Bøger udgivet af American Psychological Association

This expanded edition includes research on asthma treatments and medications for children and advocates a family approach to promote the well-being of children and controll symptoms of asthma. It also includes information on non-medical treatment, such as relaxation and visualization.

In this text, clinical psychologist Edward Christophersen and his colleague, child psychologist Susan Mortweet, show parents how to raise their child to become th adult we would all like to be - one who is happy and compassionate, confident but not aggressive, and able to make and keep friends.

In addition to laying the moral foundations of research with human participants, the examples and analyses in this work help to guide researchers in identifying conflicts of interest and solving ethical dilemmas, planning research, recruiting participants and maintaining trust.

A story with strong themes of community involvement and civic responsibility.

As children move from toddlerhood into childhood, they say `no' to their parents as a way of asserting their independence and testing boundaries. This is a humorous portrayal of this normal stage of childhood development.

Discusses the effects of trauma on children and how they can heal.

Research in brain cognition and development has expanded rapidly over the last ten years. Our scientific understanding of the developmental stages of infancy, childhood, and adolescence has reached a new level of sophistication. In this book, an elite group of international contributors presents the latest advances in the science of cognitive development.

This book broadens the concept of multiculturalism to encompass internationalism in other words, it internationalizes multiculturalism. It argues that professionals in all fields can enhance both their multicultural and international competence to perform more effectively. The contributors review the relevant research and, drawing also from personal experience, apply these concepts to real-world professional practice in business, mental health, and education three areas that are especially well positioned to impact the health and well-being of clients, employees, and customers. This book will appeal to scholars of multiculturalism as well as practicing professionals in a range of fields, especially business, mental health, and education.

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 help restore meaning in one¿s life.

This book, which provides a detailed interdisciplinary overview of spatial cognition from neurological to sociocultural levels, is an accessible resource for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, as well as researchers at all levels who seek to understand our perceptions of the world around us.

Offers a comprehensive, orderly framework for practicing healthy preventive stress management. The book begins with a panoramic overview of the stress field from its medical and physiological origins in the early 1900s through its psychological elaborations during the second half of the century and its current application and practice in organisations.

This book demonstrates how emerging methods of translational research can be applied to important topics of interest to social and behavioural scientists. Accessible models and real-world case studies are provided to help bridge the gaps among research, policy, and practice.

A fundamental aspect of being human is knowing that one day we will die. In this thought-provoking addition to the Herzliya Series on Personality and Social Psychology, a group of international theorists and clinicians investigates a variety of existential concerns.

This multi-authored work brings together the scholarly and the clinical in its analysis of two separate yet inextricably linked endeavours in psychology: the cultural adaptation of existing interventions and the movement toward evidence-based practice (EBP).

Examines several current clinical approaches to trauma-focused treatment. Rather than describe theoretical approaches in isolation, the editors have integrated these interventions into a broader clinical context, emphasising the importance of understanding evidence-based interventions in relation to each client's unique presentation.

An introduction for clinicians on the theory and practice of Reinforcement-Based Treatment (RBT) in substance abuse treatment. Its aim is to help clinicians implement RBT methods or integrate RBT into their own substance-abuse treatment practice.

Introduces mental health care professionals to the business aspects of running a private practice, including billing, collecting, financial agreements with clients, and ethically balancing business and clinical interests.

In this book, Scott Browning and Elise Artelt integrate clinically validated interventions within an original theoretical framework for stepfamily therapy. They envision the stepfamily as comprised of subsystems, a series of overlapping relationships between individuals. This key insight enables clinicians to divide the stepfamily into more manageable units and plan treatment accordingly.

This book examines social anxiety in the lives of young people in the context of dating and romantic relationships, alcohol and drug use, performance anxiety and school refusal, and alongside comorbid disorders such as depression.

Examines three contemporary scientific approaches to the study of personality-the psychodynamic, the trait-psychobiological, and the cognitive. It also focuses on corresponding theoretical frameworks that continue to guide much of the research on personality disorders-attachment and separation, the psychobiological paradigm, and cognitive frameworks.