This thoroughly updated and revised new edition provides an essential overview of a full range of psychological contributions to the understanding of crime and the processes of dealing with offenders and helping their victims.
Adapting Psychological Tests and Measurement Instruments for Cross-Cultural Research provides an easy-to-read overview of the methodological issues and best practices for cross-cultural adaptation of psychological instruments.
This unique textbook explores the complex topic of social class, explaining the many psychological nuances of class and classism in people's lives as subjective and phenomenological experiences.
This volume brings together top scholars in industrial and organizational psychology with social psychologists to explore the research and theory relating to various areas of workplace discrimination.
For young children, two of the most important tasks they face are learning how to communicate and learning how to think about themselves and the social world around them.
Revolting Subjects is a groundbreaking account of social abjection in contemporary Britain, exploring how particular groups of people are figured as revolting and how they in turn revolt against their abject subjectification.
This book compiles a series of empirical and conceptual chapters based on Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory as the framework for understanding the overlapping and intersecting contexts that influence different populations of migrants in the United States and Canada.
Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.
Based on presentations made at a conference sponsored by the Social Science Research Council's Committee on Social and Affective Development During Childhood, held at Harwichport, Mass.
This book bridges the fields of critical youth studies, community psychology, and sociology to offer a transdisciplinary analysis of youth voice, participation, and activism, as well as of creative and inclusive knowledge-making practices.
Providing a comprehensive exploration of the major developments of social psychological theories that have taken place over the past half century, this innovative two-volume handbook is a state of the art overview of the primary theories and models that have been developed in this vast and fascinating field.
AACN Core Curriculum for Pediatric High Acuity, Progressive, and Critical Care, Third Edition, provides content required to deliver the best care for critically ill or injured children.
This Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of media domestication - the process of appropriating new media and technology - and delves into the theoretical, conceptual and social implications of the field's advancement.
This new volume, edited by industrial and organizational psychologists, will look at the important topic of cyber security work in the US and around the world.
The great majority of books on artificial intelligence are written by AI experts who understandably focus on its achievements and potential transformative effects on society.
A groundbreaking redefinition of what it means to be healthy that introduces the need for social health - the part of wellbeing that comes from feeling connected - to truly flourish.
This volume uniquely highlights women's empowerment, bringing in theoretical understandings, research studies and auto-ethnographic narratives of women belonging to different parts of the globe and paving the way towards achieving United Nations Sustainable Development goal 5.
Learn how you can cut down on rapport-building time, make your services accessible to more people, and put your consumers at ease during treatment by offering in-home and natural community-based behavioral health services.
Incorporating relevant theory and research from psychology (social, cognitive, clinical, developmental, and personality), mass communication, and media studies, Psychological Processes in Social Media examines both the positive and negative psychological impacts of social media use.
Ideas for 21st Century Education contains the papers presented at the Asian Education Symposium (AES 2016), held on November 22-23, 2016, in Bandung, Indonesia.
Aufgrund der immer größeren gesellschaftlichen Relevanz psychologischer Beschreibungen und Erklärungen ist es an der Zeit, die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von Psychologischer Bildung auszuloten: Was ist Psychologische Bildung und was ist sie zu leisten imstande?
Affective Health and Masculinities in South Africa explores how different masculinities modulate substance use, interpersonal violence, suicidality, and AIDS as well as recovery cross-culturally.
Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Behavior contains papers that were originally presented at the 4th International Congress on Interdisciplinary Behavior and Social Science 2015 (ICIBSoS 2015), held 22-23 October 2015 at The Institute of Management, Economics and Finance of the Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia and 7-8 November 2015 in Arya Duta Hotel, Jakarta, Indonesia.
This book brings together a group of feminist activists, psychologists, and peace workers from countries on every continent who describe how they apply global/transnational feminism in their activist peace and justice projects in the cultures and countries in which they live and work.
Non-verbal communication - the eye movements, facial expressions, tone of voice, postures and gestures that we all use more or less consciously and more or less effectively - can enhance or diminish every form of social interaction.