Wiley-VCH - Psychology

Gestalt Therapy Around the World

O'Leary, Eleanor (ed.) — 13 May 2013 08:17:59 +0200

Gestalt Therapy Around the World is an essential guide to how gestalt therapy is researched, developed, and practiced internationally. The text provides an overview of the development and practice of gestalt therapy in over fifteen countries, including the US, UK, Japan, and New Zealand. It explores the theory, practice, research, and training necessary to provide trainees with a comprehensive international perspective on this therapy. Each chapter focuses on gestalt therapy in a particular country, reviewing local history of the therapy, contributions to research, training initiatives, and gestalt organizations and societies. [390 Pages, Softcover]

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Gestalt Therapy Around the World

O'Leary, Eleanor (ed.) — 13 May 2013 08:17:58 +0200

The first internationally focused book on gestalt therapy to provide a comprehensive overview of current practice around the world. * Features coverage of the history, training, theoretical contributions, and research initiatives relating to gestalt therapy in seventeen countries * Points to future directions and challenges * Includes extensive information on worldwide gestalt associations, institutes, and professional societies that promote the development of the approach [390 Pages, Hardcover]

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The Aftermath of Genocide

Vollhardt, Johanna / Bilewicz, Michal — 13 May 2013 08:17:44 +0200

The issue explores psychological consequences of past genocide. It uses a multiplicity of theoretical approaches to understand how historical genocide affects current intergroup relations and psychological well-being. [Softcover]

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Handbook of Jealousy

Hart, Sybil L. / Legerstee, Maria (eds.) — 13 May 2013 08:17:42 +0200

This Handbook presents an informative and integrated portrait of the emerging areas of research in the development of jealousy during early childhood and across the lifespan, as well as a forum for discussing the implications of these findings for theories of emotional and socio-cognitive development. The 23 interdisciplinary articles capture the process by which jealousy unfolds by exploring familial, cultural, cognitive, and biological factors. Journeying deep into the recesses of the human mind, the Handbook of Jealousy provides rich and profound insights into a powerful and universal emotion. [600 Pages, Softcover]

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Children and Social Exclusion

Killen, Melanie / Rutland, Adam — 13 May 2013 08:17:41 +0200

How children weigh fairness and stereotypic expectations when making exclusion decisions is determined by their understanding of group norms, social identity, and friendships with children from other backgrounds. This book examines the origins of prejudice and emergence of morality to explain why children include some and exclude others and sheds light on the origins of stereotyping, prejudice, and social justice. Tackling these important issues from a global perspective, the authors illustrate how exclusion might be better understood in other cultures and reveal its implications in regions of conflict in the world. [246 Pages, Softcover]

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Essentials of Cross-Battery Assessment

Flanagan, Dawn P. / Ortiz, Samuel O. / Alfonso, Vincent C. — 13 May 2013 08:17:21 +0200

Solidly grounded in psychometric theory and research, the cross-battery assessment approach is an efficient assessment method of integrating score data across several test batteries. Essentials of Cross-Battery Assessment, Third Edition includes coverage of the most frequently administered cognitive, achievement, and neuropsychological test batteries, and instructions on how to incorporate them into a comprehensive cross-battery assessment. Its accompanying CD-ROM includes supplemental information, worksheets, and forms to assist school and clinical psychologists in facilitating a cross-battery assessment. [576 Pages, Softcover]

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Between Skins

Diamond, Nicola — 13 May 2013 08:17:07 +0200

The Body in Psychoanalysis: Contemporary Developments explores the way the body has been understood in psychoanalysis. It reviews recent thinking and critically discusses the literature before discussing how recent research emerging out of developmental psychology and neuroscience challenges and reworks traditional understanding of the body in psychoanalysis. [240 Pages, Hardcover]

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What Works in Offender Rehabilitation

Craig, Leam A. / Gannon, Theresa A. / Dixon, Louise (eds.) — 6 May 2013 08:18:54 +0200

