The idea that there is a fundamental rift between researchers and practitioners should not come as a surprise to anyone familiar with the current literature, trends, and general feelings in the field of clinical psychology. Central to this scientist-practitioner gap is an underlying disagreement ove[...]
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What "can't" neuroscience tell us about ourselves? Since fMRI--functional magnetic resonance imaging--was introduced in the early 1990s, brain scans have been used to help politicians understand and manipulate voters, determine guilt in court cases, and make sense of everything from musical aptitude[...]
What can't neuroscience tell us about ourselves? Since fMRI--functional magnetic resonance imaging--was introduced in the early 1990s, brain scans have been used to help politicians understand and manipulate voters, determine guilt in court cases, and make sense of everything from musical aptitude [...]
Presents the pros and cons of 19 issues that have been persistently controversial in the field of abnormal psychology. Each presentation begins with an introduction, followed by two readings that adopt conflicting perspectives on the issue being debated.[...]
Since its creation more than eighty years ago, the famous Rorschach inkblot test has become an icon of clinical psychology and popular culture. Administered over one million times world-wide each year, the Rorschach is used to assess personality and mental illness across a wide range of circumstance[...]
For introductory psychology courses at two- and four-year colleges and universities. Providing the framework students need to go from inquiry to understanding by continuously modeling the application of six key principles of scientific thinking. Psychology: From Inquiry to Understanding teaches stu[...]
50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology uses popular myths as a vehicle for helping students and laypersons to distinguish science from pseudoscience. * Uses common myths as a vehicle for exploring how to distinguish factual from fictional claims in popular psychology * Explores topics that readers wil[...]
Psychological Science and Well Being provides students with essential scientific thinking tools to become knowledgeable consumers of information related to their physical health and optimum psychological functioning. Students are bombarded with information about their well being that is not based on[...]
This valued resource helps practitioners and students evaluate the merits of popular yet controversial practices in clinical psychology and allied fields, and base treatment decisions on the best available research. Leading authorities review widely used therapies for a range of child, adolescent, a[...]