Case Studies are familiar as problem-solving devices in business and in education, as well as having a traditional role in the teaching of medicine and as the psychoanalytic research. In experimental psychology, however, case studies have only recently resurfaced as a useful way of asking questions about the structure of the mind. Each of the chapters in this book describes a particular real person whom the investigator believes can tell us something important about the way the human mind develops and performs. Each chapter is written by an internationally known academic researcher in their...
Case Studies are familiar as problem-solving devices in business and in education, as well as having a traditional role in the teaching of medicine an...
This volume outlines some of the developments in practical and theoretical research into speechreading (lipreading) that have taken place since the publication of the original Hearing by Eye. It comprises 15 chapters by international researchers in psychology, psycholinguistics, experimental and clinical speech science, and computer engineering. It answers theoretical questions (what are the mechanisms by which heard and seen speech combine?) and practical ones (what makes a good speechreader? Can machines be programmed to recognize seen and seen-and-heard speech?). The book is written in a...
This volume outlines some of the developments in practical and theoretical research into speechreading (lipreading) that have taken place since the pu...
Disturbed by the reportedly high level of social worker involvement in the treatment of substance use disorders (SUDs) and by, conversely, the reported lack of social work training in the use of Best Practices, the author (and a host of volunteers, family members, co-workers, committee members and others) mounted a survey. A randomly selected sample of social workers, experienced in the SUD field, answered questions about their Best Practice use, practice context and personal motivation in order to provide data. Social workers said that Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Self-Help Interventions,...
Disturbed by the reportedly high level of social worker involvement in the treatment of substance use disorders (SUDs) and by, conversely, the reporte...
This is based on oral history recordings that Miriam Garvil made with me in 1993-1994. She is now 91 years old and eager to have it published in a book. It's the story of her life beginning with her childhood in Poland, surviving the holocaust in three concentration camps, and then living with her husband and son in New York and Ann Arbor, Michigan.
This is based on oral history recordings that Miriam Garvil made with me in 1993-1994. She is now 91 years old and eager to have it published in a boo...