This comprehensive volume summarizes the contemporary evidence base for offender assessment and rehabilitation, evaluating commonly used assessment frameworks and intervention strategies in a complete guide to best practice when working with a variety of offenders. * Presents an up-to-date review of 'what works' in offer assessment and rehabilitation, along with discussion of contemporary attitudes and translating theory into practice * Includes assessment and treatment for different offender types across a range of settings * Internationally renowned contributors include James McGuire, James Bonta, Clive Hollin, Anthony Beech, Tony Ward, William Lindsay, Karl Hanson, Ray Novaco and William Marshall [502 Pages, Hardcover]

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What Works in Offender Rehabilitation

Craig, Leam A. / Gannon, Theresa A. / Dixon, Louise (eds.) — 6 May 2013 08:18:53 +0200

Bringing together a summary of evidence across diverse offender populations, and featuring an international cast of experienced contributors, What Works in Offender Rehabilitation provides professionals with a guide to best practices in rehabilitation with a variety of offenders. The contributors review, bring up to date, and summarise the contemporary evidence base for offender assessment and rehabilitation by evaluating current assessment frameworks and intervention strategies. What Works in Offender Rehabilitation offers an evidence-based approach to assessment and rehabilitation of offenders, with an emphasis on how this should translate into practice. [502 Pages, Softcover]

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Psychodynamic Formulation

6 May 2013 08:18:52 +0200

How do our patients come to be the way they are? What forces shape their conscious and unconscious thoughts and feelings? How can we use this information to best help them? Constructing psychodynamic formulations is one of the best ways for mental health professionals to answer questions like these. It can help clinicians in all mental health setting understand their patients, set treatment goals, choose therapeutic strategies, construct meaningful interventions and conduct treatment. Despite the centrality of psychodynamic formulation to our work with patients, few students are taught how to construct them in a clear systematic way. This book offers students and practitioners from all fields of mental health a clear, practical, operationalized method for constructing psychodynamic formulations, with an emphasis on the following steps: * DESCRIBING problems and patterns * REVIEWING the developmental history * LINKING problems and patterns to history using organizing ideas about development. The unique, up-to-date perspective of this book integrates psychodynamic theories with ideas about the role of genetics, trauma, and early cognitive and emotional difficulties on development to help clinicians develop effective formulations. Psychodynamic Formulation is written in the same clear, concise style of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Clinical Manual (Wiley 2011). It is reader friendly, full of useful examples, eminently practical, suitable for either classroom or individual use, and applicable for all mental health professionals. It can stand alone or be used as a companion volume to the Clinical Manual. [274 Pages, Hardcover]

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Handbook of Experimental Phenomenology

Albertazzi, Liliana — 6 May 2013 08:17:48 +0200

While the scientific study of vision is well-advanced, a universal theory of qualitative visual appearances (texture, shape, colour and so on) is still lacking. This interdisciplinary handbook presents the work of leading researchers around the world who have taken up the challenge of defining and formalizing the field of 'experimental phenomenology'. Relevant for researchers, educators, and students, the text features an outstanding cast of contributors well-credentialed in their respective fields. [560 Pages, Hardcover]

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Psychology Around Us with Majoring in Psych Set

Comer, Ronald — 3 May 2013 08:19:37 +0200

[Hardcover]

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Statistical Reasoning in the Behavioral Sciences (Reprint)

King, Bruce M. — 2 May 2013 08:19:43 +0200

[496 Pages, Softcover]

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Digital Games

Blumberg, Fran C. / Fisch, Shalom M. (eds.) — 29 Apr 2013 08:19:28 +0200

In the United States and in many other countries around the world, digital games have become an integral part of children's lives. Discussions of research on youth and digital games often focus solely on negative effects (e.g., of violent video games), but this is far from the whole story. As natural problem-solving activities, digital games provide a rich context for applied cognition. This volume explores topics such as: * The benefits of digital games for children and adolescents' cognitive skills * The nature of their learning from educational media * The influence of developmental factors on their interactions with digital games * The use of developmental research and established educational practice to create effective educational games that they will play. This is the 139th volume in this series. Its mission is to provide scientific and scholarly presentations on cutting edge issues and concepts in child and adolescent development. Each volume focuses on a specific new direction or research topic and is edited by experts on that topic. [96 Pages, Softcover]

