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Book Synopsis This book provides consulting psychologists, managers, and human resources personnel with easy-to-use, evidence-based strategies for providing effective feedback to improve communication and performance in the workplace. Feedback is an essential part of communication, coaching, management, and human resource practices. Yet the essential elements that make feedback more effective often fail to go beyond the pages of academic journal articles and into the workplace where they could greatly improve communication and performance. This book is an easy-to-use resource that applies classic and current research findings to create actionable, evidence-based tactics that consulting psychologists, consultants, managers, and HR personnel can use to improve feedback exchanges in any work environment. The authors present a simple and straightforward model of the feedback process that includes four critical elements that can make or break a feedback exchange: Trade Review“Whatever managerial role you serve as a psychologist, this book will strengthen your supervisory, consultative, and training skills. The authors are well attuned to virtually every factor that constitutes feedback, be it the characteristics of the feedback provider and recipient, communication style, when and how feedback is given, and the influence of power-hierarchy on feedback effectiveness. And as the book makes eminently clear, performance feedback works best when the people involved like, trust and respect each other, a definitive admonition if there ever was one.” – New England Psychologist “Well-written, comprehensive, and accessible.” - PsycCRITIQUESTable of ContentsSeries Editor's ForewordRodney L. LowmanAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Laying the Foundation: Classic Models of Feedback in Organizations How Feedback and Goals Drive Behavior: Control Theory Getting to the Point: The Feedback Message Feedback Delivery and the Role of the Feedback Provider Perception Is Reality: The Role of Individual Differences in the Feedback Process Context Matters The Role of Feedback in Human Capital and Talent Management Processes Recommendations for Practice and Directions for Future Research Recommendations for Further ReadingReferencesIndexAbout the Authors

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Book SynopsisThis book seeks to promote a more unified Caribbean psychology that goes beyond a Euro-American perspective to meet the unique needs of the culturally diverse inhabitants of this region and the diaspora.Trade Review“Its contextual, regional, and global perspectives make it clear that this is a book that is relevant to those not only in the Caribbean but also across the globe. Caribbean Psychology is not only good for the Caribbean region but also good for the world.” —PsycCRITIQUES®Its contextual, regional, and global perspectives make it clear that this is a book that is relevant to those not only in the Caribbean but also across the globe. Caribbean Psychology is not only good for the Caribbean region but also good for the world. * PsycCRITIQUES *Table of Contents Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: Caribbean Psychology — More Than a Regional DisciplineJaipaul L. Roopnarine and Derek ChadeePart I: Conceptual Issues Chapter 1: Toward a Caribbean Psychology: Context, Imperatives, and Future DirectionsAva D. Thompson Chapter 2: Global, Indigenous, and Regional Perspectives on International PsychologyJohn BerryPart II: Developmental Psychology Chapter 3: Family Socialization Practices and Childhood Development in Caribbean Cultural CommunitiesJaipaul L. Roopnarine and Bora Jin Chapter 4: Remote Acculturation and the Birth of an Americanized Caribbean Youth Identity on the IslandsGail M. Ferguson Chapter 5: Caribbean Research on Human Development in Adolescence and Adulthood: Progress and Recommended DirectionsIshtar O. Govia, Vanessa Paisley-Clare, and Tiffany PalmerPart III: Health and Community Psychology Chapter 6: Current State of Health and Health Outcomes in Caribbean SocietiesLutchmie Narine Chapter 7: Contextualizing the Health Behavior of Caribbean MenAndrew D. Case and Derrick M. Gordon Chapter 8: Interpersonal Violence in the Caribbean: Etiology, Prevalence, and ImpactGillian E. Mason and Nicola SatchellPart IV: Social Psychology Chapter 9: Copycat Crime Behavior: Implications for Research in the CaribbeanRay Surette, Mary Chadee, and Derek Chadee Chapter 10: Fear of Crime: The Influence of Community and EthnicityMary Chadee and Derek Chadee Chapter 11: HIV/AIDS Stigmatization in the Caribbean: Implications for Health CareJannel Philip, Rosana Yearwood, and Derek ChadeePart V: Clinical Psychology Chapter 12: Mental Health in the CaribbeanJacqueline Sharpe and Samuel Shafe Chapter 13: Metamorphosing Euro American Psychological Assessment Instruments to Measures Developed by and for English-Speaking Caribbean PeopleMichael Canute Lambert, Whitney C. Sewell, and Alison H. Levitch Chapter 14: Innovations in Clinical Psychology With Caribbean PeoplesRita Dudley-Grant Index About the Editors

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Book SynopsisWhen providing telehealth services, physical distance can create ethical and safety challenges. Such challenges are manageable when following the best practices outlined in this book, which illustrates how to conduct mental health services via videoconferencing and other technologies.Trade Review“In 2017, it is essential that mental health professionals learn about technology advances for serving the broadest population of patients and consumers. Reading this book will fulfill that mandate emphatically—it is a rich ‘how to’ resource that should not be missed.” —New England PsychologistIn 2017, it is essential that mental health professionals learn about technology advances for serving the broadest population of patients and consumers. Reading this book will fulfill that mandate emphatically — it is a rich "how to" resource that should not be missed. * New England Psychologist *This thought-provoking work causes the reader to explore the intricacies of telemental health, while, simultaneously, allaying the reader's anxieties with the detailed "how-to" steps for implementation of a telepractice. * PsycCRITIQUES *Table of Contents Foreword — Exciting Times Patrick H. DeLeon, Omni Cassidy, Joanna R. Sells, and Jane J. Abanes Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Concepts, Principles, and Benefits of Telemental Health Chapter 2: Overview of Telemental Health Technologies Chapter 3: Ethical, Legal, and Other Risk Management Considerations Chapter 4: Establishing a Telemental Health Practice Chapter 5: Safety Planning and Emergency Management Chapter 6: Providing Direct Clinical Care Chapter 7: Conducting Psychological Assessments During Telemental Health Chapter 8: Telesupervision and Training in Telepractice Chapter 9: Ethical Telepractice With Diverse Populations Chapter 10: Conclusion References Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisIn this new edition, authors Shapiro and Carlson draw from Eastern wisdom and practices as well as Western psychological theory and science to explore why mindful awareness is integral to the therapeutic healing process and to show clinicians how to connect with this deeper awareness.Trade Review2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title “Unreservedly recommended for professional, college, and university library Psychology/Psychiatry collections and supplemental studies reading lists.” —Midwest Book Review “Shapiro and Carlson offer the most clearly and cogently written description of this most remarkable convergence of an ancient spiritual practice and modern psychological science that I have read. It should be a first choice for students, clinicians, and researchers.” —PsycCRITIQUES® “Any clinician or researcher entering the field of mindfulness with beginning or intermediate experience will find this book of significant value. General readers will find a concise summary of the transformative features of mindful living and seeing.” —ChoiceAny clinician or researcher entering the field of mindfulness with beginning or intermediate experience will find this book of significant value. General readers will find a concise summary of the transformative features of mindful living and seeing. * Choice *Shapiro and Carlson offer the most clearly and cogently written description of this most remarkable convergence of an ancient spiritual practice and modern psychological science that I have read. It should be a first choice for students, clinicians, and researchers. * PsycCRITIQUES *Unreservedly recommended for professional, college, and university library Psychology/Psychiatry collections and supplemental studies reading lists. * Midwest Book Review *Table of Contents Foreword to the First EditionJon Kabat-Zinn Acknowledgments IntroductionPart I: What Is Mindfulness? And How Is It Applicable to Clinical Work? Chapter 1: What Is Mindfulness? Chapter 2: The Mindful Therapist Chapter 3: Mindfulness-Informed Therapy Chapter 4: Mindfulness-Based PsychotherapyPart II: Does It Help? And How Does It Help? Chapter 5: Mindfulness-Based Interventions in Mental Health Populations Chapter 6: Mindfulness-Based Interventions for Medical Populations Chapter 7: How Is Mindfulness Helpful? Mechanisms of MindfulnessPart III: Expanding the Paradigm Chapter 8: Mindfulness and Self-Care for the Clinician Chapter 9: Exploring the Farther Reaches of Human Potential Chapter 10: Future Directions Appendix A: Body Scan Instructions Appendix B: Sitting Meditation Instructions Appendix C: Walking Meditation Instructions Appendix D: Resources References Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisThis thoroughly updated guide provides forensic psychologists with a practical, systemic ethical decision-making model to negotiate common dilemmas in civil, criminal, and family law cases.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: The Interface of Law and Psychology: An Overview Chapter 2: The Referral Chapter 3: Collection and Review of Information Chapter 4: The Evaluation Chapter 5: Documentation of Findings and Opinions Chapter 6: Testimony and Termination Chapter 7: Addressing Ethical Misconduct Afterword References About the Authors

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Book SynopsisDemonstrates the clinical supervisor's central role in orienting and socializing graduate students, interns, and postdoctoral fellows into psychology as a profession. The authors promote a competency-based approach to supervision, wherein supervisors establish expectations and standards.Table of ContentsChapter 1. The Practice of Clinical Supervision Chapter 2. What Makes for Good and Effective Supervision (or Not)? Chapter 3. Building Clinical Competence and Facilitating Professional Development Chapter 4. Building Multiculturalism and Diversity Competence in Supervision Chapter 5. Alliance in Clinical Supervision Chapter 6. Addressing Personal Factors in Clinical Supervision Chapter 7. Ethical and Legal Perspectives and Risk Management Chapter 8. Evaluation in the Supervisory Process Chapter 9. Future Directions in Competency-Based Clinical Supervision Appendixes References

