The relationship between thinking and feeling has puzzled philosophers for centuries, but more recently has become a dominant focus in psychology and in the brain sciences. This second edition of the highly praised Cognition and Emotion examines everything from past philosophical to current psychological perspectives in order to offer a novel understanding of both normal emotional experience an…
Welcome to Creating Mobile Apps with Sencha Touch 2. The goal of this book is to help you learn the Sencha Touch mobile development platform by guiding you through a series of complete applications. Each application will focus on a different aspect of the language and show off many of the capabilities of Sencha Touch. The Sencha Touch language is an HTML5 framework that uses JavaScript and CSS …
This book provides an in-depth look at how to build web-based applications (web apps) for Google TV, a new platform that integrates the open web with traditional TV. This powerful and versatile new platform includes Google Chrome, a modern web browser that enables developers to deliver rich and sophisticated web apps to Google TV users. This book has three primary goals. First, this book aims t…
The Science of Stories explores the role narrative plays in human life. Supported by in-depth research, the book demonstrates how the ways in which people tell their stories can be indicative of how they construct their worlds and their own identities.
Flexibility is the hallmark of mental and emotional health. The goal of this book is to enhance the flexibility of your thinking, attending, and acting. You’ll learn to shift more easily out of your anxiety and avoidance and into more-reasonable and less-anxiety-evoking thoughts and attitudes so that you can see things as they really are. You’ll also learn to shift your attention by unhook…
This book provides a basic description and evaluation of clinical theory and research regarding psychopathology. It is intended primarily as an advanced text for psychopathology courses taught to graduate students in clinical, counseling, and school psychology, as well as neuroscience, psychiatry, and social work. Some instructors may find it appropriate for an upper-level undergraduate course …
college is becoming an aspiration for more and more of america’s youth. Nearly half of american 18- to 24-year-olds are enrolled in college at least part-time. With the rise of information technology and an increasingly global economy, higher education is also becoming more of a necessity for success. although many of us look back fondly on our “bright college years,” for grow- ing number…
You are hereby invited to a very special journey, a journey to the wonderful world of children’s make-believe. Such a journey does not require traveling far away. In fact, the make-believe world is very near. It is in the nursery room of our children, in their school, in our backyard, on our street. And yet, its gates are not widely open for everybody. For many adults, make-believe play is li…
This book tells of a journey taken by a group of service users who had attracted a diagnosis of personality disorder, a journey that spans 20 years. It is an account that aspires to show the inner world of personality disorder from the perspective of service users. It aims to examine the process of recovery for those with this diagnosis and it suggests evidence-based ways forward for support …
This book contains primarily papers presented at the seminar held at the inauguration of the doctoral program in psychology in May 1994, at the University of Tromsø, which is the youngest university in Norway and the northernmost university in the world (if one discounts the university branch on Svalbard at 88 degrees north). In fact, the University of Tromsø is situated on a coastal island i…