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Response Variability to Psychotropic Drugs

  • 1st Edition
  • W. Janke
  • English
This volume comprises papers written following the XXll World Congress of Psychology in Leipzig, 1980, on the response variability to psychotropic drugs. They give an overview of the research of various investigators in the area of differential psychopharmacology. The theoretical and practical importance of the explanation of drug response variability by psychological factors, is discussed in relation to psychology, pharmacology and pharmacotherapy.

Disadvantaged Eleven Year Olds

  • 1st Edition
  • T. Cox + 1 more
  • English
A comparative study of culturally and materially disadvantaged children and more advantaged children at the late junior and early secondary school stages. The children's development in language, reading and mathematical skills as well as their social and emotional adjustment and their attitudes towards school are examined. In addition, the problems encountered by the children during their transition to secondary schools are studied and information is presented on the parents' attitudes towards their children's education and their schools

Recent Research in Developmental Psychopathology

  • 1st Edition
  • J. E. Stevenson
  • English
This book contains a selection of papers presented at the 10th International Congress of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions, held in Dublin in 1982. Developments currently taking place in child psychiatry and clinical child psychology are represented, and in particular, the two themes of processes within families and evaluation of intervention reflect important aspects of research activities that have emerged recently.

The Addictive Behaviors

  • 1st Edition
  • W. R. Miller
  • English
Designed as a handbook for professionals working in the four major areas of substance abuse, this volume focuses on current research and knowledge regarding the effectiveness of alternative approaches. It includes reviews of current research in each area, specifically examining common ground in etiology, process and treatment.

Handbook of Social Skills Training

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 1
  • P. Trower + 1 more
  • English
In Volume 1 the application of the social skills training (SST) model is traced across the lifespan from children, through adolescents and young and middle-aged adults, to the elderly. The various specialist uses of SST with the issues and problems prevalent at each stage are reviewed in depth. The use of SST with specific sub-groups, eg, delinquent adolescents and adults with behavioural disorders, is also considered as well as its use in professional training programmes.

Handbook of Social Skills Training

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 2-Volume Set
  • C. R. Hollin + 1 more
  • English
In Volume 1 the application of the social skills training (SST) model is traced across the lifespan from children, through adolescents and young and middle-aged adults, to the elderly. The various specialist uses of SST with the issues and problems prevalent at each stage are reviewed in depth. The use of SST with specific sub-groups, eg, delinquent adolescents and adults with behavioural disorders, is also considered as well as its use in professional training programmes. Volume 2 discusses the application of the social skills training model to specific clinical conditions. Its uses with schizophrenia, social anxiety, depression, the mentally handicapped, and substance abuse are reviewed in depth and practical recommendations for the future are given. Advances in social psychology and linguistics have implications for the future development of SST and their contributions to the field are presented in the final section.

Attention Deficit Disorder

  • 1st Edition
  • L.M. Bloomingdale + 1 more
  • English
In this volume a team of international experts discuss the establishment of accepted research diagnostic criteria for ADD. It contains papers presented at the international symposium convened by Drs Joseph Sargent and Alex Kalverboer at Groningen in June 1985 as well as the consensus of this distinguished group.

Making Sense of Television

  • 1st Edition
  • Sonia M. Livingstone
  • English
New technological developments and increasing leisure time ensure that television will continue to structure and influence people's experiences and understanding of their social world far into the future. Making Sense of Television addresses an issue central to the social psychological perspective on the mass media - how viewers interpret the programmes that they see. How do people use their own everyday social knowledge and experience to guide their interpretations; how far do viewers agree with the text and with critics, researchers and each other in making sense of television, and finally, do different ways of interacting with programmes lead to different interpretations? These questions are addressed both theoretically and empirically. A critical review of relevant literatures in psychology, communications and literary criticism is followed by an analysis which seeks to integrate these research literatures to provide a new perspective on the audience's everyday interpretations of television. An integration of cognitive social psychology with reception theories from literary criticism is proposed as a way of analysing the processes of interpretation which mediate between television content and effects. Studies on viewers' interpretations of the characters and narratives of popular soap operas demonstrate the value of the proposed perspective.