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Reasoning, Necessity, and Logic: Developmental Perspectives by Willis F. Overton 9781138997066
RRP: $100.78$88.64A presentation of current work that systematically explores and articulates the nature, origin and development of reasoning, this volume's primary aim is to describe and examine contemporary theory and research findings on the topic of deductive... -
Psychotherapy and the Bored Patient by E. Mark Stern 9781138996939
RRP: $98.68$86.04The specific guidelines to the clinical management of the bored or boring patient--offered in this provocative book--will be valuable to all psychotherapists. Contributors discuss the fascinating theories and therapies of boredom--why it is both a... -
Psychological Assessment in Clinical Practice: A Pragmatic Guide by Michel Hersen 9781138996885
RRP: $94.48$83.33There have been numerous books published that have dealt with psychological assessment. These books have ranged from the theoretical to the clinical. However, most of the pragmatics involved in the day-to-day activities of the psychological assessor... -
Stress and Coping in Infancy and Childhood by Tiffany M. Field 9781138996540
RRP: $100.78$87.80The fourth volume based on the annual University of Miami symposia on stress and coping, this new addition to the series is the first to focus on developmental and clinical stressors during infancy and childhood. While developmental stressors such as... -
Stability and Continuity in Mental Development: Behavioral and Biological Perspectives by M. H. Bornstein 9781138996458
RRP: $100.78$87.80Filling a gap in current literature on human development, this volume explores the influence of psychophysiological, behavioral, and social factors on stability and continuity in the development of the mind during human infancy. The book reviews existing... -
Mental Health Services for Adults with Intellectual Disability: Strategies and Solutions by Nick Bouras 9781138995765
RRP: $94.48$82.49This book considers how mental health services have evolved over the past three decades to meet the needs of people with intellectual disability, focusing on the ways that theories and policies have been applied to clinical practice. Nick Bouras and... -
Sexuality in Close Relationships by Kathleen McKinney 9781138996106
RRP: $100.78$87.80This is one of the first volumes to examine the interface between research undertaken in sexuality and that in close relationships from a social psychological perspective. Experts from several different disciplines offer chapters that contain theory,... -
Narration and Therapeutic Action: The Construction of Meaning in Psychoanalytic Social Work by Jerrold R. Brandell 9781138994348
RRP: $75.58$66.55Narration and Therapeutic Action raises challenging questions about the limitations of science and of scientific inquiry for the practice of social work. In doing so, this innovative book calls upon clinical social workers, psychologists, and... -
How Children Learn to Read: Current Issues and New Directions in the Integration of Cognition, Neurobiology and Genetics of Reading and Dyslexia Research and Practice by Ken Pugh 9781138991767
RRP: $96.58$84.27This book brings together in one volume information about the neurobiological, genetic, and behavioral bases of reading and reading disabilities. In recent years, research on assessment and treatment of reading disability (dyslexia) has become a magnet... -
Fifty Years of the Research and theory of R.s. Lazarus: An Analysis of Historical and Perennial Issues by Richard S. Lazarus 9781138991019
RRP: $100.78$88.64A collection of the articles written by the author throughout his extensive career, this book achieves three goals. First, it reprints selected research and theory papers on stress and coping from the 1950s to the present produced by Lazarus under five... -
Families as Nurturing Systems: Support Across the Life Span by Donald G. Unger 9781138990913
RRP: $98.68$86.04Here is a major new volume for practitioners, researchers, and those concerned with future policies to promote the welfare of children and families. The patterns of support and the ability of family members to care for each other have changed along with... -
Evolution, Culture, and the Human Mind by Mark Schaller 9781138990845
RRP: $100.78$87.80An enormous amount of scientific research compels two fundamental conclusions about the human mind: The mind is the product of evolution; and the mind is shaped by culture. These two perspectives on the human mind are not incompatible, but, until... -
Developmental Aspects of Health Compliance Behavior by Norman A. Krasnegor 9781138990692
RRP: $100.78$88.64While in the late 1970s and early 1980s health compliance research on adults represented a vigorous field of study, a marked decline of interest on the topic set in during the last part of the 1980s. By contrast, research on health compliance involving... -