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Personality Psychology

Cervone, Daniel / Pervin, Lawrence A. — 29 Apr 2013 08:18:36 +0200

Now in a new edition, this book expands on previous editions on the study of personality and neuroscience. It draws on research on the biological foundations of personality and trait-based research including investigations of neural mechanisms in defensive information processing as well as brain systems critical to self-concept. The text introduces questions of personality-and-brain along with biological foundations. It explores each of various theoretical issues at a new level of investigation, that of brain research to provide a more up-to-date look at the field. [640 Pages, Softcover]

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Spirituality in Counseling and Psychotherapy

Johnson, Rick — 29 Apr 2013 08:18:29 +0200

Spirituality and Religion in Counseling and Psychotherapy offers a practical approach that utilizes thematically based, personally accessible notions of spirituality and an integration of various traditional and contemporary counseling theories. The author provides a model that integrates existing counseling theories, revolving around the concept of the Real Self, with spiritual themes. By encouraging readers to increase their personal awareness and spiritual differentiation, they can enhance their clinical effectiveness with spiritual issues and avoid ethical transgressions related to imposing their beliefs or personalizing client issues. [288 Pages, Softcover]

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Intellectual Disability

Keith, Heather / Keith, Kenneth D. — 29 Apr 2013 08:17:53 +0200

Intellectual Disability: Ethics, Dehumanization, and a New Moral Community presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the roots and evolution of the dehumanization of people with intellectual disabilities. * Examines the roots of disability ethics from a psychological, philosophical, and educational perspective * Presents a coherent, sustained moral perspective in examining the historical dehumanization of people with diminished cognitive abilities * Includes a series of narratives and case descriptions to illustrate arguments * Reveals the importance of an interdisciplinary understanding of the social construction of intellectual disability [248 Pages, Hardcover]

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CBT For Anxiety Disorders

Simos, Gregoris / Hofmann, Stefan G. — 29 Apr 2013 08:17:37 +0200

A summary of CBT protocols in a single edited volume, CBT for Anxiety Disorders provides a comprehensive resource for professionals, researchers, and graduate students in the field. A one-stop tool for those working with patients exhibiting anxiety disorders, the text includes disorder-specific CBT techniques as well as information on treatment complications, comorbid disorders, and managing pharmacotherapy. It also includes useful materials such as handouts and diagrams. Featuring contributions from leading CBT authors and a team of eminently qualified editors, CBT for Anxiety Disorders is will be of interest to all who seek to help patients with anxiety disorders. [268 Pages, Softcover]

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CBT For Anxiety Disorders

Simos, Gregoris / Hofmann, Stefan G. — 29 Apr 2013 08:17:36 +0200

CBT for Anxiety Disorders presents a comprehensive overview of the latest anxiety disorder-specific treatment techniques contributed by the foremost experts in various CBT approaches. * Summarizes the state-of-the-art CBT approaches for each of the DSM anxiety disorders * Represents a one-stop tool for researchers, clinicians, and students on CBT for anxiety disorders * Features world leading CBT authors who provide an up to date description of their respective treatment approaches in a succinct, and clinician-tailored, fashion [268 Pages, Hardcover]

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Meeting the Psychoeducational Needs of Minority Students

Frisby, Craig L. — 29 Apr 2013 08:17:33 +0200

Written by an expert in the field of multicultural school psychology, this book provides comprehensive coverage of the research showing what is effective when working with African-American, Hispanic, Native American, and other diverse students. It is the first book of its kind to compile and disseminate the research showing the evidence-based methods for working with diverse students in school settings. Coverage of curriculum and instruction, testing and assessment, discipline and behavior management, special education, and the home and family environment is included. In addition, legal and ethical issues related to working with minority students are interwoven throughout the book. [662 Pages, Hardcover]

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Your Undergraduate Psychology Project

