Assessment and Treatment of the Angry, Aggressive Driver
Explores the phenomenon of road rage, the etiology of driving anger, and the study of the inter-relations of anger, hostility, and aggression. This book provides literature on aggressive driving, assessment information on aggressive drivers from a variety of perspectives such as psychological tests, diagnoses, and psychophysiological measurement.
Creating a Positive School Climate and Developing Social Competence
Brings years of experience in research and applied behavioral sciences to show how educators, school psychologists, counselors, and other professionals can address the problem of bullying and aggression in schools. This book provides definitions, statistics, and theories that helps identify and characterize bullying.
Provides research on interpersonal processes of depression and develops an explanatory framework for this persistent mental illness. This book surveys the sources of chronic depression, discussing negative feedback-seeking, conflict avoidance, and blame maintenance. It is for students, researchers and therapists working with cases of depression.
Harm Reduction With High School Students illustrates a brief intervention for working with risk-taking high school students that emphasizes helping students to recognize the potential outcomes of their risky behavior and creating motivation for change. Dr. Mary E. Larimer works in this session with a high school boy who regularly drinks to excess. ......
Realities, Myths, and Implications for Organizations
Examines the changing demographics of the workforce, and their impact on the world of work. This work provides a perspective on what we know about issues related to the older worker, thus providing a foundation for confronting the challenges facing the workforce of the future.
Discussing the benefits of improving procedural justice in divorce cases, this book scrutinizes how the family law system measures up in terms of criteria based in social sciences. It weaves in insights drawn from the social sciences literature and reflections on how psychology might best serve clients struggling with divorce.
Working With Headaches presents an example of Dr. Donald B. Penzien's multidisciplinary, cognitive-behavioral approach to treating clients who suffer from headaches. In addition to talking directly with the client, the approach emphasizes working closely with the client's physicians to make sure that the client receives the best medical treatment.
Dr Marc A. Nemiroff shows how to help adopted children come to terms with the question of "Where did I come from?" and with any potential traumas they may have experienced before adoption. The child-centered approach illustrated in this video emphasizes empathizing with the child and helping parents to truly understand their adopted child's ......
Demonstrates the emotion-focused approach to process experiential psychotherapy. This DVD guides the client's affective and cognitive processing of experience through the use of active interventions that facilitate the resolution of painful emotions. It explores the sources of the client's affective state.
