Applied Psychology

In this book, 30 eminent contributors, from diverse psychological disciplines, address central issues in psychological assessment. Topics include ethical considerations in personality assessment, assessment of racial and ethnic minorities, and assessment...

Adjudicative competence remains an important topic of research and practice in psychology and law. In the five sections of Adjudicative Competence: The MacArthur Studies, the authors present not only a summary of the research of the MacArthur studies on...

Environmental, genetic, psychological, and societal factors interact to produce obesity, a chronic condition of epidemic proportions. The Handbook of Obesity Intervention for the Lifespan guides professionals in meeting this complex challenge with a...

This interdisciplinary book indicates the need to address well-being from individual, community and social perspectives in an integrated manner. The book complements the harm-based focus of much social scientific research into health. Chapters by a wide...

This interdisciplinary book indicates the need to address well-being from individual, community and social perspectives in an integrated manner. The book complements the harm-based focus of much social scientific research into health. Chapters by a wide...

Volume 28 of The Annual features stimulating, original essays on the relationship between psychoanalysis and the neurosciences. Edelman's Neural Darwinism informs Barry's investigaton of the psychoanalytic theory of internalization and Fajardo's...

This state-of-the-art book examines the effect of social relationships on physical health. It surveys and assesses the research that shows not only that supportive relationships protect us from a multitude of mental health problems but also that the...

Imitation guides the behaviour of a range of species. Scientific advances in the study of imitation at multiple levels from neurons to behaviour have far-reaching implications for cognitive science, neuroscience, and evolutionary and developmental...

One of the few books on the topic, this updated edition offers alternatives to disease models of addiction by exploring personal pathways to recovery. Focusing on alcohol and drug problems, it provides a literature review of 40 years of studies on...

This book is about aesthetic processes and play from the perspectives of psychologists, philosophers and semiologists. They explore the underlying processes from many viewpoints, including the prehistoric roots of language and art; the historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997654523Author Anne K UemuraFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Hajime ResourcesPublisher Hajime ResourcesWeight(grams) 277g

One of the most fascinating sub-divisions within the rapidly growing field of psychology and law is the area of deception detection. Traditionally this area has been characterised by a number of approaches which have analysed different aspects of...

- 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...

Chronic pain affects every facet of a patient's life, and nowhere is this more evident than in the complex arena of family life. Chronic Pain and Family: a Clinical Perspective examines typical family issues associated with prolonged illness, offering...

ANNABEL K. BROOME The importance of psychological processes in the experience of health and sickness is being increasingly recognized. There is mounting evidence for the role of personal behaviour in current trends of morbidity and mortality, which is...

This book is about aesthetic processes and play from the perspectives of psychologists, philosophers and semiologists. They explore the underlying processes from many viewpoints, including the prehistoric roots of language and art; the historical...

This book focuses on a problem frequently encountered by sex and family therapists, psychologists and primary care physicians: women's sexual desire or lack thereof. The book covers both research and clinical interventions, and outlines factors that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013274718Author Gabriella PravettoniFormat HardbackPage Count 190Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Here is the first major work that examines the benefits of applying social understanding to addiction. The author demonstrates how a social perspective shifts the paradigm from viewing a person in terms of "particles" to viewing a person in...

This book offers a welcome expansion on key concepts, terms, and issues in causality. It brings much needed clarity to psychological injury assessments and the legal contexts that employ them. Focusing on PTSD, traumatic brain injury, and chronic pain...

Wherever people are working, there is some type of stress-and where there is stress, there is the risk of burnout. It is widespread, the subject of numerous studies in the U.S. and abroad. It is also costly, both to individuals in the form of sick days,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087871387Author Dorothy MokFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Indy PubPublisher Indy PubWeight(grams) 95g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087867281Author Dorothy MokFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Lee Digital Ltd. Liability CompanyPublisher Lee Digital Ltd. Liability...

Rather than physiological health only, complementary and alternative medicines aim at the production of wellbeing. This book explores how the increasing proliferation of holistic health methods are intimately connected with changing configurations of...

This timely and important work looks at the collaborative health care model for the delivery of mental health care in a primary care setting. This has become the ideal model for the treatment of comorbid medical and psychiatric or psychological disorders...

Most health professionals would agree that time and funds are in short supply, even under optimal conditions. Patients, too, would admit similar shortfalls, even with optimal motivation. This book offers self-administered and easily administered...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578422176Author Lucas HandwerkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Persistent PublishingPublisher Persistent PublishingWeight(grams) 133g

Readers have access to legions of books dealing with the molecular, genetic, neurochemical, neurophysiological, neuroanatomical, neuroradiological and psychological aspects of pain as well as with the clinical approaches to pain from various medical...

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...

Tax evasion is a complex phenomenon which is influenced not just by economic motives but by psychological factors as well. Economic-psychological research focuses on individual and social representations of taxation as well as decision-making. In this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306310874Author Lee HeadleyFormat HardbackPage Count 187Imprint Kluwer Academic/Plenum PublishersPublisher Springer Science+Business MediaWeight(grams)...

Self-help books aim to empower their readers and deliver happiness and personal fulfilment but do they really live up to this? This book offers a fresh perspective on self-help culture and popular psychology. Research on this subject matter has generally...

Working life has been the subject of great change in recent years with contemporary conditions generally providing increased opportunities and autonomy for individuals. But these benefits can coincide with greater demands and responsibilities, increasing...

As gambling become ever more ubiquitous, more people are risking their finances, family lives, and health in their desire to be the winner that takes it all. This book brings together an international panel of experts to present a wide variety of...

Adult Eyewitness Testimony: Current Trends and Developments provides an overview of empirical research on eyewitness testimony and identification accuracy, covering both theory and application. The volume is organized to address three important issues...

A second revised edition of an examination of the causes and implications of excessive stress, together with a number of simple but effective relaxation techniques designed to alleviate the condition.Book InformationISBN 9780306439674Author Chandra...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780275914004Author Steven E. LockeFormat HardbackPage Count 258Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

This book is an extension of my 1992 book entitled The Social Context of Chronic Pain Sufferers. Many ideas nominally explored there are elaborated in this volume, which is an attempt to fill a major gap in the chronic pain literature. Although there has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646993515Author Roberto Sylvan DelmarFormat PaperbackPage Count 468Imprint John FredricksPublisher John FredricksWeight(grams) 553g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087869421Author Nick StrausFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Indy PubPublisher Indy PubWeight(grams) 91g