Forthcoming Behavioral Sciences Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Frontiers of Test Validity Theory

   Measurement, Causation, and Meaning

   By Keith A. Markus, Denny Borsboom

   Series: Multivariate Applications Series

   This book examines test validity in the behavioral, social, and educational sciences by exploring three fundamental problems: measurement, causation and meaning. Psychometric and philosophical perspectives receive attention along with unresolved issues. The authors explore how measurement is...

   To Be Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge Academic
2. Trauma and the Soul

   A psycho-spiritual approach to human development and its interruption

   By Donald Kalsched

   In Trauma and the Soul, Donald Kalsched continues the exploration he began in his first book, The Inner World of Trauma (1996)—this time going further into the mystical or spiritual moments that often occur around the intimacies of psychoanalytic work. Through extended clinical vignettes, including...

   To Be Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
3. A Mindfulness-Based Approach to Working with High-Risk Adolescents

   By Sam Himelstein

   A Mindfulness-Based Approach to Working With High-Risk Adolescents is an accessible introduction to a new model of therapy that combines the Buddhist concept of mindfulness with modern trends in psychotherapy. Drawing on years of experience working with at-risk adolescents, the chapters explore...

   To Be Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
4. Psychology in the Courts

   Edited by Raymond R. Corrado, Rebecca Dempster, Ronald Roesch

   This book provides a useful overview of the latest research into the interaction between psychology and the courts. Leading scholars and practitioners review recent research and practice in a number of principal areas:* adolescents in the legal system* the role of juries* competency to stand trial*...

   To Be Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
5. Psychology and Law in a Changing World

   New Trends in Theory, Practice and Research

   Edited by Lara Bagnoli, Giovanni B. Traverso

   Criminal psychology, and its relationship to the practice of law, has become a topic of major significance over the last three decades. Psychologists play a key role in modern criminal investigation and are central to crime reduction measures such as offender profiling, delinquency prevention and...

   To Be Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
6. Social Psychology at Work (Psychology Revivals)

   Essays in honour of Michael Argyle

   Edited by Peter Collett, Adrian Furnham

   Series: Psychology Revivals

   Social psychology has much to offer real world problems, especially in industrial and organizational settings. Originally published in 1995, in Social Psychology at Work leading researchers in their respective fields discuss recent findings and their implications for the commercial world of work....

   To Be Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
7. Bizarre Behaviours (Psychology Revivals)

   Boundaries of Psychiatric Disorder

   By Herschel Prins

   Series: Psychology Revivals

   The most deviant forms of human behaviour can be disturbing, incomprehensible, and sometimes very frightening. Herschel Prins believes that even the most deviant-seeming behaviours have their counterparts in ‘normality’ and can often be seen as an extension of this. In Bizarre Behaviours he sets...

   To Be Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
8. Living with the Bomb (Psychology Revivals)

   Can We Live Without Enemies?

   By Dorothy Rowe

   Series: Psychology Revivals

   Originally published in 1985, Living with the Bomb was written as a sequel to the best seller Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison. The human species is facing extinction, not merely from nuclear war but also, and perhaps more likely, from the destruction of the resources of the planet. Is it...

   To Be Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
9. Supervision in Psychoanalysis

   The São Paulo Seminars

   By Antonino Ferro

   Series: The New Library of Psychoanalysis

   This book originates from a series of clinical supervisions that were held at the Sao Paulo Institute of Psychoanalysis by Antonino Ferro. Supervision in Psychoanalysis: The Sao Paulo Seminars reproduces the dialogues in the seminars that followed these supervisions in their entirety. The...

   To Be Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
10. Social Skills and Health (Psychology Revivals)

    Edited by Michael Argyle

    Series: Psychology Revivals

    The efficiency of an organization and the well-being of those working within it are often dependent to a large extent on the social skills deployed by certain key personnel. The analysis of these skills and the training of people in their use had reached a stage of considerable sophistication....

    To Be Published April 15th 2013 by Routledge