Empirical Contributions and Normative Commentaries
This cross-disciplinary book investigates how morality translates into action by presenting original psychological research on our understanding of rights and duties. This topical focus is especially timely in the post 9/11 world, where relative rights and duties of citizens and our government are foremost in our minds.
This work covers the psychosocial and physiological influences affecting spinal surgery - from evaluation to preparation and post-operative rehabilitation. It should be useful for psychologists, orthopaedists, neurosurgeons, physicians and nurses, as well as students.
Brings together research from different subdisciplines across psychology to address the ways in which technology and Big Data are changing how psychological research is conducted. The book also examines how technology allows us to better understand human psychology.
Exploring the Links Between Inflammation, Stress, and Illness
Explores the ways physical and psychological stressors such as poor sleep, PTSD, and depression, trigger the inflammatory response and increase the risk of disease. This book presents evidence of connections between mind and body, and emphasizes the need for improved communication between physicians and mental health care providers.
The concept of the real or personal relationship between client and therapist has existed since the earliest days of psychotherapy. In this engaging book, Charles J. Gelso argues the case for the relevance of the real relationship to successful therapeutic outcomes.
This book examines how psychotherapists can be appropriately responsive to clients' unique needs across a variety of therapeutic approaches by saying or doing the right thing at the right time. Expert contributors from a variety of theoretical orientations synthesize key research and identify common factors across the field of psychology as ......
This book gives graduate students and professionals a solid understanding of how to integrate the science and clinical art of Rorschach interpretation when working with patients.
The Rorschach Inkblot Test is an iconic, well-known assessment tool consisting of 10 random patterns intended to elicit an interpretive response from the client. In this video, James P. Choca provides a brief overview of the Rorschach and demonstrates administration of the instrument.
Bridging the gap between research and practice, this book reviews attachment processes across the lifespan and reviews its applications to infants, children, adolescents, and adults. Key concepts such as internal working models and secure vs. insecure attachment behaviours are reviewed in detail.
