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APA Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Volume 1: Building and Developing the Organization Volume 2: Selecting and Developing Members for the Organization Volume 3: Maintaining, Expanding, and Contracting the Organization
American Psychological Association
2010
9 451 kr
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I/O Psychology is both a science/practice and an applied/basic research discipline. Appropriately, the APA Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology offers an in-depth examination of the types of behavioral and structural issues that I/O psychologists study every day, from both a theoretical and applied perspective. It explores a natural progression, from how problems are diagnosed to how research is conducted to generate answers to those problems to how interventions are implemented and, finally, to how they are evaluated. It examines what is currently known-including basic historical reviews-and identifies the most pertinent sources of information in both the core and emerging literatures. It pinpoints practical issues, probes unresolved and controversial topics, and looks at future theoretical, research, and practice trends. One of the givens in the field is that, when an organization or employer attempts to affect one aspect of behavior-for example, job satisfaction-the organization or employer is likely to affect several other areas, such as compensation, supervision, performance review, and the like. Accordingly, through extensive cross-referencing to other chapters, individual chapters attempt to acknowledge the links with other topics in order to present an integrated approach to the field, both within and across volumes. The reader will thus achieve a clearer understanding of the complexities of each topic, and, more globally, a clearer understanding of the complexities of organizations and of the people within them. The volume titles indicate a particular sequence that informs content: issues concerned with designing, building, and developing the structure of the organization (Volume ) flow naturally into issues related to selecting the organization's members (Volume 2). Once the organization is established and has members with roles, issues that pertain to maintaining and ensuring the viability of the organization are taken up-including those concerned with growing, expanding, and, even, contracting the organization. The goal of the entire set is to provide the reader with a well-rounded understanding of the complexities and intricacies of trying to study and affect behavior within and between organizations.
APA Educational Psychology Handbook
Volume 1: Theories, Constructs, and Critical Issues Volume 2: Individual Differences and Cultural and Contextual Factors Volume 3: Application to Learning and Teaching
American Psychological Association
2011
8 081 kr
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The APA Educational Psychology Handbook reflects the broad nature of the field today, with state-of-the-science reviews of the diverse critical theories driving research and practice in-depth investigation of the range of individual differences and cultural/contextual factors that affect student achievement, motivation, and beliefs and close examination of the research driving current assessment, decision making, teaching skills and content, teacher preparation, and the promotion of learning across the life span and with special populations. Volume addresses the definition of educational psychology, some of the most critical theories driving research and practice today, broad areas of research that educational psychology has addressed based on multiple theories and that make an important contribution to the field, and emerging and cutting-edge issues.Volume 2 includes 2 chapters that examine a range of individual differences, cultural factors, and contextual factors affecting student achievement, motivation, and beliefs.Volume 3 focuses on specific applications of research in educational psychology for assessment and decision making, teaching skills and content, promoting learning, and teacher preparation as well as across the life span and with special populations.
APA Handbook of Ethics in Psychology
Volume 1: Moral Foundations and Common Themes Volume 2: Practice, Teaching, and Research
American Psychological Association
2011
5 374 kr
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Discussions of ethics in psychology often focus primarily on misconduct, punishment, and legal sanctions, and too often ignore aspirations, values, principles, and virtues. The net effect of this unbalanced approach creates an atmosphere in which psychologists have viewed ethics as unpleasant and frightening, instead of inspiring and uplifting. Psychologists naturally must be concerned about laws, codes, and regulations, but these documents do not constitute the beginning and end of the conversation on ethics. The editors of this 2-volume reference propose that ethics is best viewed as a striving toward the highest ethical ideals, not just as an injunction against rule violation-a perspective they refer to as amp quot positive ethics amp quot or amp quot active ethics amp quot -and they encourage psychologists to elevate their ethical observance above the minimal standards found in law and enforceable ethics codes. Against this backdrop, handbook contributors investigate the complexities of ethical behavior in clinical, educational, forensic, health, and amp quot tele- amp quot psychology. Several chapters zero in on the teaching of ethics and on ethically minded research relevant to professionals working in experimental psychology. By comparison with many ethics textbooks, this two-volume handbook covers a wider range of subjects and pursues them in greater detail. For instance, it reflects important recent advances in research and technology that present new opportunities and challenges for practice and scholarship. Also, it takes a serious look into some burgeoning new areas such as life coaching and providing services over the Internet. These are just two examples of developments that present fascinating, novel ethical questions that deserve attention. Significant perspectives presented in the handbook include:Ethics is more than the knowledge of the laws, rules, and regulations that govern the profession and discipline of psychology. Competent psychologists rely on overarching ethical theories, as well as laws and regulations, when they live up to their highest ethical ideals. Attention to ethical issues is especially important as psychologists move into new and increasingly complex areas of practice.
