Bücher der Reihe Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology

This book provides descriptive and experimental approaches to the study of anxiety and related disorders alongside literature reviews and empirically-guided suggestions for treatment. It is written for academics and graduate students studying psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience; as well as clinicians in medical centers or private practices.

This Handbook describes the extent and shape of computing education research, and articulates its boundaries with partner disciplines. Written by leading researchers from academia and industry (including Google and Microsoft), it provides both a guide for existing researchers and a practical resource for those new to the field.

This Handbook describes the extent and shape of computing education research, and articulates its boundaries with partner disciplines. Written by leading researchers from academia and industry (including Google and Microsoft), it provides both a guide for existing researchers and a practical resource for those new to the field.

Leading scientists reveal how to enhance instruction and student achievement across many domains, including science, mathematics, reading, and writing. Directed towards graduate students and seasoned scientists interested in education, it is also accessible to practitioners and students who are interested in improving learning and achievement.

This book provides descriptive and experimental approaches to the study of anxiety and related disorders alongside literature reviews and empirically-guided suggestions for treatment. It is written for academics and graduate students studying psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience; as well as clinicians in medical centers or private practices.

Play takes up much of the time budget of young children, and many animals, but its importance in development remains contested. This comprehensive collection brings together multidisciplinary and developmental perspectives on the forms and functions of play in animals, children in different societies, and through the lifespan.

Play takes up much of the time budget of young children, and many animals, but its importance in development remains contested. This comprehensive collection brings together multidisciplinary and developmental perspectives on the forms and functions of play in animals, children in different societies, and through the lifespan.

This is a review of the psychological literature on wisdom by leading experts in the field. It covers the philosophical and sociocultural foundations of wisdom, and showcases the measurement and teaching of wisdom. The connection of wisdom to intelligence and personality is explained alongside its relationship with morality and ethics.

This interdisciplinary Handbook brings together the top researchers in child and adolescent sexual development to redefine the issues, conflicts, and debates that characterize the field. It explores the role of sexuality in children's and adolescents' everyday experiences of identity, family, school, neighborhood, religion, and popular media.

This Handbook brings together leading scholars from various academic disciplines to further the discourse around the most topical issues of aging today - healthy, active, and productive aging, aging with satisfaction, and being treated with respect and dignity. It draws on a range of bio-medical, psychological and socio-demographic sciences.

With the field of personal relationships having grown dramatically in the past quarter century, The Cambridge Handbook of Personal Relationships serves as a benchmark of the current state of scholarship, synthesizing the extant theoretical and empirical literature, tracing its historical roots, and making recommendations for future directions.

This is an essential reference for studying communication in teams and groups. Combining the expertise of 76 leading scholars and practitioners, and applicable across different fields, including psychology, management studies, and education, this Handbook presents the complete methodology for coding and analyzing verbal and nonverbal interaction.

This is an essential reference for studying communication in teams and groups. Combining the expertise of 76 leading scholars and practitioners, and applicable across different fields, including psychology, management studies, and education, this Handbook presents the complete methodology for coding and analyzing verbal and nonverbal interaction.

This third edition of the acclaimed Handbook offers a fully up-to-date, comprehensive, accessible, one-stop resource on health psychology, the study and application of psychological and behavioural processes in health, illness and healthcare. It is essential for doctors, health care professionals, mental health care professionals, academics, researchers, and students.

Recent technological and theoretical innovations have enabled humans to gain unprecedented insights into the contributions of the brain to creative thought. This unique volume brings together contributions by the very best scholars from several fields to offer a comprehensive overview of cutting edge research on this important and fascinating topic.

Presenting a comprehensive, cross-disciplinary study of violent behavior and aggression across the lifespan, the second edition of this authoritative Handbook is brought fully up to date with the inclusion of new research on the etiology of violence and aggression, as well as new insights from intervention and prevention work.

This third edition of the acclaimed Handbook offers a fully up-to-date, comprehensive, accessible, one-stop resource on health psychology, the study and application of psychological and behavioural processes in health, illness and healthcare. It is essential for doctors, health care professionals, mental health care professionals, academics, researchers, and students.

An international overview of the current state of our knowledge in sociocultural psychology that focuses on how human actions, mediated with cultural artefacts within social practices, produce meaningful personal experiences and shape behaviour. This second edition provides expanded coverage of art and aesthetics, economics, history, religion and politics.

This handbook is the first to focus entirely on applied ethics in psychology. Every chapter focuses on the application of ethics to the realistic (and typically complex and confusing) ethical dilemmas in which mental health and other psychology professionals sometimes find themselves.

The Cambridge Handbook of Work-Family Interface is a response to growing interest from academics, practitioners, and the popular press in understanding how people manage their work and family lives, and how this management is affected by various dynamics, such as psychology, business, family studies, sociology, political science and economics.

The Cambridge Handbook of Work-Family Interface is a response to growing interest from academics, practitioners, and the popular press in understanding how people manage their work and family lives, and how this management is affected by various dynamics, such as psychology, business, family studies, sociology, political science and economics.

An international overview of the current state of our knowledge in sociocultural psychology that focuses on how human actions, mediated with cultural artefacts within social practices, produce meaningful personal experiences and shape behaviour. This second edition provides expanded coverage of art and aesthetics, economics, history, religion and politics.

This volume addresses the question of whether creativity is a general ability or whether it is domain-specific, bringing together researchers across academia to explain the cognitive processes, ways of solving problems, personality and motivational attributes, guiding metaphors, and work habits that best characterize creative people.

With comprehensive coverage of topics related to learning, training, and employee development from the primary point of view of industrial organizational psychology, this volume is a must-have resource for industrial and organizational (I/O) psychologists, human resource (HR) scholars, and adult education specialists.

This volume addresses the question of whether creativity is a general ability or whether it is domain-specific, bringing together researchers across academia to explain the cognitive processes, ways of solving problems, personality and motivational attributes, guiding metaphors, and work habits that best characterize creative people.

With the field of personal relationships having grown dramatically in the past quarter century, The Cambridge Handbook of Personal Relationships serves as a benchmark of the current state of scholarship, synthesizing the extant theoretical and empirical literature, tracing its historical roots, and making recommendations for future directions.

With comprehensive coverage of topics related to learning, training, and employee development from the primary point of view of industrial organizational psychology, this volume is a must-have resource for industrial and organizational (I/O) psychologists, human resource (HR) scholars, and adult education specialists.

This book is for administrators, staff, faculty, and students who are interested in service learning, community engagement, and ways in which engaged teaching and scholarship can effect social change. Community organizations and non-profits will also benefit from thinking about ways they can partner with educational institutions to create local change.

A key reference source for the psychology of aesthetics and the arts - a discipline dedicated to the study of our interactions with artworks, literature, poetry, music, movies, performances, architecture and design; our experiences of beauty and ugliness; our preferences and dislikes; and our everyday perceptions of things in our world.

This Handbook provides the theoretical and methodological tools for adopting a social representations approach in field research. Scholars, researchers and students in the social sciences will find it an invaluable resource for understanding contemporary social psychological concerns such as the development of identities, communities and narratives.