A Guide to Research Experience, Professional Skills, and Your Options After College
The only book devoted to undergraduate professional skills in psychology, this second edition provides a new overview of the kinds of research experiences you might get, no matter what type of college you are attending, as well as tips for writing your CV and personal statement, succeeding in classes, and thinking about options after college.
Explores the multifaceted nature of this highly subjective construct. Contributors to this groundbreaking edited volume examine the phenomenological, empirical, and clinical aspects of people's reactions to the loss of meaning, to uncertainty, and to meaning violations. The book concludes with a scholarly, clinical chapter on how psychotherapy can ......
This book presents a nonhierarchical, liberatory case formulation framework for existential-humanistic (EH) therapy that balances structure and adaptability.
How can assessment instruments be designed or selected to best serve the needs of intended users, taking into account their interests, capacities, and limitations? Informed by a socioecological perspective, this timely, state-of-the-art reference and text presents an integrated, user-centered process model for developing assessments guided by user ......
*Noted therapist and author Ronald Siegel helps readers stop trying to be "better than," which can wreak havoc on emotional well-being. *"You're fine!": Two powerful words that can replace constant mental check-ins. *With wit, wisdom, and a healthy dose of mindfulness techniques, readers learn how to stop worrying and start enjoying their lives. ......
Spanning the modern development of psychological science and practise-the era most relevant to today's psychologists-this concise overview of psychology's history focuses on how the field has striven to make a positive impact on society and the individuals within it. It not only examines, decade by decade, the key developments in psychology, but ......
Updated with the latest theory and research and structured around a pioneering multidimensional model of wellbeing, this book equips you with the knowledge and tools to apply positive psychology to many areas of life. This includes interventions aimed at developing mental and physical functioning, as well as recommendations for enhancing relationships and reshaping organisational structures. A wealth of case studies show you how these practices can be successfully deployed in diverse real-world contexts, such as society, religion, the classroom and the workplace. Key features include: Learning objectives Practice essay questions and quizzes Useful psychometric tools you can adapt for your own research Summary boxes Case study and reflection boxes Suggested further reading Keyword definitions and glossary list of acronyms This book is essential reading for students of Applied Positive Psychology or the Psychology of Happiness and Wellbeing. Tim Lomas is a Psychology Research Scientist in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and part of the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University. Kate Hefferon is a Chartered Research Psychologist. Itai Ivtzan is the Director of the School of Positive Transformation. Kirsty Gardiner is a Chartered Social Psychologist and a Research Director of a DEI consultancy.
Used worldwide in assessment and professional certification contexts, computerized adaptive testing (CAT) offers a powerful means to measure individual differences or make classifications. This authoritative work from CAT pioneer David J. Weiss and Alper Sahin provides a complete how-to guide for planning and implementing an effective CAT to ......