APA Handbook of Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality
Volume 1: Context, Theory, and Research Volume 2: an Applied Psychology of Religion and Spirituality
American Psychological Association
2013
6 923 kr
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This two-volume handbook presents the most comprehensive coverage of the current state of the psychology of religion and spirituality. It introduces a new integrative paradigm for this rapidly growing and diverse field. This paradigm sheds light on the many purposes religion serves, the rich variety of religious and spiritual beliefs and practices, and the capacity of religion and spirituality to do both good and harm. The integrative paradigm encourages psychologists to attend to the ways religion and spirituality are expressed not only in individual lives, but also in the lives of couples, families, institutions, communities, and cultures. The handbook documents how the psychology of religion and spirituality is building on its theoretical and empirical foundation to encompass practice. The chapters in this handbook provide in-depth and varied perspectives of leading scholars and practitioners on the most vital questions in the field: What does it mean to say someone is religious or spiritual?Why are people religious and spiritual?How are people affected by the diverse ways they experience and express their faith?How are religion and spirituality shaped and manifested across different ages, ethnicities, religious traditions, and culturesHow can psychologists distinguish constructive from destructive forms of religion and spirituality?How can psychologists integrate religion and spirituality within various models of assessment and treatment?At a broader level, how can psychologists integrate knowledge about religion and spirituality more fully into efforts to address the most significant personal, social, and cultural problems of our day?In what ways might psychologists of religion and spirituality contribute to the full variety of human institutions - mental health, medical, educational, correctional, military, workplace, and communal?And what distinctive contributions can the psychology of religion and spirituality make to mainstream psychological theory, research, and practice?
APA Handbook of Counseling Psychology
Volume 1: Theories, Research, and Methods Volume 2: Practice, Interventions, and Applications
American Psychological Association
2012
5 695 kr
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This handbook will both highlight the practices in counseling psychology's traditional areas as well as in new and emerging areas.The field of counseling psychology is characterized by long roots in vocational psychology, prevention, primary interventions, advocacy, and an emphasis on individual differences. The field's fundamental philosophical approach has historically emphasized human strengths, well being, and prevention. Over the years, this approach has led to emerging emphases on cultural context, dimensions of diversity, the role of work in people's lives, and expanded roles for counseling psychologists in new settings, contexts, and with new populations.
APA Handbook of Behavior Analysis
Volume 1: Methods and Principles Volume 2: Translating Principles Into Practice
American Psychological Association
2012
5 374 kr
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This two-volume handbook continues the inductive translational approach to the science of behavior analysis by providing overview and in-depth chapters spanning the breadth of behavior analysis.Behavior analysis emerged from the nonhuman laboratories of B. F. Skinner, Fred Keller, Nate Schoenfeld, Murray Sidman, James Dinsmoor, Richard Herrnstein, Nate Azrin, and others who pioneered experimental preparations designed to do one thing - find orderly relations between environment and behavior. This bottom-up approach to a natural science of behavior yielded a set of behavioral principles that proved orderly and replicable across subjects, laboratories, and species. By the 9 s, behavior analysts began translating these principles into interventions for institutionalized humans characterized by impoverished repertoires of adaptive behavior. When these interventions proved successful in replacing problem- with adaptive-behavior, the field of Applied Behavior Analysis was born. Over the last 5 years the field of behavior analysis has grown substantially both in the number of practicing behavior analysts and the range of behavior to which behavioral principles have been applied. Today the laboratory study of basic principles of behavior continues to expand our understanding of behavior and to inform the treatment of disorders ranging from autism to substance abuse. The present volumes continue this inductive translational approach to the science of behavior analysis by providing overview and in-depth chapters spanning the breadth of behavior analysis. Volume I provides comprehensive coverage of the logic, clinical utility, and methods of single-case research designs. Chapters walk the reader through the design, data collection, and data analysis phases and are appropriate for students, researchers, and clinicians concerned with best practice. Volume I also provides an overview of the experimental analysis of behavior, and chapters reviewing some of the most important areas of contemporary laboratory research in behavior analysis. Topics covered include memory, attention, choice, behavioral neuroscience, and behavioral pharmacology. Volume II includes chapters illustrating how principles of behavior discovered in basic-science laboratories have provided insights on socially important human behavior ranging from the complex discriminations that underlie human language to disorders treated by clinical psychologists. The second section of Volume II includes 2 chapters, each devoted to a particular behavioral/developmental disorder (e.g., behavioral treatments of ADHD, autism) or to behavior of societal importance (e.g., effective college teaching, effective treatment of substance abuse). Each of these chapters provides a review of what works and where additional research is needed.