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Book SynopsisThis third edition features newwriting samples and new guidance to reflect the seventh edition of thePublication Manual of the American PsychologicalAssociation.Table of Contents Preface Introduction 1. Why Psychology Students (and Not Just English Majors) Have to Write 2. Starting Your Paper: Finding the Thread of Your Story 3. Extracting the Useful Nuggets From a Literature Search 4. How to Write Your Psychology Paper With Style: General Tips 5. Bringing the Audience Up to Speed With Literature Reviews 6. Telling an Original Story Through a Research Paper 7. The Rest of the Story: Title, Abstract, References, and Tables 8. Reshaping Your Story for Different Audiences: Other Types of Writing in Psychology References Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisThis book provides guidance for assessing and accommodating patient preferences for the psychotherapist, the therapeutic approach, and treatment activities in ways that lead to enhanced alliances and improved outcomes.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Using Client Characteristics to Guide Therapy Chapter 1. A New Psychotherapy for Each Patient Chapter 2. The Research Evidence Chapter 3. The Clinical Evidence Chapter 4. General Strategies for Assessing Client Preferences Chapter 5. Assessment With the Cooper–Norcross Inventory of Preferences (C-NIP) and Other Measures Chapter 6. Implementing Client Preferences in Treatment Chapter 7. Patient Preferences in Training and Supervision Chapter 8. Limitations and Contraindications of Personalizing Psychotherapy Chapter 9. Toward an Evidence-Based Bespoke Psychotherapy Appendix: The Cooper–Norcross Inventory of Preferences (C-NIP) References Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisThis book describes training, supervision, and consultation with specialized cognitive behavior therapy approaches to ensure proper implementation across diverse settings and populations.Trade ReviewTraining and Supervision in Specialized Cognitive Behavior Therapy is two magnificent resources in one. Experienced clinicians will find tips that one rarely finds in current literature. Supervisors will find a superb and, so far, unique guide to support training for new clinicians. Richly detailed and wonderfully clear, each chapter weaves the experience of CBT from client, clinician, and supervisor perspectives. This book pioneers a new genre in psychotherapy literature. It is vital reading for CBT practitioners. -- Joseph Blader, PhD, Meadows Foundation & Semp Russ Professor of Child Psychiatry, Departments of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Pediatrics, Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San AntonioThis is a very useful book for learning the key concepts and techniques for providing supervision and consultation on evidence-based interventions written by expert clinical researchers in psychotherapy. Each intervention includes discussion of key mistakes made by learners and how to overcome them—especially helpful for new clinicians. Also included is how to provide this supervision of treatments with special populations and in special settings. -- Betsy D. Kennard, PsyD, ABPP, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, DallasThis book should be on the shelf of every early career mental health professional who is learning how to supervise. For each evidence-based intervention, experts highlight the key concepts and techniques trainees need to know, common trainee mistakes and obstacles in supervision, and methods of addressing these mistakes and obstacles. The substantive takeaways from the book are specific, insightful, research-based, and culturally relevant. -- Elissa J. Brown, PhD, Child HELP Partnership at St. John’s University, Queens, NYClinical supervision is a fundamental professional responsibility, but its real-world practice is often difficult. In their new book, Training and Supervision in Specialized Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Methods, Settings, and Populations, eminent scholars and clinicians Drs. Eric Storch, Jonathan Abramowitz, and Dean McKay remedy this problem through a science-informed and accessible text. Storch et al. and their expert contributors provide both naive and sophisticated readers with valuable supervisory know-how that I will repeatedly rely on, and I think you will too! -- Robert D. Friedberg, PhD, ABPP, Professor, Head of Pediatric Behavioral Health Emphasis, Palo Alto University, Palo Alto, CATable of ContentsContributors Introduction to Supervising and Consulting With Trainees and Clinicians in Cognitive Behavioral Therapies Eric A. Storch, Jonathan S. Abramowitz, and Dean McKay I. TECHNIQUES OF COGNITIVE BEHAVIOR THERAPY 1. Supervision of Exposure Therapy Jonathan S. Abramowitz, Eric A. Storch, and Dean McKay 2. Cognitive Therapy Supervision Robert L. Leahy 3. Supervision and Training in Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Kristene A. Doyle, Michael Hickey, and Raymond DiGiuseppe 4. Training and Supervision in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Michael P. Twohig, Jennifer Krafft, Julie M. Petersen, and Carter H. Davis 5. Supervision in Dialectical Behavior Therapy Elizabeth Raposa 6. Functional Analytic Psychotherapy: Supervision and Therapist Self-Development Mavis Tsai, Robert J. Kohlenberg, Emerson Hardebeck,Sarah Sullivan-Singh, and Mary Plummer Loudon 7. Supervising the Delivery of Comprehensive Behavior Intervention for Tics Christopher A. Flessner, Theresa R. Gladstone, and Emily P. Wilton 8. Supervision in Behavioral Activation Stacey B. Daughters, Catherine E. Paquette, and Elizabeth D. Reese 9. Supervising Child Behavior Management Deborah J. Jones, Rex Forehand, Nicholas Long, and Robert J. McMahon II. SPECIAL SETTINGS AND POPULATIONS 10. Supervising the Delivery of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Community Clinics Alison Salloum and Brian E. Bunnell 11. Supervising the Delivery of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in College Counseling Centers Michael Rogers and Jonathan Mitchell 12. Cognitive Behavior Therapy Consultation With Independent Practitioners Dean McKay 13. Supervising the Delivery of Cognitive Behavior Therapy in Medical Settings Livia Guadagnoli, Jason J. Washburn, and Zeeshan Butt 14. Supervising the Delivery of Cognitive Behavior Therapy in School Settings Kristin A. Gansle and George H. Noell 15. Cognitive Behavior Therapy Supervision of Multidisciplinary Teams in Intensive Levels of Care Bradley C. Riemann, Nicholas R. Farrell, and Rachel C. Leonard 16. Supervising the Delivery of Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Children and Adolescents Amanda Palo 17. Supervising the Delivery of Cognitive Behavior Therapy With Spiritual and Religious Patients Moses Appel and David H. Rosmarin 18. Clinical Supervision in Delivering Cognitive Behavior Therapy Across Race, Ethnicity, and Culture Monnica T. Williams and Joseph La Torre 19. Supervision and Consultation in the Delivery of Cognitive Behavior Therapy to LGBTQ Individuals Audrey Harkness and John E. Pachankis 20. Training and Supervision of Cognitive Behavioral Couple Therapy Danielle M. Weber and Donald H. Baucom 21. Supervision of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Substance Use Disorders Paige Morrison, Jessica Spofford, and Mercedes Carswell Index About the Editors

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Book SynopsisNowin its third edition, Integrated Behavioral Health in Primary Care details the relevant updates in the field forbehavioral health care practitioners and offers targeted clinical assessment and intervention strategies that will meetthe future needs of educators, students, and clinicians. Drawing on comprehensive research evidence and the authors’ decades of clinical experience, this book offers practical guidance for behavioral health care practitioners who want to work more effectively in the fast-paced and complex setting of primary care. Chapters provide an overview of the key foundational concepts and applications of behavioral health within the primary care setting, and detail the competencies required for optimal assessment and intervention outcomes. The authors give detailed, practical advice for addressing common behavioral health concerns including depression, anxiety, health behaviors, pain disorders, substance misuse, anTable of ContentsList of Figures IntroductionPart I. Foundations of Integrated Behavioral Consultation Service Chapter 1. Population Health and the Patient-Centered Medical Home Chapter 2. Core Competencies and Clinical Practice Management Skills Chapter 3. Conducting the Initial and Follow-Up Consultation Appointments Chapter 4. Common Behavioral and Cognitive Interventions in Primary Care: Moving Out of the Specialty Mental Health ClinicPart II. Common Behavioral Health Concerns in Primary Care Chapter 5. Depression, Anxiety, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, and Insomnia Chapter 6. Health Behaviors: Tobacco Use, Overweight and Obesity, and Physical Inactivity Chapter 7. Diabetes Chapter 8. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Asthma Chapter 9. Cardiovascular Disease Chapter 10. Pain Disorders Chapter 11. Unhealthy Substance Use: Alcohol, Illicit Drugs, and Prescription Medication Chapter 12. Sexual Problems Chapter 13. Special Considerations for Older Adults Chapter 14. Obstetrics and Gynecology Chapter 15. Children, Adolescents, and Parenting Chapter 16. Couple DistressPart III. Special Issues Chapter 17. Managing Suicide Risk in the Primary Care Setting Chapter 18. Developing Clinical Pathways and Implementing Shared Medical Appointments References Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisThis second edition provides a comprehensive, social ecological review of women's rape and sexual assault disclosures and how support providers can better respond to them and challenge rape culture.Table of ContentsSeries Foreword Acknowledgments An Introduction to Helping Sexual Assault and Rape Survivors Chapter 1. The Social Context of Talking About Sexual Assault Chapter 2. Theories of Women’s Rape Disclosure Chapter 3. Why, How Often, and to Whom Do Women Disclose, and What Factors Influence Whether Disclosure Is Healing? Chapter 4. What Social Reactions Do Victims Receive When Disclosing Sexual Assault? Chapter 5. Impacts of Social Reactions on Survivors Chapter 6. Informal Supporter Providers’ Experiences Responding to and Helping Survivors Chapter 7. Formal Supporters Helping Survivors: Advocates and Clinicians Chapter 8: Conducting Interviews With Survivors of Sexual Assault Chapter 9. Challenging the Rape Culture: Recommendations for Change References Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisTheAPA Handbook of Consumer Psychologypresents a comprehensive survey of the field, including its historical background and critical sources of information in both core and emerging literature. This 33-chapter handbook is designed as a library reference that captures up-to-date content on consumer psychology, with insights offered by an outstanding roster of contributors. Broad coverage areas include perspectives on consumer psychology, consumer characteristics and contexts, use of psychology to communicate with consumers, consumer cognitions and affect, and use of psychology to carry out business functions. Chapters pinpoint practical issues; probe unresolved and controversial topics in a balanced manner; and present future theoretical, research, and practice trends. The handbook provides a starting point for an examination of consumer psychology and ways to move the knowledge forward in this meaningful and vital area of human behavior.Table of ContentsEditorial Board About the Editor-in-Chief About the Associate Editors Contributors A Note From the Publisher IntroductionPart I. Perspectives on Consumer Psychology Chapter 1. Consumer Psychology: Evolving Goals and Research Orientations Joel B. Cohen and William L. Wilkie Chapter 2. The Activation and Use of Declarative and Procedural Knowledge Robert S. Wyer, Jr. Chapter 3. Intentional Behaviorism: A Research Methodology for Consumer Psychology Gordon R. Foxall Chapter 4. Structural Equation Models in Consumer Research: Exploring Intuitions and Deeper Meanings of SEMs Richard P. Bagozzi Chapter 5. Understanding the Changing Role and Functions of Marketing Kevin Lane KellerPart II. Consumers Have Demographic and Psychographic Characteristics Chapter 6. Poverty and Consumer Psychology Ronald Paul Hill Chapter 7. Children as Consumers: A Review of 50 Years of Research in Marketing Deborah Roedder John and Lan Nguyen Chaplin Chapter 8. Gender Research in Marketing, Consumer Behavior, Advertising, and Beyond: Past, Present, and Future Linda Tuncay Zayer and Kathrynn Pounders Chapter 9. A Structural Versus Dynamic View of Personality in Consumer Behavior Suresh Ramanathan Chapter 10. Consumer Values Eda Gurel-Atay Chapter 11. Lifestyle and Sport: Emulation Marketing Pierre Valette-Florence, Tony Meenaghan, and Lynn R. KahlePart III. Consumers Live in a Social Psychological World Chapter 12. Cultural Influences on Consumer Psychology Carlos J. Torelli and Sharon Shavitt Chapter 13. Attitude Change and Persuasion: Classic, Metacognitive, and Advocacy Perspectives Zakary L. Tormala and Derek D. Rucker Chapter 14. Social Relationships and Consumer Behavior Kelley Gullo Wight, Peggy J. Liu, James R. Bettman, and Gavan J. Fitzsimons Chapter 15. Sustainability: Understanding Consumer Behavior in a Circular Economy Marius Claudy and Mark Peterson Chapter 16. Marketing Ethics, Ethical Consumers, and Ethical Lapses Ann-Marie Kennedy and Sommer Kapitan Chapter 17. The Role of Time in Consumer Psychology Ashwani Monga, Ozum Zor, and Rafay A. Siddiqui Chapter 18. Psychological Aspects of Economic Expectations Richard CurtinPart IV. Businesses Use Psychology to Communicate With Consumers Chapter 19. Language and Consumer Psychology Ruth Pogacar, Alican Mecit, Fei Gao, L. J. Shrum, and Tina M. Lowrey Chapter 20. The Consumer Psychology of Traditional Media Esther Thorson Chapter 21. Social Media: From Classic Psychological Theories to New Opportunities Cait Lamberton and Ashlee Humphreys Chapter 22. Celebrity Endorsements Eda Gurel-AtayPart V. Consumers Process Cognitions and Affect Chapter 23. Omission Neglect and Consumer Judgment and Inference Based on Limited Evidence Frank R. Kardes, Steven S. Posavac, and Donald R. Gaffney Chapter 24. Three Mechanisms of Mind–Body Influence: Feelings, Concepts, and Procedures Spike W. S. Lee and Lorenzo Cecutti Chapter 25. The Interplay of Affect and Cognition: A Review of How Feelings Guide Consumer Behavior Rashmi Adaval and Maria Galli Chapter 26. Consumer Involvement and Engagement: From Involvement’s Elaboration Likelihood to Engagement’s Investment Propensity Linda D. Hollebeek and Rajendra K. Srivastava Chapter 27. Neural Basis of Consumer Decision Making and Neuroforecasting Alexander Genevsky and Carolyn Yoon Chapter 28. Consuming for Happiness Siok Kuan Tambyah and Soo Jiuan TanPart VI. Businesses Use Psychology to Carry Out Functions Chapter 29. Omnichannel Retailing: A Consumer Perspective Peter C. Verhoef, Koert van Ittersum, P. K. Kannan, and Jeff Inman Chapter 30. Perceived Price Differences and Consumer Behavior Kent B. Monroe Chapter 31. The Brand Property Strength Framework: Integrating Theory and Research on Brand Consumer Psychology Joseph R. Priester, Monique A. Fleming, Leigh Anne Novak Donovan, and Chaumanix Dutton Chapter 32. Innovation and Product Development Doug Hall Chapter 33. Human Factors Research and User-Centered Design Robert W. Proctor, Leon Zeng, and Kim-Phuong L. Vu Index

