Now in its 20th year of publication, Putting on the Brakes remains the essential go-to resource for kids, parents, and professionals looking for tips and techniques on managing attention disorders. Th
All you need to know about attention deficit disorder is included in this updated edition of the bestselling classic, "Putting on the Brakes". This resource for young people, their parents, and profes
The rise of ethnocultural perspectives in psychology has focused heavily on quantitative approaches, and researchers here seek to balance the field by emphasizing qualitative methods. Qualitative stra
Editor-in-chief Harris Cooper (psychology and neuroscience, U. of Missouri) provides an extensive introductory essay on the objectives of psychological research and their relations to research methods
Psychologists, mostly from Canada and the US, demonstrate how a mature social psychological study of social categories can help clarify similarities and differences between different categorical syste
Though there are many good books on community-based research in psychology and many on methodology, this is the first to focus on methodologies for analyzing community-level data, and to illustrate st
Toch (emeritus, criminal justice, U. of Albany-SUNY) reviews the history of police reform over the past 50 years, stressing the role of citizen "spectators" in shaping police practice and policy, espe
Findley, a law clerk in an Arizona juvenile court, and Sales (criminal justice, Indiana U.-Bloomington) critically review the scientific support for the advocacy recommendations by trial commentators,
Enright (educational psychology, U. of Wisconsin-Madison) shows readers how to forgive people who have hurt them, illustrating a process for confronting the pain, rising above it, and lessening depres
New theories of leadership have risen and fallen over the years, but what stays the same? Kilburg (RRK Coaching and Executive Development) theorizes that it is strategy, character, and influence that
Basic and applied psychologists explore higher order cognition in adolescence and young adulthood. Their goals are to advance the basic science of the developing brain by focusing on key problems that
Intended for students and interns in clinical training in psychotherapy, this handbook focuses on preparing trainees in the process of becoming a supervisee. Topics include beginning clinical practice
While a mother and her son are outside hanging laundry, the child's favorite blanket is picked up by the wind and flies around the neighborhood, eventually returning to its original owner. Simultaneou
While a mother and her son are outside hanging laundry, the child's favorite blanket is picked up by the wind and flies around the neighborhood, eventually returning to its original owner.
The immigrant paradox refers to the phenomenon of assimilated children of immigrants experiencing poorer developmental outcomes and lower educational achievement. In these essays from a spring 2009 co
Glasser, a psychologist, teacher, and writer, and her daughter Schneck, a college student who moved to a new school in the ninth grade, aim to help kids feel at home when they have moved to a new scho
Although advances in science and technology have reduced the number of deaths from infection, cardiovascular disease, and some cancers, coronary heart disease remains the largest cause of death and di
Over the last several decades over 250 citizens convicted of major felonies were found innocent and were exonerated. Today, thanks to the work of psychologists and other criminal justice researchers,
Dearing (Research Institute on Addictions, U. of Buffalo) and Tangney (psychology, George Mason U.) assemble 16 chapters that explore the manifestations of shame and how clinical and counseling psycho
Savickas (behavioral and community health sciences, Northeastern Ohio U., and counselor education, Kent State U.) discusses the theory and practice of career counseling from a narrative perspective. H
McHale (psychology, U. of South Florida) and Lindahl (psychology, U. of Miami, Florida) assemble 13 chapters by psychologists and human development, social work, and family specialists from the US and
Psychologists cannot escape being sued, warns Shapiro (psychology, Nova Southeastern U.) and Smith (law, California Western School of Law), but they can minimize the risk of being successfully sued an
Antony (psychology, Ryerson U., Canada) and Roemer (psychology, U. of Massachusetts Boston) introduce the theory and practice of behavior therapy for psychotherapists and graduate students in training
For mental health and education professionals and graduate students, DuPaul and Kern (school psychology and special education, Lehigh U.) detail early assessment and interventions for children ages tw
Max Archer, a kid detective who helps his peers solve problems, shares his personally proven plan for stopping bed-wetting with his friend, Billy Parker.
Eisenberger (psychology, Bauer College of Business) and Stinglehamber (psychology, U. Catholique de Louvain, Belgium) outline the precepts of organizational support theory, which posits that an employ
Rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT), a form of cognitive behavior therapy, was founded in the 1950s by the late Albert Ellis. He and his wife, a counselor in New York, trace the development of RE
Butcher (emeritus psychology, U. of Minnesota) was invited to be on the committee that revised and restandarized the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), and has written several guides
This collection of eleven articles on intergroup relations highlights current scholarship and emerging methodologies in the study of prejudice in communications. The volume is divided into four broad
The term "narrative therapy" was coined in 1989 from work by Michael White and David Epston, which holds a relational/ contextual/anti-individualist view of persons and relationships. Madigan (Vancouv
Greenberg (psychology, York U., Toronto, Canada) outlines the history, theory, therapy process, and evaluation and research on emotion-focused therapy, for psychotherapists and those in training. He r
Psychologist and therapist Perrin revisits the issues of mind-body (psyche-soma) interaction giving a hermeneutical interpretation. She acknowledges the fluidity of perceptions that lead to conflictin
This volume and its companion volume, Violence Against Women and Children: Navigating Solutions, are part of an initiative by the American Psychological Association to serve as a resource to support r
This volume and its companion volume, Violence Against Women and Children: Mapping the Terrain, are part of an initiative by the American Psychological Association designed to serve as a resource to s
Having suffered a miscarriage while writing this book, Wenzel (U. of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) empathizes with pregnant women's anxiety. She distinguishes between normal anxiety experienced by
There is a growing scholarly literature on how women's perceptions of themselves and behavior are shaped by the male gaze. Drawing on objectification theory (Fredrickson & Roberts,1997) as a synth
Zuckerman (psychology, U. of Delaware) examines three contemporary scientific approaches to the study of personality--the psychodynamic, the trait-psychobiological, and the cognitive--and correspondin
McCardle (child development and behavior, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health) et al. draw together 10 chapters that examine the impact of the human
The impact of combat on service members' mental health has received considerable attention both in the popular press and in scholarly publications. Yet few books have focused on evidence-based effort
Human beings possess the unique psychological ability to self-reflect. Few human experiences and behaviors define the self and allow us to characterize ourselves within the social world more than wor
