Applied Psychology category: 2264 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Separated into seven categories for easy reference, the techniques within each chapter are applied to practice situations in a concise format for easy reference and use. The interventions illustrated include Storytelling, to enhance verbalizations in children; Expressive Art, to promote children's...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
Daily existence is more interconnected to consumer behaviors than ever before, encompassing many issues of well-being. Problems include unhealthy eating; credit card mismanagement; alcohol, tobacco, pornography, and gambling abuse; marketplace discrimination; and ecological deterioration; as well...
The Mindfulness Revolution
Leading Psychologists, Scientists, Artists, and Meditatiion Teachers on the Powe r of Mindfulness in Daily Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
A growing body of scientific research indicates that mindfulness can reduce stress and improve mental and physical health. Countless people who have tried it say it's improved their quality of life. Simply put, mindfulness is the practice of paying steady and full attention, without judgment or criticism,...
by Paul M. Lerner
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Few books illuminate a domain of clinical inquiry as superbly as Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Rorschach. Paul Lerner has written a comprehensive text that offers a richly detailed, multidimensional vision of the Rorschach as the ideal medium for operationalizing, testing, and in some instances...
Logic-Based Therapy and Everyday Emotions
A Case-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
In this latest book on the popular philosophical practice modality of Logic-Based Therapy, LBT inventor and practitioner, Elliot D. Cohen, develops both theory and practice of LBT within the context of accessible, engaging, and illustrative cases involving everyday emotions, such as anxiety, worry,...
Youth Soccer
From Science to Performance
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2004
As the adult game has increased in popularity, youth soccer has also seen significant expansion in recent years. The popularity of the youth game is set to continue. Young boy and girl players wish to emulate professional soccer stars and the professional game, often with long-term financial rewards...
Strategies of Genius
Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
It has been said that human history is nothing more than a record of the deeds and ideas of great men and women. Ever since people began to turn their attention inward to examine their own thought processes, one of the hopes and promises of psychological inquiry has been to map out the key features...
by Harry Trosman
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
The current resurgence of interest in the scientific origins of psychoanalysis has overshadowed the artistic and literary models to which Freud had recourse time and again in the development and presentation of his theories. It is this neglected aesthetic wellspring of psychoanalysis to which Harry...
Strategies of Genius
Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Albert Einstein is not only acknowledged around the world as a genius but has practically become the symbol for genius in this century. His ideas encompassed our spiritual and social worlds as well as scientific and physical reality. He introduced a whole new paradigm of thinking that has affected...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
This is a comprehensive review of the psychological literature on wisdom by leading experts in the field. It covers the philosophical and sociocultural foundations of wisdom, and showcases the measurement and teaching of wisdom. The connection of wisdom to intelligence and personality is explained...
Entering Inner Images
A Creative Use of Constellations in Individual Therapy, Counselling, Groups and Self-Help
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Neuro-imaginative gestalting (NIG) is a systemic method, developed for individual therapy by Eva Madelung, that can be used in counselling, self-help and group work. The novel integration of techniques from art therapy into the systemic process encourages therapeutic creativity and individual self-exploration....
Crisis Line Volunteers' Emotional Labour in Conversations with Chronic Problem versus Acute Crisis Callers
An Event-Sampling Study at a German Telephone Helpline
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This study documents a research project in Berlin, Germany, about the emotional labour of crisis line volunteers. It was conducted for a Master’s Degree in Psychological Research Methods at the Open University, UK. The text is an abriged version of the original dissertation. In the research, a questionnaire...
Creativity and Crime
A Psychological Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
Creativity is typically perceived to be a positive, constructive attribute and yet, highly effective, novel crimes are committed which illustrate that creativity can also be utilised to serve a darker and more destructive end. But how can these 'creative criminals' be stopped? Adopting a psychological...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
This book brings together the world’s leading perfectionism researchers and theorists to present their latest findings and ideas on how and why perfectionism may confer risks or benefits for health and well-being, as well as the contexts which may shape these relationships. In addition to providing...