Forshaw, Mark — 22 Apr 2013 08:17:19 +0200

The second edition of Your Undergraduate Psychology Project by Mark Forshaw offers more in-depth hints and tips in a simple, informal style designed to ease readers further into the world of research. A variety of special features include: structured chronologically around planning a project, carrying it out, and writing it up; practical advice on how to deal with day-to-day problems such as software failures or uncommunicative interviewees; and written in consultation with a number of experienced academics and students of psychology. [170 Pages, Softcover]

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The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Leadership, Change and Organizational Development

15 Apr 2013 08:18:48 +0200

This volume provides a comprehensive treatment of the principles, theories, constructs, and strategies in organizational development and change management. Developed as a companion to other texts in the Wiley-Blackwell Handbooks in Organizational Psychology series, this handbook focuses on the theories and ideas that inspire and support the practice and strategy of these areas of study. Appropriate for graduate students as well as faculty, the Handbook will be a useful tool for teaching the theories and strategies that provide key background for successful organizational leaders. [496 Pages, Hardcover]

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Diabetes and Wellbeing

Nash, Jen — 15 Apr 2013 08:18:47 +0200

Diabetes and Wellbeing is a practical guide for those newly-diagnosed with diabetes, for individuals who have been managing the challenges of diabetes for many years, and the professionals who help those who deal with the complications of diabetes. This volume presents proven techniques for improving emotional wellbeing and is the first to take an explicitly CBT approach to diabetes. Positive Diabetes addresses the need for this kind of information among individuals with diabetes and healthcare providers. [232 Pages, Softcover]

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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Mindfulness for Psychosis

Morris, Eric M. J. / Johns, Louise C. / Oliver, Joseph E. (eds.) — 15 Apr 2013 08:18:45 +0200

Emerging from cognitive behavioural traditions, mindfulness and acceptance-based therapies hold promise as new evidence-based approaches for helping people distressed by the symptoms of psychosis. These therapies emphasise changing the relationship with unusual and troublesome experiences through cultivating experiential openness, awareness, and engagement in actions based on personal values. In this volume, leading international researchers and clinicians describe the major treatment models and research background of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Person-Based Cognitive Therapy (PBCT), as well as the use of mindfulness, in individual and group therapeutic contexts. The book contains discrete chapters on developing experiential interventions for voices and paranoia, conducting assessment and case formulation, and a discussion of ways to work with spirituality from a metacognitive standpoint. Further chapters provide details of how clients view their experiences of ACT and PBCT, as well as offering clear protocols based on clinical practice. This practical and informative book will be of use to clinicians and researchers interested in understanding and implementing ACT and mindfulness interventions for people with psychosis. [302 Pages, Hardcover]

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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Mindfulness for Psychosis

Morris, Eric M. J. / Johns, Louise C. / Oliver, Joseph E. (eds.) — 15 Apr 2013 08:18:44 +0200

This is the first volume to present a broad picture of theory and application for clinical approaches incorporating ACT and mindfulness in working with psychosis. It provides an overview and introduction to the subject, including a review of the evidence base. Clinical and practical applications are supported with case studies in both individual and group work, with an emphasis on utilizing these strategies in a clinical context. Addressed to practitioners, this book is idea for clinical and counseling psychologists, CBT therapists, and psychiatrists. [302 Pages, Softcover]

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Zig Zag

Sawyer, Keith — 15 Apr 2013 08:18:07 +0200

A science-backed method to maximize creative potential in any sphere of life With the prevalence of computer technology and outsourcing, new jobs and fulfilling lives will rely heavily on creativity and innovation. Keith Sawyer draws from his expansive research of the creative journey, exceptional creators, creative abilities, and world-changing innovations to create an accessible, eight-step program to increasing anyone's creative potential. Sawyer reveals the surprising secrets of highly creative people (such as learning to ask better questions when faced with a problem), demonstrates how to come up with better ideas, and explains how to carry those ideas to fruition most effectively. This science-backed, step-by step method can maximize our creative potential in any sphere of life. * Offers a proven method for developing new ideas and creative problem-solving no matter what your profession * Includes an eight-step method, 30 practices, and more than 100 techniques that can be launched at any point in a creative journey * Psychologist, jazz pianist, and author Keith Sawyer studied with world-famous creativity expert Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Sawyer's book offers a wealth of easy to apply strategies and ideas for anyone who wants to tap into their creative power. [288 Pages, Hardcover]

