New Readings on Etiology, Prevention, and Treatment
Contains articles that describe a wide range of biological, psychological, and social approaches to researching and treating addictive behaviors. This book is of interest to clinical health psychologists and other mental health professionals from graduate students to seasoned clinicians and researchers.
The physical and mental health consequences of body image problems, eating disorders, and obesity in children and adolescents can be serious and can extend into adulthood. This book shows that these disorders are preventable and treatable. It demonstrates how body image and eating problems vary across ethnic groups and in boys and girls.
A Resource for Researchers, Practitioners, and Policymakers
Presents an overview of the key areas of research, from primary prevention, to early cancer detection, to the clinical treatment of cancer, to survivor experience and bereavement, to future directions for research. This book is suitable for researchers, health care providers, and mental health professionals in the fight against cancer.
Psychological Implications for Child, Adolescent, and Adult Caregivers
Includes chapters that present the theory and empirical research on caregiving from a different phase in the lifespan, including childhood, adolescence, emerging adulthood, and young, middle, and older adulthood. This book offers a look at often overlooked family caregivers.
In the business world, there is rapid change in organizational direction and guidance. This volume presents 18 of the author's contributions that explore how and why consultants diagnose organizational and managerial pathology. It is suitable for I/O and business management consultants.
Helps practicing psychologists and professional graduate students in developing expertise in clinical health psychology. This volume provides an overview of the roles and functions of clinical health psychologists as well as the education, training, personal, and professional issues involved. It includes discussion of psychometric instruments.
In Narrative Therapy, Dr. Lynne Angus demonstrates her approach to psychotherapy. Researchers and practitioners from many backgrounds have identified client narrative expression as the common ground of social discourse in psychotherapy. Narrative therapy focuses on the client's understanding of his or her own story and how the client's emotions, ......
Follow-up Studies of the Scottish Mental Surveys of 1932 and 1947
Captures a lifetime of intelligence, from childhood to about age 80, and also explores general matters of intelligence. This book offers information related to IQ and its effects on cognitive aging and physical longevity.
Intended for readers from various walks of life who are interested in the ways that psychological science and knowledge cast light on the issues of everyday living, this title includes 10,000 entries offering definitions. It offers coverage of over 90 subareas across the field of psychology - including clinical, experimental, and neuropsychology.
