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41. Arenas of Comfort in Adolescence

    A Study of Adjustment in Context

    By Jeylan T. Mortimer, Kathleen T. Call

    Series: Research Monographs in Adolescence Series

    Adolescence is a time when the social world expands, a time of increasing engagement beyond the family sphere to the school, the peer group, and the workplace. These contexts may present experiences that differ greatly in their tone and content, either contributing to or hindering satisfaction and...

    Published December 31st 2000 by Psychology Press
42. Psychological Assessment With the MMPI-2

    By Alan F. Friedman, Richard Levak, Dave Nichols, James T. Webb

    User-friendly yet sophisticated, Psychological Assessment With the MMPI-2 will be welcomed by practicing psychologists, researchers, and students alike. This long-awaited second edition constitutes the single most comprehensive and up-to-date textbook of MMPI-2 interpretation. Completely rewritten...

    Published June 30th 2000 by Routledge
43. Temperament and Personality Development Across the Life Span

    Edited by Victoria J. Molfese, Dennis L. Molfese, Robert R. McCrae

    This is the third book in a series of Across the Life Span volumes that has come from the Biennial Life Span Development Conferences. The authors--well known in their fields--present theoretical and research issues important for the understanding of temperament in infancy and childhood, as well as...

    Published May 31st 2000 by Psychology Press
44. Advances in Personality Psychology

    Volume 1

    Edited by Sarah E. Hampson

    Series: Advances in Personality Psychology

    In the first volume of this new series, Sarah E. Hampson brings together a unique collection of critical reviews of key areas of personality psychology and integrative accounts of important work by internationally recognised experts in the field. Advances in Personality Psychology includes chapters...

    Published May 24th 2000 by Psychology Press
45. The Clinical and Forensic Assessment of Psychopathy

    A Practitioner's Guide

    Edited by Carl B. Gacono

    Series: Personality and Clinical Psychology

    Psychopaths are difficult to ignore. They are involved in many of today's most serious problems: war, drugs, murder, and political corruption. As a construct, psychopathy has evolved far beyond its confusing origins in a melange of labels into an empirically measurable syndrome. The first text of...

    Published February 29th 2000 by Routledge
46. Assessing Affective Characteristics in the Schools

    2nd Edition

    By Lorin W. Anderson, Sid F. Bourke

    The affective realm is a critical, but often forgotten, aspect of schooling. The development of character and the formation of appropriate learning environments rely to a large extent on understanding the affective nature of students. Even when the focus is on cognitive achievement, affect has a...

    Published February 29th 2000 by Routledge
47. Handbook of Cross-Cultural and Multicultural Personality Assessment

    Edited by Richard H. Dana

    Throughout the world as in the United States, psychologists are increasingly being called upon to evaluate clients whose backgrounds differ from their own. It has long been recognized that standard personality and psychopathology assessment instruments carry cultural biases, and in recent years,...

    Published January 31st 2000 by Routledge
48. Handbook of Demonstrations and Activities in the Teaching of Psychology, Second Edition

    Volume III: Personality, Abnormal, Clinical-Counseling, and Social

    Edited by Mark E. Ware, David E. Johnson

    For those who teach students in psychology, education, and the social sciences, the Handbook of Demonstrations and Activities in the Teaching of Psychology, Second Edition provides practical applications and rich sources of ideas. Revised to include a wealth of new material (56% of the articles are...

    Published January 31st 2000 by Psychology Press
49. Personality and Social Psychology at the Interface

    New Directions for Interdisciplinary Research: A Special Issue of personality and Social Psychology Review

    Edited by Marilynn B. Brewer

    This special issue provides a view of the past, present, and future of the field of personality and social psychology as an interdisciplinary endeavor. Collectively, the articles illustrate the vital contributions that can be made pursuing the reciprocal connections between personality/social...

    Published January 31st 2000 by Psychology Press
50. Balancing the Secrets of Private Disclosures

    Edited by Sandra Petronio

    Series: Routledge Communication Series

    This book joins together disclosure, privacy, and secrecy to pursue a greater understanding of how people are both public and private in their interactions. To be social yet autonomous, known yet unknown, independent yet dependent on others is essential to the communicative world. How do people...

    Published November 30th 1999 by Routledge