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Peace-makers, experts in conflict resolution, researchers and teachers are among the contributors here focused on ethnic and cultural conflict around the world. The volume first addresses elements such as identity and difference, both conceptually and...

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...

Five-year-old Tommy killed himself at home, where he lived with parents who said he was unwanted and deficient. College student Jennifer committed suicide by swallowing a huge mixture of pills at a motel, miles from the house where she lived with an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893917630Author Clifford HillFormat HardbackPage Count 266Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

One out of every seven working age African Americans has an impairment that affects functioning in activities of daily living. These statistics suggest that most African Americans are touched by disability. This book examines the psychosocial aspects of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893910327Author Wallace L ChafeFormat HardbackPage Count 338Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893912703Author Harris WinitzFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Spurred by reports in 1980 detailing the ineffectiveness of long-term treatment with benzodiazepines, the authors of this volume began a study to investigate the reasons behind the addiction, quickly adopting a psychological approach to treatment. In...

Hundreds of thousands of women self-mutilate, yet very little is known about the reasons for this widespread phenomenon or the experience of self-harming itself. Now, this powerful and accessible book gathers together the personal testimonies of a broad...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648891758Author Alice PulversFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Alice PulversPublisher Alice PulversWeight(grams) 102g

Uses stories from literature, the author's own life and the lives of his patients, as well as quizzes to help readers focus on such issues as their satisfaction with life, their sexuality, and their career. The key to the book is to look at the world...

This is the first full-length monograph devoted to the study of the talk between physicians and patients in a medical interview. Methods are developed to describe, analyze and interpret the discourse. Additionally, a ctitique and review of previous...

Independent scholar Falk analyzes the genesis of Islamic terror from many standpoints, including religious, cultural, historical, political, social, economic and, above all, psychological. Drawing on his training as a clinical psychologist, Falk's...

A neurologist whose father suffers from Parkinson's provides a layreader-friendly explanation of the disease, its history, development, treatment and modern advances that may ultimately lead to a cure. Rosenbaum's professional view is as a clinical...

Domestic Violence and Control provides important longitudinal data on violent relationships and addresses the problem of violence from the perspective of both the perpetrator and the victim. The issue of control emerges as a central theme. Control plays...

The Psychology of Creative Writing takes a scholarly, psychological look at multiple aspects of creative writing, including the creative writer as a person, the text itself, the creative process, the writer's development, the link between creative...

That painting is at least in part an expression of the painter's personality is obvious from the differences between very impulsive and very controlled painters - between the paintings of a Picasso, for example, and a Piet Mondriaan. But these...

The studies presented in this book should be of interest to anybody concerned with the teaching of arithmetic to young children or with cognitive development in general. The 'eaching experiment* was carried out with half a dozen children entering first...

This scholarly study of animal behavior compares the learning ability of a variety of animals to determine the speed with which one species learns in relation to others.Book InformationISBN 9780837155869Author Harold Kenneth FinkFormat HardbackPage Count...

Every year, nearly 2 million injuries and some 1,300 deaths result from so-called intimate partner violence. In this work, psychotherapist Browne-Miller uses vignettes, as well as standing and emerging research, to detail both healthy and hurtful...

This book describes the psychological ideas current in medieval Europe and their development during the period. The book aims partly to correct misperceptions about the nature of psychology in the Middle Ages. An important theme presented in this work is...

This book is a reflection of a growing awareness among philosophers and psychologists of the inescapable entanglement of psychology with its philosophical underpinnings. It deals with the dissection of the assumptions that control contemporary inquiry...

This work is a description of vulnerabilities that help account for many of the serious problems facing contemporary society in industrialized countries, including high rates of crime; homelessness; alcohol, tobacco, and other drug addictions; and a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893915681Author Marilyn S. SternglassFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

This volume is concerned with aspects of word meaning within the general methodological framework of generative grammar. Its aim is to diagnose linguists' failure to advance satisfactory theories of lexical meaning, then to propose the requirements that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893916954Author Sally StoddardFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Individual Assessment is a professional practice important to Human Resource Managers, Executives and anyone making decisions about employees. Finally, we now have a clear, practical guide with methodologically-grounded descriptions of how to...

This book introduces the basic principles of motivation as they apply to classroom learning and management in a readable, non-technical form. Covington argues against the popular notion that the problems existing in schools today stem primarily from a...

Studies of learning are too frequently conceptualized only in terms of knowledge development. Yet it is vital to pay close attention to the social and emotional aspects of learning in order to understand why and how it occurs. How Students Come to Be,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530019529Author Royce WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams) 272g

This work breaks new ground by assembling in one volume diverse information about nine frequently experienced, altered states of awareness. Many of these states, such as those involving near-death and out-of-body experiences, have gained increased...

In this book, criminologist Stephen Giannangelo offers an original theory of the origins and development of the serial murderer. The author constructs a two-part model of the serial murderer's development. The first part outlines biological factors and...

Over the last decade, the number of children diagnosed with bipolar disorder has increased up to fortyfold. This is a trend exclusive to the United States, and one that, alarmingly, leads to most of the diagnosed children-some still in their...

What is the nature of knowledge and moral commitment in a postmodern age of relativism? What drives the creativity and dedication of leaders of a profession? How do professional lives reflect moral identity and development? To answer these questions, the...

This core textbook not only provides ethical and legal issues, along with representative case studies, it also-and more importantly-helps students to develop their own framework for ethical reasoning. The author surveys various methods of ethical...

Focusing on universal public health issues, this book explores what can be done and what the future holds. It introduces students and practitioners to behaviour change theories and applications. It details experiences of sucessful programmes for the...

This book offers educational and psychological perspectives to inform practice and increase options in addressing conflict situations. The first part of the book helps the educator understand the reasons for resistance and ways to prevent it. The second...

Feminist Reconstructions in Psychology introduces a distinctive new mode in doing psychology. This psychology is based on an increasingly popular range of ideas called social constructionism. Within the book, new forms of theory and methods of inquiry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530000268Author Craig SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams) 286g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674365056Author R Bruce SloaneFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 581g