Encyclopedias, Dictionaries...: Psychology

Reference tool used by psychologists, researchers, academics, and students for up-to-date coverage of the field of psychology.

Looks at the history, developments, emerging and classic research issues, controversies, and victories in the expanding field of criminal psychology.

Entries describe the relationships between mass media and children's development. Includes issues involving technology, business, and video games.

Coverage includes causes, risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis and prevention, and a wide range of treatment options, including psychotherapy, medication, biological treatments, alternative therapies and lifestyle approaches.

Covers the social, medical and political issues related to drugs and alcohol, as well as types of addiction.

Covers topics in physiological psychology, perception, personality, abnormal and clinical psychology, cognition and learning, social psychology, developmental psychology, language, and applied contexts.

Three volumes on human development and psychology.

Focuses on the study of the behavior of people in the workplace.

Presents an overview of the psychology of racial, ethnic, and minority issues in the United States. It covers the breadth of psychology viewed through the lens of the racial and ethnic minority experience.

Addresses research and practice in the interface of psychology and law.

Comprehensive guide to the field of school psychology featuring the latest research on school learning, motivation, and educational assessment.

Covers the ideas and concepts that make up the intellectual and scientific content in the area of social psychology.

Examines life stages from a sociological perspective, exploring how both enduring and transitional experiences such as education, stress, marriage, career, parenthood, disease and retirement influence an individual’s life course.

Provides detailed information on mental disorders and conditions. Also features entries for prescription, alternative and over-the-counter drugs, as well as the various therapies used to treat mental disorders

"Provides a survey of topics covering the entire spectrum of psychology, including notable people, theories and terms; landmark case studies and experiments; applications of psychology in advertising, medicine and sports; and career information"--

This resource covers the entire spectrum of psychology, including: notable people, theories and terms; landmark case studies and experiments; applications of psychology in advertising, medicine and sports; and career information.

This volume covers standard areas of well-studied concepts such as development, cognition, emotion, personality, psychopathology, psychotherapy, and acculturation, as well as emerging areas such as multicultural identities, cultural neuroscience, and religion.

Content represents the very latest scholarship in the field of humanistic psychology and psychotherapy. Set against trends inclined toward psychological standardization and medicalization, the handbook offers a rich tapestry of reflection by the leading person-centered scholars of our time

A study, by topic, on issues surrounding marriage and family in many countries and comparing many cultures.

An encylopedia-style work on the psychological aspects of learning and memory.

The Oxford Companion to the Mind is the indispensable guide to the mysteries — and idiosyncracies — of the human mind.

This book details 10 personality disorders and their effects on those who suffer from it and on family, friends, colleagues and the community at large.

Explores how instruction and learning are affected by factors such as classroom management, multiculturalism, learning styles, home schooling, peer relationships, school culture, discipline, self-esteem, socioeconomic status, and more.

The Sage Handbook of Family Communication provides a comprehensive examination of family communication theory and research.

Topics covered include: digital working and social media, LGBTQIA+ identifications and work, suicide at work, refugee workers, and mental health.