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On Love

Ferry, Luc — 15 Apr 2013 08:17:56 +0200

All the great ideals that gave life meaning in earlier societies - God, the nation, revolution, freedom, democracy - are in disarray today, questioned by many and rejected by those who have lost faith in them. But there is another value, rooted in the birth of the modern family and in the passage from traditional to modern marriage, that has transformed our lives in profound and often unrecognized ways: love. It affects not only our personal lives but many aspects of our social and collective life too, from art and education to politics. In this book Luc Ferry shows how the quiet rise of love as the central value in modern societies has created a new principle of meaning and a new definition of the good life that requires a completely different kind of philosophical thinking. It forms the basis for a new philosophy for the twenty-first century and a new kind of humanism for the modern world - not a humanism of reason and rights, but a humanism of solidarity and sympathy. The ideal that this new humanism realizes is no longer that of nationalisms and revolutions, of the perpetrating of organized violence in the name of deadly principles that are pursued over and above humanity. Rather, it is about preparing and ensuring a future for those we love most: our future generations. [200 Pages, Hardcover]

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The Clinical Handbook of Biofeedback

Khazan, Inna Z. — 8 Apr 2013 08:18:33 +0200

For biofeedback practitioners and trainees, this is the definitive desk reference for the use of peripheral biofeedback techniques in clinical psychotherapeutic settings. Appropriate for practitioners and students trained in biofeedback techniques, this handbook serves as a tool to help practitioners apply biofeedback in the clinical setting. The text integrates biofeedback with mindfulness techniques and provides clear, immediate strategies for dealing with specific problems that clinicians may not be familiar with. Topics include an array of problems, including anxiety, hypertension, headaches, IBS, and more. [354 Pages, Softcover]

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Research In Psychology

Goodwin, C. James / Goodwin, Kerri A. — 3 Apr 2013 08:17:53 +0200

This edition covers ethics of animal research up to date, primarily by incorporating the thoughtful treatment of the issue by Hal Herzog in his recent text about human-animal interaction. It closes with a discussion of how to review the literature with a new section that includes specific tips on how to organize and write a literature review. This issue also includes a discussion of effect size, power, and meta-analysis, especially by showing the manner in which they are interrelated and significantly increases coverage of the methods used and the issues involved with conducting online research. [528 Pages, Softcover]

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Psychology

Comer, Ronald / Gould, Elizabeth / Furnham, Adrian — 27 Mar 2013 08:17:47 +0100

A Brand New European Text and Interactive E-Book for the Introductory Course! This exciting new textbook from Comer, Gould and Furnham, will help students to understand that psychology is around them every day and that its principles are relevant to a whole host of life questions. In addition to showing the relevance of psychology outside of the classroom, the text also allows students to see the big picture by stressing the interconnected nature of psychological science. * Recurring sections throughout the chapters on human development, brain function, individual differences and abnormal psychology will help students see a more complete picture of psychology. These 'Tying it Together' themes highlight how the different fields of psychology are connected to each other and how they relate to everyday life. * A strong focus on neuroscience is integrated throughout in an exciting and accessible way, including features that demonstrate what happens in the brain when people are performing common behaviours such as eating pizza, learning a second language and getting a good night's sleep. * Chapter summaries review the main concepts presented and provide students with the opportunity to review what they have learned and how the key topics fit together. * An interactive e-book is included with every copy and uses media such as videos, quizzes and exercises to put the student in the driver's seat to explore and understand key concepts in the course. All the media is embedded in the text right where the student needs it, enabling easy access to tools that will spark their interest. To view a demo, go to our showcase site and follow the link: www.wiley-comerpsychology.com The interactive e-book can be accessed using a code packaged with the print book. Please note that the inclusion of the accompanying interactive e-book with the print book requires the addition of VAT, and the final price, inclusive of VAT, will be shown at checkout. [734 Pages, Softcover]

