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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674732452Author Roger BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 457Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 925g

This volume addresses a wide range of methodological approaches to the study of career with particular emphasis on alternative approaches. The contributors challenge those who see the traditional positivist empirical methodology as the only appropriate...

This volume takes a fresh look at the problems of designing effective and humane service care delivery systems for the seriously mentally ill. The author addresses a number of major themes, including the differing definitions of mental illness and the...

The Latino population in the United States continues to grow and now represents 12% of the population. Yet, remarkably little attention has been paid to understanding parenting and child development processes among Latino families. Although research on...

This new collection of writings describes the recent thinking of psychologists and educators regarding interactive development across the spectrum of competency domains within the individual. Significant research efforts emphasizing innovations in...

Approximately 70% of all Americans receive health services through some form of managed care. Patients who seek psychotherapy through their managed care provider can usually expect only about half a dozen therapy sessions to be covered by their...

This challenging and insightful work wrestles with the difficult treatment problems confronting both culturally and socially oppressed clients and psychotherapists in a society where diversity has often been resisted. The authors question long-held...

This study presents an overview of the relationship between biomedical policy and mental health. It explores a broad array of biomedical research and technology issues which impact mental health policy, and it examines how the very conduct of biomedical...

The measurement practice section illustrates the application of objective measurement methods to personality psychology, a sociological study of school environment, personnel management, pain research, motor performance, and curriculum development. It...

Since its development in the late seventies, the author's Semi-Automated Full Battery system of using word processor and codified statements to write psychological test reports and do psychological test analysis has been expanded considerably. This...

This new volume covers studies and reviews published in the period 1975 to 1988. Its focus is not on the evaluation of current research, but rather it calls attention to available works that might be relevant for those wishing to do further research in a...

In this far-ranging study, Scheibe seeks an understanding of the self and personal identity. In doing so, he focuses on the various relationships of the self in social environments. He examines the major historical perspectives on the self, the process...

This book represents a variety of views about an enduring question that is central to the concerns of developmental psychologists--are there broad, developmental, cross-do-main mental representations and processes, or are they domain-specific? This book...

This volume brings to life the nature of resilience and adaptation to change by describing turning points, or critical experiences, in the lives of people with disabilities. People with cerebral palsy, spina bifida, or attention deficit disorder are...

Twenty-four researchers from various academic disciplines dealing with the production of language, such as theoretical and applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, social psychology, psycholinguistics, and psychology of language, contributed to this volume...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893919320Author Barbara JohnstoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Concepts such as cultural competence, multicultural practice, and ethnosensitivity have taken root in the literature. At the same time, concepts such as cross-disciplinary, transdisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and interprofessional practice have been...

This book presents the problem of attempted suicide as a meaningful and momentous event in the person's life with special consideration of its effects on the human environment. Five groups of people who have made suicide attempts were studied.Book...

Offering implications for democraticizing psychology on a global scale, this work illustrates how professional training for mental health practictioners is often inadequate on issues pertaining to race and racism. The author shows prime examples in his...

Wagman offers a critical analysis of current theory and research in the psychological and computational sciences, directed toward the elucidation of scientific discovery processes and structures. It discusses human scientific discovery processes,...

The mourning of a parent's death can take many years-for some it may take a lifetime. The first year of separation, however, is often the most difficult and heart wrenching. The first birthday, holiday, spring, summer, autumn, and winter spent without...

Not just another book about sexual abuse, this book explores the possibility of the hard but real journey to self-respect. It is an in-depth approach to understanding the individual's experience in sexual love, and an exploration of the nature of the...

A multidisciplinary progression of Piaget's equilibration, this major work depicts mind/brain as a regulator of equilibrating processes. Parkins describes the mind/brain in terms of information representation and processing requirements for...

Based on a solid framework of theory and research, this book illustrates definitive ways in which we learn to recognize psychological boundaries-our unique inner territory-and to defend our rights in every relationship. In a study that interweaves...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780275909758Author Nickolaus R. FeimerFormat HardbackPage Count 356Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

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...

Borderline personality disorder is a diagnosis often given to those who have serious problems with self-image and mood, as well as with interpersonal relations. This text presents a journal of a 15-month course of therapy with a classic splitting...

Harcum maintains that the proper assumptions about human nature are established by their relative utility in solving existing human problems. In order to facilitate solutions to familiar problems of daily living, the author advocates a definition of the...

This book has been prepared for those readers who want to maintain their knowledge of current developments in the field of behavioral research as applied to auditing. The articles and papers presented in this volume were selected because they will...

Every year, at least 1.8 million women in the United States are beaten by their intimate partners. And that is only the number reported physically abused. It does not include those who remain silent, or those for whom the abuse is psychological. In this...

In the first half of the twentieth century, psychology was a discipline in search of scientific legitimacy. Debates raged over how much of human and animal behavior is instinctive and how much is learned, and how behavior could be quantified accurately...

In The True Path, Duke psychiatrist Roy J. Mathew draws on his own extensive knowledge of neuroscience as he looks at the centuries-old Indian idea that spirituality is a state of mind-a higher form of consciousness. Mathew shows how the latest brain...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873958639Author Paul R. AbramsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

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...

In the post-9/11 moments, months, and years, America has come to develop a new mortality awareness. Death, and our understanding that it can be sudden and is certainly inevitable, is being talked about more than ever before. As the team in this volume...

In a novel look at rock 'n' roll lyrics, psychologist Barry Farber highlights those that rise above the rest because they are not only clever, but also wise in their psychological themes and conclusions. These great lyrics embody enduring truths about...

When psychologists Shumaker and Heckel wrote their earlier book on Children Who Murder, it became clear to them that society-specifically a significant portion of its young members-is in crisis. Focused on this crisis, these authors found an everyday...

This work presents a new and important paradigm modification in psychology that attempts to incorporate ideas from quantum physics and postmodern culture. The author feels that the current diagnostic model of the mental health establishment is too...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674594715Author Ned BlockFormat HardbackPage Count 372Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 703g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674862715Author Alice JosephFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 744g