This book explores the profession of independent advocacy through a history of the practice, and provides an empirical study of its emergence in London.
Highly praised for its clear, straightforward approach, Statistics without Maths for Psychology 8th edition provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to statistics and SPSS.
The past decade has witnessed an explosion of interest in research and education in causal inference, due to its wide applications in biomedical research, social sciences, artificial intelligence etc.
"e;Mpofu and Oakland have given us a volume of exceptional clarity, depth, and breadth, one whose utility extends well beyond rehabilitation psychology.
This is the only advanced practice guide to provide an overview of the major DSM-5 disorders across the lifespan and complete clinical guidelines for their psychopharmacologic management.
This volume critiques and challenges the use and promotion of the disease model in psychiatry, arguing that its misconceived approach prevents the preferred disablement model from becoming the default method to understand mental health conditions, including schizophrenia.
Implementing Competency-Based Training and Assessment in Aviation explains in detail, with examples, how to implement Competency Based Training and Assessment in aviation.
An Introduction to Metascience delves into core metascientific concepts, offering a critical examination of current knowledge creation processes and scrutinising researchers and their methodologies across disciplines.
Lejos de ser concebida como un objeto fijo a lo largo de la historia, respecto del cual se habrían elaborado diversos sistemas de representación, de función y de valor representativo, Michel Foucault estudia la locura como una "experiencia" singular en el seno de nuestra cultura.
El amor, el dolor, los actos y conductas, los miedos y nuestras elecciones, entre muchas otras cosas, pueden resultar comprensibles al interpretar las marcas de nuestra infancia, donde se encuentran las principales claves de lo que somos.
Este libro refleja la gestación de un pensamiento en acto frente a las coyunturas disruptivas que fijan, encierran y desacreditan la experiencia subjetiva y comunitaria.
El Comité Internacional por los Derechos del Niño señala que el derecho a ser escuchado debería aplicarse tanto a cada niño como a grupos de niños, por ejemplo, los alumnos/as de una clase, los niños/as de un barrio o un país, los niños/as con discapacidades.
Este libro incluye trabajos presentados en el simposio internacional que lleva el mismo nombre, llevado a cabo entre el 5 y el 7 de noviembre de 2019 en la ciudad de Montevideo (Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de la República).
This book provides methods and applications of latent class analysis, and the following topics are taken up in the focus of discussion: basic latent structure models in a framework of generalized linear models, exploratory latent class analysis, latent class analysis with ordered latent classes, a latent class model approach for analyzing learning structures, the latent Markov analysis for longitudinal data, and path analysis with latent class models.
This is the first technical book that considers tests as public tools and examines how to engineer and process test data, extract the structure within the data to be visualized, and thereby make test results useful for students, teachers, and the society.
This book focuses on the latest developments in behaviormetrics and data science, covering a wide range of topics in data analysis and related areas of data science, including analysis of complex data, analysis of qualitative data, methods for high-dimensional data, dimensionality reduction, visualization of such data, multivariate statistical methods, analysis of asymmetric relational data, and various applications to real data.
This book focuses on the use of the Rasch measurement model in validation studies and in analyzing the psychometric properties of a variety of test instruments, questionnaires, and scales in international contexts.
This book applies Rasch measurement theory to the fields of education, psychology, sociology, marketing and health outcomes in order to measure various social constructs.
This book, specifically developed for students of psychology, covers a wide range of topics in statistics and research designs taught in psychology, in particular, and other disciplines like management, sociology, education, home science, and nutrition, in general, in most universities.
Developed from the authors' graduate-level biostatistics course, Applied Categorical and Count Data Analysis, Second Edition explains how to perform the statistical analysis of discrete data, including categorical and count outcomes.
Este libro narra, desde distintas perspectivas, los nudos más significativos que han tejido a esta Facultad en los ultimos sesenta años de cara a los desafíos venideros.
En este segundo tomo del libro Formar-se en psicología: Conversaciones con maestros de la disciplina, de nuevo hemos invitado a renombra¬dos autores de la psicología que han hecho contribuciones relevantes en asuntos epistemológicos, teóricos, metodológicos y de formación de varias generaciones de psicólogos, y hemos conservado el espíritu y el aliento con que elaboramos el volumen inicial: que personas, tanto del campo de la psicología como de otras áreas, puedan dialogar con ellos.
Las tensiones que emergen entre la libertad y la psicología generan dinámicas y movimientos que permiten, genealógicamente, comprender diversas trayectorias y emergencias, procedencias y búsquedas cuya complejidad mantiene una permanente invitación a la investigación, a la reflexión y a la transformación.
Measurement plays a fundamental role both in physical and behavioral sciences, as well as in engineering and technology: it is the link between abstract models and empirical reality and is a privileged method of gathering information from the real world.
The source of endless speculation and public curiosity, our scientific quest for the origins of human consciousness has expanded along with the technical capabilities of science itself and remains one of the key topics able to fire public as much as academic interest.