APA Handbook of Testing and Assessment in Psychology
Volume 1: Test Theory and Testing and Assessment in Industrial and Organizational Psychology Volume 2: Testing and Assessment in Clinical and Counseling Psychology Volume 3: Testing and Assessment in
American Psychological Association
2013
9 451 kr
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This three-volume handbook is a comprehensive presentation of the theory and application of tests in psychology and education. It begins with an in-depth portrayal of psychometrics: the quantitative underpinning of testing. It then provides thorough, up-to-date and informative chapters related to five general application areas of testing: industrial/organizational psychology clinical psychology (including health psychology) counseling psychology school psychology educational testing In each of these five areas, this handbook is probably the most comprehensive review of the use of testing and assessment in the subfield.
APA Handbook of Multicultural Psychology
Volume 1: Theory and Research Volume 2: Applications and Training
American Psychological Association
2013
5 374 kr
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Consistent with the goals for the APA Handbooks in Psychology amp trade series, the purpose of the two-volume APA Handbook of Multicultural Psychology is to present the best science and best practice within this cross-cutting perspective of psychology. Volume , covering theory and research, comprises chapters concerning conceptual and professional issues, ethnic minority research and methods, individual differences, social and developmental process, and community and organizational perspectives. Volume 2, focusing on applications and training, includes chapters covering historical and professional perspectives stress, adjustment, and positive psychology diagnosis and assessment psychopathology clinical interventions applied and preventive psychology and training and supervision. Beyond providing a solid historical context, the handbook offers an up-to-date review across the major domains of psychology from a multicultural perspective.
APA Handbook of Sexuality and Psychology
Volume 1: Person-Based Approaches Volume 2: Contextual Approaches
American Psychological Association
2013
5 374 kr
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Sexuality is a fundamental component of human psychological experience, and yet it remains relatively underrepresented in the history of the psychological sciences. The APA Handbook on Sexuality and Psychology marks a turning point in the status of sexuality within the discipline of psychology. This comprehensive, two-volume handbook provides an overarching review of current empirical research on sexuality and a synthesis of the dominant theoretical perspectives that have guided both research and clinical practice. An organizing current throughout the volume is the integration of individual experience and social/cultural context across every domain of sexuality. This dual emphasis on person and context is reflected in the structure of the handbook itself. Volume presents foundational information on the history, theoretical and methodological development and current practices in the field, and then moves on to address foundational aspects of sexuality, including desire, orientation, behavior and practices, individual lifespan development, and biological substrates.Volume 2 broadens the analytical frame to emphasize the core contextual factors known to influence the development, expression and interpretation of sexuality and its expression in and through all of the key social institutions of our society, including marginalized populations, education, sexual rights and communities, globalization, religion and the media.The APA Handbook on Sexuality and Psychology will become a defining resource of this increasingly central topic across the sub-disciplines of psychology.
APA Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology
Volume 1: Attitudes and Social Cognition Volume 2: Group Processes Volume 3: Interpersonal Relations Volume 4: Personality Processes and Individual Differences
American Psychological Association
2014
12 158 kr
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This four-volume handbook summarizes the current state of knowledge on major topics within the fields of personality and social psychology. Coverage is contemporary, is provocative, and sets an agenda for future work in the area. Volume focuses on attitudes and social cognition, describing the two main directions in which this domain has moved over the past quarter century. First, there is increasing focus on the phenomenology of daily life, with emphasis on the contents and drivers of mundane daily life. These include emotional experience, religious beliefs, feelings of control and agency, the function of conscious thought, and how all of these underpin our sense of self and important social behaviors. The second trend has been toward a deeper understanding of basic human nature, with increasing focus on unconscious or implicit cognitive processes that influence virtually all facets of daily life (e.g., how power transforms how we think about others and what qualities we associate with leadership). Volumes 2 and 3 provide a broad framework to guide theorizing and research with respect to group processes and interpersonal relations in social psychology. Topics of discussion include theory and research on prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination intergroup and intragroup processes and the formation, maintenance, and dissolution of relationships. Together, the chapters reflect a wide range of theoretical perspectives at different levels of analysis, including perspectives from disciplines outside of psychology (e.g., biology, neuroscience, health sciences, sociology). Volume 4 contains sections on personality processes and individual differences as well as sections on more holistic approaches, such as The Person in Context and The Person as a Whole. Authors provide not only the foundational material on their topic but also discuss the big issues or bones of contention and what they see as the ways forward to resolve these issues.
