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  • Refugee Mental Health in Resettlement Countries

    Edited by Carolyn L. Williams, Joseph Westermeyer ...
    Series series Psychology Revivals
    Originally published in 1986, Refugee Mental Health in Resettlement Countries reviews the research on refugee social and psychological problems, presents recent studies on adjustment problems among refugees, and outlines clinical approaches to refugee patients at the time. One-third of the book considers issues and concerns relevant to child and adolescent refugees, which reflects their increased ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

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  • Understanding Social Psychology Across Cultures

    Engaging with Others in a Changing World

    by Ronald Fischer, Peter B Smith, Vivian L. Vignoles, Michael H. (Harris) Bond ...
    Understanding Social Psychology Across Cultures Second Edition starts by asking why social psychology needs a cross-cultural perspective. It then examines cultural differences and their origins, before addressing traditional social psychological themes cross-culturally, for example group processes, self and identity, intergroup relations. Themes of contemporary relevance including migration, ... Read more

    $82.79 USD

  • Adolescent Psychology Around the World

    Edited by Jeffrey Jensen Arnett ...
    This book paints a portrait of adolescent psychology in 4 major regions: Africa/the Middle East, Asia, the Americas, and Europe. Featuring 24 revised and updated chapters from the International Encyclopedia of Adolescence (2007), readers are introduced to the way the majority of the world’s adolescents actually live. Most contributors are indigenous to the country they review. As a whole the book ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Mental Illness, Discrimination and the Law

    Fighting for Social Justice

    by Felicity Callard, Norman Sartorius, Peter Bartlett, Hanfried Helmchen, Heather Stuart, Graham Thornicroft, Julio Arboleda-Flórez, José Taborda ...
    This book describes clearly how legislation can be used to advance the rights and entitlements of people with mental health problems. Straightforward and practical, it provides useful information on how to address disabilities so these people may enjoy full citizenship. It presents the key issues succinctly and illustrates these with legislative examples from around the world. This book documents ... Read more

    $114.00 USD

  • When Groups Meet

    The Dynamics of Intergroup Contact

    by Thomas F. Pettigrew, Linda R. Tropp ...
    Series series Essays in Social Psychology
    Research and theory on intergroup contact have become one of the fastest advancing and most exciting fields in social psychology in recent years. The work is exciting because it combines basic social psychological concerns -- human interaction, situational influences on behavior -- with an effective means of improving intergroup relations at a time when the world is witnessing widespread ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Just Following Orders

    Atrocities and the Brain Science of Obedience

    by Emilie A. Caspar ...
    How can obedience and carrying out orders lead to horrific acts such as the Holocaust or the genocides in Rwanda, Cambodia, or Bosnia? For the most part, it is a mystery why obeying instructions from an authority can convince people to kill other human beings, sometimes without hesitation and with incredible cruelty. Combining social and cognitive neuroscience with real-life accounts from genocide ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

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  • Cognitive Capitalism

    Human Capital and the Wellbeing of Nations

    by Heiner Rindermann ...
    Nations can vary greatly in their wealth, democratic rights and the wellbeing of their citizens. These gaps are often obvious, and by studying the flow of immigration one can easily predict people's wants and needs. But why are there also large differences in the level of education indicating disparities in cognitive ability? How are they related to a country's economic, political and cultural ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder:

    The Basics in Cameroonian Refugees

    by Dr. Bibi Nomo Neumann ...
    This study is a review of the literature on the psychological issues faced by refugees to the United States and on empirically supported treatments with potential implication for Cameroonian refugees with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Relevant themes from the literature include: (a) historical perspectives; (b) the phenomenology of PTSD; (c) current treatments; (d) empirically supported ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Ethnocultural Factors in Substance Abuse Treatment

    Edited by Shulamith Lala Ashenberg Straussner, PhD, DSW, LCSW ...
    This book presents a culturally informed framework for understanding and treating substance abuse problems. From expert contributors, chapters cover specific ethnocultural groups in the United States, including Americans of African, Native American, Latino, European, Middle Eastern, and Asian descent. Authors examine how ethnocultural factors may affect a person's attitudes toward alcohol and ... Read more

    $59.39 USD

  • Textbook of Cultural Psychiatry

    Edited by Dinesh Bhugra, Kamaldeep Bhui ...
    Cultural psychiatry deals with the impact of culture on causation, perpetuation and treatment of patients suffering with mental illness. The role of culture in mental illness is increasingly being recognised, and the misconceptions that can occur as a result of cultural differences can lead to misdiagnoses, under or over-diagnosis. This second edition of the Textbook of Cultural Psychiatry has ... Read more

    $82.89 USD

  • Best Practices for Social Work with Refugees and Immigrants

    by Miriam Potocky, Mitra Naseh ...
    Social work practice with refugees and immigrants requires specialized knowledge of these populations and specialized adaptations and applications of mainstream services and interventions. Because they are often confronted with cultural, linguistic, political, and socioeconomic barriers, these groups are especially vulnerable to psychological problems such as anxiety, depression, alienation, grief ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • What's Wrong with the Poor?

    Psychiatry, Race, and the War on Poverty

    by Mical Raz ...
    Series series Studies in Social Medicine
    In the 1960s, policymakers and mental health experts joined forces to participate in President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty. In her insightful interdisciplinary history, physician and historian Mical Raz examines the interplay between psychiatric theory and social policy throughout that decade, ending with President Richard Nixon’s 1971 veto of a bill that would have provided universal day care ... Read more

    $18.99 USD