Theoretical Frameworks for Personal Relationships by Ralph Erber 9781138990197
RRP: $100.78$87.80The past two decades have seen a tremendous increase in research and scholarship devoted to personal relationships. From rather scattered beginnings a recognizable and recognized field has emerged, whose strength and health is reflected in a wide array... -
The Scientist and the Humanist: A Festschrift in Honor of Elliot Aronson by Marti Hope Gonzales 9781138989948
RRP: $100.78$87.80Elliot Aronson is among the 100 most influential psychologists of the 20th Century. He is best known for his theorizing and research on cognitive dissonance theory -- one of the most provocative and enduring theories in contemporary psychology -- and for... -
The Psychology of Values: The Ontario Symposium, Volume 8 by Clive Seligman 9781138989788
RRP: $100.78$88.64The eighth Ontario Symposium brought together an international group of scholars who work in the area of the psychology of values. Among the categories these experts address are the conceptualizations of values, value systems, and value-attitude-behavior... -
The Emergence of A Discipline: Rochester Symposium on Developmental Psychopathology, Volume 1 by Dante Cicchetti 9781138989139
RRP: $100.78$87.80Compiled from papers presented at the Rochester Symposium on Developmental Psychopathology, this is the first book of its kind devoted to disseminating theory and research in the field of psychopathology. Contributions to this text are unified by their... -
The Developmental Psychology of Planning: Why, How, and When Do We Plan? by Sarah L. Friedman 9781138989061
RRP: $100.78$88.64Planning is defined as formulating an organized method for action in advance. Although people do not plan all the time and planning does not occur in every situation, planning skill is central to all human behavior. There are developmental differences in... -
The Development of Intersensory Perception: Comparative Perspectives by D. J. Lewkowicz 9781138989054
RRP: $96.58$84.27This book provides the latest information about the development of intersensory perception -- a topic which has recently begun to receive a great deal of attention from researchers studying the general problem of perceptual development. This interest was... -
The Creative Process: A Computer Model of Storytelling and Creativity by Scott R. Turner 9781138988996
RRP: $100.78$87.80Someday computers will be artists. They'll be able to write amusing and original stories, invent and play games of unsurpassed complexity and inventiveness, tell jokes and suffer writer's block. But these things will require computers that can both... -
The Adaptive Character of Thought by John R. Anderson 9781138988743
RRP: $100.78$87.80This important volume examines the phenomena of cognition from an adaptive perspective. Rather than adhering to the typical practice in cognitive psychology of trying to predict behavior from a model of cognitive mechanisms, this book develops a number... -
Temporal Codes for Memories (PLE: Memory): Issues and Problems by Benton J. Underwood 9781138988620
RRP: $92.38$80.72Given two events, both of which are well remembered, can we specify which event occurred first? If so, how? For example, did Nixon resign, before or after Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs? Originally published in 1977, little was known about the... -
Adaptive Origins: Evolution and Human Development by Peter LaFreniere 9781138988279
RRP: $96.58$84.27In this text, students are invited to rethink psychology by grounding it in the natural sciences with the understanding that evolutionary and developmental processes work together with culture to solve problems of human adaptation. These processes are... -
Career Counseling: Contemporary Topics in Vocational Psychology by W. Bruce Walsh 9781138988095
RRP: $94.48$82.49Career Counseling aims to link the past and the present, and to look to the future for significant developments in this critical field. Seven current methods are examined in detail: * the Trait-and-Factor approach * the Person-Centered approach *... -
Biennial Review of Counseling Psychology: Volume 1, 2008 by W. Bruce Walsh 9781138987845
RRP: $98.68$86.88Created to keep pace with changes in the psychological fields, the Biennial Review of Counseling Psychology addresses key developments in theory, research, and practice. New areas that have evolved in counseling psychology are discussed, and each chapter... -
Beliefs, Reasoning, and Decision Making: Psycho-Logic in Honor of Bob Abelson by Roger C. Schank 9781138987777
RRP: $100.78$88.64It is not unusual for a festschrift to include offerings from several areas of study, but it is highly unusual for those areas to cross disciplinary lines. This book, in doing just that, is a testimony to Bob Abelson's impact on the disciplines of social... -