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Book SynopsisThis is the authoritative guide for current and future psychologists around the world who are or want to be engaged in international efforts and opportunities and meet pressing global needs.Table of ContentsContributors Introduction to Going Global: Why Psychologists Should Meet a World of NeedCraig Shealy, Merry Bullock, and Shagufa Kapadia Chapter 1. Advocacy: Global Opportunities and Responsibilities for PsychologistsCorann Okorodudu and Thema Bryant-Davis Chapter 2. Assessment: The Power and Potential of Psychology Testing, Educational Measurement, and Program Evaluation Around the WorldWilliam E. Hanson, Jacqueline P. Leighton, Stewart I. Donaldson, Thomas Oakland, Mark D. Terjesen, and Craig N. Shealy Chapter 3. Consultation: Who Needs Psychological Expertise Around the World and Why?Connie Henson, John Fulkerson, Paula Caliguiri, and Craig Shealy Chapter 4. Intervention: Enhancing Mental Health and Well-Being Around the WorldLaura R. Johnson, Christopher F. Drescher, and Michael J. Bordieri Chapter 5. Leadership: How Psychology and Psychologists Develop Global Leaders and LeadershipSandra L. Shullman, Randall P. White, Lindy Brewster, Steven E. Grande, and Devi Bhuyan Chapter 6. Policy: Why and How to Become Engaged as an International Policy PsychologistMerry Bullock, Tor Levin Hofgaard, Ezequiel Benito, Pamela Flattau, Amanda Clinton, Craig Shealy, and Shagufa Kapadia Chapter 7. Research: International Possibilities and Partnerships for PsychologistsShagufa Kapadia, Chandra M. Mehrotra, Bonnie Kaul Nastasi, and Melanie M. Domenech Rodriguez Chapter 8. Service: Towards a Global Psychology of Collaboration, Counterflow, and Capacity BuildingChris E. Stout, Elaine D. Hanson, and Gwen V. Mitchell Chapter 9. Teaching: Opportunities and Recommendations for Internationalizing Psychology EducationRichard Velayo, Sherri McCarthy, and Lee Sternberger Chapter 10. Concluding Thoughts on Going Global: How Psychologists Should Meet a World of NeedCraig Shealy, Merry Bullock, and Shagufa Kapadia Index About the Editors

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Book SynopsisThis book surveys the historical context of substance use disorders in communities of color and offers strategies to support and empower them.Table of ContentsContributors Introduction to Substance Use Disorders in Diverse Ethnoracial Groups: Understanding How We Got HereEdward C. Chang and Christina A. DowneyPart I. Overview of Cultural Competence Chapter 1. The Need for Cultural Competence in Understanding and Intervening With Substance Use DisordersChristina A. DowneyPart II. Substance Use in Black/African American Communities Chapter 2. Scope and Historical Origins of Substance Use Disorders Among Black American CommunitiesTamika C. B. Zapolski, Alia Rowe, Rieanna S. McPhie, and Maney Darby Chapter 3. Culturally Competent Substance Abuse Treatment for Black American CommunitiesMichelle L. Redmond, Rhonda K. Lewis, Tasha Parker, Rosalind Canare, Dyan Dickens, and Stormy Malone Chapter 4. Preventing Substance Use in Black Youth: What Is Available and What Is Missing?A. Kathleen Burlew, Brittany D. Miller-Roenigk, Caravella McCuistian, Randi D. Burlew, and Bridgette J. PeteetPart III. Substance Use in Asian American/Pacific Islander Communities Chapter 5. Substance Use Trends and Patterns Among Asian American and Pacific Islander CommunitiesAthena Park, Aylin Kaya, Jennifer King, Lauren Pandes-Carter, and Derek Kenji Iwamoto Chapter 6. Culturally Competent Assessment and Treatment of Substance Use Disorders for Asian American CommunitiesGloria Wong-Padoongpatt, Anthony King, and Nolan Zane Chapter 7. Prevention of Substance Use Disorders in Asian American Adolescents: A Review of Family-Based InterventionsYoonsun Choi, Michael Park, Dina Drankus Pekelnicky, Mina Lee, and Tae Yeun KimPart IV. Substance Use in Latino/Latina/Latinx/Hispanic Communities Chapter 8. Culturally Competent Assessment and Treatment of Substance Use Disorders in Latino American CommunitiesLuz M. López and Jocelyn Melian Chapter 9. Prevention of Substance Use Disorders in Latino/Latina American CommunitiesAlyssa Lozano, Alejandra Fernandez, Yannine Estrada, and Guillermo PradoPart V. Substance Use in Native American/Alaska Native Communities Chapter 10. Scope and Historical Origins of Substance Use Disorders Among Native American CommunitiesTeresa (Tessa) Evans-Campbell and Karina Walters Chapter 11. Assessment and Treatment of Substance Use Disorders in American Indian/Alaska Native Communities: A Cultural and Practice Review and Call for DevelopmentLaurence Armand French and Christina A. Downey Chapter 12. Interventions for Substance Use Disorders in American Indian/Alaska Native CommunitiesEric F. Wagner, John Lowe, and Julie Ann BaldwinPart VI. Our Multicultural, Multiethnic Future and Substance Use Disorder Chapter 13. Integrating a Multicultural, Multiethnic Perspective Into Substance Use Training: Preparing Clinicians for the FutureChristina A. Downey and Edward C. Chang Index About the Editors

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Book SynopsisThis book will help career assessors offer practical guidance that can make a real difference in people''s lives. Key assessment factors include occupational interests, abilities, and personality characteristics. Career and work contribute significantly to personal and life satisfaction—and, when they are problematic, to personal unhappiness and stress. In this comprehensive career assessment book, Rodney L. Lowman addresses the three major areas that matter the most for understanding and helping people with their career choices: occupational interests, abilities (broadly defined), and personality characteristics. Chapters examine how these factorsrelate to career satisfaction, how to assess them using psychometric measures, and how to integrate the results of these assessments with the clients’ specific needs and goals. Detailed case examples are included, as well as a nuanced discussion of ethics and technology. Lowman’s career assessmTrade ReviewThis very practical and useful book presents a strategy for assessing and integrating the domains of interests, personality, and ability aimed at facilitating career counseling and the career choice process. In a meaningful and informative style, the author integrates theory, research, and practice across these three relevant domains. -- W. Bruce Walsh, PhD, Emeritus Professor, Psychology, The Ohio State University, Columbus; Fellow, American Psychological AssociationIt is rare to find a book on career assessment or, for that matter, on individual differences that presents an integrative literature review and models of abilities, personality traits, and interests. Rodney Lowman has crafted such a book, one that advances assessment and interpretation for practitioners and researchers in vocational and organizational psychology. -- James Rounds, PhD, Professor, Educational Psychology and Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignDr. Lowman had done it again! This is the best, most complete, and yet one of the most practical books for career assessment available. If you conduct career or work assessments, or plan to, this volume will be invaluable. The book covers the three main areas of career assessment, including interests, abilities, and personality, and includes an excellent summary of the theory and research of these domains. It is also a practical guide with numerous helpful case examples. Assessments are a critical part of career assessment and coaching, and Lowman provides an excellent review of the key assessments necessary to do this work. -- Jeffrey E. Auerbach, PhD, President, College of Executive Coaching; author of Personal and Executive Coaching: The Complete Guide for Mental Health ProfessionalsWhat makes Lowman’s book special is that he understands the essence and purpose of career assessment, as well as the research integrated from the many disciplines that regularly provide these data. Lowman lays out a process and examines the evidence, even identifying unresolved or still-emerging issues. This book is a comprehensive treatment of the core issues in career assessment that also addresses human diversity, technology, and ethics. -- Mark Pope, EdD, Curators’ Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Missouri–St. Louis; Recipient, Eminent Career Award, National Career Development Association (2008); President, National Career Development Association (1998–1999); President, American Counseling Association (2003–2004Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: The Interdomain Model of Career Assessment Chapter 1. Scope of Career Assessment Work I. Assessing Vocational Interests Chapter 2. Defining and Contextualizing Vocational Interests Chapter 3. The “Big Six” RIASEC Interest Types Chapter 4. Applications: Choosing Interest Measures, Interpreting Individual-Level Interest Results, and Case IllustrationsII. Assessing Career-Related Abilities Chapter 5. Career-Related Abilities: Conceptual Issues and General Intelligence Chapter 6. Mechanical and Physical Abilities Chapter 7. Spatial Abilities Chapter 8. Artistic and Creative Abilities Chapter 9. Social Abilities: Social and Emotional Intelligence Chapter 10. Managerial and Leadership Abilities Chapter 11. Perceptual, Computational, and Other Abilities Chapter 12. Case Illustrations of Ability ProfilesIII. Assessing Career-Related Personality Characteristics Chapter 13. Conceptual and Measurement Issues of Career-Related Personality Chapter 14. The Five-Factor Model of Personality Chapter 15. Other Career-Relevant Personality Characteristic Chapter 16. Applications: Case Illustrations of Personality ProfilesIV. Applying the Interdimensional Model Chapter 17. Relationships Across Interest, Ability, and Personality Domains Chapter 18. Applying the Interdomain Model: A Step-by-Step Process for Integrating Career Assessment Data Chapter 19. Client Feedback and Report Preparation Chapter 20. Ethical/Legal and Technological Issues References

