Working With Groups Psychology Revivals

Author : Michael Argyle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135040888

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Cooperation (Psychology Revivals) by Michael Argyle Pdf

Is human nature cooperative? Man is often said to be a social animal – but what does that mean? Michael Argyle believed that one of the most important components – our capacity to cooperate – had been overlooked and indeed that the whole notion of cooperation had not been properly understood. In this book, originally published in 1991, the author showed he was critical of earlier approaches, and put forward a new and extended understanding of what cooperation consists of, showing the form it took in different relationships and its origins in evolution and socialisation. He offered new solutions to intergroup and other social problems and took a new look at language and communication as a cooperative enterprise.

Author : Peter Collett,Adrian Furnham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134095902

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Social Psychology at Work (Psychology Revivals) by Peter Collett,Adrian Furnham Pdf

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. All the contributors have been greatly influenced by the late Michael Argyle, to whom this book is dedicated. They examine aspects of the workplace from the perspectives of personality and individual difference, social psychology and organizational psychology. Subjects covered include the effects of age on work, leadership, productivity, how we are socialized for work, stress and anxiety, and the effect of the physical environment on working behaviour. Social Psychology at Work is a rich source book of ideas, research findings and reviews at the interface of pure and applied psychology. It will be important and rewarding reading for all those such as students, consultants and managers and trainers who are interested in psychology at work.

Author : Josephine Klein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317636335

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Working with Groups (Psychology Revivals) by Josephine Klein Pdf

Originally published in 1963, this book was one of the first to explore group process and working with groups. The introductory chapter tells us that working with groups requires three skills: and understanding of theory, a knowledge of its application, and trained experience in its use. It goes on to discuss these points, helping the reader towards an understanding of group processes and making decisions in groups. This title is an early example of author’s explorations of groups and group work, which were to be a major factor in the establishment of group-work practice in Britain over the following years.

Author : Helen Dent
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317593300

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Clinical Psychology (Psychology Revivals) by Helen Dent Pdf

Originally published in 1987, this book presents papers from the First Conference of European Clinical Psychologists, held at the University of Kent Canterbury in July of that year. It shows some of the most exciting and recent developments in research and innovations in professional practice from many European countries with an overall theme of the WHO strategy of ‘Health for all by the year 2000.’ The whole range of clinical psychology is covered, including: cognitive therapy, clinical psychology and WHO strategy, the mental health of ethnic minority groups, health psychology, care in the community, and many other topics. The book is likely to be of interest for anyone concerned with the recent history and policies in clinical psychology.

Author : Hans J. Eysenck,Sybil B.G. Eysenck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135021580

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Personality Structure and Measurement (Psychology Revivals) by Hans J. Eysenck,Sybil B.G. Eysenck Pdf

Originally published in 1969, this book deals extensively with the description and measurement of personality. Beginning with a statement of the principles of typological research in psychology, set against the background of general taxonomic principles in biology, the study discusses in detail results and generalisations from the Eysencks’ previous work. The second part of the book describes several large-scale studies using personality questionnaires prepared by the authors, as well as the standard ones of Cattell and Guilford. There is a comparative study of the Eysenck, Cattell and Guilford inventories, which analyses the degree to which similar factors can be found in these three instruments and discusses areas of agreement and disagreement between the three authors. The third part deals with personality studies in children, and includes a chapter on personality structure in subnormal subjects. These studies are concerned with discovering the extent to which personality structure changes with increasing age, and to what extent it is possible to measure personality in younger children. They also examine sex differences in personality structure, and show quite marked differences between the sexes on a number of primary personality traits. The results of the Eysencks’ work in this field directed new light on the structure of personality and cast doubt on many widely accepted findings of the time.

Author : Laurence Spurling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317697596

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From the Words of my Mouth (Psychology Revivals) by Laurence Spurling Pdf

As a psychotherapist, in whose name do I speak? How can I come to speak in my own name? What does ‘tradition’ mean in psychotherapy? Originally published in 1993, the contributors to this book – all practising psychotherapists and teachers – explore these questions and investigate how theories and practices are passed on from one generation to the next. Their responses range over questions of training and indoctrination, the idea of tradition in the thought of Freud, Jung and Winnicott, and the implications of these questions for the practice of psychotherapy. It will be of special interest to psychotherapists and counsellors, as well as students and teachers of therapy. With its emphasis on how psychotherapy might gain by seeing its connections to other traditions, such as literature, philosophy and the creative arts, the book will also appeal to a wider readership.

Author : Philip E. Vernon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134751051

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Personality Assessment by Philip E. Vernon Pdf

Originally published in 1964, the aim of this book was to analyse the psychological processes involved in understanding personality, and to consider how the psychologist could help in making more accurate assessments. Professor Vernon discusses in detail the scientific status of psychoanalytic and other ‘depth’ theories of motivation, the value of different types of psychotherapeutic treatment and counselling, the influence of upbringing on the development of personality, and the effectiveness of projective techniques. He also examines the reasons for the highly variable results obtained with personality tests and questionnaires. As well as providing a balanced review of theories of personality and of various types of test, this work made a fresh contribution to developing improved techniques of assessment.

Author : Henry V. Dicks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317587798

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Marital Tensions (Psychology Revivals) by Henry V. Dicks Pdf

Originally published in 1967, this book gathers together the various aspects of Dr Dick’s theoretical and clinical approach to marriage difficulties into a coherent system for the benefit of professional workers and students who were concerned with family and community psychiatry and case work at the time. He preserves the essentials of the steps by which his concepts developed from one-person therapy into hypotheses for understanding interaction, with the couple as the unit of study.

