Psychology: Encyclopedias

Presents extended descriptions, definitions, and current research on the disorders, treatments, processes, influences, and behaviors of importance to the practice of psychology.

Alphabetically arranged entries address culture across a broad spectrum of psychological viewpoints--social, cognitive, environment, cross-cultural, and clinical--and support the belief that culture, not race, is the best way to understand differences among individuals.

Articles cover all areas of psychology and the related fields of sociology, social work, nursing, and allied health. The aim was not to resolve issues but to clarify them and point out their significance and implications.

Offers more than six hundred alphabetically arranged entries covering the history, treatment, diagnosis, and current medical research on psychotic disorders.

Presents authoritative information on topics including the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders, definitions of key terms, biographies of researchers, descriptions of medications, long-term consequences of sleep deprivation, and advances in sleep research.

Written for non-specialists, high school and above, entries range from one to eight pages and cover people, diagnoses, disorders, treatments, tests, and issues.

The 120 or so entries in this volume cover a wide range of topics, including, for example, Alien abduction, Birth order, Insanity defense, Mad cow disease, Multiple personality disorder, Parenting styles, and Satanic ritual abuse.

Contains over 600 entries on education, death and dying, family development, parenting, cognitive development, mental health, language and communications, personality, social development and behavior, substance abuse, and research methods and measurement.

Addresses research and practice in the interface of psychology and law. Surveys the traditional subdisciplines of psychology: cognitive (e.g., eyewitness testimony), developmental (e.g., children's testimony), social (e.g., jury behavior), clinical (e.g., assessment of competence), biological (e.g., the polygraph), and industrial-organizational psychology (e.g., sexual harassment in the workplace).

Presents authoritative, comprehensive information on more than 200 mental disorders as well as drugs, treatments and therapies, alternative treatments, diagnostic and evaluation procedures, and related biological concepts totaling 530 articles.

Provides a survey of topics covering the entire spectrum of psychology, including notable people, theories and terms; landmark case studies and experiments; applications of psychology in advertising, medicine and sports; and career information.
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