Carl Ratner's new book deepens our understanding of psychology by emphasizing the role that cultural factors, such as social institutions, artifacts, and cultural concepts play in psychological functioning.
This edited volume summarizes the work of a research group, called Social Bonds and Cultures of Peace that accompanies and supports victims of socio-political violence in Columbia.
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.
Problem-solving courts provide judicially supervised treatment for behavioral health needs commonly found among criminal offenders, including substance abuse and mental health disorders, and they treat a variety of offender populations.
The Handbook of Personality Assessment provides comprehensive guidance on the administration, scoring, and interpretation of the most widely-used instruments.
Die Autoren zeigen in diesem Buch, dass Komplexität ein Geschenk ist, das man für die erfolgreiche Durchführung von Projekten nutzbar machen kann, sei es um Neues zu erschaffen oder auch um Bestehendes zu ändern.
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Eight years ago, four psychologists with varying backgrounds but a common in- terest in the impact of environmental stress on behavior and health met to plan a study of the effects of aircraft noise on children.
The first book-length rhetorical history and analysis of the insanity defense The insanity defense is considered one of the most controversial, most misunderstood, and least straightforward subjects in the American legal system.
Originally published in 1977, the aim of this volume was to demonstrate in a concrete way the relevance of some of the most important individual variables for various domains of social behaviour.
The sociocultural turn in psychology treats psychological subjects, such as the mind and the self, as processes that are constituted, or "e;made up,"e; within specific social and cultural practices.
Die Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit-Hyperaktivitätsstörung (ADHS) ist eine sehr häufige psychiatrische Störung im Kindesalter, die derzeit primär neurobiologisch und genetisch erklärt wird.
Michael Lambertus examines the influence of perceived homosexual sexual and gender nonconform behaviors on the elicitation of two moral emotions, disgust and contempt, as well as moral judgment of male participants in his study.
Understanding the effects of and psychology behind ethical and unethical leadership decisions can have a lasting and far reaching effect on any working environment.
Our human psyches possess astonishing resources that wait within us, but we might not even know they exist until we discover how to access them and cultivate their powers, their untapped potentials and depths.
Emotion Measurement reviews academic and applied studies in order to highlight key elements of emotions which should be considered in the development and validation of newer commercial methods of emotion measurement.
Social Justice, Social Discrimination, and Mental Health explores the theory and background of social justice in the context of mental health of individuals, cultures, and communities.
This book describes the evolution of the Washington University Sentence Completion Test (SCT), a major measure of ego development, from an intuitive rating scale to an empirically derived reliable and valid personality test.
This book calls for a multidimensional and comprehensive approach to reduce the number of school shootings, rather than the simplistic unidimensional strategy that is commonly advocated.
The origins of this book probably go back to Gordon Allport's seminar in social psychology at Harvard during the late 1940s and to the invitation from Gardner Lindzey, some years later, to contribute a section on "e;Sympathy and Empathy"e; to the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (1968).
Dieses Buch erforscht kreative Lösungen für die einzigartigen Herausforderungen, die mit der Gestaltung bewohnbarer Räume in extra-terrestrischen Umgebungen verbunden sind.
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Dieses Referenzwerk bietet eine Zusammenstellung von Leitlinien und Empfehlungen zur psychologischen Begutachtung von Funktionen und Funktionseinschränkungen und stellt somit eine umfangreiche praktisch relevante Orientierung zur Qualitätssicherung gutachterlicher Tätigkeiten dar.
Croire que pour être heureux, il faut se sentir bien tout le temps, voilà une illusion qui empêche bien des gens de goûter les moments de bonheur qui jalonnent leur vie.
Exploring the first purpose-built prison community of its kind, the HMP Dovegate Therapeutic Community, this book provides the most comprehensive coverage of this research to date, following the progress of individual prisoners' through therapy and highlighting the key essentials for prisoners to address their motivations and criminal behaviour.
Identity is a construct strongly rooted and still predominantly studied in Western (or WEIRD; Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic) contexts (e.
