Applied Psychology

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996117609Author Randolph R CroxtonFormat HardbackImprint Palustris Press LLCPublisher Palustris Press LLCWeight(grams) 490g

The recent centennial of the original publication of Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams has generated a new wave of critical reappraisals of this monumental work. Considered one of the most important books in Western history, scholars from an...

An increasing number of studies have been conducted on the role of expression and regulation of emotion in health. Emotion Regulation addresses the question of these studies from diverse angles while encompassing conceptual, developmental, and clinical...

Integrating behavioral, psychoanalytic, and biological perspectives into a unique multi-modal approach, the authors present a new diagnostic and treatment methodology which is flexible enough to account for individual variations in sexually perverse...

This book details possible ethical situations and pitfalls that forensic psychiatric experts would commonly encounter when making a court testimony. Richly illustrated with cases from medicine, psychiatry, and law, this elegantly written volume examines...

At last, here is an empirical volume that addresses head-on the thorny issue of tort reform in the US. Ongoing policy debates regarding tort reform have led both legal analysts and empirical researchers to reevaluate the civil jury's role in meting out...

Human beings, regardless of age, sex, or state of health, are designed by evolution to form meaningful interpersonal relationships through verbal and nonverbal communication. The theme that empathic human connections are beneficial to the body and mind...

Finding the Muse explores the lives of a group of aspiring fine artists from the mid-1960s, when they completed art school, to the mid-1980s. It focuses on problems of artistic creativity as they relate to such issues as the mystique of the artist, the...

Teachers make a difference. As someone who grew up in one of the po- est and rural areas of a poor state and ended up attending elite graduate and professional schools, I have much to credit my public school teachers. My teachers sure struggled much to...

This book invites the legal and psychology communities to work together in solving some of our most pressing social problems. It examines four controversial areas involving people's perceptions of others. The book is therefore a guide to understanding...

Life expectancy in countries of Central and Eastern Europe is substantially shorter than in Western Europe, and a similar divide exists in self-rated health. This exhaustive study of populations in seven Central and European countries - Russia,...

What does it mean to be human? There are many theories of the evolution of human behavior which seek to explain how our brains evolved to support our unique abilities and personalities. Most of these have focused on the role of brain size or specific...

If a man born blind were to gain his sight in later life would he be able to identify the objects he saw around him? Would he recognise a cube and a globe on the basis of his earlier tactile experiences alone? This was William Molyneux's famous question...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306407543Author Marion C ChafetzFormat HardbackPage Count 262Imprint Kluwer Academic/Plenum PublishersPublisher Springer Science+Business...

Whether assessing general family functioning or specific areas of conflict, professionals preparing child custody evaluations require sound knowledge of three interrelated fields: up-to-date legal issues, psychological findings, and forensic procedures...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578423838Author Joel S BernsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 634Imprint Nita Lutwak PhDPublisher Nita Lutwak PhDWeight(grams) 1447g

Finding the Muse explores the lives of a group of aspiring fine artists from the mid-1960s, when they completed art school, to the mid-1980s. It focuses on problems of artistic creativity as they relate to such issues as the mystique of the artist, the...

PTSD, pain syndromes, traumatic brain injury: these three areas are common features of personal injury cases, often forming the cornerstone of expert testimony. Yet their complex interplay in an individual can make evaluation-and explaining the results...

Forensic psychologists and psychiatrists are increasingly asked to provide expertise to courts and attorneys in the criminal justice system. To do so effectively, they must stay abreast of important advances in the understanding of legal standards as...

- 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...

The recent centennial of the original publication of Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams has generated a new wave of critical reappraisals of this monumental work. Considered one of the most important books in Western history, scholars from an...

- Covers the application of forensic psychology to the legal and child protective service systems in care and protection mattersBook InformationISBN 9780306474866Author Lois Oberlander CondieFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Kluwer Academic/Plenum...

Howard J. Shaffer, Ph. D. More than 20 years ago, I first noted that young people in North America were growing up in a context of legalized gambling for their entire lifetime. By the 1980s, for young people, gambling had become an average and expectable...

- Represents both sides of the problem of violence in the lives of girls - girls as victims of violence; and girls as perpetrators of violence. To fully understand the problem of violence it is essential to consider both sides of the 'violence coin'. -...

The field of transplantation has grown exponentially over the last few decades, and leaders in the field may argue that we have seen only the tip of the iceberg. Perhaps in no other discipline is there a need for multidisciplinary dialogue, debate, and...

As law is instituted by society to serve society, there can be no question that psychology plays an important and inevitable role in the legal process, clarifying or complicating legal issues. In this enlightening text, Roesch, Hart, Ogloff, and the...

The chapters published in this volume developed from presentations, and their associated discussions at a conference organised by the Scottish Branch of the British Psychological Society, held at Rothesay, Isle of Bute, Scotland in September 1987. The...

A distinguished psychologist presents a lively and accessible exploration of how the human mind works. Discussing such intriguing topics as memory, learning, reasoning, and problem solving, Anthony J. Sanford describes the most important and recent...

Homesickness today is dismissed as a sign of immaturity, what children feel at summer camp, but in the nineteenth century it was recognized as a powerful emotion. When gold miners in California heard the tune "Home, Sweet Home," they sobbed...

Environmental Psychology and Human Well-Being: Effects of Built and Natural Settings provides a better understanding of the way in which mental and physical well-being is affected by physical environments, along with insights into how the design of these...

Written by two authors with a combined experience of more than fifty years in the residential treatment of severely aggressive-and often traumatized-children, this book has proven invaluable to new as well as seasoned child practitioners. The chapters...

Critical appreciations of George A. De Vos, a pioneer in the cross-cultural application of projective techniques (M. Suarez-Orozco, P. Lerner), and De Vos's own reminiscences, are followed by contributions true to the spirit of De Vos's methodology. They...

Instructors - Electronic inspection copies are available or contact your local sales representative for an inspection copy of the print version. Hormones in your gut can affect the way you behave, prenatal infections have been associated with the...

This Element looks at the physiological and social roles of taste and the proximal chemical senses. First, how we perceive food and people when we contact them is discussed. These perceptions help us identify what we are eating and with whom we are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804340530Author Jesse HubbardFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Jesse HubbardPublisher Jesse HubbardWeight(grams) 413g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647434359Author Patrick KingFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint Pkcs Media, Inc.Publisher Pkcs Media, Inc.Weight(grams) 354g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9785630551610Author Isaiah HansonFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Isaiah HansonPublisher Isaiah HansonWeight(grams) 100g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786138956334Author Jagadeesh KrishnanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Scholars' PressPublisher Scholars' PressWeight(grams) 336g