Since its inception as a field of science in the 19th century, psychology as it is now offered at universities has made great efforts to become a q...

This book introduces the most significant studies and practices developed by scholars and researchers in school psychology in Brazil. The chapters ...

This book is comprised from a number of international contributions which come from diverse paradigms and country backgrounds (Greece, Italy, Portu...

This book provides current research on the symptoms, challenges and current concepts of psychopathology. Chapter One reviews the stipulative defini...

Nowadays, an alarming number of juveniles all over the world find themselves implicated in the juvenile justice system and a great number of them a...

This book explores the psycho-social and cognitive development of Greek Cypriot University students. Taking Perry’s theory of ethical and intellect...

This new and timely book deals with the magnitude and the intensity of the poverty in Latin America, Mexico and the state of Nuevo Leon. The enormo...

We all long for a life of purpose and fulfilment. Striving for high quality of life for us and those we care for is a powerful motivator. Many busy...

What ever happened to silence? Actually nothing, and Harry Wilmer takes great pains to show how we have submerged it under a toxic barrage of noise...

This book explicates and critically reviews the competing ways that a social arena can best be coherently described, explained and understood and t...

Women want to be all of themselves and want to be their own selves, not examples of types. They want to work out their own individual combinations ...

This book incorporates works of empirical research, derived from different conceptual models based on psychological or psychosocial theory. It pres...

In 2004, recovery was adopted by the United States Federal government as the most important guiding principle in mental health services and interve...

This book puts current research on regulatory fit and persuasion into the larger contexts of elaboration likelihood and transportation likelihood (...

This book is an exploration into the dynamics of interpersonal relationships, and how the spiritual quest for union is tempered by the human desire...

This book is an exploration into the dynamics of interpersonal relationships, and how the spiritual quest for union is tempered by the human desire...

This book is devoted to research on the interaction between two fields which have an enormous impact on most of mankind.

There has been a remarkable amount of popular and professional interest in the relationship between spirituality, religion, psychology, and health ...

The interrelationship of psychology and religion is the subject of this new and important book. The areas of health care, longevity, and terrorism ...

Apparently all societies around the world and throughout recorded history pursue one form of mysticism or spirituality or other if not full religio...

The events in Germany from 1933 to 1945 have shaken the world, and especially the Jewish people, to their fundaments. The great holocaust that spre...

Rapid eye movement (REM) is a cyclical sleep period, occurring in intervals of 90-120 minutes during the night, occupying approximately 20-25% of t...

Why are humans sometimes generous to each other? This remains a central question in social psychology, evolutionary biology, experimental economics...

Cognitive disorders are defined as those in which a limitation of cognitive functioning is the main feature. They include: amnestic disorders, Hunt...

Over the past several years, both coaches and athletes have started to realize that strength, speed, and other athletic skills are not sufficient f...

The objective of this work is to capture and share the scientific production of Spanish-speaking psychologists, which is little known in the Anglo-...

This compendium incorporates works of empirical research, derived from different conceptual models based on any psychological or psychosocial theor...

"Egocentric speech" has been an important notion in the development of language and thought since Piaget (1923) published his book Le langage et la...

The study of risk perception started when experts in these matters figured out that common people often disagreed about how they envisage risk, eve...

Sir Laurens van der Post, author, film-maker, storyteller of world-wide renown, soldier, prisoner of war, political advisor to heads of state, huma...

Sir Laurens van der Post, author, film-maker, storyteller of world-wide renown, soldier, prisoner of war, political advisor to heads of state, huma...