APA Handbook of Career Intervention
Volume 1: Foundations Volume 2: Applications
American Psychological Association
2014
5 374 kr
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The two-volume APA Handbook of Career Intervention aims to consolidate and advance knowledge about the scientific foundations and practical applications of career intervention. It offers an inclusive resource for understanding and applying principles and practices of career intervention to assist diverse individuals and groups across developmental stages to construct personally meaningful and socially relevant work lives. The handbook presents information about the historical, contemporary, theoretical, demographic, assessment-based, and professional foundations of career intervention (Volume ), as a well as specific career intervention models, methods, and materials within each career service noted above and applied to easing career transitions (Volume 2). In whole or in part, the Handbook aims to be useful to researchers, practitioners, educators, consultants, policy-makers, and students alike across a full array of professions including psychology, counseling, education, and business and industry.
APA Handbook of Forensic Psychology
Volume 1: Individual and Situational Influences in Criminal and Civil Contexts Volume 2: Criminal Investigation, Adjudication, and Sentencing Outcomes
American Psychological Association
2014
5 374 kr
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The APA Handbook of Forensic Psychology consolidates and advances knowledge about the scientific foundations and practical application of psychology to law, the practice of law, and law-related policy. Drawing upon contemporary psychological research and practice, this Handbook provides a thorough, up-to-date, and far-reaching reference on forensic psychological issues that are important to researchers, practitioners and students in psychology, other social sciences and practice disciplines, and law. The Handbook is divided into 2 Volumes, each comprised of 3 sections: Volume (Individual and Situational Influences in Criminal and Civil Contexts) Forensic Evaluation and Treatment in Criminal CasesIndividual and Situational Predictors of Criminal BehaviorApplications of Forensic Psychology in Civil CasesVolume 2 (Criminal Investigation, Adjudication, and Sentencing Outcomes) Victim and Offender GroupsCriminal Investigations and Jury TrialsSentencing and Incarceration
APA Handbook of Clinical Geropsychology
Volume 1: History and Status of the Field and Perspectives on Aging Volume 2: Assessment, Treatment, and Issues of Later Life
American Psychological Association
2015
5 695 kr
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The APA Handbook of Clinical Geropsychology offers a well-balanced scientist amp ndash practitioner approach, with chapters that succinctly review empirical research across a broad range of areas and offer practical approaches for the application of theory to everyday practice with the aging population. The handbook reviews the history of clinical geropsychology and geropsychology practice, to help the reader better understand how the field has grown over the past 3 plus years and to assess the several directions in which it is headed. Chapter authors highlight strength-based approaches to human development and aging, review the status of evidence-based treatment, explore the interface of geriatric medicine and clinical psychotherapy, review several amp quot normal aging amp quot areas of research, and discuss such common psychological, neurological, and other medical issues common in aging as depression, late-life anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, alcohol abuse and substance misuse, suicidal behavior, mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's, and many more. The reader will not only gain knowledge about foundational competencies in the field of clinical geropsychology, but will also find a treasure of information related to assessment, intervention, and consultation in this continually evolving field.
APA Handbook of Human Systems Integration
AvDeborah A. Boehm-Davis,Francis T. Dursom. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
2 302 kr
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The APA Handbook of Human Systems Integration is a practical tool for both students and professionals who need specific knowledge about human considerations in systems design. It is intended to sensitize readers to basic design issues, enhance their understanding of the influence of these issues, and guide them in appropriately combining human performance with a system's numerous interacting components. A central tenet of this book is that it is not sufficient to examine items independently - one must go beyond a focus on individual workers, tools, tasks, or environments. Thus, the handbook is a amp quot how to amp quot resource that reflects the state-of-the-art on work in this enterprise. The book's opening chapters define what is meant by human systems integration, provide a historical overview of the field, and describe a set of case studies to which many chapter authors apply their expertise. Succeeding chapters reflect on the physical, physiological, perceptual, cognitive, and organizational considerations that affect human systems performance and discuss how the knowledge base of the field has been applied in various domains. The remaining chapters describe the trade-offs associated with integrating individual considerations and systems performance, discussing how a decision that optimizes performance in one area (e.g., display design) may entail a reduction of performance in another area (e.g., staffing or personnel selection).
