Encyclopedia of Psychology: 8-Volume Set by Alan E. Kazdin

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After greater than a century of impressive development and improvement, the technology of psychology ultimately has a reference resource that defines the learn of brain and behaviour. right here in 8 fantastically equipped volumes is the definitive advisor to each quarter of mental thought, study, and perform. overseas in scope, the Encyclopedia of Psychology is the 1st position to show to for authoritative details on each zone of the sphere. prepared alphabetically, the articles variety from 500 to 7,000 phrases in size together with four hundred biographies. an in depth process of cross-references and blind entries facilitate learn from article to article and make clear hyperlinks in the box. And an exhaustive index locates themes fast and easily--providing many issues of entry throughout parts of curiosity and fields of analysis. The Encyclopedia of Psychology serves a impressive number of readers: scholars and their academics in each quarter of psychology in addition to in such similar fields as sociology, social paintings, nursing, and allied healthiness; researchers within the cognitive sciences and neurosciences; and clinicians, counselors, and different psychological well-being and human carrier execs. it is going to be the definitive details, learn, and reference resource for a few years to return.

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Psychosocial treat­ ments for post-traumatic stress disorder: A critical re­ view. Annual Review of Psychology, 48. 449-480. Has 105 references and includes PTSD research for all types of trauma: discusses issues specific to various trauma populations and factors that may influence treatment efficacy across types of trauma. Gochman, D. S. ). (J997). Handbook of health behavior research (Vols. 1-4). New York: Plenum Press. Includes chapters about accident and accident-related behavior including developmental determinants and important chapters about prevention (safety).

G .. al­ cohol and drug use. handling cellular phones while driving); and life style. Interactive. perceptual tests may be used to select personnel for high-risk tasks. and have larger predictive power than questionnaire approaches. The concept of secondary prevention is used for any action aimed at reducing the negative consequences of accidents when they occur. Secondary preventive mea­ sures include teaching coping skills like decision mak­ ing and behavior aimed at keeping any injury to a min­ imum.

The TAT measure of achievement motivation can also be applied to other verbal material, such as interviews, speeches. or literature. In fact, the thematic apperceptive (or implicit) and questionnaire (direct or conscious) measures of achievement motivation do not correlate; moreover. they show different patterns of associated actions and life outcomes. Spangler's (1992) analysis suggests that the TAT achievement motivation measure involves sen­ sitivity to intrinsic, task-related achievement incentives; whereas the questionnaire measures reflect a sensitivity to social incentives associated with achievement.

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