Women and Health Psychology: Volume I: Mental Health Issues by Cheryl Brown Travis 9781138987203
RRP: $48.28$42.34The author proposes that the conditions, events, and experiences that contribute to serious mental health problems for a percentage of women, will at some point be experienced by all. Mental Health Issues presents two basic themes: that social contexts... -
Violence on Television: An Analysis of Amount, Nature, Location and Origin of Violence in British Programmes by Barrie Gunter 9781138986756
RRP: $83.98$74.47Television is often accused of showing too much violence. However, it is rare that anyone stops to ask what this statement means. Violence on Television provides an objective analysis of the violence on television, how much there is and what form it... -
Understanding Driving: Applying Cognitive Psychology to a Complex Everyday Task by John A. Groeger 9781138986459
RRP: $96.58$84.27This book closely examines what is involved in driving. It identifies the aspects of perception, attention, learning, memory, decision making and action control which are drawn upon in order to enable us to drive, and the brain systems involved. It... -
Tutorials in Visual Cognition by Veronika Coltheart 9781138986275
RRP: $100.78$88.64In the late-1980s, visual cognition was a small subfield of cognitive psychology, and the standard texts mainly discussed just iconic memory in their sections on visual cognition. In the subsequent two decades, and especially very recently, many... -
Touch in Early Development by Tiffany M. Field 9781138985766
RRP: $100.78$87.80A symposium titled, "Touch in Infancy" was held to celebrate the opening of the first Touch Research Institute in the world. Although touch is the largest sense organ in the body, it is the one that had been the most neglected and the only one... -
Psychotherapy and the Widowed Patient by E. Mark Stern 9781138984202
RRP: $67.18$59.49Coming at a time of renewed interest in the developmental changes of the life cycle, Psychotherapy and the Widowed Patient is a rich resource that examines the impact of a spouse's death on an individual's mental health. Psychiatrists and psychoanalysts... -
Psychotherapy Abbreviation: A Practical Guide by Terry S. Trepper 9781138984196
RRP: $98.68$86.04Psychotherapy Abbreviation is a field-tested approach designed to train both experienced and student mental health professionals to do brief therapy that is effective and highly satisfactory to clients. This book is unique in that it is the only text... -
Psychosocial Approaches to Deeply Disturbed Persons by E. Mark Stern 9781138984165
RRP: $94.48$82.49At a time when biological psychiatry claims that drugs and electroshock are the best methods for helping deeply disturbed persons, mental health professionals need to be reminded that psychological and social approaches to mental illnesses remain more... -
Quality of Life in Behavioral Medicine Research by Joel E. Dimsdale 9781138984349
RRP: $69.28$61.24The number of, and interest in, quality of life studies has grown dramatically in the last decade. On an ever increasing basis, patients, clinicians, researchers, and health policy regulators are considering quality of life in assessing treatment... -
Psychology and Policing by Neil Brewer 9781138984110
RRP: $100.78$88.64Psychological theory and research have much to contribute to the knowledge and skill bases underlying effective policing. Much of the relevant information, however, is dispersed across a variety of different psychological and criminal justice/policing... -
Teamwork and the Bottom Line: Groups Make A Difference by Ned Rosen 9781138983748
RRP: $77.68$68.31This volume is based on extensive research findings and the author's observation that successful managers are people who understand the dynamics of group interaction and can use that understanding effectively to motivate members of their group to achieve... -
A Sociocognitive Approach to Social Norms by Nicole Dubois 9781138982420
RRP: $92.38$80.72Societies and groups attribute greater value to some behaviours and some judgments. These 'norms' are what is most important for understanding how behaviours and judgments are socially regulated. The approach presented examines in particular the social... -
Social Structure and Aging: Psychological Processes by K. Warner Schaie 9781138982307
RRP: $67.18$59.49This volume presents a systematic examination of the impact of social structures on individual behaviors and on their development in adulthood and old age. These papers and responses attempt to improve the reciprocal relationship between changes in... -
Social Psychology of Visual Perception by Emily Balcetis 9781138982260
RRP: $96.58$85.11This volume takes a contemporary and novel look at how people see the world around them. We generally believe we see our surroundings and everything in them with complete accuracy. However, as the contributions to this volume argue, this assumption is...