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Book SynopsisDeliberate practice exercises provide trainees and students an opportunity to buildcompetence in essentialrational emotive behavior therapy(REBT) skills while developing their own personal therapeutic style. These exercises present role-playing scenarios in which two trainees actas a client and a clinician, switching back and forth under the guidance of a supervisor. The clinician improvises appropriate and authentic responsesto client statements organized into three difficulty levels—beginner, intermediate, and advanced—that reflect common client questions and concerns. Each of the first 12 exercises focuses on a single skill, such as psychoeducation, assessing and disputing irrational beliefs, helping clients differentiate maladaptive vs. adaptive behaviors and emotions, teaching clients the ABC model, and developing homework assignments. Two comprehensive exercises follow in which trainees integrate these essential skills into a single REBT session. Step-by-step instructionsguide participants through the exercises, identify criteria for mastering each skill, andexplain how to monitorand adjust difficulty. Guidelines to helptrainers and trainees get the most out of training are also provided. Table of Contents Series PrefaceTony Rousmaniere and Alexandre Vaz AcknowledgmentsPart I. Overview and Instructions Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview of Deliberate Practice and Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Chapter 2. Instructions for the Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Deliberate Practice ExercisesPart II. Deliberate Practice Exercises for Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy SkillsExercises for Beginner Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Skills Exercise 1. Psychoeducation About Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy’s ABC Model Exercise 2. Psychoeducation About Dysfunctional Versus Functional Negative Emotions and Behaviors Exercise 3. Agreement on the Session Goals Exercise 4. Clarifying Inferences From Irrational BeliefsExercises for Intermediate Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Skills Exercise 5. Assessing Irrational Beliefs About the Activating Event Exercise 6. Prioritizing Which Irrational Beliefs to Target for Change Exercise 7. Teaching the Belief–Consequence Connection Exercise 8. Functional Disputation of Irrational BeliefsExercises for Advanced Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Skills Exercise 9. Empirical Disputation of Irrational Beliefs Exercise 10. Semantic Disputation of Irrational Beliefs Exercise 11. Constructing Full Rational Alternative Beliefs to Replace Irrational Beliefs Exercise 12. Collaborative Homework DevelopmentComprehensive Exercises Exercise 13. Annotated Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Practice Session Transcript Exercise 14. Mock Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy SessionsPart III. Strategies for Enhancing the Deliberate Practice Exercises Chapter 3. How to Get the Most Out of Deliberate Practice: Additional Guidance for Trainers and Trainees Appendix A. Difficulty Assessments and Adjustments Appendix B. Deliberate Practice Diary Form Appendix C. Sample Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Syllabus With Embedded Deliberate Practice Exercises References Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive resource guides trainers and administrators as they navigate the challenges involved in supporting these trainees.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Building a Supportive Culture for Trainees Managing Competence Issues Rebecca Schwartz-Mette, Evelyn Hunter, and Nadine Kaslow Chapter 1: Creating a Communitarian, Multiculturally-Sensitive, and Socially Just Training Culture Mary Mendoza-Newman and Jennifer A. Erickson Cornish Chapter 2: Competencies in Health Service Psychology Lydia McGaffee, Cassandra Rasmussen, and Emil Rodolfa Chapter 3: Problems of Professional Competence Suzanne H. Lease and Catherine L. Grus Chapter 4: Systemic Perspectives on Trainees with Problems of Professional Competence Debra Mollen and Marlene Williams Chapter 5: Identification and Assessment of Problems of Professional Competence Salina Renninger and Consuelo Cavalieri Chapter 6: Remediation, Counseling Out, and Dismissal Rebecca Schwartz-Mette Chapter 7: Trainee Confidentiality: The Hidden Challenge of Competence Problems Linda Forrest and Nancy S. Elman Chapter 8: Ethical Issues in Working with Trainees with Problems of Professional Competence (TPPC) Jeffrey E. Barnett and W. Brad Johnson Chapter 9: Legal Issues in Working with TPPC Sanjay Shah and Sarah Fishel Chapter 10: Building Program Policies in a Communitarian and Multiculturally-Sensitive Training Culture Jennifer C. Veilleux and Meredith Scafe Chapter 11: Troubleshooting Common Pitfalls Evelyn Hunter and Rebecca Schwartz-Mette Appendix A: Key Terms Appendix B: Cube Model for Competency Development Appendix C: Competency Remediation Plan Appendix D: Additional Resources for Readers References

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Book Synopsis While psychoanalytic scholars often address specific aspects of diversity such as gender, race, immigration, religion, sexual orientation, and social class, the literature lacks a set of core principles to inform and support culturally competent practice. This approachable volume, now available in paperback,responds to that pressing need. Drawing on the contributions of psychoanalytic scholars as well as multicultural and feminist psychologists, Pratyusha Tummala-Narra presents a theoretical framework that reflects the realities of clients’ lives and addresses the complex sociocultural issues that influence their psychological health. Psychoanalytic theory proves to be particularly valuable in exploring unconscious processes, recurrent themes, and transference and counter-transference. In examining these questions, the author provides engaging case illustrations from her own clinical practice, as well as findings from her research with youth ofTrade Review“Tummala-Narra has gathered our dispersed ideas in psychoanalytic thinking about difference and expertly fashioned an important and clinically astute framework. Her ideas are rich and generative. Reading her book was invigorating and challenging, like a consult with a wise and trusted colleague.” — PsycCRITIQUES®Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction A Historical Overview and Critique of the Psychoanalytic Approach to Culture and Context Psychoanalytic Contributions to the Understanding of Diversity Cultural Competence From a Psychoanalytic Perspective Attending to Indigenous Narrative Considering the Role of Language and Affect Addressing Social Oppression and Traumatic Stress Recognizing the Complexity of Cultural Identifications Expanding Self-Examination: Cultural Context in the Life and Work of the Therapist Implications of a Culturally Informed Psychoanalytic Perspective: Some Thoughts on Future Directions References Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisJust Care is Akemi Nishida's thoughtful examination of care injustice and social justice enabled through care. The current neoliberal political economy has turned care into a business opportunity for the healthcare industrial complex and a mechanism of social oppression and control. Nishida analyzes the challenges people negotiate whether they are situated as caregivers, receivers, or both. Also illuminated is how people with disabilities come together to assemble community care collectives and bed activism (resistance and visions emerging from the space of bed) to reimagine care as a key element for social change. The structure of care, Nishida writes, is deeply embedded in and embodies the cruel social orderbased on disability, race, gender, migration status, and wealththat determines who survives or deteriorates. Simultaneously, many marginalized communities treat care as the foundation of activism. Using interviews, focus groups, and participant observation with care workers and pTrade Review"Nishida offers an innovative and eloquent examination of the multiplicity of care—care as a tool of surveillance and oppression, a commodity, a relational act that builds embodied knowledge and connection, and a revolutionary act that fundamentally challenges the violent degradation of certain bodies.... Just Care is profound in its criticism of the neoliberal U.S. care industrial complex and in its commitment to envisioning just systems of care that respect crip wisdom and value all lives. It offers a deeply personal, political, and poignant contribution to care studies.... Just Care is an important work that will fundamentally reshape conversations about care in American society. It is highly relevant to scholars and activists in the fields of disability studies, care, welfare, health, justice, feminist scholarship, and critical race analysis."—Social Forces"Nishida asks a number of urgent questions, including how our society and the regimes of governance operating in it determine whose needs are sacred and whose lives are disposable, whose needs are met and whose are ignored, and how caretaking happens (and does not happen) in our society.... Nishida’s book captures that dilemma between oppressive care assemblages and liberatory care collectives, access to care and control by the agencies of care, exploitation of care workers alongside their vital work, the capacity for self-definition and resistance in the context of a decapacitating society—the tension between and agency and constraint—in every situation she describes."—Wordgathering"Just Care is the kind of book that you want to return to, with content that is critically important for advancing our collective thinking around care. But there’s also the book itself. Nishida utilizes each of her 264 pages and five chapters as representative of her disability justice praxis. The care put into the text models the 'just care' that the book itself discusses."—Gender and Society"[A] nuanced analysis of the circulation of care within the U.S. neoliberal, neocolonial healthcare assemblage.... For teachers of critical qualitative research, disability or healthcare, or intersectional analyses, Just Care will be an excellent aid. For scholars and activists of various social movements for collective liberation, Just Care will nuance and oxygenate your analyses, commitments, and imagination."—Psychology of Women Quarterly"Overall, this must-read disability justice text is transformative and ingenious. It has so much to offer the existing bodies of knowledge within healthcare, healthcare policy, disability studies, activist spaces, and conceptualizations of disability and care. Just Care positions care as a dialectical tool of social control, oppression, resistance, and liberation. Nishida’s indispensable interdisciplinary background in disability studies...and feminist studies...and her positionality as a disabled woman of color enrich her analysis of care which illustrates shared experiences of exploitation and oppression in care practice and extends visions of radically liberated futures for all."—Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies

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Book SynopsisJust Care is Akemi Nishida’s thoughtful examination of care injustice and social justice enabled through care. The current neoliberal political economy has turned care into a business opportunity for the healthcare industrial complex and a mechanism of social oppression and control. Nishida analyzes the challenges people negotiate whether they are situated as caregivers, receivers, or both. Also illuminated is how people with disabilities come together to assemble community care collectives and bed activism (resistance and visions emerging from the space of bed) to reimagine care as a key element for social change. The structure of care, Nishida writes, is deeply embedded in and embodies the cruel social order—based on disability, race, gender, migration status, and wealth—that determines who survives or deteriorates. Simultaneously, many marginalized communities treat care as the foundation of activism. Using interviews, focus groups, and participanTrade Review"Nishida offers an innovative and eloquent examination of the multiplicity of care—care as a tool of surveillance and oppression, a commodity, a relational act that builds embodied knowledge and connection, and a revolutionary act that fundamentally challenges the violent degradation of certain bodies.... Just Care is profound in its criticism of the neoliberal U.S. care industrial complex and in its commitment to envisioning just systems of care that respect crip wisdom and value all lives. It offers a deeply personal, political, and poignant contribution to care studies.... Just Care is an important work that will fundamentally reshape conversations about care in American society. It is highly relevant to scholars and activists in the fields of disability studies, care, welfare, health, justice, feminist scholarship, and critical race analysis."—Social Forces"Nishida asks a number of urgent questions, including how our society and the regimes of governance operating in it determine whose needs are sacred and whose lives are disposable, whose needs are met and whose are ignored, and how caretaking happens (and does not happen) in our society.... Nishida’s book captures that dilemma between oppressive care assemblages and liberatory care collectives, access to care and control by the agencies of care, exploitation of care workers alongside their vital work, the capacity for self-definition and resistance in the context of a decapacitating society—the tension between and agency and constraint—in every situation she describes."—Wordgathering"Just Care is the kind of book that you want to return to, with content that is critically important for advancing our collective thinking around care. But there’s also the book itself. Nishida utilizes each of her 264 pages and five chapters as representative of her disability justice praxis. The care put into the text models the 'just care' that the book itself discusses."—Gender and Society"[A] nuanced analysis of the circulation of care within the U.S. neoliberal, neocolonial healthcare assemblage.... For teachers of critical qualitative research, disability or healthcare, or intersectional analyses, Just Care will be an excellent aid. For scholars and activists of various social movements for collective liberation, Just Care will nuance and oxygenate your analyses, commitments, and imagination."—Psychology of Women Quarterly"Overall, this must-read disability justice text is transformative and ingenious. It has so much to offer the existing bodies of knowledge within healthcare, healthcare policy, disability studies, activist spaces, and conceptualizations of disability and care. Just Care positions care as a dialectical tool of social control, oppression, resistance, and liberation. Nishida’s indispensable interdisciplinary background in disability studies...and feminist studies...and her positionality as a disabled woman of color enrich her analysis of care which illustrates shared experiences of exploitation and oppression in care practice and extends visions of radically liberated futures for all."—Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies

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Book SynopsisThroughout his esteemed career, William Cross has tried to reconcile how Black men he met in the barber shop seemed so normal, but the portrayal in college textbooks of Black people in generaland the Black working class in particularis self-hating and pathological. In Black Identity Viewed from a Barber's Chair, Cross revisits his ground-breaking model on Black identity awakening known as Nigrescence, connects W. E. B. DuBois's concept of double consciousness to an analysis of how Black identity is performed in everyday life, and traces the origins of the deficit perspective on Black culture to scholarship dating back to the 1930s. He follows with a critique showing such deficit and Black self-hatred tropes were always based on extremely weak evidence.Black Identity Viewed from a Barber's Chair ends with a new understanding of the psychology of slavery that helps explain why and how, during the first twelve years of emancipation, countless former slaves exhibited amazing psychological,Trade Review“Black Identity Viewed from a Barber’s Chair is classic Bill Cross, a brilliant jazz ensemble—part intellectual history, part memoir, part social and political history, and part critical science. Elegant and original, this book is both groundbreaking and backward-looking in ways that carve new and innovative intellectual paths. Cross re-views Frazier, Clark, Du Bois, and the works on Black racial identities. And he reflects thoughtfully on his own work, the relentless persistence of the deficit perspective, and where the field needs to go. This book is just stunning; Cross moves in and out of political and intellectual history with brilliance.”—Michelle Fine, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, The Graduate Center, City University of New York“An impressive synthesis of psychology and Black studies, Black Identity Viewed from a Barber’s Chair is an intellectually interesting journey through Black history by one of the most significant Black theorists of our time. Cross is an erudite and insightful thinker of the highest order, and this book provides context for the creation of Black psychology as a discipline. It is a fitting conclusion to his life’s work.”—Kevin Cokley, Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, and author of The Myth of Black Anti-Intellectualism: A True Psychology of African American Students"This is a first-rate overview of Black identity by Cross, a leading psychologist and major developer of Nigrescence theory and the Cross Racial Identity Scale measuring Black self-identity. Here, he thoroughly analyzes his and other leading Black psychologists’ lifespan models of Black consciousness.... Summing Up: Highly recommended."—Choice"[This book] is part professional memoir, part introduction to Black Studies; part intellectual history, part introduction to psychology; part declaration of support for humanist psychology; and altogether insistent on the manifest diversity of Black ontology.... All in all, with its conservational tone, accessible writing, and didactic quality, Cross very much delivers on the 'educational narrative' he sets out to offer. I recommend this book highly."—Ethnic and Racial Studies"[T]his pointed book, which can be used as a casual read or as required academic reading, provides the sort of interrogation that we need to reengage, reimagine, and retell the stories of our Blackness in ways that uplift, empower, and advance us."—Teachers College Record"The strengths of this text are many.... [T]he major themes and concepts are illustrated for the reader through application to historical events and prominent figures in ways that will resonate with many audiences…. In all, Black Identity Viewed from a Barber’s Chair is a worthwhile and engaging read for anyone interested in Black humanity and experiences."—Contemporary Sociology

