Psychology

This book presents procedures and research techniques that are based on critical perspectives of Psychology and Education.

The volume represents the continuing of a the Yearbook of Idiographic Science project, born in 2009 and developed through an annual series of volumes collecting contributes aimed at developing the integration of idiographic and nomothetic approaches in psychology and more in general social science.

This book comes as part of a broader project the first editor is developing in collaboration with the other two, aiming critically to articulate the central philosophical issue of time and temporality with Cultural Psychology and related areas in its frontier.

Cultural Psychology is a radical new look in psychology that studies how persons and social-cultural worlds mutually constitute one another.

Values are of critical importance in the practice of career counseling as evidenced by the pervasive use of values surveys and values card sorts by career counselors, vocational and counseling psychologists, career development facilitators, career coaches, and other career development practitioners.

Behavioral Strategy: Emerging Perspectives contains contributions by leading scholars in the field of behavioral strategy research.

The book will be designed primarily for graduate students (or advanced undergraduates) who are learning psychometrics, as well as professionals in the field who need a reference for use in their practice.

Our corporate dominated world is resisting the best efforts of the "e;under 30s"e; to shape it into the information age.

Biographical ruptures and their repairs: Cultural transitions in development represents the efforts of bridging theoretical, methodological, and practice oriented issues revolving around the notion of biographical ruptures and their repairs.

This book brings pragmatic theory and praxis into dialogue with contemporary psychodynamic ideas, practitioners, and clinical issues.

This book brings in the focus on the borders between different contexts that need to be crossed, in the process of education.

Trust has a constituent role in human societies.

This book brings to cultural psychology the focus on phenomenology of everyday life.

Spiritual Leadership in Action: The CEL Story is designed for thoughtful leaders working in the complexity and messiness of their daily organizational lives.

This book is perhaps the first systematic treatment of politics from the perspective of cultural psychology.

Research on help seeking has primarily focused on classrooms interactions that consist primarily of students asking teachers and peers for help.

Theory Driving Research: New wave perspectives on self-processes and human development provides a unique insight into self-processes from varied theoretical perspectives.

This volume understands itself as an invitation to follow a fundamental shift in perspective, away from the self-contained 'I' of Western conventions, and towards a relational self, where development and change are contingent on otherness.

YIS has been thought as an annual series of volumes collecting contributes aimed at developing the integration of idiographic and nomothetic approaches in psychological and more in general social science.

Cross-Cultural Psychology: Why Culture Matters addresses both established and very recent research in cultural and comparative cross-cultural psychology.

Discover the Path to Genuine Concentration in a Chaotic Digital AgeEver feel like your attention is slipping through your fingers, pulled apart by endless notifications and digital noise?

Filipino Americans have a long and rich history with and within the United States, and they are currently the second largest Asian group in the country.

Cross-Cultural Psychology: Why Culture Matters addresses both established and very recent research in cultural and comparative cross-cultural psychology.

International Education Inquiries is a book series dedicated to realizing the global vision of Education 2030a.

Our corporate dominated world is resisting the best efforts of the "e;under 30s"e; to shape it into the information age.

The book will be designed primarily for graduate students (or advanced undergraduates) who are learning psychometrics, as well as professionals in the field who need a reference for use in their practice.

Researcher Race: Social Constructions in the Research Process is designed to expose the role of researcher race in social science research.

This book shows how racial perception goes beyond the limits of sight.

The ubiquitous presence of imaginative work points at its importance among the higher mental functions.

Traditional work on child development is often based on notions of an individual and decontextualized child.

This book is about caring for elderly persons in the 21th century.

Research on the self relates to various phenomena including self-esteem, self-concept, self-verification, self-awareness, identity, self-efficacy, passion, self-determination, and goals.

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Though many psychological theories refer to imagination as a relevant phenomena, we still lack knowledge about imaginative processes.

Cogito, ergo sum.

The concept of health is a challenge of great complexity in terms of theoretical, methodological and intervention within the idiographic frame.

The interventions have ranged between benevolent exchanges to powerful influences as well as military domination.

Students' school motivation and engagement are key contributors to the quality of their academic learning and performance, as well as growth in other important areas of life (social, emotional, and physical health).

This books arises from the observation that mainstream psychology, especially work and organisational psychology (WOP), suffers from critical limitations in its attempts to deal with the complexities of work as a cultural phenomenon.

Past research on gender and LGBTQ issues in K-12 and teacher education has primarily focused on identifying ways of fostering inclusive and affirmative school communities for non-cis and/or queer students and enabling learning contexts to promote academic learning.

Child development 'laboratory schools are dedicated to research-based instruction and furthering innovation in education.

The concept of "e;gender"e; has recently become one of the symbols of what many consider "e;a clash of civilizations"e; between the West and Muslim countries.

The present volume deals with the experience of ambivalence in family relations - a well-known phenomenon that has inspired more and more research and theorizing in the last years but that is however sometimes difficult to capture.

The second volume of Annals of Cultural Psychology is dedicated to the affective nature of human social relationships with the environment.

This book Beyond the Mind: Cultural Dynamics of the Psyche is unusual in the content and it the format.

"e;How can psychology professors in the USA and other nations make their courses more international?

Research on the Self relates to various phenomena including self-esteem, self-concept, self-verification, self-awareness, identity, self-efficacy, passion, self-determination, goals etc.

In the 'Pocket Money Project,' researchers from four countries, Japan, Korea, China, and Vietnam collaborated and studied how children in those four countries were involved with money, combining various research methods and approaches.

The book provides a new look at the everyday relationship between psychological processes and extraordinary aspects of ordinary phenomena.