Mindfulness is exceptionally easy to get started with, and people often experience benefits almost immediately. Why, then, do many initial enthusiasts end up dropping the practice after a short while? According to Oxford professor and leading mindfulness expert Willem Kuyken, it's because traditional mindfulness training is too far removed from ......
Mindfulness is exceptionally easy to get started with, and people often experience benefits almost immediately. Why, then, do many initial enthusiasts end up dropping the practice after a short while? According to Oxford professor and leading mindfulness expert Willem Kuyken, it's because traditional mindfulness training is too far removed from ......
Mental Health Today...and Tomorrow: Exploring current and future trends in mental health care is a forward-thinking, multi-author handbook that marks a turning point in UK mental health theory, policy and practice and explores a wide range of current and future trends in mental health care.
Who among us has not at some point asked, ``what is the meaning of life?'' In this extraordinary book, an eminent social scientist looks at the big picture and explores what empirical studies from diverse fields tell us about the human condition. Meanings of Life draws together evidence from psychology, history, anthropology, and sociology, ......
As in raising children, in which each unique parent and child pair emerges from the ongoing, mutually influencing relationship, so it is with therapists and patients
Today's social and behavioral researchers increasingly need to know: "What do I do with all this data?" This book provides the skills needed to analyze and report large, complex data sets using machine learning tools, and to understand published machine learning articles. Techniques are demonstrated using actual data (Big 5 Inventory, early ......
Today's social and behavioral researchers increasingly need to know: "What do I do with all this data?" This book provides the skills needed to analyze and report large, complex data sets using machine learning tools, and to understand published machine learning articles. Techniques are demonstrated using actual data (Big 5 Inventory, early ......
Beloved for its engaging, conversational style, this valuable book is now in a fully updated second edition that presents the latest developments in longitudinal structural equation modeling (SEM) and new chapters on missing data, the random intercepts cross-lagged panel model (RI-CLPM), longitudinal mixture modeling, and Bayesian SEM.
Now in a revised and updated fourth edition incorporating current advances in research and instructional practices, this well-established text accessibly introduces prominent theories and models related to reading. The book is organized chronologically, from classical approaches to contemporary cognitive, social learning, physiological, and ......
Now in a revised and updated fourth edition incorporating current advances in research and instructional practices, this well-established text accessibly introduces prominent theories and models related to reading. The book is organized chronologically, from classical approaches to contemporary cognitive, social learning, physiological, and ......
Designed to meet the needs of EPs and Educational Psychologists in Training (EPiTs), this introduction to psychoanalytic concepts and techniques is particularly useful at a time of rapid change in educational psychology and in education, not least the increased awareness and concern about mental health in schools.
The text connects the research to pressing contemporary problems--the roots of political polarization, why even rational people fall prey to misinformation, and the best ways to reduce prejudice. Boxed definitions of key terms are included throughout.
Why are first impressions so powerful? How do we "know" what others are like when we cannot read their minds? How can scientists measure biases that people do not want to admit--or do not know they have? This engaging text delves into social cognition by exploring major questions in the field through an everyday lens. Students are introduced to ......
Featuring expert advice for applying to graduate school in clinical and counseling psychology--as well as profiles of 320 doctoral programs--this authoritative resource has now been updated for 2024/2025. This is the book that students rely on for finding the programs that meet their needs and maximizing their chances of getting in. Profiles ......
Featuring expert advice for applying to graduate school in clinical and counseling psychology--as well as profiles of 320 doctoral programs--this authoritative resource has now been updated for 2024/2025. This is the book that students rely on for finding the programs that meet their needs and maximizing their chances of getting in. Profiles ......
Illustrates the parallels between anxiety in the individual and discord in civilisation. This book argues that the resistance to face hidden motives is what lies at the core of political and religious strife and individual anxiety. It also describes the meaning of anxiety, explains how the pathology arises, and how it can be relieved.
Interventions to Support Functional Skills after Acquired Brain Injury
Highly practical and comprehensive, this book provides a multimodal framework for helping patients with acquired brain injuries to identify and achieve meaningful functional goals in the home and community. In a convenient large-size format, the volume features rich case examples and interdisciplinary tools and strategies. Post-acute cognitive, ......
