Psychology

Provides an invaluable primer on how culturally accepted stereotypes are impacting people throughout the United States.

This thought-provoking book examines the science behind human attractiveness-the ratios, proportions, and other factors that to a large extent dictate what we find "e;beautiful.

While society has widely condemned the effects on preteens and teens' natural social maturation of digitally enabled communication, such as texting and messaging, and of social media apps, such as Facebook, Instagram, and SnapChat, these forms of communication are adversely affecting everyone, including adults.

This book apprises readers of the present conditions of former and emancipated foster youth, provides evidence-based best practices regarding their experiences, and proposes new policies for ensuring better outcomes for these children upon discharge from foster care.

Scholars from around the world collaborate to explain the history of parapsychology, the study of extrasensory perception (ESP), and the arguments of skeptics and supporters in this fascinating collection.

The information, guidance, and resources this book offers make it a valuable tool for anyone directly or indirectly affected by grief, particularly teens and young adults.

Explains the most effective ways to discuss the legal and financial responsibilities that come with the end of life and tools for managing them-such as wills, trusts, estate planning, and cash management-in the context of financial psychology.

This A-Z encyclopedia provides a broad and evenhanded overview of America's complex relationship with marijuana, examining political, recreational, cultural, medical, and economic aspects of marijuana use both historically and in the present day.

Some doctors still think Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is a "e;fake"e; diagnosis.

This book presents the latest in neuroscience and resiliency research alongside the personal stories of military veterans to advocate for an empirically validated training protocol.

From newspapers to social networking sites, the mass media play a huge role in shaping the way we see ourselves and others.

A comprehensive introduction to one of the most common psychiatric disorders, a condition that results in intrusive, irrational thoughts and/or repetitive, illogical physical or mental actions.

Moral injury is a profound violation of a human being's core moral identity through experiences of violence or trauma.

In the past decades, the pressure to perfect and design our bodies has been unprecedented.

Making decisions intelligently, rationally and with a sense of personal investment requires a considerable degree of critical thinking.

This handbook is designed to illuminate issues involved in the intersection of family life and paid employment from a broad range of disciplines.

At a time when divorce and suicide rates are at record levels in the military, The Military Marriage Manual: Tactics for Successful Relationships is an invaluable aid to members of the military and their spouses and families.

Is it good to be proud?

Help young children to understand and talk about their feelings with this beautifully illustrated book of activities.

As the multiracial population in the United States continues to rise, new models for our understanding of mixed-race children and how their conception of racial identity must be developed.

Beyond Duality and Polarization explores an experience-based learning model, the Phenomenal Patterning approach for personal transformation.

Talcott Parsons (1902-1979) is one of the most influential and best-known sociologists of the past century.

Head Games is focused on the way in which ethnocentrism and cultural bias can impact public health, and in this case, psychotherapeutic process.

This book explores rhythmanalysis as a philosophy and as a research method for the study of cultural historical experiences.

When Trauma Survivors Return To Work explains how managers and co-workers can help foster the process of emotional recovery for employees who have been traumatized and are returning to work.

The Educational Lockout of African Americans in Prince Edward County, Virginia (1959-1964): Personal Accounts and Reflections provides ground-breaking research on the historical events surrounding the Prince Edward County's school closings.

Theories of human development characteristically include a series of stages through which individuals are expected to pass if they are to achieve wholeness and happiness.

In the past decades, the pressure to perfect and design our bodies has been unprecedented.

Why is the Golden Rule so central in almost every culture and religion?

Achieving good behavior and social skills in a child with developmental disabilities can often be very difficult, and methods that improve behavior in other children are often unsuitable or ineffective.

Silent Grief is a book for and about "e;suicide survivors"e; - those who have been left behind by the suicide of a friend or loved one.

The central proposition of God's Prescription for Mental Health and Religion is that the highway to mental health of individuals and of society is God's prescription of selfless devotion and service to others.

What do Scott Peterson, Neil Entwistle and timeless literary seducers epitomized by Don Juan and Casanova have in common?

This publication was made possible by the Rector's Fund in support of publications and books, Bar Ilan University, Israel.

The human body is not a given fact; it is not, as Descartes believed, a "e;machine made up of flesh and bones.

Hidden Threads: A Christian Critique of Sociological Theory, provides a framework for making sense of the social world.

In Aesthetic Genesis, the author argues for a reversal of the most fundamental tenet of phenomenology-namely, that all consciousness is intentional (that is, directed toward an object).

In Drawing Life, Thomas J.

This book is a biography of University of California-Berkeley sociology professor Troy Duster.

This textbook provides a survey of the Speech and Communication Studies areas of Communication, focusing on human communication through the transactional model of communication.

In this book, Christopher D.

Acting Bodies and Social Networks analyzes the complex interactions of body, mind and microelectronic technologies.

When players play, there is a transactional process at work, whether for children on a teeter-totter or pandas playing with peers.

Terra Incognita provides an autobiographical account of Joseph Abrahams' 75-year career as a psychoanalyst, with extensive scientific data, life-altering discoveries, and insightful conclusions.

Desire, Self, Mind, and the Psychotherapies unifies psychological science with contemporary relational psychoanalysis, arguing that the disciplines can be integrated if the concept of repression is understood as motivated forgetting, creative aspects of unconscious processes are taken into account in cognitive science, and a "e;new experiences"e; model of change is acknowledged by psychoanalysts.

This collection of transcripts from sessions by certified Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapists gives therapists, educators, and child welfare and residential treatment professionals a detailed understanding of how Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy is used to help children who have a history of neglect, abuse, orphanage care, or other experiences that may interfere with the normal development of attachment between parent and child.

During the course of psychoanalytic psychotherapy with couples, the practicing clinician is commonly faced with problems and issues that at times can seem nearly insoluble.

Radical Claims in Freudian Psychoanalysis: Point/Counterpoint, edited by M.

The Sexual Alarm System: Women's Unwanted Response to Sexual Intimacy and How to Overcome It by Judith Leavitt explores the shield that develops around many women's bodies to protect them from real and perceived sexual intrusions and dangers.

Play Therapy and Asperger's Syndrome: Helping Children and Adolescents Grow, Connect, and Heal Through the Art of Play is for the mental health professional (psychologist, licensed counselor, licensed social worker) who utilizes play therapy and who works with children and adolescents diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome.