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Candace Newmaker was an adopted girl whose mother felt the child suffered from an emotional disorder that prevented loving attachment. The mother sought attachment therapy-a fringe form of psychotherapy-for the child and was present at her death by...

The generation of meaning is the most fundamental process of the mind. It underlies all major mental functions, such as intelligence, memory, perception, and communication. Not surprisingly, it has been one of the most difficult processes to understand...

In Psychology in the Common Cause, Bugelski examines the problems we face by living in groups--war, poverty, inflation, unemployment--and asks whether psychology has anything to offer in connection with such problems. Writing from a unique behavioral...

This volume offers an authoritative review of leading scholarship in personal construct theory and related approaches, giving fresh analyses of problems such as the construction of selfhood, processes of meaning-making in substance abuse and attention...

Robert Kastenbaum, creator of the award-winning Encyclopedia of Death, has now collected and edited a source of reliable information on adult development that is accessible to the general reader, useable by professionals, and perfect for those who are...

African American women are dying younger-and at a higher rate-than their white counterparts. Collins shows us how stress plays a role in many of the most common fatal diseases, including heart disease, hypertension, cancer, and diabetes. Studies...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893917364Author Thomas G. StichtFormat HardbackPage Count 222Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

The importance of transfer for understanding intelligence, cognition, and education has been debated for a century, as it has been one of the central theoretical issues in psychology, education, and cognition. Education theories are based on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893918095Author Fred MassarikFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

This volume provides a scholarly reference for both academicians and practitioners. The first section provides a distillation of evidence regarding the three approaches to understanding leadership. The second section blends theory and practice into one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893918897Author Roderick WongFormat HardbackPage Count 434Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

This is the second volume in the series that focuses on the International Objective Measurement Workshops and the work of Georg Rasch. In the area of practice, two major clusters of new work are reported in this volume: a national pilot study of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893917371Author Thomas G. StichtFormat HardbackPage Count 238Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893917982Author Philip A. VernonFormat HardbackPage Count 412Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Professor Brown provides a resource for clinicians, instructors, and students interested in promoting group process and progress, increasing group members' self-awareness and self-understanding, and strategies for resolving individual and group difficult...

This is a book on how to gain control of one's emotions. It is a serious book that contains a theory of automatic processing it presents and its implications for controlling emotions. Epstein is a professor of personality psychology and a highly regarded...

Employers often ascribe values to gender and sexual orientation that override truly relevant personal characteristics including ability, intelligence and dedication. Policy makers and business leaders need to be informed and involved in creating a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893918736Author Jurg SiegfriedFormat HardbackPage Count 374Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999577844Author Ma Dianne a AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Visions AppliedPublisher Visions AppliedWeight(grams) 213g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990457459Author Master HoraFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint Sb Wellness & Endurance Practice L3cPublisher Sb Wellness & Endurance Practice...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791410127Author Linda E. OldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

In any given year, 10 percent of the population - or about 21 million people - suffers from a depressive disorder. Most do not seek professional help although the great majority could find relief with treatment. And that not only causes hundreds of...

Multiple Problem Youth addresses the complex connections among drug abuse, delinquency, and mental health problems as they apply to adolescents and young adults. Interrelationships in this area exist in a vast variety of ways, further complicated by...

For many years, what has been known about recovery from addictive behaviors has come solely from treatment studies. Only recently has the study of recoveries in the absence of formal treatment or self-help groups provided an alternative source of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780757591556Author Russell EisenmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.

A landmark contribution to chronic pain literature, this contemporary text measures the intricate relationship between chronic pain and life transition events. Researchers and clinicians will appreciate The Changing Nature of Pain Complaints Over the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674599642Author Florence B PowdermakerFormat HardbackPage Count 658Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 1089g

Views dissenting from the status quo in psychoanalysis are presented in four areas: Psychoanalysis and Early Dissidents, The Psychoanalytic Process, Psychoanalysis and Culture, and Psychoanalysis and Religion. Authors introduce ideas on the analyst's...

. . . an important contribution to the current literature on a person-centered approach. It demonstrates the increasingly broad and dynamic application of this perspective to a variety of fields. The Family Pscyhologist Featuring 21 papers by important...

Large Group Awareness Training: An Historical Context Groups associated with the human potential movement have been a controversial feature of American life during the last three decades. In the 1950's and 1960's, the movement was dominated by various...

For many years, what has been known about recovery from addictive behaviors has come solely from treatment studies. Only recently has the study of recoveries in the absence of formal treatment or self-help groups provided an alternative source of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780964189423Author Michael Wayne TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Creation Publishing GroupPublisher Creation Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 231g

This book compiles state-of-the-art commentary on teamwork, team training, and team performance. It provides both practical and down-to-earth information on what we currently know about these topics from a research-based perspective, and foward-looking,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992447632Author John SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Acorn PressPublisher Acorn PressWeight(grams) 314g

Considering the many ways people seek emotional pleasure, relaxation or escape in self-harmful ways - from excessive alcohol use and drug abuse to smoking, overeating, compulsive gambling, out-of-control spending and even lesser behaviors like habitual...

This book examines the Vietnam Survivor: a broad category of persons, military and civilian, negatively affected by the Vietnam experience- and sometimes in unexpected ways, positively affected. The book examines the lives of four men: one a combat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893916626Author Richard BeachFormat PaperbackPage Count 426Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Exceptional Children: Integrating Research and Teaching provides a com prehensive introduction to the constantly changing area of special educa tion. The book is research-based, and its title reflects our opinion regarding the important link between...

This work, the most comprehensive treatment of alienation ever published, deals with the philosophical, sociological, psychological, religious, political, and literary aspects of the problem. Among the topics discussed are the lost self, the fragmented...

Integrating developmental and systems theories, the authors propose an original scenario by which to understand and treat the family unit. Under study here is the primary triangle" of mother-father-infant. The authors provide a complex research...