Volume 1: Theories, Constructs, and Critical Issues Volume 2: Individual Differences and Cultural and Contextual Factors Volume 3: Application to Learning and Teaching
The APA Educational Psychology Handbook reflects the broad nature of the field today, with state-of-the-science reviews of the diverse critical theories driving research and practice; in-depth investigation of the range of individual differences and cultural/contextual factors that affect student achievement, motivation, and beliefs; and close ......
This handbook reviews factors that impact youth development, including biological, cognitive, and emotive processes; development through social contexts; cultural diversity; risk behaviors and psychopathology; positive youth development; intervention and policy.
The study of adult development and aging is a rapidly growing field, as the older adult population continues to increase. This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of adult development and aging, including theory and methods, biological factors and health, personality and individual differences, cognition, mental health and clinical issues, ......
Volume 1: Methods and Principles Volume 2: Translating Principles into Practice
Behaviour analysis emerged from the nonhuman laboratories of B. F. Skinner, Fred Keller, Nate Schoenfeld, Murray Sidman, James Dinsmoor, Richard Herrnstein, Nate Azrin, and others who pioneered experimental preparations designed to do one thing - find orderly relations between environment and behaviour. This bottom-up approach to a natural science ......
The two-volume APA Handbook of Career Intervention aims to consolidate and advance knowledge about the scientific foundations and practical applications of career intervention. It offers an inclusive resource for understanding and applying principles and practices of career intervention to assist diverse individuals and groups across developmental ......
Volume 1: History and Status of the Field and Perspectives on Aging Volume 2: Assessment, Treatment, and Issues of Later Life
In two volumes, the APA Handbook of Clinical Geropsychology offers a well-balanced scientist-practitioner approach, with chapters that succinctly review empirical research across a broad range of areas and offer practical approaches for the application of theory to everyday practice with the aging population. The handbook reviews the history of ......
Volume 1: Roots and Branches Volume 2: Theory and Research Volume 3: Applications and Methods Volume 4: Psychopathology and Health Volume 5: Education and Profession
This five-volume handbook reflects the state-of-the-art in clinical psychology - science, practice, research, and training. It provides a comprehensive overview of: the history of clinical psychology, specialties and settings, theoretical and research approaches, assessment, treatment and prevention, psychological disorders, health and relational ......
Volume 1: Theoretical Foundations, Core Concepts, and Emerging Challenges Volume 2: Methods for Community Research and Action for Diverse Groups and Issues
This two-volume handbook summarizes and makes sense of exciting intellectual developments in the field of community psychology. Reviewing the chapters of this volume, the reader will readily notice several themes emerge. Community psychology's ideas are becoming increasingly elaborated; its theory, research and interventions more situated; and its ......
Volume 1: Basic Concepts, Methods, Neural Substrate, and Behavior Volume 2: Perception, Learning, and Cognition
Presents the different aspects of comparative psychology in a balanced and exhaustive manner. History and Methods constitute the first two parts. The next three parts - Adaptation/Evolution, Genes/Hormones, and Neural Substrate - present the conceptual foundations for understanding the genesis of behaviour and cognition. The next four parts are ......
