening to them, the book provides skills for physicians, nurses, ministers, teachers, psychologists, counsellors, and other professionals who are consistently involved with other individ...
* First of its kind, sure to set the standard for future psychology reference works. * Provides psychologists, practitioners, researchers, and students with complete and up-to-date information on the field of psychology. * Twelve volumes cover all of the fundamental areas of knowledge in the field.
Handbook of Psychology (Handbook of Psychology)
* Includes established theories and cutting--edge developments. * Presents the work of an international group of experts. * Presents the nature, origin, implications, an future course of major unresolved issues in the area.
Now considered a classic in the field, The Handbook of Sandplay Therapy is the core classic training manual and reference source in Jungian Sandplay therapy. It remains the most-read book in the field. The book comprehensively explains and illustrates the theory, process and procedures of Jungian Sandplay therapy. Developed as an in-depth text and reference work, The Handbook examines Sandplay from psychological, mythological and neurobiological paradigms in order to cultivate understanding of h...
Studies on Psychosis
Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Clas...
Do School or College Examaminations Measure Intelligence?
by Anyelwisye Mahenge
An ICD–10–CM Casebook and Workbook for Students (Applications of ICD-10 and ICD-11 to Psychology)
This book uses case illustrations and hands-on activities to teach students how to perform differential diagnosis and assessment using the ICD-10-CM. Competent diagnosis is critical to any therapeutic encounter. It informs the psychologist’s approach to his or her client, and helps to ensure competent practice. This book introduces students to the complex process of differential diagnosis using the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) -- t...
Readings in Personality contains key articles, rich in both theory and research, spanning the major perspectives of personality in the theorists' and researchers' own words. “The best introduction to the brilliance of influential personality theorists and researchers is through their own words.” Operating on this premise, the authors of Personality: Classic Theories and Modern Research have once again struck the delicate balance between a theories-based text and a more research-oriented one. T...
World of Psychology (Books a la Carte Plus!)
by Samuel E Wood, Ellen Green Wood, and Denise Boyd
The World of Psychology: Portable Edition is the first modular introductory psychology text with fully integrated study guides, practice tests, and contextually placed icons connected to interactive online MyPsychLab resources. It offers unparalleled flexibility, choice, and support to today’s students and instructors.
This book was first published in 1979. The authors' examinePiaget’s Theory starting by considering and commenting on the kinds of question one must ask of a scientific theory. None of the questions demands an absolute answer. Theories are judged in some respects with reference to competing theories. In other respects they are judged against our sense of scientific progress. In subsequent chapters the authors’ look at Piaget's theory in detail with such issues in mind. They also endeavour to loca...
Vital Information and Review Questions for the NCE and State Counseling Exams
by Howard G. Rosenthal
This best-selling licensure/certification audio program has been updated and improved to provide all the information needed to excel on the National Counselor Examination and State Counselor Exams.
Implicit Cognition
This study describes the fascinating learning, memory and performance processes which take place without the subject's "explicit" awareness. A well-known example is patients under anaesthetic who, without being able to verbally recall the surgeons' conversation, do show some retention of the conversation. How much of what we "know" has been learned implicitly? How much of our problem-solving abilities are founded on unconscious processes? The contributors attempt to answer these and other questi...
In the rapidly developing field of psychology, terms and definitions can soon become obscure or obsolete. In this second edition of his successful dictionary, David Statt has added many new entries, and substantially updated others. Written in a straightforward, readable and sometimes humourous manner, The Concise Dictionary of Psychology provides an easy to use aid for students and professionals alike, giving clear and succinct definitions of psychological terms most commonly found in popular...