Self-help is big business, but alas, not always a scientific one. Self-help books, websites, and movies abound and are important sources of psychological advice for millions of Americans. But how can you sift through them to find the ones that work?
Self-Help That Works is an indispensable guide that enables readers to identify effective self-help materials and distinguish them from those that are potentially misleading or even harmful. Six scientist-practitioners bring careful research, expertise, and a dozen national studies to the task of choosing and recommending self-help resources.
Designed for both laypersons and mental-health professionals, this book critically reviews multiple types of self-help resources, from books and autobiographies to films, online programs, support groups, and websites, for 41 different behavioral disorders and life challenges. The revised edition of this award-winning book now features online self-help resources, expanded content, and new chapters focusing on autism, bullying, chronic pain, GLB issues, happiness, and nonchemical addictions. Each chapter updates the self-help resources launched since the previous edition and expands the material. The final chapters provide key strategies for consumers evaluating self-help as well as for professionals integrating self-help into treatment.
All told, this updated edition of Self-Help that Works evaluates more than 2,000 self-help resources and brings together the collective wisdom of nearly 5,000 mental health professionals. Whether seeking self-help for yourself, loved ones, or patients, this is the go-to, research-based guide with the best advice on what works.

A significant revision of Jane Halonen and John Santrock's groundbreaking textbook representing psychology as a science while emphasizing its real world contextual dimensions, this edition has expanded its scope to incorporate information about applications and skills related to the discipline. Streamlined by more than 100 pages, making it more accessible and affordable, the text provides students with a proven pedagogical program designed to facilitate comprehension. Despite significant changes in design and structure, the paramount goals for this text remain true. First, to present the field of psychology as a science in as solid and interesting way as possible, and secondly to engage and challenge students with real world information that will motivate them to learn.

Designed specifically to help students get the most from their textbook and course in Educational Psychology this CD includes numerous resources for learning that are integrated within the text. Each Chapter Includes: "Video Clips (Expert Advice, Teaching Experience, Video Observations, Video Lectures), Chapter Outline; Bulleted Chapter Summary; Test Your Learning--Matching, True/False exercises, Multiple Choice Items, Application Exercises, Short Answer Questions; Crack the Case(2 new ones for each chapter);; Strategies in Practice, Theory in Practice modules, Portfolio Activities (with downloadable template and clickable INTASC standards); Site Observation Questions (with response template)"
Additional Resources:
1) INTASC Standards and Directions for Linking the Portfolio Activities to INTASC standards
2) Teacher Resources Center compiled by Ronni Rowland
3) Career Opportunities
4) Portfolio Primer
5) Learning Styles Assessment
6) Study Skills Primer