Most Western health professionals practice in multicultural societies. The influence of culture on illness, health and rehabilitation is therefore very important. Despite this, most lower level health psychology texts skim over these differences and assume our traditional biomedical approach will be appropriate for all. In this completely revised and updated edition of a groundbreaking book, Malco…
Mental health service users and carers are increasingly involved in the planning and delivery of a mental health education that gives a «real-life» perspective to the practice of mental health care. Teaching and Learning about Mental Health is designed to teach and train new mental health workers, using an interdisciplinary approach. Divided into three parts, the first discusses learning from serv…
Connectionism is a “hands on” introduction to connectionist modeling through practical exercises in different types of connectionist architectures. explores three different types of connectionist architectures – distributed associative memory, perceptron, and multilayer perceptron provides a brief overview of each architecture, a detailed introduction on how to use a program to explore this networ…
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В настоящей монографии автор поднимает сложный вопрос о дезадаптации несовершеннолетних. Он исследует такие вопросы, как психологические детерминанты отклоняющегося поведения и различные факторы, влияющие на отклонение в поведении (мотивационные, ситуационные); средовая адаптация несовершеннолетних и возрастная психология; описывает делинквентное и противоправное поведение. Взяв за основу представ…
Emotions: A Brief History investigates the history of emotions across cultures as well as the evolutionary history of emotions and of emotional development across an individual’s life span. In clear and accessible language, Keith Oatley examines key topics such as emotional intelligence, emotion and the brain, and emotional disorders. Throughout, he interweaves three themes: the changes that emoti…
Emotions: A Brief History investigates the history of emotions across cultures as well as the evolutionary history of emotions and of emotional development across an individual’s life span. In clear and accessible language, Keith Oatley examines key topics such as emotional intelligence, emotion and the brain, and emotional disorders. Throughout, he interweaves three themes: the changes that emoti…
Emotions: A Brief History investigates the history of emotions across cultures as well as the evolutionary history of emotions and of emotional development across an individual’s life span. In clear and accessible language, Keith Oatley examines key topics such as emotional intelligence, emotion and the brain, and emotional disorders. Throughout, he interweaves three themes: the changes that emoti…
Emotions: A Brief History investigates the history of emotions across cultures as well as the evolutionary history of emotions and of emotional development across an individual’s life span. In clear and accessible language, Keith Oatley examines key topics such as emotional intelligence, emotion and the brain, and emotional disorders. Throughout, he interweaves three themes: the changes that emoti…
The only book that links psychological wellness with organizational and community health, Promoting Well-Being provides you with important insight into how these domains interact as well as strategies for helping clients harness the benefits of these interactions. It is an essential tool for psychologists, counselors, social workers, human service professionals, public health professionals, and st…
Stress: A Brief History is a lively, accessible, and detailed examination of the origins of the field of stress research. First concise, accessible, academically grounded book on the origins of the concept of stress. Explores different theories and models of stress such as the psychosomatic approach, homeostasis, and general adaptation syndrome. Discusses the work and intriguing contributions of k…
Эта книга о людях творческих. Творящих не только и не столько музыку, картины, скульптуры и спектакли, сколько собственную жизнь. Смело, честно, сопротивляясь общему мнению, непониманию и традиционным установкам на славу и обогащение. Вместе с тем, окружая себя единомышленниками, любимыми друзьями и талантливыми коллегами.
Психозы относятся к группе наиболее сложных психических расстройств, распространенность которых имеет тенденцию к росту в последние годы. В учебном пособии изложены подробные сведения о психотических синдромах, встречающихся преимущественно в детском возрасте. В то же время дана психопатологическая картина психотических состояний, возникающих в разные возрастные периоды, но отдельно выделены их ос…
Children's Testimony offers a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of issues relating to children's evidence. Starting with psychological underpinnings and child protection considerations, the reader is taken through a clearly structured and timely collection of chapters from internationally renowned contributors. Pointers for practitioners are clearly highlighted throughout and a unique, jargo…
В книге рассмотрены вопросы изучения пограничных психических расстройств, в том числе и неврозов, в историческом аспекте, освещены основные компенсаторные механизмы головного мозга ребенка, проанализированы понятия о стрессе и психической травме. Авторами дана подробная характеристика методам терапии неврозов: психофармакотерапии, психотерапии, представлен собственный комплексный метод лечения дет…