Applied Psychology category: 2264 books
Getting Beyond Sobriety
Clinical Approaches to Long-Term Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
In this ground-breaking book, Michael Clemmens offers a new model of treatment for long-term recovery which goes beyond the traditional "disease" paradigm. Working from the belief that a fuller life for the recovering addict is grounded on a foundation of abstinence, the author explores a "self-modulation"...
by Jerome A. Winer
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Volume 22 of The Annual of Psychoanalysis begins with the provocative reflections of Jane Flax and Robert Michels on the current status and future prospects of psychoanalysis a century after Freud. Flax believes that analysis will not survive in the postmodern West if analysts cling to the medical...
Épistémologie et instrumentation en sciences humaines
Réflexions sur les méthodes à adopter dans l'étude de la psychologie sociale
Language: French
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Bilan de la recherche sur la psychologie sociale.
Dans son ambition de scientificité, la recherche en sciences sociales a été dominée au XXe siècle par une approche positiviste stricte, axée sur le modèle expérimental et la quantification. Dans le dernier quart du siècle, des chercheurs...
by Norman J. Finkel
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The insanity defense debate has come full circle, again. The current round began when John Hinckley opened fire; in 1843, it was Daniel M'Naghten who pulled the trigger; the "acts" of both would-be "insanity acquittees" provoked the press, the populace, a President, and a Queen...
Adversarial versus Inquisitorial Justice
Psychological Perspectives on Criminal Justice Systems
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This is the first volume that directly compares the practices of adversarial and inquisitorial systems of law from a psychological perspective. It aims at understanding why American and European continental systems differ so much, while both systems entertain much support in their communities. The book is written for advanced audiences in psychology and law.
Justice, Conflict and Wellbeing
Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Justice, conflict and wellbeing are large topics that occupy researchers from a variety of disciplines, as well as laypeople and policy makers. The three concepts are closely connected: conflict often (though not always) impairs wellbeing, whereas justice often (though not always) enhances it; perceived...
Life on the Autism Spectrum
Translating Myths and Misconceptions into Positive Futures
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
This book presents a unique exploration of common myths about autism by examining these myths through the perspectives of autistic individuals. Examining the history of attitudes and beliefs about autism and autistic people, this book highlights the ways that these beliefs are continuing to impact...
Handbook of Children’s Coping
Linking Theory and Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Highlighting the interplay between basic research and intervention, this volume focuses on common stressful life experiences that present significant challenges to children's healthy development. Fifteen stressors are discussed with regard to both short-and long-term effects. The authors identify...
by Richard Worsley
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009
This unique and important book breaks new ground in the theory and practice of person-centred psychotherapy by focusing on the issue of process.
Process belongs to both client and counsellor. Worsley conceptualises process in relation to the core principles of the person-centred approach but...
The Clinical Exchange
Techniques Derived from Self and Motivational Systems
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
In this practical sequel to the same authors' Self and Motivational Systems (TAP, 1992), Lichtenberg, Lachmann, and Fosshage offer ten principles of technique to guide the clinical exchange. These principles, which pertain equally to exploratory psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, integrate the findings...
Clinical Behavioral Medicine
Some Concepts and Procedures
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
This book is an effort to integrate some clinical observations, theoretical concepts, and promising clinical procedures that relate psychological variables to physiological variables. My primary emphasis is on what psychological and behavioral concepts and procedures are most likely to enable us to...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
The sense of isolation and even rejection is well known to people from minority groups, including ethnic minorities. When it comes to children from ethnic minorities, the quick identification of the problem by teachers is of great importance. Anyway the problem must be realised not only by the educators...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Experts from academia, clinical settings, and the business world pool their knowledge about work injury prevention and management in the new Sourcebook of Occupational Rehabilitation. The 22 contributions in this wide-ranging reference address aspects of the three primary areas of service delivery:...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
- Represents the latest advances of the role of psychological factors in inducing potentially unreliable self-incriminating behavior
- Chapters are authored by a diverse group psychologists, criminologists, and legal scholars who have contributed significantly to the collective understanding...