Psychological methodology

Co-written by a professor and 10 students, this book explores their attempts to come to grips with fundamental issues related to writing narrative accounts purporting to represent aspects of people's lives.

Like its bestselling predecessor, Multilevel Modeling Using R, Third Edition provides the reader with a helpful guide to conducting multilevel data modeling using the R software environment.

In this unique text, ten cases of music therapy with autistic children (tamariki takiwatanga) are critiqued through the eyes of family members and other autism experts.

This volume presents an innovative psychobiological framework for understanding and treating PTSD.

Presenting cutting-edge work from leading scholars, this authoritative handbook reviews the breadth of current knowledge on aggression from infancy through adolescence.

This book brings together psychometric, cognitive science, policy, and content domain perspectives on new approaches to educational assessment -- in particular, constructed response, performance testing, and portfolio assessment.

The leading reference on personality disorders and their treatment, this authoritative work is now significantly revised with 80% new material reflecting important advances in the field.

Researching, Reflecting and Writing about Work provides a guide to the research skills and critical thinking required to complete a research project for professional learning courses in counselling and psychotherapy.

This book evolved from lectures, courses and workshops on missing data and small-area estimation that I presented during my tenure as the ?

Multiple Imputation of Missing Data in Practice: Basic Theory and Analysis Strategies provides a comprehensive introduction to the multiple imputation approach to missing data problems that are often encountered in data analysis.

Data Analysis of Asymmetric Structures provides a comprehensive presentation of a variety of models and theories for the analysis of asymmetry and its applications and provides a wealth of new approaches in every section.

Homicide and Severe Mental Disorder: Understanding and Prevention provides a complete picture of how severe mental disorder can be assessed in cases of homicide, and how improved understanding can impact risk reduction and prevention.

Zwanzig Jahre nach der ersten Dokumentation zur Arbeit mit Aufstellungen in und für Organisationen zeigt dieses Buch, wie etabliert und differenziert dieser Ansatz mittlerweile geworden ist.

This book describes how to use test equating methods in practice.

This textbook provides a thorough insight into the discipline of social psychology, creating an integrative and cumulative framework to present students with a rich and engaging account of the human social experience.

This book provides an alternative method for measuring individual differences in psychological, educational, and other behavioral sciences studies.

Dieses Lehrbuch bietet einen leichten Einstieg und verständlichen Gesamtüberblick über die quantitativen und qualitativen Methoden der Psychologie und angrenzender Sozialwissenschaften: alle wichtigen Verfahren, ihre Logik und Einsatzgebiete, Stärken und Schwachpunkte und auch neuere Entwicklungen.

A Guide to Doing Statistics in Second Language Research Using SPSS and R, Second Edition is the only text available that demonstrates how to use SPSS and R as specifically related to applied linguistics and SLA research.

Making Research Relevant is the ideal core textbook for master's-level introduction to research methods courses in mental health.

Alternatives to Suicide: Beyond Risk and Toward a Life Worth Living demonstrates how fostering resilience and a desire for life can broaden and advance an understanding of suicide.

This textbook provides a guide to the development of a rigorous and creative research-supported practice for students, practitioners, and researchers in counselling and psychotherapy.

System Health Management: with Aerospace Applications provides the first complete reference text for System Health Management (SHM), the set of technologies and processes used to improve system dependability.

This textbook provides a comprehensive, user-friendly guide to meta-analysis and how to conduct it, using open source software and based on examples commonly found in the field of psychology.

This book focuses on one important aspect of psychological research -- the intensive study of people measured one or more at a time.

This volume introduces the methodological value of hermeneutic dialogue in the field of theoretical and philosophical psychology.

For those who teach students in psychology, education, and the social sciences, the Handbook of Demonstrations and Activities in the Teaching of Psychology, Second Edition provides practical applications and rich sources of ideas.

Machine Learning Toolbox for Social Scientists covers predictive methods with complementary statistical "e;tools"e; that make it mostly self-contained.

Eating behavior encompasses a broad range of aspects: from under- to overeating and from normal to pathological eating.

This is a highly accessible, comprehensive introduction to item response theory (IRT) models and their use in various aspects of assessment/testing.

Basic Statistics provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to statistics using the free, state-of-the-art, powerful software program R.

Describes how psychological ideas have evolved across numerous research areas within psychology.

Strategies and Tactics of Behavioral Research and Practice focuses on the most effective methods for measuring and evaluating changes in behavior.

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 brings together psychoanalysis, clinical and theoretical, with history in a study of remembering as reparation: not compensation, but recognition of the actuality of perpetration and the remorseful urge to rejuvenate whatever represents this damage.

Detection Theory: A User's Guide is an introduction to one of the most important tools for the analysis of data where choices must be made and performance is not perfect.

Advance praise for IQ A Smart History of a Failed Idea "e;An up-to-date, reader-friendly account of the continuing saga of the mismeasure of women and men.

Starting a research project, however large or small can be a daunting prospect.

Recent advances in digitization are transforming healthcare, education, tourism, information technology, and some other sectors.

*Shortlisted for the BPS Book Award 2014 in the Textbook Category* *Winner of the 2014 Distinguished Publication Award (DPA) from the Association for Women in Psychology (AWP)* Successful Qualitative Research: A Practical Guide for Beginners is an accessible, practical textbook.

This clinical guide reviews the basics of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy and presents a quartet of tested protocols for treating anxiety disorders in children and adults.

The Four Domains of Mental Illness presents an authentic and valid alternative to the DSM-5, which author Rene J.

Nowadays, event history analysis can draw on a well-established set of statistical tools for the description and causal analysis of event history data.

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This book is designed to introduce professors and administrators in higher education to the philosophical, theoretical, and research support for using a constructivist perspective on learning to guide the reconstruction of undergraduate education.