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Black Identity Viewed from a Barber’s Chair is classic Bill Cross, a brilliant jazz ensemble—part intellectual history, part memoir, part social and political history, and part critical science. Elegant and original, this book is both groundbreaking and backward-looking in ways that carve new and innovative intellectual paths. Cross re-views Frazier, Clark, Du Bois, and the works on Black racial identities. And he reflects thoughtfully on his own work, the relentless persistence of the deficit perspective, and where the field needs to go. This book is just stunning; Cross moves in and out of political and intellectual history with brilliance.”—Michelle Fine, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, The Graduate Center, City University of New York“An impressive synthesis of psychology and Black studies, Black Identity Viewed from a Barber’s Chair is an intellectually interesting journey through Black history by one of the most significant Black theorists of our time. Cross is an erudite and insightful thinker of the highest order, and this book provides context for the creation of Black psychology as a discipline. It is a fitting conclusion to his life’s work.”—Kevin Cokley, Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, and author of The Myth of Black Anti-Intellectualism: A True Psychology of African American Students"This is a first-rate overview of Black identity by Cross, a leading psychologist and major developer of Nigrescence theory and the Cross Racial Identity Scale measuring Black self-identity. Here, he thoroughly analyzes his and other leading Black psychologists’ lifespan models of Black consciousness.... Summing Up: Highly recommended."—Choice"[This book] is part professional memoir, part introduction to Black Studies; part intellectual history, part introduction to psychology; part declaration of support for humanist psychology; and altogether insistent on the manifest diversity of Black ontology.... All in all, with its conservational tone, accessible writing, and didactic quality, Cross very much delivers on the 'educational narrative' he sets out to offer. I recommend this book highly."—Ethnic and Racial Studies"[T]his pointed book, which can be used as a casual read or as required academic reading, provides the sort of interrogation that we need to reengage, reimagine, and retell the stories of our Blackness in ways that uplift, empower, and advance us."—Teachers College Record"The strengths of this text are many.... [T]he major themes and concepts are illustrated for the reader through application to historical events and prominent figures in ways that will resonate with many audiences…. In all, Black Identity Viewed from a Barber’s Chair is a worthwhile and engaging read for anyone interested in Black humanity and experiences."—Contemporary Sociology

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Book SynopsisParent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) is used across the country and is rapidly gaining popularity elsewhere. This expanded book brings readers up to date on new practice developments, current treatment protocols, and the latest research findings.Table of ContentsFundamentals of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy.- Overview of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy.- Research on PCIT.- Intake Assessment and Therapy Orientation Session.- Teaching Child-Directed Interaction.- Coaching Child-Directed Interaction.- Teaching Parent-Directed Interaction.- Coaching Parent-Directed Interaction.- Progressing Through the Parent-Directed Interaction Sessions.- Adaptations of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy.- Younger Children.- Older Children.- Siblings.- Autism Spectrum Disorders.- Child Physical Abuse.- Anxiety Disorders.- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.- Extremely Aggressive and Explosive Children.- Marital Conflict.- Parents with Major Life Stressors.- Ethnic Minority Children and Families.- Staff-Child Interaction Therapy.- Teacher–Child Interaction Therapy for Preschool Classrooms.- School Consultation.- Home-Based PCIT: From the Lab to the Living Room.- PCIT Around the World.- Training Issues.- Appendices.

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Book SynopsisBased on Warner's extensive clinical experience and therapy workshops conducted over more than two decades, Solution-Focused Interviewing is the first skill-development manual based on this innovative tri-phase approach to counseling and applied positive psychology.Table of ContentsPart One: Background 1. Introduction and Overview Purpose of the Manual 2. Fast Track to Beginning Practice Solution-Focused Interviewing: Description Tri-Phase Model of the Solution-Building Process 3. Human Development and Models of Psychology Theoretical Orientations The Positive Psychology Movement Part Two: The Tri-Phase Model for Learning Solution-Building Skills 4. The Solution-Focused Approach SFBT: Description and Background Post- Traumatic Growth Development of the Tri-Phase Approach Evaluating Solution-Focused Training 5. Empathy Phase: Establishing Rapport Effective Listening Skills: Components and Techniques Becoming Solution-Focused Role of Emotions and Negative Feeling 6. Goal Setting Phase: Discovering What's Wanted The Key Skill of Solution-Building: Be Patient Discovering Client Goals Goal-Development 7. Goal Striving Phase: Building a Solution Five Primary Interventions Questions End-of-Interview Break and Next-Step Action Plan Delivery of Feedback and Next-Step Action Plan Strategies for Weight-Management in a Healthcare Setting A Note to the Reader Appendixes A) SFI Questions: Handy Reference B) Brief Post-Traumatic Growth Rating Scale C) Training and Certification Opportunities D) A Paradigm Shift: My Journey References

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Book SynopsisIn A Class by Themselves?, Jason Ellis provides an erudite and balanced history of special needs education, an early twentieth century educational innovation that continues to polarize school communities across Canada, the United States, and beyond. Ellis situates the evolution of this educational innovation in its proper historical context to explore the rise of intelligence testing, the decline of child labour and rise of vocational guidance, emerging trends in mental hygiene and child psychology, and the implementation of a new progressive curriculum. At the core of this study are the students. This book is the first to draw deeply on rich archival sources, including 1000 pupil records of young people with learning difficulties, who attended public schools between 1918 and 1945. Ellis uses these records to retell individual stories that illuminate how disability filtered down through the school system’s many nooks and crannies to mark disabled studentTrade Review"A Class by Themselves tells a complicated story, but one that embraces the complexities and contradictions. Ellis is creative in including neighborhoods, teachers, students, and parents in a narrative that might easily have stayed at the levels of theory and policy. In the concluding chapter, Ellis points to the ways that this history set the stage for further developments and present-day concerns in education, connections that will already be apparent to many readers by the end of his book." -- Penny L. Richards * H Net Reviews *"Ellis’s work is not only empirically solid but also original, creative, and synthetic. His prose style is clear, his analytic structure solid, and his conclusions safely controlled (when he speculates, he says so). All these qualities put A Class by Themselves? in, well, a class by itself." -- Adam R. Nelson, University of Wisconsin-Madison * em>The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Eugenics Goes to School and Other Strange Legacies: Auxiliary Education's Entangled Reform Origins 2 "Inequalities of Children in Original Endowment": iq Testing Transforms Auxiliary Education, 1919-30 3 Avoiding "Blunders and Stupid Mistakes": Auxiliary Education for Adolescents, 1923-35 4 "A Mental Equality Where Physical Equality Has Been Denied": Sight-Saving, Speech and Hearing, and Orthopaedic Classes, 1920-45 5 The "Remarkable Case of Mabel Helen": Special-Subject Disabilities and Auxiliary Education, 1930-45 6 Changing Ideas in a Changing Environment: The Impact of Personality Adjustment and Child Guidance Conclusion Appendix A Pupil Record Cards Appendix B Auxiliary Program Enrolments

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Book SynopsisAnimals are important in human psychological and cultural life, and our relationships with other species are psychological and morally complicated. This special issue presents a series of original research articles concerning attitudes towards animals, the ethics of their treatment, the effects of companion animals on human health and psychological well-being, and the role that culture plays in our interactions with other species. The articles illustrate the scope of the new field of human-animal relationships, the variety of research approaches, and the implications of research findings for social policy.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION. All Creatures Great and Small: New Perspectives on Psychology and Human–Animal Interactions (Sarah Knight and Harold Herzog). 1. FACTORS UNDERLYING OPINIONS AND THE TREATMENT OF ANIMALS. Science versus Human Welfare? Understanding Attitudes toward Animal Use (Sarah Knight, Aldert Vrij, Kim Bard, and Doug Brandon). 2. Moral Emotions and Social Activism: The Case of Animal Rights (Harold A. Herzog and Lauren L. Golden). 3. Ethics and Animal Consciousness: How Rubber the Ethical Ruler? (Gordon M. Burghardt). 4. EFFECTS OF ANIMALS ON HUMAN HEALTH, WELL-BEING, AND SOCIAL INTERACTIONS The Effects of Animals on Human Health and Well-Being (Deborah L. Wells). 5. Robotic Pets in Human Lives: Implications for the Human–Animal Bond and for Human Relationships with Personified Technologies (Gail F. Melson, Peter H. Kahn, Jr., Alan Beck, and Batya Friedman). 6. ANIMALS IN SOCIETY: RESEARCH, POLICY, AND PRACTICE. People and Animals, Kindness and Cruelty: Research Directions and Policy Implications (Frank R. Ascione and Kenneth Shapiro). 7. Animal Abuse as a Sentinel for Human Violence: A Critique (Emily G. Patterson-Kane and Heather Piper). 8. Good to Pet and Eat: The Keeping and Consuming of Dogs and Cats in South Korea (Anthony L. Podberscek). COMMENTARY. Having Our Dogs and Eating Them Too: Why Animals Are a Social Issue.

