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Legacy of Alexander Luria: Neuropsychology as a Humane Science
Häftad, 2025
590 kr
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This book invites you into the remarkable life and enduring legacy of Alexander Romanovich Luria whose groundbreaking contributions to understanding of the human mind continue to reverberate through modern neuroscience and clinical practice. Drawing from previously unknown personal diaries, …
Reactive Attachment Disorder
A Case-Based Approach
Häftad, 2011
793 kr
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A child’s close bond with mother, father, or guardian usually provides a foundation for trust in all future attachments. Children deprived of early and healthy dependency—who do not form normal attachment with their caregivers—may later suffer from Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD). This childhood …
Children’s Discovery of the Active Mind
Phenomenological Awareness, Social Experience, and Knowledge About Cognition
Häftad, 2011
536 kr
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During the past 25 years, a great deal of research and theory has addressed the development of young children’s understanding of mental states such as knowledge, beliefs, desires, intentions, and emotions. Although developments in children’s understanding of the mind subsequent to early childhood …
Evaluating and Promoting Positive School Attitude in Adolescents
Av Mandy Stern
Häftad, 2012
536 kr
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At a time when rates of depression and other mental health problems are increasing significantly among high school students, measures of school attitude and well-being are of central importance to school practitioners. Students with positive attitudes about school experience more beneficial …
Discovery of God
A Psychoevolutionary Perspective
Häftad, 2012
552 kr
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The debate between theist and atheist is an old one and has recently become a highly publicized one. There are some well known proponents of arguments on both sides. To provide a different perspective this book takes a psychoanalytically based evolutionary view, presenting an entirely original …
Female Prisoners, AIDS, and Peer Programs
How Female Offenders Transform Their Lives
Häftad, 2012
536 kr
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This book highlights a neglected area in the field of rehabilitation offemale offenders with AIDS. It provides data to show how women, workingas HIV peer educators in prison, utilize their peer experiences as a transition point for rehabilitation both inside and outside of the penitentiary. HIV …
ABCs of REBT Revisited
Perspectives on Conceptualization
Av Windy Dryden
Häftad, 2012
569 kr
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The cornerstone of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy isits ABC framework which helps therapists make sense of clients' problems. As it turns out, however, this model is often misunderstood by both clients and professionals. Research investigation on this misunderstanding forms the basis of this …
Suicide Among Child Sex Offenders
Av Tia A. Hoffer, Joy Lynn E. Shelton
Häftad, 2013
568 kr
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By providing empirical data and multidisciplinary considerations, the book increases awareness of child sex offender suicide among the various entities which come into contact with this population of offenders. This book attempts to bring awareness of this potentially high risk population to …
Adaptive Decision Making and Intellectual Styles
Av Francesco Sofo, Cinzia Colapinto m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
537 kr
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This exciting publication provides the reader with a theoretical and practical approach to adaptive decision making, based on an appreciation of cognitive styles, in a cross-cultural context. The aim of this Brief is to describe the role of thinking-through different options as part of the …
Enterprising Psychometrics and Poverty Reduction
Av Bailey Klinger, Asim Ijaz Khwaja m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
537 kr
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This book uses newly collected data with nearly 2000 observations across Africa and Latin America of SME owner/operators to examine if psychometric tools can distinguish the good ones from the bad ones. This book fully describes the development problem and how psychometric tools can help solve it. …
Beyond the Systems Paradigm
Emerging Constructs in Family and Personality Psychology
Häftad, 2013
537 kr
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This monograph owes its origins to the decades-old proposal by David Bakan (1968) about the duality of human experience. He proposed that community and agency would be two necessary and sufficient constructs to classify and to encompass most human relationships. This dichotomy has been found to be …
Words as Social Tools: An Embodied View on Abstract Concepts
Av Anna M. Borghi, Ferdinand Binkofski
Häftad, 2014
537 kr
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How are abstract concepts and words represented in the brain? That is the central question addressed by the authors of “Words as Social Tools: An Embodied View on Abstract Concepts”. First, they focus on the difficulties in defining what abstract concepts and words are, and what they mean in …
Managing the Public's Trust in Non-profit Organizations
Häftad, 2014
537 kr
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Globally there is growing concern over charities abilities to raise funds. This is of concern to both charity organizations and policy makers. One of the key factors that determine the public’s willingness to provide funds (to donate) is trust in both specific charity organizations and the sector …
Cultural Psychology as Basic Science
Dialogues with Jaan Valsiner
Av Maria C .D. P. Lyra, Marina Assis Pinheiro
Häftad, 2019
551 kr
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This book provides an overview and discussion of Cultural Psychology of Semiotic Dynamics (CPSD) as a general developmental science. It discusses the challenging interplay between the sophisticated abstract concept of a holistic-dynamic understanding of the psyche and the concrete human experience. …
REBT in the Treatment of Subclinical and Clinical Depression
Av Diana Cândea, Simona Stefan m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
537 kr
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The clinical protocols included in this book are focused both on clinical and subclinical depression and are targeted for both adults and youth. After providing a concise overview on depression and the empirical data supporting the clinical protocols, the book illustrates REBT/CBT protocols that …
