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Libros en Psicología

  • Speaking, Writing and Communicating

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 78
    • Inglés
    Speaking, Writing and Communicating, Volume 78 in The Psychology of Learning and Motivation series, provides the latest release in this important resource that features empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology.

  • A Pragmatic Guide to Low Intensity Psychological Therapy

    Care in High Volume
    • 1 Edición
    • Elizabeth Ruth + 1 más
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    With the rapidly growing demand for mental health care there is a need for efficient and effective psychological treatment options. Low Intensity Psychological Therapy has become well established in the England Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme as a beneficial and versatile treatment option for mild-moderate symptoms of depression and anxiety. A Pragmatic Guide to Low Intensity Psychological Therapy: Care in High Volume, provides a guide to Low Intensity Psychological Therapy from the perspective of the Low Intensity Practitioner. This book describes the Low Intensity role as part of a multi-disciplinary approach to psychological care. The authors use a series of case vignettes, personal experience and current literature to help navigate the context of the role and its potential for ethical and safe expansion.

  • Promoting Desired Lifestyles Among Adults With Severe Autism and Intellectual Disabilities

    Person-Centered Applications of Behavior Analysis
    • 1 Edición
    • Dennis H. Reid + 1 más
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    **Association of American Publishers (AAP) PROSE Award Winner in Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry, 2024**The degree to which adults with severe autism and intellectual disabilities experiences desired lifestyles often is heavily dependent on supports and services provided by human service agencies. Promoting Desired Lifestyles Among Adults With Severe Autism and Intellectual Disabilities: Person-Centered Applications of Behavior Analysis describes how desired of individual adults can be accurately identified and supports and services provided in accordance with those desires. Focusing on person-centered applications of behavior analysis, procedures are presented for human service staff to develop good relationships with individuals, provide routine choice opportunities and ensure access to preferences, teach individuals to exert control over their daily lifestyles, overcome challenging behavior in acceptable ways, and treat individuals with dignity. The goal is to ensure individuals achieve lifestyles they personally desire and experience day-to-day happiness.

  • Neuropsychopharmacology

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    • Jahangir Moini + 2 más
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    Neuropsychopharmacol... reviews the principles of pharmacology with a focus on the central nervous system and autonomic nervous system. Beyond autonomic and central nervous system pharmacology, this volume uniquely discusses psychiatric disorders and the pharmacological interventions that are available for conditions including depression, schizophrenia and anxiety disorders. With a focus on these specific body systems, readers will see end-of-chapter questions that offer real-world case studies, as well as multiple-choice questions for further learning. Beneficial features and content also include two extensive examination tests, which each contain 100 questions for better learning or to be used in teaching, and a glossary. Helpful appendices cover high-alert medications and toxicology effects on the nervous system. Each chapter will contain classifications of medications, pharmacokinetics, mechanism of action, clinical indications and toxicities.

  • Advances in Motivation Science

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 10
    • Andrew J. Elliot
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    Advances in Motivation Science, Volume 10, the latest release in the Motivation Science series, contains interesting articles that cover topics such as Dissonance Motivation from an Action-Based Perspective: An Updated Review, The Bright, Dark, and Dim Light Colors of Motivation: Advances in Conceptualization and Measurement from a Self-Determination Theory Perspective, Future Self to Current Action: Integrated Review and Identity-Based Motivation Synthesis, Using Free Will Wisely: The Importance of Self-Concordant Goal Pursuit, Workplace Engagement and Motivation, and Mental Calibration: Fine Tuning the Dynamics of Mind and Action.

  • Advances in the Study of Behavior

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    • Volumen 55
    • Jeffrey Podos + 1 más
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    Advances in the Study of Behavior, Volume 55 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on Playing to the crowd: using Drosophila to dissect mechanisms underlying plastic male strategies in sperm competition games, Social breeding and its challenges: A case study on village weaverbirds, Inbreeding depression and social interactions, Sleeping beauties? Copulatory quiescence in arachnid females, and more.

  • Machine Learning for Transportation Research and Applications

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    • Yinhai Wang + 2 más
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    Transportation is a combination of systems that presents a variety of challenges often too intricate to be addressed by conventional parametric methods. Increasing data availability and recent advancements in machine learning provide new methods to tackle challenging transportation problems. This textbookis designed for college or graduate-level students in transportation or closely related fields to study and understand fundamentals in machine learning. Readers will learn how to develop and apply various types of machine learning models to transportation-relat... problems. Example applications include traffic sensing, data-quality control, traffic prediction, transportation asset management, traffic-system control and operations, and traffic-safety analysis.

  • Developmental Cascades

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    • Volumen 64
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    Developmental Cascades, Volume 64 in the Advances in Child Development and Behavior series, brings together papers that share a focus on cascading influences across domains and developmental time. The contributors are leading experts in the field of developmental science in areas such as perceptual development, language development, motor development, social development, cognitive development, academic achievement, media use, and children at risk for anxiety and depression. The papers highlight theoretical issues around processes that give rise to cascading effects of experiences in infancy, early childhood, and adolescence using a variety of methods and study designs. Together, the papers showcase the types of methods, designs, and analytic approaches that bring rigor to understanding cascades in development. This volume provides a state-of-the art collection that will appeal to researchers, clinicians, educators, policy makers, and students across disciplines relevant to the science and practice of child learning and development.

  • Clinical Systems and Programming in Human Services Organizations

    EnvisionSMART™: A Melmark Model of Administration and Operation
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    • Frank L. Bird + 5 más
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    Clinical Systems and Programming in Human Services Organizations: EnvisionSMART™: A Melmark Model of Administration and Operation provides a step-by-step plan for creating clinical programs within HSOs using Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA) and Functional Analysis (FA) Systems. This includes establishing standards and guidelines for behavior support plans that meet federal and state guidelines. Readers are also provided with instructions and templates on how prepare clinical “report cards” to track patient progress. The book promotes a multidisciplinary working environment for clinicians to help foster collaboration amongst medical, nursing, psychiatric and allied professionals. Human Service Organizations (HSO) are groups, both public and private with one main goal, to enhance human well-being.With the decrease of federal funding for these services, many private HSOs have been created to supplement the void. To ensure that these HSOs provide adequate services to their patients, it is vital that they adopt an effective model. The Organizational Behavior Management (OBM) model is an effective approach to designing, implementing and maintaining services within HSOs. Each volume in this series highlights key concepts and applications pertinent to each division of HSOs and is written in a user-friendly format.

  • Game-Based Learning in Education and Health - Part A

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    • Volumen 276
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    Game-Based Learning in Education and Health, Volume 276 in the Progress in Brain Research series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on topics such as Math computerized games in the classroom: a Number Line Training in Primary School Children, Digital games for learning basic arithmetic at home, Game-Based Assessment of Cognitive Function among Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Different aspects of fraction understanding are associated selectively with performance on a fraction learning game, and more.

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