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Adolescent Emotions

Malti, Tina (ed.) — 25 Mar 2013 08:18:24 +0100

Take an in depth look at how emotions relate to adolescents' decision making, reasoning, and behavior in morally relevant situations. It provides a summary of current research on emotions, morality, and adaptive behaviors. Furthermore, it discusses new approaches to research on emotions, morality, and socially adaptive behavior in adolescence. By doing so, the articles provide new insights into adolescents' emotional and moral development and show how emotions contribute to the way adolescents negotiate, resolve, and adapt to the moral and social conflicts that inevitably occur in their everyday lives. By integrating innovative perspectives from developmental, educational, and clinical research, this volume has much to offer for researchers, youth practitioners, and educators. This is the 136th volume of New Directions for Youth Development, the Jossey-Bass quarterly report series dedicated to bringing together everyone concerned with helping young people, including scholars, practitioners, and people from different disciplines and professions. [136 Pages, Softcover]

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Integrated Treatment for Co-Occurring Disorders

Klott, Jack — 25 Mar 2013 08:17:58 +0100

This book presents new and innovative approaches to help identify, assess, and treat high-risk clients who suffer from challenging co-occurring disorders. The importance of identifying suicide risk factors and what these are is a primary focus of the book. Exploring how to apply the basic principles of treatment, this book presents the essential aspects of a treatment plan, and how Motivational Enhancement Therapy can be an effective treatment strategy. With an emphasis on treating people, not behaviors, this book addresses the how to and benefits of motivational interviewing and other treatment considerations to take into account. [214 Pages, Softcover]

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Sustainability in Combining Career and Care

Van Engen, Marloes (ed.) — 25 Mar 2013 08:17:39 +0100

In this special issue on Sustainability in Combining Career and Care, we address normative beliefs about parenting, choices in combining work and family, and outcomes for individual careers, couples, and children. Together, the 10 contributions to this special issue provide a compelling story situating individual behavior, emotion, and cognition, within dyadic, organizational, and socio-cultural contexts. Following from an integrative framework for combining career and care, incorporating the individual, organizational, and societal level of the work-family interface, the collective message unfolds that normative beliefs about parenting need to be challenged in order to create change and promote sustainability for working parents. [Softcover]

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Dental Phobia and Anxiety

Öst, Lars-Göran / Skaret, Erik (eds.) — 18 Mar 2013 08:17:33 +0100

The first book to describe evidence-based treatment of dental phobia using brief CBT, based on the pioneering single-session treatment for specific phobias developed by Lars-Göran Öst. * Brings together research, experience and techniques from clinical psychology and dentistry to describe evidence-based treatment of dental phobia in clinical and dental contexts * Chapters describe epidemiology, diagnosis and differential diagnosis, symptoms, clinical characteristics and consequences, and aetiology of dental phobia * Also covers related issues including intra-oral injection phobia, dental treatment of fearful children, and the use of medication to supplement psychological treatment of fear [246 Pages, Hardcover]

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Dental Phobia and Anxiety

Öst, Lars-Göran / Skaret, Erik (eds.) — 18 Mar 2013 08:17:32 +0100

* Presents the first guide to the evidence-based treatment of dental anxiety, based on the single-session phobia treatment protocol developed by Lars-Göran Öst * Includes chapters on the treatment of dental anxiety in children and adolescents, and the use of pharmacological methods as a supplement to psychological treatment * Takes account of cultural factors that may influence the availability of treatment [246 Pages, Softcover]

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Chapters 17 & 18 Psychology in Action

Huffman, Karen — 13 Mar 2013 08:18:00 +0100

[96 Pages, Softcover]

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Women's Health Psychology

Spiers, Mary V. / Geller, Pamela A. / Kloss, Jacqueline D. — 13 Mar 2013 08:17:32 +0100

