Describes the nuts and bolts of play therapy and provides fifteen of the most popular materials and activities practitioners can use with children today. Some are classics in the field, including sand, block, and role play, while some are relatively new approaches, such as electric game play and virtual reality play.
Relatedness and Self-Definition in Personality Development, Psychopathology, and the Therapeutic Process
Proposes that psychological development is a lifelong personal negotiation between the two fundamental dimensions of relatedness and self-definition. The author applies this model in great detail to the process of therapeutic change, with striking implications for further research.
How Frontline Workers Can Promote Organizational and Community Change
Faced with the problems associated with grinding poverty and a no-win drug war, police departments are adapting and changing. Most seminal is the ""quiet revolution"" that has been called problem-oriented policing. This revolution makes police officers pioneering professionals who systematically study and address social problems in their ......
This book illustrates how political psychology has addressed critical social issues in Latin America and provides a selective summary of work conducted by some of the leading Latin American researchers in political psychology.
Over the past century, various men and women have forged psychology into a dynamic science, leaving behind a rich legacy of innovative research and theoretical perspectives. The volumes in the Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology series chronicle the lives of these giants in the field and outline their influences on psychology today. The first ......
Devoted to luminaries in the history of psychology. They provide glimpses of those who shaped modern cognitive and behavioral science, and shed light on their contributions and personalities.
Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology, Volume V is the next book in the inspirational and informative series that profiles psychology's pioneers. Leading scholars write about the psychological pioneers who influenced their own areas of expertise. As with previous volumes, this one also traces the origins of the major currents in psychology-from ......
In Positive and Transpersonal Approaches to Therapy, Roger Walsh works with a young woman who is questioning her religious faith and related conventional views of religion and spirituality. In his deeply empathic approach to therapy, Dr. Walsh explores the client's existential and spiritual anxieties and helps her to recognise them as part of a ......
Examines the scientific underpinnings and practical applications of measures of hope, optimism, self-efficacy, problem-solving, locus of control, creativity, wisdom, courage, positive emotion, self-esteem, love, emotional intelligence, empathy, attachment, forgiveness, humour, gratitude, faith, morality, coping, well-being, and quality of life.