APA Handbook of Psychology and Juvenile Justice
AvKirk Heilbrun
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
2 180 kr
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The APA Handbook of Psychology and Juvenile Justice consolidates and advances knowledge about the legal, scientific, and applied foundations of the juvenile justice system. In addition to an overview of the area, it contains chapters in the following sections: Relevant Law (focusing on important legislation and on U.S. Supreme Court decisions from Kent and Gault to Eddings, Roper, Graham, and Miller-Jackson, and on the relevant legal theory of preventive justice for adolescents)Human Development (describing research on adolescent development and brain development as they apply to behavior in the juvenile justice context)Patterns of Offending (including evidence about offending in juveniles and the persistence vs. desistance into adulthood)Risk Factors for Offending (evidence about risk factors for juvenile offending including Risk-Need-Responsivity theory, juvenile psychopathy, substance abuse, gangs, and trauma/adverse experience, as well as threat assessment and bullying prevention in schools)Forensic Assessment (assessing risk, needs/amenability, and sophistication-maturity as part of legal decisions on commitment, transfer, and reverse transfer, as well as legal decisions on Miranda waiver capacity and competence to stand trial)Interventions (evidence on risk-reducing interventions, both in the community and in residential placement, including for specialized offending of sexual offenders)Training and Ethics (including the updated MacArthur curriculum on adolescents in the juvenile justice system and an analysis of the ethical issues particular to juvenile justice)
APA Handbook of Clinical Psychology
Volume 1: Roots and Branches Volume 2: Theory and Research Volume 3: Applications and Methods Volume 4: Psychopathology and Health Volume 5: Education and Profession
American Psychological Association
2016
12 884 kr
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The 5-volume APA Handbook of Clinical Psychology reflects the state-of-the-art in clinical psychology - science, practice, research, and training. The Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of: the history of clinical psychology, specialties and settings, theoretical and research approaches, assessment, treatment and prevention, psychological disorders, health and relational disorders, health promotion, educational paths, psychologists' development, ethics and standards, professional organizations, and future directions of clinical psychology. With content incorporating the editorial board's commitment to the themes of diversity, evidence-based practices, and international contributions, this addition to the APA Handbooks in Psychology amp reg series will be an essential resource for students, researchers, educators, and practitioners.
APA Handbook of Community Psychology
Volume 1: Theoretical Foundations, Core Concepts, and Emerging Challenges Volume 2: Methods for Community Research and Action for Diverse Groups and Issues
American Psychological Association
2016
5 374 kr
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This two-volume handbook summarizes and makes sense of exciting intellectual developments in the field of community psychology. As a discipline that is considered a half century old in the United States, community psychology has grown in the sophistication and reach of theories and research. Reviewing the chapters of the APA Handbook of Community Psychology, the reader will readily notice several themes emerge. Community psychology's ideas are becoming increasingly elaborated its theory, research and interventions more situated and its reach in both thought and action, more expansive. Ideas that may have seemed much simpler when first proposed - for example, community, prevention and empowerment - have come to pose challenges, contradictions and opportunities initially unspecified and perhaps unimagined. Under the editorial direction of Meg A. Bond, Irma Serrano-Garc amp iacute a, Christopher B. Keys, and Marybeth Shinn, with chapters authored by both senior and rising scholars, the APA Handbook of Community Psychology provides an indispensable and authoritative reference resource for researchers, instructors, students, practitioners, field leaders and life-long learners alike. This highly anticipated addition to the APA Handbooks in Psychology amp reg series covers current knowledge and identifies the most pertinent sources of information in both the core and evolving literature. It highlights community psychology's emphasis on the synergistic relationship between research and action, and offers an international outlook, including chapters integrating perspectives from across cultures and contexts around the world.
APA Handbook of Comparative Psychology
Volume 1: Basic Concepts, Methods, Neural Substrate, and Behavior Volume 2: Perception, Learning, and Cognition
American Psychological Association
2017
5 374 kr
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Comparative psychology is the scientific study of animal cognition and behavior from an evolutionary perspective. This two-volume handbook presents the different aspects of comparative psychology - behavior, cognition, learning, and neurophysiology - in a balanced and exhaustive manner. There are 8 chapters across the set, divided into nine parts. History and Methods constitute the first two parts of the handbook. Key events and basic questions (and controversies) that have shaped the field as well as the methods used to make those questions empirically tractable are presented here. The next three parts - Adaptation/Evolution, Genes/Hormones, and Neural Substrate - present the conceptual foundations for understanding the genesis of behavior and cognition both from a phylogenetic and ontogenetic perspective. Finally, the next four parts (Behavior, Perception/Attention, Learning/Motivation, and Cognition/Emotion) are devoted to the core of comparative psychology today.
