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Based on a conference held at Ohio State University, this volume focuses on the unique mental health needs of ethnic minorities. Four sections cover psychopathology; advances in assessment; advances in treatment; the current state of knowledge including...

This psychological study explores the nature and formation of attitudes in an individual, and how attitudes are changed by outside forces.Book InformationISBN 9780837187006Author James D. HalloranFormat HardbackPage Count 167Imprint Praeger Publishers...

This bibliography centers on research on human behavior based on biological models, methodologies, or findings. Over 6,700 entries from journals, monographs, and books have been selected for inclusion in concert with a worldwide network of learned...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780973948127Author Sandy StreamFormat PaperbackImprint Sandy Stream PublishingPublisher Sandy Stream PublishingWeight(grams) 91g

Originally published in 1989, Special Education in Context is an important and thought-provoking book. An ethnographic study of five years in the daily lives of the severely and profoundly mentally retarded residents of a state school in the United...

Paddock has referred to societies as "anti-violent" that Inhibit the expressIon of aggresSion. In his book Violence and Aggression, KE. Moyer nas made a brief but interesting comparison of several violent and nonviolent cultures. Whereas...

Experts from a variety of fields join forces to show what fuels a most horrific violation of trust-sexual abuse by priests-and how the Church and church structure play a role in this abuse. This riveting work includes chapters by a former Director of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780757561894Author Daniel G EcksteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.

Since 1975, the Oklahoma Notes have been among the most widely used reviews for medical students preparing for Step 1 of the United States Medical Licensing Examination. Completely revised and updated, these new editions of the Notes feature: More self-...

This book describes and illustrates the nature of dialectical thinking as a cognitive psychological phenomenon, and makes the case that this form of cognitive organizaton is a possible successor to the adolescent formal operations stage. It uses the idea...

In this, the third volume of Advances in Child Neuropsychology, the editors have once again enlisted a broad range of contributors, each of whom has written a chapter that brings us to the current level of knowl edge in their respective area. The topics...

"The Vulnerable Child" takes us beyond the stereotypes to reveal the true nature of childhood disadvantages. Through interviews with hundreds of children and professionals across the country, Weissbourd concludes that some of the most serious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873956642Author Donald E. PolkinghorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

I suppose that most of the people reading this volume will have read or have access to Volume One of my Global Report on Student Well Being. Therefore, I will not review the background literature relevant to multiple discrepancies theory (MDT), the...

This book is the first comprehensive summary of the General Social Survey since its origin in 1972. Topics range over the whole subject matter of the GSS, from political behavior and attitudes to the mores, psychological states, and socio-economic...

Managing Your Migraine speaks to your needs as a migraine sufferer. It confirms that you suffer from a genuine physical illness and that others share your frustration, disappointments, and anger. Its goal is to move you beyond "learning to live with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530000244Author Karen ConnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780965539234Author Kimberly J Prachniak M SFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Freedom2changePublisher Freedom2changeWeight(grams) 245g

This volume contains a number of contributions, which concern basic issues in the field of brain-behavioural development in the human, especially with regard to the young child. They have been written by distinguished scientists, active in this field,...

This book reinterprets psychotherapy from a social role perspective, permitting a grand synthesis that explains many of the apparent contradictions in contemporary therapy, and challenging the usual definitions of therapy in terms of personality,...

As personal computers have become more available, there has been a great deal of optimism for educational reform through wide computer use, both at school and in the home. Beyond Technology's Promise, first published in 1994, takes a hard look at the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995232617Author Audrey TaitFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Inspirational Insights Counselling, Inc.Publisher Inspirational Insights Counselling, Inc...

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...

This thoroughly revised edition of The Sociology of Mental Disorders presents a biosocial model for understanding mental disorders, which integrates the sociological paradigm with current research in the epidemiology of mental disorders and on biological...

Narrative psychology proceeds from the assumption that understanding human experience and behavior necessarily involves reviewing the relevant historical and cultural contexts in which they occur. This book is an argument for and example of narrative...

In today's world of instant communication, we often marvel at the ability of a public figure to handle a hostile audience. Persuasive Encounters studies successful persuasion against tough odds. Through the analyzation of specific historical and...

This book is for students taking either a first-year graduate statistics course or an advanced undergraduate statistics course in Psychology. Enough introductory statistics is briefly reviewed to bring everyone up to speed. The book is highly...

This volume combines research findings and personal experience of an ACoA, reviewing and critiquing the controlled research literature and clinical findings. Chapters dispel the myths and unsupported claims regarding ACoAs and alcoholic families,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893917432Author Dina TiroshFormat HardbackPage Count 274Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

A study of how people react psychologically to bombing raids. The author studies the Japanese who survived Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as those exposed to the air raids of England, France, and Germany.Book InformationISBN 9780837186665Author Irving...

This book explores the construction and maintenance of alternative worlds of common sense. Employing a comparative approach, Dr. Pepinsky monitors events in Norway and the United States over several decades, treating these countries as prototypes of...

Affirmative Action was initially an emergency stop-gap measure to resolve a serious and immediate problem. As such, like most temporary corrective measures, it was imperfect: the guidelines vague and definition unclear, with a misguided understanding of...

This autobiographical account focuses on a ten year span of the author's life, during which he experienced a painful series of traumatic events. Gagnon, a psychotherapist, suffered numerous tragedies including loss of a limb, cancer, death of a loved...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893915872Author Greta FeinFormat HardbackPage Count 222Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

The Psychology of Teaching and Learning provides a thorough and comprehensive introduction to the psychology of instruction in the schools and colleges.The book divides the theory into three stages (the three steps in the subtitle): (i) work by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986722806Author Shawn D PhelpsFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Outsiders PressPublisher Outsiders PressWeight(grams) 140g

The Cambridge Dictionary of Psychology is the first and only dictionary that surveys the broad discipline of psychology from an international, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary focus. This focus was achieved in several ways. The managing and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995232686Author Audrey TaitFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Inspirational Insights Counselling, Inc.Publisher Inspirational Insights Counselling,...

While millions of patients with severe mental illnesses are neglected, those charged with caring for them are engaged in a troubling debate: Who should treat these patients-and how? On one side are psychoanalysts, on the other are pill-pushing...

In the summer of 2006, the author received a message that read, Love the Nazis, and KILL THE JEWS DEAD. And that was the trigger that launched internationally known scholar Falk into work on this book. Anti-Semitism has once again become a worldwide...