Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
|
Your cart is empty |
|||
Books > Academic & Education > Professional & Technical > Psychology
International Review of Research in Mental Retardation is an ongoing scholarly look at research into the causes, effects, classification systems, syndromes, etc. of mental retardation. Contributors come from wide-ranging perspectives, including genetics, psychology, education, and other health and behavioral sciences.
Advances in Child Development and Behavior is intended to ease the task faced by researchers, instructors, and students who are confronted by the vast amount of research and theoretical discussion in child development and behavior. The serial provides scholarly technical articles with critical reviews, recent advances in research, and fresh theoretical viewpoints. Volume 32 discusses cultural contributions in development, infants' representation of objects and events, the impacts of affluence, mechanisms of early categorization and induction, attentional inertia, the early development of pictoral competence, and classroom competence.
Motivation is the energizing force that drives much of our attention, conscious effort, and achievement in life. Yet this important driving force may be absent, low, or problematic in persons with mental retardation. This special thematic volume in the "International Review of Research in Mental Retardation" focuses on motivation within this special population. The book explores several theoretical models of motivation, as well as discussing issues of goal orientation, self-regulated academic learning, the setting and monitoring of realistic goals, and social competence for people with mental retardation. Additional chapters discuss the measurement of subjective well-being and quality of life in this population, and strategies for empowering students with developmental difficulties as well as instructional practices and contexts that can enhance motivation, learning, and achievement.
'Representation in Mind' is the first book in the new series
'Perspectives on Cognitive Science' and includes well known
contributors in the areas of philosophy of mind, psychology and
cognitive science.
This book presents theories and clinical practices for dealing with
children diagnosed with pervasive developmental disability or PDD.
These are children who have a wide range of disabilities that
affect their participation in even the most routine events of daily
life, such as eating, dressing, bathing, and so on. Unlike many who
are diagnosed with classic autism, however, these children seem to
have normal social behavior, normal physical appearance, the
ability to learn, hear, see, and move their bodies at will in other
words, none of the well-known reasons that cause autistic and other
children to develop differently. These children have the use of all
their senses, but their brains are unable to process the
information that is fed through them. While much new research is
being done in genetics and neurobiology to explain why something in
these children has gone fundamentally wrong with their development,
clinicians and therapists who deal with them on a daily basis have
needed to develop practical therapies based on how the children
react to their environments.
The Psychology of Learning and Motivation publishes empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning to complex learning and problem solving. Each chapter provides a thoughtful integration of a body of work.
The first title to be published in the "BRAT Series on Clinical Psychology", this book presents a critical analysis of the theories and empirical evidence to date regarding the origins of phobias and anxiety disorders, and the reasons why more women than men suffer from them. The book moves from a discussion of non-specific temperament to specific risk factors for each anxiety disorder, assuming a hierarchical aetiological model throughout. At each level of analysis, the issue of gender differences is addressed. For example, broad temperamental factors such as traits of negative affectivity and poor emotional regulation are reviewed in terms of their relevance to the group of disorders with which anxiety disorders tend to cluster, such as depression and substance abuse. Biological contributions are covered, along with early life experiences including parenting styles and expectations, and early stressors. The components of anxiety - hypervigilance, threat-laden belief systems and avoidant style - are presented as being common across the anxiety disorders and self-perpetuating. Types of ongoing life experiences that influence the development of one type of anxiety disorder over another are reviewed. Each anxiety disorder is then addressed in detail after considering general principles of fear acquisition and persistence.
Choice, Behavioural Economics and Addiction is about the theory,
data, and applied implications of choice-based models of substance
use and addiction. The distinction between substance use and
addiction is important, because many individuals use substances but
are not also addicted to them. The behavioural economic perspective
has made contributions to the analysis of both of these phenomena
and, while the major focus of the book is on theories of addiction,
it is necessary also to consider the behavioural economic account
of substance use in order to place the theories in their proper
context and provide full coverage of the contribution of
behavioural economics to this field of study.
Language and communication problems have long figured prominently
in the definition of mental retardation. Volume 27 of the
International Review of Research in Mental Retardation focuses
exclusively on these language and communication issues. The pace of
research on language learning and use in mental retardation has
increased in recent years and taken new direction. This
revitalization has been fueled by three factors: 1) advances in
genetic technologies allowing investigation of the behavioral
phenotypes of well-defined syndromes, 2) an increased emphasis on
maximizing abilities of individuals with mental retardation to live
and succeed in a broader range of contexts and settings, and 3)
theoretical debates concerning the mechanisms of language
development and the nature of the human mind.
