Gregory J. Privitera's Essential Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences offers a concise and pedagogically rich introduction to the field of behavioral science statistics. With unique features like chapter opening vignettes, SPSS integration, and ample application problems, Privitera creates unparalleled scaffolding for student learning.

A comprehensive introduction to Transactional Analysis theory, practice and evidence-base. It provides a step by step manual to the competencies and skills needed across the therapy process, and a guide to working with a variety of client issues.

Concerned with the ways humans develop an organised set of characteristics to shape themselves and the world around them, this is a study of how people come to be 'different' and 'similar' to others, on both an individual and a cultural level. This volume focuses on various contexts and applications of personality and individual differences, in chapters arranged across three thematic sections.

Methods in Psychological Research 4e is a pedagogically driven, interactive introduction to research methods in psychology, presented in a relaxed style to engage and motivate students from a variety of backgrounds and academic preparation.

Drawing on insights derived from teaching thousands of students over a 25 year period this book teaches students how to write effective and compelling academic essays.

Improvisation plays a key role in the toolbox of the music therapist. This guide will prove indispensable to students/teachers/therapists/musicians as a book of musical techniques and therapeutic methods. Notated examples allow readers to try out techniques as they read, with audio examples on the accompanying downloadable content.

A leading M.I.T. social scientist and consultant examines five professions - engineering, architecture, management, psychotherapy, and town planning - to show how professionals really go about solving problems. The best professionals, Donald Schön maintains, know more than they can put into words. To meet the challenges of their work, they rely less on formulas learned in graduate school than on the kind of improvisation learned in practice. This unarticulated, largely unexamined process ...

Words play such a big role in our lives. They influence what we think and feel in the moment; an unexpected compliment cheers us up, whilst angry words can spoil our day. Words can have long term consequences; what’s being said can lead us to file for divorce, push us to go to war, give us the courage to start a new education or choose a new career path. Unlike many other things in life that we have less control over, we can choose our own words. In doing so we shape our lives, as well as t...

Happy Life 365 by Kelly Weekers – a successful entrepreneur, psychologist and former model – is about acquiring a no-nonsense mindset for a joyous life. Broaching topics like self-confidence, health, friendships, work, relationships and social media, Kelly shares her simple and effective strategies for better ways to handle negativity, stress and worries. It’s a straightforward,light read about how to create joy by letting go of things outside your sphere of influence and taking control...