Applied Psychology category: 2264 books
Exploring Distance in Leader-Follower Relationships
When Near is Far and Far is Near
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Leaders face new challenges as they cope with changes in culture, technology and the workplace. In this edited volume, based on a conference at Claremont, scholars of leadership studies from three continents discuss the latest psychological research on interpersonal leader–follower relations. The...
by Heidi Kaduson, Charles Schaefer
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2010
This book is an amazing resource for play therapy techniques. The contributors come from a diverse group including child-centered, cognitive-behavioral, gestalt, Jungian, psychodynamic, and prescriptive play therapy.
The Almighty Dollar
A Psychiatrist Looks at Money
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2003
Money was invented about 5000 years ago and has proved essential to civilization. It has also become so charged with emotions that it dominates events throughout life and looms large in all interpersonal transactions. This book looks at all aspects of the money mind relationship from the viewpoint...
Understanding CBT
Develop Your Own Toolkit to Reduce Stress and Increase Well-being
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2012
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is not just useful in therapeutic and mental health settings, but is now widely recognised as a valuable tool in the workplace. Understanding CBT introduces the basics of cognitive behavioural therapy and provides insights into how you can change the way you think, stand...
by Instaread Summaries
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
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*Emotional Agility *by psychologist Susan David is a nonfiction self-help book designed to help people embrace difficult emotions that hold them back in life and work so that they can...
Identity, Health and Women
A Critical Social Psychological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
This book provides a three-part investigation into identity construction. Theory, voice and praxis are all represented as the book follows the rationale, stories and narrative methodology of the study of a group of women. The final part of the book presents a new model of identity construction framed in women's health identity.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2010
Crew (or Cockpit) Resource Management training originated from a NASA workshop in 1979 that focused on improving air safety. The NASA research at that time found the primary cause of the majority of aviation accidents to be human error, and further showed the main problems to be failures of interpersonal...
by H. Luke
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
This is a new and outstanding contribution to understanding the working life of junior doctors. It opens out the field of research in sociology and inserts junior medical doctor culture right into medical sociology and professional medical education by its innovative use of Pierre Bourdieu's sociological...
by Vlad Zachary
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
***Named the Best Motivational book of 2016 by the Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group in their annual Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Eric Hoffer Award finalist for non-fiction.***The Excellence Habit is biography of an idea, and the idea is simple. The main source of success...
Health and Cognition in Old Age
From Biomedical and Life Course Factors to Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
In recent years, the aim of research on aging has shifted from prolonging life to fostering healthy and cognitively robust old age. In order to improve the quality of life of older people, we need to better understand cognitive aging as well as bodily aging.
Health and Cognition...
Between Dreaming and Recognition Seeking
The Emergence of Dialogical Self Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
How can an internationally recognized theory contribute towards the enrichment of your own life? In Between Dreaming and Recognition Seeking, Hubert J. M. Hermans, the creator of Dialogical Self Theory, applies this theory to his own life and explains how readers can do the same. He describes several...
The Connected Customer
The Changing Nature of Consumer and Business Markets
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
In today’s connected consumer environment, customers are better informed and harder to please, but they also leave a more visible evidence trail in the form of improved databases and customer information. Consumers are increasingly interconnected through various sorts of social networks, a trend...
Health Services for Cancer Survivors
Practice, Policy and Research
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Health has been conceptualized by world and national health organizations (WHO, CDC, Healthy People 2010) as more than the absence of disease. It involves a focus on physical, psychosocial, and functional aspects of life as well as the prevention of future illnesses. At this point in the development...
A Course in Happiness
Mastering the 3 Levels of Self-Understanding That Lead to True and Lasting Conte ntment
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2008
"Wise counsel from one of America's most respected psychiatrists." -Irvin Yalom, author of Staring at the Sun and When Nietzsche Wept, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, Stanford University
For many, getting in touch with that elusive thing called "happiness" is rarely simple—and achieving...