Foundations of Professional Psychology

• Author : Timothy P. Melchert
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release : 02 August 2021

Recent advances in the scientific understanding of the human mind and brain along with the emphases on evidence-based practice and competency-based education are creating increasing pressures to update some of the traditional approaches to structuring and organizing education and practice in the field. There have also been many calls in recent years for a unified approach to conceptualizing professional practice in psychology. This book examines whether there exists a unified conceptual framework for the field that is firmly based on

• Author : Paul C. Larson
• Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Release : 17 May 2017

This book is intended as a text in the history and philosophy of professional psychology. It takes a broad view of psychological healing and traces the history of this endeavor from prehistoric times down to the present. The story should be useful not only to graduate students in professional psychology, but to others in the psycho-social or behavioral health fields. It emphasizes the importance of multicultural and diversity issues by covering a wide swath of relevant world history to help

• Author : Timothy P. Melchert
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release : 28 April 2020

Foundations of Health Service Psychology 2e describes a comprehensive science-based approach to the clinical practice of psychology. It systematically applies scientific advances in understanding human psychology to updating the conceptual frameworks used for education, practice, and research in health service psychology. This new edition includes significant elaboration on recent research. Neural and behavioral science research regarding many aspects of cognition, emotion, and behavior has strengthened substantially over the past decade as has the role of evolutionary theory for understanding why

• Author : Judith Todd,Arthur C. Bohart
• Publisher : Waveland Press
• Release : 30 December 2005

Written from an eclectic, integrative point of view, this authoritative yet accessible text equips students and practitioners with theoretical and empirical knowledge of different psychotherapy and counseling approaches. Todd and Bohart, who together have a total of sixty years of experience teaching clinical psychology courses, offer a clear, understandable view of how each theoretical perspective regards the person, the persons problems, and how to help the person change. The fourth edition retains the psychotherapy and history components from previous editions

• Author : Richard Henry Dana,W. Theodore May
• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
• Release : 02 August 1987

First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

• Author : Enedina García-Vázquez,Tony D. Crespi,Cynthia Riccio
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 20 December 2010

Published with the sponsorship of the Trainers of School Psychologists, this two volume handbook examines the essential tenets of the school psychology profession, critically reviews training and practice issues, and evaluates how the traditional and changing skills and issues translate into meeting the needs of children and the systems that serve them. Volume I focuses on the professional issues and topics that form the core of the university curriculum for the school psychology specialist degree. It explores contemporary university training

• Author : Walter B. Pryzwansky,Robert N. Wendt
• Publisher : Pergamon
• Release : 02 August 1987

• Author : Paula B. Poorman
• Publisher : Pearson College Division
• Release : 02 August 2021

Microskills and Theoretical Foundations for Professional Helpers offers an exploration of both the art and the science of professional helping. This unique book addresses both the microskills of professional helping in-depth to facilitate actual skill development and the theories of helping in enough depth to foster development of "personal theories" of helping. Readers can easily integrate theory with practice by using a book that cuts across the disciplines of psychology, counseling, marriage and family counseling, human services, and social work

• Author : Enedina García-Vázquez,Tony D. Crespi,Cynthia Riccio
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 20 December 2010

Published with the sponsorship of the Trainers of School Psychologists, this two volume handbook examines the essential tenets of the school psychology profession, critically reviews training and practice issues, and evaluates how the traditional and changing skills and issues translate into meeting the needs of children and the systems that serve them. Volume I focuses on the professional issues and topics that form the core of the university curriculum for the school psychology specialist degree. It explores contemporary university training

• Author : Judy Hall,Elizabeth Altmaier
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 23 April 2008

In Global Promise: Quality Assurance and Accountability in Professional Psychology, editors Judy E. Hall and Elizbeth M. Altmaier examine the tools needed for evaluating the crucial components of quality assurance - education, training, accreditation and designation, licensing and credentialing, ethics, mobility, and continuing professional development - from an international perspective, with a specific focus on practices in the United States, Canada, the European Union, Latin America, Australia, and The Netherlands.

• Author : Karen Strohm Kitchener,Sharon K. Anderson
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 19 January 2011

In Foundations of Ethical Practice, Research, and Teaching in Psychology and Counseling, Kitchener and Anderson lay a conceptual foundation for thinking well about ethical problems. Whereas the first edition focused mainly on ethical reasoning and decision making, this new edition draws more explicitly on all components of James Rest's model of moral/ethical behavior, including moral/ethical sensitivity, moral/ethical decision making, moral/ethical motivation, and the ego strength to follow through on the decision. The book addresses five key

• Author : Lisa Tsoi Hoshmand
• Publisher : SUNY Press
• Release : 16 August 1994

This book approaches professional inquiry in psychology from a perspective that integrates research and practice and prepares students for the diversity of methods employed in the field. It examines a broad range of models and methods of inquiry in both research and practice and provides a framework for linking issues of knowledge to the special context of professional psychology. Guided by a vision of psychology as a self-critical discipline and a reflective profession, Hoshmand provides a pluralistic perspective on inquiry,

• Author : Vera Alexandra Sekulov
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 02 August 1985

• Author : Keith S. Dobson,Keith Stephen Dobson,Deborah June Gora Dobson
• Publisher : Hogrefe & Huber Pub
• Release : 02 August 1993

What is the future, and indeed what are the realities facing the practice of psychology in Canada? In quite a readable format, the diverse specialists who have contributed to this book explain the nature of the various practical fields in which psychologists are engaged on a day-to-day basis, providing understandable explanations of the current regulatory and legal issues faced by practitioners. They present the various training programs presently available, explain the details of how the practice of psychology in Canada

• Author : Charles J. Golden,P.J. Vicente
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release : 11 November 2013

In the last decade, neuropsychology has grown from a small subspecialty to a major component in the practice of clinical and medical psychology. This growth has been caused by advances in psychological testing (such as the Halstead-Reitan neuropsychological battery, as discussed in Chapter 5) that have made evaluation techniques in the field available to a wider audience, by advances in neuroradiol ogy and related medical areas that have enabled us to better understand the struc ture and function of the brain