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Smoking is one of the world's most pressing public health problems. This up-to-date work reviews the severe problems caused by smoking and examines individual and public health approaches to reducing smoking and its attendant health problems. Written by...

Why do people forget some skills faster than others? What kind of training is most effective at getting people to retain new skills over a longer period of time? Cognitive psychologists address these questions in this volume by analyzing the results of...

`This important book reveals why the young start smoking and why, as adults, they regret having started. It is a great contribution to helping end a national epidemic' - Cheryl Healton, President/CEO, American Legacy Foundation `This book is a must for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244990404Author Paolo RussoFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 54g

Alexander Romanovitch Luria is widely recognized as one of the most prominent neuropsychologists of the twentieth century. This book - written by his long-standing colleague and published in Russian by Moscow University Press in 1992, fifteen years after...

Nothing to do with spies. Unearths and examines implicit assumptions about both measured and actual mental ability; demonstrates how those assumptions manifest as unspoken and invisible directives in the modern admissions practices at the University of...

There is growing evidence that an amalgamation of systems theories and communication and information theories will become the leading conceptual model for addressing human behavior. In this book we have used a theoretical frame which focuses on the...

Couples seek therapy for a variety of reasons, from short-lived adjustment difficulties to deeply entrenched conflict. Yet marital therapy has lacked a conceptual framework for matching treatment to a couple's particular problem. This outstanding new...

This international and interdisciplinary collection presents and discusses the many issues and educational practices that are touched on by constructivism. Drawing on perspectives from a range of different fields (ethics, mathematics education,...

Adler and Gielen developed this volume to add the voices of a prominent international group of cross-culturally oriented psychologists to the worldwide debate on migration. Contributors to the book analyze worldwide configurations of migration,...

Meet Sam, the man troopers brought in because he was standing at the center of the turnpike, directing traffic, claiming to be God's police chief on earth. And Mary, a middle-aged women so obsessed with clean hands she has rubbed her palms raw and bloody...

An increasing number of Americans marry late or never at all. Today there are more than 3 million men who are at least 40 years old and have never been married. Waehler examines the myths surrounding bachelors, and he shows that stereotypes about...

A must for parents, teachers and counselors, this book targets preadolescent girls aiming to engage them in educational activites that will empower them to avoid eating disorders. The author examines eating disorders from sociocultural and feminist...

Innovating in Community Mental Health presents lively examples of successful attempts to change mental health service systems in innovative ways to achieve the goal of providing care for persons with severe mental illness. These examples are drawn from...

In this remarkable volume, a multinational team of scientists catalogs the stressors and benefits for combat-trained soldiers deployed on missions where they are told to hold their fire and assume the role of peacekeeper. Theory and direct research with...

In an interview granted years before September 11, 2001, Osama bin Laden has stated that he considers both soldiers and civilians of the enemy legitimate targets. That position is not unique, and the wars of the past century have proven with increasing...

Electra is a well-loved, beautiful, highly intelligent teenager. Yet, as is not uncommon, she becomes so depressed she contemplates suicide, considering it for years until she finally takes action. Electra's diary, discovered after her death and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738826172Author John a CiampaFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244607265Author Alessio David Ricioppo ParraFormat PaperbackPage Count 64

In the field of psychology, research areas often develop in relative isolation. Researchers in different areas are either not aware of, or seem to fail to see the relevance of findings from other areas even though it would seem that the findings are...

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Based on interviews with 100 people across the country, Sex Lives is primarily a portrait of the generation that came of age sexually during the 1960s and 1970s. Mark Baker gives us the stories behind the sexual statistics, as real people speak openly...

""A sensitive, gracefully written exploration of the distinctiveness of the female adolescent experience. The author combines insights drawn from her clinical practice with informed analyses of familiar works of literature, ranging from Romeo...

Self-deception occurs because we often see the world the way we would like it to be, rather than the way it is. Our brains so long for things the way we want them, we might not even be aware we are fooling ourselves, explains author Harry Triandis, a...

This book serves as a training manual for mental health professionals and other community members who desire a practical handbook to guide their work with adult children from dysfunctional families in both individual and group counseling. An approach to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674187900Author Professor David G GilFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 513g

Unique and stimulating, this book addresses metacognition in both the neglected area of teaching and the more well-established area of learning. It addresses domain-general and domain-specific aspects of metacognition, including applications to the...

A scientific work made accessible for lay readers-without sacrificing its technical and scholarly underpinnings-this book presents regression as a universal and necessary process. Regression is viewed as inherent in our biology and designed as an aid to...

The book represents the first attempt to summarize the major factors in the ongoing debate on ideology and psychology. The contributions on historical development focus on concrete research areas, and show the importance of the social context and...

The brief, successful Gulf War resulted in few casualties, but there were still recognizable pockets of trauma. This study examines the Mental Health Services available in the theater of operations, the preparations made to train the soldiers for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060926786Author A FishcerFormat PaperbackPage Count 151Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 138g

The Rolling Stones (now in their 60s) have sung to us for years about what a drag it is getting old, but it doesn't have to be that way. Despite living in a youth-oriented society, many of the aged patients seen by Dr. Levine have kept their emotional...

Ever since the killings at Columbine High School created a renewed focus on the problems of adolescent aggression, professionals in education, criminal justice, and social services have been seeking ways to curb its rising tide. This volume examines...

This book integrates the results of research on the topics of frustration and conflict.Book InformationISBN 9780313232473Author Aubrey James YatesFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674186064Author Charles Macfie CampbellFormat HardbackPage Count 78Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 213g

`The idea is very appealing for a number of reasons. Adolescent health is an area that fundamentally requires an interdisciplinary perspective in terms of both scholarly work and applied practice. This book promises to deliver in terms of that kind of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986239373Author Francis GriersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Curious PublicationsPublisher Curious PublicationsWeight(grams) 95g

The last few years have seen a growth in the number of psychology courses which are being offered as single subject or combined studies options in universities, polytechnics and colleges of higher education. More recently, there has been a marked...

This second edition of a classic work in cross-cultural psychology brings together scholars from the United States and abroad to provide a concise new introduction to selected topics in cross-cultural psychology, the scientific study of human behavior...

The increased bombardment of information on the world's dangers, from imminent disasters to terror and wars reported in the media, make us particularly vulnerable to stress and feelings of helplessness. This volume is unique in describing how to promote...