Practitioners seeking the most current advances in the field of
ADHD and LD must often bridge the gap between research and
practice. The Therapist's Guide to Learning and Attention Disorders
provides that bridge through the authors, who are both researchers
and practitioners with extensive experience in providing direct
services to children and adults with ADHD and LD.
Advances in Child Development and Behavior is intended to ease the task faced by researchers, instructors, and students who are confronted by the vast amount of research and theoretical discussion in child development and behavior. The serial provides scholarly technical articles with critical reviews, recent advances in research, and fresh theoretical viewpoints. Volume 31 discusses chidren's understanding of photographs as spatial and expressive representations, school relationships and their influence on behavior, literacy and the role of letter names, emotion, morality, and self, working memory in infancy, differentiated sense of the past and the future, cognitive flexibility and language abilities, understanding children with medical and physical disorders, bio-ecological environment and development, and early literacy.
The Psychology of Learning and Motivation publishes empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning to complex learning and problem solving. Each chapter provides a thoughtful integration of a body of work.
This book celebrates two triumphs in modern psychology: the
successful development and application of a solid measure of
general intelligence; and the personal courage and skills of the
man who made this possible - Arthur R. Jensen from Berkeley
University.
Increasingly, psychologists are becoming aware of sensitivity needs
with respect to treating patients from differing cultures. Culture
can play an important role both in what a patient discloses about
themselves, how likely they are to follow a therapist's advice, and
whether specific therapies are likely to be effective for them.
Following on the heels of Tseng's "Handbook of Cultural Psychiatry"
comes this "Clinical Application of Cultural Psychiatry."
The aim of Advances in the Study of Behavior remains as it has been since the series began: to serve the increasing number of scientists who are engaged in the study of animal behavior by presenting their theoretical ideas and research to their colleagues and to those in neighboring fields. We hope that the series will continue its "contribution to the development of the field," as its intended role was phrased in the Preface to the first volume in 1965. Since that time, traditional areas of animal behavior have achieved new vigor by the links they have formed with related fields and by the closer relationship that now exists between those studying animal and human subjects.
International Review of Research in Mental Retardation is an ongoing scholarly look at research into the causes, effects, classification systems, syndromes, etc. of mental retardation. Contributors come from wide-ranging perspectives, including genetics, psychology, education, and other health and behavioral sciences.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the emotional,
behavioral and cognitive characteristics of adolescents who have
attempted suicide. Each chapter opens with a case study vignette
from the author's extensive clinical files followed by a summary of
the empirical literature. Assessment and treatment practices close
each chapter. While suicide is the third largest killer of
adolescents, most suicide attempts do not result in death.
Therefore the treatment of the suicide attempter following the
attempt becomes a significant part of the clinician's work with
these adolescents. Moreover, the precursors and behavioral markers
for a suicide attempt become important signals for the school
counselor, youth worker, or therapist. This book also include
assessment measures to use when evaluating an adolescent who has
attempted suicide.
The chapters in this collection address a variety of concerns in organizational theory, ranging from the evolution of organizations and cross-cultural analyses of managerial behavior to the micro-sociology of knowledge brokering within organizations and the etiology of organizational messes. Swaminathan, examines resource partitioning theory, an important theoretical perspective in population ecology. The next three chapters, broadly construed, address issues of organizational innovation, learning, and adaptation in complex environments. The next contribution, by John Carroll, Jenny Rudolph, and Sachi Hatakenaka examines how high-hazard organizations learn from experience. As with all organizations, high-hazard organizations such as nuclear power plants and chemical plants attempt to learn from experience in order to improve performance and, of course, to avoid catastrophic failure. Unlike many other kinds of organizations, however, failure to learn from prior experience-especially with respect to learning effectively from errors and mishaps-can prove extremely costly and even fatal. Hence, these organizations must balance between learning and control, and must do so under conditions of considerable oversight and scrutiny. provocative analysis of the role disorganization plays in organizational life. The two following chapters in this volume provide important overviews of theory and research on classic phenomena within organizational theory, followed by original theoretical syntheses. Robert Baron's chapter then undertakes a fresh and useful examination of the burgeoning literature on entrepreneurship and the two final chapters in the volume examine essential issues related to our understanding of organizations and the cultural environments in which they are embedded.
