Applied Psychology category: 2264 books
Military Ethics and Peace Psychology
A Dialogue:a Special Issue of peace and Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Most research on the psychological impact of computers and the Internet has focused on the negative side of technology – i.e. how the use (abuse) of interactive systems and videogames can negatively affect mental health and behavior. On the other hand, less attention has been devoted to understanding...
The Changing Nature of Happiness
An In-Depth Study of a Town in North West England 1938–2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
This book shines a light on the meaning of happiness and how public perceptions of it have changed over time. A question that has engaged philosophers from the days of Aristotle, happiness is a subject of growing academic interest, and its recent integration into government policy is provoking increased...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Aging and Work in the 21st Century, 2nd edition, reviews, summarizes, and integrates existing literature from various disciplines with regard to aging and work, but with a focus on recent advances in the field. Chapter authors, all leading experts within their respective areas, provide recommendations...
Empathic Attunement
The 'Technique' of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2000
Empathic Attunement captures the essence of Kohut's contributions to self psychology and the mental health field. Straightforward, accurate, and practical, the authors introduce student and experienced clinician alike to the synthesis of Kohut's major concepts and their clinical applications. The...
Interdisciplinary Collaboration
An Emerging Cognitive Science
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Interdisciplinary Collaboration calls attention to a serious need to study the problems and processes of interdisciplinary inquiry, to reflect on the current state of scientific knowledge regarding interdisciplinary collaboration, and to encourage research that studies interdisciplinary cognition...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Experience is currently a hot theme in decision making. For a long time, decision research was almost exclusively focused on new decisions and neglected the importance of experience. It took the field until the 1990s for a new direction in research and theorizing to become visible in the literature....
Psychology for Social Work
A Comprehensive Guide to Human Growth and Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
This exciting new book is an engaging and accessible introduction to understanding human behaviour and development from a psychological perspective. Written by a psychologist with extensive teaching experience, it offers a clear and systematic exploration of psychological concepts and research, and...
Developmental Psychology for the Helping Professions
Evidence-Based Practice in Health and Social Care
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This book offers a bio-psycho-social approach to evidence-based practice in health and social care. The book presents current evidence on the influence of genetic, epigenetic and environmental factors on behaviour, a survey of developmental factors from childhood to old age, and implications for practice at each stage.
by Kate Hefferon
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
This positive psychology textbook focuses on the importance of the body within optimal functioning and highlights new research in this area.
by Paul Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Paul Bennett delivers a superbly researched, much sought-after approach to clinical psychology: lifespan perspective.
The Power of Bad
How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2019
"The most important book at the borderland of psychology and politics that I have ever read."—Martin E. P. Seligman, Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology at that University of Pennsylvania and author of Learned Optimism
Why are we devastated by a word of criticism even when it’s mixed...
Prologue to Violence
Child Abuse, Dissociation, and Crime
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Despite mounting references to the "transgenerational transmission of violence," we still lack a compelling understanding of the linkage between the interpersonal violence of early life and the criminal violence of adulthood. In Prologue to Violence, Abby Stein draws on the gripping narratives...
A Fresh Look at Psychoanalysis
The View From Self Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Goldberg uses the questions posed by self psychology as point of entry to a thoughtful consideration of issues with which every clinician wrestles: the scientific status analysis, the relationships among its competing theories, the role of empathy in analytic method, and the place of the "self"...