Psychology

Data Analysis

by Charles M. Judd, Gary H. McClelland & Carey S. Ryan

This completely rewritten classic text features many new examples, insights and topics including mediational, categorical, and multilevel models. Substantially reorganized, this edition provides a briefer, more...

Developing Potential Across a Full Range of Leadership TM

by Bruce J. Avolio & Bernard M. Bass

This case book focuses on the leadership style of the key players. The 29 cases were chosen to present all facets of a model of leadership, stating that the most effective leaders are both transformational and...

Perceiving the Affordances

by Eleanor J. Gibson

Perceiving the Affordances is a personal history and intellectual autobiography of Eleanor Gibson, the groundbreaking research psychologist who was influential in the founding of the theory of perceptual development....

Single-case and Small-n Experimental Designs

by John B. Todman & Pat Dugard

This book is a practical guide to help researchers draw valid causal inferences from small-scale clinical intervention studies. It should be of interest to teachers of, and students in, courses with an experimental...

Teaching Psychology

by Sandra Goss-Lucas & Douglas A. Bernstein

Most new psychology instructors enter their first undergraduate classrooms with little or no formal preparation for their role as a teacher. The goal of this book is to review the body of teaching research that...

Making Decisions That Matter

by Kathleen M. Galotti

Researchers studying decision making have traditionally studied the phenomenon in the laboratory, with hypothetical decisions that may or may not involve the decision maker's values, passions, or areas of expertise....

Setting Up and Running a Peer Listening Scheme

by Kathy Salter

Many children and young people in our schools are in need of someone to talk to. They have problems at home, difficulties with school work, or find that, for whatever reason, they just don't 'fit in'. A sympathetic...

The Adolescent Experience

by August Flammer & Francoise D. Alsaker

The opening of the borders to Eastern Europe has expanded our view on European diversities and offered new opportunities to examine the effects of the heterogeneity in European cultural backgrounds and political...

G.H. Mead

by G. H. Mead & Filipe Carreira da Silva

This book introduces social scientists to the ideas of George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) - one of the most original yet neglected thinkers of early twentieth century sociology.

Mead is an exceptional case amongst...

Interpersonal Sensitivity

by Judith A. Hall & Frank J. Bernieri

Interpersonal sensitivity refers to the accuracy and/or appropriateness of perceptions, judgments, and responses we have with respect to one another. It is relevant to nearly all aspects of social relations...

Restoration Therapy

by Terry D. Hargrave & Franz Pfitzer

How can a therapist help his or her clients, and ensure that they continue to maintain the insights and motivations learned during therapy in everyday life, beyond termination? Restoration Therapy is a professional...

Purkinje's Vision

by Nicholas J. Wade, Josef Brozek & Jir¡ Hoskovec

The life of Jan Evangelista Purkinje (1787-1869) has fascinated students from many disciplines. Histologists marvel at his early descriptions of cells; physiologists admire his attempts to relate structure to...

Intellectual Disability, Trauma and Psychotherapy

by Tamsin Cottis

People with intellectual disabilities have emotional and mental health needs just like anyone else. Until recently however there has been little research of effective psychological treatment or direct, accessible...

Statistical Power Analysis

by Brett Myors, Kevin R. Murphy & Kevin Murphy

This book presents a simple and general method for conducting statistical power analysis based on the widely used F statistic. The book illustrates how these analyses work and how they can be applied to problems...

Evaluating Social Programs and Problems

by Stewart I. Donaldson & Michael Scriven

Today's evaluators are being challenged to help design and evaluate social programs intended to prevent and ameliorate complex social problems in a variety of settings, including schools, communities, and not-for-profit...

Children's Source Monitoring

by Kim P. Roberts & Mark Blades

There are many aspects of life which require us to distinguish between memories of different events, such as deciding whether you locked the door or only intended to lock the door. Source monitoring, or identifying...

A Primer of Signal Detection Theory

by Don McNicol

A Primer of Signal Detection Theory is being reprinted to fill the gap in literature on Signal Detection Theory--a theory that is still important in psychology, hearing, vision, audiology, and related subjects....

Changepower!

by Meg Selig

In Changepower! 37 Secrets to Habit Change Success, author Meg Selig guides readers through a step-by-step process that will help them achieve any habit change goal. Whether the reader wants to break a hurtful...

Family Therapy with Suicidal Adolescents

by Anthony P. Jurich

This book describes a blend of insight-oriented, behavioral, and strategic family therapy, which the author has developed over thirty-four years of dealing with suicidal adolescents. It aims not to replace other...

The Madness Of Women

by Jane M. Ussher

Why are women more likely to be positioned or diagnosed as mad than men?

If madness is a social construction, a gendered label, as many feminist critics would argue, how can we understand and explain women's...