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Self-Handicapping
The Paradox That Isn’t
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
The concept of self-handicapping can be legitimately anchored in a vari ety of intellectual contexts, some old and some newer. As this volume reminds us, Alfred Adler was perhaps the first to articulate the signifi cance of various self-defeating claims and gestures for protecting the self concept....
Advances in Clinical Child Psychology
Volume 20
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
It is with both pride and sadness that we publish the twentieth and last volume of Advances in Clinical Child Psychology. This series has seen a long and successful run starting under the editorship of Ben Lahey and Alan Kazdin, who passed the baton to us at Volume 14. We are grateful to the many...
by Paul E. Tracy, Kimberly Kempf-Leonard
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
It takes courage to do research on crime and delinquency. Such research is typically conducted in an atmosphere of concern about the problem it addresses and is typically justified as an attempt to discover new facts or to evaluate innovative programs or policies. When, as must often be the case,...
Clinical Behavioral Medicine
Some Concepts and Procedures
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
This book is an effort to integrate some clinical observations, theoretical concepts, and promising clinical procedures that relate psychological variables to physiological variables. My primary emphasis is on what psychological and behavioral concepts and procedures are most likely to enable us to...
Toxic Turmoil
Psychological and Societal Consequences of Ecological Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
When an accident involves many people and when its consequences are many and serious, we speak of a disaster. Disasters have the same causal fac tors as accidents: they differ from accidents by the gravity of consequences, not by causes. The action of a single individual may result in thousands...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
This volume reflects, in part, an update of Clinical Application of Neuropsycho logical Test Batteries, edited by Theresa Incagnoli, Gerald Goldstein, and Charles Golden some 10 years ago. While the initial concept of the present editors involved doing a straightforward update of each chapter, it...
Keyboard, Graphic and Handwriting Skills
Helping people with motor disabilities
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
The practising paediatrician struggles to combat the effects of acute illness and disease in babies and older children. The pattem of hospital admissions has changed dramatically since I first qualified over 25 years ago. Neonatology is a relatively new branch of paediatrics and achievements in neonatal...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume is dedicated to Theodore Lidz and Ruth W. Lidz, as was the conference on the Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia held on April 9 and 10, 1979, at which the materials here published were presented. This 1979 sym posium replicated in some respects the one held at Yale University thirty years...
Anticancer Drug Resistance
Advances in Molecular and Clinical Research
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Over the last 50 years, drug development and clinical trials have resulted in successful complete responses in diseases such as childhood leukemia, testicular cancer and Hodgkin's disease. We are still, however, confronted with over 500,000 cancer-related deaths per year. Clearly, the phenomenon of...
Biotechnology in blood transfusion
Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Symposium on Blood Transfusion, Groningen 1987, organized by the Red Cross Blood Bank Groningen-Drenthe
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This symposium is devoted to Biotechnology in Blood Transfusion; there are 22 experts discussing the state of the art in the application of monoclonal anti bodies, recombinant DNA technologies and heterologous expression systems to the improvement and sometimes replacement of blood products, charac...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
The purpose of this handbook, originally published in 1984, was to provide a compreh- sive review of current clinical descriptions, research , and theories of psychopathology. Descriptive psychopathology is a ?eld that forms the foundation of clinical practice and research in clinical psychology,...
Explorations in Learning and the Brain
On the Potential of Cognitive Neuroscience for Educational Science
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
This volume presents a short review study of the potential relationships between cognitive neuroscience and educational science. Conducted by order of the Dutch Programme Council for Educational Research of the Netherlands Organization for Scienti c Research (NWO; cf. the American NSF), the review...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
The future is exciting-frightening-and demanding! As social and eco nomic change accelerates at an ever-increasing rate, we look with awe and wonder at the way in which unanticipated events impact on our lives and change the way we live. We are also frightened about how well we will adapt to the...
Acromegaly
A Century of Scientific and Clinical Progress
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The manuscripts in this volume were contributed by the speakers invited to the Acromegaly Centennial Symposium held in San Francisco, California in July 1986. The meeting was organized to commemorate the description of acromegaly by the French physician Pierre Marie, in 1886. The members of the Scientific...