Foundations of Professional Psychology

• Author : Timothy P. Melchert
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release : 02 July 2022

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 : Richard Henry Dana,W. Theodore May
• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
• Release : 02 July 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 : Timothy P. Melchert
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release : 15 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 : Gerard Egan
• Publisher : Cengage Learning
• Release : 01 January 2013

Over the past 30 years, Egan’s THE SKILLED HELPER has taught thousands of students like you a proven, step-by-step counseling process that leads to increased confidence and competence. Internationally recognized for its successful problem-management and opportunity development approach to effective helping, the text emphasizes the collaborative nature of the therapist-client relationship and uses a practical, three-stage model that drives client problem-managing and opportunity-developing action. As you read, you’ll also gain a feeling for the complexity inherent in any helping

• Author : Jeffrey J. Magnavita, Ph.D., ABPP, FAPA,Jack C. Anchin, Ph.D., FAPA
• Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
• Release : 03 October 2013

With over 1,000 approaches to psychotherapy, many of which have few substantive differences, how can a therapist know which one will provide the most effective treatment? Unifiedpsychotherapy, a significant new paradigm in the evolution of psychotherapy, is a multicomponent,biopsychosocial systems model that draws from all of the major psychotherapeutic models andis grounded in the belief that a combination of theory and practice, supported by evidence-basedresearch, is the key to effective psychotherapy. This book provides a practice-friendly presentation ofthe theoretical and

• 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 : W. Brad Johnson Ph.D.,Nadine Kaslow Ph.D.
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 11 March 2014

The Oxford Handbook of Education and Training in Professional Psychology provides the first comprehensive treatment of the processes and current state-of-the art practices bearing on educating and training professional psychologists. Thousands of psychologists are employed full-time as faculty members or clinical supervisors in graduate, practicum, internship, and postdoctoral training programs or training sites. This handbook provides a single resource that pulls together the substantial scholarship on education and training in psychology, covering the full spectrum of historic developments, salient issues,

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

• Author : Bonnie Kaul Nastasi,Stuart N. Hart,Shereen C. Naser
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release : 18 May 2020

This handbook examines the meanings, implications, and transformative potential of a child-rights approach for school psychology. It focuses on the school community, in which psychology is committed to promoting well-being, learning, and development of all children. The handbook begins with an overview of the 1989 United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and explores main themes such as, survival, protection, development, participation, and nondiscrimination. Chapters provide guidance in promoting and protecting child rights when dealing with critical issues

• Author : Deborah Mower,Wade L. Robison,Phyllis Vandenberg
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 15 May 2015

Moral sensitivity affects whether and how we see others, note moral concerns, respond with delicacy, and navigate complex social interactions. Scholars from a variety of fields explore the concept of moral sensitivity and how it develops, beginning with a natural moral capacity for sensitivity towards others that is shaped in a variety of ways through relationships, forms of teaching, and social institutions. Each of these influences alters the capacity as well as one’s responses in complex ways. The concept