Psychology category: 48213 books
Social Psychology and Dysfunctional Behavior
Origins, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
A colleague recently recounted a conversation she had had with a group of graduate students. For reasons that she cannot recall, the discussion had turned to the topic of "old-fashioned" ideas in psychology-perspectives and beliefs that had once enjoyed widespread support but that are now...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2008
Volume 36 of the Advances in Child Development and Behavior series includes ten chapters that highlight some of the most recent research in developmental and educational psychology.
A wide array of topics are discussed in detail, including King Solomon's Take on Word Learning, Orthographic...
Clinical Perspectives on Meaning
Positive and Existential Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2016
*"**Clinical Perspectives on Meaning: Positive and Existential *Psychotherapy . . . is an outstanding collection of new contributions that build thoughtfully on the past, while at the same time, take the uniquely human capacity for meaning-making to important new places." - From the preface...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Originally published in 1992, this title is the last in a series of books on school psychology. It contains diverse contributions relevant to school psychology, research, theory and practice at the time. Including chapters on alternative intervention strategies for the treatment of communication disorders,...
Concreteness and Specificity in Clinical Psychology
Evaluations and Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
This provocative volume updates L' Abate's signature ideas, focusing in particular on the concepts of concreteness and specificity as basic tenets of evaluation and therapy. Noting society's growing familiarity with technology, current concerns about treatment accessibility, and widespread interest...
Spiritual Psychology
A Path to Our Transcendent Self
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2018
In today’s world there is a New Science and there is an Old Science. There is an Old Traditional form of Religion and there is a New form of Spirituality. There is Quantum Physics (the New Science), Epigenetics (the New Biology), an Old Psychology and a New Psychology (Spiritual or Transpersonal...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
There are so many good textbooks in the field of this sense the book is more comparable to modern human psychology that anyone producing a new one textbooks of 'harder' sciences such as physics and must have a good excuse, ready to explain his physiology. Theories are considered important, but temerity....
Bad Psychology
How Forensic Psychology Left Science Behind
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
For decades the psychological assessment and treatment of offenders has run on invalid and untested programmes. Robert A. Forde exposes the current ineffectiveness of forensic psychology that has for too long been maintained by individual and commercial vested interests, resulting in dangerous prisoners...
Advances in Psychological Science, Volume 2
Biological and Cognitive Aspects
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
The chapters in this volume are the edited versions of invited addresses to the XXVI International Congress of Psychology held in Montréal in August 1996. As one major goal of the Congress was to promote communication among specializations in scientific psychology, the speakers were asked to survey...
The Psychology of Humor
An Integrative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2018
Most of us laugh at something funny multiple times during a typical day. Humor serves multiple purposes, and although there is a sizable and expanding research literature on the subject, the research is spread in a variety of disciplines. The Psychology of Humor, 2e reviews the literature, integrating...
Forensic Psychology in Context
Nordic and International Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Academics and researchers from the Nordic countries (Sweden, Iceland, Norway, Finland) have made a particularly strong contribution internationally to the rapidly developing disciplines of forensic and legal psychology. This book brings together the leading authorities in the field to look systematically...
Psychology and Law
Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Written by authors with extensive experience in the field and in the classroom, Psychology and Law: Research and Practice, Second Edition, offers the definitive perspective on the practical application of psychological research to the law. Curt R. Bartol and Anne M. Bartol emphasize the various roles...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
How do we understand numbers? Do animals and babies have numerical abilities? Why do some people fail to grasp numbers, and how we can improve numerical understanding? Numbers are vital to so many areas of life: in science, economics, sports, education, and many aspects of everyday life from infancy...
Religion and Spirituality in Psychotherapy
An Individual Psychology Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009
This book offers new possibilities for mental health professionals who are looking for ways to adapt traditional therapy and counseling techniques to address the spiritual and psychological issues their clients face. The author utilizes an Adlerian Individual Psychology perspective, which rejects...