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Book SynopsisCutting across the fields of psychology, management, education, counseling, social work, and sociology, The Blackwell Handbook of Mentoring reveals an innovative, multi-disciplinary approach to the practice and theory of mentoring. Provides a complete, multi-disciplinary look at the practice and theory of mentoring and demonstrates its advantages Brings together, for the first time, expert researchers from the three primary areas of mentoring: workplace, academy, and community Leading scholars provide critical analysis on important literature concerning theoretical approaches and methodological issues in the field Final section presents an integrated perspective on mentoring relationships and projects a future agenda for the field Trade Review"I have no doubt that those interested in youth mentoring would find the specific chapters useful. It is then an extra bonus to have available similarly fine articles on mentoring of students in academia and mentoring in the workplace." (The Prevention Researcher, 1 December 2011) "This book provides up-to-date review and synthesis of research and theory on the antecedents, correlates, and consequences of mentoring. It also provides critical analyses of the literature and then reflection on the appraisals. This account organizes and critiques the mentoring literature in a way that identifies key issues and prompts heuristic hypotheses." (Neopoprealism Journal, 24 November 2011) Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors. Foreword. Acknowledgments. Part I: Introduction. 1. Overview and Introduction (Tammy D. Allen, University of South Florida, Lillian T. Eby, University of Georgia). 2. Definition and Evolution of Mentoring (Lillian T. Eby, University of Georgia; Jean E. Rhodes, University of Massachusetts, Boston; Tammy D. Allen, University of South Florida). Part II: Theoretical Approaches and Methodological Issues. 3. Youth Mentoring: Theoretical Approaches and Methodological Issues (Thomas E. Keller, Portland State University). 4. Student–Faculty Mentoring: Theoretical Approaches and Methodological Issues (W. Brad Johnson, U.S. Naval Academy; Gail Rose, University of Vermont; Lewis Z. Schlosser, Seton Hall University). 5. Workplace Mentoring: Theoretical Approaches and Methodological Issues (Terri A. Scandura, University of Miami, Ekin K. Pellegrini, University of Missouri-St. Louis). 6. Reflections on the Theoretical Approaches and Methodological Issues in Mentoring Relationships (Marcus M. Butts, University of Georgia; Jaime R. Durley, University of Georgia; Lillian T. Eby, University of Georgia). Part III: Naturally Occurring Mentoring Relationships. 7. Naturally Occurring Mentoring Relationships Involving Youth (Renée Spencer, Boston University School of Social Work). 8. Naturally Occurring Student–Faculty Mentoring Relationships: A Literature Review (Carol A. Mullen, University of South Florida). 9. Naturally Occurring Mentoring Relationships Involving Workplace Employees (Thomas W. Dougherty, University of Missouri-Columbia; Daniel B. Turban, University of Missouri-Columbia; Dana L. Haggard, University of Missouri-Columbia). 10. Reflections on Naturally Occurring Mentoring Relationships (Elizabeth Lentz, Tammy D. Allen, both University of South Florida). Part IV: Benefits of Mentoring. 11. The Benefits Associated with Youth Mentoring Relationships (Lynn Blinn-Pike, Indiana University-Purdue University). 12. Student–Faculty Mentorship Outcomes (W. Brad Johnson, U.S. Naval Academy). 13. The Benefits Associated with Workplace Mentoring Relationships (Aarti Ramaswami, Indiana University-Bloomington, George F. Dreher, Indian University-Bloomington). 14. Reflections on the Benefits of Mentoring (Angie Lockwood, Sarah C. Evans, Lillian T. Eby, all University of Georgia). Part V: Diversity and Mentoring. 15. Diversity and Youth Mentoring Relationships (Belle Liang, Boston College, Jennifer Grossman, Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital). 16. Mentoring in Academia: Considerations for Diverse Populations (William E. Sedlacek, University of Maryland; Eric Benjamin, Montgomery College; Lewis Z. Schlosser, Seton Hall University; Hung-Bin Sheu, University of Maryland, College Park). 17. Diversity and Workplace Mentoring Relationships: A Review and Positive Social Capital Approach (Belle Rose Ragins, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee). 18. Reflections on Diversity and Mentoring (Hazel-Anne M. Johnson, Xian Xu, Tammy D. Allen, all University of South Florida). Part VI: Best Practices for Formal Mentoring Programs. 19. Best Practices for Formal Youth Mentoring (Andrew Miller, Middlesex University). 20. Best Practices for Student–Faculty Mentoring Programs (Clark D. Campbell, George Fox University). 21. Best Practices for Workplace Formal Mentoring Programs (Lisa M. Finkelstein, Northern Illinois University, Mark. L. Poteet, Organizational Research & Solutions). 22. Reflections on the Best Practices for Formal Mentoring Programs (Kimberley E. O'Brien, Ozgun B. Rodopman, Tammy D. Allen, all University of South Florida). Part VII: Integrating Multiple Mentoring Perspectives. 23: New Directions in Mentoring (Steve Bearman, University of California, Santa Cruz; Stacy Blake-Beard, Simmons College; Laurie Hunt, Laurie Hunt & Associates/Simmons College; Faye J. Crosby). 24. Common Bonds: An Integrative View of Mentoring Relationships (Tammy D. Allen, University of South Florida, Lillian T. Eby, University of Georgia). Bibliography. Name Index. Subject Index.

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Book SynopsisPROSE Award- Psychology FinalistA timely and important contribution to the study of immigration court from a psychological perspectiveEvery day, large numbers of immigrants undertake dangerous migration journeys only to face deportation or removal proceedings once they arrive in the U.S. Others who have been in the country for many years may face these proceedings as well, and either group may seek to gain lawful status by means of an application to USCIS, the benefits arm of the immigration system. Mental Health Evaluations in Immigration Court examines the growing role of mental health professionals in the immigration system as they conduct forensic mental health assessments that are used as psychological evidence for applications for deportation relief, write affidavits for the court about the course of treatment they have provided to immigrants, help prepare people emotionally to be deported, and provide support for immigrants in detention centers. Many immigrants appear in immigraTrade ReviewThe interdisciplinary focus in this important text is novel and important. Several chapters address topics that are typically neglected from the literature on immigrant and refugee mental health, such as competency, violence risk, and vicarious trauma. . . . Indispensable for anyone who works within immigration court. -- Barry Rosenfeld, Fordham UniversityAn important contribution that speaks to a growing area of need and professional interest. This book provides essential information for both psychologists and attorneys. -- Nadine Nakamura, California School of Professional Psychology, Alliant International University

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Book SynopsisPROSE Award- Psychology FinalistA timely and important contribution to the study of immigration court from a psychological perspectiveEvery day, large numbers of immigrants undertake dangerous migration journeys only to face deportation or removal proceedings once they arrive in the U.S. Others who have been in the country for many years may face these proceedings as well, and either group may seek to gain lawful status by means of an application to USCIS, the benefits arm of the immigration system. Mental Health Evaluations in Immigration Court examines the growing role of mental health professionals in the immigration system as they conduct forensic mental health assessments that are used as psychological evidence for applications for deportation relief, write affidavits for the court about the course of treatment they have provided to immigrants, help prepare people emotionally to be deported, and provide support for immigrants in detention centers. Many immigrants appear in immigraTrade ReviewThe interdisciplinary focus in this important text is novel and important. Several chapters address topics that are typically neglected from the literature on immigrant and refugee mental health, such as competency, violence risk, and vicarious trauma. . . . Indispensable for anyone who works within immigration court. -- Barry Rosenfeld, Fordham UniversityAn important contribution that speaks to a growing area of need and professional interest. This book provides essential information for both psychologists and attorneys. -- Nadine Nakamura, California School of Professional Psychology, Alliant International University

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Book SynopsisHow Black Christians, Muslims, and Jews have used media to prove their equality, not only in the eyes of God but in society. The institutional structures of white supremacyslavery, Jim Crow laws, convict leasing, and mass incarcerationrequire a commonsense belief that black people lack the moral and intellectual capacities of white people. It is through this lens of belief that racial exclusions have been justified and reproduced in the United States. Televised Redemption argues that African American religious media has long played a key role in humanizing the race by unabashedly claiming that blacks are endowed by God with the same gifts of goodness and reason as whitesif not more, thereby legitimizing black Americans' rights to citizenship. If racism is a form of perception, then religious media has not only altered how others perceive blacks, but has also altered how blacks perceive themselves. Televised Redemption argues that black religious media has provided black Americans wiTrade Review"Could not be more timely or important. The authors are three outstanding scholars who have put their heads together to write a definitive book about the neglected yet crucial intersection of representation and religion by and for African Americans from anti-slavery and anti-colonial movements to #blacklivesmatter in ways that 'denaturalize white supremacist commonsense.' Integrating their ethnographic and historical research on the mediation of black identity through different traditions - Christianity prosperity ministry, African American Islam, and Black Hebrew Israelite - they show us the complexity of black faith communities over time. This book should be required reading in anthropology and media studies, African American studies, American history, religious studies, and many more disciplines." -- Faye Ginsburg,David B. Kriser Professor of Anthropology, New York University"This book is one of a kind in disentangling the enduring and transformative power of black, religio-political representation as embodied praxis, as hermeneutics of race, and as the radical reimaging of subjectivity in reshaping legislation, culture, and the black subject. This is a book that unveils contesting histories and hidden abodes of white supremacist narratives set against the existential remapping of Christianity, Islam and Judaism that are lived, practiced, and meditated through black spirituality and the profundity of its rhetorical mission. Media and black religion become something more in this book: they become a culmination of this moment in which a black president and the call for black lives to matter rise out of the machinery of representation, the passion of belonging, and the endurance of belief." -- D. Soyini Madison ,Professor of Performance Studies, Northwestern University"This book stands as a herculean ethnographic effort and an innovative historical analysis of the uses of print, television, radio, sound technologies, and new media by African American religious actors in the United States and diasporic Africana communities." * Reading Religion *

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Book SynopsisPROSE Award Finalist for Psychology and Applied Social WorkArgues that a range of behaviors such as murder-suicide, terrorism, and mass shootings are better understood as motivated by suicidal impulses than by homicidal onesMass shooters often display behaviors that strongly mirror the warning signs for suicide: lives led in isolation, intense personal suffering, disaffection, and struggle. Letters detailing why they did what they did paint pictures of intense misery and loneliness. As this book makes clear, private despair sometimes leads to social violence. In this groundbreaking work, Thomas Joiner offers a unified theory of suicide, making the case that many acts that appear homicidal are best understood primarily as suicidal. We must recognize that there are several forms of suicidal violence, some of which masquerade as other types of acts, including terrorism and murder. These include suicide-by-cop, suicide terrorism, murder-suicide, and running amok. Though there are obviousTrade ReviewA must read for anyone who desires to understand the complex web of factors that contribute to violent behavior. For decades, scholars have argued that violence cannot be predicted. In The Varieties of Suicidal Experience, however. Joiner does just that -- by building on his decades of expertise and groundbreaking theory of suicide. -- Rheeda Walker, Author of The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental HealthIn The Varieties of Suicidal Experience Joiner manifestly displays his extraordinary scholarly gifts. . . . He shrewdly makes his points with beautifully crafted—and accessible—language brimming with compelling case examples that vividly illustrate his arguments. No one in the field of suicidology today thinks, reflects on, explores, and writes about the topic of suicide quite like Thomas Joiner. This extraordinary new book explores suicidal violence, in all its forms, displaying an intellectual acumen and the sage wisdom of one of the field’s most astute thinkers and singular scholars. -- David A. Jobes, Director of the Suicide Prevention Laboratory, The Catholic University of America, Washington DCJoiner builds on what is arguably history’s most scientifically tested, supported and impactful theory addressing suicidality, the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide. ITS has not only moved an entire field forward but literally reshaped it. Joiner's application across vexing problems like murder-suicide, suicide by cop, suicide terrorism, and physician-assisted suicide is impressive, incisive, and practically accessible. Not only do his clarity and precision improve our understanding of these troubling problems, but he crafts an explanatory narrative that allows us to work to coherently identify strategies, targeted interventions, and policies that offer hope of progress to reduce the tragedy of suicide and assuage the suffering of those affected. Once again, Joiner takes on some of the greatest challenges society faces today. The end result is that he helps us more accurately understand why these tragic things happen and opens the door for solutions. -- M. David Rudd, Distinguished Professor of Psychology and President Emeritus, University of Memphis

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2017 Outstanding Book Award for the Peace, War, and Social Conflict Section presented by the American Sociological AssociationBrings together the study of post-Holocaust family culture with the study of collective memory Over the last two decades, the cross-generational transmission of trauma has become an important area of research within both Holocaust studies and the more broad study of genocide. The overall findings of the research suggest that the Holocaust informs both the psychological and social development of the children of survivors who, like their parents, suffer from nightmares, guilt, fear, and sadness. The impact of social memory on the construction of survivor identities among succeeding generations has not yet been adequately explained. Moreover, the importance of gender to the intergenerational transmission of trauma has, for the most part, been overlooked. In The Holocaust across Generations, Janet Jacobs fills these significant gaps in the study of traTrade ReviewThe book is a very fine piece of scholarship. * American Journal of Sociology *Janet Jacobs has provided us with a thoroughly sociological understanding of the social transmission of collective trauma across generations. It is integrative theoretically and empirically, focusing on the social structures and social relations of transmission, including family processes, rituals and narratives of identity construction, public commemorations, and the sociology of place. There are, as she notes, `multiple landscapes of memory and her sensitive and in-depth empirical work shows many of them. This book will be a valued addition to the sociology of collective memory and to genocide and Holocaust Studies. -- Rhys H. Williams,Loyola University ChicagoThis important book illustrates the social structures through which the trauma of the Holocaust has been transmitted to the children and grandchildren of survivors. Based on carefully documented narratives gathered over ten years, Jacobss contribution is profound and illuminating. -- Wendy Cadge,Brandeis University

