Psychology

Practical Research Methods for Educators: Becoming an Evidence-Based Practitioner

by Ennio Cipani

This text offers a fresh perspective on developing research skills for educators as well as for students studying to become educators. Practical Research Methods for Educators is unique in identifying the requirements...

Empathy in Psychotherapy: How Therapists and Clients Understand Each Other

by Frank-M. Staemmler

"In Empathy in Psychotherapy: How Therapists and Clients Understand Each Other, Frank-M. Staemmler brings together neuropsychology, the psychotherapy literature, the developmental psychology literature, and...

Marriage and Family Therapy: A Practice-Oriented Approach

by Linda Metcalf

There are many different models of marriage and family therapy; the challenge for students and beginning practitioners is deciding which one best suits their individual purposes. This highly practical volume...

Advanced Techniques for Counseling and Psychotherapy

by Dr. Christian Conte

"This is a superb book, rich in understanding of human behavior and creative in helping clients grow and change....If you aspire to be great in this profession, you will use up a highlighter on this book."

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Stress and Emotion: A New Synthesis

by Richard S. Lazarus

This volume is a sequel to the landmark work that established an exciting new field of study, Stress, Appraisal and Coping (Lazarus and Folkman, 1984). The author now explores the newest trends in research and...

Bullying, Rejection, & Peer Victimization: A Social Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective

by Monica J. Harris

Both children and adults who experience chronic peer victimization are at considerable risk for a host of adverse psychological consequences, including depression, aggression, even suicidal ideation. Bullying,...

Multicultural Psychoeducational Assessment

by Elena L. Grigorenko

"[A] very useful resource, not only for psychologists and education professionals, but universally, for all those experts interested in multicultural assessment."

--Heikki Lyytinen, PhD

Professor of Developmental...

Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries

by Alice Miller

In direct opposition to the Freudian drive  theory, the author of the best-selling The Drama  Of The Gifted Child believes that  children, at birth, are inherently good, and she  traces all forms of...

Born Believers: The Science of Children's Religious Belief

by Justin L Barrett

Infants have a lot to make sense of in the world: Why does the sun shine and night fall; why do some objects move in response to words, while others won’t budge; who is it that looks over them and cares for...

Finding Kansas: Living and Decoding Asperger's Syndrome

by Aaron Likens

All I want is someone to care, to know, to understand. And maybe, for a brief moment, I will be free...

Finding Kansas is a memoir like no other, written by an unlikely author who at first never dreamed he...

The Power of Memoir: How to Write Your Healing Story

by Linda Myers

A groundbreaking work for healing long-term emotional problems

The Power of Memoir is a pioneering how-to book that provides a new step-by-step program to use memoir writing as a therapeutic process. By going...

Essentials of WRAML2 and TOMAL-2 Assessment

by Wayne Adams & Cecil R. Reynolds

Essentials of WRAML2 and TOMAL-2 Assessment introduces professionals to these two widely used memory measurement batteries, both of which measure memory and are used to supplement evaluations of ADHD and reading...

Essentials of DAS-II Assessment

by Ron Dumont, John O. Willis & Colin D. Elliott

Essentials of DAS-IIƠAssessment is the best source of information on the new edition of the DASƠinstrument, providing you with illuminating case reports, expert assessment of the test?s relative strengths...

The Integrated Self: A Holistic Approach to Spirituality and Mental Health Practice

by Lou Kavar

Contemporary research supports the importance of spirituality for mental health. Counselors, social workers, psychologists and other therapists wonder how to include spirituality in treatment. Mental health...

Intergroup Conflicts and Their Resolution

by Daniel Bar-Tal

This book provides a framework that sheds an illuminating light into the psyche of people involved in macro-level destructive intergroup conflicts, involving societies and ethnic groups, that take place continuously...

The Psychology of Social Conflict and Aggression

by Joseph P. Forgas, Arie W. Kruglanski & Kipling D Williams

This book provides an up-to-date integration of some of the most recent developments in social psychological research on social conflict and aggression, one of the most perennial and puzzling topics in all of...

The Powers of Thought

by Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

‘God has given the mightiest, most potent form of power to the spirit and as every one of our thoughts is pregnant with the power of the spirit which brought it into being, that power is constantly at work....

Contemporary Clinical Psychology

by Thomas G. Plante

A realistic and contemporary portrayal of the dynamic field of clinical psychology

Thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the most current topics professionals will face in clinical practice, the Third Edition...

Handbook of Psychological Assessment, Case Conceptualization, and Treatment, Adults

by Michel Hersen & Johan Rosqvist

Edited by recognized experts Michel Hersen and Johan Rosqvist, Handbook of Psychological Assessment, Case Conceptualization, and Treatment, Volume 1, Adults, is a thorough and practical reference for those working...

Better Than Normal: How What Makes You Different Can Make You Exceptional

by Dale Dr Archer

A New York Times Bestseller

A groundbreaking new view of human psychology that shows how eight key traits of human behavior—long perceived as liabilities—can be important hidden strengths.

What if the inattentiveness...