Author : Paul Kline
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317444657

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Personality (Psychology Revivals) by Paul Kline Pdf

Originally published in 1983 and written in the tradition of the British School of Psychology, Spearman, Burt, Eysenck, Cattell, this book from a well-known author was exceptional at the time in its attempt to wed quantification and psychological theory in the study of personality. The student is presented with a discussion of the different methods of measuring personality and the various findings which have been made. The results are then discussed in the light of psychological theories of personality and here the author stresses the need for a theory with a properly quantified bias. However, the emphasis on findings from measurement and not the measurement itself makes the book psychological, truly about personality and not simply another text on psychological measurement.

Author : Margret M. Baltes,Paul B. Baltes
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317642459

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The Psychology of Control and Aging (Psychology Revivals) by Margret M. Baltes,Paul B. Baltes Pdf

Originally published in 1986, the central topic of this book is the analysis and application of control-related beliefs and behaviours for theory and practice in the psychology of aging. The volume was written for two specific interrelated purposes aimed at cross-fertilization between the psychology of control and the field of gerontology. The first purpose was to summarise available research and theory on the psychology of control for researchers and professionals interested in gerontology at the time. The second was to enrich the field of the psychology of control.

Author : Derek Milne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317496366

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Training Behaviour Therapists (Psychology Revivals) by Derek Milne Pdf

Originally published in 1986, one of the major developments in behavioural psychotherapy and mental health in the previous decade had been the growing involvement of non-psychologists in behaviour therapy. This was a result of the fact that there were too few psychologists to cope with problem behaviour and that other professionals or carers began to appreciate more clearly their potential as agents of behaviour change. Foremost among these ‘mediators’ of therapy were parents, nurses (particularly psychiatric nurses) and teachers (especially remedial teachers). Their involvement had greatly increased the efficiency of behaviour therapy at the time and opened up a new era in applied psychology. It also entailed the development of new training formats, evaluation procedures and implementation strategies. The main aim of this book was to provide a summary of the research relevant to these issues, and to offer practical guidelines to those who were interested in training or being trained as behaviour therapists. For this reason there are chapters by researchers who have been involved in training parents, nurses and teachers. These chapters provide a detailed account of training in a form that was rarely available in published form at the time, and even today should be of great assistance to readers.

Author : Suman Fernando
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317557692

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Race and Culture in Psychiatry (Psychology Revivals) by Suman Fernando Pdf

As psychiatry has developed it has proved to be susceptible to the influence of contemporary social and political mores. With its origins in nineteenth-century Europe, psychiatry evolved as an ethnocentric body of knowledge, the vehicle of implicit and overt racism. Originally published in 1988 this author, however, saw no reason why the contemporary psychiatrist should not challenge this ethnocentrism. He provides a critical account of the development of psychiatry in relation to its cultural context and then examined contemporary practice of the time in the light of this development. Throughout, the book is informed by an awareness of issues of race and culture and of their difficult interactions, the author emphasising both the frequency of racist attitudes and the very real cultural distinctions in our society, distinctions that can be used to mask what are actually racist sentiments. What emerges is not just a plea for an anti-racist, culture sensitive psychiatry, but a blueprint for how this can be brought about. He argued that the shift towards community work and social psychiatry could reorientate the profession by confronting it with its social setting and responsibilities. This book represented a significant contribution to this literature for all mental health professionals and social scientists with an interest in this field at the time; the author has gone on to write many more.

Author : United States. Bureau of Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Child psychology
ISBN : CHI:086525290

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The Psychological Revival by United States. Bureau of Education Pdf

Author : Peter Trower,Bridget Bryant,Michael Argyle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317937180

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Social Skills and Mental Health (Psychology Revivals) by Peter Trower,Bridget Bryant,Michael Argyle Pdf

In the 10 years or so prior to original publication in 1978 new theories and discoveries in the social sciences had given a scientific basis and new impetus to the development of social skills training as a form of therapy. This book explores the progress made with this idea and gives practical guidance for therapists based on several years’ experience with the technique. The book provides an account of the latest ideas at the time, about the analysis of social behaviour – non-verbal communication, social skill, rules, analysis of situations, etc. The different techniques for training and modifying social behaviour – some old, some very new – are described and compared, with detailed accounts. There is a careful critical review of follow-up studies of social skills training and other forms of social therapy on in-patients, out-patients and volunteer subjects. The second part of the book consists of a manual for assessing deficits and difficulties, and for training in ten main areas of social deficiency such as observation, listening, speaking, asserting and planning. A rating scale, questionnaire and user’s booklet of training exercises is included. The book should be of interest, not only to psychiatric professionals – psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, psychiatric nurses, occupational therapists – but to many others, such as social and community workers, teachers, prison officers, and lay people who may be interested in forming self-help groups, either on their own or with professional guidance.

Author : Peter W. Sheehan,Kevin M. McConkey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317505068

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Hypnosis and Experience (Psychology Revivals) by Peter W. Sheehan,Kevin M. McConkey Pdf

The subject of hypnosis has not lost any of its ability to fascinate and intrigue – and this holds equally true for both the layperson and the student of hypnotic behavior. Phenomena of hypnosis range from simple tasks involving ideomotor response to more complex tasks involving substantial distortions of perceived reality such as age regression, hallucination, and amnesia. Obviously, with a topic so diverse and so interesting, there are plenty of books around. Originally published in 1982, what makes this title stand out is the authors’ focus: instead of trying to survey the whole field and evaluate the full spectrum of theories about hypnosis, they hone in on specific points of view with the aim of illustrating the nature of hypnotic phenomena.