APA Handbook of Trauma Psychology
Volume 1: Foundations in Knowledge Volume 2: Trauma Practice
American Psychological Association
2017
5 695 kr
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The two volume APA Handbook of Trauma Psychology is the most comprehensive guide, text, and reference work on the subject to date. \The APA Handbook of Trauma Psychology provides a survey of all the major areas and subtopics of empirical knowledge and practical applications in the field of trauma psychology, written by top experts in the field. Volume is divided into sections on the nature of trauma, its psychological impact, major conceptual frameworks for understanding traumatization, and trauma as viewed from the diverse perspective of various disciplines. Volume 2 covers various applications of trauma psychology, including various modalities of trauma assessment, major treatment approaches across the lifespan, and multi-client and organizational practice. The APA Handbook of Trauma Psychology will be an essential resource to specialists in trauma who need comprehensive information, to practitioners who seek to familiarize themselves with the range of approaches for trauma assessment and treatment, or for students as a graduate level or advanced undergraduate level textbook.
APA Handbook of Forensic Neuropsychology
AvShane S. Bush,Martin L. Rohlingm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
2 180 kr
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The APA Handbook of Forensic Neuropsychology covers the scientific and clinical neuropsychological advances and their application in forensic contexts. The application of clinical neuropsychology to forensic questions and issues is growing at a tremendous rate. This handbook covers the scientific and clinical neuropsychological advances and their application in forensic contexts.To accomplish this goal, the handbook:presents the theoretical, statistical, and ethical foundations of forensic neuropsychology describes current assessment measures and procedures employed in forensic neuropsychology, with an emphasis on their empirical evidence base integrates recently published empirical literature involving commonly encountered disorders and special populations describes reporting, admissibility, and testimony issues involving neuropsychology in forensic matters and describes future directions involving the intersection of clinical neuropsychology and legal matters.
APA Handbook of the Psychology of Women
Volume 1: History, Theory, and Battlegrounds Volume 2: Perspectives on Women's Private and Public Lives
American Psychological Association
2017
5 374 kr
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As a formal field of study, the psychology of women has pushed the boundaries of traditional theory, produced breakthroughs in methodology, and built links to some of the most challenging problems of our time. It remains an intellectually vibrant and socially relevant area, including initiatives that not only have changed the epistemology of knowledge but also have expanded our understanding of ourselves and of the world. Across this two-volume set, chapter authors provide scholarly reviews and in-depth analyses of subjects within their areas of expertise. Themes of status and power inform many chapters. Volume begins by outlining the emergence of the psychology of women and its connections with the women's movement. This is followed by feminist critiques of theory, descriptions of innovative methodologies, and discussions of difference and similarity, both between women and men and between gender and sexuality. The social and economic contexts surrounding these issues are reviewed, as are dichotomies sustained by sexism, stereotypes, and prejudice. Volume concludes with chapters that address the uniquely intersecting components of individual experience. Volume 2 focuses on applied subjects. It begins with a section on psychological well-being, including therapeutic models of gender, feminist goals of empowerment, multicultural feminism, and the borderlands of gender identity. Following is a discussion of close relationships, including issues of intimacy, equity, and changing models of family. Victimization and narratives of victimhood are described next, as are leadership, community, politics, and women in the workplace. The volume concludes with a discussion of women's roles and agency throughout the world, with special attention given to human rights and reproductive justice.
APA Handbook of Psychopathology
Volume 1: Psychopathology: Understanding, Assessing, and Treating Adult Mental Disorders Volume 2: Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
American Psychological Association
2018
5 374 kr
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The APA Handbook of Psychopathology provides a broad perspective on new scientific developments in the study of mental disorders. In addition to providing an overview of symptoms and classification of disorders, the handbook discusses the history of psychopathology, behavioral genetics, cognitive research methodology, brain imaging, behavioral observation, personality assessment, and developments in social policy, government policy, and legal decisions. The handbook also addresses the considerable challenges produced by rapid progress in the field, including the evolution of diagnostic systems that define disorders. The handbook comprises two volumes: Volume : Psychopathology: Understanding, Assessing and Treating Adult Mental Disorders, and Volume 2: Psychopathology in Children and Adolescents. Material on each disorder is presented with a focus upon significant facets: ( ) the clinical picture, wherein contributors describe the symptoms of the disorder and its associated features (2) factors involved in the development of the disorder (3) relationships or comorbidity with other disorders and (4) different assessment and treatment approaches. Thus, the handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of research and advances in treatment in the contexts in which behavior abnormalities occur.
