A leading text for courses that go beyond the basics of family systems theory, intervention techniques, and diversity, this influential work has now been significantly revised with 65% new material.

Providing a thorough biopsychosocial approach, this lively and approachable guide is your ideal companion to studying health psychology.

Every child is born into a community, a society with a culture, in which they will live, grow and develop. Cultures lead to differences in children’s development, but equally important, culture is an essential component of every child’s psychological development. Taking a chronological approach, from prenatal development to adolescence, your knowledge of developmental psychology will grow with the child. To help you in your studies· Social, cognitive, emotional and physical aspec...

Written by leading social psychologists with expertise in leadership, health and emergency behaviour - who have also played an important role in advising governments on COVID-19 - this book provides a broad but integrated analysis of the psychology of COVID-19

Packed with learning features, this book helps you get your psychology research off the ground, confidently collect and analyse qualitative data, and write up your project or dissertation.

Integrating evolutionary psychology with behavioural ecology, anthropology, genetics, and neuroscience, this textbook is a critical exploration of how evolutionary approaches can be used to understand the human mind and behaviour.

The "how to guide" for low-intensity IAPT trainees and practitioners working with children and young people with mild-moderate anxiety and depression, taking the reader step-by-step through the different evidence-based interventions and clinical procedures.

In the Second Edition of Scientific Writing for Psychology, veteran teacher, editor and author, Robert V. Kail provides straightforward strategies along with hands-on exercises for effective scientific writing in a series of seven lessons. Kail shares an abundance of writing wisdom with "tools of the trade"-heuristics, tips, and strategies-used by expert authors to produce writing that is clear, concise, cohesive, and compelling. The exercises included throughout each extensively class-tested...

This “captivating illustration of the follies of trying to model and forecast the unpredictable world” (Financial Times) is both “empowering” (The New Statesman, UK) and “compelling” (New Scientist) as it challenges our most fundamental assumptions—by social scientist and Atlantic writer Brian Klaas, whom Prospect magazine has named one of the world’s “Top 25 Thinkers.”

If you could rewind your life to the very beginning and t...