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In this comprehensive career assessment book, Rodney Lowman addresses the three major areas that matter the most for understanding and helping people with their career choices: occupational interests, abilities (broadly defined), and personality characteristics.

Each year, well over a million undergraduate students take an introductory psychology course. This edited volume presents recommendations for designing and teaching this important course.

An evocative biography, written in verse coupled with sidebars and historical photographs, that tells the story of Evelyn Hooker, the extraordinary woman behind the research, advocacy, and allyship that led to the removal of the 'Homosexuality' diagnosis from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

Offers a thorough and authoritative discussion of the ethical issues in conducting research with human participants. Each chapter poses an important ethical question, considers the relevant factors for addressing the question, and presents guidance for investigators.

Reveals the impact of anger on job performance and in the workplace context, with a particular focus on police, firefighters, and the military. This book aims to help researchers and practitioners distinguish healthy from unhealthy, unproductive anger and to understand its links to problems such depression, alcohol abuse, and PTSD.

Provides an introduction to critical participatory action research, an approach that reveals the everyday stories of struggle and survival of the persons being studied, combats social injustice, and leverages social science research for action.

Provides an introduction to conversation analysis, a qualitative approach that examines the actions and interactions that take place in face-to-face conversations, phone calls, texts, and various forms of media. Conversation analysis details how people interact, adjusting their behaviour accordingly, and attentiveness to one another.

This book will help future psychologists find their optimal career path. The chapters describe 30 exciting graduate-level careers in academia, clinical and counseling psychology, and specialized settings such as for-profit businesses, nonprofits, the military, and schools.

Cognitive behavior therapy for postdisaster distress (CBT-PD) is a transdiagnostic approach to the treatment of a range of distressing symptoms that might not meet criteria for a specific disorder. This guide includes therapist scripts and client vignettes, and over two dozen and worksheets that mental health providers can use with their clients.

This essential single-source guide to multimethod psychological assessment of disordered thinking and perception offers practical insights for applying key evaluation measures and strategies, along with important contextual considerations.

Examines the events leading up to sexual boundary violations as well as what happens to clients and therapists once they are discovered. The book also considers the broader effects of such behaviour on colleagues, institutions, families, and others. Case illustrations are included to illustrate how therapeutic relationships are compromised.

Provides an overview of theoretical and empirical frameworks for understanding PTSD in first responders and outlines practical and evidence-based approaches to assess and treat PTSD in these populations. This is followed by a thorough discussion of the assessment process and guidance on treatment strategies with this population.

Methods described in this book can help clients to 'arrive at', or fully experience, their painful maladaptive emotions, and then 'leave' these emotions by accessing new, adaptive emotions. These methods include helping clients sit with painful feelings, access bodily felt experience, and articulate the meaning of an emotion.

Presents a broad spectrum of theoretical and methodological perspectives illustrating how political psychology has addressed critical social issues in Latin America, and provides a selective summary of the work carried out by some of the leading Latin American researchers in political psychology.

Presents prolonged exposure therapy (PE), a specific manualized exposure therapy program for PTSD. A variant of exposure therapy, PE is a cognitive behavioural approach designed to reduce pathological anxiety and related emotions by helping patients approach relatively safe but distress-provoking thoughts, memories, situations, and stimuli.

Addresses the psychosocial causes, consequences, and underpinnings of intra-regional migration in Latin America. Contributors offer conceptual, theoretical, and methodological tools for understanding the psychological processes that underlie migration and intergroup contact.

Examines how psychotherapists can be appropriately responsive to clients' unique needs across a variety of therapeutic approaches by saying or doing the right thing at the right time. Contributors synthesize key research and identify common factors across the field of psychology as well as unique contributions that each approach offers.

Offers a step-by-step approach to diagnosis, giving practicing psychologists and graduate trainees the essential information they need to apply the mental and behavioural diagnostic guidelines of the ICD-11 and deliver high quality, evidence-informed care around the world.

Blending empirical research and clinical expertise into easy-to-read advice, Drs. John Norcross and Mick Cooper offer multiple strategies for routinely assessing preferences as they evolve over the course of therapy, focusing primarily on strong likes and dislikes.

A practical, beginner-friendly book that teaches readers how to do daily life research - the study of what people do in their ordinary environments in their everyday lives. The basic approach is to collect data intensively over time, at least once a day for many days, in people's natural environments rather than in research labs.

The true potency of needing to express one's unhappiness and the power of having someone else listen and help is a strong message for young readers. Like a favourite teacher or mentor, they may not be around forever, just for a short but meaningful time.

This fun story about identity is a clever way to introduce young readers to non-binary and gender-fluid people. Explaining the use of pronouns of one's own choosing to kids, while all along reinforcing that an individual is much more layered and unique than how others may see him, her or them, is a developmentally important milestone.

This collection of insightful and endearing poems explores what kids experience on the inside that cannot be seen from the outside. From topics that readers experience every day, like the agony of waiting for recess, to the monotony of homework, to things that aren't easy to talk about, like death and bullying, the poems are incredibly relatable.

This important follow-up to the bestselling, groundbreaking, and polarizing Something Happened in Our Town, is a much-needed story to help communities in the aftermath of gun violence.

Blossom and Bud live in Mr. Baxter's flower shop, among plants of every imaginable size, colour, and shape. Blossom doesn't like how tall she is and tries to hide her height. Bud doesn't like how he looks, so he tries to force his flower to bloom. But Mr. Baxter thinks they are just right, as they are, and has a special role for each of them.

Tommy is terrified of dogs. When he gets an invitation to a big birthday party at his neighbor's house, his heart sinks-he can't possibly go, the dog is enormous and scary! This gentle introduction to the concept of exposure therapy for kids will help them deal with phobias.

In this step-by-step guide to conducting a research study, Linda McMullen describes the innovative ways in which discursive psychology analyses language at both the micro and macro levels. Discursive psychologists reconceptualize talk and text as being situated in a social context, rather than thinking of talk as a route to our thoughts.

Provides a step-by-step description of how to use critical-constructivist grounded theory methods. This flexible approach can aid researchers in investigating topics within psychological, interpersonal, and sociocultural contexts.

Introduces readers to ideal-type analysis, a method for forming typologies from qualitative data. The authors present the background to this approach, the steps required to conduct an ideal-type analysis, and guidance on writing up a study using this method.