This book provides an in-depth historical exploration of the risk and protective factors that generate disproportionality in the psychological wellness, somatic health, and general safety of Black men in four industrialized Euronormative nations.
Identities in Everyday Life explores how identity theory in social psychology can help us understand a wide array of issues across six areas of life including psychological well-being; authenticity; morality; gender, race, and sexuality; group membership; and early-to-later adult identities.
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.
The traditional production measure of moral judgment has been the Moral Judgment Interview (MJI), which uses hypothetical moral dilemmas to elicit moral judgment.
The majority of people will now spend about one-third of their lives as grandparents, yet developmental psychologists have largely ignored the nature of the grandparental role, and the influence which grandparents can have on grandchildren.
This accessible textbook draws upon progressions in academic, political and global arenas, to provide a comprehensive overview of practical issues in psychological work across a diverse range of community settings.
The group of papers presented in this volume represents ten years of involvement of a group of eight core therapists, working originally with approximately forty families who suffered the loss of husbands and fathers on September 11, 2001.
The historical context of colonisation situates the analysis in Children, Care and Crime of the involvement of children with care experience in the criminal justice system in an Australian jurisdiction (New South Wales), focusing on residential care, policing, the provision of legal services and interactions in the Children's Court.
BWinner of the 2012 International Association for Relationship Research Book Award/BCan we predict how well -- or how poorly -- two strangers will get along?
Guided by the principles of cultural sport psychology (CSP), this book explores the psychosocial issues surrounding elite sport and psychological practice in Singapore.
This collection contains some of the best new work being done on the subject of character from the perspectives of philosophy, theology, and psychology.
This fully-updated fourth edition introduces readers to the rich tapestry of persuasive technique and scholarship, interweaving perspectives from rhetoric, critical theory, and social science and applying their insights to practical political, social, and business contexts.
Dieses Lehrbuch der Sozialpsychologie erklärt alltagsnah und kompakt die ganze Bandbreite zwischenmenschlicher Beziehungen: Warum finden Menschen einander attraktiv und gehen Beziehungen ein?
The American Latino: Psychodynamic Perspectives on Culture and Mental Health Issues focuses on the culture of the Hispanic population in the United States and replaces stereotypes with portrayals based on factual information.
Gender as Soft Assembly weaves together insights from different disciplinary domains to open up new vistas of clinical understanding of what it means to inhabit, to perform, and to be, gendered.
The contributors to this collection focus on the cognitive processes that take place during the initial acquisition of information about others (on-line processes) rather than later when memory processes begin playing a dominant role (memory-based processes).
Groundbreaking case studies mapping the rhetoric inherent in acts of presentation and concealmentRhetorics of Display is a pathbreaking volume that brings together a distinguished group of scholars to assess an increasingly pervasive form of rhetorical activity.
Das Handbuch bietet eine kompakte Darstellung zentraler Konzepte und Themen der Sozialpsychologie und Kommunikationspsychologie in übersichtlicher und didaktisch aufbereiteter Form.
This book examines how the psychosocial motivations underpinning political discussion present dire challenges to meaningful political conversations across lines of difference.
In this book, the authors have explored a series of different types of communities - moving from the basic idea of those based at a specific location all the way to virtual communities of the internet.
Recent legislative trends in the United States, the United Kingdom, and many other countries now require accurate and efficient assessment of environmental aesthetics.
Originally published in 1982 Cheats at Work looks at occupations from an anthropological point of view, using a similar format to analysis of cultures in the study of anthropology.
Although most people are good at face recognition, we are particularly good at recognizing the faces of individuals who share our race, gender, age and species.