Advances in Child Development and Behavior is intended to ease the task faced by researchers, instructors, and students who are confronted by the vast amount of research and theoretical discussion in child development and behavior. The serial provides scholarly technical articles with critical reviews, recent advances in research, and fresh theoretical viewpoints. Volume 30 discusses early recall memory, balance and motor learning, sexual selection, emotion-related regulation, maternal sensitivity and attachment, and influences of friends.
In 1998, approximately 30 million people worldwide were living with
HIV/AIDS, about 5 million of whom became infected that year. The
epidemic continues to expand, with an estimated doubling time of 10
years, making AIDS the leading infectious cause of death ahead of
tuberculosis and malaria. Even in the U.S.A. where the death rate
from AIDS is declining as a result of effective drug therapies, HIV
infection rates continue to climb in several population groups. The
prevalence of AIDS among people over the age of 50 is steadily
increasing, and most older people are unprepared to address it for
a number of reasons, including the widespread discomfort with
matters sexual and homosexual and the belief that elderly people
are not sexually active and therefore not at risk.
This text offers practicing clinicians strategies, interventions, suggestions, guidance and ideas to work with adults struggling with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and is intended as a reference to which clinicians will turn time and time again as issues or problems present themselves. The text will also provide a comprehensive review of the scientific literature and expand the development of an ongoing model to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
This text reference provides state-of-the-art information on
juvenile firesetters and reviews the current research on youthful
firesetters and arsonists. The work illustrates methods of fire
scene investigation and assessment relating to child-parent and
family factors. This information is then used to prescribe
interventions with the individual along with community-wide
programs. The work also provides current information on fire safety
education and curricula, with explicit training materials. Finally,
the book addresses the need for residential treatment centers and
training schools on methods for handling firesetting youth and
maintaining a fire safe environment.
The Psychology of Learning and Motivation publishes empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning to complex learning and problem solving. Each chapter provides a thoughtful integration of a body of work. Volume 41 includes in its coverage chapters on multimedia learning, brain imaging, and memory, among others.
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) has perplexed clinicians and researchers for many years. Despite recent advances in our understanding of and ability to treat this debilitating problem, many people with OCD do not benefit or benefit only marginally from existing treatments. Newer approaches and a better understanding of the pathogenesis of OCD are needed. One such approach that has shown considerable promise in recent years is cognitive therapy. Recent studies have found cognitive therapy to be an effective treatment for OCD, and research on cognitive theory for OCD is rapidly expanding. This volume assembles nearly all of the major investigators responsible for the development of cognitive therapy (and theory) for OCD, as well as other major researchers in the field to write about cognitive phenomenology, assessment, treatment, and theory related to OCD. Each chapter of the book is written by an expert in the area. The first section of the book describes the domains of cognition in OCD and the subsequent section outlines measurement strategies where the efforts of an international working group of scholars to develop measures of OCD cognition are described. Reviews of OCD cognitions in OCD spectrum disorders and in specific populations (for example, the elderly and children) are reviewed in following sections. Finally, the role of these cognitions and cognitive processes in treatment is described.
Advances in Child Development and Behavior is intended to ease the task faced by researchers, instructors, and students who are confronted by the vast amount of research and theoretical discussion in child development and behavior. The serial provides scholarly technical articles with critical reviews, recent advances in research, and fresh theoretical viewpoints. Volume 29 discusses working memory, parent-adolescent relationships, maternal responsiveness and early language acquisition, early knowledge acquisition, schooling as a cultural process, and pre-adolescent peer relations. |
You may like...
Self-Injurious Behavior in Intellectual…
Johannes Rojahn, Stephen R. Schroeder, …
Hardcover
R2,412
Discovery Miles 24 120
Ethics for Graduate Researchers - A…
Cathriona Russell, Linda Hogan, …
Hardcover
Fundamentals of Spatial Information…
Robert Laurini, Derek Thompson
Hardcover
R1,487
Discovery Miles 14 870
Advances in Experimental Social…
Mark P. Zanna, James M. Olson
Hardcover
R2,845
Discovery Miles 28 450
Practical Skills and Clinical Management…
Samuel Obembe
Hardcover
Telemental Health - Clinical, Technical…
Kathleen Myers, Carolyn Turvey
Hardcover
R1,531
Discovery Miles 15 310
Principles of Addiction - Comprehensive…
Peter M. Miller
Hardcover
|