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Book SynopsisConsiders how research in psychology offers new perspectives on property law, and suggests avenues of reform Property law governs the acquisition, use and transfer of resources. It resolves competing claims to property, provides legal rules for transactions, affords protection to property from interference by the state, and determines remedies for injury to property rights. In seeking to accomplish these goals, the law of property is concerned with human cognition and behavior. How do we allocate property, both initially and over time, and what factors determine the perceived fairness of those distributions? What social and psychological forces underlie determinations that certain uses of property are reasonable? What remedies do property owners prefer? The Psychology of Property Law explains how assumptions about human judgement, decision-making and behavior have shaped different property rules and examines to what extent these assumptions are supported by the research. Employing key Trade ReviewA deep dive into the way ownership and the law's response to it intersects with human psychology across a range of important contexts. Meticulously researched and conceptually nuanced, this book is an indispensable resource that expertly connects theory and evidence on the psychology of property entitlements with the law and policy surrounding possession, home ownership, takings law, discrimination, redistribution, and more. -- Lee Anne Fennel, Author of The Unbounded Home: Property Values Beyond Property Lines, Max Pam Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law SchoolAn enormous contribution to the fields of property law, law and psychology, and even law more generally.... It has the potential to cause a radical rethinking of property law and policy and thereby to shape the law's effect on countless people's lives. -- John Bronsteen, Georgia Reithal Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago School of LawSeeks to answer certain open questions of property law with psychological evidence and arguments.... It will be enormously useful for anyone interested in the nexus of these two fields. -- Dave Fagundes, University of Houston Law CenterHow the field of psychology can explain, strengthen, or reform the notion of property is the subject of this book. Across eight chapters the authors look at how property ownership is related to theories of human personality and how the law treats different types of property, for example residential property, as more important than other types. * CHOICE *

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2017 Outstanding Book Award for the Peace, War, and Social Conflict Section presented by the American Sociological AssociationBrings together the study of post-Holocaust family culture with the study of collective memory Over the last two decades, the cross-generational transmission of trauma has become an important area of research within both Holocaust studies and the more broad study of genocide. The overall findings of the research suggest that the Holocaust informs both the psychological and social development of the children of survivors who, like their parents, suffer from nightmares, guilt, fear, and sadness. The impact of social memory on the construction of survivor identities among succeeding generations has not yet been adequately explained. Moreover, the importance of gender to the intergenerational transmission of trauma has, for the most part, been overlooked. In The Holocaust across Generations, Janet Jacobs fills these significant gaps in the study of traTrade ReviewThe book is a very fine piece of scholarship. * American Journal of Sociology *Janet Jacobs has provided us with a thoroughly sociological understanding of the social transmission of collective trauma across generations. It is integrative theoretically and empirically, focusing on the social structures and social relations of transmission, including family processes, rituals and narratives of identity construction, public commemorations, and the sociology of place. There are, as she notes, `multiple landscapes of memory and her sensitive and in-depth empirical work shows many of them. This book will be a valued addition to the sociology of collective memory and to genocide and Holocaust Studies. -- Rhys H. Williams,Loyola University ChicagoThis important book illustrates the social structures through which the trauma of the Holocaust has been transmitted to the children and grandchildren of survivors. Based on carefully documented narratives gathered over ten years, Jacobss contribution is profound and illuminating. -- Wendy Cadge,Brandeis University

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Book SynopsisConsiders how research in psychology offers new perspectives on property law, and suggests avenues of reform Property law governs the acquisition, use and transfer of resources. It resolves competing claims to property, provides legal rules for transactions, affords protection to property from interference by the state, and determines remedies for injury to property rights. In seeking to accomplish these goals, the law of property is concerned with human cognition and behavior. How do we allocate property, both initially and over time, and what factors determine the perceived fairness of those distributions? What social and psychological forces underlie determinations that certain uses of property are reasonable? What remedies do property owners prefer? The Psychology of Property Law explains how assumptions about human judgement, decision-making and behavior have shaped different property rules and examines to what extent these assumptions are supported by the research. Employing key Trade ReviewA deep dive into the way ownership and the law's response to it intersects with human psychology across a range of important contexts. Meticulously researched and conceptually nuanced, this book is an indispensable resource that expertly connects theory and evidence on the psychology of property entitlements with the law and policy surrounding possession, home ownership, takings law, discrimination, redistribution, and more. -- Lee Anne Fennel, Author of The Unbounded Home: Property Values Beyond Property Lines, Max Pam Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law SchoolAn enormous contribution to the fields of property law, law and psychology, and even law more generally.... It has the potential to cause a radical rethinking of property law and policy and thereby to shape the law's effect on countless people's lives. -- John Bronsteen, Georgia Reithal Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago School of LawSeeks to answer certain open questions of property law with psychological evidence and arguments.... It will be enormously useful for anyone interested in the nexus of these two fields. -- Dave Fagundes, University of Houston Law CenterHow the field of psychology can explain, strengthen, or reform the notion of property is the subject of this book. Across eight chapters the authors look at how property ownership is related to theories of human personality and how the law treats different types of property, for example residential property, as more important than other types. * CHOICE *

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2017 Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions Shows how early 20th-century resistance to conventional racial categorization contributed to broader discussions in black America that still resonate todayWhen Joseph Nathaniel Beckles registered for the draft in the 1942, he rejected the racial categories presented to him and persuaded the registrar to cross out the check mark she had placed next to Negro and substitute Ethiopian Hebrew. God did not make us Negroes, declared religious leaders in black communities of the early twentieth-century urban North. They insisted that so-called Negroes are, in reality, Ethiopian Hebrews, Asiatic Muslims, or raceless children of God. Rejecting conventional American racial classification, many black southern migrants and immigrants from the Caribbean embraced these alternative visions of black history, racial identity, and collective future, thereby reshaping the black religious and racial landscape. FocusinTrade Review"For too long Christianity has reigned over our histories of African America. This book definitively establishes the plurality of black religious experience and the definitive role religions had in the formation of twentieth-century racial identity. Reading unconventional sources and unearthing forgotten (but now unforgettable) figures, Weisenfeld offers an exemplary study of religion as a form of social and cultural criticism. There is no historian working with greater precision in the study of religion in America today." -- Kathryn Lofton,Yale University"Innovatively researched, elegantly written, and persuasively argued, Judith Weisenfelds new history of African American religious groups is a major contribution to the study of African American religions during the Great Migration. Weisenfeld deftly uses draft records, death certificates, immigration forms, and other bureaucratic documents to breathe life into the stories of Southern migrants, Northern residents, and Caribbean immigrants who joined Jewish, Muslim, and other prophetic religious movements. These new religious movements, Weisenfeld reveals, resisted racial identities imposed upon them by an increasingly powerful state and fellow American citizens alike. Their religious commitments, expressed not only in a rich theological imagination but also in material culture, ritual activity, and institution-building, created new collective racial identities invested in the redemption of Black peoplehood. Weisenfelds beautifully rendered story will engage both scholars and general readers interested in religion, U.S. history, and Africana studies." -- Edward E. Curtis IV,Millennium Chair of the Liberal Arts, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis"Weisenfeld's richly informative and analytically sharp social history resurrects worlds of black American new religious movements in the interwar years. With particularly adept use of bureaucratic records, she gives us a new picture of the lives of African Americans who rejected categories given to them and sought to redefine their own lives and reinvent their own identities. Meticulously researched, provocatively written, and beautifully detailed." -- Paul Harvey,University of Colorado Colorado Springs"A magnificent, thoughtfully researched work which breaks new theoretical ground on race, religion and the great migration. These compelling, exquisitely researched stories of the lives of devoted participants in the Moorish Science Temple, Ethiopian Hebrews, Father Divine and the NOI reconfigure the cult/ sect status that has historically labeled these groups. Weisenfeld's book redefines the contours of African American Religious history, American religion, and race in American history, and is a must read for the casual reader and established scholar alike." -- Anthea Butler,University of Pennsylvania"New World A-Coming is exquisite history and enfleshed theory. Even more, it is a philosophical manifestation of lifework that results from the seasoned rigor and intellectual deft that come only through the long-term of labor[The] book will certainly become a commanding guide for contemporary scholars and a classic source for future generations seeking to navigate the arduous craft of elucidating and interpreting the history of African American religions." * Church History *"A groundbreaking volume...This vivid, theoretically rich, and well-executed work has much to teach scholars of American history and the history of religion about the ways that black people in the twentieth century engaged in far-reaching reconstruction of their own racial, as well as religious, identities." * American Historical Review *"This book is the most thorough and sophisticated treatment of the emergence and early development of these religio-racial movements...Anyone seeking to understand the role of religion and race in American life, and in particular the religious imagination and religious practices of specific black religio-racial movements in the interwar period would do well to read carefully Weisenfelds exemplary monograph." * African American Review *"A comprehensive study of the formation of 20th-century black religious movements...Weisenfeld's wide-ranging study is eloquent yet succinct." * Publishers Weekly *"[This] monograph is impeccablyresearched and paints a colorful picture of religious diversity among Black people. In so doing, she further dismantles...the standard narrative of Black religion as the Black (Christian) church." * Journal of Africana Religions *"Weisenfelds new work is a breath of fresh air in studies of the Great Migration. She expands our knowledge of the religious landscape of African descended migrants and immigrants in new ways and demonstrates the ingenuity and intricacies of race negotiation by African peoples living during the interwar years in America." * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *"Judith Weisenfelds thorough examination of the role of religion in shaping African American identity and community during the social and physical shifts of black migration to the urban North emphasizes the multifaceted nature of religion for black communities as a source of material and psychical sustenance." * Journal of Southern Religion *"New World A-Coming is a masterful work of religious history. Weisenfelds analysis pushes our understanding of the ways in which black religioracial movements of the early 20th century functioned as far more than mere urban cults, inviting us to reimagine their meanings. The book is a significant contribution to the study of religious narratives and their role in shaping African-American identity and community in the past and the present." * Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion *"Central to Weisenfelds study is her great, resolute fascination with the fact that these black people believed rather than being fixated on what they believed. New World A-Coming is a welcome addition to a burgeoning field of books seeking to expand and eventually redefine the parameters of African American religious history writ large." * Journal of American History *"Scholars are fortunate to have a book as rich, careful, and thoughtful asNew World A-Comingto help raise these questions and point them in new directions." * Reading Religion *

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Book SynopsisThe Rapids is a cultural history of manic depression twinned with a personal narrative told through an innovative approach to writing memoir.Table of ContentsWays of Being Seen 1. Let us now open on a naked man on a street corner in San Diego Ways of Reading 2. Black backpack, crowbar, torch, book 3. A short tour through the cultural history of manic depression 4. Rapid thought generator: Saul Bellow’s Humboldt’s Gift and Kanye West’s The Life of Pablo Ways of Seeing 5. It’s just too fucking too: Mania in cinema and the films of Paul Thomas Anderson 6. Under her influence Ways of Being 7. Speak, Spalding! 8. The Reckoning 9. Carrie F [October 21, 1956–December 27, 2016] Two Lives 10. This is all to say that I do not know the story at all A Life 11. The rapids: a coda in cuts Author’s note Works consulted Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisDying and Death in Canada provides a comprehensive, up-to-date examination of dying, death, and bereavement from a Canadian perspective. The fourth edition covers current issues and recent developments in the field, such as the implementation of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) and the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. New topics include death doulas, death tourism, psychogenic death, bonds between the living and the dead, mass death events, and cultural diversity, sensitivity, and competence. This edition combines current research and language used to destigmatize conversations surrounding suicide, while new case studies offer personal accounts from doctors, nurses, and family members of the deceased.Exploring the significance of end-of-life experiences, Dying and Death in Canada shows that how we live influences how we die, and the society and culture in which we live has a profound effect on how we behave when confronted with dying and death.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Preface PART I: The Demography and Epidemiology of Dying and Death 1. The History of Dying and Death in Canada 2. Dying and Death in Canada Today PART II: The Social and Cultural Response to Dying and Death 3. Dying and Death in the Context of Canadian Social Institutions 4. Dying and Death in Canadian Culture PART III: The Individual Response to Dying and Death 5. Individual Perspectives on Dying and Death 6. Survivor Perspectives on Dying and Death 7. Caregiver Perspectives: Caring for the Caregivers Conclusion Glossary Appendix: Selected Visual Media Sources Dealing with Dying, Death, and End-of-Life Care References Index

