Provides an in-depth and engaging overview of community psychology, including its theoretical underpinnings and methods for conducting research and promoting change within communities. This book aims to get students, including nonpsychology majors, excited about the field and being agents of social change.
School-Based Interventions for Students Exposed to Trauma
Provides readers with the necessary "trauma informed" tools to intervene on behalf of struggling students and create a beneficial educational environment. With examples of core treatment components and engaging case studies, this book illustrates how effective schoolbased interventions ensure that students have the opportunity to heal from trauma.
This book presents and explores reality therapy, its theory, history, therapy process, primary change mechanisms, the empirical basis for its effectiveness, and contemporary and future developments.
Action Learning (AL) has emerged as a key training and problem-solving tool for companies. This book demonstrates how Action Learning can quickly and effectively be introduced, implemented, and sustained in various types or sizes of organizations.
Provides the reader with principles to inform evaluation, formulation, and treatment in their work with parents. The book offers clinical examples followed by clinical formulations offering illustrations of the application of one approach to diverse clinical challenges.
In this step-by-step guide to conducting a research study, Linda McMullen describes the innovative ways in which discursive psychology analyses language at both the micro and macro levels. Discursive psychologists reconceptualize talk and text as being situated in a social context, rather than thinking of talk as a route to our thoughts.
Now in its fourth edition, this classic textbook offers an introduction to learning and conditioning in a concise and accessible style, including the latest influential research findings and theoretical perspectives. Students and scientists from multiple areas of psychology and neuroscience will value this succinct overview of the processes and ......
The treatment of personality disorders is a rapidly evolving focus of contemporary mental health practice. This volume presents a collection of research on personality disorder treatment. Organized by different therapeutic approaches, each chapter presents a theoretical framework, evidence-based methods, and clinical examples.
Investigates the interplay of psychological and physical aggression between partners. This book explores different levels of severity and types of aggression, illustrating that for both risk factors and interventions, 'one size does not fit all.'
