Scientific Problem Solvers - Careers for the 21st Century
This dynamic introduction to careers in psychology is especially designed to capture the interest of the MTV generation. This fast-paced video gives the viewer a broad overview of what psychology is, the emerging growth opportunities in the field, and ways to pursue a psychology career. It features interviews with psychologists working in diverse ......
In graduate school, psychology students learn the formal, explicit knowledge of the field, but often not the tacit knowledge upon which academic careers are built. In this second edition of his popular Psychology 1011/2, eminent psychologist Robert J. Sternberg updates and extends a trove of wisdom gleaned from decades of experience in various ......
A Historical Analysis of Training, Research, Practice, and Advocacy
A historical resource volume that offers insights into the expansion of psychology since WWII. It also tells how VA psychologists formed advocacy networks among themselves and with members of Congress and the American Psychological Association. It is aimed at psychologists who work in health care fields or have connections with the VA.
A Historical Analysis of Science, Practice, and Policy
An historical analysis of the reciprocal relationship of psychology and the NIMH. As a history, the book reveals insights into the remarkable of psychology since World War II and illuminates the role of government in shaping the lives and practices of its citizens through its funding of psychological research, training, and service.
Is It Right for Me and What Can I Do With My Degree?
Offers a comprehensive strategy aimed at helping undergraduates use self-exploration tools to decide if psychology is the right major for them. This title offers an explanation of psychology and its subfields and an examination of the importance of diversity and multiculturalism.
This work covers the domain of psychological health from the family, to the workplace, to the community. It highlights the ways in which psychologists can help build healthy families, healthy communities, and healthy workplaces.
Highlights the diverse contributions of military psychologists towards our nation's security and towards the discipline of psychology itself. This work includes perspectives of psychologists and social scientists representing the uniformed services, research institutions, business, and academia.
The Search for Truth and Agency in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology
Presents an argument that any philosophy of psychology that in principle precludes the possibility of objective psychological knowledge and truth also undermines an agency founded on rational interpretive grounds. This work offers a critique concerning psychology's fragmentation mount and attempts at unification proliferate.
