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Elsevier's Psychology collection is vital for students and psychologists, providing a thorough understanding of the mind and behavior. Covering human thought, development, personality, emotion, and motivation, it offers insights into both theoretical and practical aspects. Through topics like cognitive, developmental, and clinical psychology, it equips researchers and students to address real-world challenges and advance their understanding of the field.

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    • Counseling and Accountability

      • 1st Edition
      • June 6, 2016
      • Harman D. Burck + 2 more
      • Arnold P. Goldstein + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Counseling and Accountability: Methods and Critique is written to present the concerns regarding the methodological problems and strategies of counseling and psychotherapy research. This text first discusses conceptual foundations, and then presents various research articles and critiques on the subject. In discussing the conceptual foundations, this book explains the considerations in doing research in the field of counseling and psychotherapy. Discussions include the research design, sampling, and future of the research. The second part, which is comprised of the articles and critiques, include papers on counseling people facing problems related to premarital sex, identity issues, and phobia. This book concludes by presenting papers such as on the effects of counseling, vicarious therapy, and feedback, as well as on teaching internalization behavior to clients. This publication will be invaluable to students and experts in counseling, psychology, and psychiatry.

    • Personality: The Human Potential

      • 1st Edition
      • June 6, 2016
      • Melvin L. Weiner
      • Arnold P. Goldstein + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Personality: The Human Potential offers substantial discussions on various emotional problems of contemporary life. This book mainly focuses on the crucial problems the adolescents usually face, including the critical turning points in their lives. Some of the interesting topics featured in this book are how humans think, their potential, and priorities. Human emotional and psychological challenges such as anxiety, frustrations, narcissism, identity, Oedipus complex, homosexuality, and sexual problems are then extensively examined. This book concludes by emphasizing the significance and role of psychology in a world of technology. This text will be very interesting and helpful to students and experts in the field of psychology, as well as to those whose work involves human counseling, social work, and human rehabilitation.

    • The Service Hub Concept in Human Services Planning

      • 1st Edition
      • June 6, 2016
      • Michael Dear + 1 more
      • D. R. Diamond + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      The Service Hub Concept in Human Services Planning examines how the concept of a 'service hub' could assist in the delivery of human services. The monograph covers the problematic of human services planning, including difficulties associated with effective client assessment and assignment; overcoming the opposition sentiments that commonly block human services provision; and questions associated with socio-spatial justice. The book also tackles the service hub concept and service hubs in practice. The bases for community opposition to human service facilities; fair-share approach to service provision; and the impact of difference and social justice in human services planning are also described. Geographers and those involved in urban and regional planning will find the monograph invaluable.

    • Child Without Tomorrow

      • 1st Edition
      • June 6, 2016
      • Anthony M. Graziano
      • Arnold P. Goldstein + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Child Without Tomorrow discusses the observations and treatments made with seriously emotionally disturbed children. The book relates the development of a specific group therapy program and shows that children can still be taught complex and socially adaptive behavior despite their situations. It is also demonstrated that non-professionals can be trained as operative child-behavior therapists and parents are the best candidate as therapists of their children. The text defines the term Autism and briefly explains its context. It was suggested that the most useful type of therapy is observed current behavior. Stimulus control, respondent conditioning, and contingency management are important tools of the therapy. A chapter of the book is devoted on control of aggressive and tantrum behavior. Such behaviors were defined and examples were given. To control these behaviors, a process called extinction was exercised. Such process weakens a response through its non-reinforced repetition. The book will provide useful information to psychologists, therapists, parents with autistic children, students and researcher in the field of psychology.

    • Humanism and Behaviorism

      • 1st Edition
      • June 6, 2016
      • Abraham Wandersman + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Humanism and Behaviorism: Dialogue and Growth explores issues in humanistic and behavioristic approaches to personality change. It seeks to: demonstrate the value of a dialogue between humanism and behaviorism; clarify controversies between the two approaches; evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each approach; and show the potential of syntheses between parts of each approach to develop new and useful integrations. This book is comprised of 20 chapters and begins with an overview of the state of humanism and behaviorism and the controversies that have divided them, along with the possible frameworks for combining the two. The next section focuses on the person, techniques of therapy, and therapist control. Behavior therapy as a humanitarian enterprise is considered. Subsequent chapters assess the effectiveness of humanistic and behavioristic approaches to personality change and the compatibilities between them. The theory of affective behaviorism and its application to effectively teach children with behavior problems to develop self-control is described. Self and personality are also discussed from humanistic and behavioristic viewpoints. Finally, some possible directions for the future of humanism and behaviorism are suggested. This monograph should be useful to undergraduate and graduate students in clinical and personality psychology; to those who intend to do research in and/or practice psychotherapy; and to academicians and professionals in psychology, philosophy, psychiatry, social work, and counseling.

    • Depression and Suicide

      • 1st Edition
      • June 6, 2016
      • J.P. Soubrier + 1 more
      • English
      • eBook
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    • Survival: Black/White

      • 1st Edition
      • June 6, 2016
      • Florence Halpern
      • Arnold P. Goldstein + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Survival: Black/White deals with exposition of way of life of the rural southern black people of the United States. The work also hopes to change the attitude and perception of white people towards black people. The book presents a personal account of the author while living with black people, providing understanding and appreciation of their lifestyles, how they came to be and what purposes they serve. The book is divided into 2 parts. Part I: How it has been, focuses on the way the black man perceives and experiences his world. Part II: How it is, deals with the history and developments of the emancipation movement. Historians, sociologists, psychologists, researchers, and students of black history will find this text an interesting piece of resource.

    • Present-Day Russian Psychology

      • 1st Edition
      • June 3, 2016
      • Neil O'Connor
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Present-Day Russian Psychology is the first comprehensive survey of Russian psychological literature written by bilingual psychologists. This book is composed of seven chapters, and begins with a description of the orienting reflex and the voluntary control of motor behavior. The next chapter discusses the reasons for the disparity between the development of engineering psychology in Russia and in the West and some vigorous attempts by Soviet investigators to close this gap. These topics are followed by discussions on abnormal psychology and psychotherapy, the analysis of psycholinguistic psychology, the studies of child development. The remaining chapters highlight some significant psychological observations to Russian laboratories. This book will be of value to psychologists and historians.

    • Emotions, Technology, and Social Media

      • 1st Edition
      • May 26, 2016
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Emotions, Technology, and Social Media discusses the ways the social media sphere uses emotion and technology, and how each of these has become part of the digital culture. The book explores this expression within a psychological theoretical framework, addressing feelings about social media, and its role in education and knowledge generation. The second section investigates the expression of feelings within social media spaces, while subsequent sections adopt a paradigm of active audience consumption to use social media to express feelings and maintain social connectivity.

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