Examines the felt experience of being the target of racism, with a focus on mental and physical health in addition to group contexts such as education and the workforce. The authors examine the subtle but persistent links between everyday microaggressions and historical racial trauma, and offer practical tools to assess and measure perceived ......
This fourth edition of Alan E. Kazdin's classic text will, like its predecessors, help students and professionals alike master a wide range of methodological approaches to examining clinical issues and phenomena. The goal is to help the reader design, conduct, recognise, and appreciate high quality research, and recognise the implications of ......
Examines human-animal interactions by applying research in the neurobiology and genetics that underlie human social functioning. Chapters describe the concepts and methodologies that social neuroscientists use to understand human social relationships, functioning, and the social bases of cognition, and apply these to understanding the role of ......
Managing Data, Writing Reports, and Publishing Results in the Social Sciences
This practical and easy-to-follow guide walks readers through often overlooked decision points in the research process. Drawing from his extensive experience as a teacher of research methods and a senior editorial advisor, and from well-established standards of practice - including the APA Ethics Code - Harris Cooper is the ideal mentor in this ......
This collection of best practices in geropsychology addresses the competencies therapists need to work with older adults. Authors use the latest evidence base to advance effective treatments for late-life depression, anxiety disorders, trauma, and substance use disorders.
Best Professional Practices for Serving the Needs of All Students
This comprehensive, landmark guide presents an evidence-based approach to assessment and instruction in K-12 education that takes into account individual differences in students.
Providing a detailed, engaging overview of counseling psychology, this book examines its empirical foundations, its guiding principles, and the methods used in both research and practice. The third edition discusses contemporary research and theories, including feminist multicultural counseling.
It is a compendium of information and tools for researchers considering SCD research, a methodology in which one or several participants (or other units) comprise a systematically-controlled experimental intervention study. SCD is a highly flexible method of conducting applied intervention research where it is not feasible or practical to collect ......
Applying Social Psychology in Prisons and Policing
How does meaningful change occur? What is the role of the psychologist in promoting change? These questions drive this incisive retrospective by social psychologist Hans Toch, who has spearheaded participatory change among violence-prone police, disenfranchised corrections officers, and inmates dehumanized by the misapplication of psychology in ......
