This is an international and interdisciplinary volume that provides a new look at the general background of the social sciences from a philosophical perspective and provides directions for methodology.
Based on a collection of chapters of leading scholars in the field, the purpose of this book is to intervene in current debates on the scientific foundation of psychological theory, methodology and research practice, and to offer an in-depth, situated and contextual understanding of psychological generalization.
Based on a collection of chapters of leading scholars in the field, the purpose of this book is to intervene in current debates on the scientific foundation of psychological theory, methodology and research practice, and to offer an in-depth, situated and contextual understanding of psychological generalization.
This book investigates how arts-based research methods can positively influence people's resilience and well-being, particularly in constraining environments.
This book brings together into one edited volume the most compelling rationales for literary reading and health, the best current practices in this area and state of the art research methodologies.
This edited volume seeks to critically engage with the diversity of feminist and post-colonial theory to counter hegemonic Western knowledge in mainstream community psychology.
This brief summarizes the existing body of knowledge about the links between mental illness and violence, recommends improved methods to deal with potentially violent individuals with mental illness, and identifies pressing implementation and research needs.
This book explores how philosophical realisms relate to psychoanalytical conceptions of the Real, and in turn how the Lacanian framework challenges basic philosophical notions of object and reality.
This timely and applied textbook brings together leading scientists to illustrate how key theories and concepts in social psychology help to predict and explain behavior, and can be successfully applied to benefit social and practical problems.
This book reconstructs the rise and fall of Wilhelm Wundt's fortunes, focusing for the first time on the role of Richard Avenarius as catalyst for the so-called "e;positivist repudiation of Wundt.
This book offers a conceptual and practical guide to the systematic review process and its application to sport, exercise, and physical activity research.
This book is a strenuous critique of the misinterpretation of statistical knowledge of populations in mainstream psychology, exploring the implications of assuming that those statistics constitute scientific knowledge of individuals.
This book discusses the psychological traits associated with drug consumption through the statistical analysis of a new database with information on 1885 respondents and use of 18 drugs.
This handbook provides an overview of major developments around diagnostic classification models (DCMs) with regard to modeling, estimation, model checking, scoring, and applications.
This book applies a range of ideas about scientific discovery found in contemporary philosophy of science to psychology and related behavioral sciences.
Primatology, Ethics and Trauma offers an analytical re-examination of the research conducted into the linguistic abilities of the Oklahoma chimpanzees, uncovering the historical reality of the research.
Primatology, Ethics and Trauma offers an analytical re-examination of the research conducted into the linguistic abilities of the Oklahoma chimpanzees, uncovering the historical reality of the research.
UN LIVRE PHARE POUR TOUT THÉRAPEUTE Que vous soyez psychologue, psychiatre, psychothérapeute, sexologue, ergothérapeute, coach de vie, intervenant ou aidant naturel, et peu importe avec quelle clientèle, vous découvrirez dans cet ouvrage très complet plusieurs ressources pour accroître votre efficacité professionnelle et appliquer des interventions à court terme.
Dans les pages glacées des magazines ou sur l'écran lumineux des salles de cinéma, il y a peu de place pour ces femmes coincées entre la maturité quadragénaire et la vieillesse octogénaire.
Qu’elle soit faite à des fins de diagnostic psychologique ou scolaire ou encore pour le classement et la sélection du personnel, l’évaluation psychométrique comporte deux phases : l’opération de mesure elle-même, puis la décision que l’évaluateur doit élaborer en fonction de cette mesure et qu’il doit assumer.
L’utilisation de questionnaires psychologiques dans les domaines de l’activité physique, de l’exercice et du sport est une pratique qui s’est considérablement intensifiée au cours des trente dernières années.
Advanced Research Methods for Applied Psychology provides a comprehensive discussion of 21 key topics for the completion of an applied psychology (or similar) research thesis/project.
This handbook provides an overview of major developments around diagnostic classification models (DCMs) with regard to modeling, estimation, model checking, scoring, and applications.
Now in a revised and expanded fifth edition that reflects current research and best practices in direct assessment and intervention, this text addresses a perennial need for school practitioners and practitioners in training.