Inside Sport Psychology

Inside Sport Psychology
Author: Costas I. Karageorghis
Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2010
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780736033299

Inside Sport Psychology covers the most effective methods of enhancing sport performance and preparing mentally for competition, and it explains which techniques are most appropriate for certain situations in sport. It is an ideal resource for athletes and coaches wishing to incorporate modern psychological techniques into their everyday practice.

Majoring in Psych?

Majoring in Psych?
Author: Betsy Levonian Morgan
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1998
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Focusing on the ways that students can enhance their marketability, this guide aims to answer their career-planning questions. It looks at psychology as both a discipline and a liberal arts degree from a career perspective. Using a question-and-answer format, it shows students how they can take an active role in shaping their professional paths.

Lost in a Book

Lost in a Book
Author: Victor Nell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1990-08-29
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780300049060

Examines the social forces that have shaped reading, discusses the nature of reading skills, and suggests connections between reading and dreaming and hypnotic trance

The Psychology Book

The Psychology Book
Author: Wade E. Pickren
Publisher: Union Square + ORM
Total Pages: 1157
Release: 2014-05-20
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1402792352

This “profusely and beautifully illustrated” historical survey of psychology from prehistory to modern times is “ideal” and “highly recommended.” (Midwest Book Review) What could be more fascinating than the workings of the human mind? This stunningly illustrated survey in Sterlings Milestones series chronicles the history of psychology through 250 landmark events, theories, publications, experiments, and discoveries. Beginning with ancient philosophies of well-being, it touches on such controversial topics as phrenology, sexual taboos, electroshock therapy, multiple personality disorder, and the nature of evil.

Psychology in Everyday Life

Psychology in Everyday Life
Author: David G. Myers
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
Total Pages: 586
Release: 2011-02-18
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1464100470

Creating an exceptionally student-friendly textbook in psychology isn’t just about making the chapters shorter and pages more colorful. It’s about using that type of format to provide a clear portrait of psychological science, concise but not oversimplified, all while continually answering the recurring student question: “What does this have to do with me?” David Myers’ brief introduction to psychology, Psychology in Everyday Life, certainly does offer brief, easily manageable chapters and a colorful, image-rich design (both shaped by extensive research, class testing, and instructor/student feedback). But what makes it such an exceptional text is what flows through those chapters—rich presentations of psychology’s core concepts and field-defining research, examined in context of the everyday lives of all kinds of people around the world and communicated in the captivating storyteller’s voice that is instantly recognizable as Myers’. The new edition of Psychology in Everyday Life offers an extraordinary amount of new research, effective new inquiry-based study tools, and further design innovations, all while maintaining its trademark brevity and clean layout. And it is accompanied by an innovative media/supplements of the same scope as all of David Myers’ more comprehensive textbooks.

Inside Forensic Psychology

Inside Forensic Psychology
Author: Tiffany R. Masson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2016-03-28
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1440803048

The rich case material in this unique book provides readers with an in-depth understanding of a wide variety of forensic psychology topics through the perspective of the psychologist working with these individuals. In this absorbing and illustrative volume, experienced forensic psychologists explain the specialized field's intersection between psychology and the justice system. It documents psychologists' interviews with involved parties, the law research they conduct, and their testimony in court on issues that include competency to stand trial, Miranda evaluations, defendants' sanity, sentencing, the death penalty, and violence and risk assessments, as well as on cases regarding family matters such as child custody, child protection, and parental rights. Offering firsthand testimonials from some of the best-known and most practiced professionals in the nation, the contributors not only explain the work but also offer comprehensive case studies that will enable students as well as readers who are not specialists in psychology to fully understand core concepts and appreciate the complexities and subtleties of the field. Inside Forensic Psychology is intended for undergraduate students and graduate students studying forensic psychology or entering into a forensic psychology concentration/specialization. As an instructional text, the book serves professors as a single resource that houses varied forensic clinical case vignettes incorporating the clinical thinking of the psychologist. The rich case material will serve to excite critical thinking in students, assist instructors in expanding upon their lectures, and provide invigorating, intriguing material for lay readers.

Critical Thinking in Psychology

Critical Thinking in Psychology
Author: Robert J. Sternberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2007
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0521845890

Explores key topics in psychology, showing how they can be critically examined.

In Doubt

In Doubt
Author: Dan Simon
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2012-06-30
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0674065115

Criminal justice is unavoidably human. Detectives, witnesses, suspects, and victims shape investigations; prosecutors, defense attorneys, jurors, and judges affect the outcome of adjudication. Simon shows how flawed investigations produce erroneous evidence and why well-meaning juries send innocent people to prison and set the guilty free.

Energy Psychology in Psychotherapy

Energy Psychology in Psychotherapy
Author: Fred P. Gallo
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2002
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780393703467

This is the first book to provide a complete overview of the burgeoning field of energy psychology.

The Psychology of Religion and Spirituality

The Psychology of Religion and Spirituality
Author: Timothy Sisemore
Publisher: Wiley Global Education
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2016-01-11
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1119175380

The Psychology of Religion and Spirituality: From the Inside Out, by Timothy Sisemore, provides and introduction to the field of the psychology of religion and spirituality utilizing a mixed method approach allowing persons of faith (and one who is an atheist) to give voice to their experience to supplement the quantitative research that has been done in the field. This text honors the value of religion and spirituality in the lives of the majority of humans while acknowledging the weakness and problems that come with faith as well.