Meaning-Making for Living
The Emergence of the Presentational Self in Children’s Everyday Dialogues
Av Koji Komatsu
Häftad, 2019
225 kr
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This Open Access Brief analyzes the dynamics in which children’s selves emerge through their everyday activities of meaning construction, both in their relationships with family and within school education. It begins with a discussion of new psychological inquiries into children's selves and builds …
Risks of Harm from Psychopathic Individuals
Häftad, 2019
569 kr
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This brief offers understanding and insight into how to define, establish, and maintain personal safety to minimize risks of negative encounters with psychopaths. The author, through a behavioral science research lens sprinkled with autobiographical anecdotes, details causes of psychopathy, links …
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)
Impact on Brains, Emotions, and Cognition
Av Charles J. Golden, Matthew R. Zusman
Häftad, 2019
818 kr
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The term chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) has recently gained a significant amount of media coverage. However, a large proportion of the information disseminated through the media pertaining to the etiology, neuropathology, and clinical manifestations of CTE are not corroborated by empirical …
Diversity in Global Mental Health
Gender, Lifespan, Access to Care, Treatment and Social Strata
Av Sabine Bährer-Kohler, Blanca Bolea-Alamanac
Häftad, 2019
569 kr
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Mental illness occurs in all communities, regardless of social status, gender, race, or culture. Despite this, research in mental health historically has been biased towards Western-centric heterosexual male models of disease. Many models of service have excluded sexual and ethnic minorities and …
Psychology of Scientific Inquiry
Av Aaro Toomela
Häftad, 2019
607 kr
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This brief sets out on a course to distinguish three main kinds of thought that underlie scientific thinking.Current science has not agreed on an understanding of what exactly the aim of science actually is, how to understand scientific knowledge, and how such knowledge can be achieved. …
Basics of Behavior Change in Primary Care
Häftad, 2020
468 kr
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Emerging policy changes are encouraging adoption of a team-based approach to healthcare, yet most healthcare professionals receive little training in how to practice integrated care. Basics of Behavioral Health in Primary Care is a playbook for mental health and medical professionals to share in …
Remembering as a Cultural Process
Av Brady Wagoner, Ignacio Brescó m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
537 kr
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This brief charts out principles for a cultural psychology of remembering. The idea at its core is a conceptualization of remembering as a constructive process--something that occurs at the intersection of a person and their social-cultural world. To do this, it moves away from the traditional …
Sociocultural Psychology on the Regional Scale
A Case Study of a Hill
Häftad, 2019
590 kr
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This brief presents the case study of a hill in Czech Republic (Říp) and its region, and contributes to theorization in sociocultural psychology on three points, along three current debates. First, it contributes to the exploration of the mutual constitution of the lifecourse and of history, uses a …
Theory of Imagining, Knowing, and Understanding
Av Luca Tateo
Häftad, 2020
551 kr
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This is a book about imaginative work and its relationship with the construction of knowledge. It is fully acknowledged by epistemologists that imagination is not something opposed to rationality; it is not mere fantasy opposed to intellect. In philosophy and cognitive sciences, imagination is …
Closer Look at Juvenile Homicide
Kids Who Kill
Av Katelyn A. Hernandez, Sara Ferguson m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
696 kr
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This book focuses on the small but disturbing percentage of homicides by children that occur each year, providing a brief overview of the legal, individual, and social aspects of this phenomenon. Since the 1980s, these crimes have been on the rise and the resulting legal response has been harsher …
Juvenile Delinquency
Theory, Trends, Risk Factors and Interventions
Av Tom D. Kennedy, David Detullio m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
749 kr
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This brief explores the current theories, trends, risk factors, and intervention efforts related to juvenile crime. Although arrest rates for juveniles in the US have declined over the last two decades, the amount of severe crimes warrants increased examination as the US reports higher rates than …
Cognitive Evolutionary Therapy for Depression
Therapy Manual
Av Cezar Giosan
Häftad, 2020
569 kr
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Evolutionary psychology has recently made inroads in clinical psychology, bringing the understanding that, in some cases, mental symptoms are not manifestations of brain disorders, but rather evolved mechanisms that might function in overdrive or signal fitness problems. Thus, improvements in …
Sensuality in Human Living
The Cultural Psychology of Affect
Häftad, 2020
607 kr
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This book is a theoretical account for general psychology of how human beings meaningfully relate with their bodies-- from the basic physiological processes upwards to the highest psychological functions of religiosity, ethical reasoning, and devotional practices. It unites art and science into a …
Constructing Reality
The "Operationalization" of Bateson’s Conjecture on Cognition
Av Piero Mella
Häftad, 2020
551 kr
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This brief presents an overview of Gregory Bateson’s Constructivist method of Cognition. Bateson proposes a theory of cognition that is based on the abstract notion of difference that the mind distinguishes and perceives and represents information that constitutes and separates how different states …
Secret Power of Criminal Organizations
A Social Psychological Approach
Av Giovanni A. Travaglino, Lisbeth Drury
Häftad, 2020
537 kr
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This Brief presents a social psychological approach to understanding the reaction of communities to organized crime and illegal groups. Based on a new theoretical framework and the latest empirical evidence, this book explores questions of how criminal organizations are able to gain power and exert …
