Well-chosen, controversial issues can engage students' interest in course material and show them how to appreciate, evaluate, and apply empirical findings to the analysis of human behavior. This book offers pedagogical tools for navigating controversial issues in the classroom and suggests fruitful topics.
Features chapters that are based on a systematic meta-analysis of the international literature by 40 German scientists who convened to evaluate the research and discarded all but the highest quality data on psychological aspects of CHD. This book is useful for health psychologists who work with CHD patients, researchers, and cardiologists.
Overcoming Traumatization and Reaching Full Potential
Weaves together clinical insights, research findings, a cohesive theoretical model, and a detailed account of how to implement the components of contextual trauma therapy, a form of treatment specifically designed for survivors of complex traumatization.
Reanalyzing Prejudice, Voting, and Intergroup Contact
Using vivid examples of both historical and current events, Thomas Pettigrew's compelling book advocates for a robust contextual social psychology, maintaining that far more attention should be paid to the social context of various phenomena relevant in the world today.
Psychological Perspectives to Address Challenges and Inform Solutions
Uses the latest psychological science to report on the immigration experience globally, critically address the challenges and provide potential solutions to contemporary immigration.
Carlson and Glasser demonstrate effective techniques for psychologists, counselors, and social workers consulting with teachers individually and in groups. This program provides a step-by-step, empirically supported approach.
This book presents a rich discussion of the opportunities organizational consultants have to impact the development of technical leaders, teams, and organizations.
Explores the opportunities that await psychologists in national security settings. The authors are experienced consulting psychologists who provide a richly detailed introduction for psychologists and graduate students. Their insider knowledge offers a glimpse into the workplace culture and group dynamics of national security organisations.
In the business world, there is rapid change in organizational direction and guidance. This volume presents 18 of the author's contributions that explore how and why consultants diagnose organizational and managerial pathology. It is suitable for I/O and business management consultants.
