Psychological methodology

In recent years, a psychological perspective has gained increasing acceptance in the education provided to musicians: teachers, performers, and "e;creatives"e; alike.

Structural Existential Analysis (SEA) is a qualitative research method which uses an existential-phenomenological framework that has been developed through decades of therapeutic and research practice.

This book provides an overview of the innovative, arts-based research method of body mapping and offers a snapshot of the field.

Für Psychologen ist die Arbeit am Computer, insbesondere die Auswertung von Daten, ein fester Bestandteil des Arbeitsalltages.

Single-Case Methods in Clinical Psychology: A Practical Guide provides a concise and easily-accessible introduction to single-case research.

Statistical power analysis has revolutionized the ways in which we conduct and evaluate research.

Psychotic Symptoms in Children and Adolescents demystifies the interviewing diagnostic process of psychosis in children and adolescents and provides a valuable resource for treatment.

Collecting and analyzing data on unemployment, inflation, and inequality help describe the complex world around us.

Do you want to give your students more practice with research methods and statistics outside of class?

This edited volume gives a new and integrated introduction to item re- sponse models (predominantly used in measurement applications in psy- chology, education, and other social science areas) from the viewpoint of the statistical theory of generalized linear and nonlinear mixed models.

This book sketches some of the legal doctrines that underlie discrimination litigation.

Seit Mitte der 1990-er Jahre ist eine erhöhte Aufmerksamkeit gegenüber Delphi- Befragungen zu bemerken.

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"e;Overall, this is an excellent guide to the use and administration of psychological tests.

In recent years, qualitative analysis has become accpeted as part of modern psychology.

Leadership, Work, and the Dark Side of Personality uses an interpersonal psychological perspective to unite general theories of both personality and leadership.

The Veterans and Active Duty Military Psychotherapy Homework Planner provides you with an array of ready-to-use, between-session assignments designed to fit virtually every therapeutic mode.

This book explores the practice and transmission of Lacanian and Freudian theory.

Behavioral genetics is a fast-growing, multidisciplinary field which attempts to explain the influence of genetic and environmental factors on behavior through the lifespan.

Cognitive deficits are part of the normal aging process and are exacerbated by various diseases that affect adults in old age, such as dementia, depression, and stroke.

This book explores and provides an overview of the Norwegian psychologist Jan Smedslund's life work on Psycho-logic.

This book presents an historical overview of the field--from its development to the present--at an accessible mathematical level.

This book offers a phenomenologically-inspired approach to sharing stories via 'poetic inquiry', a research approach that is rapidly gaining popularity within psychology and the wider social sciences.

Quickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need to confidently administer, score, and interpret the NEPSY-II The NEPSY-II is widely used by school psychologists, neuropsychologists, and research psychologists to assess children, ages three to sixteen, with neurological disorders and developmental disabilities and to develop effective intervention strategies.

Dynamic risk factors are the children of risk prediction.

Jede Wissenschaft bedient sich bestimmter Methoden, Arten des Vorgehens, um Antworten auf die von ihr gestellten Fragen zu erlangen.

A study of clinical assessment, computerized methods and instrumentation in psychology, containing 18 contributions from the workshop, "e;Computers in Psychology"e;, held in September 1999 at the University of Utrecht.

Discusses the indigenous psychologies (IPs) from the perspectives of science studies and anthropology of knowledge.

Assessing Competencies for Social and Emotional Learning explores the conceptualization, development, and application of assessments of competencies and contextual factors related to social and emotional learning (SEL).

Get to grips with the debate around the historical epistemological origins of psychometric assessment Written by leading experts Explores modern and historical aspects Full of illustrations A thoughtful look at the history of psychological assessment While there have been significant developments in the technical aspects of assessing mental functioning, there is still much to be debated about the motivations and meanings of measuring the mind.

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Das Buch gibt eine neue, systematische Einführung in die Tiefenhermeneutik in Form eines ausführlichen Einleitungskapitels und präsentiert darauf aufbauend verschiedene Aufsätze mit tiefenhermeneutischen Interpretationen, in denen die spezifische Herangehensweise ans Material und ihr Potenzial systematisch veranschaulicht wird.

The goal of this guide and manual is to provide a practical and brief overview of the theory on computerized adaptive testing (CAT) and multistage testing (MST) and to illustrate the methodologies and applications using R open source language and several data examples.

Thoroughly revised and updated, this engaging text has given thousands of students and new evaluators the practical information and expert advice needed to conduct or use evaluations.

The Handbook of Personality Assessment provides comprehensive guidance on the administration, scoring, and interpretation of the most widely-used instruments.

This book investigates the situated (re)production of categories, from the most mundane and unremarkable to those most strongly associated with power and privilege.

This venture aspires to be a mix of a textbook at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels and a monograph to catch the attention of researchers in theoretical and practical aspects of survey sampling at diverse levels demanding a comprehensive review of what useful materials have preceded, with an eye to what beacons to the depth of the imminent future.

This multidisciplinary volume assembles current findings on violent crime, behavioral, biological, and sociological perspectives on its causes, and effective methods of intervention and prevention.

Evaluating Research in Academic Journals is a guide for students learning how to evaluate reports of empirical research published in academic journals.

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The revisions of both DSM-IV and ICD-10 have again focused the interest of the field of psychiatry and clinical psychology on the issue of nosology.

Shows how foundational mathematical ideas can be employed in the understanding of a variety of psychological phenomena.

This practical guide to the intellectual assessment of children and adolescents in schools is widely used, both by practicing school psychologists and by instructors and students in graduate school psychology programs.

Shared and Collaborative Practice in Qualitative Inquiry: Tiny Revolutions is a short collection of reflections on ethical research practice and scholarly community.

The Wiley Handbook of Personality Assessment presents the state-of-the-art in the field of personality assessment, providing a perspective on emerging trends, and placing these in the context of research advances in the associated fields.

Das bewährte Handbuch psychologischer und pädagogischer Tests von Rolf Brickenkamp liegt nun vollständig überarbeitet in zwei Bänden vor.

Demystifying the evaluation journey, this is the first evaluation mentoring book that addresses the choices, roles, and challenges that evaluators must navigate in the real world.

The problem of the out-of-control teenager demands immediate and effective attention from clinicians.