Introduces the science of interviewing children by explaining the problems that can arise when adults talk to children and how a forensic perspective mitigates these problems. Debra Poole discusses child development considerations and presents a flexible approach to interviewing children.
Provides mental health professionals the knowledge and skills they need to deliver effective treatment to individuals who engage in intimate partner violence. The authors draw on their extensive clinical experience as well as their own recent studies to help clinicians assess and intervene both with military personnel and civilians who belong to ......
This book presents the state-of-the-art discourse on qualitative methods in psychology and community studies. Authors from the United States and abroad provide examples of research dilemmas and recommendations for this and the next generation of qualitative researchers.
Applying Pattern Recognition to the Analysis of Organizational Behavior
Talks about the field of neural networks, in which powerful computing capabilities offer insights into longstanding, complex I/O questions such as employee selection and behavioral prediction. Neural networks mimic the way the human brain works, using interconnected nodes and feedback loops to learn to recognize patterns in vast amounts of data.
Reconciling Law, Science, and Professional Knowledge
This book examines the use of expert testimony across the legal system, including the issues faced by mental health professionals when they are called upon to serve as expert witnesses.
Using Tipping Points to Achieve Transformative Change in Therapy
This book shows mental health providers how to envision crises as time-limited windows of opportunity-as tipping points clients can seize to achieve new insights and move in positive directions in their lives. Most mental health practitioners have been taught to do risk assessments and to reduce danger to their clients and those around them. ......
Deliberate practice exercises provide trainees and students an opportunity to build competence in essential interpersonal therapy skills while developing their own personal therapeutic style. These exercises present role-playing scenarios in which two trainees act as a client and a clinician, switching back and forth under the guidance of a ......
This handbook reviews factors that impact youth development, including biological, cognitive, and emotive processes; development through social contexts; cultural diversity; risk behaviors and psychopathology; positive youth development; intervention and policy.
