Kategoria BISAC: Psychology >> Education & Training

Gives students essential information about the intership selection process, including updated material on the computer selection process that was implemented by the Association of Psychology Postdocotral and Internship Centers (APPIC).

A new career in academia can be a challenge. While academia's formal rules are published in faculty handbooks, its implicit rules are often difficult to discern. Like the first edition, this new and expanded volume of The Compleat Academic is filled with practical and valuable advice to help new academics set the best course for a lasting and vibrant career. This volume guides readers through academia's informal rules and describes the problems beginning social scientists will face. With humor and insight, leading academics share the lessons they have learned through their own hard...

The contributors to this book invite the reader to explore with them the processes affecting the therapist's mind-and, occasionally his body-during psychoanalytic therapy, and the reasons why the therapist thinks, feels, and reacts in a particular way. counter-transference since Freud's time, has recently been recognized, resulting in the therapist's use of additional resources so that he or she can understand and help the patient more effectively. Freud's own observations, made important contributions to the study of the countertransference, considerably enlarging upon the concept and...

Instant Notes in Psychology contains the fundamental topics that are essential to the student. Each topic begins with a Key Notes panel containing concise summaries of the key points covered, which are expanded in the main text of the topic. Although each topic stands alone, it is the nature of the psychology that topics are interrelated. To help the student see these interrelationships the text provides numerous cross-references between topics.

The only book ever to draw the big findings of NLP into one easy-to-use model How to Make a Good Mind Great provides the perfect solution for being in the right frame of mind at the right moment for the right length of time to get the result you want. We often talk about 'being in the right frame of mind' to do something, and as soon as we think we're on the right path, suddenly find ourselves in exactly the wrong frame of mind to achieve our objective. How to Make a Good Mind Great provides the momentum and direction to remain focused and motivated right to the end. It runs on the best, most...

Three Kenyan academics address educational psychology, as a major aspect of education as such. Using local experiences and contemporary psychology perspectives, the authors introduce the subject within the broad field of psychology. Particular focus is on human growth and development; personality dynamics; the exceptional child; learning; motivation; and psychological measurement and evaluation.

The author's trademark down-to-earth spirituality is encapsulated for you, the reader, in this wonderful workbook which will allow you to examine feelings and thoughts that you may not have known that you even have. Marilyn experienced deep depression and bipolar disorder in the 1980's and used the pain she experienced at that time as a means of growth, rather than becoming victimized by it. She knows that she can only talk about the world of emotions from where she is standing, but through her questions about each topic, Marilyn invites you to examine that same world from your own unique...

For over a quarter century Mr. Bartholomew has been helping men become free from domestic violence and create peace in their relationships. As a trainer, lecturer, and consultant to other therapists, he has evolved this approach to running domestic violence groups which helps the therapist help the client to achieve both behavioral change and clinical goals. This is a professional, compassionate, results-oriented approach to domestic violence which supports growth and change and respects the clinical relationship between the participant and the therapist. This workbook includes the...

A guide to the field of psychology for those thinking of studying the subject at undergraduate level. Drawing heavily on the vocational psychology literature, the books presents self-exploration tools and self-assessment exercises to help readers decide if psychology is for them.

According to many introductory psychology textbooks, Westerners are placing an increasingly high value on the welfare of their children. This humanistic cultural shift has not found its way into developmental psychology courses at the college level, leaving a vital gap in curriculum at many universities. Until now.

From a fresh, holistic perspective, psychology professor Eugene M. DeRobertis applies humanistic viewpoints in psychology to the study of child development. Unlike most child development texts that concentrate on the subdivisions of the child's personality, the observations and...

According to many introductory psychology textbooks, Westerners are placing an increasingly high value on the welfare of their children. This humanistic cultural shift has not found its way into developmental psychology courses at the college level, leaving a vital gap in curriculum at many universities. Until now.

From a fresh, holistic perspective, psychology professor Eugene M. DeRobertis applies humanistic viewpoints in psychology to the study of child development. Unlike most child development texts that concentrate on the subdivisions of the child's personality, the observations and...

This textbook outlines the key areas of mental health practice for those in the early stages of their training, who may not necessarily come from psychology backgrounds.

• Accompanies the lecturer's book 'Teaching Mental Health'
• Focuses on the 'Ten Essential Shared Capabilities' that have been developed by the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
• In partnership with the BABCP, Lord Layard is recommending that more mental health graduates be trained in order to meet demand for mental health services in the UK

Supervision plays a central role in the clinical training of mental health professionals. In Clinical Supervision: A Competency-Based Approach (APA, 2004), Falender and Shafranske created a comprehensive resource for the supervision of mental health practitioners. In this companion casebook, the editors have enlisted an elite group of contributors to help make the leap from theory and research to the real-life, hands-on implementation of the elements of successful supervision. With expert commentary and detailed excerpts from actual supervisory sessions, the authors describe supervision as...

Supervision of Music Therapy discusses the theoretical bases underlying approaches to supervision in music therapy, as well as focusing on the distinctive aspects of music therapy supervision from both clinical and conceptual perspectives.

In this book, leading music therapy supervisors and researchers demonstrate how music therapy trainees and practising clinicians can be supported through supervision, allowing them to develop confidence and authenticity in their work. Contributors discuss supervision of clinical work with a variety of patients in a range of...

Adrian Furnham takes a sideways glance at management in this book of short essays. The essays are like tablets: to be taken a few at a time.They are designed to cure hangovers, reduce blood pressure and lighten the mood.They are also meant to be prophylactics against managerial madness. Take two, then call Adrian in the morning."

Teaching Critical Thinking in Psychology features current scholarship on effectively teaching critical thinking skills at all levels of psychology.

• Offers novel, nontraditional approaches to teaching critical thinking, including strategies, tactics, diversity issues, service learning, and the use of case studies
• Provides new course delivery formats by which faculty can create online course materials to foster critical thinking within a diverse student audience
• Places specific emphasis on how to both teach and assess critical thinking in the classroom, as well...

Contains practical suggestions and appendices to help practising and trainee supervisors develop and enhance the skills they need to be successful in their work. This book covers such key areas as creating a supervisory alliance, fostering supervisory relationship, use of tape-recording and highlighting supervisees' strengths and weaknesses.

This book explores the hidden world of everyday learning in the lives of manufacturing workers from a social perspective. It challenges the myth that everyday learning, despite its apparent openness and freedom, can be understood as class-neutral. Based on life-history interviews, selected ethnographic observations in homes and factories, and large-scale survey materials as well as the microanalysis of human-computer interaction, the analysis follows learning across the spheres of "working-class life" and draws on the author's personal experiences as a factory worker and academic.

Ever had difficulty choosing a research project?

Ever wondered how your work will be marked?

This book will help students to understand the coursework specifications and marking criteria for a number of key exam boards, including; AQA (specification A and B), OCR, EDEXCEL and SQA. It provides specific and highly relevant advice on how to maximise achievement in coursework. Guidance is offered on how best to choose a research project, through to practical advice on how to carry out research and write up reports. Topics to be avoided are also considered and advice on how to...

This is a very practical how to book, written for students on counselling skills courses. It is intended to help them through the various problems faced by people returning to education, perhaps after a long gap.... how useful this book could be to students who are] confused by the increasingly academic requirements of counselling training courses... I would recommend this book as a companion for anyone who is starting a course with little or no experience of academic expectations. It is written in a friendly and reassuring style' -" Counselling, The Journal of the British Association for...