Women's Health Psychology focuses on health psychology issues of women spanning from young adulthood to post-menopause. It describes how behaviors, attitudes and life-style choices influence women's health, examines interactions between psychological and physical health, and presents these findings within a developmental and diverse sociocultural context. Women's Health Psychology synthesizes research evidence on each topic presented and provides a critical scientific review of key areas for students in women's studies classes, researchers who focus on the psychology of women's health, psychology programs, medical school, public health, nursing and allied health, and a resource for health and mental health professionals who work directly with women. [656 Pages, Softcover]

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Competence in the Law

Perlin, Michael L. / Champine, Pamela R. / Dlugacz, Henry A. / Connell, Mary — 11 Mar 2013 08:18:17 +0100

[312 Pages, Softcover]

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Becoming Sexual

Egan, R. Danielle — 11 Mar 2013 08:17:47 +0100

The sexualization of girls has captured the attention of the media, advocacy groups and politicians in recent years. This prolific discourse sets alarm bells ringing: sexualization is said to lead to depression, promiscuity and compassion deficit disorder, and rob young girls of their childhood. However, measuring such claims against a wide range of data sources reveals a far more complicated picture. Becoming Sexual begins with a simple question: why does this discourse feel so natural? Analyzing potent cultural and historical assumptions, and subjecting them to measured investigation, R. Danielle Egan illuminates the implications of dominant thinking on sexualization. The sexualized girl functions as a metaphor for cultural decay and as a common enemy through which adult rage, discontent and anxiety regarding class, gender, sexuality, race and the future can be expressed. Egan argues that, ultimately, the popular literature on sexualization is more reflective of adult disquiet than it is about the lives and practices of girls. Becoming Sexual will be a welcome intervention into these fraught polemics for anyone interested in engaging with a high-profile contemporary debate, and will be particularly useful for students of sociology, cultural studies, childhood studies, gender studies and media studies. [200 Pages, Softcover]

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Becoming Sexual

Egan, R. Danielle — 11 Mar 2013 08:17:46 +0100

Cognitive Psychology International Student Version

Matlin, Margaret W. — 6 Mar 2013 08:17:25 +0100

Margaret Matlin's Cognitive Psychology demonstrates how cognitive processes are relevant to everyday, real-world experiences, and frequently examines how cognition can be applied to other disciplines such as clinical psychology, social psychology, consumer psychology, education, communication, business, medicine, and law. The 8th edition continues to relate cognitive topics to applications in everyday life. This edition is fully updated with research and additional anecdotes. It also includes more research on neuroscience. [640 Pages, Softcover]

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The Truth About Burnout

Maslach — 28 Feb 2013 08:17:49 +0100

[200 Pages, Softcover]

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Speed Learning for Kids

Handley, Bill — 27 Feb 2013 08:17:36 +0100

Proven strategies to help kids learn faster and better, from bestselling author Bill Handley Kids who succeed at school aren't necessarily smarter than other kids. Often, they're simply better at learning. Speed Learning for Kids helps you teach your child how to thrive at school by learning more in less time with less effort. The brain-training techniques in this book will enable kids to not just learn faster, but enjoy their learning, memorise as they go, and absorb as much in ten minutes as they normally would in two hours of study. How is it possible? These nontraditional techniques aren't mysterious, they're just not often taught. Any child can learn to learn, and the results really matter--with improved concentration, better short- and long-term memory, more creative thinking, and better memory and reading comprehension skills. * Includes study techniques that replace rote learning to achieve better test results on everything from spelling tests, NAPLAN and entrance exams * Written by Bill Handley, author of the bestselling books Teach Your Children Tables and Speed Maths for Kids * Features brain-training techniques that will not only improve school performance, but also improve problem-solving and creative thinking for long-term career success If you want to give your kids a boost in school, Speed Learning for Kids offers proven, effective strategies and techniques that lead to success in the classroom and beyond. [208 Pages, Softcover]

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The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Addiction Psychopharmacology

