Behavioral Sciences Textbooks

New and Published Textbooks

1. Contemporary Debates in Childhood Education and Development

   Edited by Sebastian Suggate, Elaine Reese

   What are the risks and benefits of non-parental care for young children? What are the short- and long-term effects of academically vs. play-focused environments for learning? How and when should we teach reading? What are the purposes of Education? What is the best way to teach mathematics...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
2. Applied Statistics for the Social and Health Sciences

   By Rachel A. Gordon

   Applied Statistics for the Social and Health Sciences provides graduate students in the social and health sciences with the basic skills that they need to estimate, interpret, present, and publish statistical models using contemporary standards. The book targets the social and health science...

   Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge
3. Sex/Gender

   Biology in a Social World

   By Anne Fausto-Sterling

   Series: The Routledge Series Integrating Science and Culture

   Sex/Gender presents a relatively new way to think about how biological difference can be produced over time in response to different environmental and social experiences. This book gives a clearly written explanation of the biological and cultural underpinnings of gender. Anne Fausto-Sterling...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
4. Play Therapy Book & Video Bundle

   By Garry L. Landreth

   This package combines Garry Landreth's bestselling textbook, Play Therapy: The Art of the Relationship, 3rd Edition with a 50-minute video demonstration of Landreth working with a young girl in Child Centered Play Therapy: A Clinical Session. The DVD shows Landreth in a complete, unscripted play...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
5. Working in Mental Health

   Practice and Policy in a Changing Environment

   Edited by Peter Phillips, Tom Sandford, Claire Johnston

   A paradigm shift in the ways in which mental health services are delivered is happening – both for service users, and for professional mental healthcare workers. A more influential service user movement, a range of new community-based mental healthcare programmes delivered by an increasing...

   Published March 22nd 2012 by Routledge
6. The Emotions

   A Philosophical Introduction

   By Julien Deonna, Fabrice Teroni

   The emotions are at the centre of our lives and, for better or worse, imbue them with much of their significance. The philosophical problems stirred up by the existence of the emotions, over which many great philosophers of the past have laboured, revolve around attempts to understand what this...

   Published March 4th 2012 by Routledge
7. Linking Theory to Practice – Case Studies for Working with College Students

   3rd Edition

   Edited by Frances K. Stage, Steven M. Hubbard

   Framed by an overview of theories that guide student affairs practice, the cases in this book present a challenging array of problems that student affairs and higher education personnel face, such as racial diversity, alcohol abuse, and student activism. The revised edition has thirty new cases,...

   Published March 4th 2012 by Routledge
8. Trancework

   An Introduction to the Practice of Clinical Hypnosis, 4th Edition

   By Michael D. Yapko

   For three decades, Trancework has been the fundamental textbook for guiding professionals in learning hypnosis. Now in its fourth edition, this classic text continues to be the most comprehensive book for learning the fundamental skills of the field. This edition accommodates new studies and topics...

   Published February 29th 2012 by Routledge
9. Psychopathology

   Foundations for a Contemporary Understanding, 3rd Edition

   Edited by James Maddux E, James E. Maddux, Barbara A. Winstead, Barbara Winstead

   This is the most up-to-date text about the etiology and treatment of the most important psychological disorders. Intended for first-year graduate students in clinical and counseling psychology, the third edition of Psychopathology continues to focus on research and empirically supported information...

   Published February 23rd 2012 by Routledge
10. Contemporary Psychotherapies for a Diverse World

    First Revised Edition

    Edited by Jon Frew, Michael D. Spiegler

    This unique text is the first to provide an introduction to the theory and practice of the major theories of psychotherapy and, at the same time, illustrate how these approaches are dealing with the ever-increasing diversity of today’s clients. Frew and Spiegler have assembled the leading...

    Published February 23rd 2012 by Routledge