Offering a primer for practitioners and researchers, this volume strives to incorporate assessment of human strengths, resources and fulfilments into their work. Contributors examine the scientific underpinnings and practical application of measures of optimism, faith and other emotions.
Evaluating the careers of eminent scholars and practitioners, this volume identifies and describes particularly important works, pinpoints specific attributes that led to great impact and offers practical advice to students and professionals striving to achieve substantial impact in their own work.
Despite its avowed shift away from behaviouristic ways of thinking, psychology today, according to Rychlak, is essentially mechanistic. But while biological and automatic processes clearly have vital uses, they are unable to fully account for such phenomena as free will and agency.
In a new approach, Mike Smithson corrects some widely acknowledged problems associated with traditional approaches to psychometrics in the psychology setting. The author assumes the reader has a basic understanding of statistics.'
This volume provides a reflexive social history of the development of the psychology of women as an academic field of research and teaching. Core areas of concern in feminist psychology are examined, including discrimination, power and social control, critique of theory and content in psychology, and epistemology. Resisting Gender outlines the stages through which the psychology of women has moved, and highlights the ongoing questions and dilemmas for the field. Rhoda Unger has been involved with the discipline as a researcher, teacher, author and leader since its inception, and is in a unique position to introduce us to, and offer her perspective on, the key debates and concerns that have driven, or been driven by, the field of the psychology of women.
This volume provides a reflexive social history of the development of the psychology of women as an academic field of research and teaching. Core areas of concern in feminist psychology are examined, including discrimination, power and social control, critique of theory and content in psychology, and epistemology. Resisting Gender outlines the stages through which the psychology of women has moved, and highlights the ongoing questions and dilemmas for the field. Rhoda Unger has been involved with the discipline as a researcher, teacher, author and leader since its inception, and is in a unique position to introduce us to, and offer her perspective on, the key debates and concerns that have driven, or been driven by, the field of the psychology of women.
The body has come to provide a central site for theory and debate from social theory to cultural studies. This important and compelling book looks beyond psychology's traditional biological body to explore what insights can be gained from recent theories of embodiment. Taking the body as inscribed by social and disciplinary practices, leading ......
Narratives on Identity and Commitment in a Postmodern Age
What is the nature of knowledge and moral co mmitment in a postmodern age of relativism? How do professio nal lives reflect moral identity and development? In answer, 7 psychologists offer personal accounts of their moral and professional development. '
