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The Social Psychology of Intergroup and International Conflict Resolution (Springer Series in Social Psychology)

Soziale Krise, Institution und Familiendynamik: Konfliktstrukturen und Chancen therapeutischer Arbeit bei Multiproblem-Familien

Sozialpsychologie: Eine Einführung (Springer-Lehrbuch)

Sports Without Pressure: A Guide for Parents and Coaches of Young Athletes

First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Sports Without Pressure: A Guide for Parents and Coaches of Young Athletes

First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Statistik II: Induktive Statistik (Physica-Lehrbuch)

Das vorliegende Lehrbuch ist der 2. Band einer 2-teiligen Einführung in die Statistik. Es wendet sich an Studienanfänger und soll die inhaltlichen Probleme, die hinter der statistischen Begriffsbildung stehen, vermitteln und das Verständnis der mathematischen Bezüge fördern. Band 2 behandelt die Grundlagen der induktiven Statistik. Er geht auf die Wahrscheinlichkeitskonzeption der Subjektivisten und der Objektivisten ein. Neben Beispielen für parametrische Klassen werden auch das Konzept suffizienter Statistiken, natürlich konjugierte a-priori-Verteilungen und objektivistische Testtheorien in verständlicher Weise erläutert. Abschließend behandelt der Band das Schätzproblem, Modelle in der Ökonomie sowie verallgemeinerte lineare Modelle. Dieses 2-bändige Lehrbuch liefert das Grundwissen der Statistik in anschaulicher Weise.

Stimulus-Response Compatibility: An Integrated Perspective (ISSN #Volume 65)

Stimulus-response compatibility refers to the finding that certain mappings of stimuli to responses produce faster and more accurate responding than do others. The present volume surveys compatibility research which falls into four broad categories: (a) mental representation and coding (b) neurophysiological mechanisms (c) motor performance (d) human factors applications. The major findings and models within each of the categories are summarized, and an integrated perspective is provided. The research indicates that compatibility effects reflect basic cognitive processes that bear on a range of issues in cognitive science and that have applied implications for human factors specialists.

Stress And Coping In Later-Life Families (Applied Psychology: Social Issues and Questions)

A product of the Kent Psychology Forum 1989, the book focuses on how older adults and their families cope with the vicissitudes of later life.

Stress And Coping In Later-Life Families (Applied Psychology: Social Issues and Questions)

A product of the Kent Psychology Forum 1989, the book focuses on how older adults and their families cope with the vicissitudes of later life.

Stress Between Work and Family (Springer Series on Stress and Coping)

Student Recruitment in Psychosocial Occupational Therapy: Intergenerational Approaches

This volume addresses the problems the OT profession faces recruiting students into mental health as a practice specialty. The content reflects several efforts at engaging students in the exploration of the variety of available career paths in this area. Educators, supervisors, clinicians, and students facing career choices will be able to take a unique perspective on specialty selection after reviewing the thoughts, perspectives, theories, and philosophies of some of occupational therapy’s foremost leaders in mental health. In addition, readers will get an “up close” opportunity to review one institution’s efforts to educate and recruit level II fieldwork students through an all-day program designed to expose them to the widest possible range of practice opportunities.

Student Recruitment in Psychosocial Occupational Therapy: Intergenerational Approaches

This volume addresses the problems the OT profession faces recruiting students into mental health as a practice specialty. The content reflects several efforts at engaging students in the exploration of the variety of available career paths in this area. Educators, supervisors, clinicians, and students facing career choices will be able to take a unique perspective on specialty selection after reviewing the thoughts, perspectives, theories, and philosophies of some of occupational therapy’s foremost leaders in mental health. In addition, readers will get an “up close” opportunity to review one institution’s efforts to educate and recruit level II fieldwork students through an all-day program designed to expose them to the widest possible range of practice opportunities.

Substance Abuse and Dependence: An Introduction for the Caring Professions

This is a multi-author guide to the medical, pharmacological, social and legal aspects of drug abuse and addiction. It offers practical information for all working in these areas, from volunteer counsellors to consultant psychiatrists.

Successful Models of Community Long Term Care Services for the Elderly

Learn about the exciting possibilities for maintaining elderly residents in their own homes by marshalling available resources to pay for needed support services. Experienced practitioners provide examples of successful community-based long-term care service programs for the elderly, programs that are supported by a mix of public funds and private resources. They explore the role of service providers in developing successful models of community-based long-term care services--housing, home care services, comprehensive senior centers, and day care, among others--and discuss not only the successes of the particular programs but the obstacles and barriers that had to be overcome as well. Chapters focus on policies for the development of effective models, from the perspectives of municipal, county, state, and federal governments involved in community service provision, and the role of colleges and universities in training personnel to develop and implement community-based long term care services. Taken together, this tutorial, taught by practitioners who offer wisdom and insight based on their hands-on experience, is indeed a unique contribution to the field of long-term care.

Successful Models of Community Long Term Care Services for the Elderly

Learn about the exciting possibilities for maintaining elderly residents in their own homes by marshalling available resources to pay for needed support services. Experienced practitioners provide examples of successful community-based long-term care service programs for the elderly, programs that are supported by a mix of public funds and private resources. They explore the role of service providers in developing successful models of community-based long-term care services--housing, home care services, comprehensive senior centers, and day care, among others--and discuss not only the successes of the particular programs but the obstacles and barriers that had to be overcome as well. Chapters focus on policies for the development of effective models, from the perspectives of municipal, county, state, and federal governments involved in community service provision, and the role of colleges and universities in training personnel to develop and implement community-based long term care services. Taken together, this tutorial, taught by practitioners who offer wisdom and insight based on their hands-on experience, is indeed a unique contribution to the field of long-term care.