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Book SynopsisStrengths-Based Child Protection is the first textbook solely dedicated to furthering strengths-based practices in a child protection setting. Carolyn Oliver provides an original, accessible, and practical research-based model that focuses on the key to success in this field: the worker-client relationship.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Section 1 Setting the Scene Chapter 1 Child Protection Practice Chapter 2. Strengths-Based Practice Chapter 3. Strengths-Based Child Protection Practice Chapter 4. Hearing from the Frontlines Section 1 Summary Section 2 Choosing Not to Use Strengths-Based Practice Chapter 5. The Question of Applicability Chapter 6. Relating Therapeutically Chapter 7. Supporting Client Self-Determination Chapter 8. Connecting to Internal and External Resources Chapter 9. Pursuing a Balanced Understanding Section 2 Summary: Choosing Not to Use Strengths-Based Practice Section 3 Firm, Fair and Friendly Practice Chapter 10. Inviting Maximum Collaboration and Using Strengths Chapter 11. Using Authority Purposefully Chapter 12. Being Transparent Chapter 13. Attending to the Interaction Chapter 14. Judging Impartially Chapter 15. Seeing Clients as Human Section 3 Summary Section 4 Becoming a Strengths-Based Child Protection Practitioner Chapter 16. Identifying as a Strengths-Based Child Protection Practitioner Chapter 17. Educating the Strengths-Based Child Protection Practitioner Chapter 18. Supporting the Strengths-Based Child Protection Practitioner Section 4 Summary: Looking Back, Out and Forward

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Book SynopsisDistinctly Narcissistic is a study of diary fiction written in Quebec between 1878 and 1990. Valerie Raoul explores the social and ideological context in which diary fiction occurs, and the relation in Quebec, between the diary form and (de)colonization. Many of the works she considers have received little critical attention until now.Raoul bases her study on a psychoanalytic theory of narcissism. Building on the structure developed in her earlier book, The French Fictional Journal (1980), she analyses the interaction of self, time, and writing in diary fiction, extending her approach to take into account the cultural context of the works concerned.  The theory of narcissism serves as a framework for the treatment of topics as varied as feminine superiority in Laure Conan’s early work, cerebral misogyny in narratives by men, ambivalent gender identities, and the recurring metaphor of giving birth to the self through the book.In re-examinin

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Book SynopsisIn June 1967 the Canadian National Commission for Unesco and the Université de Moncton jointly sponsored an international seminar on bilingualism. Although 1967 was Canada's centennial year, the seminar was concerned only incidentally with bilingualism in Canada. Instead, bilingualism was considered as the essential element in communication between language irrespective of national boundaries. Participants included linguists, psychologists, and sociologists. The report shows that the interdisciplinary discussions carried on at Moncton were fruitful; that significant questions about bilingualism were raised and an improvement in communication between specialists from different traditions, languages, and cultures were effected. This volumes makes a valuable contribution toward establishing a general theory of bilingualism.

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Book SynopsisThis volume contains the proceedings of the second Canadian Conference on Children which was held in Montreal in the autumn of 1965. It includes four papers given by Dr. Alva Myrdal, Dr. Alan Ross, Dr. M.S. Rabinovitch and Dr. C.E. Hendry, all well known for their attention to the problems of children growing up in the present world and concerned here to draw attention to those they see in Canada and elsewhere. A running commentary is supplied by Dr. Alan Thomas on the less formal side of the conference—the discussions that took place in groups after the speeches. The four papers and the commentary are printed in both English and French. Reverend Roger Guindon O.M.I. of the University of Ottawa provides the closing address, presented in a style which can be seen as an interesting new approach to the Canadian problem of bilingualism.

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Book SynopsisThe symposium was arranged with the purpose of cutting across some of the lines dividing various disciplines all having a common interest in different aspects of the functioning of the brain. The essays, given originally as lectures at one of the Jubilee celebrations of the University of Saskatchewan, were deliberately designed to be of interest to laymen concerned with the problem of education as well as to academics dealing daily with products of the brain's activity in teaching and learning. One of the main themes of the book is that the human brain has far greater potentialities than our present methods of education are exploiting; another is that, although our universities can be said to owe their very existence to the multiplex activities of the human mind, the subject of how the brain functions and the application of even our rather meagre knowledge of this field to the sphere of teaching and learning remains greatly neglected in university programmes. The subject of brain funct

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Book SynopsisNew Hope for Deprived Children is the carefully documented story of the development of a group of children from infancy through early adolescence. Exhibiting the effects of severe institutional deprivation in the early part of their lives, these children became the focus of a therapeutic programme within an institution designed to relieve their serious developmental deficiencies. The programme and its effects confirmed the faith of the researchers involved that recovery to a certain degree was possible, even with an institutional setting. Further recovery was effected by later placement in foster and adoptive homes.The lives of twenty-eight of these children have been recorded and the data analysed. This book presents their stories in both human and scientific terms. The guidance procedures and therapeutic intervention were based on a personality theory of 'security,' which allowed the research and guidance team to provide a consistent frame of reference to all proce

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Book SynopsisIn Toronto in 1970 the Addiction Research Foundation held a symposium on schedule-induced and schedule-dependent phenomena. The Foundation's main concerns with drug-behaviour-environment interactions, but because it is difficult to consider these interactions in isolation from general behavioural phenomena, the symposium was arranged around topics that are not specific to drug effects. This book contains those contributions to the symposium that focused on phenomena associated with schedules of reinforcement. Most of the papers have been extensively revised for the purpose of this publication. Three kinds of schedule effect are examined in the book. Schedule dependent phenomena arise when the effect on behaviour of an operation, such as the administration of a drug, depends on the schedule of reinforcement maintaining the behaviour. Two aspects of these phenomena are treated in detail by J.W. McKearney, who emphasizes drug effects, and by D.E. Blackman, who concentrates on th

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Book SynopsisWith Heinrich Kaan''s book we have then what could be called the date of birth, or in any case the date of the emergence, of sexuality and sexual aberrations in the psychiatric field. Michel Foucault, Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 19741975.Heinrich Kaan''s fascinating workpart medical treatise, part sexual taxonomy, part activist statement, and part anti-onanist tracttakes us back to the origins of sexology. He links the sexual instinct to the imagination for the first time, creating what Foucault called a unified field of sexual abnormality. Kaan''s taxonomy consists of six sexual aberrations: masturbation, pederasty, lesbian love, necrophilia, bestiality, and the violation of statues. Kaan not only inaugurated the field of sexology, but played a significant role in the regimes of knowledge production and discipline about psychiatric and sexual subjects. As Benjamin Kahan argues in his Introduction, Kaan''s text crucially enables us to see how hoTrade ReviewThe liminal status of the first Psychopathia Sexualis—its position near the end of a centuries-old mode of scholarly discourse and at the inauguration of a new disciplinary organization of knowledge—render Kaan's project interesting now in ways that it couldn’t be for its contemporary audience. What’s striking here—especially given the text is written in a language with liturgical and theological associations—is that Kaan begins and remains on a strictly naturalistic level of description and explanation. Kaan’s work had some important implications. It treated human sexuality as entirely explicable within nature—with nonprocreative forms being, in effect, the accidental effect of a natural force being redirected via the brain. -- Scott McLemee * Inside Higher Ed *In the preface to his two-part treatise, Kaan states that his intentions are to call physicians' attention to the condition he terms "sexual madness," caused by a "diseased imagination," and to attempt to correct publicly held errors and misunderstandings.... This translated text has much to offer those who are interested in the history of sexology, the scientific method, and the social construction of gender. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; researchers and faculty. -- P. Lefler, Bluegrass Community & Technical College * CHOICE *

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Book SynopsisIn Under the Strain of Color, Gabriel N. Mendes recaptures the history of Harlem''s Lafargue Mental Hygiene Clinic, a New York City institution that embodied new ways of thinking about mental health, race, and the substance of citizenship. The result of a collaboration among the psychiatrist and social critic Dr. Fredric Wertham, the writer Richard Wright, and the clergyman Rev. Shelton Hale Bishop, the clinic emerged in the context of a widespread American concern with the mental health of its citizens. Mendes shows the clinic to have been simultaneously a scientific and political gambit, challenging both a racist mental health care system and supposedly color-blind psychiatrists who failed to consider the consequences of oppression in their assessment and treatment of African American patients. Employing the methods of oral history, archival research, textual analysis, and critical race philosophy, Under the Strain of Color contributes to Trade ReviewUnder the Strain of Color is a much-needed addition to the historiography of race and psychiatry in the USA. This is the only book-length treatment of the history of the Lafargue Mental Hygiene Clinic, the first outpatient psychiatric clinic to serve the most iconic of African American communities: New York's Harlem. Under the Strain of Color comprehensively addresses two of the less-well understood aspects of the fascinating Lafargue Clinic story: its origin and its contribution to the civil rights movement. In doing so, Mendes has artfully crafted what should become the standard account of this remarkable, short-lived, Cold War–era medical institution. A slim volume that is jargon-free and as entertaining as a novel, I can see it wideningthe audience for both medical humanities and the history of psychiatry. * History of Psychiatry *Professor Mendes' narrative has serious contemporary analogues. It is a cautonary tale about how and why minority communities fail to gain assistance for their needs asthey define them... One comes away from this book feeling admiration for the efforts of all those who both brought the Lafargue Clinic into being and sustained it through its 12 years of active service. If we are wise, we will learn from their example. * J Relig Health *Wertham's work at Lafargue led to his pronouncement that 'racism was not exclusively a social and political problem but represented a community health problem.' This well-researched, easy to read text is compelling, providing a comprehensible overview of the relationship between racism and the psychiatric profession in the midcentury US. * Choice *[An] admirable contribution to the history of American health, revealing how the intersecting efforts of activists, practitioners, and cultural figures helped make New York City's health institutions more responsive to diverse patient groups in the face of political inertia and social resistance. * American Historical Review *Under the Strain of Color is a significant contribution to the study of antiracism in the human sciences and a compelling counterpoint to the historiography of the "psy" disciplines after WWII... Mendes' illuminating study of the neglected Lafargue clinic effectively points to more radical alternatives from this period... Mendes' book offers a convincing case for the rewards of studying the history of human science from the margins. * Journal of the History of Behavioral Sciences *Table of ContentsIntroduction: "Under the Strain of Color"1. "This Burden of Consciousness": Richard Wright and the Psychology of Race Relations, 1927–19472. "Intangible Difficulties": Dr. Fredric Wertham and the Politics of Psychiatry in the Interwar Years3. "Between the Sewer and the Church": The Emergence of the Lafargue Mental Hygiene Clinic4. Children and the Violence of Racism: The Lafargue Clinic, Comic Books, and the Case against School SegregationEpilogue: "An Experiment in the Social Basis of Psychotherapy"Notes Index

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