Presents research on comprehension problems experienced by children without any formal diagnosis, as well as those with specific language impairment, ADHD, learning disabilities, hearing impairment, head injuries, and spina bifida. This book also deals with typical development and the key cognitive skills that underlie successful comprehension.
Presented by an interdisciplinary group of eminent thinkers and writers, this collection of essays offer their thoughts on how embracing creativity - tapping into the ""originality of everyday life"" - can lead to improved physical and mental health, to new ways of thinking, of experiencing the world and ourselves.
Includes over 25 psychologists and scholars who present the pros and cons of regarding self-criticism as either ""good"" or ""bad."" This book illustrates the benefits of evaluating these concepts to demonstrate how negative and positive psychological variables may function as a virtue in one situation and as a vice in another situation.
Surveys the research on how psychological, social, and physiological factors may interact and contribute to the development of symptoms. This volume is of interest to both psychologists and health care professionals interested. It helps them understand the interaction between mind and body in medically unexplained illness.
Giving an analysis of the mental pitfalls that trip up even elite critical thinkers, the author makes a case that under certain circumstances everyone is vulnerable to accepting erroneous beliefs. He begins by reviewing the hallmarks of critical thinking related to the evaluation of claims, and concludes by focusing on a range of claims.
Covers cognition, from attention and performance through memory and language, from development and aging through pathology and psychopathology. This book is suitable for those striving to better understand the nature of and interactions among the mechanisms responsible for executive control and implementation of real-time cognitive performance.
Examining brain-behavior relationships in atypically developing children, this volume integrates theories and data from multiple disciplines. It presents research on specific clinical problems, including autism, Williams syndrome, learning and language disabilities, ADHD, and issues facing infants of diabetic mothers.
This unique account by a dance and drama therapist is the first of its kind to integrate Jungian theory, creative arts therapy, and developmental object relations theory successfully. Using the arts as a psycho-therapeutic tool, trauma and addiction are explored and enacted,
In older adults, negative health events occur not because cures for diseases are not available or because proper treatment was not applied, but because patients fail to follow the medical instructions or regimens that maintain their health. This book examines the research on nonadherence using a cognitive, social, and developmental framework.
