Books in Psychology general

Embracing the Complexity of Gender

1st Edition
July 1, 2025
Emily Keener
English
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Embracing the Complexity of Gender examines the heart of a modern gender revolution, exploring the dynamic and multifaceted nature of gender in contemporary society. Spurred by landmark events such as the legalization of same-sex marriage and the rise of transgender visibility, this revolution has ignited passionate debates and a heightened interest in understanding gender's complexities. From legal battles over all-gender bathrooms to corporate decisions challenging traditional gender norms, the discourse around gender has never been more vibrant or contentious. This book combines a developmental and intersectional feminist approach with accessible, engaging content.By including discussion questions and clear definitions of key terms, the book ensures that complex ideas are understandable for readers at all levels. Drawing on psychological evidence and theoretical perspectives, this book challenges the gender binary and emphasizes the importance of social justice and inclusion.

Handbook of Gun Violence

1st Edition
October 24, 2024
Nicholas D Thomson
English
Paperback
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Handbook of Gun Violence provides a comprehensive review of the complex world of gun violence. From its roots in epidemiology and public health to the intricacies of biopsychosocial risk factors to criminological and forensic considerations, this book offers an interdisciplinary exploration of a pressing societal issue. Sections cover everything from the history of firearm injury prevention research to the social, political, and policy implications surrounding gun violence. This book focuses on evidence-based strategies and emerging research areas, and equips readers with the knowledge needed to navigate the complexities of gun violence prevention, intervention, research, and policy. With contributions from leading experts across various fields, including scientists from the CDC and NIH, this handbook provides invaluable insights into understanding, preventing, and addressing gun violence.

A Practical Guide for Finding Interventions That Work for Autistic People

2nd Edition
July 29, 2024
Susan M. Wilczynski
English
Paperback
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A Practical Guide for Finding Interventions that Work for Autistic People: Diversity Affirming Evidence-Based Practice, second edition, provides a socially valid, culturally sensitive, and person-centered resource to aid practitioners in guiding the selection of effective interventions. By providing multiple illustrative examples, practitioners will learn to use their professional judgment to integrate the best available evidence with client values and context. The second edition includes new chapters on diversity affirmation and cultural adaptations of interventions, quality of life, self-determination, guided decision-making, and ethics as foundational skills for identifying effective, socially valid interventions that are delivered with compassion and assent/consent.

Competency Based Training for Clinical Supervisors

1st Edition
August 9, 2023
Loredana-Ileana Viscu + 2 more
English
Paperback
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Competency Based Training for Clinical Supervisors builds upon the current competencies schema to design a framework for training programs. The book's authors begin with a practical program curriculum, addressing the challenges of treatment and workplace satisfaction. The next sections are divided based on transversal competencies, including intellectual order, methodological order, personal and social order, and communication order. The last section of the book is dedicated to ethics in both training programs and models for psychotherapy and clinical supervision.

Integrating Horses into Healing

1st Edition
March 28, 2023
Cheryl Meola
English
Paperback
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Written by experts and founders in the world of equine assisted services (EAS), Integrating Horses into Healing: A Comprehensive Guide to Equine Assisted Services is an all-inclusive, hands-on guide for any practitioner, researcher, or student interested in EAS. The book provides a wealth of knowledge, including perspectives from therapy and coaching practitioners, equine professionals, veterinarians, researchers, clients, board members, and founders of the EAS industry. These diverse perspectives offer a depth and insight that make this a go-to guide for EAS practitioners and researchers. The focus of the book is on the ethical incorporation of equines into different therapy modalities. The well-being of the equine as well as the practitioner team is addressed, as well as sustainability and health within a for-profit and non-profit structure.

The Therapeutic Community

1st Edition
February 21, 2023
Carole Harvey
English
Paperback
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The Therapeutic Community: Research and Practice brings together the diverse lens of these communities, illuminating and challenging current practice models and research. The book seeks to demonstrate the working collaboration between research-based and practice-based research, as well as filling the gaps for professions in behavioral health, neurobiology, corrections and workforce development. Each chapter explores how both environment and modality work together to change the quality of an individual's life. The reader is provided with a foundation and introduction to the language of 'Democratic' and 'Concept-based' TCs. This book presents case studies, protocols, fidelity measures and emerging research to help readers incorporate applications into their own practice.

Human Factors in Aviation and Aerospace

3rd Edition
October 26, 2022
Joseph Keebler + 3 more
English
Paperback
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**Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Occupational and Environmental Medicine**This third edition of Human Factors in Aviation and Aerospace is a fully updated and expanded version of the highly successful second edition. Written for the widespread aviation community including students, engineers, scientists, pilots, managers, government personnel, etc., this edition continues to offer a comprehensive overview, including pilot performance, human factors in aircraft design, and vehicles and systems. With new editors, this edition adds chapters on aviator attention and perception, accident investigations, automated systems in civil transport airplanes, and aerospace. Multicontributed by leading professionals in the field, this book is the ultimate resource for anyone in the aviation and aerospace industries.

Advances in the Study of Behavior

1st Edition
Volume 54
April 27, 2022
Jeffrey Podos + 1 more
English
Hardback
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Advances in the Study of Behavior, Volume 54 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on Mobbing in animals: a thorough review and proposed future directions, Learned components of courtship: a focus on gestures, choreographies and construction abilities, Sexual selection in the true bugs, and Brain-behavior relationships of cognition in vertebrates: lessons from amphibians, Pre-Copulatory and Copulatory Courtship in Male-Dimorphic Arthropods.

Advances in Motivation Science

1st Edition
Volume 9
April 25, 2022
Andrew J. Elliot
English
Hardback
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Advances in Motivation Science, Volume Nine, the latest release in Elsevier's serial on the topic of motivation science, contains interesting articles that cover topics such as The Relentless Pursuit of Acceptance and Belonging, Reward uncertainty and the aversion-attraction dilemma, Neurobiological Mechanisms of Selectivity in Motivated Memory, Accounting for long-term motivation and sustained motivated learning, Interest: A Unique Affective and Cognitive Motivational Variable That Develops, and Neural systems for aversively motivated behavior, Neural systems for aversively motivated behavior, and more.

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Mental Health in Pandemics

1st Edition
April 22, 2022
Shikha Jain + 3 more
English
Paperback
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Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Mental Health in Pandemics: A Computational Approach provides a comprehensive guide for public health authorities, researchers and health professionals in psychological health. The book takes a unique approach by exploring how Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) based solutions can assist with monitoring, detection and intervention for mental health at an early stage. Chapters include computational approaches, computational models, machine learning based anxiety and depression detection and artificial intelligence detection of mental health. With the increase in number of natural disasters and the ongoing pandemic, people are experiencing uncertainty, leading to fear, anxiety and depression, hence this is a timely resource on the latest updates in the field.

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