Editor Yo Jackson University of Kansas

Political Psychology

Tuesday, 20 May 2014

What shapes political behavior more: the situations in which individuals find themselves, or the internal psychological makeup—beliefs, values, and so on—of those individuals? This is perhaps the leading division within the psychological study of politics today. Political Psychology: Situations, Individuals, and Cases provides a concise, readable, and conceptually organized introduction to the topic of political

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development is an authoritative, accessible and up-to-date account of all aspects of child development. Written by an international team of leading experts, it adopts an multidisciplinary approach and covers everything from prenatal development to education, pediatrics, neuroscience, theories, and research methods to physical development, social development, cognitive development, psychopathology, and

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Tuesday, 20 May 2014

Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is a contextually based cognitive behavioral treatment. The ACT model holds that culturally supported attempts to control and eliminate unpleasant private experiences (i.e., negative emotions, thoughts, memories) result in personal suffering, behavior disorders, and a lack of vital and purposeful living. ACT attempts to teach clients to accept, rather than

Handbook of Couples Therapy

Tuesday, 20 May 2014

COMPLETING A VOLUME like this is accompanied by a variety of feelings. The main one is relief at being able to take the manuscript off my desk, although knowing how busy I get, my desk will probably stay clean for a grand total of about 50 seconds. Closely following the relief is the sense of

Edited by David Hardman London Metropolitan University, UK and Laura Macchi University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy

Editors ROBERT S. COHEN, Boston University JÜRGEN RENN, Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science KOSTAS GAVROGLU, University of Athens

This is a new release, courtesy of The eBook Hoard. We are a group dedicated to releasing high-quality books in mainly academic realms. Right now, we are only releasing PDFs, but eventually, other formats may be on the way. We do accept requests. Also, we aren’t perfect. Occasionally, an error may slip by (duplicated page,

I welcome this opportunity to write a second edition of The Psychology of Language, and I would like to thank Mike Forster of Psychology Press for giving it to me. As I remarked in the preface to the first edition, although language might not be all that makes us human, it is hard to imagine

Wiley Series in The Psychology of Crime, Policing and Law Series Editors Graham Davies and Ray Bull University of Leicester, UK University of Portsmouth, UK

Treatment of Recurrent Depression

Monday, 19 May 2014

Review of Psychiatry Series John M. Oldham, M.D. Michelle B. Riba, M.D., M.S. Series Editors

Edited by Grover Maurice Godwin, Ph.D. Research Assistant Professor Justice Center The University of Alaska –Anchorage

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