MacKillop, James / de Wit, Harriet — 25 Feb 2013 08:18:46 +0100

The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Addiction Psychopharmacology is an authoritative collection of the most current research approaches to the study of drug addiction. Providing students and scholars with practical tools to do the best work possible in addiction psychopharmacology, the handbook covers topics that include core methods for assessing drug effects, distal and proximal determinants of drug use, and insights from cognitive neuroscience. Contributors include a diverse range of experts that reflect the multidisciplinary nature of the field. [782 Pages, Hardcover]

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The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Legal and Ethical Aspects of Sex Offender Treatment and Management

Harrison, Karen / Rainey, Bernadette (eds.) — 25 Feb 2013 08:18:42 +0100

For academics, practitioners, charity workers, and policy makers in the fields of sex offender treatment and management, this volume addresses the importance of legal and ethical issues in sex offender treatment. The text collates a number of important theories discussed during the 2010 International Association for the Treatment of Sex Offenders conference and combines them with contributions from other important and leading academics in this field. The diverse international cast of contributors includes leaders in the field, and contributions cover the gamut of legal and ethical concerns in sex offender treatment. [520 Pages, Hardcover]

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Cognition

Weisberg, Robert W. / Reeves, Lauretta M. — 20 Feb 2013 08:17:15 +0100

This introductory text provides students with a clear, accessible, and well-illustrated presentation of the field, starting with memory, the most accessible starting point to more complex theories and research in information processing. It presents an overall conceptual structure of cognition, organizing the material around the idea of the use of knowledge in carrying out the various cognitive processes. Pedagogically sensible and unique in organization, the book integrates classical and modern research as well as demonstration experiments for students to conduct with simple materials. [744 Pages, Hardcover]

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Recovery from Eating Disorders

Noordenbos, Greta — 18 Feb 2013 08:18:23 +0100

With a uniquely perspective on the key factors in recovery from eating disorders, this practical guide for patients and clinicians draws from relevant, real-life case studies. * Focuses on real-life recovery strategies that involve motivational factors, physical and psychological health, and issues such as self-esteem, body attitude, emotion regulation and social relationships. * Draws on extensive qualitative research with more than 80 former sufferers * Offers experience-based guidance for professionals assisting clients in their recovery process [174 Pages, Hardcover]

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Recovery from Eating Disorders

Noordenbos, Greta — 18 Feb 2013 08:18:22 +0100

Recovery from Eating Disorders focuses on real-life recovery strategies for eating disorders, including methods that involve motivational factors, physical and psychological health, and issues such as self-esteem and relationship dynamics. Appropriate for practicing psychologists, psychiatrists, dieticians, and other professionals who treat patients with eating disorders, as well as sufferers themselves, Recovering from Eating Disorders draws on qualitative research and offers candid, personal accounts to illustrate the healing process. [174 Pages, Softcover]

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Handbook of Military Social Work

Rubin, Allen / Weiss, Eugenia L. / Coll, Jose E. (eds.) — 18 Feb 2013 08:17:55 +0100

Designed to help social workers gain the knowledge they need to better serve the population of active duty service members, National Guard and Reserve personnel, veterans, and their families, this important book covers the foundational knowledge of military social work, including the history of military social work, the unique culture of the military and how that affects interventions and treatments, ethical issues, women in the military, and secondary trauma. Social workers treating military personnel, veterans, and their families will benefit from the relevant topics covered, including PTSD, co-occuring disorders, traumatic brain injury, substance abuse, and suicide prevention. [566 Pages, Hardcover]

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Bergin and Garfield's Handbook of Psychotherapy and Behavior Change

Lambert, Michael J. — 18 Feb 2013 08:17:54 +0100

This classic handbook provides scientific assessment of the efficacy of the most popular psychotherapeutic orientations to promote the use of evidence-based interventions to affect behavioral change and positive client outcomes. Thoroughly updated and revised, the Sixth Edition keeps pace with the rapid changes that are taking place in the field, such as new findings made possible by neuroimaging and gene research, and includes new chapters on psychotherapy process-outcome research, psychodynamic approaches, and training and supervision. [851 Pages, Hardcover]

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