by Judith A. Skala, Kenneth E. Freedland, Robert M. Carney
Despite the stunning progress in medical research that has been achieved over the past few decades, heart disease remains the leading cause of death and disability among adults in many industrialized countries. Behavioral and psychosocial factors play important roles in the development and progressi…
by Heinz Schuler, George C. Thornton III, Andreas Frintrup, Rose Mueller-Hanson
The Achievement Motivation Inventory (AMI) is a personality inventory designed to measure a broad construct of work related achievement motivation. It is founded on the theoretical work related to the German «Leistungsmotivationsinventar (LMI)» (Schuler & Prochaska, 2001) and enables users to test c…
Ambulatory Monitoring Studies in Everyday Life
by Michael Myrtek
Convincing research evidence, obtained using a ground-breaking new technique for examining the “additional heart rate” in natural settings, showing that contemporary theories about emotion, stress, and disease are no longer tenable.
A Practical Guide to Effective Interventions
by Paul Camic, Sara J. Knight
This highly popular health psychology text, which is both a working reference manual for professional health psychologists and a highly regarded teaching tool, is now available in a fully revised and updated new edition. The first section looks at the foundations of good practice, including how to c…
Results from the WHO/EURO Multicentre Study on Suicidal Behaviour
by Armin Schmidtke, Unni Bille-Brahe, A. J. F. M. Kerkhof, Diego De Leo
A vital source of up-to-the-minute information from one of the most important studies in the world on suicidal behavior, this book is a must for all those concerned with suicide research and prevention, as well as epidemiology and public health policy.
Band 1: Englisch - Deutsch / Vol. 1: English - German
by Roland Haas
Widely used for many years by scientists, practitioners and students, as well as translators, the two-volume English-German / German-English Dictionary of Psychology and Psychiatry is generally regarded as the most exhaustive bilingual compilation of terminology in these fields available.In this edi…
Provides practical assistance to school psychologists who wish to free themselves from the narrow constraints of testing, assists them in identifying the models, skills, and tools they need for fostering a consultative approach.
by H. Häfner, W. Löffler, K. Maurer, A. Riecher-Rössler, A. Stein
The IRAOS is a semi-structured interview originally developed for the assessment of the onset and course of schizophrenia. The current, second version has been extended to encompass all psychotic disorders (affective and non-affective). It is fully compatible with the first version and has been supp…
New Developments and Applications in Medical and Social Sciences
by Ralf Schulze, Heinz Holling, Dankmar Böhning
Meta-analysis is a series of systematic approaches for synthesizing quantitative research. Since its introduction in the early 1980s, statistical and methodological aspects of meta-analysis have been substantially refined and advanced.This volume brings together researchers from mathematical statist…
by Ricardo García Mira, José Manuel Sabucedo Cameselle, José Romay Martínez
Culture is an important mediator between behavior and the environment, impacting on social participation and environmental action, and thus in turn on sustainable development. It is also of great significance in shaping our quality of life within the context of globalization, both in urban and rural…
A comprehensive overview of personality assessment instruments based on the Big Five model of personality and related constructs. A useful resource for those involved in personality assessment and research.