Die vielgestaltigen Prozesse bei Herzkrankheiten, wie die funktionellen Störungen und die koronare Herzkrankheit, erfordern multimodale, interaktionistische Forschungsstrategien, die die biologischen, psychologischen und sozialen Faktoren integrieren.
This volume provides the first authoritative explication of metatheoretical principles in the construction and evaluation of social-psychological theories.
Men and the Language of Emotions challenges the commonly held association of rationality with masculinity, involving distancing from the language of emotions.
Based on in-depth interviews designed to determine what trust is, how it is built, and how it is destroyed, this important new resource provides extensive insight into the fundamental process of interpersonal trust in the day-to-day lives of average people.
Drawing upon qualitative material from parents and professionals, including ethnography, narrative inquiry, interviews and focus groups, this book brings together feminist and critical disability studies theories.
This book integrates psychiatry and psychoanalysis to present deeper and sounder clinical profiles of the personality disorders than have been hitherto available.
A new take on our bio-cultural evolution explores how the "e;inner theatre"e; of the brain and its "e;animal-human stages"e; are reflected in and shaped by the mirror of cinema.
The Handbook of Personality Assessment provides comprehensive guidance on the administration, scoring, and interpretation of the most widely-used instruments.
This book goes beyond the traditional approaches to drug use and discusses the issue from a societal perspective, integrating contributions from different disciplines such as psychology, public health, anthropology, law, public policies and sociology to address specifically the social aspects of the phenomenon.
Marriages across ethnic borders are increasing in frequency, yet little is known of how discourses of 'normal' families, ethnicity, race, migration, globalisation affect couples and children involved in these mixed marriages.
Self-consciousness is a topic of considerable importance to a variety of empirical and theoretical disciplines such as developmental and social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry, and philosophy.
Originally published in 1950, the need for a small standard text on basic principles of personality structure and development had been very apparent to teachers of psychology for some time.
Parenting: An Ecological Perspective was originally created in 1993 to answer questions such as: Why do parents differ markedly in the ways in which they care for their children?
The World Health Organization's concept of health as "e;the condition of psychophysical and social well-being"e; must be translated into opera- tional terms.
Working with Autistic People in the Criminal Justice and Forensic Mental Health Systems: A Handbook for Practitioners is the first book to focus specifically on best practice for working with autistic people in criminal justice and forensic mental health settings.
Conflict between work and family has been a topic of discussion since the beginning of the women's movement, but recent changes in family structures and workforce demographics have made it clear that the issues impact both women and men.
This Handbook deals with theoretical and empirical evidence on the economics of discrimination and affirmative action across the world, assessed over a variety of social identities, such as caste, race, ethnicity, gender, disability, age, tribal status.
Alexander Batthyány und Elisabeth Lukas führen in diesem Buch ein Gespräch über die Herausforderungen unserer Tage: Wie kann man in schwierigen Lebensphasen seelisch gesund bleiben?
Personality pathology, which is characterized by a pervasive, maladaptive, and inflexible pattern of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, has long been considered a set of categories that are distinct from each other and from "e;normal"e; personality.
Ein Buch für Frauen und Männer, in den mittleren bis höheren Lebensjahren, für die die Prostata des Mannes plötzlich und unerwartet ein wichtiges körperliches Thema sein wird.
This book analyses the clinical interaction between depression and personality dysfunction to help clinicians better understand and treat patients with complex depression.
This book presents an overview of Mexican ethnopsychology, an original theoretical and methodological approach that seeks to complement the mainstream psychological science - based on universal principles, processes and constructs - with scientific methods to study the idiosyncratic features and behaviors typical of specific cultural groups.
Die Autorinnen bieten einen Überblick über das Störungsbild, Entstehung, neurobiologische und pharmakotherapeutische Grundlagen sowie Therapiemöglichkeiten und stellen Problemverhalten, dysfunktionale Schemata, Beziehungsfallen, Emotions- und Bindungstheorien dar.
Key Thinkers in Individual Differences introduces the life, work and thought of 25 of the most influential figures who have shaped and developed the measurement of intelligence and personality.
