Culture shock is what happens when a person is transported from a familiar to an alien culture and can affect anyone: travellers on business or pleasure, refugees, immigrants or foreign students. Coping with the causes and consequences is therefore an important topic for those in the helping professions as well as those who decide who should be uprooted, like managers who decide that employees should be sent away to a foreign land for a year or two to conduct company business. This new edition incorporates over a decade of new research material and should be useful for students of psychology,...

The Psychology of the Dentist-Patient Relationship acquaints dentists with the underlying interpersonal dynamics of their professional work. The author has reviewed the dental and psychological literature about the behavior of dentists and their patients, and used this evidence to evaluate critically the various theoretical models of the dentist-patient relationship. A major aim of this book is to show how the application of soundly based psychological theory and practice can improve patient management, reduce the stress of practicing dentistry, and contribute to the design of...