APA Handbook of Contemporary Family Psychology
Volume 1: Foundations, Methods, and Contemporary Issues Across the Lifespan Volume 2: Applications and Broad Impact of Family Psychology Volume 3: Family Therapy and Training
American Psychological Association
2018
9 451 kr
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Edited and authored by leaders in the field, this comprehensive three-volume set lays a solid foundation for integrating theory, research, practice, and policy in contemporary family psychology. Volume describes the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of the discipline, including an overview of traditional theories influential contemporary theories and complex research designs, statistical modeling, and experience sampling, among other topics. The volume presents a lifespan approach to family psychology, recognizing the importance of addressing how families change over time, and it discusses different forms of contemporary families. Volume 2 focuses on the application of family psychology to an array of mental and physical health conditions, societal issues, and shared systems such as schools and health care. Volume 3 addresses contemporary couple, family, and parenting interventions grounded in family psychology theory and science, as well as issues related to family psychology training. The vast scope of the handbook argues that family psychology has evolved to have a major impact not only on the practice of psychology, but also on how researchers in the field investigate the complexities of the human condition.
APA Handbook of Sport and Exercise Psychology
Volume 1: Sport Psychology Volume 2: Exercise Psychology
American Psychological Association
2019
5 374 kr
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The 2-volume APA Handbook of Sport and Exercise Psychology presents new areas of research and links theory with emerging practice to reflect the latest developments in this constantly changing field.The 77 chapters provide extensive coverage of conceptual frameworks and models, empirical findings, and practical interventions. Additionally, many chapters discuss topics not addressed in other publications, such as attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, sleep disorders, life-span engagement in sport and physical activity, and professional ethics and governance.
APA Handbook of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Volume 1: Foundations Volume 2: Clinical and Educational Implications: Prevention, Intervention, and Treatment
American Psychological Association
2020
5 374 kr
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This comprehensive, interdisciplinary handbook presents the latest research in the study, assessment, treatment, and understanding of intellectual and developmental disabilities. The past five decades have resulted in dramatic breakthroughs in the understanding of intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Editor-in-Chief Laraine Masters Glidden and her editorial team provide an overview of the historical foundations of the field of IDD as well as up-to-date material on clinical diagnosis, assessment, interventions, and treatments for such conditions. It goes on to address legal, ethical, and educational issues and other social issues that affect the lives of people with IDD, including family impact and adjustment, relationships and parenting, spirituality, residential and caretaking services, maltreatment and criminal justice issues, stigma and ableism, health, and aging. Chapters address the etiology and treatment of specific conditions (including Down syndrome, fragile X syndrome, other genetic and chromosomal conditions, autism spectrum disorder, acquired brain injury, cerebral palsy, and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders) as well as functioning in multiple domains and throughout the lifespan. Contributing causes to IDD are explored within various contexts such as culture, race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status.
APA Handbook of Adolescent and Young Adult Development
AvLisa J. Crockett,Gustavo Carlom. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
2 302 kr
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This handbook offers comprehensive coverage of the topics that are relevant to the field of adolescent and young adult development. The APA Handbook of Adolescent and Young Adult Development reviews the many factors that impact youth development across varying themes including biological underpinnings, cognitive and emotive processes, development through social contexts and roles, diversity in adolescence and the transition to adulthood, risk behaviors and psychopathology, positive youth development, intervention and policy, and new directions. The expert co-editors have recruited a new generation of top scholars as chapter authors to ensure that this comprehensive guide is thorough, detailed, and invaluable to readers. The handbook is also integrative and incorporates diversity so that clinicians, graduate students, and researchers can gain further understanding and apply this knowledge to a wider range of the population.
APA Handbook of Consumer Psychology
AvLynn R. Kahle,Tina M. Lowreym. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
2 302 kr
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The APA Handbook of Consumer Psychology presents a comprehensive survey of the field, including its historical background and critical sources of information in both core and emerging literature. This 33-chapter handbook is designed as a library reference that captures up-to-date content on consumer psychology, with insights offered by an outstanding roster of contributors. Broad coverage areas include perspectives on consumer psychology, consumer characteristics and contexts, use of psychology to communicate with consumers, consumer cognitions and affect, and use of psychology to carry out business functions.Chapters pinpoint practical issues probe unresolved and controversial topics in a balanced manner and present future theoretical, research, and practice trends. The handbook provides a starting point for an examination of consumer psychology and ways to move the knowledge forward in this meaningful and vital area of human behavior.
