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Defines the term "cognitive evidence" and describes the process for retrieving reliable evidence in a way that maintains integrity throughout the interviewing process Outlines guidance on developing a mindful—rather than prescriptive or rote—approaches...

Now in a revised and updated fifth edition, this gold-standard text and K-8 practitioner resource provides a roadmap for comprehensive literacy instruction informed by the science of reading. Rather than advocating one best approach, the book shows how...

An Introduction to Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment is the successor to Cooper’s prize-winning book Psychological Testing: Theory and Practice. This expanded and updated volume shows how psychological questionnaires and tests can be chosen,...

This book shows why mindful leadership is the key element for supportive management and leadership in the 21st century. It highlights the fundamentals of mindful leadership in philosophy and history in different cultural traditions and shows latest...

Just because a school has adopted a social and emotional learning (SEL) program does not mean it will work. This book explores the conditions needed to implement, strengthen, and sustain effective SEL, and identifies paths that schools, districts, and...

• One of the first books in the new Leading Conversations on Black Identities and Sexualities series. • Offers readers a historical lens to view how intergeneration trauma impacts their client’s sexuality in the modern day • Tackles some key hot topics,...

This handbook aims to bridge the gap between the fields of positive psychology and the psychology of religion and spirituality. It is the authoritative guide to the intersections among religion, spirituality, and positive psychology and includes the...

This book urges those invested in social justice for 2SLGBTQ people to interrogate the biomedical model of mental illness beyond the diagnoses that specifically target gender and sexual dissidence. In this first comprehensive application of Mad Studies...

• Part of a series of books on the COVID-19 pandemic, exploring the role of the media, public compliance, the impact of restrictions, and behavioural interventions, to offer a broad psychological assessment of the COVID-19 crisis • Focuses on how...

This book addresses important topics of coaching in order to better understand what sports coaching is and the challenges that arise when assuming this activity. It provides the reader with useful insights to the field of sports coaching, and discusses...

This new edition of the bestselling text, Nurturing Natures, provides an indispensable synthesis of the latest scientific knowledge about children’s emotional development. Integrating a wealth of both up-to-date and classical research from areas such as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780882145884Author James HillmanFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Spring PublicationsPublisher Spring PublicationsWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 234mm...

• Trans and non-binary people deserve quality, affirmative and culturally sensitive which is offered in all voice services, not only in specialist clinics. • The tidal wave in referrals of trans and non-binary people to gender services including voice...

Psychologists from nineteen countries in Asia and Oceania report on the expansion of western psychology in the region at both the academic and the professional levels. With its own network of associations, conferences, and journals, the comminity of...

First published in 1939, Lytton combines the essence of Sophocles quote "I was not born to share men's hatred but their love" and draws on the work of Homer Lane to relate it back to Christian philosophy and teachings in this his homage to...

Exposure to stressful life experiences can disrupt key regulatory systems in the body and contribute to a variety of negative health outcomes. This authoritative text takes a biopsychosocial approach to understanding the role of stress in alcohol use...

• Part of a series of books on the COVID-19 pandemic, exploring the role of the media, public compliance, the impact of restrictions, and behavioural interventions, to offer a broad psychological assessment of the COVID-19 crisis • Focuses on how...

Praxiology deals with working and doing from the point of view of effectiveness. It has three components: analysis of concepts involving purposive actions; critique of modes of action from the viewpoint of efficiency; and normative advisory aspects in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912419432Author Renata SymondsFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint YouCaxton PublicationsPublisher YouCaxton PublicationsWeight(grams) 140g

This volume provides a multi-disciplinary perspective on grit, its measurement, manifestation and development. Specifically, it provides a comprehensive and balanced response to critiques associated with the construct within the contemporary positive...

In applying psychology to the field of politics, the eminent British anthropologist and psychologist W.H.R. Rivers deals with social or collective psychology rather than with the psychology of the individual. This choice presents a number of problems...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781319030490Author Cynthia GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Worth Publishers Inc.,U.S.Publisher Macmillan Learning

This book shows why mindful leadership is the key element for supportive management and leadership in the 21st century. It highlights the fundamentals of mindful leadership in philosophy and history in different cultural traditions and shows latest...

This practical guide focuses on the reduced expression and activity often described as constituting negative symptoms of psychosis and schizophrenia. Using engaging activities and case studies to aid learning, it offers alternative explanations for these...

Used worldwide in assessment and professional certification contexts, computerized adaptive testing (CAT) offers a powerful means to measure individual differences or make classifications. This authoritative work from CAT pioneer David J. Weiss and Alper...

A classic work that has helped to consolidate the role of the social worker in improving the quality of life of Latin American societies, by having highlighted the importance of group management over individual care.Book InformationISBN...

This work explains the use of game as an axis and therapeutic resource, from the cognitive behavioral, psychoanalytic, gestalt and humanistic approaches. The author offers a plural vision of treatment with children, taking up the theoretical principles...

This text provides an accessible, reader-friendly guide to conducting Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) on a one-to-one basis, developed in partnership with service users who have lived experience of CAT.The book will cover the applications of CAT in...

Instructional Design for Organizational Justice prepares instructional designers to use culturally relevant, performance-based learning materials and environments that improve organizational and workplace learning experiences for today’s diverse,...

Instructional Design for Organizational Justice prepares instructional designers to use culturally relevant, performance-based learning materials and environments that improve organizational and workplace learning experiences for today’s diverse,...

In Authority and Delinquency in the Modern State, originally published in 1950, Alex Comfort discusses the relationship between crime and power, and traces the mechanisms which may lead to delinquent behaviour by those in office. In the early twentieth...

This volume is envisioned as a primary reference in research, studies and concepts on shame through the lens of gender and from transdisciplinary, cultural and transcultural perspectives. It sheds light on the state of the art regarding shame and its...

This text provides an accessible, reader-friendly guide to conducting Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) on a one-to-one basis, developed in partnership with service users who have lived experience of CAT.The book will cover the applications of CAT in...

This extensive overview of mental performance optimization techniques offers both a state-of-the-art reference resource and comprehensive tool for those engaged in the management and implementation of mental performance programs.The book is written by a...

This book discusses and compares four different approaches towards analyzing panel data in QCA. It starts by introducing QCA as a research approach, then discusses the most important assumptions, and steps like set-calibration and theory-testing, and...

The past decade has witnessed an explosion of interest in research and education in causal inference, due to its wide applications in biomedical research, social sciences, artificial intelligence etc. This textbook, based on the author's course on causal...

This extensive overview of mental performance optimization techniques offers both a state-of-the-art reference resource and comprehensive tool for those engaged in the management and implementation of mental performance programs.The book is written by a...

 Book InformationISBN 9783662676196Author Florian BeckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 323Imprint Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KPublisher Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG