As a military service member, you're looking forward to life after deployment and being back home among family and friends. But adjusting to ""normal"" life again can bring its own challenges. You're not the same person you were when you left on deployment. This book, written by military psychologists Moore and Kennedy, is a down-to-earth guide ......
In this third edition, Judith Jordan explores the history, theory, and practice of relationship-centered, culturally oriented psychotherapy as a tool for building meaningful connections in a world of increasing isolation. This essential primer is ideal for students and practitioners alike, guiding them through the ins and outs of ......
Today's social and behavioral researchers increasingly need to know: "What do I do with all this data?" This book provides the skills needed to analyze and report large, complex data sets using machine learning tools, and to understand published machine learning articles. Techniques are demonstrated using actual data (Big 5 Inventory, early ......
Reducing Violence and Other Public Health Problems
Provides practitioners and researchers with the means to make more impactful choices in the design and implementation of prevention programs. Drawing from state-of-the-art research on a range of behaviour problems, Victoria Banyard and Sherry Hamby present a strengths-based approach to prevention.
The text connects the research to pressing contemporary problems--the roots of political polarization, why even rational people fall prey to misinformation, and the best ways to reduce prejudice. Boxed definitions of key terms are included throughout.
This fully updated, second edition of Social Psychology features contemporary examples and addresses pressing topics such as climate change activism, digital technology, pandemics, and AI. With a new chapter on groups, this innovative book examines prejudice, aggression, conformity, persuasion, attraction, relationships, and prosocial behaviour in a bold and comprehensive way. Engaging with both classic and cutting-edge research, it critically evaluates the literature to help you develop your own critical lens. As you read this book, you will be guided by a range of chapter activities that promote deeper learning, including: Focus boxes, to highlight classic and contemporary research studies, Try It Out boxes, which contain short activities, questions or reflection prompts, Definitions boxes, to remind you of key terms and their meanings, Review questions, to check your understanding, This essential resource is a must-have for students of social psychology who want to understand the relevance of the field to today's world. Paul Dickerson is Associate Professor of Psychology at University of Roehampton, London.
Explores human trafficking through various psychological frameworks, summarizing the definitions and types of trafficking, their social impact, and the ways in which mental health practitioners can provide care to victims.
Evaluates scholarship on the evolution of human sex differences, including how males and females differ in modern contexts. David Geary describes how men and women differ based on evolutionary principles, how human sex differences are similar to those found in other species and how the expression of these differences is uniquely human.