APA Handbook of Pediatric Psychology, Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics, and Developmental Science
Volume 1: Developmental Science and Developmental Origins of Risk and Resilience in Childhood and Adolescence Volume 2: Pediatric Psychology and Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics: Clinical Applications of Developmental Science
American Psychological Association
2025
5 374 kr
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This vital two-volume handbook summarizes current and emerging research and clinical evidence to provide a working knowledge of the contributions of pediatric psychology, developmental-behavioral pediatrics, and developmental science, and promote the integration of these disciplines to improve child and adolescent health and well-being.In a nutshell, pediatric psychology emphasizes fostering children’s adaptation in the face of illness and hospitalization; developmental-behavioral pediatrics aims to improve the health of children through an understanding of the biopsychosocial, educational, and cultural influences on them and their families; and developmental science focuses on theoretical and empirical advances in understanding mental, emotional, and social aspects of human development and their underlying and associated processes and contexts. There has been longstanding recognition of the need to more closely unite the three fields.The APA Handbook of Pediatric Psychology, Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics, and Developmental Science aims to deepen communication between these domains by providing an integrative approach to addressing specific issues in child well-being. Chapters in Volume 1 highlight the developmental origins of risk and resilience across early phases of the life course, covering developmental science framing and processes, biopsychosocial systems in development, and social and material contexts of child and adolescent health and well-being. The contributions in Volume 2 focus on clinical applications of developmental science in pediatric psychology and developmental-behavioral pediatrics, discussing family systems and ecological contexts, child developmental contexts and child health conditions, and developmental-behavioral and mental health conditions. The handbook coeditors-in-chief recruited a diverse array of outstanding professionals from developmental science, medicine, and pediatric psychology. This stellar roster prompts trainees, researchers, practitioners, and other professionals to explore new ways to understand and manage child and adolescent health and well-being, and promote deeper interdisciplinary collaborations that can support growth and development.
APA Handbook of Neuropsychology
Volume 1: Neurobehavioral Disorders and Conditions: Accepted Science and Open Questions Volume 2: Neuroscience and Neuromethods
American Psychological Association
2023
5 374 kr
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A comprehensive two-volume set, the APA Handbook of Neuropsychology provides foundational information on neuropsychology, identifies pressing research questions related to neuropsychological disorders and conditions, offers updates on methods to investigate these issues, and aims to shape the field amp rsquo s future development.Volume , Neurobehavioral Disorders and Conditions: Accepted Science and Open Questions, aids clinicians and researchers in updating their understanding of disordered brain function and addresses questions regarding neurobehavioral disorders, such as amnesia, and clinical conditions, such as Alzheimer amp rsquo s disease. Taking a lifespan approach, chapters in Volume include a section on accepted neuropsychological science and a section on important issues for future research.Volume 2, Neuroscience and Neuromethods, focuses on neuroscience, brain imaging methods, and advanced statistical models needed to investigate the questions raised in Volume , as well as treatment paradigms to guide future interventions. Chapters aim to stimulate innovative assessment and intervention methods. The chapters serve as an invaluable resource for the expanding field of neuropsychology. Clinicians, researchers, students, and scholars can use this handbook to gain a foundational understanding of neuropsychology and to further advance the field themselves.
APA Handbook of Research Methods in Psychology
Volume 1: Foundations, Planning, Measures, and Psychometrics Volume 2: Research Designs: Quantitative, Qualitative, Neuropsychological, and Biological Volume 3: Data Analysis and Research Publication
American Psychological Association
2023
9 451 kr
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With significant new and updated content across dozens of chapters, this second edition presents the most exhaustive treatment available of the techniques psychologists and others have developed to help them pursue a shared understanding of why humans think, feel, and behave the way they do. The initial chapters in this indispensable three-volume handbook address broad, crosscutting issues faced by researchers: the philosophical, ethical, and societal underpinnings of psychological research. Next, chapters detail the research planning process, describe the range of measurement techniques that psychologists most often use to collect data, consider how to determine the best measurement techniques for a particular purpose, and examine ways to assess the trustworthiness of measures. Additional chapters cover various aspects of quantitative, qualitative, neuropsychological, and biological research designs, presenting an array of options and their nuanced distinctions. Chapters on techniques for data analysis follow, and important issues in writing up research to share with the community of psychologists are discussed in the handbook amp rsquo s concluding chapters. Among the newly written chapters in the second edition, the handbook amp rsquo s stellar roster of authors cover literature searching, workflow and reproducibility, research funding, neuroimaging, various facets of a wide range of research designs and data analysis methods, and updated information on the publication process, including research data management and sharing, questionable practices in statistical analysis, and ethical issues in manuscript preparation and authorship.

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