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Clinical Psychology
The first book to offer a truly global perspective on the theory and practice of clinical psychology While clinical psychology is practiced the world over, up to now there has been no text devoted to examining it within a global context. The first book of its kind, Clinical Psychology: A Global Perspective brings together contributions from clinicians and scholars around the world to share their insights and observations on the theory and practice of clinical psychology. Due partly to language barriers and entrenched cultural biases, there is little cultural cross-pollination within the field of clinical psychology. In fact, most of the popular texts were written for English-speaking Europea...
Developing an Evidence-based Classification of Eating Disorders
This book provides summaries of the research presentations and discussions of the conceptual and methodological issues involved in diagnosing and classifying eating disorders.
Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction
The two-volume set LNCS 6974 and LNCS 6975 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, ACII 2011, held in Memphis,TN, USA, in October 2011. The 135 papers in this two volume set presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 196 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on recognition and synthesis of human affect, affect-sensitive applications, methodological issues in affective computing, affective and social robotics, affective and behavioral interfaces, relevant insights from psychology, affective databases, Evaluation and annotation tools.
Old Age in African Literary and Cultural Contexts
Through a wide range of indigenous, postcolonial, gender and racial lenses, African writers have provided perspectives on various aspects of old age in the context of African literatures and cultures. This book illustrates how African literary and linguistic representations, ranging from short stories, novels and film to drama and theatre, give expression to ideas about old age. The perspectives offered here provide essential knowledge in understanding the uses of dichotomous age-related categories, such as old-young, elderly male-elderly female, and foreign-indigenous, which generally result in prejudice. Using ageism as its central theme, the contributions draw attention to the ambiguity a...
Leitlinienorientierte Psychotherapie
Die Umsetzung einer leitlinienorientierten Behandlung ist das Kernstück einer fachpsychotherapeutischen Weiterbildung. Der Gesetzgeber hat mit der Einführung der neuen Approbationsordnung für Psychotherapie 2020 der Orientierung an Leitlinien im Rahmen der fünf Stationen, die in der Parcoursprüfung zum Gegenstand gemacht wurden, besonderen Stellenwert eingeräumt. Offensichtlich werden auch im Bereich der Psychotherapie Vorteile darin gesehen, sich an Leitlinien zu orientieren. Das Buch stellt einleitend den theoretischen Rahmen von Leitlinien dar, erläutert wie Leitlinien in der Psychotherapie berücksichtigt werden können und beleuchtet Stärken und Schwächen von Leitlinien. Den Sc...
Violence in American Drama
This interdisciplinary collection of 19 essays addresses violence on the American stage. Topics include the revolutionary period and the role of violence in establishing national identity, violence by and against ethnic groups, and females as perpetrators and victims, as well as state and psychological violence and violence within the family. The book works to assess whether representing violence may cause its cessation, or whether it generates further destruction. Featured playwrights include Susan Glaspell, Sophie Treadwell, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Amiri Baraka, Luis Valdes, Cherrie Moraga, Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner, Neil LaBute, John Guare, Rebecca Gilman, and Heather MacDonald.