Supervision (Professional Masters (Business))

Supervision describes the key principles and activities of supervisory management: how to manage, motivate and discipline; how to plan, organise and assess work; how to communicate information of various kinds... The text includes many case studies and examples from business, industry, government and education. Invaluable for NEBSS and ISM courses, as well as the relevant parts of other management courses.

Teaching Thinking: Issues and Approaches (Psychology Library Editions: Cognitive Science)

Originally published in 1990, this title attempts to provide for the educational practitioner an overview of a field that responded in the 1980s to a major educational agenda. This innovative ‘agenda’ called for teaching students in ways that dramatically improved the quality of their thinking. Its context is a variety of changes in education that brought the explicit teaching of thinking to the consciousness of more and more teachers and administrators.

Teaching Thinking: Issues and Approaches (Psychology Library Editions: Cognitive Science)

Originally published in 1990, this title attempts to provide for the educational practitioner an overview of a field that responded in the 1980s to a major educational agenda. This innovative ‘agenda’ called for teaching students in ways that dramatically improved the quality of their thinking. Its context is a variety of changes in education that brought the explicit teaching of thinking to the consciousness of more and more teachers and administrators.

Technology and Power

There is a dark side to human nature that is nurtured by the control of power. In an earlier book, The Powerholders, I I described several psychological principles that appear to govern the behavior of people who control and use social power. In particular, I examined how the successful use of power transformed, for the worse, the values and behavior of the influencing agent. My interest in the relation between technology and power grew out of reading David Howarth's Tahiti: A Paradise Lost,2 a description of the almost causal ways in which Western technology was used by early explorers and traders to obliterate the Tahitian civilization. In reflecting on what happened in Tahiti, what struck me was the similarity in the behavior of these explorers and traders to the behavior of the husbands, wives, and businessmen, in positions of power, that I wrote about in my earlier book. Technology and Power is concerned with the issue of how the added power provided by technology changes the behavior of people who control it. I describe these changes among managers at work, psychologists, physicians, and colonists. What unifies these disparate areas is the implacable logic of power. The seeming ease with which power promotes the derogation of those controlled by power provides, I believe, a needed perspective for viewing the many social problems generated by technology.

Theorie und Praxis der Gruppen- und Teamsupervision

Theories and Applications in the Detection of Deception: A Psychophysiological and International Perspective

"Polygraphy;' "lie detection;' and the "detection of deception" are all terms that refer to an application of the science of psychophysiology, which itself employs physiological measures to study and differentiate between psychological processes. The issues raised by polygraphy are controversial. One such issue is whether the polygraph is a genuinely scientifically based application, or merely a purported application, of psychophysiology. Such concerns are of interest not only to polygraph practitioners and to specialists in psychophysiology, but also to such other specialists as those in the legal and forensic professions. Moreover, there are two sorts of nonspecialists who should also be concerned. On the one hand, there are the potential "users" of the polygraph-for example, a manager who employs a polygrapher to check on subordinates; on the other hand, there are those "used by" the polygraph - the employee who is subjected to the poly­ graphic examination. To begin with the user of the polygraph, this person should know not only about its overall accuracy, but also about the rationales of the various detection methods and their validity for different purposes in different sorts of situations. This infor­ mation is important, because even for the potential user there are costs as well as benefits. Aside from the lack of trust generated by the polygraph, there have also been successful suits by employees against employers, so there are traps in polygraph usage that employers (and managers) need to keep in mind.

theories of the Evolution of Knowing: the T.c. Schneirla Conferences Series, Volume 4 (T.C. Schneirla Conferences Series)

This volume presents current thought and criticism on evolutionary epistemology -- the evolution of knowledge and knowing. As the theme of the fourth T.C. Schneirla Conference held at Wichita State University, evolutionary epistemology was examined from several diverse areas of study including comparative, developmental, physiological, and cultural psychology as well as philosophy. Theories of the Evolution of Knowing addresses alternatives to the genetic determinism inherent in Donald Campbell's concept of genetic epistemology. The concept of integrative levels is shown to offer a parsimonious, non- reductionist approach to the development of "knowing" as a human capacity.

theories of the Evolution of Knowing: the T.c. Schneirla Conferences Series, Volume 4 (T.C. Schneirla Conferences Series #Vol. 4)

This volume presents current thought and criticism on evolutionary epistemology -- the evolution of knowledge and knowing. As the theme of the fourth T.C. Schneirla Conference held at Wichita State University, evolutionary epistemology was examined from several diverse areas of study including comparative, developmental, physiological, and cultural psychology as well as philosophy. Theories of the Evolution of Knowing addresses alternatives to the genetic determinism inherent in Donald Campbell's concept of genetic epistemology. The concept of integrative levels is shown to offer a parsimonious, non- reductionist approach to the development of "knowing" as a human capacity.

Therapieresistenz unter Antidepressiva-Behandlung (Bayer-ZNS-Symposium #5)

Antidepressiva-Therapieresistenz ist einer der häufigsten Einweisungsgründe ambulant behandelter depressiver Patienten zur stationären Behandlung. Sie stellt ein relevantes Problem dar. Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit Erklärungsansätzen hierfür, weist auf die Behandlungprobleme hin und zeigt therapeutische Möglichkeiten auf, die für den in der klinischen Praxis tätigen Psychiater von großer Relevanz sind.

Therapieziel: Gesundheit